Esser Inlay, 1940

Esser Inlay (Epithelial Inlay) Francd: “Moulage Dermique” Germany: “Epithel Einlage” Spain: “Modellado Dermico Esser.” With about 1500 Fig. By J. F. S. Esser. Structive Surgery, Monaco. Collaborators: Prof. Bardelli, ... Prof. A. Borges de Souza, ... M. Coelst M. D., ... Sir Harold Gillies, ... Prof. E. Just, ... T. Pomfret Kilner, ... Prof. F. Lamaitre, ... Eastman Sheehan, .... Editor: E. J. Brill Leiden, Holland 1940. 
 
Folio recently rebound in 1950s book cloth with gold on front board and spine. Blue end papers. Photographic frontis and numerous photographic plates in black and white. Variable toning, but mostly bright.  Scattered stains to page edges, all just superficial. Binding tight. 
 
Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser (1878 – 1946) was the first to specialize in Structive or Plastic Surgery of the whole body. He was a physician of Leiden University, Belgian M.D. of Ghent University, nominated German M.D. of Berlin university, first Consulting-Surgeon for plastic surgery of the ministries of war of Austria-Hungary and Germany, Surgeon-in-Chief of the Great Austrian War Hospital of Brunn, and numerous other appointments in plastic surgery.  
 
Furthermore, according to the Wellcome Collection: “Anything from the pen of J. F. S. Esser must be most carefully studied by any reconstructive surgeon. When his epithelial inlay was first published in English in March 1917, few of the surgeons who read it were alive to the immense possibilities that lay behind the thought. Similarly, to a modified extent, a certain type of antagonism was felt toward his rotation flap. The truth about these two procedures as practiced by English-speaking races is that the ideas of both are eminently sound and when suitably modified of great practical value.”