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18347587Boston: J. Howe Printer no. 39 Merchant's Row; D. Hooton printer 1834. Booklet single sheet folded in eight 17 x 10 cm. printed recto and verso 7 1 pages twice printed same both sides. FIRST EDITION. A brief manual of recipes a short materia medica offered by Boston's Thomas Hollis Druggist and Apothecary. The title continues "list of articles contained in the chest" followed by a table of contents "Emetics Physical Billious Pills Jalap and Calomel Rhubarb. Camphor Tarlington's Balsam of Life Laudanus Essence of Peppermint Elixir Palegoric White Vitriol etc." The final section covers artificial respiration. On the rear panel Hollis offers actual medicine chests "for ships or families. medicine chests put up very cheap with medicine of the first quality and designed for fishing and coastal vessels." as well as a number of inks lemon syrup and soda. Small chip from rear panel not effecting text. WITH: Broadside 29 x 22 cm. Publication information from OCLC record. A small broadside advertising Dr. Ward's Asthmatic Pills a patent medicine offered as an anti-tussive agent by Hollis. Printed with an interlocking border of ringlets. Trimmed a bit close. Still very good. OCLC locates one copy UMich. Clements Library. J. Howe, Printer, no. 39 Merchant's Row; D. Hooton, printer unknown books
183219132Columbus O.: Published by Pike Platt and Co. M. L. Lewis.Printer 1832. An early edition of this popular work. Some light wear and some foxing; small ink stain to a few leaves; a very good copy. 12mo contemporary likely original tree calf red morocco label gilt lettering 206 2 pages edges sprinkled. First published in 1829 in Columbus O. based on a series of lectures delivered in Cincinnati and the earliest known work in support of the populist Thomsonian botanical medicine system. Evidently expanded over the earlier 162-page editions. Atwater 2991 this edition; Morgan Ohio Imprints 178; Cordasco 30-0766. Published by Pike, Platt and Co., M. L. Lewis......Printer, unknown books
183548254Boston: J.Q. Adams 1835. New edition. 12mo 15cm. Original brown linen boards with printed paper spine label; 216pp. Binding unevenly sunned at spine and board edges; moderate foxing to contents. Ownership signature of Caleb Pratt / Charlestown to first flyleaf; later bookplate of Walter Merriam Pratt inside front cover. Early edition of this much-reprinted popularization of the theories of the autodidact herbalist and medical doctor Samuel Thomson. J.Q. Adams unknown books
183511448Boston: Printed by I. R. Butts 1835. 1st edition American Imprints 32343; Cordasco 30-0506. PRESENTATION copy. Original brown publisher's cloth professionally rebacked. Spine label. Overall VG foxing/modern bpt/some staining to rear eps & last few leaves/some chipping to spine label. 444 pp including index. 4to. 9-1/2" x 6" <br/><br/>Jackson a prominent early 19th c. physician who was 'one of the first in America to investigate vaccination in a scientific spirit' and was '. largely responsible for founding Massachusetts General Hospital.' Jackson Sr wrote this memorial shortly after his son's death in 1834 and '. he never recovered from this overwhelming loss.' The book 'is an interesting psychological document in that it is entirely objective and almost wholly devoid of any evidence of the deep feeling which prompted him to write it.' DAB. Printed by I. R. Butts hardcover books
184958811Cincinnati OH: Various publishers 1849. First editions. 1 "An Address on the Bonds of Professional Union Delivered before the Medical Association of Adams Brown and Clermont Counties O. at Batavia October 30 1847." Cincinnati: Atlas Job Room Print 1847. 27 pp. OCLC locates three copies National Library of Medicine Cincinnati History Library Countway; 2 "Valedictory Address on the Sources and Benefits of Professional Earnestness Delivered March 3 1849 to the Graduates of the Medical College of Ohio." Cincinnati: Printed at the office of the "Western Lancet" 1849. 15 pp.; 3 On the Formation of Professional Character: An Introductory Lecture Delivered Nov. 4th 1844." Cincinnati: Printed by R.P. Donogh 1844. 15 pp. American Imprints 44-2945; 4 "An Introductory Address Delivered to the Students of the Medical College of Ohio November 3 1847." Cincinnati: Collins & Van Wagner Printers 1847. 16 pp. OCLC locates five copies Rochester Medical Clendening Medical National Library of Medicine Cincinnati History Library Cincinnati Public; 5 "An Introductory Lecture on the Reciprocal Obligations of the Medical Profession and Society Delivered November 2 1846." Cincinnati: Printed by Looker & Co. 1846. 28 pp. American Imprints 46-3181. OCLC locates 8 copies; 6 "Clinical Lecture on Cholera" caption title. Cincinnati 1849. 8 pp. OCLC locates two copies Chicago Cincinnati History Library; 7 Manuscript copy of the address delivered by Dr. John C. Warren at an October 23 1849 meeting of the Boston area members of the American Medical Association occasioned by the death of Dr. Harrison. 4to. 5 pp. approximately 750 words. Harrison fell victim to the cholera epidemic that was discussed in the final pamphlet in this volume. Some foxing but a lovely presentation of a career's work from a son to his mother. Presentation binding of contemporary black morocco gilt boards framed with quadruple thin gilt rules floral ornaments at each corner spine with gilt rules on raised bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt. #5997. Harrison 1796-1849 a native of Louisville Kentucky studied medicine there and at the University of Pennsylvania returning home to begin his practice at the newly founded Louisville Hospital in 1820. He was appointed to his position at the Medical College of Ohio in 1841 edited the medical periodical "Western Lancet" and served as vice-president of the American Medical Association. For a longer biographical sketch see Kelly and Burrage "American Medical biographies" 1920 pp. 497-498. Dr. Warren's address reads in part: "This gentleman was one of the ablest practitioners in the United States. In the West he was considered as without a superior . while warm & decided in discussion he was not dogmatical and gave an agreeable influence to all he said by the openness and amenity of the manner in which he said it . the respect for him of the profession and community is derived from the noble manner in which he contended against the fatal epidemic of cholera . he continued to expose himself to the disease till he was destroyed by it." Also laid in is a 1961 letter of presentation from one Harrison descendant to another. <br/><br/> Various publishers hardcover books
188427017Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1884. 226 pages. The material in the reports and papers includes updates from: Ship Island the country's first quarantine station; the Sapelo refuge station; a report on the origin of the yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola Florida in 1882 which is illustrated with a folding architectural plan of medical care facilities along with a Map of Pensacola that shows locations disease spread in red among the neighborhoods with ship names personnel names and various local populace; another folding chart shows ship locations in the harbor and docking facilities at the time. Also reports on New Orleans & Memphis operations; immigrant-inspection services in several large U.S. cities; laws relating the National Board of Health; consular and miscellaneous reports including on cholera in Japan distoma ringeri and parasitical haemoptysis in Hong Kong China; Filaria disease; probabilities of cholera in Europe in Shanghai; the epidemic of typhoid in Liege; treatment of leprosy at Maracaibo; Beri-beri in Ceylon; chemical treatment of sewage in Berlin; and other reports. A folding map offers the General Track of Epidemics in Eastern Asia; another folding map printed in tints shows the course of the epidemics of 1877 & 1879 in Japan and ".the Severity of the Epidemic." compiled by D.B. Simmons M.D.; folding charts printed in red and black track meteorological data during the epidemic and other charts depict filaria data and parasite illustrations. Title page with the small very faint owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 6" x 9 1/4"size; bound in the original sober governmental dark brown cloth; bronze-gilt spine titles. Some edge tips wear and dustiness to the boards; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Government Printing Office hardcover books
186147078Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1861. 1st Edition Cordasco 60-0955. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to John A. Lowell Esq 'from the author'. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Slight lean. Only light wear to binding. Bookplate. Small abrasion in center of front gutter. Withal a pleasing VG copy. xii 179 3 blank pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>Jackson a prominent early 19th c. physician who was 'one of the first in America to investigate vaccination in a scientific spirit' and was '. largely responsible for founding Massachusetts General Hospital.' DAB. Lowell a prominent Boston businessman & philanthropist as well as the second trustee of the famous Lowell Institute. Ticknor and Fields hardcover books
18203738Berlin 1820. Soft cover. Very Good. Scarce and curious little book having to do with ressurection. 32 pp. Plain contemporary blue wraps. <br/><br/> paperback books
182637211Harrisburg PA 1826. Folio sheet folded to 4 pp for mailing. Addressed with Harrisburg postmark to Dr. Fairlamb in Downingtown. With tear from seal remnant affecting a single letter. Very Good.<br/><br/> "My Dear Fairlamb In as much as the passage of the new Medical school bill will crowd our profession which is already full by offering greater facilities to the study of medicine and as the Jefferson Medical faculty have already given us an earnest that they will prostitute medical honours by conferring them on men unacquainted with medical science the interest of medical men throughout the State is consequently deeply involved. The degree of Dr. of medicine has been conferred on Jonathan Pound a book-binder by the Jefferson College after having attended one course only. Five of the six professors were in favour of conferring a degree on my neighbour Henry Zook who is almost an idiot. A letter was received last night from Dr. Hiester of Reading in which he states that "two quacks in Lebanon county have actually received from the professors of the Jefferson College a promise of the Degree of Doctor of Medicine for exertions which they have made and are still making to send forward petitions in favour of the new medical school.<br/> "From such dishonourable proceedings I am confident that your well judging mind will revolt. As the more you view this bill in all its bearings the more you will be convinced that it will interfere with our interest." Harris urges Fairlamb to use his influence by urging Representative Hunt to oppose the bill.<br/> Hon. William Harris 1799-1865 a civil engineer was the son of James Harris a Pennsylvania State Senator and cofounder of the town of Bellefonte. He was son-in-law of Dr. George Ashbridge Fairlamb 1784-1829. Dr. Fairlamb received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1808 and practiced medicine in Downingtown for many years. He also established The Independent Journal of Downingtown a Jackson paper with George Plitt in 1827. unknown books
184726994New York NY: Not Published 1847. A small handwritten note dated Friday Feby. 21. "Dear Doctor I will have the pleasure to call for you this evening in hope you will ride with me to Chancellor Kents' - say at 7 1/2 o'clock I am Dear Sir yo's very truly J. Goodhue." and addressed on an integral panel to J. Augustin Smith M.D. Park Place. While no year is noted our research indicates 1847 as likely; Chancellor Kent 1763 - 1847 of NYC prominent jurist and legal scholar was dead by the end of that year and J. Augustin Smith 1782 - 1865 was at this time president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; he had earlier been President of the College of William & Mary. Note size approx. 4 1/2" x 7"size; paper darkened a bit old fold lines couple of spots at edge and on reverse of sheet; clear legible writing in ink; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
1829533Lancaster Pa: Gedruckt und zu haben bey H. W. Villee 1829. 12mo. 170 x 105 mm. 6 ¾ x 4 inches. 192 pp. Illustrated with two woodcut vignettes in the text. Contemporary leather spine over decorated paper boards; spine worn away marbled paper rubbed away leaving paste paper boards exposed; signatures sprung but still intact. Paper stock is brown with age and is partially water stained. This copy with ownership signature reading "Henry Kauffman / his book it was / bought for 50 cents / 1833." With faults a complete copy of a fragile but scarce book in the trade. Second edition originally published in Carlisle in 1826. Contains remedies for most aliments that cause sickness and pain to humankind including herbal tonics and salves. The book includes a useful glossary of German terms translated into English and an index. Shoemaker Checklist of American Imprints 40361. Arndt German Language Printing 3025. Gedruckt und zu haben bey H. W. Villee unknown books
1882293St. Joseph Mo 1882. Very good. 8pp. Newspaper folio. Previously folded. Very minor loss at intersection of folds slightly affecting text. Minor wear at edges. Unopened at top edge. A wonderfully illustrated and rare newspaper promotional for S.A. Richmond & Co.'s patent medicine Samaritan Nervine. Samuel Richmond came to St. Joseph Missouri in the late 1870s and established this "World Epileptic Institute" mostly to sell his elixir which was in fact diluted nightshade. His elaborate advertisements of which this is an example claimed that it not only cured cases of epilepsy but also treated ill-behaved children and sexually dysfunctional elderly men and soothed many other maladies of the nerves. Eventually he was attacked in print by a local newspaper at which point he promptly shot the editor and after being found not guilty by reason of insanity removed to Tuscola Illinois where he continued to produce the potion. This newsprint advertisement provides a vigorous defense of Richmond's product supported by numerous lengthy testimonials. Several illustrations also depict the grounds and offices of his epilepsy institute including strangely though perhaps not surprisingly the press room. OCLC locates only copy at the University of Rochester. unknown books
1880WRCAM56371New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson Steam Job Printers 1880. Broadside 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Minor creasing and edge wear light soiling. Near fine. A rare broadside touting the healing powers of Dr. S.A. Tanner who promises to "give the locations and symptoms" to any disease "WITHOUT ASKING ANY QUESTIONS." Tanner asserts that he uses natural "Indian Vegetables composed of Roots Herbs Barks and Buds" and specifically states that they would heal "lameness hip and spinal diseases." He offers free consultations and house calls as well. Dr. Tanner claimed an office at Apothecaries Hall in New Haven a long-running pharmacy and office building for area physicians. Dr. Tanner's services have the ring of medical quackery one of the defining characteristics of which was the absolute talent to cure any disease with Native American medicines. New Haven was a locus for purveyors of such miraculous "Indian" remedies. Hoggson & Robinson, Steam Job Printers unknown books
185519521New York: Pruden & Roberts Printers 51 Beekman street 1855. First edition. Some light soiling; in very good condition. Single leaf printed recto and verso 13.75 x 7.88 inches. Benton b. 1808 here advertises his recent relocation of his medical offices from Brooklyn to Manhattan as well as a series of lectures and demonstrations on the powers of electricity--"And in keeping with the philosophy illustrated by Experiments those who have witnessed them with one accord agree that No Theatre or Band of Minstrels can equal the sport or amusement and all in keeping with good order not objectionable to the most fastidious. The Hearing Sight Taste Smell or any of the senses disturbed the Mental or Muscular Power controlled and all are Relieved at the pleasure of the operator." Benton also notes for visitors consulting at his offices "Examinations by Clairvoyants for disease which have astonished those who have witnessed them can be had if desired." The numerous press notices included here go as late as Oct. 30 1854 and the dates of performance indicate an 1855 performance. Benton noted in the 1855 New York census as a New York City resident eventually moved upstate appearing in directories in Lansingburgh N. Y. as an electric physician as late as 1882. Not noted in Atwater. Not found on OCLC. Pruden & Roberts, Printers, 51 Beekman street, unknown books
186727172Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Lindsay and Blakiston 1867. 178 pages. Contents with sections on the history and symptoms of the disease including those of the nervous system sense organs digestive organs skin and others; also details duration convalescence relapse mortality; theories on causes; on the prognosis diagnosis nature & treatments and with a bibliography of sources. Alfred Stille 1813 - 1900 American medical professor ".a leading member of the reform movement that resulted in the establishment of the American Medical Association AMA in Philadelphia in 1847." Simon Baatz in the ANB Front endpaper with a naïve "bookplate" made from lined paper of Mrs. J.M. Browne of Brooklyn; also printed on this plate is the previous owner name-stamp of collector George Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894; front and back endpapers with the small bookseller's ticket of J.O. Noxon U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacy 323 Washington St. Brooklyn NY. Volume approx. 6" x 9 1/4" size; Bound in teal-blue cloth gilt spine titles. A little edge tips wear to the binding; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Lindsay and Blakiston hardcover books
1886926Portland 1886. Good. Broadsheet 11 x 8.5 inches. Old fold lines light wear and soiling a few chips. Rare and ephemeral handbill for "Fairdale Bitter Water" marketed as a mineral water with remarkable health benefits for a variety of ailments. "The possibilities of this water are almost beyond belief as any reputable physician will testify." One side of the broadsheet contains an engraving of the product "put up in elegant flint glass bottles containing a full quart." A nice piece of medical quack advertising from the Pacific Northwest. unknown books
189142810.1New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers 1891. Axford p. 141. Not found in Hoolihan Cagle Bitting and Wheaton. Tan stapled wrappers with black printed lettering and decoration. Age-toning to wrappers. Bit of wear. Overall solid VG condition. 48 pp. Recipes on verso of each leaf advertisements on recto. 19 wood engraving of Native American chiefs and medicine men including Sitting Bull Many Horns Arrow Point and Big Elk. 6-11/16" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. cookbook and patent medicine promotion. Recipes include "Chicken Cuban Style" "Dad's Pop-Corn Balls" and the very specific "To Make Twelve Cream Cakes" while illnesses treated range from constipation to malaria and more. Healy & Bigelow, Publishers unknown books
1818WRCAM35016New York: R. Donaldson 1818. iii-viii200pp. Dbd. original rear paper board present front board lacking. Front two leaves chipped in upper right corner not affecting text; otherwise good. Intended as a companion to William Lewis' THE EDINBURGH NEW DISPENSATORY. Austin. A collection of perscriptions drawn from a variety of sources. AUSTIN 784. R. Donaldson unknown books
1887751New Haven: Healy & Bigelow 1887. Good plus. 16pp. Oblong octavo. Original chromolithographic wrappers stapled. Light wear and soiling covers a bit chipped. Minor wear and soiling to contents. Patent medicine advertisement comprised of sixteen chromolithographic scenes of "Kickapoo Indian life" each bordered with slogans promoting the patent medicine. The scenes some of which are based loosely on George Catlin's work include "Attacking the Grizzly Bear" "The Scalp Dance" "Buffalo Hunting "Buffalo Hunt under the White Wolf Skin" "Antelope Shooting" "Archery of the Mandans" "The Snow Shoe Dance" and others. Slogans include such guarantees as "There is no blood disease which Kickapoo Indian Sagwa cannot cure" "The uncivilized red man has produced the Kickapoo Indian salve" and "The Principal medicine for worms is the Kickapoo Indian worm killer." The five medicines on offer -- Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Indian Oil Worm Killer Salve and Cough Cure -- claim to cure everything under the sun from worms to boils to eczema to dyspepsia. Fewer than ten locations in OCLC. Healy & Bigelow unknown books
183419309Madisonville Tennessee: Printed at the Office of Henderson & Johnston Edwards & Henderson--Printers 1834. Fourth edition. Sheep rubbed with a small chip at the head of the spine; foxed as usually found; rear free endpaper excised; a very good copy. Large 8vo contemporary likely original sheep brown leather label gilt rules and lettering xv 1 604 pages. The great populist domestic medical guide of Jacksonian America with much on herbal remedies as well as advice on child birth wound care etc. from the Savannah Georgia native and Madisonville Tennessee physician John C. Gunn 1795-1863. See the Atwater catalog summary of Rosenberg's introduction to the facsimile of the 1830 first edition for more on Gunn's work and its contrast to Buchan. This edition includes the added section on epidemic cholera. A so-called second edition was also published in Madisonville in 1834; the first edition was published in Knoxville in 1830 followed by a Knoxville second edition in 1833 and a so-called Madisonville fourth edition in 1833 preceding the Madisonville second edition of 1834. American Imprints Inventory Tennessee 291; Atwater 1461 this edition. Printed at the Office of Henderson & Johnston, Edwards & Henderson--Printers, unknown books
18903715New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers 1890. Booklet stapled in wrappers 17 x11.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for the patent medicines of Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company featuring over one hundred seventy simple recipes for beverages biscuits candy cakes fish meat pastry poultry puddings soup stews and vegetables interspersed with information about Kickapoo Indian oil salve and other products. Also included are narratives on Indian culture wildly racist but of the era. John H. Healy and Charles Bigelow began their company in the late 1870s promoting their "traditional" Indian medicines with traveling medicine shows that capitalized on the public's nostalgia for the the Wild West. In orange wrappers with hole punch and ribbon to top left corner some slight discoloration to wrapper otherwise very good. OCLC locates seven copies. Healy & Bigelow Publishers unknown books
186027136Paris France.: J. B. Bailliere et Fils Libraires De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine 1860. 255 1 Table des Matieres pages; text in French throughout. Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben 1806 - 1849 Austrian physician poet and philosopher. Not dated and circa 1860. Title page with the small previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 4 5/8" x 7 1/8" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards brown morocco leather spine; spine with gilt titles small ornaments in the compartments; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding bottom of spine scraped; in very good condition. Deuxieme Edition. Leather. Very Good. J. B. Bailliere et Fils, Libraires De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine books
1894WRCAM43763New Haven 1894. 32pp. Original color pictorial wrappers. Lightly soiled a few small tears. Very good. Almanac and patent medicine catalog published by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of New Haven. Though it does contain an almanac calendar the publication is primarily comprised of advertisements and testimonials about the company's products - including a cure for tapeworms. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. was operated by John E. Healy and Charles F. Bigelow and was one of the most famous of the Indian patent medicine companies. The bright pictorial cover shows an Indian on horseback in the desert. Relatively scarce. unknown books
1896WRCAM43762New Haven 1896. 32pp. Original color pictorial wrappers. Lightly soiled. Very good plus. Almanac and patent medicine catalog published by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of New Haven. Though it does contain an almanac calendar the publication is primarily comprised of advertisements and testimonials about the company's products. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. was operated by John E. Healy and Charles F. Bigelow and was one of the most famous of the Indian patent medicine companies. The bright pictorial cover shows a baby in a papoose. Relatively scarce. unknown books
189060295Chattanooga Tenn: The Chattanooga Medicine Co 1890. Illustrated paperwraps stapled. 15 cm. 32 pp. Promotional pamphlet for M.A. Thedford & Co.'s Original and Only Genuine Black Draft Liver Medicine and for McElree's Womans Relief Wine of Cardui. Both medicines manufactured by Chattanooga Medicine Co. successors to the M.A. Thedford Co. Old staining to front cover bleeding through to a few leaves a few chips to wrappers. Text interspersed with song lyrics without music and testimonials from satisfied customers; last leaf is an ad with the container design for "Thedford's Black-Draught Stock Medicine A Liver Medicine for Horses Cattle Hogs and Poultry." Printed on poor quality paper. A good copy. Three listings on OCLC: Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr. Brown Univ. and Middlebury. <br/><br/> The Chattanooga Medicine Co paperback books
