English translation of De Motu Cordis, Inscribed, Harvey Cushing. Goodrich Copy

Anatomical Studies on the Motion of the Heart and Blood. William Harvey, M.D. A new, modern English translation with annotations, by Chauncey D. Leake, Professor of Pharmacy, University of California. Charles C Thomas, Publisher. 1931.
 
In brown plain boards with dust jacket. Jacket tattered, mostly at front top edge. Inscribed by Harvey Cushing (to Ralph L Hawkins on Dec 25, 1931) on ffep. Book plate of James Tait Goodrich partially adhered to ffep. Clean, bright, and tight throughout. 
 
Ffep, falf title, frontis, title (xviii), 150, (6), rfep. 
Includes three plates in prelims, as well as facimile of original title page. 
 
See Heirs 2269: “Harvey Cushing, born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Harvard and Yale, taught successively at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and Yale, becoming the world's leading neurological surgeon. His productivity was enormous--in surgery, in research, and in publication. In addition, he was a distinguished collector of medical books which he bequeathed to Yale.” 
 
James Tait Goodrich was a famous American neurosurgeon, bibliophile, and member of the American Osler Society.
 
See Heirs 416: “There is probably no name better known in the history of medicine than that of William Harvey. An Englishman, educated at Cambridge and then at Padua when Fabricius was in the chair of anatomy, Harvey returned to London and set up in practice. In 1615 he was made professor of anatomy and surgery at the College of Physicians. By 1616 he was well on his way toward perfecting his theory of the circulation of the blood, publishing his findings in this unimposing little book, "An anatomical disquisition concerning the motion of the heart and blood," usually called just De motu cordis. Many authorities consider it to be the most important book in the history of medicine. What Vesalius was to anatomy, Harvey was to physiology; the whole scientific outlook on the human body was transformed, and behind almost every important medical advance in modern times lies the work of Harvey.”