Search Results: Medicine from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Bologna: Arnaldo Forni Editore. Fine. 1963. Hardcover. Brown cloth lettered in black. Ownership label of Bernard M. Rosenthal on bottom corner of front pastedown. Text in Italian. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 107 pages; Putti was an Italian orthopaedic surgeon, a promoter of modern orthopaedics, an artist, and a scholar of orthopaedic history. Born, raised and educated in Bologna, Italy he devoted his life to Bologna's world renowned Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute. .

New York: Works Press. Fine. 1981. Softcover. 0940154005 . Pictorial white wrappers; photographs, reproductions of medical charts, pages from notebooks of the patient, drawings, etc. ; 9.9 X 6.7 X 0.4 inches; 160 pages; Photographs and the paper records including her journal notes, chronicle the journey of Elley, a fellow artist diagnosed with Myeloid Leukemia from hospital admitting through chemotherapy to her death certificate, and discharge papers. .

Philidelphia: Henry C. Lea. Near Fine. 1874. Hardcover. 296 pp., plus 32p. publisher's catalog in back; bound in later full brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. One inch strip of tanning down left side of title page. Ownership circular blindstamp of the late Lars Vistnes, M. D., who also executed the binding. General subject areas include: Practical Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery; .

Los Angeles: The Philiosophical Research Society. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1944. Second Edition. Hardcover. 1.25" slender, vertical area of slight bubbling to cloth front cover lower edge near spine. Dust jacket with chips and wear at edges, some loss at spine ends, a bit of spotting to spine. In protective mylar wrap. ; Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 341 pages .

San Pablito, Mexico. Fine. 1978. Softcover. Unique copy. Accordion-folded amate paper, hand lettered and illustrated with 30 amate-paper cut-out figures. Page 8 "Ceremonia" is blank below text, and with no caption under where a cut-out would be; written on rectos only with each page numbered; original yellow ribbons attached across covers. ; Manuscripts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 28 pages; "A manuscript testimonial of Otomi´ paper-based magical practices used in folk medicine. The text describes shamanic rituals for various maladies (enfermedades) with mounted cut-out paper figures representing spirit entities drawn from both indigenous and Christian mythos". (WorldCat) .

Philidelphia: Hasell Barrington and Haswell. Good. 1839. Hardcover. 276 pp.; 8vo; contemporary full-calf. Front joint split, but cords holding; rubbing to edges; leather spine label missing; foxing to title, and contents pages, with ocassional foxing to text pages, more significant with tanning on last few pages; ownership name in pen upper leading corner title page, with a number '51' in red; leading top corner tip clipped two front free endpapers. François Magendie (6 October 1783 7 October 1855) was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a Magendie sign, a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum. .