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[HOOPER, Robert] [1773-1835].
The Surgeon's Vade-Mecum: Containing The Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment of Surgical Diseases.Also Select Formulae of Prescriptions, And A Gossary Of Terms.
London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, John Callow and Thomas Underwood, 1814..
12mo. pp. xv, [1], 334, [10]index. 12 engraved plates. uncut in original bds. (bds stained & detached, spine split, institutional bookplate & blindstamp, some dampstaining to plates). ownership entries of William Bell and Robert W.Bell, McGill College, Montreal, 1872. Second (First Illustrated) Edition, Enlarged and Improved. The plates include depictions of hernia, broken and fractured arms and legs in bandages and splinters, the operation of lithotomy, the application of instruments employed in cutting for gallstones, the appearance of stricture, and the successive steps of the operations for amputating a limb and correcting hare lip. Wellcome III p. 298.
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HOWARD, John [1726?-1790].
An Account Of The Principal Lazarettos In Europe. With Various Papers Relative To The Plague: Together With Further Observations On Some Foreign Prisons And Hospitals; And Additional Remarks On The Present State Of Those In Great Britain And Ireland.
Warrington: Printed By William Eyres; And Sold By T.Cadell, J.Johnson, C.Dilly, And J.Taylor, London, 1789.
4to. pp. 3 p.l. (verso of third leaf numbered viii), 259, [13]index, [1 leaf]plate list. with half-title. 22 folding engraved plates. 1 large folding double-page table. modern quarter calf (perforated library stamp on title & in lower margin of 1 other leaf, title soiled & with repaired tear - no loss, few plate tears repaired - no loss, light dampstain to about half of book - most plates unaffected, paper in some gatherings lightly embrowned). First Edition. Following upon his work for the improvement of conditions in prisons in England, Ireland, and Europe, the social reformer determined in 1785 to investigate the condition of the lazarettos of Europe, and the best means for the prevention of the plague. In all, Howard visited lazarettos in Marseilles, Toulon, Nice, Genoa, Leghorn, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Malta, Zante, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Venice. In order to gain entry and inspect those in France and Italy, he had to resort to disguise and bribery. Deciding that the only way to get into the lazarettos of Venice was to be subjected to quarantine, he set sail to that city in a boat with a reputation for infection. As a consequence he spent forty-two days in confinement there in two separate institutions. As a writer Howard had little literary ability, and was assisted in the preparation of his two principal works by Richard Densham, Dr. Richard Price, and Dr. John Aikin. Garrison & Morton 1601. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 224.
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HUTCHISON, Robert & H. Stansfield COLLIER (Editors).
An Index Of Treatment By Various Writers.
New York: William Wood And Company, 1908..
8vo. pp. xv, 887, [1]. several text illus. cloth (scuffed, 2 small stains on upper cover). First American Edition. Revised to conform to American usage by Warren Coleman.
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JONES, Alfred Barron.
Observations On The Diseases And Loss Of The Teeth, And The Various Means Of Supplying Their Deficiency; And On Defects In The Palate, And Their Treatment.
London: S.Highley And Son, 1853..
8vo. pp. x, 89. with half-title. 5 lithographed plates. A nice copy in original blind-stamped cloth (some foxing to plates & adjacent leaves). First Edition. Crowley 1633.
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JUNCKER, Johann [1679-1759].
Conspectus Chirurgiae Tam Medicae, Methodo Stahliana Conscriptae.
Halle: Typis & Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1731..
4to. pp. 8 p.l., 661, [70]index, [1]errata. title in red & black with printer's device. woodcut ornaments. contemporary mottled sheep, gilt back (binding rather worn but sound, some moderate browning & foxing). Second Revised Edition. Juncker, physician and professor of medicine at the University of Halle, was one of the most prominent exponents of the 'Animist' theory of Georg Ernst Stahl. The present work, a classification of surgery, includes chapters on hernia, cancer, eye surgery, otology, rhinology, dentistry, lithotomy, and brief sections on blood transfusion and plastic surgery. Blake p. 238. Hirsch III 472. Wellcome III 372.
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JUNCKER, Johann [1679-1759].
Institutiones Physiologiae Et Pathologiae Medicae Quibus Accedit Hygieine Et Semeiologia. Rencensuit Et E Forma Tabularum In Quaestiones Et Responsiones Redegit Theodorus Christophorus Ursinus.
Halle: Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1745..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 712, [56]index. engraved title vignette. woodcut ornaments. Uncut & unopened in original wrs. (some dampstaining to wrs. & outer leaves). First Edition of this elementary text on physiology and pathology by Johann Juncker, physician and professor of medicine at the University of Halle. Blake p. 238. Not in Wellcome.
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KEYES, E[dward] L.
The Surgical Diseases Of The Genito-Urinary Organs Including Syphilis...A Revision Of Van Buren And Keyes's Text-Book Upon The Same Subject.
New York: D.Appleton And Company, 1891..
8vo. pp. xv, 704 + 8(publisher's catalogue). wood-engraved text illus. original cloth (library pocket on rear paste-down, discolouration to lower spine).
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KIDD, John [1775-1851].
On The Adaptation OF External Nature To The Physical Condition Of Man Principally With Reference To The Supply Of His Wants And The Exercise Of His Intellectual Faculties.
London: William Pickering, 1837..
8vo. pp. xvi, 375. with half-title. anchor device on title. modern bds. Fifth Edition. One of a series of eight works, on the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation known as the 'Bridgewater Treatises'. They were written at the request of the trustees of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and final Earl of Bridgewater [1756-1829] in accordance with the provisions of his will.
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KNOX, Alexander.
The Irish Watering Places, Their Climate, Scenery, And Accommodations; Including Analyses Of The Principal Mineral Springs, By Dr. R.Kane, And Remarks On The Various Forms Of Disease To Which They Are Adapted...
Dublin: William Curry, Jun., And Company, 1845..
8vo. pp. viii, 336. wood-engraved frontis. list of subscribers. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with chipped spine mounted (covers soiled). First Edition. Including directions for the regimen of invalids, and observations on indigestion, gout, pulmonary consumption, and other diseases of the chest, stomach, and nervous system. Not in Wellcome.
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KNY-SCHEERER CORPORATION.
Catalogue Of Surgical Instruments Of Superior Quality.
Long Island City, New York: 1935..
4to. 2 p.l., 511. profusely illus. index. blind & gilt-stamped cloth (shaken, hinges weak). Twenty-Fourth Edition.
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KRAFFT-EBING, R[ichard von] [1840-1902].
Psychopathia Sexualis With Especial Reference To The Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medical-Forensic Study. Only Authorized English Adaptation Of The Twelfth German Edition By F.J.Rebman.
London: William Heinemann, [c1902]..
8vo. pp. xiii, [1], 617. frontis. portrait. index. original cloth (joints & spine ends frayed). Psychopathia Sexualis, originally published in German in 1886, was one of the first books about sexual practices that studied homosexuality and bisexuality. Krafft-Ebing proposed consideration of the mental state of sex criminals in legal judgments of their crimes. In its time, the work became the leading medico--legal textual authority on sexual pathology. Rebman's English translation was based on the twelfth German edition, the last revised by Krafft-Ebing, which was expanded to include a total of 238 case histories. cfGarrison & Morton (4th Ed.) 4944.
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[LA METTRIE, Julien Offray De] [1709-1751].
Politique Du Médecin De Machiavel, Ou Le Chemin De La Fortune Ouvert Aux Médecins. Ouvrage réduit en forme de Conseils, par le Docteur Fum-Ho-Ham, & traduit sur l'Original Chinois, par un nouveau Maître ès Arts de S. Cosme. Première Partie, Qui contient les Portraits des plus célèbres Médecins de Pekin.
Amsterdam: Frères Bernard, [1746]..
12mo. pp. xl, 96. contemporary marbled calf, gilt back. Second Edition (?) of this satirical work "ridiculing the incompetence, greed, and charlatanry of a gallery of prominent French physicians" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography) It was suppressed by order of the Paris Parlement, 9 July, 1746. . La Mettrie's attacks on his colleagues in this and two other works and the atheistic views expounded in his Histoire naturelle de l'âme forced him to flee to Holland to escape arrest and imprisonment. There he published his most notorious book, L'Homme Machine (1748), the outspoken materialism and atheism of which proved too risqué even for the Dutch, and he was compelled to flee again, this time to the court of Frederick II of Prussia, where he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as reader and physician to the King. Blake p. 254. Cioranescu 36376. Stoddard 21. Wellcome III 438. cfQuérard IV 496 (different pagination). cfTchemerzine VI 460 (b) (noting 3 editions/issues for the same year). [BOUND WITH:] [LA METTRIE, Julien Offray De] [1709-1751]. Essais Sur L'Esprit Et Les Beaux Esprits. 12mo. pp. 42. Amsterdam: Frères Bernard, [1746]. Often found bound with the preceding work, these essays present twelve portraits of contemporary writers including Fontenelle, Marivaux, Gresset, Prévost, and Voltaire. Cioranescu 36387. Quérard IV 496. Stoddard 19. Tchemerzine VI 461 (a).
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LAENNEC, [René Théophile Hyacinthe] [1781-1826].
A Treatise On The Diseases Of The Chest And On Mediate Auscultation.Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged: Translated From The French With Notes And A Sketch Of The Author's Life, By John Forbes, M.D.
London: T. And G.Underwood, 1827..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xxviii, 722, [1 leaf]ad. engraved portrait of the author & 8 other engraved plates by John Pope Vibert. contemporary sheep, rebacked retaining spine label (some wear to covers). ownership entries of E.Carter & Brock Carter, the latter dated Montreal, 1845. Second Edition of the English Translation. "Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec's invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplifying the sound of the heart's action. The publication of this book revolutionized the study of diseases of the thoracic organs. The second edition, 1826, is even more important, since it gives not only the various physical signs elicited in the chest, but adds the pathological anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of disease encountered. Laennec, perhaps the greatest clinician of his time, died of tuberculosis." (G & M) "[This book is] the foundation stone of modern knowledge of diseases of the chest and of their diagnosis by mediate auscultation. In the first edition (1819), Laennec pursues the analytic method, giving the different signs elicited by percussion and auscultation, with the corresponding anatomic lesions (he was an expert pathologist). In the second edition (1826), the process is turned about and the method is synthetic each disease being described in detail in respect of diagnosis, pathology, and (most intelligent) treatment, so that this edition is, in effect, the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs every written. Laennec not only put the diagnostic sounds of cardiac and pulmonary disease upon a reliable basis, but was the first to describe and differentiate bronchiectasis, pneumothorax, hemorrhagic pleurisy, pulmonary gangrene, infarct and emphysema, esophagitis, subdeltoid bursa, and that form of cirrhosis of the liver which is now termed "chronic diffuse interstitial hepatitis." He left masterly descriptions of bronchitis, peritonitis, and pneumonia, with a full account of the pathologic appearances.". (Garrison, p. 412) Bib. Osleriana 1324. cfDibner 129. cfGarrison & Morton 2673 & 3219. cfHeirs of Hippocrates 813. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 280. cfWaller 5486ff. cfWellcome III p. 429.
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LAWRENCE, Sir William [1783-1867].
A Treatise On Ruptures, Containing An Anatomical Description Of Each Species, With An Account Of Its Symptoms, Progress, And Treatment.
London: Printed For Callow And Wilson, 1824..
8vo. pp. xvii, 568. 2 engraved plates (1 folding). original bds. (spine chipped, front bd. detached, internally a nice uncut & unopened copy). Presentation Copy, inscribed "Presented by the author to the A.P.I..Dr. Harlan May 1828". Fourth Edition, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged. cfGarrison & Morton 3587 (5th Edn.). Wellcome III p. 462.
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LE CAT, [Claude Nicolas] [1700-1768].
Traité Des Sensations Et Des Passions En Générale, Et Des Sens En Particulier....La Théorie De L'Ouie: Supplément À Cette Article Du Traité Des Sens [Oeuvres Physiologiques].
Paris: Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1767-68..
3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xcv, [1], 264; 1 p.l., lvi, 201-232, 253-684, [iv]incl. privilege|); xxxii, 320. text complete as issued. with half-titles. 3 engraved frontis. (incl. portrait) & 34 other mostly folding engraved plates. large engraved headpieces. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (worn, spines oxidized & labels chipped, joints cracked, occasional light foxing, light stain to 2 leaves, former owner's name excised from frontis.). First Collected Edition, with revisions and additions. Le Cat was chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Rouen and a founding member of the city's Académie de Sciences. He was one of the first to perform the surgical extraction of bladder stones (1732), invented or perfected several instruments for lithotomy including the 'Gorgeret cystotome', and was the first to eradicate a polyp from the bladder through the dilated urethra. He also perfected a great advance in cataract surgery and invented an auditory device. Le Cat was one of the first adherents of a mechanistic approach to physiology. "The Traité des sens, [his] most important work, grew as much out of his researches in physics as in physiology. In it Le Cat presented a theory of the propagation of light contrary to that of Newtonian attraction. He further reported on the pigmented choroid coat of the eye and assigned it a common embryonic origin with the pigment of the skin." (Dict. of Scientific Biography) Many of Le Cat's works earned academy prizes including his treatise on the ear and hearing, here forming Volume III. Blake p. 260. Wellcome III p. 468.
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