Twins in History and Science

1961 FIRST ABRIDGED ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH EDITION OF LUIGI GEDDA'S MONUMENTAL STUDY OF TWINS IN HISTORY AND MEDICAL PRACTICE.

19x26 cm hardcover, salmon cloth binding, gilt title to spine, i-viii, 240 pp, 171 color and black & white figures. Near-fine in very good jacket with 2.5 cm closed tear to front top edge, in protective mylar sleeve.

GARRISON-MORTON No. 255.7

English translation of the first half of a truly comprehensive work on the scientific study of twins, with some revisions: Twins in history and science, Springfield, C.C. Thomas, [1961]. CONTENTS: Twins in mythology and the arts; Twins in history and science; Twins in plant and animal life; Frequency of the twinning phenomenon; Etiologic background factors in twinning; Embryology of twinning; Twin pregnancy: Its physiology and pathology; Anatomical studies of twins. This fine translation of Professor Gedda's monumental treatise on twins published in 1951 brings together an extensive bibliography as well as a wealth of information--historical, medical, genetic--regarding the phenomenon of twin birth.

LUIGI GEDDA (1902-2000) graduated in medicine in Turin in 1927, and beginning in 1960 he taught at Sapienza University of Rome, where he was granted a chair of medical genetics. As a scholar of twinning, in 1951 together with Luisa Gianferrari he founded the Italian Society of Medical Genetics. He also established the Institute of Medical Genetics and Twin Studies Gregorio Mendel, along with the branch Luigi Gedda Institute of Medical Genetics & Twin Research in Israel.

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Publisher: Charles C. Thomas

Year: 1961

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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