COLD HEARTS

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1984, 1^st.  ISBN 0-7710-1414-7.  Hard cover, 208 pages.  Very good; cream boards with cream lettering on black spine.  Upper corners lightly bumped; light spine end and shelf wear.  Binding tight with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact has light edge wear and light creases; old damp stain along top edge of rear panel; spine sunned.  Book interior clean and unmarked; illustrated with black & white photos and illustrations; pages lightly tanned.  ‘… is the dramatic account of one of the most revolutionary advances in the field of heart surgery.  The story takes the reader from Canada’s World War Two equivalent of M*A*S*H*, the Sixth Casualty Clearing Station in Normandy, to the world’s first and only groundhog farm, where the Bigelow team sought to uncover the secret of hibernation in its pursuit of hypothermia research, and finally to the Toronto General Hospital in the 1950’s and the breakthrough development of the first pacemaker for clinical use.’ (from front flap)