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191556454Providence RI & Boston MA: Otis Clapp & Son’s ca. 1915. 4to. 36 pp unpaginated. printed throughout in blue-coloured ink. With photo & text illustrations throughout woodcut borders self-printed illustrated softcovers w/ photos of founder on front cover & Boston Drug Pharmacy on Beacon on back cover minor dustsoiling edgewear VG copy. First edition of this scarce Edwardian homeopathic catalogue issued by one of the pioneering American homeopathic drug companies and publishers in the United States. Otis Clapp 1820-1886 was a brilliant and inventive homeopathic apothecary who developed and sold an entire range of homeopathic remedies medicine chests and published continually books on homeopathy and Swedenborg’s writings. He was also a major supporter of the Boston Female Medical College which was the first homeopathic medical college in the United States. This catalogue features advertisements for Dr. Ann Lovering’s Hints in Domestic Practice and Home Nursing medicine cases soaps bed and douche pans Sanchia perfumes rectal and vaginal suppositories adopted 1914 and many other items. Worldcat locates 1 copy RI Historical Soc. Library mis-dated 1800s. Otis Clapp & Son’s, paperback
193562132New York: The Vanguard Press 1935. 8vo. xv 3 297 1 pp. With plates illustrations. Black publisher’s cloth printed labels in rust & black on front cover & spine minor bumping & fraying head & foot of spine minor wear spots in a couple places at fore-edges still a VG copy w/ bookseller’s label of “The Old Corner Book Store Inc. Boston Mass†on ffep. First edition of this pointed rebuttal and advisory against dental powders pastes cures and other quackery items during the Great Depression against the backdrop of the FDA’s ever expanding quest to secure potential victims against dangerous notions. He purposely admonishes the reader against trusting misleading claims false advertising tooth bleaches dangerous tooth pastes and powders supposed “antiseptic†mouthwashes and finally outlines the efforts under the Pure Food Act to regulate these often dangerous products. Palmer 1889-1968 had served not only as the President of the American College of Dentists and editor of the New York Journal of Dentistry but is perhaps best known as founder of the oldest dental group insurance plan in the U.S. eventually known as the “General Health Insurance Plan†for which he served as board chairman until his death. The Vanguard Press, hardcover
173685<p>EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION OF THE RENOWNED "PHARMACOPOEA TAURINENSIS"</p><p>MEDICAL/GASTRONOMICAL RECEIPT BOOKS PRINTED IN TORINO CONTAINING NUMEROUS RECIPES OF SPIRITS AND LIQUORS</p><p>THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE <em>VERMOUTH </em>RECIPE<br /><em><br />Pharmacopœa Taurinensis nunc primum edita jussu augustissimi regis. </em>Augustae Taurinorum : in Aedibus Academicis apud Joannem-Baptistam Chais typographum regium 1736.<br /><br />4to 238 x 180 mm contemporary stiff vellum title on leather label at spine pp. 8 246 16 Coat of arms of the House of Savoy at title page woodcut head-pieces and head-letters woodcut <em>cul-de-lampe<br /><br /></em>TWO LARGE ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES 46X34 CM BY THE FRENCH ARTIST GEORGES TASNIERE ACTIVE IN TORINO AND WIEN DEPICTING THE DISTILLATORY APPARATUS NECESSARY FOR THE <em>SPIRITUS SULPHURIS</em> PLATE I AND <em>THE SPIRITUS VINI</em> PLATE II. THE PLATE II IS EXYTREMELY RARE BEING NOT PRESENT IN THE majority of the COPIES OFFERED ON THE MARKET IN THE LAST YEARS.<br /><br />The two plates were in fact meant to be used as project drawings to develop the instruments to perform distillation and so very often detached from the book.<br /><br />Officially presented in Turin by Antonio Battista Carpano in 1786 and based on the receipt of "<em>Vinum Absinthites</em>" Absinthe Wine described for the first time in the present book the <em>Vermouth</em> quickly become one of the best known liquor in the world and Vittorio Emanuele III di Savoia Victor Emmanuel III of Italy immediately appointed it as the "Official Aperitif" of the Court of Savoy.<br /><br />The <em>Pharmacopœa Taurinensis </em>is a complete and detailed illustrated spagyrical manual containing the most important and renowned receipts of the Savoy tradition and many spirits including the first receipt of the Vermouth. Many of the receipts originally meant to be used a medicine have also a great interest from a gastronomical point of view.<br /><br />The manual is formed by two parts; the first contains a list in alphabetical order of all the most important medicinal substances known at the time while the second composed by 21 chapters contains a rich and complete list of receipt regarding Essences Brews Decoctions Conserves Syrups Powders Liquors Oils Ointments Poultices<br /><br /></p><p>In the second half of the 18th century the town of Torino Piedmont Italy was already the main market in the production of flavored sweet wines to be used use as simple drugs. Pandering this market the <em>Pharmacopoea Taurinensis</em> gives a large list of recipes recommended for many diseases. It is also described for the first time the original recipe of vermouth that will have a great spread not only as medicinal elixir but also as a delicious drink.</p><p>Its diffusion was so great that the Duke Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy declared the vermouth the "Court's Official Aperitive" preferring it to the "rosolio" the so far favorite liquor of Piedmont aristocracy.</p><p>Many local liqueurs makers claimed its making but as shows its presence in this book the proceeding was diffusely applied in Torino for many years before Benedetto Carpano in 1786 claimed its fabrication. Carpano developed his own recipe to face the increasing tax imposed by French and Spain on drugs so far used to produce sweet wines in Italy followed by all the other vermouth maker among them Martini e Cinzano.</p><p>The most important producers had their shop in the center of Torino where the bourgeoisie of the town went to celebrate the rite of the aperitive. From Torino the vogue of vermouth spread all over Europe as a typical Piedmont drink and contributed to the great industrialization process of Torino.</p><p>Provenance: I. Ownership signature <em>Rumianus Michael Antonius Chirurgus 1797</em> at title page and flyleaf. II. Paper <em>exlibris "Biblioteca di Pier Paolo Vaccarino"</em> pasted at front inside board</p> Joannem-Baptistam Chais hardcover
193762307Kansas City MO: Wise’s Kansas City Homeopathic Pharmacy 1937. 8vo. 6 8 33-40 149-204 pp. One plate illustration of Hahnemann discoverer of homeopathy. Textured black softcovers silver lettering front cover raised & embossed plastic-comb binding as issued some light uniform interior toning still VG copy from Schooley’s Pharmacy Seattle WA at 4th & Seneca. Salesman’s Sample edition of this Wise’s Homeopathic Pharamcy catalogue offering a condensed version for pharmacists during the Great Depression. Founded originally by J.C. Wise in 1888 in Kansas City one of the early alumni of one of the alumni of the Kansas City Homoeopathic Medical College. Wise was a pioneering American homeopathic drug company and published catalogues desk references and condensed salesman sample copies such as this in order to market their products. The company would operate under family control until the late 1950’s. Wise’s Kansas City Homeopathic Pharmacy, paperback
19521887San Francisco: Associated Press / Call Bulletin 1952. Very Good. Three b&w photos varying slightly in size but on average 7" x 9-1/2". Caption printed in the plate of two photographs and affixed to the verso of the third one. Creasing to corner of one photo; stamps to versos. Three press photos showing the history-making televised hospital room birth of Gordon Campbell Kerr who was born by Caesarean section on December 2 1952 to a young Denver couple. The birth was carried on 49 television stations and watched by millions. Associated Press / Call Bulletin unknown
190562457New Orleans LA Salt Lake City UT & Cleveland OH: George Frank Carman New Orleans College of Dentistry; National Mouth Hygiene Association of America 1905-1915. Two parts. 1st - Tall thick 4to. 8.5 x 12.5 in. Approx. 700 pp most ruled pages w/ stamped contiguous numbering. ruled paper w/ over 100 pp. of mimeographed & dittoed answers questions exams either laid-in or mounted transverse w/in the pages the majority is in bold ink manuscript cursive by Carman of over 100000 words several manuscript original anatomical art drawings a tipped-in anatomical manikin by Yaggy & West w/ colour chromolithograph overlays dated 1885 for head and school w/ facing leaf of manuscript ink notes 2 photographs of George Carman Sr. and 1 of Frank Carman 1907 Commencement Exercises program for NOC of Dentistry Dittoed TLS on NOC of Dentistry letterhead signed by Louis D. Archinard and other occasional pieces of ephemera. Contemporary tan buckram raised bands gilt & red morocco spine label leather corners edgewear rubbing warping to covers from inserted leaves fraying to fore-edges of a few leaves some scuffing creasing to inserted mimeograph and dittoed quizzes and lesson plans still a good exemplar w/ Utahnah Dental Co. tooth-shaped advertisement mounted on front pastedown; 2nd - Three Lantern Slide Plates boxes holding 33 glass magic lantern slides sized 3.25 x 4 in. all w/ black tape at fore-edges number lables at lower left information w/in negative at lower fore-edges of images all in excellent condition w/ only 1 box lacking the lid all from the library of George F. Carman D.D. This original Progressive Era dental/medical manuscript documenting the three years of courses lectures and quizzes at the New Orleans College of Dentistry together with Dr. Carman’s visual aid Fletcherism National Mouth Hygiene Association glass plate slide lecture course provide an historically essential group documenting the advances in dentistry dental surgery and oral hygiene in the first 15 years of the 20th- Century. The New Orleans College of Dentistry was founded in 1899 by Drs. Andrew Friedrichs 1857-1921 pioneering oral surgeon and dental specialist; Dr. Louis D. Archinard 1869-1911 an excellent New Orleans dentist focused on offering medical care to the indigent and poor in New Orleans and his brother Dr. John J. Archinard 1870-1909 physician and oral surgeon who was a Spanish-American War veteran. By 1903 the New Orelans College of Dentistry had purchased and outfitted their first building at 831 Carondelet Street where they would operate until a 1908 fire gutted the building forcing the New Orleans College to affiliate and move to Tulane University. Carman 1886-1948 had studied in Houston TX and entered the New Orleans College of Dentistry in 1905 intending to study and learn the latest advances in the field of dentistry. The opening decade of the 20th-Century oversaw tremendous advances including the adapting of electric motorized drills for dentists X-Ray machines for patients awareness of the dangers of bacteria and bacteriological infections new methods of anesthesia for extraction and the revolutionary use of Vulcanized Rubber as base for artificial dentures. The “Index†or contents by Carman detail his divisions and lecture courses into Prosthetic Dentistry including extensive details on Vulcanization Vulcanizing Rubber preparing and constructing bridges and more; Pathology taught by Archinard with emphasis on hereditary diseases descriptions of inflammation assorted diseases necrosis and suppuration; followed by Anatomy - featuring anatomical manikin and original drawings by Carman; as well as Materia Medica Operative Dentistry Physiology Histology by Dr. J.J. Archinard “The Man that Cleaned up Havana Cuba 1898†chemistry metallurgy bacteriology clinical dentistry operative dentistry continued and more. He also includes the dittoed notes on histology with dittoed sections on tooth enamel nervous system tissues retina and crystlline lens and the preparation of tissues for examination with a microscope. Also included in the courses were embryology dental pathology and more. Carman has incorporated the very first test questions as well as printed examples of medical board questionnaires of States from Ohio to Oregon California and the rest of the West. Upon graduation Carman moved to Salt Lake City where he married Nina Richardson 1890-1965 daughter of the first physician in Salt Lake City and operated a successful practice for nearly 40 years out of the “Judge Building†in SLC up to his death of a heart attack in Los Angeles while on vacation. The Tulane School of Dentistry over seen by Dr. Friedrichs operated at Tulane until June 1928 emphasizing oral hygiene and continuing the original mission of providing care to the poor. Unfortunately it always teetered on the brink of financial ruin and closed in 1928. Horace Fletcher 1849-1919 was known during the Victorian and Progressive Eras as “The Great Masticator†and was a well known and influential food and health quackery specialist and author self-promoter and fanatic on his doctrine of “Fletcherism†which believed that all food had to be deliberately masticated and chewed until it turned to liquid. These glass plate slides emphasize and promote his four main advisories on chewing and swallowing but also the results of examining school children’s teeth in Andover MA indicating that nearly 60% of the children had poor or rotting teeth. Slides show the teeth of young children X-Rays of the skulls abscesses proper brushing and care of teeth with two specifically showing entire classrooms properly brushing their teeth. This cataloguer could find no similar manuscript course book or work for the NOC Dentistry in Worldcat or of the Fletcher Oral Hygiene Glass Lantern Slides; See: James Whorton Physologic Optimism: Horace Fletcher and Hygienic Ideology in Progressive America Bulletin of the History of Medicine Vol. 55 No. 1 Spring 1981 pp. 58-87; History of Dental Schools in Louisiana LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry 2024; Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans College of Medicine School of Dentistry New Orleans College of Dentistry 1898-1909 Announcement for 1921-1922. George Frank Carman, New Orleans College of Dentistry; National Mouth Hygiene Association of America, hardcover
19561388Atwood Indiana: Rajowalt Company Inc. 1956. Very Good. 7-3/4" x 5-7/8". 42 2 pp plus laid in ordering card typescript letter of introduction and four page price list "effective Nov. 15 1956". Red stapled self-wrappers printed in black b/w illustrations from photographs and engravings throughout. Minor wear to extremities and slight bumping to upper corner of a few leaves small spot of soiling to front cover else clean and crisp. Trade catalogue for a variety of medical splints slings screws clamps pins pulleys head halters traction units and walking heels for both men and women with a handy index at the beginning and illustrations for nearly all products.An apparently unrecorded or little recorded company much less catalogue as we find no holdings for Rajowalt at all in OCLC. Rajowalt [Company, Inc.] unknown
1700K8L0EZ7PGV23The Netherlands 1700. Large agenda 8vo 20.5 x 12 cm. Recased ca. 1720 in its own original ca. 1700 blind-tooled parchment sewn on 3 tapes but previously on 5 cords leaving raised ridges in the parchment of the spine with a large centrepiece on each board in a frame of double fillets. Manuscript in dark brown ink on laid paper with 1 printed and 10 manuscript slips with recipes loosely inserted late 18th & early 19th centuries. pp. 15 16 23-188 197-386 387-412 minus 16 scattered pp. including integral paste-downs and about 160 pp. blank except for the page number. A recipe book in Dutch probably written beginning around 1720 but with additions to at least 1758. Most of the recipes are medicinal but about 15 written pages near the end separated from the others by numerous blanks contain culinary recipes. Among the medicinal recipes one also finds a few for ink shoe polish and other things. The medicinal recipes include treatments for the plague rabid dog bites jaundice worms warts scurvy toothache headache and many other ailments. Unusually the complier cites about a dozen sources for the medicinal recipes. The culinary recipes include several kinds of pancakes waffels and "poffertjes" a popular Dutch treat like tiny puffy pancakes tarts cookies and other sweet treats.A small number of leaves had been used for something else before the present text but they were removed and the rest recased in the original binding to begin the present manuscript. The only remaining clue to this earlier text is in the index leaves at the end where a small number entries at the heads of the pages are written in a different hand and in Latin with references to leaf numbers that are no longer present. They are clearly religious/theological.The manuscript as it now stands has minor marginal defects at the foot of about 40 leaves not affecting the text and occasional minor spots but is still in good condition. The binding is slightly loose due to the removed leaves and the parchment shows a few wrinkles and small spots but the tooling of the centrepiece is clear. A charming manuscript recipe book in Dutch both medicinal and culinary. unknown
189951342Brooklyn NY: Eagle Press 1899. 4to. 303 1 pp. Frontisp. w/ tissue guard decorated title in red & black numerous text illustrations plates. Half-white cloth over light blue cloth gilt decorated lettering & ornament on front cover minor dustsoiling shelfwear still a VG copy from the library of Edna Mackay Skene 1874-1928 daughter of Donald Mackay b. 1843 owner and operator of North Pacific Lumber Co. in Portland OR wife of Dr. William Henry Skene 1870-1934. First edition of this souvenir fund raiser filled with essays on the history of medicine and local history in the Americas including an ambulance service and the American Red Cross. The Graeco-Roman Fair fund raiser was a huge success for the Kings County Medical Society the oldest scientific organization in Brooklyn and was attended by Governor Theodore Roosevelt the year after his experiences with the Rough Riders in Cuba. Eagle Press, hardcover
1827D19571Dublin: Hodges and McArthur 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. Contemporary 1/4 leather and marbled paper over boards. Binding rubbed. Rear endpaper lacking; some contemporary notes to front and back and with a gift inscription in ink from a Richard Franklin dated 1834. Later editions published in the U.S. are more common; this original Dublin edition is scarce. <br/><br/> Hodges and McArthur hardcover
192263645Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company 1922. Tall thick 8vo. xxxi 1 1203 1 pp. With 380 text woodcut engravings. Burgundy-coloured ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling very slightly shaken still VG copy from the libraries of Lena M. Everett 1882-1976 wife of longtime Tacoma retail merchant Walter Everett w/ ownership marking on ffep. and Eleanore Weinstock. Seventh edition revised of this posthumously published and very popular reference on physiognomy originally published under the title “A System of Practical and Scientific Physiognomy†1889 by this intrepid California woman who prepared this work after marry San Francisco Argonaut’s business manager Andrew Palmer Stanton 1837-1917. By the issuance of this version F.A. Davis Co. emphasizes the advantages to using Physiognomy in order to “win success in the business world†and how they can use adherents can use these systems to change habits develop character and aid in health disease and longevity. Mary Stanton 1837-1914 was a specialist in Phrenology who had developed her practice originally while tutoring and serving as a nannie to newspaper publisher Horace Greeley’s children after her second husband Jesse Hanks died leaving her and her four children destitute when his family seized the assets. She became a suffragette was associated with both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as well as Emmeline Pankhurst in the Suffrage movement and also attended the first delegation to the California legislature to ask for women’s right to vote. F.A. Davis Company, hardcover
192262683Hammond IN: Indiana Botanic Gardens 1922. 24mo. 2.75 x 6.75 in. 96 pp. With text illustrations & photos throughout. Tan illustrated softcovers slight shelfwear slight creasing still VG bright copy. First edition of this early Indiana Herbs catalogue and formulary detailing their herbal medicines and treatments available in herb tablet and liquid forms including herbal teas. Drawing upon herb lore and medical remedies developed by Ojibwe and Chippewa Indigenous peoples such as Tamarack tree used for tonics compresses teas bitters and powders of the tree while the resin was often used by Ojibwe to seal boats. Meyer’s company also processed and sold Yerba Mate or “Mexican Mate†used by South American Central American and Mexican Indigenous peoples as herbal substitutes for coffee and tea. Indiana Botanic Gardens, paperback
19892171Sri Lanka: Colombo Friend-in-Need Society 1989. Very Good. 11 x 8-1/4 inches. 52pp. Stapled white wrappers printed in green and black; b&w illustrations. Light bumping to upper corner; ownership name in ink to front cover; small crease to upper corner of some leaves. Promotional booklet detailing the goals and successes of the Jaipur Foot Programme of Sri Lanke as well as providing personal stories of amputees sporting events and other gatherings etc. The Programme was specifically designed to make artificial legs available to the poor who often lost limbs to crude "trap-guns" designed to deter wild boars from ruining cultivated farmland.Not located in OCLC. Colombo Friend-in-Need Society unknown
1833D19568Dublin: Fannin and Co. c. 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 100 pages followed by a 12p. list of medical class books dated 1833 and a 4p. catalogue of instruments. A sweet and scarce little volume in its original leather binding with red morocco labels to front and rear boards. Pencil notes to endleaves and a gift inscription in ink from a Richard Franklin dated 1834. <br/><br/> Fannin and Co. hardcover
190363254Leipzig: Louis Kuhne 1903. Tall 8vo. x 460 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. numerous text illustrations. Olive-green coloured publisher’s cloth black decoration front cover gilt lettering decorated endpapers slight shelfwear very slight rubbing NF copy. Revised & expanded 14th edition of this famed work on alternative medicine by Kuhne 1835-1901 whose favorite method of treatment was sitting in a cold water bath and active proponent of vegetarianism. Kuhne considered cooked foods as less optimal for the body and in fact ranked “all foods which we have to change by cooking smoking spicing salting pickling and putting in vinegar lose in digestibility and as regards vitality are far inferior to food in its natural condition Kuhne What shall we eat Herald of Health and Naturopath 1918. Louis Kuhne, hardcover
183263240Philadelphia PA: Carey & Lea 1832. 8vo. xx 9-630 2 pp. plus 24 pp. publisher’s ads. Recent black pebbled cloth gilt lettering ruling & decoration on spine uniform light toning minor foxing to first and last choirs occasional interior foxing still VG copy received by F.S. Weller M.D. from E.J. Marsh M.D. May 1st 1839. First edition of this American medical treatise -- the first of its kind issued in America prepared while Jackson 1787-1872 was assisting and teaching physiology with Nathaniel Chapman at the University of Pennsylvania fro 1827-1835. He would later hold a professorship at the Univ. of Penn from 1835 to 1863 while teaching at Philadelphia Hospital. Kelly-Burrage 642. Carey & Lea, hardcover
8817First Thus. Loose with metal clasp along top edge. Very Good. Three posters depicting anatomical aspects of the human body along with respective acupuncture points. Uniform in size they measure 20.5" x 42". Metal clasp binding on top edge. Slight edge-wear some wrinkles now mellowed. In sum quite presentable and worthy of framing. Scarce. unknown
1823D19570Dublin: George & John Grierson and Martin Keene 1823. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. Original grey wrappers. 83pp. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. Scarce. <br/><br/> George & John Grierson and Martin Keene paperback
DOV17948ca. 1880-913. Ephemera. Very Good. From the archive of Dover Publications: sixty trading cards relating to remedies for all kinds of ailments and troubles. A colorful assortment dating from circa 1880-1913. The majority of the cards feature women and/or children on the front and have text on the verso. From oinments to bitters to blood purifiers and more. An excellent assortment housed in a binder the cards protected in plastic sleeves. <br/><br/> unknown
185027696New York: H. Ludwig & Co. 1850. First printing. Pamphlet. Fine. This address was delivered upon Valentine Mott's 1785 - 1865 departure as President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Mott was a well known American surgeon working on the staff of Columbia College as Professor of Surgery. He went on to be one of the founders of Rutgers Medical College and of the Medical Department at the State University of New York. <br /> <br /> Isaac Wood 1793 - 1868 was consulting physician to the New York Dispensary and Bellevue Hospital; consulting surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic Hospital; member of the American Geographical Society and fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. American Medical Biographies Wikisource <br /> <br /> 8vo 26pp pamphlet title on tan front stiff paper wrapper cover dusty internally clean. OCLC: 22216316 8 copies. H. Ludwig & Co. unknown
188427701New York 1884. Ephemera. Very good condition. Large diploma printed on vellum with title and view of the hospital at the top. <br /> <br /> Charity Hospital also known as Island Hospital or City Hospital was an historic hospital on Roosevelt Island Manhattan in New York City. It began in 1832 as Penitentiary Hospital after a fire and rebuild it was renamed Charity Hospital in 1870. In 1877 it opened the country's 4th nursing school. The hospital closed in 1957 and the building was demolished in 1994.<br /> <br /> R.N. Giles' name inserted in printed text followed by signatures of the Commissioners President Secretary Consulting Physicians and Surgeons along with Visiting Physicians and Surgeons. In all some 43 original signatures of all the leading NY doctors of the day. 14 1/4 x 19 1/4" some of the signatures are faded but most are legible. Edges wrinkled. unknown
179550032Boston: T. Fleet Jun 1795. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; removed; 32pp. Long shallow loss along fore-edge of title page serving as upper wrapper slightly touching text without loss of meaning else Good or better overall. Address on the state of medicine in the country by John Brooks future Governor of Massachusetts followed by appendices including correspondence with the Humane Society in London; "Premiums adjudged by the Trustees"; and a "Catalogue of the Members of the Humane Society." AUSTIN 278; ESTC W20162; EVANS 28351; SABIN 8355. T. Fleet, Jun unknown
183547881Geneva NY: John Greves & Co 1835. First Edition. Octavo ca. 21cm.; disbound; 24pp. Light spotting to exterior leaves else Very Good and internally fresh. The uncommon opening address delivered by the founder of Geneva Medical College covering the various disciplines offered including anatomy obstetrics and forensic medicine. Cutbush first rose to prominence as "the Nestor of the Medical Corps of the Navy" being one of the first if not the first surgeon to be commissioned when the Navy was reconstituted in 1799. He was later immortalized by Herman Melville as Surgeon Cuticle in "White-Jacket" see Hennig Cohen "Melville's Surgeon Cuticle and Surgeon Cutbush" in "Studies in the Novel" Vol. 5 no. 2 summer 1973. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 31234; see also Sabin 18158. John Greves & Co unknown
187050190Boston: James Campbell 1870. First Separate Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's pale blue-grey wrappers printed within thick funereal rule; 27pp. Tiny chips and minor toning to wrapper extremities else Very Good and sound. Funeral address for the Scottish obstetrician and anaesthesiologist James Young Simpson 1811-1870 "Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church Beach St. at the request of the Gynæcological Society of Boston June 19 1870" and first published in the Society's Journal August 1870. Quite uncommon. James Campbell unknown
187018616New York: D. Appleton 1870. Offprint. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed wrappers; 48pp. Paper on spine partially perished; wrappers partially detached edgeworn; old damp-stain to lower third of contents. A complete Good copy. Reprinted from the Journal of Psychological Medicine April 1870. Post-mortem account by a forensic examiner of a female murder victim. The author's testimony based on examination of the victim's gun-shot wounds resulted in a verdict of "not guilty" for her husband the accused. D. Appleton unknown