[X-RAY / RADIOLOGY] Das Arteriensystem des Menschen im stereoskopischen Röntgenbild (Sammlung von Steeroskopischen Röntgenbildern aus dem Neuen Allgemeinen Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf). [i.e., The human arterial system in stereoscopic X-ray images]

Complete title: [X-RAY / RADIOLOGY / A COOPERATION OF THREE GERMAN PHYSICIANS] Das Arteriensystem des Menschen im stereoskopischen Röntgenbild (Sammlung von Steeroskopischen Röntgenbildern aus dem Neuen Allgemeinen Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf). [i.e., The human arterial system in stereoscopic X-ray images].

HILDEBRAND, OTTO (1858-1927), WILHELM SCHOLZ (1864-1933), JULIUS MENNO WIETING (PASHA) (1868-1922).

J[oseph] F[riedrich] Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1917.

Original stereoscopic photographs of the X-radiographs with a booklet in the publisher's cloth slipcase, a label on the front board including title, authors, publisher, publishing date, and place, etc. Oblong cr. 8vo. (14 x 19 cm). In German. 10 stereoscopes, a booklet (29 pp.) including descriptive texts of the photographs, preface by the authors and editor of the series, Dr. Hermann Kümmell. A very good copy.

Fourth Edition. Uncommon stereoscopic X-ray radiographs of the vascular system collaboratively taken by Hildebrand, Scholz, and Wieting “Pasha”, Chief Physician of the Gülhâne Military Medical Academy in the Ottoman Empire. The German pathologist and surgeon Hildebrand produced these three-dimensional X-ray images in 1901 together with his colleagues at the Hamburg Hospital. By injecting contrast dye into the human vascular system, the intricate interplay of arteries and veins was made visible. Ten of these images were published as a series by the scientific publisher J. F. Bergmann and reprinted several times. The series likely served as educational material for medical students.

ON THE PUBLISHER:

Bergmann founded his publishing firm in 1878, initially acquiring the medical division of his father’s close friend Christian Wilhelm Kreidel. Following Kreidel’s death in 1890, he also took over the remainder of Kreidel's publishing house, including its natural sciences and technology divisions (among them the Journal of Analytical Chemistry), and continued to operate them under Kreidel’s name.

In 1914, Bergmann admitted his nephew Wilhelm Geck as a partner and withdrew from active management due to illness. Before this, he had arranged with his friend Fritz Springer that, after his death, Springer Verlag would acquire his shares in the company (and in 1923 Springer also acquired Geck’s shares). Given Bergmann’s extensive and highly respected medical publishing program, this marked the beginning of Springer’s strong focus on medical literature. In 1920, the company headquarters were relocated from Wiesbaden to Munich. The firm continued to exist as an imprint of Springer Verlag until 1989.

Provenance: From the collection of Dr. S. Margolisa “Cabinet röntgenologigzny D-ra S. Margolisa, Wilno, Wilenska 89.” Lately, from the special collection of Ç. I.