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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 26 pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Purple inkstamp of the Purple Collection on front wrapper. One-inch cosed tear at head of front wrapper, early tidestains and toning throughout, else very good. Uncommon treatise on medical education and certification. Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1838-1908) was a prominent American physician and medical educator, serving from 1863 to 1882 as Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear at the University of the City of New York. In 1869, he helped found the Manhattan Ear, Ear and Throat Hospital. OCLC records seven copies.
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THE COMING MEDICAL MAN; AN ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE BEFORE THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, DECEMBER 8, 1874
by Roosa, D. B. St. John
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CURRENT ADVANCES AND CONCEPTS IN VIROLOGY [WITH 4 PLATES] THESE VERY WEE ANIMALS
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Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960.Pp. 523-532 plus 4 plates containing 11 images (4 color). Original printed wrappers, side-stapled. Light rust marks near staples and light fading at wrappers' fold, else fine. Offprint from THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1959, providing a brief history of the discovery and study of viruses and recent developments in the understanding of what a virus is, how viruses may be classified, genetic study, and virus diseases and recovery from them. The illustrations include schematic representations of virus activity, theoretical diagrams of DNA structures (including the recently-discovered double helix), and several examples of microscopic photography, including a color image of infected HeLa cells (the cell line developed from the cancer cells of Johns Hopkins cancer patient Henrietta Lacks in the early 1950s).
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DE IPECACUANHA DISSERTATIO QUAM VENIA EXP. FAC. MED. UPSAL. PRÆSIDE C. P. THUNBERG. . . PRO GRADU MEDICO CONSCRIPSIT ET PUBLICÆ CENSURÆ OFFERT IMMANUEL BILLBERG. . . PARS PRIOR [and] . . . JOH. OTTO LINDSTRÔMER. . . PARS ALTERA
by Thunberg, Carl Peter; Johan Immanuel Billberg & Johan Otto Lindströmer
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Uppsala: Excudebant Regiae academiae typographi, 1824. Two volumes: 22;[1],[23]-38 pp. In Latin. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Small marginal tear in second leaf, very minor dust soiling in outer leaves, else fine. Medical dissertations submitted by Johan Immanuel Billberg and Johan Otto Lindströmer at Uppsala University on the topic of ipecacuanha. Johan Immanuel (or Emanuel) Billberg (1799-1845) received his PhD in 1821 and medical doctorate in 1827, following an important botanical collecting expedition to Columbia. The essays, on the botany and pharmaceutical uses of the ipecacuanha plant of Latin America, are addressed to Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), Professor of Medicine and Natural Philosophy at Uppsala. An important disciple of Carl Linnaeus, Thunberg was particularly distinguished for his botanical collecting expeditions in South Africa and Japan.
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EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE, AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION
by Beaumont, William
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Plattsburgh [N.Y.]: Printed by F. P. Allen, 1833. 280 pp, including 3 wood-engraved figures in text. Original cloth-backed plain paper over boards, in modern cloth clamshell case. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernovsky in case. Binding worn, joints cracked, leaves wrinkled, mold stains in outer leaves, contents mildly foxed. Good. "To the medical bibliographer there are few more treasured Americana than the brown-backed, poorly printed octavo volume of 280 pages with the imprint "Plattsburgh, Printed by F. P. Allan, 1833'" (Osler 1972). William Beaumont (1785-1853), the "Father of Gastric Physiology," was serving as a U.S. Army surgeon in the Michigan Territory in 1822 when he treated Alexis St. Martin, an 18-year-old French-Canadian guide who had been wounded in his left side by an accidental discharge of a musket loaded with duck shot. The wound healed but left a permanent fistula - a hole through which Beaumont would access St. Martin's stomach to study gastric juice and digestive processes over the…
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LA LUTTE CONTRE LA SYPHILIS EN BELGIQUE : SON ORGANIZATION - SES RÉSULTATS
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[Brussels]: Ligue nationale belge contre le péril vénérien, 1929. Large octavo. 44 pp., containing eight in-text graphs, plus one double-page map. In French. Contemporary blue half morocco and marbled boards, stamped, ruled, and lettered in gilt, original stiff printed wrappers bound in. Spine lightly worn and sunned, light stain in upper margin of p. 23 (touching some text), else fine. An account of the progress of the Belgian National League Against the Veneral Perils fight against syphilis, by its president, Professor Adrien Bayet (1863-1935), delivered on December 8, 1928, and published in 1929. The League had held its first conference in the great hall of Brusellss Palais des Académies on October 8, 1922, with its founding patron, Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium, and various other dignitaries in attendance, to address the spread of syphilis in Belgium in the aftermath of the First World War. Six years later, Bayet delivered the speech printed here to report on the League's overwhelming success.…
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THE MYTH OF THE BIRTH OF THE HERO (A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF MYTHOLOGY) : NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE MONOGRAPH SERIES No. 18
by Rank, Otto
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New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1914. 100 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light pencil marks and underlining. Wrapper rubbed and lightly chipped at extremities; rear wrapper creased. Very good.The first English-language edition of Otto Rank's seminal psychoanalytic reading on heroes in myths across ages and cultures, after the German first edition of 1909.
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THE ORIGIN OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
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[New Haven], 1942. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 9 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Slight edgewear, else fine. Offprint from CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol. V., No. 12 (December, 1941). A narrative of the founding process of the Society from its precursors in Litchfield and New Haven counties to its charter and first meeting in 1792.
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POISONS AND HABIT-FORMING DRUGS : A DIGEST OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE POSSESSION, USE, SALE, AND MANUFACTURE OF POISONS AND HABIT-FORMING DRUGS ENACTED DURING 1912 AND 1913, NOW IN FORCE IN THE UNITED STATES
by Wilbert, Martin I. & Murray Galt Motter
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913. 89 pp. Printed self-wrappers, side-stapled. Soft diagonal crease, light wear in outer leaves, else near fine. Comprehensive survey of recently enacted drug laws, listed by state, territory, and federal bodies, published the year prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act, the first major federal law relating to opiates and cocaine. The authors, Martin Inventius Wilbert (1865-1916) Murray Galt Motter (1866-1926), were two leading figures in U.S. public health during the early 20th century, writing here under the aegis of the Hygenic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service. "Reprint No. 146 from the Public Health Reports / October 10 and 17, 1913 / Supplement to Public Health Bulletin No. 56."
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ROBERT NESBITTS OSTEOGENIE ODER ABHANDLUNG VON ERZEUGUNG DER KNOCHEN IM MENSCHLICHEN KÖRPER IN ZWEEN VORLESUNGEN ERKLÄRT, DIE AUF DEM ANATOMISCHEN THEATER DER WUNDÄRZTE IN LONDON DEN ERSTEN UND ANDERN DES HEUMONATS, IM JAHR 1731. GEHALTEN WORDEN . . .
by Nesbitt, Robert; Johann Ernst Greding (trans.)
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Altenburg: Paul Emanuel Richters, 1753. Quarto. [8],xxviii,[4],104 pp. plus six folding plates. In German. Contemporary three-quarter leather and speckled paper over boards. 19th-century ex-dono inscription in title page and occasional 19th-century marginal notes in German. Spine and nearly all leather perished, joints cracked. 2 x 2 cm. square excision in front free endpaper. Very light occasional foxing, else near fine internally in a fair binding. The German translation of Robert Nesbitt's best known work, HUMAN OSTEOGENY EXPLAINED IN TWO LECTURES, first published in London in 1736. Robert Nesbitt (1697-1761) trained at Leiden University under Bernhardus Albinus the Elder (1653-1721) and Herman Boerhaave, the "Dutch Hippocrates" (1668-1738). An Englishman, Nesbitt returned to London after his studies and commenced his medical career; he was admitted as a fellow to the College of Physicians in 1729. The present work comprises two lectures he delivered at the Anatomical Theatre of the Surgeons of…
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SILENI ALCIBIADIS.* I.E. ARS SANANDI, CUM EXPECTATIONE. OPPOSITA ARS CURANDI NUDA EXPECTATIONE: SATYRA HARVEANA CASTIGATAE. CUPIDUS PRUDENTI USUI: STUPIDIS RUDENTI LUSUI. . .
by Harvey, Gideon; Georg Ernest Stahl
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Paris: Fr. Horth-hemels, 1730. Hardcover. Very good. [10],246 pp. plus frontispiece and two folding tables. In Latin. Early three-quarter vellum and speckled paper over boards, raised bands, manuscript paper title and shelf labels. Early shelf number inscription in front free endpaper, light institutional inkstamp in title page. Lightly rubbed, extremities worn. Very good. George Ernest Stahls influential Latin edition of Gideon Harveys ARS CURANDI MORBOS EXPECTATIONE (first published in English in 1689). Stahl published both ARS CURANDI and his own critical response, ARS SANANDI CUM EXPECTATIONE, with a combined title page under the heading, SILENI ALCIBIADIS. The present example corresponds with Waller 4082: Harveys work alone, issued with the combined title and without a separate ARS CURANDI title leaf. Gideon Harvey (ca. 1640 ca. 1700) served as physician to Charles II and physician of the tower to William and Mary. Despite his connection to the Crown, Harvey was never a member…
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SLEEPING BEAUTY II : GRIEF, BEREAVEMENT AND THE FAMILY IN MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY : AMERICAN & EUROPEAN TRADITIONS
by Burns, Stanley B., with Elizabeth A. Burns
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New York: Burns Archive Press, 2002. Folio. [186] pp., including numerous black-and-white and color photographic illustrations. In English and French. Black cloth, stamped in silver, in matching black dust jacket. Signed by Stanley B. Burns on the title page and inscribed to Johnny Fox and Valeria Duarte on facing page, "Presented To Johnny & Val & The Freakatorium fellow affectionatos of the Macabre Stanley B. Burns at N.A.C. Lecture Nov 21, 2002." Light toning at edges of outer leaves. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly nicked. Near fine in a very good to fine dust jacket. The second book of the Burns Archive's SLEEPING BEAUTY series, documenting the its collection of bereavement photography, from 19th-century daguerreotypes of port-mortem portraits to walls of missing persons fliers in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. This copy was inscribed to Johnny Fox and his wife at the time, Valeria Duarte, in the year of publication. Johnny Fox (1953-2017) was a celebrated American sword swallower,…
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WINKLER'S GROSSES ANATOMISCHES MUSEUM
by Winkler, J[ulius]
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[S.l.]: A. Friedländer, lithographer, [ca. 1880s]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. Advertising card, 11.5 x 8.6 cm., pictorical color lithograph on recto, text on verso. Light wear, staining and light scuffing on verso, evidently from early adhesive. Very good. Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded by images of jarred fetuses, a pair of conjoined twins, a sword swallower with an opened torso, and various surgeries and anatomical preparations. The verso describes a collection of more than 1000 pieces in areas of anatomy, embrology, pathology, surgery, and hygiene, including new exhibitions of "life-size bodies" depicting various epidemics, an "unsolved puzzle" and a "wandering corpse." Printed by Adolph Friedländer (1851-1904), the great Hamburg-based lithographer and publisher of posters of circuses and other entertainments. OCLC locates no copies. Rare.
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