The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Illus. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2006). Very good. More
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Traite Complet Des Maladies des Femmes et de L'Hygiene de Leur Sexe, Avec un Grand Nombre de Dessins
Paris: Bechet, 1843. Three volumes. 1362pp. (continuous pagination), 8vo, half leather over marbled boards; lightly edgeworn, heavily foxed. Paris: Ancienne Maison Bechet, 1843. A heavily foxed, but sound, tight very good set. More
The Life of Florence Nightingale
London: Macmillan, 1913. 2 volumes. Each volume has a frontispiece portrait and three illustrations. xxxi + 507 pages and xiv + 509 pages (some foxing on preliminary and ending pages, text block clean), large 8vos, blue cloth, spines a bit faded. London: Macmillan, 1913. First edition. A very good copy. Volume I, 1820-1861. Volume II, 1862-1910. Multiple previous owner's, bookplate, label, and inscription on front endpapers. More
The Life of Florence Nightingale
London: Macmillan, 1913. 2 volumes. Each volume has a frontispiece portrait and three illustrations. xxxi + 507 pages and xiv + 509 pages, large 8vos, blue cloth, spines and board edges faded. London: Macmillan, 1913. First edition. A very good(-) solid copy. Volume I, 1820-1861. Volume II, 1862-1910. More
Hygiene und Soziale Hygiene in Hamburg.; Zur Neunzigsten Versammlung der Deutchen Naturforscher und Artze in Hamburg im Jahre 1928.
Many illustrations, charts & plans. Small folio, cloth (spine a bit sunned and joints somewhat worn). Hamburg: Paul Hartung, 1928. A very good(-) copy, internally clean. More
Lord Lister
New York: Gryphon Editions, 1993. Frontis., Illustrated. xvi + 686pp., 8vo, gilt-decorated 1/2 leather. New York: Privately Printed for The Heirs of Hippoccrates Library, Gryphon Editions, 1993. A fine copy. Facsimile of the Revised, 1924 Third edition. More
Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlangern.
Neue vermehrte Auflage. 2 vols. in 1. Small 8vo, cont. marbled boards, corners rubbed; lacks front free endpaper. Jena, 1802. Hufeland's Makrobiotik was one of the most popular books of its time on personal hygiene. It was translated into all European languages and saw many editions of which this one followed 5 years after the first publication in 1797 (GM 1602). A friend and physician of Goethe, Schiller, and Herder, Hufeland was also one of the great pioneers of medical..... More
The Temperate Man; or, the Right Way of Preserving Life and Health... In Three Treatises: The First by the Learned Leonardus Lessius; the Second by Lodowick Cornarao, a Noble Gentleman of Venice; the Third by a Famous Italian.
London: John Starkey, 1678. [34], 168 pages, Narrow 16mo, calf spine and marbled endpapers but lacking both covers. London: For John Starkey, 1678. First edition. Scarce. Lessius, a Jesuit of Louvain, died in 1623 at 69; his "Hygiasticon" is translated by Timothy Smith, apothecary. Carrison calls Carnaro's Work, here translated by George Herbert, "the best treatise on peersonal hygiene and the simple life in existence." Garrison-Morton 1557. The third is a "Paradox: That a Spare Diet is better than a...... More
Morisoniana; or, Family Adviser of the British College of Health, being a collection of the Works of Mr. Morison, the Hygeist ... forming a Complete Manual for Individuals and Families ... with an Appendix, Containing a Short Treatise on the Origin and Eradicability of the Small Pox. ... Fourth Edition, with Considerable Additional Articles.
3 engraved plates. 629pp. + index. 8vo, cont. sheep; t.p. worn. London, 1833. Volume I only. First volume of a two volume work by the soi-disant "Hygeist", including several articles, having continuous pagination, but preceded by individual t.p.s dated from 1825-1830. Morison's Hygeian System consisted of the Universal Vegetable Medicine, as well as warm baths and vapor baths. The "British College of Health" was an institution of his invention. Morison's Pills were frequently ridiculed by Carlyle and others. - D.N.B...... More
L'Art de Prolonger la Vie et de Conserver la Sante; ou Traite d'Hygiene
Lyon: J.S. Grabit, 1786. Nice contemporary mottled calf (a bit rubbed overall, corners soft), with gilt-decorated spine, marbled edges. Lyon: J.S. Grabit, 1786. Very good. Uncommon. First Edition with the half-title and privilege. By a Lyon surgeon. More
Essai sur les Maladies des Artisans
Paris: Moutard, 1777. Translated from the Latin and with notes by Fourcroy. lxxvi + 573pp., 12mo, half leather with gilt-decorated spine over marbled boards. Paris: Chez Moutard, 1777. First French edition. A very good (+) copy. First French edition of De morbis artificum diatriba (1700). The Padua professor of medicine "was the first to deal with occupational disease; his book was the first systematic treatise on the subject". GM 2121. Brunet 1093. Hirsch 716. Blake 370. More
Landmarks in the History of Hygiene.
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Illustrated. 78pp. 8vo, green cloth, ex- lib. London: Oxford University Press, 1956. First Edition. Very good (+). More
On the History of Medicine
New York: MD Publications, 1960. 313 pages. 8vo, brown cloth. New York: MD Publications, (1960). A good only copy with uniform dampstaining to lower board and page corners throughout, spine slightly sunned, ex-libris plate on pastedown. More
Sanitary Science as a Practical Profession.; Applications to Secure Pure Air, Pure Water, Pure Food, Sound Health.
15 pages. Slim 8vo, original printed wrappers. Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, & Co., 1876. More
Via Recta ad Vitam Longam. Or, a Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applied to every age and constitution of body.; Much more enlarged than the former impressions... (with) A Treatise of the Famous Baths of Bathe, (and) An Accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco. All which are likewise amplified since the former impressions.
London: James Flesher, 1650. [12], 417 pages. Square 8vo, handsomely rebound in full brown morocco with simple blind-stamped panels and gilt lettering on spine with raised bands (scattered foxing, mostly quite clean). London: Printed by James Flesher for Henry Hood, 1650. Third edition, much enlarged. Near fine. One of the most popular books on regimen of the period, with much information on diet and nutrition. Venner (1577-1660) advocated moderation in smoking, but tears down some of the contemporary superstitions on..... More
Via Recta ad Vitam Longam. Or, a Plain Philosophicall Demonstration of the Nature, Faculties, and Effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health...; as also of the true use and effects of sleep, exercise, excretions and perturbations... (WITH) A Treatise of the Famous Baths of Bathe (AND) An Accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco.
London: R. Bishop, 1638. [14], 364 pages. Short square 8vo, rebound in plain brown cloth with red leather spine label (title page cropped close at top edge, otherwise a near fine copy with minimal light scattered foxing). London: Printed by R. Bishop for Henry Hood, 1638. Second edition. Near fine, clean copy. One of the most popular books on regimen of the period, with much information on diet and nutrition. Venner (1577-1660) did much to popularize the therapeutic waters of..... More
Via Recta ad Vitam Longam: Or, a plaine Philosophicall demonstration of the Nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health...; also of the true use and effects of sleepe, exercise, excretions and perturbations...
London: Felix Kyngston, 1628. (12), 226 pages + 24 page annex of a Treatise of Famous Baths of Bathe (by the same author). Short square 8vo, beautifully rebound in full brown morocco; gilt-decorated borders and spine with red leather labels and raised bands (title repaired at edges; some contemporary ink underlining throughout; some pages are quite toned and with scattered foxing). London: Felix Kyngston for Richard Moore, 1628. Third edition, the first with the 24 page annex. A very good(-)..... More
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