Alexis Carrel

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SUMMARY: A 1940 TLS ON ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY LETTERHEAD AND WITH SURGICAL CONTENT. PRICE: $595.00

Alexis Carrel (1873-1944). French-born, American Physician & Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1912). Typed Letter Signed, TLS, one page, 8.25 x 10.75, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Reserach letterhead, November 13, 1940. Responding to a letter, in full: “Your letter of November eight is before me. Removal of the thyroid gland is a barbarous practice only when a normal thyroid gland is extirpated in order to decrease normal metabolism ( I believe he meant abnormal metabolism as seen in Grave's Disease). Otherwise, in case of diseases of the thyroid (such as cancer ) it is a sound surgical procedure." I n good condition, with show-through, staining, and rippling from adhesive to reverse related to previous mounting and intersecting mailing folds (lightly affecting a few letters of the signature). The signature is a bold, dark ink pen suignature. A good letter with surgical content on the letterhead from the institution where he obtained the Nobel Prize and where he did his most imporatnt work. A nice example and Carrel letters are scarce.

Carrel began experimental work in surgery at Lyons in 1902, but in 1904 he went to Chicago and in 1905 worked in the Department of Physiology in the University of Chicago under Professor G. N. Stewart. In 1906 he was attached to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, as an Associate Member, becoming a Full Member in 1912. In this Institute he carried out most of the experiments which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.Carrel was the first surgeon to suture blood vessels together and he was interested in organ perfusion and tissue culture.

Charles Lindbergh the famous aviator worked in Carrel's lab and together they built the first perfusion pump to keep tissues and organs outside the body.The relationship between Carrel and Lindbergh lasted for many years and is the subject of a recently published book, The Immortalists by David M. Friedman. We also have a letter in which Charles Lindbergh answers an inquiry about the disposition of some of Carrel's surgical equipment with special reference to Carrels surgical needles he used to carry out some of his early vascular anastamoses.Carrel was awearded the Nobel in the Physiology of Medicine in 1912 for his early work when he developed the techniques for sewing vessels together.

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Price:$595.00