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19163202London: The Scientific Press 1916. First edition. Very Good . Scarce first edition of a Red Cross manual designed both for emergency workers and women in the home. Original publisher's cloth binding titled in red on spine and front board. Boards a bit rubbed and soiled corners bumped. Faint offsetting to the endpapers. Inscribed by Edith Newsome on the front pastedown: "With the Author's Compliments Edith Newsome. 16.10.23." A scarce book institutionally and in trade OCLC reports only 11 copies in libraries this being the only one currently on the market. <br/><br/>Edith Newsome's first major work on nursing produced after she realized that her Red Cross lecture series could not provide complete enough information to train "those who have so nobly responded to the 'call of duty'; to do all that is in their power to tend and succour the brave men of our nation by proving themselves valuable and intelligent helpers." Indeed Newsome's work was released two years into World War I -- the first modern war which brought with it a horrifying number of previously unknown injuries and ailments. In addition to professional nurses women enrolled to assist as Volunteer Aid Detachments VADs because there simply were not enough women with medical educations to serve the nation's need. The present work is a stirring acknowledgement of this. Comprehensive in training VADs and new nurses in field operations it also contains information for women in the home who confronted infection illness or injury and served as domestic caretakers for men returning from the front. Very Good . The Scientific Press unknown books
1947M4841New York:: Henry Schuman 1947-1972. 1947. Twenty volumes. 255 x 178 mm. Tall 8vos. Various paginations. Illus. Navy buckram gilt spines. Bookplate of Elmer Belt. Very good. Includes volumes 2 4-10 12-17 19-22 25 27. The JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES is devoted to work relating to all aspects of the history of medicine public health dentistry nursing pharmacy veterinary medicine etc. Edited by George Rosen the numerous contributors include many famous historians of medical history: Ralph Major Carl Bridenbaugh Herbert Klickstein Max Neuburger Walther Riese Charles Singer etc. Henry Schuman], 1947-1972. hardcover books
190751831Philadelphia: Lea & Febridge 1907-1910. First Edition. First printings. Seven large octavo volumes 24cm. Publisher's red cloth boards titled in gilt on spines; lavender endpapers; plates; illus. Very mild external wear; rear free endpaper lacking in vol. 7 else a complete unusually well-preserved set in the original publisher's cloth. The last major authorial undertaking by Osler 1849-1919 a massive compilation of medical and scientific papers by the most eminent physicians of the period chosen to reflect "a new era" in medicine. Osler took care to include works from outside the English-speaking world as noted in the Publisher's Note to Volume 1: ".it is more necessary in medicine than in any other sphere of human effort that the world-knowledge should be placed at the command of all. Physicians of the dominant language English have just cause for satisfaction in realizing that this is now to be accomplished in their own tongue and under the leadership of one of the best fitted by common consent to develop this idea in its most complete and fruitful manner. Lea & Febridge unknown books
190926971Paris France: Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques 1909. A photograph album composed of 29 heavy cardstock leaves each titled with a French hospital with a mounted photograph of the interns of 1908-09. On the mounts printed below the images are the surname-identification of the new doctors along with a quote from a famous medical personage. Photographic studio not identified aside from the printed notice in the surround of "Cliche Femina." Our research indicates that these albums were produced by the Compagnie des Eaux Minerales. as promotional devices; the cover titles are further personalized and include the name of one of the graduates A Monsieur Corylles actually Coryllos from the Hopital Cochin Paris. Dr. Coryllos 1880-1938 was an eminent thoracic surgeon and pioneer in the use of the mobile field hospital saving lives during military conflicts Every photograph black and white silver gelatin process; approx. 4 ¾" x 6" size is characterized by extraordinary clarity and very professionally taken; several of them presenting the graduating physician's candid expressions of humor - one posing with a monkey on his back another lugging a huge travel-box by a rope over his shoulders many with pet dogs & cats one with what appears to be a monstrous lizard; in another three men sit astride sheep and a goat; other portraits promoting expressions of extreme gravitas. The Hopital Des Enfants Malades with two women identified Mlle. Bouteil and Mme. Debre; the Hopital de la Pitie with Mme. Long; Mlle. Dechaux at Hopital Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; two of the images from the Hopital Bichat & Hopital Beaujon with unidentified women posed with the groups. The images appear to have been taken on the grounds and building forecourts of these medical establishments including: Hopital Andral & Bastion 27 et 29; Beaujon; Berck Sur-Mer; Hospice de Bicetre; Bichat; Boucicaut; Bretonneau; Broca; Broussais; de la Charite; Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; Cochin; Cochin Annexe; Maison Dubois; des Infantes Assistes; des Infantes Malades; Herold; Hotel-Dieu; Hospice D'Ivry; Laennec; Lariboisiere; La Maternite; Necker; de la Pitie; Saint-Antoine; Saint-Louis; Hospice de la Salpetriere; Tenon; and Hopital Trousseau. Heavy oblong format covers about 8 pounds shipping weight. Approx. 11" x 14" size; gilt titled green pebbled cloth & leather corners; binding damaged worn spine covering gone; all photographs in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques hardcover books
197621944London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medecine 1976. First edition. 1 vols. Large 4to. Cloth. Fine. First edition. 1 vols. Large 4to. The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medecine unknown books
19061073Chicago 1906. Very good. 27pp. Original tan printed wrappers stapled. Slight separation at spine ends corners and edges bumped and lightly chipped. Light wear and soiling internally. An interesting combination of death announcement biography and medical advertisement. The work opens by stating that Dr. Sarah DeLoss died November 14 1906 and her medical practice has passed to her capable son-in-law Dr. W.F. Hormann who also speaks German very useful for the Chicago populace of the time. The pamphlet lauds the amazing abilities of Dr. DeLoss over thirty years of intuitive naturopathic practice including a lengthy testimonial from another woman doctor. "We are about to tell of a woman who has reached the top of the ladder not by hard study but through natural gifts. . She is a perfect diagnostician which is head among her many natural gifts. She is a natural botanist; she knows every growing plant and its medicinal use. . She not only tells the disease but the cure is forthcoming." There follow remedies for common ailments -- all of which you can order by mail from Dr. Hormann -- and a catalogue of symptoms and their potential treatments. A closing ad by Dr. Hormann notes: "I offer the public roots and herbs in their natural state; I use no mineral poisons." We locate a single copy in OCLC in the Schlessinger Library at Harvard. unknown books
191912189Washington: G.P.O. 1919. 1st edition. 4to. 446pp. original cloth with illustrations. Front hinge loose signature on pastedown endpaper otherwise good. G.P.O. unknown books
1907525361907. MEDICINE. MODERN MEDICINE Its Theory and Practice. In original contributions by American and Foreign authors. Edited by William Osler and assisted by Thomas McCrae. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1907-1910. Complete in 7 volumes. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. red cloth with spine in gilt. Boards are generally soiled with light stain to upper cloth of volume one. Some wear to edges with bumped cornors. Internally text is clean and tight however three volumes have hinges cracked. A very good set. a. unknown books
190660235Chicago IL: np 1906. Black lettered pink paperwraps stapled. 8vo. 7 pp. Signed on the front wrapper "with the compliments of author." OCLC lists one copy at College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The author who lives in Citronelle Ala. focuses a good part of this pamphlet on Citronelle known at the turn of the century for its healing waters and herbs. <br/><br/> np paperback books
193052156Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1930. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong" dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes 27cm; publisher's maroon cloth boards lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi1-568; ix569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume else a tight Near Fine set lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong 1872-1948 was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades. Harvard University Press unknown books
1964M5849Rome: 1964-1966. 1964. 298 x 220 pp. Folio. 193 5; 180 4; 172 2 pp. Illus. Quarter gray cloth cloth corners patterned paper over boards blue cloth spine labels gilt spine. Ownership rubber stamps on titles. Fine. 1964-1966. hardcover books
1919M8116Washington D.C.:: Government Printing Office 1919. 1919. 267 x 190 mm. Tall 8vo. 446 pp. Color frontis. extensively illustrated with photographs of aviation equipment in use physical examinations of flight candidates and test equipment constructed to test the physiological effects of flight conditions tables 1 folding index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth; rubbed inner hinge cracked. Very good. Government Printing Office, 1919. hardcover books
1919M8115Washington D.C.:: Government Printing Office 1919. 1919. 267 x 190 mm. Tall 8vo. 446 pp. Color frontis. extensively illustrated tables 1 folding index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth; rubbed. Very good. This extensively illustrated manual for the medical personnel of the United States Air Service contains numerous figures and plates including photographs of aviation equipment in use physical examinations of flight candidates and test equipment constructed to test the physiological effects of flight conditions. Government Printing Office, 1919. hardcover books
197168994Freeport: Books for Libraries Press 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. ills index x 301p. 26cm. Original binding. No Jacket. Edited and compiled by Daniel Smith Lamb. Reprint of the 1900 edition. <br/><br/> Books for Libraries Press hardcover books
1935440341935. MEDICINE. LA PERIODICITE SAISONNIERE DES MALADIES EPIDEMIQUES et en particulier de la poliomyelite. By G. Hornus. Monographies de L'Institute Pasteur. Paris: Masson et Cie 1935. Inscribed by the author to Nobel Prize for Medicine recipient John Enders. 8vo. yellow paper wraps ruled in red and lettered in black. A very good copy moderately soiled at the wraps some chipping at spine ends. unknown books
19052316New York: Marston Remedy Company 1905. Revised Edition. <br /><br />16mo 6 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 162 x 113 mm 32 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Pamphlet from a company offering "medicated" suppositories and contraptions that purportedly treat men's sexual nervous and urinary disorders. <br /><br />One "treatment" involves cocoa butter. "The suppository now glides into the rectum with the most perfect ease by means of a little pressure from the finger and which is often important this method of rectal treatment leaves no traces to excite the curiosity of servants or others." page 10. <br /><br />While most of the "treatments" involve suppositories of one kind or another the company also offers devices to relieve men's suffering illustrations helpfully included. There's "Dr. Curling's Varicocele Truss" which supposedly treats pain in the scrotum. This we're told is preferable to surgery. "Several surgeons have been assassinated by patients whom they have thus made hoplessly sic impotent." page 23. <br /><br />There's also Marston's Urethral Tapers pencil-like devices that "soothe heal and at the same time destroy all germ life. They medicate the entire canal never stain the clothing and are rapid in action." So convenient you can carry them in your pocket. page 27. <br /><br />Marston Remedy Company was a defendant in a number of court cases. "Marston Remedy Company was owned by H.D. Van Leuven of New York. The company's advertising methods proved so outrageously fraudulent -- even for the period -- that in September 1906 the Postmaster-General denied the company the use of the U.S. mails." An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform Vol. III Supplement A-Z page 479. <br /><br />OCLC shows a single institutional holding of this pamphlet at the University of Rochester home of the Atwater Collection the Atwater copy appears to have been published earlier than our copy. Yale has a copy under the same title but by a different publisher and with double the page count of our copy or the Atwater copy. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers and heavy toning to pages. Very Good overall. Marston Remedy Company paperback books
19262327New York: Gallia Laboratories Inc. 1926. <br /><br />24mo 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 138 x 107 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />Promotional pamphlet for Kola Astier a product possessing "remarkable curative and stimulative properties quite unknown to any other preparation." According to the manufacturer Gallia Laboratories Kola Astier builds muscular strength fights fatigue relieves depression and "melancholia" stimulates the heart and helps in combatting bronchitis pneumonia and "senile debility." It also acts we're told as a "remarkable regenerator" for "tired overworked men and women." <br /><br />Where did this cure for every ailment come from According to the company Dr. P. Astier recognized the amazing properties of the kola nut. "Long before the white man traversed the midnight jungles and the wild plains of mysterious Africa the natives were using the fruit of the Kola Tree to increase their physical stamina and powers of endurance. Finally when the first white explorers forced their way into the heart of the Dark Continent they too soon recognized the value of this gift of the Gods." <br /><br />This text is accompanied by an illustration of spear-wielding African warriors. Other illustrations depict runners an apparently sick office worker and an exhausted home maker. <br /><br />Unfortunately for the company the U.S. Agriculture Department determined that Kola Astier contained no ingredients capable of producing any therapeutic or curative effects claimed by the company. <br /><br />In March 1933 the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey sought the seizure of 199 bottles of Kola Astier Granulated charging misbranding in violation of federal rules. Analysis by the U.S. Agriculture Department showed that the product consisted essentially of sugar 97.3% and small proportions of plant material including kola. A federal district court ordered that the 199 bottles be destroyed. <br /><br />That judgment didn't stop Gallia Laboratories from promoting its miracle cure. In June 1943 the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with making false misleading and deceptive statements about its products. It ordered the company to stop claiming that Kola Astier had any therapeutic value in the treatment of any disorder. <br /><br />This pamphlet is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings. None in commerce. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some staining soiling and a few small nicks to wrappers as well as rusting to staples. But the pages are clean bright and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Gallia Laboratories, Inc. paperback books
1969003601Roma: Società Internazionale Di Storia Della Medicina 1969. 2 vols. li 1824p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Contains 208 papers in four languages. Società Internazionale Di Storia Della Medicina unknown books
191528513New York: D. Appleton and Company 1915. 1st editions all volumes. Original publisher olive-green vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. Gilt bright. Square & tight. Occasional rub to binding. A VG set. 5 volumes complete. Profusely illustrated. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/>A physician's 'Why & How' from 100 years ago. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
194021590Brooklyn New York: Bob Leavitt 1940. A press photograph of an active operating room scene with surgery taking place 5 doctors and nurses visible instrument tray dramatic focused lighting; black and white approx. 7" x 9" size; with the Bob Leavitt 921 Wash'n Av. Brooklyn N.Y. studio stamp and "Not released B.L." in pen below along with request for credit also in ink; a few pencil numbers; no other identifiers; image with a little edgewear back with some soiling; in very good condition good photographic & medical history ephemera especially with photographer Leavitt's personal initial & markings. . Signed by Photographer. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Bob Leavitt Paperback books
1948129737Washington: Department of State 1948. hardcover. very good. Illustrated in b/w. 2 volumes. Tall thick 8vos red cloth. Washington D.C.: Department of State 1948. A very good pair.<br/><br/> Department of State unknown books
1953WRCLIT81943Paris: Masson et Cie. 1953. Quarto 28.5 x 19.5 cm. Printed wrappers. Portraits and illustrations. Tanning to spine and wrapper extremities otherwise very good and largely unopened. First edition. Copy #2833 from an unspecified number of copies. Portraits and illustrations printed from wood-engravings by Poillot and Prost. Biographical sketches. Masson et Cie. unknown books
1933160313SPRINGFIELD CHARLES C. THOMAS 1933 1933. ORIGINAL GILT STAMPED LIGHT BROWN CLOTH SOME FADING TO SPINE; NO DUST JACKET; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER; TO MY GOOD FRIEND AND PATIENT MR. W.W. OSBORNE. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. SPRINGFIELD, CHARLES C. THOMAS, 1933 hardcover books
1931WRCLIT81944Paris: J. Peyronnet & Cie. 1931. Two volumes. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Plates. First edition. Crowns and toes of spines chipped one to the depth of 3.5cm otherwise a good set. GARRISON-MORTON 2055. J. Peyronnet & Cie. unknown books
190920205Paris: Masson et Cie 1909. First Separate Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. First Separate Edition. 8vo. pp. 1-44; later half-morocco and marbled paper boards; gilt stamping to spine; minor fading to top edge; marbled endpapers; original pale green printed wrappers bound in; perforated library stamps to wrapper and pp. 43-44; few pencil annotations; very good overall. Offprint from this French medical journal in which Levy-Bing discusses methods for intramuscular injections of preparations from mercury for the treatment of syphilis. Illustrations in the text. Hard Cover. Masson et Cie unknown books
