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184241928Libanon i.e. Lebanon PA: Gedruckt bey Jos. Hartman 1842. 1st edition American Imprints 42-2898. Period brown half sheep binding with blue paper wrapped boards. General wear to binding with leather tips mostly worn away. Lacks ffep. Period poi dated 1854 to preliminary blank. Usual browning & foxing to paper. A Good copy of this uncommon veterinary handbook to horse care and horseshoeing by a farrier in Lancaster County. xii 184 pp. Text in German fraktur. Full-page wood engraving of man leading a horse on recto of leaf preceding the title page i.e. image doesn't face title page. 12mo signed in 6s. 7" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Gedruckt bey Jos. Hartman hardcover books
183414918Boston: Marsh Capen & Lyon 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4.75" x 7.5" 133 pp errata slip. Original blue cloth with paper spine label. Extremities rubbed spine cloth chipped shadow of bookplate removed from front free endpaper; very good. Caldwell 1772-1853 was a student and at times a critic of Benjamin Rush and founder of the Louisville Medical Institute. He was one of several American physicians of the early nineteenth century who popularized the term "physical education" by which they meant the instruction of children in all matters relating to the body and its overall health. In this work which achieved national recognition Caldwell argues that physical education is an essential companion to moral and intellectual education for without it "man cannot attain the perfection of his nature." It should include "every thing that by bearing in any way on the human body might injure or benefit in its health vigor or fitness for action" including "diet cleanliness clothing atmospherical temperature respiration muscular exercise sleep and animal passions. Marsh, Capen, & Lyon hardcover books
184019330Boston: Printed and Published for Dr. Samuel Thomson and for Sale at his Medicine Store 1840. First edition. A couple of small spots of damp-stain a bit roughly opened in a few spots with a small chip to the upper outer corner of the title page; a very good copy. Unbound stab-stitched pamphlet 8 x 4.5 inches 36 pages. Illus. An effective advertisement for the Thomsonian botanic system of medicine a well-established ongoing enterprise at this point with much in the way of pointed humorous verses in the voice of the humble lobelia anecdotes about the follies of allopathic physicians and a sort of backhanded defense of women as physicians: "Altho' woman may be inferior to us in mathematical political and military talents; we cannot deny that they possess superior capacity for the science of medicine; and although men should reserve to themselves the exclusive right to mend broken limbs and fractured skulls and to prescribe in all cases for their own sex they should give up to women the office of attending upon women." Among the ads for Thomson publications and warnings against imitators presumably James Osgood's Thomsonian Almanac one finds a nice job printing advertisement for S. R. Hart of Boston at the foot of the last page. With 12 fine humorous woodcut illustrations. Drake 4230. Printed and Published for Dr. Samuel Thomson, and for Sale at his Medicine Store, unknown books
183056621Cincinnati OH: Robinson and Fairbank 1830. First edition the issue with four plates but with the horse plate of "Wyandot" rather than "Consul Cox's Arab". 12mo. xii 13-367 pp. Illustrated four plates frontispiece lacking small fold down portion at top two engraved by W. Woodruff a Philadelphia engraver who moved to Cincinnati after 1824 Stauffer. Includes the chapter "Blooded Horses in the West" by Daniel Gano pp. 345-362 the first history of the thoroughbred in Kentucky and Ohio; also includes "The Horse" pp. 70-104 "Diseases of Animals" pp. 320-339 illustrated with a folding plate showing the anatomy of a horse and "The Grape and Manufacture of Wine" pp. 292-309 among many sections. A second edition was published in 1832 under the title "The Farmer's Guide and Western Agriculturalist." Sabin 102962 "4 plates 3 folding". American Imprints 5411. Henderson "Early American Sport" p. 41. Rink "Technical Americana" 1360. Morgan "Ohio Imprints" 2086. Not in Thomson or Coleman. NUC "4 plates part folding". Several signatures pulled persistent foxing a little text loss to one leaf from a printing flaw but a good solid copy with the defect to one plate noted. Contemporary calf rubbed spine ends a little frayed gilt title and ornaments on spine. #2812. OCLC presently records 37 institutions holding a copy of "The Western Agriculturist" and we have found several others from other sources. Surveying those libraries 31 responses we found multiple copies in several for a total of 35 but twelve copies were reported as being defective i.e. lacking plates or portions of plates or text nine copies were reported as actually being either microfilm versions or photocopies and seven others were reported to be ghosts i.e. the institution's copy was either lost or had never actually been in the collection. Of the seven copies reported as being complete four reported four plates a frontispiece memorializing the Hamilton County Public Library plates of an Improved Durham Short Horn cow the horse "Consul Cox's Arab" and a plate illustrating the anatomy of the horse Library of Congess Kentucky Transylvania Cincinnati/Hamilton County Public and three Columbia Western Reserve Cincinnati/Hamilton County Public reported three plates the Durham cow and anatomy plates as described above and a frontispiece portrait of the horse Wyandot. <br/><br/> Robinson and Fairbank unknown 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
1831WRCAM34992Boston 1831. Two volumes bound in one. vi213-78; 82pp. Original paper boards. Boards bumped and scuffed. Early ink scribbling in front and rear endpapers. Good. One of the first publications involving the work of Wooster Beach a major voice in the 19th-century botanico-medical movements. CORDASCO 30-0753. hardcover books
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
185045139New York 1850. First edition. Paper wrappers. Lacking the wrappers which included some advertisements. Staining and foxing. 3-14 pp of 15. 8vo. First issued of this Journal. Edited by D. Meredith Reese M.D. Sabin 54808. unknown books
184327079New York N.Y.: J. & H.G. Langley 1843. 431 pages; with a frontispiece plate illustrating a "Cot for the Treatment of Fractures at Sea. by J. M. Foltz Esq. Surgeon U.S.N." - Dr. Foltz also has contributed the extensive first article within on the topic of ".The Endemic Influence of Evil Government illustrated in a view of the Climate Topography and Diseases of the Island of Minorca with an account of the Medical Faculty - of the French Military Hospital on the Isle de los Reyos - and of the Statistics of the United States Naval Hospital at Mahon." Contents of the volume on various topics: complicated menstruation; obscure and remote effects of Syphilis; a curiosity in obstetric physiology; on electro-puncture in hydrocele with cases; on epidemic influenzas 'with special reference to the now prevailing epidemic catarrhal fever'; and dozens of other pieces American and foreign on medical pathology and therapeutics material medica and pharmacy surgery obstetrics and diseases of females; toxicology and medical jurisprudence. With a few small woodcut illustrations including of a cross-section of a Lepidopterous Insect; also a lithograph of Prof. A.H. Stevens' case of Spina Bifida; and a folding view of the river area at Rondout New York approx.8 1/2" x 18" overall which accompanies an article regarding the outbreak of ".a Malignant Fever which prevailed." there in 1843. Title page with the small previous owner oval name-stamp of J. Manley; front endpaper with small collector number-ticket. Volume approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards leather corners and spine; gilt spine titles. Both boards detached worn; contents with occasional spotting soiling or foxing; text block solidly bound and in good condition. First Edition. Leather. Good. J. & H.G. Langley books
187460344Tuskaloosa AL: Alabama Insane Hospital 1874. Newspaper. 11 3/4 x 9 ¼ inches. 7 Issues: vol. 1 nos. 1-3 vol. 2 nos. 5 and 8 and vol. 3 nos. 9 and 10 each issue containing four pages apparently 21 issues in five volumes were published through 1876. This was the third magazine produced by patients in an American asylum the first in the south. The other two were the Asylum Journal Vermont Asylum for the Insane 1842-46 and the Opal New York Asylum 1850-1860. The content much of it dealing with the inner workings of the asylum and its needs includes articles from Darwinism to Spiritualism and engages arguments with the definitions of insanity and the treatments then in practice. Some of the articles are tinged with humor toward the hospital's employees from poetry on the perils of working as a nurse in a hospital for the insane to running an ad for a wife for an official of the hospital. Owen p. 993 No. 21 only his copy. OCLC locates two runs National Library of Medicine: Vol.1 no. 3 and Vol. 2 no. 5; Alabama Department of Archives and History: Vol. 1 nos. 1 &2 ; Vol. 2 nos. 7 & 8; Vol. 3 nos. 9 & 10; Vol. 4 no. 16; Vol. 5 nos. 17 & 18; Vol. 8 no. 21. The Alabama Insane Hospital was conceived under the influence of Dorothea Dix instrumental in the selection of Dr. Peter Bryce as its first superintendent in 1860 and Thomas Story Kirkbride its architect. Bryce 1834-1892 who had studied progressive ideas of treating the insane in Europe would head the institution until his death. The perennially underfunded hospital would prove self sufficient employing the patients to provide food heat and this newspaper both the editorial work and the printing process among other services reflecting the progressive belief of the time that activity settled the mind. Bryce and the hospital became known for innovative treatment of the mentally ill using a "therapeutic approach to treatment so called for its supposed ability to lead patients to an understanding and acceptance of 'right behavior'." The hospital accepted African-American patients including one who had been owned by Dr. Bryce but despite its progressive reputation in treatment the hospital showed the prejudices of the time by separating the patients by race. <br/><br/> Alabama Insane Hospital unknown books
1861300850London John Murray 1861. 1861. First edition. 8vo. Full gilt stamped dark green morocco by Riviere & Son rich gilt inner filets and dentelles; t.e.g. One volume extended to two by the addition of 135 extra engraved plates and views including eight hand colored together with the original 17 plates totaling 152 plates altogether. 2 volumes. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. London, John Murray, 1861. 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
188827036Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Lea Brothers & Co. 1888. 4 ii 549 - 658 8 pages of advertisements. Several of the articles with illustrations; contents include sections on original communications reviews therapeutics medicine surgery dermatology obstetrics and gynecology; this issue largely devoted to findings in acute alcoholic symptoms and research. Approx. 6" x 9 3/4"size; bound in the original printed light gray paper wrap covers. Some wear and dustiness to the binding; old corner-crease; contents clean and in very good condition. . Periodical. Soft Cover. Very Good. Lea Brothers & Co. paperback books
184755403NY: Carlisle 1847. First Edition. 8vo pp. 324. Several signatures loose just good. Carlisle unknown books
18746017Jersey City N.J.: Published by Clark Johnson M.D. 1874. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 309 1 pages. Illustrated. Advertisement. Second edition second printing. Graff refers to an earlier undated issue of 219 pages. This 309 page edition was originally issued in 1874. Felcone also notes copies of the 1874 printing with and without the two line printers attribution to the title page verso. A false Indian captivity narrative in the service of advertising a patent medicine. "A revolting fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup and made up mainly of descriptions of Indian life and customs some of which are cribbed with considerable garbling from Catlin. - G. P. Garrison." Ayer 90 as quoted in Graff. Closed tear to fore edge of rear fly and two blank leaves. Foxing throughout a bit musty. With the bookplate of the West Townshend Sabbath School Library. endpapers a bit stained. In black and blind-stamped decorated orange cloth; soiled; edges rubbed and worn. Good only. Ayer 90; Felcone 3401; Graff 1199. Published by Clark Johnson, M.D. hardcover books
18512970Philadelphia: G.S. Harris 1851. First edition. Very Good . Original blue printed paper wraps printed to front. Some chipping and creasing to edges but overall intact and undamaged despite being quite delicate. Light scattered foxing throughout. Ownership signature of the college's original dean N.R. Mosely struck out at the top of the Faculty list on page 4; pencil ticks next to the names of several students listed in the catalogue on page 6. Exceptionally rare OCLC lists copies of this Announcement at only 2 institutions.<br/><br/>Only one year after Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell graduated valedictorian and became the first female M.D. in the U.S. the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania opened its doors. Located in Philadelphia it was the only the second school to open with the mission of training women in medicine -- having been preceded by the New England Female Medical College two years earlier in 1848. Founded by Quaker abolitionist and Underground Railroad activists who believed that women could make exceptional doctors "the college provided rare opportunities for women to teach perform research manage a medical school and with the eventual establishment of the Woman's Hospital in 1861 learn and practice in a hospital setting. It was the longest-lasting all-women medical school in the nation until it became coeducational in 1970" Mandell. The present Announcement predates these growths however showing the roots from which they emerged. One year running and the faculty remain largely male because there has yet to be an inaugural graduating class this would come in 1852; but already a female student Hannah E. Longshore is listed as a Demonstrator in Anatomy. Indeed Longshore and her sister Anna would both be part of the inaugural class of the college with the latter going on the author Discourses to Women in Medical Subjects 1897. Indeed the majority of women listed in this catalogue went on to become doctors even when it took time -- as it did for Hannah W. Ellis and Susanna H. Ellis both listed among the graduates of the 1865 class. 12 pages in all this scarce pamphlet contains Officers Corporators Faculty and Students of the school; an Announcement on the school's missions and accomplishments; information on Specialties available; Terms of enrollment; and a list of required Textbooks. It also conveys the excitement optimism and pride of those involved. "The Faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania are inspired by very different feelings from those that attended their efforts one year ago. Then they were about to enter into an untried path to engage in a great experiment.But that which was an experiment is an experiment no longer.give a woman knowledge commensurate with her natural qualifications enable her to go forth healing the sick and comforting the afflicted and she will bless the world." A rare survivor documenting that pivotal moment when women had been given the chance to prove their intellect rose to the challenge and made the future of the next female students more secure. Very Good . G.S. Harris unknown books
189063182Chicago IL: np 1890. Broadside 12 x 4 1/2 in. approximately 40 lines of text 200 words illustrated with 2 portraits one of Rolling Thunder and one of his wife and business manager. "Known to his family as Belmont and to the public as Chief Rolling Thunder Louis Belmont Newell was born around 1858 to Thomas Newell and Marie Parsons of Indian Island Old Town Maine. Newell appears to have married several times and his first daughter Blanche was born to Victoria Tahamont around 1886. It is around this time that Newell is first referred to as Chief Rolling Thunder and that his company the Kiowa Medicine Company begins touring. The show was comprised of "moral" entertainment and lectures given on the customs habits manners and religion of tribes. Newell would also sell "traditional Kiowa" medicines and give out health guides. It is uncertain when the company was actually formed and though Newell claimed that he was a descendent of the First Chief Medicine Man of the Kiowa Nation Teet-Toot-Sah this was most likely just for his public image. It is much more likely that his parents were Penobscots from Maine. Newell married Louisa Stump of Iroquois descent in 1891. Louisa was an expert shot and travelled with the Kiowa Medicine Company for some time. In 1894 Newell married his fourth wife Jeanne "Jennie" Congleton who served as business manager for the Kiowa Medicine and Vaudeville Company for many years. Newell died December 1 1933 and was buried in Randolph NY. More information on L.B. Newell has been compiled by descendants of Newell and can be found on Ne-Do-Ba a geneological website for the Wabanaki people." see the Smithsonian Institution SOVA site. <br/><br/> np 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
1860WRCAM41779New York: B.L. Judson & Co. 1860. 24pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished. Some chipping and tears to wrappers. Very minor soiling. Good. A rare patent-medicine almanac reprinting the story of an herbalist's rescue of Tula the Aztec princess likely fabricated to promote the sale of Judson's various medicaments. Originally printed in 1859 by the same publisher the almanac recounts the story of the "wealthy herbalist Dr. Cunard who with a trapper named Du Bois or Hawk Eye spent seven years trapping and travelling throughout the Far West. The doctor had a number of unusual experiences not the least of which was his single-handed defiance of the Navajo Tribe as they were about to burn Tula the Aztec princess at the stake. This was accomplished by capitalizing on the fortuitous imminence of a total eclipse of which the good doctor knew after consulting his handy little almanac. The Navajo chief was as confounded as Merlin in an earlier day and promptly gave up not only Tula but also his secret mountain-herb recipe. A trapper's testimonial direct from St. Louis concludes this 'True Account'" - Eberstadt. The almanac seems to have been published for only about four years 1860- 63 although the advertisement/story does appear in a few other almanacs as well. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1861 almanac and only one of most of the others as well at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Rare and interesting. EBERSTADT 127:215 ref. B.L. Judson & Co. unknown 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
1830228066Madrid Imprenta Real 1830. 1830. 8vo. Later red wrappers. Very good. Fresh text no foxing. 104 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Soft cover. Very Good. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1830. paperback books
18837512Buffalo N.Y.: Published by D. Ransom Son & Co.; Press of Baker Jones & Co 1883. Booklet sewn on cords in wrappers 16.5 x 10 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. A single year from the annual almanac promoting the "Celebrated Family Medicines" of Ransom Son & Co. series 1874 - c. 1923. The booklet consists of a series of alternating pages of recipes culinary household medicinal dyeing etc. with facing pages each advertising an individual patent medicine Trask's Magnetic Ransom's Honey Syrup Ransom's Hive Syrup Universal Magnetic Balm Prof. Anderson's Dermador. Printed orange paper wrappers decorated and with text. Hole with string tie to upper left corner. Very light rippling to wrappers otherwise fine. Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co.; Press of Baker, Jones & Co unknown books
18253010London: John Knight & Henry Lacey 1825. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volume set. Small 8vos. Full contemporary greeen morocco gilt spines rather worn and rubbed. Internally nice and clean. Interesting essays on a wide range of medical topics. <br/><br/> John Knight & Henry Lacey hardcover books
187147582Rome: Forzani et C. 1871. First Edition. Folio 33cm.; publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 18pp. Wrapper lightly soiled faint vertical creasing a few tiny chips to spine ele Very Good internally fresh and fine save the crease. Polemical attack on the state of the French university system written in March 1871 two months after the end of the disastrous for the French Franco-Prussian War. As Pasteur argues whereas in Germany universities proliferated across the country France "stymied by revolution was always occupied with the sterile search for a better form of government giving only distracted attention to her institutions of higher learning" p. 9 our translation. At the root of all this was the regime of Napoleon I who in the early years of the 19th century neglected the country's twenty-eight extant institutions of higher learning in favor of his Université de France a disastrously centralized state-run institution that he established in 1808. The University suffered greatly during the Restoration and with it the quality of education so that by 1868 only £8000 were being spent for "true academic purposes" across the country cf. W. Chandler Roberts et al "Journal of the Society for Arts Vol. 32 no. 1655 August 8 1884 p. 905 creating a lacuna of learned and innovative thinkers to match Germany's. Perhaps in order to combat this downward trend Pasteur later founded the Pasteur Institute in 1887 serving as its director until his death in 1895. <br/><br/>This appears to be the only separate appearance of Pasteur's tract published abroad and distributed to various foreign leading scientific figures among these "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley who makes mention of this work in an address delivered in October of that same year. The essay appeared again in print in 1947 following an even more disastrous encounter with Germany in a collection titled "Pour l'Avenir de la Science Française." This publication quite scarce with four physical copies noted in OCLC as of February 2020. COPAC adds one copy at the LEC Library UK. Forzani et C. unknown books
181626868New York NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution 1816. x 2 contents 180 2 Table IV Finis pages last page blank. Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top; and with another name lined-through of William Chambers. Concerning this book ". New York Hospital's pharmacopoeia was published in 1816 four years before the publication of the United States Pharmacopoeia. This caused considerable concern among the attending physicians about the potential abridgement of the physician's right to prescribe." from: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell site Dr. James Rushmore Wood 1816 -1882 "began the practice of medicine in his native city and in 1847 he became a member of the medical board of Bellevue hospital New York. At that time this institution was a receptacle for lunatics paupers criminals and other victims of a depraved life. The most rudimentary hygienic laws were grossly violated in its management and the nursing was inefficient and untrustworthy. With the assistance of Morris Franklin president of the board of aldermen Dr. Wood set about reforming this state of things and labored so successfully that he soon reduced the annual death-rate by 600. He also made all the post-mortem examinations amounting to many hundreds yearly established Saturday surgical clinics and founded the Wood prize for the best anatomical dissection."Appleton Dr. Wood was also Chair of Operative Surgery and Surg. Path. in Bellevue Hosp. Coll. and Emeritus Prof. of Surgery until 1882.the most famous American surgeon of his day and the pioneer in periosteal surgery. Author of many papers and treatises." Title page also with the previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894; his medical education was accomplished in NY at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 1858. Printer A. Paul. Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" size; bound in later 19th century dark brown textured cloth dark brown morocco leather corners & spine gilt spine titles & lines simple gilt rules on the boards block edges lightly sprinkled red. Cloth with loss of color at edges; binding with edge tips wear; contents foxed spotty; in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution hardcover books
