A little journey to the home of Florence Nightingale
St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1942. Sixth printing; 12mo, pp. 38; portrait frontispiece; original white printed wrappers (foxing); interior fine. More
Medicine
L'aphasie de Broca. Travail du laboratoire de M. le professeur Pierre Marie
Paris: G. Steinheil, 1908. First edition, 8vo, pp. [14], 774; 175 text illustrations; original tan paper covers bound in; quarter green cloth, with red leather label on spine titled in gilt; speckled edges; a very good, clean copy, with corners rubbed and bumped, and a crease on original cover neatly..... More
Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine présentée et soutenue le 31 janvier 1855 ... De la chorée
Paris: BHignoux, 1855. First edition, 4to, pp. 142; removed from binding; very good. Academic dissertation on chorea. More
Lebensnerven und lebenstriebe
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931. 3rd edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 991, [1]; 363 biopsies, patient photos, and charts; 2 color folding plates; blue cloth with gilt rules and title on covers and spine; cover a little worn, bookplate on pastedown, textblock clean and bright. "Müller was the first to report afferent..... More
A narrative of medicine in America
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903. First edition, 8vo; pp. 508; top edge gilt; annotations in pencil throughout; call numbers on spine, previous owners signature on p. 19, some signatures starting to loosen, good or better in original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine and upper cover. More
Über die functionen von hirn und rückenmark. Gesammelte mitteilungen. Neue folge.
Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1909. 8vo, pp. [8], 371, [1]; 4 text illustrations; original upper wrapper bound in; green cloth with gilt title on spine, spine faded with small stain at bottom, owner's mark on wrapper, bookplate on pastedown. Text a little toned at edges but clean. Hermann Munk was a...... More
The training school for nurses. Royal Victoria Hospital 1894-1943
Montreal: Majorie Dobie Munroe, 1943. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 92, [1]; pictorial endpapers, 9 plates, illustrations in the text; very good copy in original purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. More
De l'influence de la nuit sur les maladies, ou traité des maladies nocturnes: ouvrage couronné par la Société de Médecine de Bruxelles, dans la séance du 2 Vendémiaire an 14.
Bruxelles: de l'imprimerie de Weissenbruch [et al.], 1806. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 176; orig. pink pastepaper wrappers; very good. An attempt to show the psychological influences of darkness on various maladies.The work is dedicated to M. le comte de Lacépède. More
An address on ardent spirit, read before the New-Hampshire Medical Society, at their annual meeting, June 5, 1827
Hanover: printed by Thomas Mann, 1828. First edition, 12mo, pp. 24; removed from binding; oil stain permeating most leaves, textblock otherwise clean and sound. An argument against the use of ardent spirits, or alcoholic drinks, as a medical treatment. Mussey was a member of the temperance movement and a founding..... More
An annotated checklist of Osleriana.
Kent: Kent State University Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 289; frontis. port., plates; near fine in original black cloth, spine gilt. The list includes 1367 items and the appendixes list reprints and memorial volumes. More
Chemical, medical, and pharmaceutical books printed before 1800 in the collections of the University of Wisconsin Libraries... Compiled by Samuel Ives, Reese Jenkins, and John Neu.
Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 280; light wear to extremities, else very good in pictorial dustjacket with a number of small tears along top and bottom edges. More
White caps and black bands. Nursing in Newfoundland to 1934
[St. John's, Newfoundland]: Jesperson Press, [1978]. 12mo, pp. xxxiv, 278; numerous black & white photographs; a fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. More
A textbook of clinical neurology
New York & London: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1941. First edition, 4to, pp. ix, [3], 672; 179 text illustrations; red cloth with title in gilt and black on spine. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, covers bumped and faded. More
Ever yours, Florence Nightingale. Selected letters, edited by Martha Vicinus & Bea Nergaard
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition; large 8vo, pp. xii, 461; 2 illustrative plates; original red cloth in good dustjacket, interior mostly fine. More
A century of nursing. With hints toward the organization of a training school and Florence Nightingale's historic letter on the Bellevue School, September 18, 1872. Hospitals and training schools. Report to the Standing Committee on Hospitals of the State Charities Aid Association, New York, May 24, 1876. By Abby Howland Woolsey...to which is added Founding of the Bellevue Training School for Nurses. Chapter VI. Recollections of a happy life by Elizabeth Christopher Hobson
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1950. Reproduced with the permission of the State Charities Aid Association, New York and the Bellevue School of Nursing Board of Managers; small 8vo, pp. v, 172, [13] p. facsimile; publisher's red cloth, silver lettering on spine, mostly fine. Facsimile of Nightingale's letter printed at..... More
Die neuronenlehre und ihre anhänger. ein beitrag zur lösung des problems der beziehungen zwischen nervenzelle, faser und grau
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 478; 2 color lithographic plates; half brown morocco, spine rebacked and gilt ruled in five compartments, original gilt title panel laid on top; boards rubbed, text clean and sound. Franz Nissle was a noted neuropathologist who popularized the use of the..... More
A history of the Texas medical association 1853-1953.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. First edition; 8vo; pp. xx, 476; numerous illustrations throughout text; pictorial endpapers, bookplate, good in original brick cloth, spine faded with call numbers in white ink, lettered in gilt. Foreword by Merton M. Minter, MD. More
One hundred books famous in medicine
New York: Grolier Club, 1995. First edition limited to 1500 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Stinehour Press; 4to, pp. xlii, 390, [4]; illustrated throughout, some in color; fine in original creme buckram, leather label on spine, publisher's slipcase. From the library of Kim Merker. Documenting "the..... More
The forty-seven hundred: the story of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing
Canan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, [1981]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 146; approx. 70 illustrations from photographs throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Presentation copy from the Foundation of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing Friendship Committee. More
Hämolyse-hämolytische Erkrankungen
Munchen: J. F. Lehmanns, [1973]. 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 313, [13]; charts and graphs, one page of color illustrations; original wrappers printed in red and black; ex-library, with small spine sticker and pocket in back; laminate dust protection stripped along spine, text clean and sound. On hemolytic diseases. More
History of the fever and ague war in Wallingford, in two letters, reprinted from the correspondence of the "American Socialist"
Wallingford, Conn. Wallingford Printing Company, [ca. 1876]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], 4-16; self-wrappers; stab-sewn; near fine. Wallingford housed a small branch of the utopian Oneida Community. In 1871 a contagious illness swept through the community, nearly leading to its abandonment. The letters, dated April 30, 1876 and May 8..... More
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Report on the health of children in the Oneida community [wrapper title]
Oneida, N.Y. 1878. 8vo, pp. 8; fine in original printed blue wrappers. Noyes (1841-1903) was the son of John Humphrey Noyes, the Utopian socialist and the founder of the Putney, Oneida and Wallingford communities. More
Boswell's clap and other essays.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, illustrated, fine copy in original dust-jacket, price clipped, manuscript facsimile endpapers. More
An address delivered before the Temperance Society of the medical class in Dartmouth College, Oct. 31, 1832
Windsor, VT: Chronicle Press, [1832]. 8vo, pp. 16; original brown printed wrappers, nicely preserved; light foxing, small closed tear to covers cut by the binding string, very good. Only one copy found in OCLC, at the AAS. American Imprints 14061. Bibliography of Vermont p. 187. More
De l'érysipèle phlegmoneux.
Paris: de l'Imprimerie Dedidot jeune, 1820. 4to, pp. viii, [9]-35, [1]; original drab wrappers; edges curled, some spotting, but very good. A doctoral thesis for the Faculté de médecine de Paris. More
