Atlas of Mahfouz's Obstetric and Gynaecological Museum (3 volume set)

Naguib Pacha Mahfouz

John Sherratt & Son, 1949

[Gynecological Pathology: Presentation Copy, warmly inscribed from Dr. Naguib Pacha Mahfouz to Prof. Richard W. Te Linde.] 3 volume set. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jackets, with loss. Dust jackets in protective mylar covers. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, xiv, xiv, 1276 p., ill., plates, 25 cm.  *Autographed by author.* 

"Naguib Mahfouz is justly considered to be the founder of modern obstetrics and gynecology in Egypt. He was appointed house officer in Suez, where he spent one year. There he became interested in ophthalmology and started an outpatient department on eye diseases. At the end of the year, in 1903, he was transferred to the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital as an anesthetist. It was during this period that he introduced spinal anesthesia for the first time in Egypt. However, his main interest was in obstetrics and gynecology, and it was in the following year that he convinced the Dean, Dr. Keatinge, of the necessity for the opening of a gynecological and obstetrical outpatient department. This was such a success that two wards were allotted for gynecological and obstetrical patients. Until that time there was no gynecological out-patient department at the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital and hardly any gynecological operations or cases of labor admitted. Mahfouz was then relieved of his anesthesia responsibilities, and appointed assistant to Professor Dobbin, who had been Assistant Master at the Rotunda and had been offered the newly created Chair. In 1929, Mahfouz was appointed first Egyptian Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1932, he donated his collection of specimens to the School of Medicine. These remarkable specimens were all fully described, photographed and drawn in half tone or color. This collection, the Mahfouz Museum, was and is one of the leading museums in obstetrics and gynecology in the world. Mahfouz was an extremely gifted surgeon, and was considered a world authority on genito-urinary and recto-genital fistulae. He travelled extensively and lectured in most countries of Europe. He wrote over sixty papers and authored two books in Arabic in obstetrics and gynecology, and in 1947 published his famous Atlas in three volumes." - Royal College of Physicians 

At the beginning of the 20th century, the relation of carcinoma in situ of the cervix to the invasive cancer was poorly understood, resulting in misdiagnosis of the disease and inappropriate treatment. The work of Richard Wesley Te Linde, chairman of Gynecology at Johns Hopkins University for almost 21 years, contributed to delineate the diagnosis of cervical carcinoma, providing suggestive evidence that carcinoma in situ often precedes invasive cervical cancer. 

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