MYELOMATOSIS Fundamentals and Clinical Features Includes 90 figures and 24 tables By: I. Snapper A. Kahn Copyright: 1971 (Unstated First American Edition) Inscribed and signed by one of the authors. Published By: University Park Press This vintage Hard Cover book is in Extremely Good condition with the original paper dust jacket. No blemishes noted inside or out, other than light wear to paper jacket. Book includes illustrations. Signed and inscribed by one of the 2 authors. This book is extremely difficult to find in this good of condition, and I have not seen another signed one listed. Extremely collectible in excellent vintage condition! Book Review: Dr. I. Snapper published his first scholarly work about multiple myeloma. With the help of Dr. A. I. Kahn he has now compiled the current volume, which should become the standard reference work on this subject for students, house staff, and practicing physicians. It is far superior and much to be preferred to the other recently published treatise on the same subject by Dr. J. Waldenstrom. Not only is there an exhaustive review of the status of virtually every imaginable relevant question concerning myelomatosis and related diseases, but there is an excellent bibliography of 762 references. Author Biography ISIDORE SNAPPER, MD 1889 ? 1973 Isidore Snapper, an influential and highly regarded Dutch teacher and investigator, began his medical education at the University of Amsterdam in 1905. Under the guidance of Professor Pel, Snapper gained early exposure to experimental medicine as a fellow of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London for six months in 1909. After graduating in 1911, Snapper joined the enlightened service of physiologist H. J. Hamburger and internist-chemist Hijmans van den Bergh in Groningen, where he explored the relationships between physiological research and clinical medicine and wrote his thesis. When van den Bergh left Groningen in 1918, Snapper returned to Amsterdam where he promoted an interdisciplinary approach to medical research and discouraged over-specialization. His own studies centered on kidney metabolism, diabetes, and diseases of the skeleton. By 1938 the political climate impelled Snapper to search for employment outside Europe, and he sailed to New York to meet with representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation and was promptly appointed Professor of Internal Medicine at the Peking Union Medical College in China. There he made his contributions to research on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases in observing Chinese contrasts with Westerners in heart disease rates, in average blood cholesterol levels, and in diet, attributing protection to plant foods and linoleic and linolenic acid intake. He published these observations in Chinese Lessons to Western Medicine in 1941, shortly before he was taken prisoner by the Japanese military. He was exchanged for Japanese diplomats captured by the Dutch in Indonesia and then returned to the United States where he became medical advisor to the Department of War in Washington, DC. Snapper spent the rest of his long career in the United States, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, the Cook County Hospital in Chicago and finally at Beth-El Hospital in Brooklyn, where he continued research in metabolic diseases and multiple myeloma, as well as sharing his acumen with clinicians and medical students. As a senior clinician, he also offered his thoughts on medical education and its history in Meditations on Medicine and Medical Education: Past and Present. Snapper was widely admired for his great knowledge and clinical skill. His elevated self-concept is particularly well depicted in a famous reply he gave a young colleague who asked why he held no board certification in Internal Medicine: ?Who on the Board would dare to examine me?? Fantastic Vintage gift for the doctor, nurse or vintage health book collector in your life!!!!! Your satisfaction is important to me. Any and all questions answered, and happy to send more pics / info etc. Please look at my feedback and buy with confidence. Please see my other auctions for more great collectible books! Happy to discount shipping for multiple wins!