Medical Annals of Maryland

Cordell, Eugene F.

see notes for publisher info, 1903

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by Hugh H. Young, then later Owen Hannaway.] Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Contemporary signature of Young on front end page. Shelf wear. Gutters starting. 

Hugh Hampton Young is considered to be the Father of Modern Urology in the U.S. Among many groundbreaking milestones, he is credited with beginning the country's premier urology residency and achieving the first-ever cure for prostate cancer, with radical perineal prostatectomy, a surgical procedure he invented. Dr. Young was a visionary of the field: Long before the importance of early detection was widely known, he advocated for screening. He developed novel techniques to remove cancer and was among the first to use radiation therapy to treat urological diseases. With the help of one grateful patient, James Buchanan Brady, Dr. Young created the country's first dedicated urological research hospital. As the Director of Urology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1907 to 1942 he transformed the field of urology from an outpatient diagnostic field to one of major surgery.

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).