Medical

Somerset, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 2000. First Printing. Hard Cover. 653 pages: 7.25 x 10.25 in.: 3.6: KB#003842: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Written with the graduate student and practicing clinician in mend, this book covers today's most important issues in neuropsychological assessment, including: Stategies for interviewing and interpretive guidelines to the most frequently used assessment instruments * Instructions for using test results to develop treatment and case plans * WISC-III, WAIS-III, WMS III, Halstead-Reitan, Luria Nebraska, and additional tests organized according to various functional domains. " .

T. and J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College, New York, 1800. Second Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book . Bound volume with complete year's issues of early American medical journal. Quarter bound leather over marbled boards, worn at corners. Front hinge worn with 1 1/4" crack at top and 1/2" chip at top of spine. Title in gold on red leather panel on spine; listed as "First Hexade\2" in gold on black leather panel. Articles include research reports from Joseph Priestley. News in each issue includes obituaries of doctors. Text block tight with light foxing; light water stain at top of pp. 1-7. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: MEDICAL; History; Antiquarian & Rare. . Main Picture: Mitchill, The Medical Repository (Vol. II, 1800) - Title page. Picture 2: Mitchill, The Medical Repository (Vol. II, 1800) - Front cover and spine. Picture 3: Mitchill, The Medical Repository (Vol. II, 1800)… Read More

Indianapolis: Carlon & Hollenbeck. Very Good. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in clean maroon buckram cloth. Bright gilt title on spine. Text tight and intact. Illustrated with b/w photo-engraved portraits. A few pages between #87-107 are chipped at top corner. Pages 508-509 have margin notes & a tiny hole. Text is otherwise clean & without foxing. Medical ; Portrait Illustrations; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 729 pages .

Bermingham & Co., New York, 1883; First Edition; octavo, 392 pages; illustrated; green cloth; embossed boards; gilt titles and decorations. Fine. Previous owner name in light pencil on f.f.e.p. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, gilding brilliant. Illustrated with 100 in-text engravings.

Paris: Librairie Germer Baillière, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. "Deuxième Èdition, Revue et Augmentée." xi, [1], 606, [2] p., 3 folded leaves of color plates: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Dark green morocco spine with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled author and title in second and fourth compartments; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. "G.R." (former owner's initials?) at tail of spine. Marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Green ribbon bookmark. Garrison-Morton, 2382. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed, primarily at corners; back hinge weak; clean and solid.

Erlangen: Hilpert, 1815. Paperback. Very Good. 26 p.; 24 cm. As printed, the title page left the specific date of the lecture blank; in pencil it was changed to "Die 3. Januar MDCCCXVI," indicating that, rather than being delivered in Dec. 1815, it was delivered on Jan. 3, 1816. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). The author, Johann Christian Friedrich Harless (1773-1853), was a German physician who served as a director of a clinical institute in Erlangen beginning in 1805 and in 1818 went to Bonn as a professor of pathology. Based on the natural philosophy of Schelling, he developed a theory of electropathology. In Very Good Condition: lacking stitching; title page slightly darkened along fore-edge; title page and p. 26 lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright. Scarce.

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837. Hardcover. Fine. 154 p.; 23 cm. Modern binding: beige paper over spine and grey paper over boards with printed paper label on spine "Lectures on Clinical Medicine." First American Edition. Disbound from a volume stamped "Withdrawn from A.P.S." on a preliminary blank page and bearing an inscription indicating that it had been given to the American Philosophical Society by Dr. John Bell. John Bell (1796-1872) received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1817. He practiced medicine in Philadelphia, lectured at the Philadelphia Medical Institute, and was a member of the American Philosophical Society. The author, Peter Mere Latham (1789-1875), was an English physician and medical educator. He delivered these lecture at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The year this volume was published he was appointed physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

1847, first printing, 54 page pamphlet in fair to good condition. Wraps are nearly off, front is stained, title page heavily foxed with pencil notations of prior book seller. Interior is otherwise pretty good, minor to moderate foxing, no other writing or vandalism. Complete as issued. Scarce first printing of this satire on tobacco use. People have suggested for a long time that tobacco has ill effects on the health of users and those around them - here is a 19th century example of that opinion. Identification of the author is difficult - I have listed two common suggestions. I am pretty sure we can rule out Solomon Spittle. Item is rare: WordCat locates two copies of this printing (#237747794); none from this date are for sale. Please see scans of the item you will receive. Included in 'Medical' history as this pamphlet does more than hint at the health problems of tobacco users.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1995. edited by Tadataka Yamada with David H. Alpers, Chung Owyang, Don W. Powell and Fred E. Silverstein Second Edition, second printing Blue 4to size hardcovers with gilt titles and red decorations on covers and spine; heavyweight glossy pages. This set weighs in at more than 18 pounds boxed. Volume 1: 1,554 pages with black and white illustrations, charts and photographs. There are also some color photographs in a section in the front of the book. The index is paginated separately: there are 151 additional pages to the index. The Table of Contents includes both volumes and is repeated in both volumes. The very extensive Table of Contents include: Part One: Basic Mechanisms of Normal and Abnormal Gastrointestinal Function Part Two: Approaches to Common Gastrointestinal Problems Part Three: Gastrointestinal Diseases There is some "waviness" to the rear endpage working forward to about page 24 in the index (of decreasing waviness.) This… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association Press, 1906. First edition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK BOOK ON INFECTION AND IMMUNITY INCLUDES "DISEASES OF DOUBTFUL OR UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY" (ALL NOW IDENTIFIED!) 8 inches tall hardcover, original black cloth boards, bright gilt title to spine, x, 600 pages. Minor edgewear, handstamp of Dept. of Bacteriology Medical College University of Cincinnati to front free endpaper and title page. Very good. LAID IN ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH of postmortem lungs inscribed on verso, "Lungs/ Joseph Mendoza/ Subacute plague/ ground squirrel infection/ Alameda Co. Calif 1909/ Aug, with handstamp of photographer, R.E. Wales. PREFACE: "Immunity, in its present state of development, with its manifold new terms and special methods of experimentation, is a subject which appears difficult to one who has not studied the newer literature assiduously and grown into a knowledge of the conditions through actual work in the laboratory. Much of the literature is technical in character… Read More

New York: E. Bliss, 1829. First American edition. SCARCE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH EARLY 19TH CENTURY TREATISE ON THERAPEUTICS ADAPTED FOR NORTH AMERICAN PHYSICIANS. Two volumes in one, 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, viii, 243; 236 pages, new black cloth boards with paper spine label, very good. Edges of pages darkened and wrinkled, with scattered marginal pencil notations. Signature of Joseph A. Eve, Dec 19th, 18** top of title page, volume 1; signature of Robert C. Eve, 1880 top of Preface. Begin classifies medications in three types: debilitating medications, direct stimulating medications, and revulsive medications. Tessier has added notes and treatments of North American diseases. LOUIS JACQUES BEGIN (2 November 1793, Liège - 13 April 1859) was a French military physician. He began his medical studies in the military hospital at Metz, subsequently serving as an assistant surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars (Russian and German campaigns). From 1815 he was associated with the civil hospital in… Read More

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of the Sherlock Holmes Series. First American Edition. D. Appleton & Co. Copyright 1894. A collection of medical and detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective series. VG condition/ no DJ included if originally issued. A square, solid copy with bright pages. A rare find in nice condition like this one. 5 x 7 ¾. 307 pages plus adverts.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Signed by Susan Sontag on a bookplate, which is laid into the book (not mounted). First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Subtle fading to extremities, else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

Set of nine hardcover books comprising the 6 volume set of Netter illustrations plus the original Initial volume of drawings from 1948. Published between 1948 and 1973 these are classic medical texts from a master illustrator. Bindings on all books are firm. All have cloth boards with gold stamping. Each shows only light edge wear. Texts of all appear clean and unmarked. The original 1948 volume is unjacketed. Volume 1 and Part 1 of volume 3 have paper dust jackets which are faded with small tears and chips at edges. The remaining books have clear plastic covers, all of which have small tears. The set includes the 1948 original - A Compilation Of Pathological And Anatomical Paintings 1948, Volume 1 - Nervous System 1968, Volume 2 - Reproductive System 1970, Volume 3, Parts 1-3 Digestive System 1966, 1973, 1972, Volume 4 - Endocrine System and Metabolic Disease 1970, Volume 5 - Heart 1971, Volume 6 - Kidneys, Ureters and Urinary Bladder 1973. Price includes extra shipping costs due to weight. Your… Read More

Montpelier: Argus and Patriot Job Printing House, 1871. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 406, [1] pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in original taupe publisher's cloth. The binding shows some wear and rubbing about the edges. Binding is sound with secure inner hinges. The spine and top edges of the binding are sunned. Text is a little toned but is generally quite clean. This is not an illustrated work.