Walter Reed. A Memoir.
Washington: Walter Reed Memorial Association. 11 pages. Slim 8vo pamphlet, original printed wrappers. Washington: Walter Reed Memorial Association, 1904. Very good. More
Washington: Walter Reed Memorial Association. 11 pages. Slim 8vo pamphlet, original printed wrappers. Washington: Walter Reed Memorial Association, 1904. Very good. More
14 pages (pp. 301-315.) 8vo, original printed wrappers; soiled. Philadelphia: Wm. Kildare, 1884. First Separate Edition. Reprinted from the Proceedings of tghe Philadelphia County Medical Society. Author was the physician in charge of the medical dispensary of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a pathologist. Unsigned presentation copy. More
Paris: Audot, 1820. Illustrated at rear with 5 extraordinary color lithographs by C. de Lasteyrie, showing a man in progressive stages of yellow fever. Extra folding lithograph plate "A la Memoire d'Andre Mazet" is bound-in as a frontispiece.vi + vi, 144 pages. Short thin folio, blue morocco-backed marbled boards (edges are a bit of edgeworn; some foxing to text but plates are clean); marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Paris: Audot, 1820. First edition. Very good(+). A small paper bearing the inscription "A..... More
9 pages (1249-1251 & 645-650) IN: The British Medical Journal, May 25th & Sept 17th, 1904. 2 weekly volumes. Small 4tos, modern wrappers. London, 1904. First Edition. Whole weeks offered entire. Rogers demonstrated the Leishman-Donovan bodies in kala-azar. At about the same time Bentley reported similar findings in India. GM 5299. More
2 pages (pp. 1453-1454) IN: British Medical Journal, 1904, vol. 2, Nov. 26. 4to, modern wrappers. London, 1904. First Edition. Whole week offered entire. Ross and Milne discovered the causative agent in the African variety of relapsing (tick) fever. GM 5317. More
Arrow Rock: Privately Printed, 1844. Revised & corrected by Ferdinando Stith. 216pp. Short 8vo, original calf (quite worn but holding; most of leather of spine lacking, dampstain in lower gutter; several pages dog-eared). Arrow Rock [Missouri]: Published by the author, 1844. A poor but usable copy. First edition of the first medical book printed in English west of the Mississippi River. An early exponent of the value of quinine for the treatment of malaria, and finding the drug unavailable in..... More
New York: Peabody, 1831. 307pp, 12mo, brown contemporary cloth, leather spine label; light foxing. New York: Peabody & Co, 1831. Very good. More
Birmingham: Classics, 1981. Ed. by Shervin B. Nuland and Ferenc A. Gyorgyey. illus. 893pp. 8vo, full leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Classics of Medicine, 1981. Gilt at top edge is a bit spotty, else fine. "One of the epoch-making books in medical literature." More
Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, 1769. 417 pages. Contemporary mottled calf, back gilt; rubbed, rubricated edges. Genevae: Fratres de Tournes, 1769. 2nd edition, enlarged and corrected. Very good. More
Translated with Notes by Charles Caldwell. Recommendatory Preface by Benjamin Rush. 299pp. 8vo, 1/2 calf; hinges mended. Philadelphia, Kimber, Conrad, 1805. First Edn. in English, translation of Senac's valuable treatise on the nature and treatment of intermitting and remitting fevers. Dr. Senac (1693-1770), an eminent French physician, wrote numerous books and papers on various parts of the anatomy, physiology, and medicine. His works, according to Dr, Ferguson, "were distinguished alike by erudition and by great literary skill and taste." He..... More
New York: 1853. 22 pages. Slim 8vo, printed wrappers; lightly worn, ex. lib. New York, 1853. Reprinted from the New-York Journal of Medicine. More
(With Eskay's Albumenized Food). Some color illustration. 14 pages, slim 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Phila., (circa. 1888) Manufactured by Smith, Kline, and French Co., Phila. More
Boston: Massachusetts Medical Society, 1831. Together With: Tweedie, Alexander. Clinical Illustrations of Fever. Two works in one volume, and printed as Vol. I of the Library of Practical Medicine. Published by Order of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 412pp., untrimmed, scattered foxing, original boards, loose and worn. Boston: Massachusetts Medical Society, 1831. Very good (-). Each book was published separately in England in 1830, both authors being physicians to the London Fever Hospital. More
The first paper listed below (GM 2335) is "the first clear differentiation between the bovine and human types of tubercle bacillus." In the DAB, Phalen writes "Smith ranks in medical history as one of the foremost medical scientists that the United States has produced. His place in American medicine is comparable to that of Pasteur in France and Koch in Germany." Smith (1859-1934) was noted especially for his work on Texas fever, immunization by dead vaccines, differentiation of tubercle bacilli..... More
London: Sydenham Society, 1852. xvi + 406pp, 8vo, rebound in gilt-decorated blue leather; rubbed and lightly worn. London: Sydenham Society, 1852. A very good copy. More
Frankfort: Fleischeriana, 1756. Mutinensibus Medicis Perperam Objecto a Clarissimo Quondam Viro Bernardino Ramazzino. 200pp., square 8vo, old red boards (well worn), uncut edges. Ex-library with some stains in top margin. Francofurti et Lipsiae: Fleischeriana, 1756. Very good. Scarce. OCLC lists only 2 copies. More
46 pages. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers, ex-lib. Boston, 1858. Repr. from the Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. Introductory essay by Benjamin Spector. 110pp., slim 8vo, original printed wrappers; (spine chipped). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1947. Very good. Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine No. 9.original printed wrappers. More
Boston: Bradford & Read, 1815. 5 plates, 216pp. 8vo, original boards, neatly re-backed in blue cloth, ex-lib. Boston: Bradford & Read, 1815. First Edition. Presentation copy. In 3 parts Part 1- A Compendious View of the Climate and Diseases of These States, 1620-1806; Part 2- An Inquiry Into the Prevailing Epidemic; Part 3- Catarrhus: or, Slight Inflammation from Cold, Attended with but Little or no Fever. Austin 2074. More
Washington: Smithsonian, 1880. 5 plates. 258 pages. Folio, handsomely rebound in marbled boards with the original wrappers inside; chipped. (Washington, 1880). A very good(+) copy. Report on experiments made in 1876 and 1877 to determine the nature and cause of fever. Wood undertook the researches represented here as a result of his pioneering studies of sunstroke. Wood held chairs of botany, therapeutics and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and is best known for his study, A Treatise on Therapeutics..... More
A Practical Contribution to Military Medicine. 364pp. 8vo, original cloth; (ex- lib, spine ends repaired, last two blank pages lightly soiled, top edge of last blank page crudely repaired with tape, scattered light foxing to some margins). Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1863. Author was a surgeon from Philadelphia. In June, 1861, he enlisted and served as a surgeon with the Army of the Potomac until May, 1862. "...when he was assigned to the office of the surgeon general in Washington. Here, in..... More
Graphs. 8 pages (pp. 349-356) IN: Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 126, no. 6. Tall 4to, sewn, modern wrappers. Chicago, 1944. First Edition. Whole number offered entire. With J.C. Snyder, E.S. Murray, C.J.D. Zarafonetis, and R.S.Ecke. Gm 5400. More
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