This collectible antique contains a wealth of knowledge from some of the top physicians and researchers in the 1930s, including George R Minot who was a Nobel Prize winner in the same year that this volume was published. It is illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Any collector, physician, or historian would be proud to display this artifact on their shelf, and preserve the wisdom and history inside. General Medicine is the first of ten volumes of The Practical Medicine Year Books. It includes the following chapters Infectious Diseases by George F Dick, a pioneer in scarlet fever research Diseases of the Chest by Lawranson Brown Diseases of the Blood and Blood-Forming Organs; Diseases of the Kidney by George R Minot and William B Castle Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels by William D Stroud Diseases of the Digestive System and Metabolism by George B Eusterman George Frederick Dick (born July 21, 1881, Fort Wayne, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 10, 1967, Palo Alto, Calif.) was an American physician and pathologist who, with his wife, Gladys Henry Dick, discovered the cause of, and devised means of preventing, scarlet fever. George Richards Minot (born Dec. 2, 1885, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1950, Brookline, Mass.) was an American physician who received (with George Whipple and William Murphy) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for the introduction of a raw-liver diet in the treatment of pernicious anemia, which was previously an invariably fatal disease. William Bosworth Castle was one of the founding fathers of experimental hematology. His pioneering work on the pathogenesis of pernicious anemia and other red cell disorders was matched by his leadership and mentoring of two generations of academic hematologists.