Viaje de un Cirujano
Mexico City: UTEHA, 1938. 142,[1]pp. Illustrated card wrappers. Wraps detaching from text block; light wear at edges; tear across head of spine. Even tanning internally. Author's gift inscription on half-title. Good. Item #2901
A very unusual medico-travelogue, authored by a Mexican surgeon visiting the United States during the late 1930s. Conrado Zuckermann traveled via Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo into Texas, and thence north through Oklahoma and Kansas before arriving at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He returned via Chicago, Missouri, and Arkansas. He visited numerous hospitals along his route, and here breathlessly reports on American medical practices and procedures that he witnessed at these institutions. With numerous in-text line illustrations; this copy warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title. Relatively scarce.
Price: $250.00