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LINDBERGH, CHARLES A., and ALEXIS CARREL. The Culture of Organs. New York: Paul Hoeber, 1938. image 1
LINDBERGH, CHARLES A., and ALEXIS CARREL. The Culture of Organs. New York: Paul Hoeber, 1938. image 2
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LINDBERGH, CHARLES A., and ALEXIS CARREL.
The Culture of Organs. New York: Paul Hoeber, 1938.

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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LINDBERGH, CHARLES A., and ALEXIS CARREL.

The Culture of Organs. New York: Paul Hoeber, 1938.
8vo. Original black cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Small cello-tape stain to one corner of f.f.e.p. verso, and to corresponding corner of half-title, "Reference copy" written to f.f.e.p., else excellent.
Provenance: Jeremy Norman.

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CELEBRATED AVIATOR CHARLES A. LINDBERGH on the front free endpaper ("For the Carrel Collection, Georgetown University") and also signed by him on the half-title. Describes the experimental program for the cultivation of whole organs devised by Carrel and the aviator. Lindbergh developed a perfusion pump that maintained a sterile, pulsating circulation of fluid through excised organs, and enabled Carrel to keep organs such as the thyroid and kidney alive and functioning. Lindbergh's pump was the forerunner of apparatus now used in heart surgery, etc. Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize for his work preserving tissue. Garrison-Morton 858.1.

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