Anniversary Volume : Scientific Contributions in Honor of Joseph Hersey Pratt on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Lancaster PA: Lancaster Press, 1937.
Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #10155
Library stamps/marks/labels, gutter cracking at title page and page 983, light tone, otherwise light wear. Still serviceable and solid hardcover.; Dr Joseph Pratt's copy, with an inscription to his wife on front free endpaper, 1951 poem to Dr Pratt taped to front paste-down, 1950 appreciation letter from student/professor signed "Connie", and pamphlet "Ceremony in Honor of Joseph Hersey Pratt M.D. on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, December 5, 1937" glued to rear endpaper. Dr Pratt was a highly influential physician and teacher, educated at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, teacher at Harvard, and founder of the New England Medical Center of Tufts University School of Medicine. This massive Festschrift, with over one hundred distinguished contributors, pays homage to his character and influence. His brief inscription to his wife provides a hint of the man: "To my beloved wife: Accept this book with the knowledge that it owes its existence to what you have done for me. J H P." ; Ex-Library; xxx, 983 pages; Signed by Biographee.
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