Medical: General from The Owl at the Bridge

INCOMPLETE; IN PIECES. Color lithograph depictions of outer & inner human anatomy as known in the late 19th century. Full-length human form originally pasted inside folding covers 45 x 45 cm., with smaller details (ears, hands...) hinged along edges. Fold has separated; smaller pieces lacking. Possibly useful for collage work. Stock#ofc oversize 008.

title continues: ...Nouvelle Edition corrigée et disposée dans un ordre plus méthodique, Augmentée d'une exposition des recherches ou des opinions de la Chambre, de Porta, de Camper, de Gall, sur la physionomie; d'une histoire anatomique et physiologique de la face; précédée d'une notice historique sur l'auteur, Par Moreau (de la Sarthe), Professeur à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys, 1803. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi, [vii-ix], 10-132 pages; 16 cm. "Table of names changed," pp. [121]-132. First American Edition. American Imprints 4308; Austin 832. Vg, bound in full contemporary leather, rebacked. Stock#OB266.

London, The New Sydenham Society, 1861.. Hard Cover. xiv, 175 p., 6 l., [183]-329 p. illus., 5 pl. 23 cm. The five monographs are all translations: Johann Nepomuk Czermak, 1828-1873, Practical Uses of the Laryngoscope; Theodor Dusch, 824-1890, Thrombosis of the Cerebral Sinuses; Jacob Lodewijk Koenraad Schroeder Van der Kolk, , 1797-1862, Atrophy of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Published by G. B. Zieber & Co., 1844. Hard Cover. iv, [5]-32 p., front.; 23 cm. Publisher's ads, back and inside front and back wrappers. Cagle, American Books on Food and Drink 686. Stock#OB981. Good+, ex Westerly Library.

Boston, Printed by Wells & Lilly. For Charles Ewer, 1820. First Edition. Hard Cover. 272 pages, interleaved with plain white paper (for notation); 24 cm. First official U.S. pharmacopoeia. Lyman Spalding headed the Committee of Publication created by the General Medical Convention meeting in Washington, D.C., January 1820. Based mainly on the Pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society (1808). Austin… Saber más sobre este artículo

Bethesda, National Library of Medicine, 1989 / Mansfield Centre, CT. Hard Cover. xiv, 1315 pages, 23 cm. Contains 13,299 short-title entries with some annotations, arranged alphabetically. Fine, new from publisher/ no dj. Stock#34856 & ofc0758.

Oxford, 1928; reprint Gregg 1966. Hard Cover. 4 leaves, [vii]-xliv, 224 p., folding table, diagrams, 19.5 cm. Title continues: Nunc Primum Ediderunt A.G. Little [&] E. Withington. Bacon's medical writings, primarily his study of the ageing process and the preservation of youth. Includes Summaria Expositio Epistole Predicte; De Vniuersali Regimine Senum et Seniorum; De Balneis senum et Seniorum; De… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Published By William D. Ticknor, 1838. Hard Cover. xii, 412 p., illus.; 20 cm. "Sixth American from the Second English Edition." First published London, 1828. A classic of Phrenology. The need for Warne's chapter for an American audience was precisely because Combe's scientific vision of man operating in a larger law that he must understand to reach harmony… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1972. Hard Cover. xiv, 33 pages, [2] leaves of plates, facsimiles; 19 cm. "Osler's essay... was given before the Johns Hopkins Historical Club on November 12, 1900." Very good, in very good dust jacket. Stock#OB598.

Second edition; first edition, 1905. "It will be profitable and interesting to compare the writings prior to 1905 with those subsequent to that date. In the former we find the Master Builder as draughtsman, outlining and planning.. In the latter writings we see the constructed and finished building, but with the builder's evolutionary spirit encouraging to still greater and hidher… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berlin, Verlag Georg Reimer, 1894; reprint Martino 2000. Hard Cover. xiv, 722 p.; 23.5 cm. Besterman 4425. Swiss-born Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), 1493?-1541, alchemist and physician, investigated the mechanics of mining, minerals and miners' diseases; introduced the use of therapeutic mineral baths and of opium, mercury, lead, sulphur, iron, copper sulphate and arsenic as medicinal substances;… Saber más sobre este artículo

Marshfield, WI, W. Brice Fye, [1993?].. Soft Cover. 62 p., 23 cm. 1098-2122 items. The alphabet from Li to Z.. IAB. Stock# 38,585. Vg/ paper

Massachusetts State Board of Health [1898?]. Hard Cover. x, 178 p., charts, 8 color heliotype plates; 23 cm. This study of cerebrospinal meningitis, an important epidemiological approach to public health, was conducted by William Thomas Councilman (1854-1933), Frank Burr Mallory (1822-1941), and James Homer Wright (1869-1925), three doctors "From the Sears Pathological Laboratory and the Laboratories of the Boston… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia, Johnson & Warner, Matthew Carey [and six other partnerships] 1809. Hard Cover. VOLUME TWO ONLY: 453 pages; 21 cm. "Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical style" --Garrison-Morton 80, citing… Saber más sobre este artículo

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, c1989. Hard Cover. xix, 252 p., illus., index, 22.5 cm. A study of Medical anthropology. Women healers and women physicians among the Indians of the American Southwest. Bibliography: p. 239-244. Stock# 37,966. Vg/ dj vg. … Saber más sobre este artículo

[Bath & London, 1801]. Hard Cover. 8vo; 1 p.l., 188 pages. Title continues: [and an address to the College of Physicians at Philadelphia on the Prevention of the American Pestilence.] Cf. Garrison/Morton 4492. "Haygarth was a pioneer epidemiologist in England. He demonstrated the uselessness of Elisha Perkins's metallic tractors by obtaining the same results with wooden ones..." Includes "An… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston New York, Houghton Mifflin 1917. Hard Cover. during a professional life of fifty-seven years, by W.W. Keen .. ix, [1] p., 1 L., 159, [1] p., 1 L. front. (2 port.) plates, diagrs. (1 double) 19 cm. Title continues:"during a professional life of fifty-seven years, by W.W. Keen." Series: Brown University. The Colver lectures, 1917When Joseph Lister came… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, Timothy Bedington, 1829. Hard Cover. [9], 6-559, [1] pages; 22 cm. Title continues: "from the last London Editions, with Notes, by P. Washington Leland, MD." Copyright Feb. 6, 1829 by Timothy Bedlington. "Dr. Armstrong's works on fevers became extremely popular in this country and America, and they have the merit of being founded entirely on his own observations."… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.Y., Atheneum, 1988. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 336 p. 24.5 cm. The "white plague" of tuberculosis was the leading killer of mankind during the nineteenth century. This is a history of how it was treated--then cured--over a century. Stock# 31,245.Vg, but has extensive ink underlining and annotations by a Brown University professor./ dj vg.