Medical

London: Adam and Charles Black 1897, new edition. (Hardcover set) 468, 486, 465pp. Good to very good. 3 volumes. 3 / 4 leather on green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Frontispiece, illustrations. Previous owner's inscription, the front inner hinge of volume 1 is partially cracked, there is some wear on the spines including light chipping to the tops and bottoms and the bottom of the spine of volume 2 is torn. (Medicine).

Washington DC: Department of the Air Force [1950]. (4to) 648pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Tables, graphs, illustrations, photographs, diagrams, bibliography. The corners are lightly bumped and there is a previous owner's name inside. Book about Aviation Medicine. Locale:. (Medicine, German Armed Forces, Luftwaffe, Medicine, Military Aviation, World War 2).

Ringwood, Australia: Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1993. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback, First Edition, 325gms, 380 pages. Childbirth Choices challenges some myths about pregnancy and birth practices and gives a lively and informative description of the choices available. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear, mild page discolouration to some pages, stamp from previous owner on title page, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!.

St. Louis, Missouri: C.V. Mosby. Very Good. 1996. First Edition: First Printing. Soft Cover. 206 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.2: KB#007482: BRAND NEW. Covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for slight creasing at corners of the covers. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Vision problems in older adults can occur for a variety of reasons, such as stroke, heart disease, cataracts, glaucoma, medication and poor nutrition. This text addresses all these areas, along with optometric care in nursing homes, systemic drug interactions and pathological conditions." Content Chapters include: Physiologic Changes of Aging * Evaluation and Management of the Cognitively Impaired Older Adult * Low Vision and the Elderly * Rehabilitative Optometry for the Older Adult * Optometric Services in Nursing Facilities * Optometry and the Interdisciplinary Geriatric Team * Occupational Therapy's Role in Rehabilitative Optometry * Systemic Side Effects and Drug… Read More

Paris,: Germer-Baillière,, 1835.. x, 640 pp. 8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Contemporary half olive calf (joints worn), spine gilt lettered. Second enlarged French translation, expanded with additions communicated by the author to the translator. This work is the first textbook of neuropathology. "Classical and Standard Work in Neurology"(MacHenry). "His definitive descriptions of the various diseases afflicting the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves were a major contribution to neuropathology and this book stands as a milestone in the development of neuropathology"(Heirs of Hippocrates". Garrison & Morton, 2285. --(Light scattered foxing & browning but a good copy).

Paris,: Les Libraries Associés,, 1766.. 2 part in one, [iv], iv, 144; [iv], 146, [ii blank] pp. 12mo (10,5 x 16,2 cm. Recent full marbled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered, edges red. ¶ Lindeboom, 270. First French translation of Van Swieten's Boerhaave commenaties related to fevers.-- (Some worm holes in the lower margin, not affecting the text). A very clean copy.

Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and London: F. A. Davis. , 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. The five volume issue, complete for 1890, in dark olive cloth, titled in gilt on spines. A very good firmly bound set, probably unused, with only minor superficial markings to the bindings. 25 x 17 cm. Over 2000 pages in total. Global summaries of research and advances in medical, surgical and health studies, with interesting advertisements at the rear of each volume. The whole comprehensively indexed With an ownership rubber stamp at the bottom of four of the volumes, and a written name at the top of one of these A heavy set of books, please contact for accurate postage quote.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2001. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 318 pages: 8.75 x 11.25 in.: 3: KB#011488: Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Provides an in-depth review by leading experts of the surgical techniques most commonly employed to reconstruct and mend the knee. With original artwork accompanying contributions from surgeons known for their skill at executing specific, precise surgeries, this book is part atlas and part instruction text. Complete with suggested readings, histories, and rehabilitation therapies, the text encompasses all aspects of knee surgery in order to better convey both the expected functions and the expected outcomes of knee surgeries." .

New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851. Paperback. Good. 132, [8] p.; 20 cm. Tan wrapper printed in black. "Mail Edition" -- at top edge of front wrapper. Spine title: Lectures on Hygiene and Hydropathy. Back wrapper bears advertisement for The Water-Cure Journal and Herald of Reform published by Fowlers and Wells. Eight unpaginated pages following text contain: a publisher's advertisement for Bulwer and Forbes on the Water Treatment, edted with additional matter by Roland S. Houghton -- the advertisement for The Water-Cure Journal -- a publisher's catalog. Contents: Preface -- Constitution -- List of Officers -- Address at the Hydropathic Convention -- Hygiene the True Moral of the Cholera -- Hydrotherapy Rational, and Not Empirical. The author, the Rev. Roland Stebbins Houghton (1824-1876), was a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, who dedicated two poems to Houghton's wife, Marie Louise Shew Houghton. She had previously been married to Dr. Joel T. Shew (1816-1855), an early… Read More

Strasbourg: L'Imprimerie de F.G. Levrault, imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine, 1837. Paperback. Very Good. 27, [1] p.; 26 cm. Lacking original wrappers. "Ch Ravel" written next to title and a note in the same hand on the title page. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). The author, Charles Henri Ehrmann (1792-1878), was a professor of anatomy at the University of Strasbourg from 1826 to 1867. Ernest Alexandre Lauth (1803-1837) was a French anatomist who specialized in the lymphatic system. In Very Good Condition: foxing, primarily along page edges; otherwise, clean and solid. Scarce.

Dresden: M. Wolf, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "Entwickelungsgeschichte, Schwangerschaft und Geburt, Krankheiten der Wöchnerinnen, Kinderkrankheiten und deren Behandlung, Geschlechtskrankheiten, deren Gefahren und Verhütung." "Fünfzehnte, vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage des Werkes Der Mensch. Mit 187 Text-Illustrationen, 31 anatomischen Farbendruck-Tafeln nebst einem zerlegbaren Modell des weiblichen Körpers." xvi, 1264 p., 32 leaves of color plates (1 with moveable parts): many in-text drawings, tables; 25 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; embossed color illustration on spine and front cover. Leipzig bookbinder blind-stamped on back cover. All page edges red. Decoration endpapers. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper for C. N. Caspar Co. Book Emporium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Scarce with the final color plate with multiple moveable sections. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to… Read More

Hilversum: J. E. Onkenhout, 1947. Paperback. Very Good +. 220 p., 6 leaves of folded tables; 25 cm. Grey wrapper with black spine and wrapper title. With: 1 leaf, folded, listing the 10 theses presented, loose. The doctoral thesis in veterinary science presented by N. C. W. Hesse on Feb. 27, 1947, at Utrecht University. Hesse (1904-1962) became a professor of clinical diagnostics and swine internal diseases. In the 1950s, he was known in the United States for having originated the idea of using a hen to calm elephants being transported on planes. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: light browning along spine and upper wrapper edges; some upper page corners slightly creased; pages browning; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: William Radde, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, 1869. Three-quarter leather with brown morocco-cloth sides; raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top corner of half-title page is torn. Pages show a bit of soiling, but overall a relatively clean copy. A nice copy in a handsome binding. Includes index. xii, 534 pages. 7.2 x 4.6 inches. A scarce first edition of Richard Hughes' A Manual of Therapeutics, published as Volume II of A Manual of Homoeopathic Practice. [Volume I, titled A Manual of Pharmacodynamics, was published a couple years prior.] It covers a plethora of diseases, including those affecting the blood, nervous system, eye, ear, digestive organs, respiratory organs, circulatory system, urinary organs, sexual organs, and skin, as well the diseases of children. Dr. Richard Hughes (1836-1902) was a British homeopathic physician, scholar, a colleague of Dr. Timothy Field Allen, and lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapeutics at… Read More

Bloomington, IL: Pantagraph Printing Establishment, 1882. Paperback. Good. [2], 158 p., frontispiece portrait of the author and 6 leaves of plates; 16 cm. Paperback with black cover title. Melville Cox Keith (1835-1903) was an American homeopathic doctor; he published a number of works offering homeopathic approaches to health for adults and children. Very scarce. In Good Condition: lacking back cover; front cover, and first and last few leaves are foxed; plates and each page facing a plate are foxed; upper corner of front cover is creased; closed 1-cm. tear from lower edge of front cover; pages are otherwise clean and solid.

Hahnemann Academy of North America, 1993. Near Fine. Very minor shelf wear to bottom edges and three small knicks out of back lower cover; name/number and price inked inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight, bright, and without other markings. Overall, a clean, solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.