BARNARD, Christiaan.
Heart Attack.
Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland Publishers, 1971.
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First Edition of Heart Attack; Inscribed by Heart Transplant Pioneer Christiaan Barnard
First edition of the celebrated heart surgeon’s guide to heart disease for the general reader, written by the man who performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the frontispiece leaf, “21 October 1978 To Steve Feingold with my very best wishes Chris Barnard.” Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Heart Attack (1971) is a guide to the causes, prevention, and treatment of heart disease written for the general reader by Christiaan Barnard, the South African cardiac surgeon who leapt to worldwide fame in December 1967 when he performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. A pioneering figure in cardiac surgery, Barnard became one of the most recognized doctors of his age, and here he turned his expertise to educating ordinary people about the disease that remains among the leading causes of death worldwide.
Heart Attack.
$650.00
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