Dissertation sur les fractures du crane.
Montpellier: Jean Martel, 1820. 4to, pp. 42, [1]; apparently lacks a half-title; removed from binding; partially stained; good. Accademic dissertation on fractures of the cranium. Not in OCLC. More
Medicine
A statement of the claims of Charles T. Jackson, M.D. to the discovery of the applicability of sulpheric ether to the prevention of pain in surgical operations
Boston: printed by David Clapp, 1847. First edition, 8vo, pp. 29, [3], xviii; original printed terracotta wrappers; ex-Sheppard Library, Mass. College of Pharmacy, with their stamp on front wrapper and first page of text, and with a "discard" stamp on the front; all else about fine. More
Les maladies nerveuses
Louvain & Paris: J. B. Baillière et fils, 1936. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 718, [2]; 407 figures; cloth backed green paper boards; excision and owner's signature on flyleaf, very good. More
Frost and flower: my life with manic depression so far
Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1995. First edition, limited to 297 copies, this being one of 32 copies on Twinrocker handmade paper; the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. [8], 20, [4]; frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser; patterned paper-covered boards backed in green morocco, fore edges also..... More
The life and times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of Bologna 1545-1599. With a documented study of the scientific and cultural life of Bologna in the sixteenth century...Preface by Arturo Castiglioni
New York: Herbert Reichner, [1950]. Limited edition of 2100 numbered copies, of which this is no. 682, 4to, pp. xxii, 538; portrait frontispiece of Gaspare Tagliacozzi attributed to Tiburzio Passarotti, map, 45 plates of facsimiles, photographs, and illustrations, as well as 22 plates reproduced from a 16th century work illustrating..... More
A physiological system of nosology; with a corrected and simplified nomenclature
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1823. 8vo, pp. lxxxviii, 443; original speckled calf, red morocco label on spine, spine sunned, boards lightly worn, upper free endpaper perished, one footnote highlighted in pen, very good and sound. Although Good's system had little influence on the statistical classification of diseases, it formed a...... More
Nursing history...Seventh edition, reset
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1942. 8vo, pp. xiii, 495; two-toned map, black and white illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original tan buckram, gilt and red-stamped spine, fine; interior mostly fine. An edition of Goodnow's comprehensive history, published during the height of World War II. Originally published under the title "Outlines of..... More
Memoirs: Half a century in nursing
Boston: Boston University Mugar Memorial Library, [1969]. 8vo, pp. xii, 181; frontispiece portrait of the author; previous owner's signature on front paste-down, lightly toned, else very good in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered upper cover and spine. More
Aesulapius comes to the colonies: The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies
Ventnor, N.J. Ventnor Publishers, 1949. 8vo, pp. xiv, 560; illustrative plates throughout, blue cloth, lacking dust jacket. More
Croonian lecture. On the mammalian nervous system, its functions, and their localisation determined by an electrical method.
London: published for the Royal Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891. First published edition being an offprint from the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 182 (1891). B, pp. 267-526; 4to, 7 plates, illus. and tables in text; bound without wrappers in contemporary green cloth-backed marbled..... More
Surgical diseases of the chest
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 1070; 637 text illustrations; green cloth with gilt title on spine; ex-library, text shaken, nibbling at top edge of covers and into last few pages, a good copy only. More
Les maladies de l'orientation et de l'équilibre
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4] ads, [4], 291, [1], [4] ads; slight crease in the back cover else a near fine, bright copy in original brown cloth stamped on the spine and upper cover in gilt. Issued in the Bibliotheque Scientifique Internationale series under the editorship..... More
Les maladies de l'orientation et de l'équilibre
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4] ads, [4], 291, [1], [4] ads; slight rubbing to boards, else a near fine, bright copy in original brown cloth stamped on the spine and upper cover in gilt. Issued in the Bibliotheque Scientifique Internationale series under the editorship of M...... More
Des localisations dans les maladies cérébrales.
Montpellier: Coulet; Paris: Delahaye, 1880. Third edition, revised and corrected, 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-391, [1]; 6 lithograph plates; orig. green printed wrappers, the upper wrapper loose, but present; spine darkened, and with elongated cracks; good at best. This copy inscribed by the author on the half-title. More
A pocket conspectus of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1803. First American edition, small 12mo, pp. 132; full contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine with red morocco label; boards scuffed, joints strengthened, text clean and sound, signature of Robert Wallace on front free endpaper, slip with contemporary or slightly later manuscript notes on a remedy laid in;..... More
The evil of Christian Science
Boston: James H. Earle, [c. 1900]. Square 16mo, pp. 28, [4]; original printed paper wrappers; wrapper chipped and spotted, light creasing to last few leaves, good and sound. Gray equates Christian Science with the "Mind-Cure" and says it is incompatible with proper Evangelical faith. More
Report on the use and effect of applications of nitrate of silver to the throat, either in local or general disease
New York: Edward P. Allen, 1855. First separate edition, (the text appeared in January 1856 in the Transactions of the American Medical Association); 8vo, pp. 42, [6]; original printed green wrappers (dated 1856); very good. Green was the first American physician to specialize in diseases of the throat, and his..... More
A collection of 58 offprints
V.p. ca. 1920-1943. 58 volumes, mostly 8vo; many illustrated; all in wrappers save for a few broadsheets and bifolia; all about fine. Offprints of medical papers concerning obstetrics and gynecological studies by J. P. Greenhill of Chicago, Illinois. Also includes a run of the author's yearly reviews of obstetric literature..... More
Jensen's history and trends of professional nursing ... Fifth edition, illustrated
St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1965. 8vo, pp. 503; illustrated with drawings throughout; very good copy in original yellow cloth blocked in red. Ex St. Mary's Hospital, with their rubberstamps. More
Animal mechanism and physiology; being a plain and familiar exposition of the structure and functions of the human system...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 16mo, pp. [2], 357; 86 illus. in text; top of spine chipped, else very good in orig. brown cloth; ex-MHS. Issued in the publisher's Family Library series. More
Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross … with sketches of his contemporaries.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1887. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxxi, [3], 407; viii, [2], 438; 2 engraved frontispieces; old bookplates, discarded stamps on endpapers, spines a little soiled else good and sound in orig. blue cloth. More
American medical bibliography 1639-1783
New York: Lathrop C. Harper Inc., 1962. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. 885, numerous facsimile illustrations, accesion numbers on lower spine, else a near fine copy in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered upper cover and spine. More
Neuro-Ophtalmologie
Paris: Masson & Cie. for the American Red Cross], 1959. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xiv, 654, [2]; [6], [657]-1388, [1]; 11 plates (some in color), 464 illustrations in the text; near fine, sound copy in original pictorial cream cloth stamped in black and red. More
Opera omnia mathematica, hydraulica, medica, et physicia. Accessit vita autoris, a Jo. Baptista Morgagni…cum figuris & indicibus necessariis
Genevae: Cramer, Perachon & Socii. 1719. First edition, 2 volumes. in 1, 4to, pp. [2], [12], 772; [2], 571; many errors in pagination, but the book is complete; text in double column, engraved frontispiece portrait, title page in vol. I in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece in volume II..... More
A history of medicine. With an introduction by Samuel C. Harvey, MD
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [[1946]. 8vo; pp. xvi, 448; 72 plates printed in red, maps on endpapers; fine copy in red cloth, gilt spine. More
