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180924165Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys 1809. 1st edition thus American Imprints 17774; Austin 943. Period dark brown full sheep. Maroon gilt-lettered spine label. VG slight splay to boards/minor binding wear/period pos of 'Noah Stone'. 347 pp including index. 12mo in 6s. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Printed and Sold by James Humphreys hardcover books
185737456San Francisco: Whitton Towne & Co. Printers and Publishers 1857. 1st printing Cordasco 50-0405; Cowan II p. 143; Greenwood 813. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Light old faded evidence of damping mostly in margins. Foxing. A VG copy. 9 1 blank pp. Old print-out of an ABE book listing laid-in. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Cooper a renowned physician of his day founder of the first medical college on the Pacific Coast at the University of the Pacific. This paper describes a 'daring' procedure wherein Cooper removed a 'slug of iron' from one B. T. Beal of Springfield Tuolumne County. Seems Mr Beal and a few friends "in a frolicksome mood resolved to burst an old gun and accordingly loaded it with about eighteen inches of powder to which they connected a slow match and then endeavored to seek security by flight." He failed. The 'slug of iron' entered Mr Beal below the left armpit and lodged under his heart 'upon the vertical column' where it remained for 74 days until Dr Cooper removed it. The patient recovered said improvement in health to such a degree "as not to be recognized by medical men present at the operation". No copies at auction these last 30 years per ABPC & Am Ex; we know of one copy sold a couple years ago through the trade. A rare item known as one of the earliest published accounts of a California surgical procedure. Whitton Towne & Co., Printers and Publishers unknown books
19509869NY: Macmillan 1950. First edn. 8vop pp. 104. VG in chipped dj. The biography of the nurse who later went to Yale to found the school of nursing. Macmillan unknown books
1739219163Paris: Chez Briasson 1739. First edition. xx 105 21 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Latter patterned boards title in gilt on spine new endpapers. Fine. First edition. xx 105 21 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Chez Briasson 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
177910470Yverdon .et Paris: P. Fr. Didot le jeune. and Méquignon l'aîné 1779. First edition. xii 130 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary quarter leather and boards slightly rubbed fine copy bound with two other titles see below. First edition. xii 130 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Three Rare Treatises: Rabies Breast-Feeding Public Health. Rare treatise on Rabies by this surgeon physician 1742-1832 and author of several medical treatises including a six volume History of Anatomy and Surgery Paris 1770-73. Bound with two other works:<br/><br/>2 Levret André 1703-1780. Observations sur l'Alaitement des Enfans.132pp. 8vo Paris: Chez Méquignon 1781. First Edition. Rare work by this obstetrician and pediatrician who according to Garrison-Morton "improved the obstetric forceps and was a famous teacher in Paris." Not in NLM; not in NUC nor RLIN.<br/><br/>3 Maret Hugues 1726-1786. Mémoire dans lequel on cherche à déterminer quelle influence les mœurs des François ont sur leur santé.4 159 3 pp. 8vo Amiens: chez la veuve Godard 1772. First Edition. NLM 18th-C. p. 287. Fascinating essay on a subject much in the news today. NLM 18th-C. p. 359 P. Fr. Didot le jeune... and Méquignon l'aîné unknown 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
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
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
1762305478Salem MA 1762. 2 pp. pen and ink on paper. 6-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. Old fold minor soiling stains very good. 2 pp. pen and ink on paper. 6-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. AN EARLY PIONEER OF SMALL POX VACCINATION. These items offer a quaint glimpse of a beloved New England Physician. Edward Augustus Holyoke 1728-1829 the son of Rev. Edward Holyoke 1689-1769 and Margaret Appleton was born in Marblehead Massachusetts on August 1 1728. Holyoke moved with his family to Cambridge when his father was appointed president of Harvard and graduated from the college in 1746. After a brief tenure as a school teacher he apprenticed himself to a physician in Ipswich. He later opened his own practice in Salem where he gained his greatest notoriety as an early pioneer in small pox treatment and prevention during an outbreak in 1777. During his lifetime he would serve as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society was awarded the first M.D. degree given by Harvard Medical School and spent six years as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holyoke continued to practice medicine in Salem until 1821 and was honored by the town during a tribute at the Essex House on his 100th birthday. <br/><br/>1. Autograph Document Signed. To Capt. Thos. Dean. Reading: "Sir please send by the bearer an hundred w. of your best white powder sugar in two separate 1/2 hundreds: - and an hundred w. of your best & whitest Brown Sugar - to your humble sevt. E.A. Holyoke"<br/><br/>2. Prescription listing four ingredients including "camomilla" and "gentian" with the directions: "Steep in one quart maderah & take a glass every noon. unknown books
1913160069PITTSBURG BLANCHARD COMPANY 1913 1913. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH; NO DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. PITTSBURG, BLANCHARD COMPANY, 1913 hardcover books
180547010Worcester MA: Isaiah Thomas Jun 1805. First Worcester edition. 6 copperplate engravings. 694 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep which has been wrapped over the original leather binding with the inner flaps crudely sewn together. Signatures. Some light foxing else very good. First Worcester edition. 6 copperplate engravings. 694 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Edinburgh Dispensatory was used widely throughout England and the United States and received its first printing in the latter part of the 18th century. This edition was compiled by the title's third editor following in the footsteps of William Lewis and Andrew Duncan Sr. and ran throught several editions between 1803 and 1830. S & S 8374 Isaiah Thomas, Jun unknown books
199855702NY:: Abbeville Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0789201607 . Third printing. Fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear dust jacket. . Abbeville Press, hardcover books
184249833New York: Adee & Estabrook 1842-3. First American Edition. From the Fourth London Edition. Octavo; contemporary calf; 151158160171pp. The four issues bound as one. Boards lightly chaffed and worn contents lightly aged; still tight sound and Very Good. All four issues of the inaugural volume of this long-running medical journal which aimed to present the most recent work of leading international though chiefly British physicians. Adee & Estabrook unknown books
187060219Mobile AL: np 1870. 9 by 6 in. Approximately 450 words. Some loss of lettering along folds not affecting readability. The poem includes a line about not giving your children calomel and later talks in the text of it being injurous. Calomel had been widely used as a treatment both as a purgative and to kill bacteria. Recognition of its toxic effects led to its use being curtailed during and after the Civil War. <br/><br/> np unknown books
197430806Ames Iowa: Grace Foundation Inc 1974. 1st edition. SIGNED by Dr. Chan. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Pale blue dust jacket. NF/VG. 456 pp. Illustrated from photographs with some color. 8vo. <br/><br/> Grace Foundation Inc hardcover books
178111122London: Printed by John Rivington Junior 1781. 14th edition. VG. Lacks binding. xii 36 pp. A - D6 10.5 cm x 16.7 cm. <br/><br/>Stonhouse a quite successful 18th C. doctor & divine; this work reflects advice more of a spiritual nature vice physical. Printed by John Rivington Junior unknown books
43856Elkhart IN: Dr. Miles Laboratories Inc n. d. Circa 1935. Stapled white wrappers printed in color title in orange. Light crease to lower corner of front wrapper and beginning leaves else crisp and clean. VG. 29 1 pp. B/w photographic images and illustrations. Oblong 24mo. 4-3/4" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>Promotional booklet for Dr. Miles medical products thinly disguised as a dieting guide. Sections on recommended meal plans weight guides healthy eating etc. are heavily interspersed with ads for Dr. Miles brand products. Products featured include Dr. Miles Nervine Aspir-Mint Anti-Pain Pills and Alka-Seltzer the "new Alkalizing Pain Relieving Effervescent Tablet." Dr. Miles Laboratories, Inc 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
151271840s handwritten pharmaceutical notebook. Pennsylvania. Original marbled boards and cloth spine; Measures 4.5" x 8" inches. 79 handwritten pages in ink and pencil 1-69 hand-numbered; 150 pages total. The meticulous note-taker records copious medical recipes for various ailments and illnesses as well as the date source and doctor from whom the treatment method was acquired thus giving an amazingly precise and detailed record of contemporary medical knowledge and treatment protocol. Under "Uterine Hemorrhage" for example the writer notes first the ingredients then the administration then the source: "Rx Sulphate of Alum 3iij; sulphate of Magnesia 3xij; aromatic sulphuric Acid 3ij; water 3xig M. Dose 3j every four hours. If pain exists griss acetate of Morphia should be added to the whole.--Dr. Grettan of Killough Scot.- Bos. Med. Jour. May 1 1842." Entries are included for "Tic Douloureux" "Angina Pectoris" "Hysteria" "Opthalmic Diseases" "Sore Nipples" "Consumption" "Cancer" "Sea Sickness" "Gonorrhea" "Cholera" "Gout" "Antidotes for Poisons" and many more. Some of the entries go on for several pages with detailed notes about the application of various prescriptions. Also includes entries for "Writing Ink" "Hair Dye" "Ginger Beer" "Poor Man's Hand Soap" "A Very Brilliant Red Ink" and other such household amenities. In good condition. Boards showing through marbled covers at corners minor bumping to corners. Age-related toning and spotting to pages which are otherwise neat and without wrinkles or creases. Comes with 7 handwritten prescription slips. <br/><br/>18th century pharmacists were medical practitioners who treated patients directly. However the field of pharmacology was unregulated and otherwise-effective prescriptions were often corrupted by inaccurate dosages or ersatz ingredients. The founding of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy PCP in the 1800s is recognized as a radical first step forward in the development of a system of pharmaceutical practice in the United States. On March 13 1821 68 pharmacists signed the Constitution of the first pharmaceutical association in the United States in the Carpenters' Hall the same room as where the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. The symbolism of the Carpenters' Hall backdrop was clear: American pharmacy would be following in the footsteps of the founding fathers and their constitutional framework. The PCP constitution included a strict code of ethics that would expel anyone from the college who adulterated medications and provided for a committee of inspection to verify the purity safety and effectiveness of medicines and a committee of equity to arbitrate disputes between member pharmacists. In 1824 the PCP published "carefully determined formulas" for the fabrication of formerly "secret-formula" patent medicines imported from the UK an essential step toward self-sufficient pharmaceutical manufacturing in the U.S. WSU History of Pharmacy. unknown books
18263100861826. 37 ff. written on rectos only. 4to. Wrappers titled in manuscript. Covers worn and stained with some wear and chipping to the text. 37 ff. written on rectos only. 4to. Unpublished manuscript on the ancient Egyptian and Greek roots of medicine by the early American physician Charles Alfred Lee 1801-1872. Lee graduated from Williams College in 1822 and received his M.D. at Berkshire Medical College. He was connected with the Northern Dispensary of New York City chair of materia medica and general pathology at Geneva Medical College New York and taught at a series of eastern United States medical schools. Lee helped found the New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences in 1843 and in 1850 he co-founded the Buffalo Medical School. His most famous work was the American edition of Dr. James Copeland's Dictionary of Practical Medicine 1848. He published several medical textbooks including the popular Human Physiology for the Use of Elementary Schools 1843. He also edited Bacchus: an Essay on the Nature Causes Effects and Cure of Intemperance 1840 by Ralph Grindrod.<br/>The present manuscript which appears to be unpublished is a survey of early Egyptian and Greek medicine and draws from sources quoted in the original Greek. unknown books
199825312Philadelphia: Institute for Clinical Science Inc 1998. First edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Royal 8vo. Full leatherbound book with integral silk bookmark. An autobiography by the physician Chemist Clinical Scientist researcher and teacher who was also an ardent violinist. 641 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs. A very good example. INSCRIBED by Sunderland. Institute for Clinical Science, Inc unknown books
1974008217New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Three volume set. Second printing. Winner of the Griffith memorial Prize by Calcutta University. All volumes in very good clean condition in very good unclipped dustwrappers with small tears to edges. <br/><br/> Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers hardcover books
189621778Chicago: Fred Klein Co 1896. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Full red morrocco binding. All edges in gilt. Satin moire endpapers. 618 pp. Nearly 175 illustrations provided by C. Everett Johnson. This copy labeled "Author's Edition". INSCRIBED by the good Doctor and dated in 1898. A very good copy overall with some spine darkening and light wear to spine tips. Internally clean. Publisher's summary descriptive sheet laid in. Comes in a supplied hard slipcase which is very worn and chipped but has protected this volume quite nicely. <br/><br/> Fred Klein Co 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
