About the Author. At the time of this book’s publication Dr. Wells was a Professor at the University of Arkansas, School of Medicine, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He began as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in 1942 and in 1947 served as the School’s Interim Dean. He also held a number of other positions, serving as the Director of Research for M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital, Vice-President and Senior Editor for W. B. Saunders, Dean of the California College of Medicine, and was later Assistant to the Vice-President for Health Affairs and Professor of Medicine at the Alabama College of Medicine at Birmingham, Alabama, as well as other important posts.
About the Book. (From a book review published in Gastroenterology in May, 1950), “This book is not a laboratory manual, but deals rather with the field that lies between clinical medicine and clinical pathology. The material is arranged in nine chapters, dealing with the application of clinical pathological methods to: (1) infectious diseases, (2) diseases of the gastrointestinal system, (3) of the respiratory system, (4) of the kidney and urinary tract, (5) of the blood, (6) of the cardiovascular system, and (7) metabolic and endocrine disorders. Chapter VII deals with clinical and laboratory studies in surgery, and Chapter IX is on clinical laboratory studies in obstetrics. The section on gastrointestinal disease is good, considering the amount of space that was available.”
About our Offering. We offer First Edition copy of Clinical Pathology - Interpretation and application. As nearly as I can tell the book went through probably five editions - 1950, a second edition (one seller offers a second edition published in 1956, another offers a second edition published in 1957, neither show a copyright page or publication date from the book, but it's 1956 or 1957-not both), a third edition published in 1962, a fourth edition published in 1967, and a fifth edition published in 1969. I haven’t found one published after 1969. W. B. Saunders did not label their First Editions, as First Editions. They did indicate the edition number in subsequent editions. Since our 1950 copy does not have an edition number, and the 1956 (or 57) sellers indicate they have a second edition (and 1962-third edition, etc) I am confident our copy is a First Edition. I have not seen a First Edition copy on Amazon or ebay, but I have found two other 1950 copies elsewhere. The seller of one copy indicates it is “likely” a First Edition, but indicates he doesn’t know how W. B Saunders indicates their First Editions. The second seller indicates his book is an October, 1950 reprint. Neither seller includes pictures. Our copy does not say anything about a reprint in October. Therefore, his copy is not a First Edition, First Printing; but ours is. He most likely has a First Edition, Second Printing. You might want to take a look at a library copy of the book before you decide to buy ours. I checked WorldCat.org to see if any libraries registered with Word Cat have a copy. One does. Not at least one - only one. It’s at the University of Barcelona - Yep - that’s Barcelona, Spain.
If you are a physician in private practice or a medical school faculty member, you have got to have this book for your collection (or if you are looking for a gift for one of these folks and want to get them something she - or he - does not already have, you’ve found that gift right here). I can usually do a pretty good job of tracking down books. So when the entire population of First Edition, First Printings of this book that I have found for sale is either 1 or 0; and the only library that World Cat indicates has a First Edition is in Barcelona, Spain, then it’s a pretty good bet that none of your colleagues have a copy. Your Dean doesn’t have a copy either. They may or may not be impressed with your copy, but if you have medical students, they will be greatly impressed. Ok - they’ll probably just act like they are impressed, but it will still be cool to own, and of course, display this book. You won’t just be the first kid (doc) on the block to have a copy; you’ll be one of what is likely a very small number of people in the country to have copy. The seller who has a First Edition, that is NOT a First Printing, is asking $28.55 + $4.99 shipping ($33.54 total) for his copy. You can have our copy for $29.95 - and we’ll even pay for the shipping. What a deal! Buy it now. It won’t be here long.