Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2324

PAUL DUDLEY WHITE (1886-1973) Heart disease. Macmillan 1931 xix [3] 931 pp., 119 illus., 9 tables (part. fold.). 23.4 cm.

White is considered by many authorities to be the father of cardiology in the United States. He was educated at Harvard Medical School where he graduated in 1911 and went on to serve internships in pediatrics and internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. White then received a Harvard Traveling Fellowship in 1913 to study cardiovascular physiology with Thomas Lewis (see No. 2317) in London. In 1914 he returned to Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital where he set about developing cardiology as a field of specialty. He spent his entire career at Harvard and was also instrumental in helping create the American Heart Association, the National Heart Institute, and the International Cardiology Foundation. Writing in the July 1, 1985 issue of the American journal of cardiology, J. Willis Hurst characterized White as an "adventurer, a pioneer, a scientist, a physician, a teacher, a writer and grammarian, a world traveller and lecturer, a diplomat, an organizer, and a peace-loving humanist" (p. 169). In 1928 White received a Moseley Traveling Fellowship from Harvard to prepare the present work. A classic book with a bibliography of nearly 200 pages, it played a large part in helping establish cardiology as a field of specialization. It served as the standard textbook on the subject for several decades and was translated into Italian and Spanish, the last edition appearing in 1951.

See Related Record(s): 2317

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