Boston: Timothy Bedlington, 1829. &c. From the Last London Editions, with Notes, by P. Washington Leland. 559pp. 8vo, contemporary calf, leather label; worn, covers detached. Boston: Timothy Bedlington, 1829. One of a number of treatises on various fevers, written by Armstrong, (1784-1829). "The present volume embraces a great variety of diseases; diseases peculiarly interesting and important from their frequent occurrence, fatal tendency..." (Preface by Leland). Armstrong's treatises on fevers, all founded on his own observations, became extremely popular in both..... More

Philadelphia: 1852. 595pp. + advertisements. Tall 8vo, full sheep (a bit rubbed. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1852. Third Edition Revised. Very good (+). "Classic account of typhus and typhoid" (Krumbhaar). "It will be seen by those who have read the first edition of my book, that the present is in some respects rather a new work, than a new edition of the former." "It remains one of the most notable contributions of American physicians to the subject." (Osler). Copy at..... More

8vo, modern 1/2 cloth. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1876. First Edition. Fine copy with the half-title. "Bernard was deeply involved in the problems of animal heat production and its regulation. While he accepted Lavoisier's theory, which attributed the origin of animal heat to a combustion process, Bernard insisted on two fundamental modifications: 1) this vital combustion...had to be a particular organic process, an indirect combustion taking place with the aid of special ferments; 2) organic combustion could not occur..... More

496pp. 8vo, 1/2 old calf; (spine ends rubbed). Paris: Bossange, Masson, et Besson, An 10-1792. Author was the chief surgeon at the Military Hospital in Cayenne, French Guiana. Based on his observations of cases of permanent spasms or convulsions. Earlier edition of Wellcome II, p. 293. More

87 pages (pp. 435-522) FROM: Mem. de la Acad. de Bar. 8vo, modern wrappers; slightly foxed. (Barcelona, ca. 1850). By the chief of military sanitation in Catalonia. More

40 plates, 8vo, cloth; spine ends bumped. London, 1928. More

1792. 7 volumes, bound in 6. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf-backed marbled boards. Ticino & (Florence?), 1792 and 1807. Very good(+). Volumes 1-5 from the Ticino (Switzerland) edition of 1792, with vols. 6 and 7 uniformly bound and supplied from the "Editio Prima Italica" of 1807, probably published in Florence. Neither NUC nor Blake lists the Ticino edition, which seems to have begun publication at the same time as the first (Mannheim) ed. of 1792-1825, and was probably completed earlier. All..... More

Venice: Laurentium Basilium, 1765. 290pp., small 8vo, old half leather, (rubbed), decorative boards, leather spine label. Venetiis, 1765. First Venetian Edition. Very good. Garrison and Morton's 2201. Blake, p. 227. Wellcome, III, 323. More

Vienna: Graefferum, 1783. Device on title page, colophon. 415pp., 8vo,original marbled brown boards; (spine chipped, corners bumped). Vienna: Rud. Graefferum, 1783. Very good (+). Hirsch V, p. 640. More

4 pages (pp. 1706-1709) IN: The British Medical Journal, 1907, vol. 2, Dec. 14, 1907. 4to, modern wrappers. London, 1907. First Edition. Whole week offered entire. Proof that relapsing fever is conveyed by the body louse, Pediculus corporis. GM 5321. 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

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

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