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RIDDELL, J.Scott.
A Manual Of Ambulance.
London: Charles Griffen & Company, Limited, 1899..
8vo. pp. xvi, 214 + 32(publisher's ads). with half-title. frontis. & numerous wood-engraved text illus. original cloth (scuffed & bit frayed). Fourth Edition.
$125 USD Book Number: elala2932 Order / Enquire
RIDDELL, William Renwick [1852-1945].
Hieronymus Fracastorius And His Poetical And Prose Works On Syphilis With A Full Glossary Of Medical And Other Terms Employed By Him; And A Comparison With Earlier, Contemporary And Later Medicine.
Toronto: Canadian Social Hygiene Council, 1928..
8vo. pp. 3 p.l., ii, 136. frontis. portrait. cloth (few scuff marks on upper cover). First Edition.
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ROBERTSON, William.
A Practical Treatise On The Diseases Of The Teeth, In Which The Origin And Nature Of Decay Are Explained; And The Means Of Prevention Pointed Out.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman & Birmingham: J.Belcher And Son, 1835..
8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf]errata, 158, [1 leaf]. 6 plates, drawn by C.Docker & engraved by W.Hill. An untrimmed copy in early cloth (slight fraying to extremities, plates with some light spotting & dampstaining to lower margin). First Edition. Crowley 1603 (citing publication date of 1839, probably in error).
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RONCHESE, Francesco.
Occupational Marks And Other Physical Signs A Guide to Personal Identification.
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1948..
8vo. pp. xvi, 181. 151 text illus. biblio. index. cloth. First Edition. "Calluses, other dermatological and physical signs of professions and occupations illustrated and described, with an annotated bibliography that includes some historical references." (Garrison & Morton) Garrison-Morton 2135.1.
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ROUX, Philib[ert] Joseph [1780-1854].
Nouveaux Élémens De Médecine Opératoire. Volume 1 [All Published].
Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, Printed by Crapelet, 1813..
2 Parts in 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., xlvii, 350; 2 p.l., [351]-781, [781]-787(index, bound in after title in Pt. I). complete with half-titles. folding table. 19th century cloth-backed bds. (library bookplates, rubberstamps on titles). First Edition. A favourite pupil of Bichat, Roux took over the latter's lectures on anatomy and surgery at Paris when he died. In 1820 he obtained the chair of pathology at the École de Médecine, and in 1835, he succeeded Dupuytren at the Hôtel-Dieu. A highly skilled surgeon, Roux introduced important innovations and improvements in plastic surgery, amputation, and cataract and other operations. In 1819 he invented staphyloraphy, an operation for the repair of cleft palate. Only the first volume of the present text on surgical operations was published.
$1099 USD Book Number: MUXuvROU3 Order / Enquire
RUSSELL, Richard [1687-1759].
A Dissertation On The Use Of Sea Water In The Diseases Of The Glands; Particularly The Scurvy, Jaundice, King's-Evil, Leprosy, and the Glandular Consumption.To Which Is Added, A Translation Of Dr. Speed's Commentary on Sea Water.
London: Printed for W.Owen, 1769..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xii, [6], [2]ads, 379, [1]ads. 2 engraved plates (incl. frontis.). contemporary sheep, rebacked. Fifth Edition, Enlarged and Corrected. The extensive section on the remarkable mineral waters of Great Britain, pp. 177-343, and the further section on the foreign mineral waters of Pyrmont, Spa, and Seltzer are largely based on the work of J.Rutty and were first added in the fourth edition. In this fifth edition the latter, pp. 344-379, has been expanded. Blake p. 594. Wellcome IV p. 594.
$599 USD Book Number: elala2665 Order / Enquire
SANTORIO, Santorio [1561-1636].
Medicina Statica: Being The Aphorisms Of Sanctorius, Translated into English with large Explanations.
London: Printed for W. & J.Newton, A.Bell, W.Taylor, J.Osborn, 1720..
2 Parts in 1, second part with separate title. 8vo. pp. viii, 344, [18]index; 3 p.l., 116. engraved frontis. & folding engraved plate. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, corners renewed (covers worn, some browning & foxing throughout, several institutional stamps). Second Edition of this English Translation by John Quincy [d. 1722], to which have been added Keil's Medicina Statica Britannica, with comparative remarks, and explanations, and Quincy's Medico-Physical Essays. Originally published in 1612, the De statica medicina is Santorio's most famous work, in which he describes the results of a long series of experiments conducted on the variation in weight experienced by the human body as a result of ingestion and excretion. The frontispiece shows the steelyard weighing chair which he used in his experiments. Santorio, Venetian physician, professor of theoretical medicine at the University of Padua, and friend and contemporary of Galileo, Sarpi, Fabrici, Della Porta and Sagredo, is considered to be the founder of the physiology of metabolism. His major achievement was the introduction into biological science of exact methods of measurement, weighing, pulse counting and temperature determination. The essays by De Quincy deal with 1. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An Elastick Fibre. IV. The Gout. V. The Leprosy. VI. Kings-Evil. VII. Venereal Diseases. Blake p. 401. cfBib. Osleriana 3915. cfGarrison & Morton 573.
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SAVAGE, Henry [1810-1900].
The Surgery, Surgical Pathology And Surgical Anatomy Of The Female Pelvic Organs.
New York: William Wood And Company, 1880..
8vo. pp. 129, [ff. 4] + [6]ads. 32 plates. text illus. original black-stamped cloth (extremities bit rubbed, neat discard stamp on front free-endpaper). Third Edition, Revised And Greatly Extended.
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SCOTT, Joseph.
The Art Of Preventing The Loss Of The Teeth, Familiarly Explained; Also, An Improved System Of Supplying Their Deficiences; And A Description Of The Siliceous Pearl Teeth And Teeth-Renovator.
London: Printed For The Author.Published By Simpkin And Marshall, 1834..
8vo. pp. xxviii, 120, [1 leaf]. Uncut in original bds., rebacked in paper (covers spotted, stain to rear cover). Fourth Enlarged Edition, with testimonials and further descriptions of dental cases. The last leaf advises that "Persons desirous of consulting Mr. Scott may prevent unnecessary delay by making a previous appointment; but he devotes every day (Sundays excepted), from eleven till five o'clock, to applications in succession." cfCrowley 1578.
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SMEE, Alfred [1818-1877].
Elements Of Electro-Biology, Or The Voltaic Mechanism Of Man; Of Electro-Pathology, Especially Of The Nervous System; And Of Electro-Therapeutics.
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1849..
8vo. pp. xii, 164 + [8]ads. with half-title. 2 tables (Electro-Biological Maps). 36 wood-engraved text illus. Untrimmed in original blind-stamped cloth. First Edition of a pioneering work in electrical physiology. In addition to practising as a surgeon, Smee devoted much of his time to the study of electrical science, conducting important research in electro-metallurgy, including the art of electro-typing. The present treatise contains chapters on the relation of electricity to growth, nutrition and circulation, the use of electricity as a therapeutic agent, and an exposition of Smee's method of employing electrical means to detect the presence of needles and other steel instruments impacted in the human body.
$410 USD Book Number: MEEemSME71 Order / Enquire
SPURZHEIM, Johann G[aspar] [1776-1832].
Beobachtungen über den Wahnsinn und die damit verwandten Gemüthskrantheiten.
Hamburg: Perthes & Besser, 1818..
8vo. pp. xlviii, 346, [2]errata, [2]ads, [1 leaf]. 2 illus. & 2 plans on 2 folding plates. Uncut & unopened (wrs. wanting, spine perished, some light foxing). First Edition of the German Translation by Salomo Von Embden. In his Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity, first published in London in 1817, Spurzheim applied phrenology to the understanding and treatment of insanity. The work was particularly influential on the development of early American psychiatry; when it was first published in America (Boston: 1832) it was edited by the well-known alienist Amariah Brigham. cfHunter & Macalpine pp. 715-16.
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STALPART VAN DER WIEL, C[ornelis] [1620-1702].
Observationum Rariorum Medic. Anatomic. Chirurgicarum Centuria Prior... [...Centuriae Posterioris Pars Prior...].
Leyden: Pieter vander Aa, 1687..
2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. 16 p.l., 516, [15]index, [1]errata, 4 p.l., 512, [14]index, [2]index & plate list, 56, [12]. 2 added engraved titles by A.Schoonebeek, 2 engraved frontis. portraits of the author by Abraham de Blois after J.S.Ruisch, and 24 engraved plates (some folding). woodcut title vignettes, headpieces & initials. contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges (vellum soiled, occasional light foxing). First Edition. Included in Stalpart Van Der Wiel's medical observations is a description of idiopathic facial paralysis, now named Bell's palsy after Sir Charles Bell [1774-1842], who was long considered to be the first to describe the condition in the early nineteenth century. Appended in the first volume is a treatise on the unicorn, and in the second, with separate title-page, Pieter Stalpart van der Wiel's De Nutritione Foetus Exercitatio. Waller 9187 & 9189. Wellcome V p. 173.
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STEENSTRUP, Joh[annes] Japetus Sm[ith] [1813-1897].
On The Alteration Of Generations; Or, The Propagation And Development Of Animals Through Alternate Generations: A Peculiar Form Of Fostering The Young In The Lower Classes Of Animals.Translated From The German Version Of C.H.Lorenzen, By George Busk.
London: Printed For The Ray Society, 1845..
8vo. pp. vii, 132 + 24('Report of the Second Annual Meeting of the Ray Society, Held at Cambridge, June 23, 1845'. London: C. & J.Adlard, [1845]). 3 folding lithographed plates. untrimmed in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked. First Edition of the English Translation of Steenstrup's comprehensive treatise on the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis, which was originally published in Danish in 1842. The work contributed to Steenstrup's growing reputation and led to his appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he taught from 1846 to 1885. "Steenstrup is responsible for the theory of the "alternation of generation". He showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors." (Garrison & Morton) Casey Wood 1845. Freeman 3554 (incorrect pagination). cfGarrison & Morton 217. cfNorman 2009.
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STERNBERG, George M[iller] [1838-1915].
Malaria And Malarial Diseases.
New York: William Wood & Company, 1884..
8vo. pp. vii, 329. original black & blind-stamped cloth (slight chipping to head of spine, former owner's book label & institutional rubberstamps on endpapers). Wood broadsheet ad loosely inserted. First Edition. "Brigadier-General George Miller Sterberg was a U.S. army physician who is considered to be the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886)." (Wikipedia) "Sternberg, U.S. Surgeon General 1893-1902, was a pioneer bacteriologist. Indepedently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus independently of Pasteur and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He it was who sent Reed off to make his great discoveries regarding yellow fever." (Garrison & Morton) Three of his works are listed in the fourth edition of Garrison and Morton's Medical Bibliography.
$125 USD Book Number: elala4965 Order / Enquire
STOKES, John H[inchman] [b. 1885].
To-day's World Problem in Disease Prevention. A Non-Technical Discussion Of Syphilis And Gonorrhoea.
Toronto: A.T.Wilgress, 1920..
8vo. pp. 142. original printed wrs. (wrs. worn & discoloured).
$75 USD Book Number: elala2128 Order / Enquire
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