Editor-in-Chief
BRIAN D. COLEY

2019

A small number of valuable and influential texts have outlived their creators, evolving over years through the efforts of new authors and editors. Sir William Osler’s The Principles and Practice of Medicine was published from 1892 to 2001; Sir Vincent Zachary Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen, currently in its 22nd edition, first appeared in 1921; other such venerable texts still being published include Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (1950), Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics (1945), and Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (1941). Caffey’s Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging (originally Caffey’s Pediatric X-ray Diagnosis through the first nine editions) is the longest continuously published textbook in the subspecialty, having proven its value over seven decades.