Author: FISK, Anita M.
Title: The History of Saginaw County Medicine
Description: Midland, MI, Pendell Printing, 1986. Hardcover. Foreword by Richard D. Mudd. 4to. Burgundy cloth. xi, 199pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and handsome first edition, with an interesting autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full by Richard Mudd, who wrote the book's foreword. Mudd (1901-2002) was the grandson of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who was convicted and imprisoned for treating John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, he was likewise a physician, and spent decades attempting to get his grandfather's conviction pardoned. The front flyleaf also bears a large 1987 nonauthorial gift inscription in blue ballpoint from a Saginaw physician to "Ralph Gordon, M.D. / my good friend & / mentor.." Gordon is a noted Michigan pediatric professor whose role with the Saginaw County Medical Society and the creation of this book is noted in Mudd's foreword. A nice association copy. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest Medical


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