Stanley C. Skoryna INSIDE MARA First Edition Signed
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Stanley C. Skoryna INSIDE MARA First Edition Signed
First US edition first print hardback of INSIDE MARA by Stanley C. Skoryna MD, M.Sc., Ph.D, F.A.C.S. and published by Home Museum Press in 1982. Foreword by Edward A. Morrison. Signed and inscribed to a previous owner by Skoryna on the front endpaper.The book is in very good condition (cream / green gilt illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with minor creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. The book is in an acetate dust jacket which has a couple of closed tears and small areas of loss to the edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
'INSIDE MARA' is a story of a doctor and a student of biology who are faced with stomach bleeding in a giant woman, who landed in a space vehicle near a hamlet in a remote rural area. Unable to stop the hemorrhage they decide to enter her digestive tract, in order to tie off the bleeding vessel. Although they succeed in their task inside Mara, they cannot return to the outside world by the same route. They are forced to proceed downwards and discover that the presumable Martian is riddled with many diseases including gallstones, inflammations, cancer and ... hemorrhoids. Though the setting is fictional, the actual function and form of the digestive system is fully explained in the course of the story, in easily understandable language. More detailed information can be found in the glossary at the end of the book.
The unique value of this book is its comprehensiveness, based on information derived from most recent findings of scientists working in this field. Diseases of the alimentary tract, such as peptic ulcer, frequently srike people during the peak years of productivity. Public understanding of causes and symptoms of digestive disease is of primary importance, particularly in cancer, since when the diagnosis is made earlier, the treatment can be commenced sooner. The reader will find a wealth of information about the complex processes of digestion as well as common diseases affecting this system, with chapter headings referring to oral cavity, gullet, stomach, small and large intestine.
Richly illustrated with drawings by a well known humorist Jerry Eliot and color plates, depicting common digestive diseases.
350 pages.
ISBN: 0943100003
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