Category: Medicine

Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome.

By: Arnold, Ken and Daniel Olsen; Editors.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London: The British Museum Press, (2003). First Edition.

Seller ID: vita5377

Octavo, softbound, 397 pp, [19] pp. Color plates, color photos, black & white photos. Fine.
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Tycos Blood Pressure Manual.

By: Aylor Instrument Companies.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY: Taylor Instrument Companies, 1931.

Seller ID: mfs17

Narrow 12mo, paperbound (stiff brown textured wrappers, stapled), 40 pp. Illustrated. Fine (As New). Contents: Physiology; Methods of Determining Blood Pressure; Blood Pressure Normals; Interpretation of Blood Pressure; Functional Tests for Cardia Efficiency; Hypertension and Its Treatment; Hypotension and Its Treatment; Blood Pressure in Disease; Blood Pressure in Surgery; Types of Sphygmomanometers.
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Croix Gammee Contre Caducee: Les Experiences Humaines en Allemagne Pendant la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale.

By: Bayle, Francois.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Neustadt: By the Author, (195). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4241bd

Royal octavo, xxiii + 1521 pp. Photos., facsimiles. Good, with edgewear that includes bumped corners and fraying along spine. Photographs provided upon request. International orders will require additional postage.
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Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1833, Together with a Biographical Essay, ÒA Pioneer American Physiologist,Ó by Sir William Osler.

By: Beaumont, William.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bodston: Reprinted on the Occasion of the XIIIth International Physiological Congress, 1929.

Seller ID: 61143bd

Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), paper label, xl, [vi], 5-280 pp. Frontis. portrait. Fine.
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Lecons sur les Proprietes Physiologiques et les Alterations Pathologiques des Liquides de l'Organisme. Volume I [of 2].

By: Bernard, M. Claude.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1859.

Seller ID: 50512bd

Volume I of two. Octavo, quarter calf & marbled boards (hardcover, leather). Engraved plates. Good; lacks spine labels, front joint very tender. ÒThre greatest physiologist of modern France.Ó -- Garrison, Morton-Garrison 1234.1. ÒThis work covers the physiology and pathology of blood and other body fluids.Ó -- Heirs of Hippocrates, 1796. ÒBernard's series of lectures on the liquids of the organism contains his first usage of the expression Ômilieu' to express a controlled and constant internal environment (i.e., the blood) mediating between the life of the organism and its external envi...
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Champions of Quality in Health Care: A History of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

By: Brauer, Carl M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lyme, Connecticut: Greenwich Publishing Group, Inc., (2001).

Seller ID: qms72

Large, square octavo, hardcover (blue cloth), gilt letters, full-color illus. paper label, 144 pp. Fine (As New).
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The First Century of the Kansas Medical Society. The Journal of the Kansas Medical Society. Volume LX, No. 5 (May 4, 1959).

By: Clark, Orville R., ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Medical Society, 1959.

Seller ID: 28577

This copy is the editor's copy, hardbound, and bearing the title and his name stamped on the front cover. The copy has also been signed by 7 of the contributors: Pauline Farrell, David E. Gray, Richard Greer, John A. Segerson, Dwight Lawson, Orville R. Clark and Perce Harvey, Jr. 4to, original stiff wrappers bound in fabricoid, 178 pp. Photos, illus. Clipping annoucing the book's publication pasted to front endpaper; otherwise Near-Fine.
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The Science and Art of Prescribing.

By: Colbeck, E. H. and Arnold Chaplin.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Henry Kimpton, 1902. First Edition.

Seller ID: 50519bd

Duodecimo, flexible calf (hardcover, leather), all edges gilt, vi, 185 pp. Near-Fine.
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The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery. Being an Elementary Work for Students, and a Concise Book of Reference for Practiioners. In Two Parts. Part I: General Surgical Subjects. Part II: Particular Surgical Subjects.

By: Cooper, Samuel.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston: Timothy Bedington, 1828. Third American edition, from the thrid London edition, Revised and Corrected.

Seller ID: 8953gcs

Octavo, full calf, calf label, xvi, 17-447 pp. Frontis, and 8 additional plates. Good; front joint has been nicely repaired, some foxing.
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A Synopsis of Lectures on Medical Science; Embracing The Principles of Medicine, or Physiology, Pathology, and Therapeutics, as discovered in Nature; and the Practice according to those Principles, as applied by Art.

By: Curtis, Alva.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York: Andrew J. Graham, (1846). Sixth Edition, carefully revised and much enlarged. Presentation copy, inscribed.

Seller ID: 61148bd

Signed & incribed by the author: ÒRev. James Alva Spiers, Librarian / of Randolph Macon College / Ashland, Virginia / From his Friend / The Author.Ó Octavo, original cloth (hardcover), marbled edges, vi, [7] - 431 pp, [i] pp. 3.5 x 2.5 albumen frontis. portrait of the author. Materia Medica, pp. 368 - 411 illustrated with woodcuts. Good; some shelfwear, in a mylar protector.
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A Compendious System of Midwifery, Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the Inquiries of Those Who Be Pursuing this Branch of Study.

By: Dewees, William P.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. Fifth Edition, with Additions and Improvements.

Seller ID: 61149bd

Octavo, original calf (hardcover, leather), calf label, xvi, [17]-[635] pp. Plates. Fair; spine has been detached and then re-glued, some foxing; otherwise clean and tight in mylar protector.
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Regain and Retain Health.

By: di Ghilini, U. L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: International Health Association, 1931.

Seller ID: 2857qs

Octavo, paperbound, 168 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear to wrappers.
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Treatise on Albuminuria. Second Edition.

By: Dickinson, W. Howship.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: William Wood & Co., 1881.

Seller ID: vita5422

Quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), with black decorations and lettering, xii, 300 pp. Color plates, wood engravings. Very Good.
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Mesmerism in India, and Its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine.

By: Esdaile, James.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Hatford: Silas Andrus & Son, 1847. First American Edition.

Seller ID: 50523bd

Octavo, blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), [i]-xxvi, [27]-259 pp. Good; some shelf wear, some foxing. ÒEsdaile, a surgeon to the government of India in 1847, described the use of Mesmeric anesthesia for arm amputation, cataract operations, removal of toenails, and removal of tumors over 80 pounds. No deaths occurred.Ó -- Sim, The Heritage of Anesthesia, p. 341. [Morton-Garrison 5650.3, referring to the English edition].
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Compendium of Percussion & Auscultation, and of the Physical Diagnosis of Diseases affecting the Lungs and Heart.

By: Flint, Austin.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: William Wood, 1872. Fourth edition.

Seller ID: 4197bd

Duodecimo, original cloth, rebacked in cloth (hardcover), 36 pp. Very Good; light shelf wear.
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The Principles of Natural Living and Natural Healing. Forewords by Eugene Underhill, M.D. and Royal Le., D.D.S.

By: Gesser, Dr. Charles H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Tampa: Gesser PUblications, (1966). Second Edition.

Seller ID: vita5424

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), xv, 216 pp. Good; some cover speckling, otherwise clean and tight in dust jacket.
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Permanent Good Health: The Control of Our Common Foundation of Disease.

By: Gluck, Charles M. D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: The Permanent Good Health Publishing Company, 1936. Third, Revised and Enlarged Edition.

Seller ID: 50404bd

Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), 335 pp. Good, with light edgewear, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping and soiling.
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The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey. De Montu Cordis 1628: De Circulations Sanguinis 1649: The first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Montu Cordis.

By: Harvey, William.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London: The Nonesuch Press, (1928). Of an edition of 1450 copies printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, on Dutch paper, this is No. 267.

Seller ID: 8952gcs

Octavo, tan niger, [i]-xvi, 202, [1] pp. Fold-out plate. Near-Fine; spine slilghtly darkened, gift inscription dated 1943, and the bookplate of Benjamin Salzer.
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Lectures on Diseases of Children: A Handbook for Physicians and Students.

By: Henoch, Edward.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York: William Wood, 1882. First Edition in English. Garrison-Morton 6339.

Seller ID: 61152bd

Octavo, original blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), viii, 357 pp. Good; some fraying at head and foot of spine, interior clean and tight.
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Preventing Future Shock: Health Developments n the 1960s and Imperatives for the 1970s. The Eleventh Bronfman Lecture.

By: Hilleboe, Herman E., M.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: American Public Health Association, (1972).

Seller ID: 19741gcs

Signed & inscribed by the Author. Royal octavo, red cloth (hardcover), white letters, [52] pp. Fine. Contents include: Health Problems and Their World-wide Aspects; Social Policy and Health in the U. S.; Crises and Reforms in Health Services in the U. S.; Comments by The Eleventh Lecturer; The Problems of The Department of Health, Education and Welfare; The HEW White Paper of May 1971; Health Policies and Planning for the U. S.; Changes in State and Local Health Departments; The Role of the Consumer and Need for Communication; Concluding Remarks; The Bronfman Prizes for Public Health Achi...
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Category: Medicine