Marihuana and Medicine.
Totowa: Humana Press, 1999. Illustrated, 826pp, 4to, printed glossy blue boards. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1999. A fine copy. More
Totowa: Humana Press, 1999. Illustrated, 826pp, 4to, printed glossy blue boards. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1999. A fine copy. More
Edicion de los "Anales del Instituto Medico." Illustrated with 2pp. of chemical diagrams (bound upside-down). 837pp. Small folio, 1/2 red leather. Mexico, 1902. Considers all types of drugs, natural and man-made, with an emphasis on those of vegetable origin. More
New York: Macmillan, 1980. Introduction by William D. Sharpe. Profusely illustrated in black & white and sepia. 144pp., slim square 4to, brown cloth, sunned d.w. New York: Macmillan, 1980. Foxing at page edges, else a near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Over 400 illustrations portraying American medicine of the past. More
Birmingham: Classics of Medicine, 1983. Illustrated. Tall thick 8vo, full teal leather, ornately gilt spine and covers, all edges gilt. Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Medicine Library, 1983. Gilt edges spotted and some light foxing on a few preliminary pages, still a very good copy. Presentation by the author on the half title. More
Ins Deutsche ubersetzt von...Edgar Mueller. 23 text illus. 58pp. Tall 8vo, flexible boards. Berlin, 1930. First German edition. Essay on the history of pharmaceutics in Transylvania and in the Banat region of Hungary. NUC lists only 2 copies. More
70 pages. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. N.Y., 1919. More
Detroit: Fleming & Davis, 1858. 59pp. Original printed wrappers, ex. lib. Detroit: Fleming & Davis, 1858. Very good. More
1895. 10 pages total (111-115; 373-374; 690-692). EXTRACTED FROM: The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, 1894-1895, volume 54. Whole weeks (August 11, 1894l November 10, 1894; February 16, 1895) offered entire. Slim 8vo, modern decorative wrappers. London, 1895. "Emetine first obtained in pure form". GM 1887. More
Paris: Crochard, 1817. 13pp (172-185) IN: Annales de Chemie et de Physique, Tome IV, 1817. Whole edition, offered entire. Thick 8vo, modern black cloth. Paris: Chez Crochard, 1817. Isolation of emetine. -GM 1843. It was not until a century later that Edward Bright Vedder demonstrated its value in the treatment of amoebiasis. More
London: Philemon Stephens, 1652. A Treatise of the Nature and Qualities of such Simples as are most frequently used in Medicines, Both Purging, and others. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine Tongue. To which is added: Many Compound Medicines for most Diseases incident to Mankinde: As also two Alphabeticall Tables, very necessary for the Reader. Together with, The Explanation of all hard words or Termes of Art, whereby the Vulgar may the better understand..... More
Frankfort: Officina Fleischeriana, 1762. Bound with: Pharmacopoeia Meadiana, Celeberrimi Auctoris Monitis et Praeceptis Medicis Adaptata. Folding frontispiece. 2 vols. in one. 134 + 37pp. 18mo, modern 1/2 tan letter; (tiny dampstain on margins throughout). Francof(urti): In Officina Fleischeriana, 1762. This is evidently the London Pharmacopeia of 1746, the most excellebt produced to that time and in most respects an improvement over previous ones. STC. See Monk, vol III, Appendix for a description. Cf. Osler 6089. Waller 7386. (Blake), p. 349..... More
Paris: 1850. Bound volume containing 17 French monographs on therapeutic agents. Thick 8vo, 1/2 brown cloth, marbled boards. Paris, etc., 1840's-50's. Very good (+). On tartar for croup; tannate of quinine; manganese; conicine in cancer; bismuth; apiol; hydro-ferro-cyanate of potassium; etc. More
48 pages. Slim 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Philadelphia, 1877. More
40 pages. 12mo, old wrappers. Monspelii, 1736. More
Graph. 2 pages (pp. 129-30). EXTRACTED FROM: Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, 1941. 8vo, modern wrappers. N.Y., 1941. First Edition. Introduction of sulfasuxidine. GM 1957. More
Paris: Albin Michel, 1977. 8 volumes. Short thick folios, publisher's brown leather; matching slipcase. (Paris: Albin Michel/Laffont/Tchou, 1977-1980). Three of the slipcases are a bit soiled, but the books themselves are very near fine and clean. Each volume has a bronze portrait medallion on the front cover representing a famous doctor in history. More
Paris: de la Noue, 1608. 3 parts in 1 volume. Copper engraved main title-page and engraved author's portrait, both dated 1608 and engraved by Leonard Gaultier; engraved title-page to the 3rd part by Jaspar Isaac, and numerous woodcut initials, head and tailpieces throughout. 10, [16], 195; 257, [42]; [24], 320, [24] pages. Short thick 4to, early sheep, very worn and soiled but professionally re-cased and hinges strengthened. Some waterstaining mainly in both the very front and back, but not completely..... More
Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1874. By the Commission Appointed to Investigate the Subject. 4 plates, 77 + lxvii page appendix, 8vo, original brown cloth, rebacked. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1874. Good. More
19 tables. 18 pages (pp. 424-441) IN: Journal of the Sanitary Institute, 1903, vol. 24, part 3. Whole Part 3 offered entire. Tall 8vo, original printed wrappers; spine worn an rear cover heavily chipped. London, 1903. The Rideal-Walker method for testing disinfectants. GM 1893. More
Lugduni (Lyons): Huguetan, 1679. 7 leaves, 604pp., 18 page index. Full page copper engraving of the author by Gerard Audran and large engraved printers device on title. Rubricated title. Folio, full original calf, gilt back, rubbed, spine split. Lugduni: Huguetan, 1679. Scarce. Very good. Riviere (1589-1653) was physician to the King of France and professor of medicine at Montpellier. "He was one of the earliest and most prominent advocates of the doctrines of Harvey in France." De Lint. For the..... More
Paris: Rougier, 1887. Text tables. 27pp., 12mo, original green printed wrappers. Paris, 1887. Very good (+). Author's signed presentation copy. Essay on therapeutic effects of antipyrine. More
13 pages (pp. 261-273) IN: the American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 156, No. 2. Tall 8vo, original printed wrappers; a bit worn and soiled. Baltimore, 1949. Discovery of Bradykinin. GM 1929.2. More
Basel: Benno Schwabe, 1948. Illustrated. 476pp., with bibliographies, tall 8vo, white cloth (dust soiled); ex-lib. Basel: Benno Schwabe, (ca. 1948). Very good. 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
Tables. 3 pages (pp. 66-69) IN: Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and medicine, Vol. 55, 1944. 4to, blue cloth (ex-library). N.Y., 1944. First Edition. Offered entire. Introduction of streptomycin. With E. Bugie and S.a. Waksman. GM 1935. More
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