CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY. By P. Almeida Lima.... With an Introduction by Egas Moniz.... Foreword by Sir Hugh Cairns. (Oxford Medical Publications). by Lima, P. Almeida - 1950.

London, New York, Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press, 1950., 1950.. Fair. FIRST EDITION OF A MILESTONE IN THE FIELD OF NEUROSURGERY - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine and black on the front cover. The covers are rubbed with wear to the corners and head and tail of the spine. There is some light white staining to the bottom of the spine, possibly from a label once pasted over the publisher's device or from now faded white ink. xiii, [i], and 221 pages, plus the colophon, profusely illustrated throughout with diagrams, drawings and from x-ray photographs. There is extensive underlining in blue & red ink as well as pencil through page 108, with an occasional ink notation. There is some dampstaining to the bottom corners of the last half of the pages resulting in creases to the edge of those pages. A fair reading copy.

First edition of this milestone in the field of neurosurgery.

RARE in commerce.

Egas Moniz, the author of the introduction to this book, was the Portuguese originator of the technique of cerebral angiography, performing the first procedure in 1926. The author & neurosurgeon P. Almeida Lima assisted Moniz for more than 20 years and here corroborates and amplifies on Moniz's essential work, and in some cases revises the procedure. Between them, Moniz and Lima had by then performed more than 2,000 angiographies.