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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
183946667Philadelphia: Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1839. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's green cloth gilt morocco spine label; xv1360pp. Boards worn and spine crudely reglued uneven sunning to upper cover and spine old dampstaining to preliminaries contemporary gift inscription and ownership signature to title page. A Good only copy though internally sound. The Irish physician's influential work on diseases of the lung with special emphasis on tuberculosis and lung cancer. Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell unknown
184749328Chicago: Printed at 128 Corner of Lake and Clark Streets 1847. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; removed; 221pp. Lacking original wrappers else Very Good and fresh. Final leaf of text provides a complete list of fees for medical services. Baccalaureate address delivered to one of the earliest graduating classes of the College founded in 1842. The speaker Moses L. Knapp was professor of materia medica and here advises the class of 1847 that "There will be but little difficulty in getting along with rivals who may be either secret or open enemies if you will act honestly and uprightly yourselves and command your feelings" p. 19. BYRD 1218 noting 1000 copies printed; McMURTRIE 121. Printed at 128 Corner of Lake and Clark Streets unknown
1868788181868. Broadside for a traveling surgeon a common practice of this era when skilled and trained medical professionals were in short supply. At the time the practice of medicine was open to almost anyone who called themselves a doctor until a movement toward government involvement in medical licensing gained strength. Between 1870 and 1880 15 states passed medical licensing acts.<br /> <br /> This broadside carries several testimonials from both patients and other doctors regarding Barbour’s success. His training included six years at large hospitals in New York and 15 years of specialty study of diseases and operations.<br /> <br /> It also states: “There are many chronic diseases and deformities in every country that can by proper medical or surgical treatment be restored to health. It is not possible for most of them to visit a distant city for treatment or operations and for the accommodation of such persons Dr. Barbour has for several years spent a part of every month in the country towns thus enabling many to get relief who would probably have remained diseased deformed or blind for life.â€<br /> <br /> Printed in black ink on tissue thin paper 7 ½†x 10 ¼â€. In pencil at the bottom the location Spencer and time July 28 13 days Dr. Barbour is spending in the town has been added. In addition there is a pencil sketch on the verso possibly medical related. The broadside is lightly foxed. unknown
18619174New York: L.V. Newton 1861. First edition. Marbled Cloth over Boards. Good backstrip missing binding intact but mildly stressed. Folio pp. 240 articles and advertisements w/ b/w engravings. L.V. Newton hardcover
182749948Bath: Joseph G. Torrey 1827. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; removed; 17pp. Faint vertical fold old ink signature to title page serving as upper cover else Very Good and sound. Address to and about the duties and history of the Medical Society of Maine. Quite uncommon. SHOEMAKER 28065. Joseph G. Torrey unknown
186949873Manchester NH: John B. Clarke 1869. First Separate Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within double rule; 23pp. Light chipping and a bit of toning to wrapper extremities splitting along top half of upper wrapper spine edge faint vertical fold else Very Good and sound. Faint ink inscription at head of upper cover: "Compliments of A.B.C." Address on the life and works of American surgeon and educator Reuben Dimond Mussey 1780-1866 first published in the "Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society. John B. Clarke unknown
187745827Cambridge: Riverside Press 1877. First separate edition reprinted from the Boston Medical & Surgial Journal May 24 1877. Octavo sewn pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 12pp. Mild age-toning to wrappers and text else a Near Fine copy. Holmes addresses his audience on the state of microscopy and his experience with various types and makes. Riverside Press unknown
181448064New-York: William Treadwell 1814. First Edition. Octavo ca. 22cm.; disbound; 24pp. Light dust-soil to half title serving as upper cover margins foxing to last few leaves else Very Good internally sound. SABIN 88902; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 32829. William Treadwell unknown
181549357Boston: C. Stebbins 1815. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; removed; 34pp. Lacking half title page contemporary ownership signature of a Miss Louisa G. Archibald at head of title page serving as upper cover else Very Good and fresh. Funeral oration delivered on the occasion of the death of John Warren the "single more important figure in the early institutionalization of Boston medicine" anb.org. AUSTIN 1036; SABIN 35425; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 35007. C. Stebbins unknown
181549366Boston: C. Stebbins 1815. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; removed but retaining half title page; 34pp. Slightly later gift inscription of an S.J. Prescott to the New York Historical Society no institutional markings else Very Good and fresh. Funeral oration delivered on the occasion of the death of John Warren the "single more important figure in the early institutionalization of Boston medicine" anb.org. AUSTIN 1036; SABIN 35425; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 35007. C. Stebbins unknown
190786591Adelaide: Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1907. Large octavo lxviii 510 pages with illustrations plus charts some folding and an erratum slip. Cloth a little flecked and bumped with minor wear to the extremities; heavy creases to the top corner of two leaves; minor pencilling to an early section; a very good copy. Numerous lectures are reprinted including several on the use of the recently pioneered Rontgen X Rays and 'The Organisation of the Australian Army Medical Corps on Peace Footing with its Expansion to War Requirements' 15 pages. Government Printer hardcover
409376From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A corner torn from seal with loss of a few letters else fine. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel a bifolium. In French. A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies what he calls "monsters". Bocquillot answers that in some cases the deformity is caused by bestiality and implies that in that case the child is not properly human. He believes however that when the deformity happens naturally what he calls the "mother's fantasy" or some other accident of nature it must be seen as part of God's plan – the “monster†partakes of human nature and so it should be baptized. He goes on to cite St. Augustine's concurrence in this matter in his Enchiridion.<br /> <br /> Summarizing his argument: "Quoi qu'ils ne paraissent point dignes de ce sacrement a cause de leur figure bizarre on les y doit croire dignes par leur nature" Though they don't seem worthy of this sacrament baptism on account of their bizarre appearance we must believe them to be worthy of it on account of their human nature. unknown
185249883New York: G.A.C. Van Beuren 1852. First Edition. Slim octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 28pp. Wrappers slightly worn and dust-soiled else Very Good internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author at head of upper cover. Address delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine October 6th 1852 on the life and works of the late New York surgeon J. Kearny Rodgers. The final two pages of the sketch focus primarily on the description and symptoms of the disease which killed the subject "Inflammation of the veins of the portal system." Delafield was himself an important member of the medical profession as a pediatrician and obstetrician founding the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in 1842. SABIN 19331. G.A.C. Van Beuren unknown
182149283Boston: Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham 1821. First Edition. Octavo 24cm.; removed; 135pp. Some light foxing and dampstaining along margins long closed tear to pp. 3/4 touching text without loss else Very Good and sound. Among the author's other medical treatises include works on spotted fever and the self-limited nature of typhoid fever Hale advising physicians not to overdose. SHOEMAKER 5514. Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham unknown
180319744<p><strong>A very interesting collection of around 80 copies of letters from the correspondence of Rouen physician Jean-Baptiste Vigné 1771-1842 a pioneer in the practice of vaccination in Rouen.</strong> He was head of the city's General Hospice and one of the first full members of the Académie de Rouen when it was re-established in 1803. He was also active in Paris as a corresponding member of the Académie de Médecine and the Société de Médecine Clinique.</p><p>This correspondence brings together the most important letters he sent between 24 Nivose An XI January 14 1803 and July 8 1806.<br />His correspondents were mainly doctors and members of learned societies in Paris and Rouen including leading medical figures of the period such as "shis ami" Jean-Etienne Esquirol 1772-1840 8 letters Michel-Augustin Thouret 1749-1810 6 letters François Chaussier 1746-1828 4 letters Philippe Pinel 1745-1826 2 letters J. J. le Roux b. 1749 1 letter and Henri-Marie Husson 1772-1853.</p><p><strong>Among the most interesting items are three letters relating the early beginnings of vaccinia in Rouen.</strong><br />One is addressed in his capacity as Corresponding Member of the Paris Academy of Medicine to Henri-Marie Husson 1772-1853 secretary of the central vaccinia committee in Paris dated 26 Pluviose an XI 1 page: "<em>Do not doubt Sir the pleasure I would have in communicating to you some observations favorable to vaccinia inoculation which I believe against the feeling of its detractors to be powerfully anti-smallpox</em>".<br />Two are addressed to Monsieur G. Robert pharmacist at the Hôtel Dieu in Rouen and secretary of the correspondence office of the central vaccinia committee of that city dated 8 brumaire an XIII 1 page and 3 pluviose an XIII 8 pp.<br />They concern the shipment of vaccine fluid taken from a 12-year-old child and give detailed observations on the vaccinations he carried out in Rouen reporting a few special cases such as the vaccination of a 9-month-old baby surrounded by sick people.<br />"<em>I have vaccinated only 26 people since Messidor Year XI three of whom were unsuccessfully. In twenty-two others I have seen all the symptoms of true vaccinia develop successively with a reddish superficial aureole forming around the injections as soon as they have been given and disappearing in a few moments.</em> "</p><p>Other letters concern the distribution of his own works or articles such as his analysis of Philippe Pinel's treatise on insanity his <em>Essai sur la petite vérole </em>his <em>Essai sur l'utilité de l'anatomie </em>1803 or <em>De la Médecine légale</em> 1805.</p><p>The volume also contains interesting observation letters and reports on a variety of subjects: care of wounds obstetrical observations peritonitis digestive tumors the case of a person with live salamanders coming out of his anus convulsions etc. There are 23 sheets of observations reported to the Paris Society of Clinical Medicine on Mr. Loger's illness.<br />Some letters are addressed directly to patients with instructions for their care and medical certificates and attestations.</p><p><strong>An important source on the activities of a particularly active corresponding member of several medical societies and a pioneer in the practice of vaccination.</strong></p>
1930776431930. Wraps. Very good. Illustrated prospectus for this little-known sanatorium which was located at 507 North Seventh Street in Phoenix Arizona.<br /> <br /> "The special work of the institution is the care of nervous invalidism. Persons suffering from general invalidism also business men worn out from a strenuous life or women tired with social and domestic duties who do not class themselves as invalids and yet desire rest massage electricity baths and an outdoor life will be received. Patients suffering from the more serious forms of nervous diseases as insanity and epilepsy also persons troubled with pulmonary tuberculosis or other infectious diseases will not be received."<br /> <br /> Cottonwood Gulch could accomodate up to eight patients at a time who were attended to by Dr. Edwin J. Gillette. The treatment house on the property contained "complete hydrotherapeutic equipment consisting of showers sprays douches etc. and facilities for giving Turkish sitz Nauheim and electric baths." Massage was another important aspect of the treatment program "as well as various forms of physical therapy including incandescent light baths and the use of the therapeutic arc light."<br /> <br /> Oblong octavo: 32 p. with 25 full-page photographic illustrations. Bound with string in the original printed paper wrappers. Some occasional fingerprint smudging to the contents with a very faint stain to the bottom edge; otherwise very good. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Scarce OCLC locates only one holding at the Wolfsonian - Florida International University. unknown
18336283Mexico City 1833. Near fine. Broadside 6.25 x 8.5 inches. Very minor soiling and wear. Cholera was a genuine scourge in 19th-century Mexico and the present work comes out of the epidemic that broke out in August of 1833. According to parish records it is estimated that a total of five percent of the population of Mexico City died as a result with the number of deaths causing overcrowding in both hospitals and cemeteries. The present document describes how the image of Our Lady of Sorrows was venerated in the Casa de los Ejercicios de la Profesa and carried in solemn procession to the church of the convent of the nuns of the Lord of Santa Teresa on Saturday August 17 1833 only eleven days after the first case of cholera was detected in Mexico City. After the conclusion of the novena held in the Metropolitan Church the image of the Most Holy Mary was returned to its temple on September 9 1833; through the supplications made by the faithful to the aforesaid images the great epidemic of cholera morbus was thereby calmed. An ephemeral piece not traced in OCLC. unknown
179848836Edinburgi: Alex Smellie 1798. First Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; removed; 629pp. Old leather remnants to spine else Very Good or better retaining half title page this state with no author attribution. Medical dissertation on the instruments used to treat diseases of the kidneys. OCLC locates two copies in the United States as of April 2020 at the NLM and U. Wisconsin. ESTC T90796. Alex Smellie unknown
179748838Edinburgi: Robertum Allan 1797. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; removed; 840pp. Old spine leather remnants else Very Good retaining half title. Medical thesis on jaundice the author later practicing medicine at Versailles following the restoration of Louis XVIII. ESTC T125835. Robertum Allan unknown
179648861Edinburgi: Robert Allan 1796. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; removed but retaining half title; 849pp. Some light foxing most heavily to E1 else Very Good or better. Medical thesis on smallpox text entirely in Latin. ESTC N6282. Robert Allan unknown
184663643Boston: Otis Broaders and Co. 1846. 8vo. xvii 2 20-495 1 xlviii pp. Recent brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering & decoration on spine light uniform interior toning occasional slight foxing light edgewear rubbing to textblock still VG copy. Later American edition taken from the twenty-second English edition with considerable additions and notes to the classic work. From its first publication in 1769 through the 19th-Century Buchan’s 1729-1805 Domestic Medicine proved very popular with emphasis on care of infants breast feeding inoculation against smallpox and later important hydrotherapeutics to prevent disease. Otis, Broaders, and Co., hardcover
18118876Paris: Chez H. Nicolle 1811. Second edition. Half-Leather with marbled boards inside covers and endpapers. Very Good; light edgewear and scuffing to covers. Octavo pp. xlvi 478. Beautiful copy of a scarce and important book on conditions of the heart and major blood vessels. Corvisart is said to have been the first to describe heart symptoms comprehensively and accurately the first to differentiate clearly between heart and pulmonary ailments and the first to explain the mechanisms involved in heart failure. Corvisart 1755-1821 was personal physician to Napoleon and enjoyed a close and loyal relationship with him. This is a classic early work in the field of cardiology and this edition is scarce in the U.S. Chez H. Nicolle hardcover
197561735Arlington MA & Weiler im Allgau West Germany: Editions Medicina Rara Druckerei Holzer 1975. Folio. 9 x 13 in. 82 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black red rubrications several woodcut plates. Full embossed black calf raised bands on spine gilt lettering w/ open-backed slipcase NF/NF copy. First Editions Medicina Rara edition 1 of 300 copies in full calf of this work originally published in 1495 of this assemblage of Medieval texts and remarkable illustrations illustrating the transition of medicine during the Renaissance. Sections are included on urology & uroscopy phlebotomy medical astrology gynecology surgery internal medicine plague anatomy and forensic science including a dissection scene. Editions Medicina Rara, Druckerei Holzer, hardcover
19277518London: Printed by R. and R. Clark Ltd. Edinburgh for Gerald Howe 23 Soho Square 1927. First edition thus number 58 of 150 copies. 4to 303 1pp. Title illustration and vignette drawings in the text. Printed on handmade paper and bound in publisher's full vellum stamped in gilt on the spine. Some smudging and scuffing to boards clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Finely printed and bound edition of Marcus Woodward's version of John Gerard's famous herbal first published in 1597. This first edition of Woodward's has become the standard modern example of the text which is simplified from the 1636 revision by Thomas Johnson. It retains much of the original spelling while being quite approachable and readable. Numerous later editions of the Woodward version have appeared since. <br /> <br /> . Printed by R. and R. Clark, Ltd. Edinburgh for Gerald Howe, 23 Soho Square unknown
