Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2338

PEDRO MANUEL DE ALMEIDA LIMA (b. 1903) Cerebral angiography. Oxford University Press 1950 xiii, 221 pp., illus. 24.8 cm.

Lima, who trained under the guidance of Sir Hugh Cairns (1896-1952) at Oxford, was professor of neurology at Lisbon and head of the Neurosurgical Department at the Hospital-Julio de Matos in Lisbon when this book was written. Lima had worked for more than twenty years with Egas Moniz (see No. 2299), noted neurosurgeon and winner of the Nobel prize in 1949 for the introduction of prefrontal leucotomy, to perfect the application and technique of cerebral angiography. The book gives an authoritative account of the development of cerebral angiography, the anatomy of the major cerebral vessels, and the deviations produced in these vessels by intracranial lesions. The vascular patterns of intracranial tumors revealed by cerebral angiography are also covered in considerable detail. The book is a milestone in the history of neurology although much of it has been outdated by the rapid advances in technique and the clinical knowledge of the past twenty-five years.

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Gift of John Martin, M.D.