Lung Cancer and Its Relationship to Smoking
Washington DC: Narcotics Education Inc., 1963. First Edition. Original wraps. 3 1/2 X 6 Inches. 16 PP. Near Fine. Item #8832
Dr. Alton Ochsner was one of the first physicians courageous enough to challenge powerful social norms by arguing that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer decades before the evidence became mainstream. At a time when smoking was culturally celebrated and medically unchallenged, he used his clinical experience and scientific reasoning to warn the public and the medical community about its dangers, helping lay the groundwork for modern anti-smoking research and public health policy. Beyond this landmark insight, he co-founded the Ochsner Clinic, shaping generations of physicians and establishing a major center of medical innovation in the American South.
Original early tract on the dangers of smoking! OCLC locates only "1" copy.
Price: $50.00