Chicago: American Medical Association, 1915. Tall 8vo, burgundy buckram, g.t. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1915. Very good (+). Papers by Gorgas (Yellow Fever), Flexner (Epidemic Poliomyelitis), Vaughan (Infection & Immunity), Pusey (Syphilis as a Modern Problem), and others. More about Commemoration Volume
One engraved plate at end. 33 pages. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers. Paris: Guillaume, n.d. (circa 1820's). An enlightened treatise on the proper ventilation of hospitals. The writer had some advanced ideas regarding air-born germs certain to be present in the stagnant air of closed clinics, etc. More about Instruction sur les moyens d'entretenir la salubrite, et de purifier l'air des salles dans les...
120pp., 8vo, orig. pr. boards; ex.-lib. Zurich, Leipzig, Berlin, 1926. . A scholarly treatise on medieval hygiene. Waller. More about Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalterlichen Basel
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Illus. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2006). Very good. More about The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
New York: Free Press, 1989. vi + 282pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: The Free Press, (1989). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. More about Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health
Illus. 416pp. 8vo, cloth; ex-lib. N.Y., 1949. More about Atomic Medicine
Brooklyn: 1870. 33pp.,original green printed wrappers (chipped). Brooklyn, 1870. Very good. Oration, 47th Anniversary of Kings County Medical Society. More about Medical Progress
Philadelphia: 1832. 8vo, cloth-backed boards; foxing, ex-lib, slight tears to t.p., not affecting text. Philadelphia, 1832. First Edition. A comprehensive treatment, and, according to Kelly and Burrage, among Bell's finest works. This book was believed to have contained "a fuller and more impartial digest of the medical practice of cholera ... from the first appearance of the diseases in Bengal in 1817, down to the present time, than any one work hitherto published." (Preface). Bell (1796-1872) and Condie (1796-1875) were... More about All the Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera: being a report of the College of...
New York: Edmund Jones, 1859. 8vo, original brown blind stamped cloth; top of spine chipped. New York: Edmund Jones, 1859. First Edition. Very good (+). First Edition by the Philadelphia surgeon and lecturer, the first in this country to write comprehensively on hydrology as well as on subjects of personal and public health. This work includes a resume of public hygiene from the time of the Egyptians. More about Report on the Importance & Economy of Sanitary Measures to Cities
Portraits, 33pp., tall 8vo. (Kingsport), Privately Printed, 1936. More about Illustrious Contributors to Public Health
Paris: Leon Willem, 1873. Frontispiece. 12mo, 145 pages original tan wrappers, scattered foxing. Paris: Leon Willem, 1873. Near fine. One of 350 numbered copies. Collection de Documents rare ou inedits Relatifs a l'Histoire de Paris. More about Les Ordonnances faites et publiees a son de trompe par les carrefours de ceste ville de Paris...
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 about Memoria sobre las Causas de Insalubridad del Castillo de San Fernando de Figueras
New York: Putnam, 1917. Frontispiece. 36pp. New York: Putman, 1917. First Edition. Fine. More about Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1924. 67 text illustrations. 185pp. 8vo, blue cloth. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1924. Very good. More about Lighting in Relation to Public Health
With an Appendix. 56 pages. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers. NY, 1865. Metropolitan Health Bill. More about Remarks of D. B. Eaton, Esq...; at a Joint Meeting of the Committees of the Senate and Assembly,...
25 pages. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers. Boston: John & Thomas Fleet, 1797. Very good. Austin 777. More about A Discourse Relative to the Subject of Animation Delivered Before the Humane Society
New York: Health Education Council, 1953. Slim 8vo, green cloth. New York: Health Education Council, 1953. Very good. Collection of essays on holistic health, health education, industrial health and health in the army. More about The Epidemiology of Health
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 about Lord Lister
Chicago: 1909. 3 pages (pp. 1075-1077) In: Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 52, no. 14. Tall 4to, sewn, modern wrappers. Chicago, 1909. First Edition. Whole number offered entire. In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. His methods of santitation were so successful that in 3 months yellow fever was practically eradicated from Havana. Gorgas outlined the main principles of his method in this paper. GM 5460. More about Sanitation of the Tropics with Special Reference to Malaria and Yellow Fever
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913. 24 plates and figures, text illustrations & folding table. 292 pages, green cloth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913. Very good. With a 17p. bibliography. More about Flies in Relation to Disease: Non-Bloodsucking Flies
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914. Numerous plates and figures, text illustrations & folding table. 389 pages, green cloth, ex-lib. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1914. Very good (+). With a 25p. bibliography. More about Flies in Relation to Disease: Non-Bloodsucking Flies
Illus. Boston (1919). More about A Labrador Doctor: Autobiography
Zagreb: 1966. Edited by M.D. Grmek, Translated by M. Halar. Revised by L. F. Waring. Illustrated. Tall 8vo, 258pp. 8vo, beige cloth; soiled on the corner. Zagreb, 1966. Scarce. Very good. Stampar was Chairman of the First World Health Assembly and President of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. More about Serving the Cause of Public Health: Selected Papers of Andrija Stampar
New York: Hurtin and M'Farlane, 1799. Containing: I. A Narrative of its Rise, Progress and Decline, with the Opinions of some Medical Gentlemen, with respect to its Origin, &c. II. The Manner in which the Poor were relieved during this awful Calamity. III. A List of the Donations, which have been presented to the Committee for the Relief of the Sick and Indigent. IV. A List of the Names of the Dead, arranged in alphabetical Order, with their Professions or... More about An Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in the City of New York
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