Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2276

MAUDE ELIZABETH SEYMOUR ABBOTT (1869-1940) Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. American Heart Association 1936 x, 62 pp., front., 25 plates, illus., diagrs. 34.9 cm.

In the Foreword to this book, the eminent cardiologist, Paul D. White (see No. 2324), stated that "it was left to Maude Abbott, fired by a spark from Osler, to make the subject one of such general and widespread interest that we no longer regard it with either disdain or awe as a mystery for the autopsy table alone to discover and to solve. She has been the most important of the pioneers in establishing congenital heart disease as a living part of clinical medicine." Abbott, refused admission to the medical school of McGill University in Montreal, received her medical degree from Bishop's College. Abbott eventually was appointed to the McGill medical faculty and was later appointed curator of the McGill Medical Historical Museum. A skilled physician and pathologist, she utilized her broad clinical experience and exposure to the wide range of specimens at the museum to prepare this book on cardiac anomalies. Well illustrated with twenty-five detailed plates, it has become a classic in its field and was reprinted in 1954.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2865