Medicine
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1973 AwakeningsLondon: 1973The first edition of Oliver Sacks's Hawthornden Prize winning account of his treatment of the survivors of the sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918.
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1821 MH James Observation General Principles Nature Treatment Inflammation FirstLondon : 1821A very scarce early edition of Observations on the General Principles and on the Particular Nature and Treatment of Various Species of Inflammation by J. H. James who was surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital and Consulting Surgeon to the Exeter Dispen -
1868 Letter on Corpulence William BantingPhiladelphia: 1868The fifth edition of William Banting's popular booklet on dieting and weight loss
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1857 Montevideo Bajo el Azote EpidemicoMontevideo: 1857Colorado Party politician Heraclio C. Fajardo's contemporary account of the mid eighteenth century Uruguayan Yellow Fever epidemic. The very scarce first edition.
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1761 Observations on the Diseases of the ArmyLondon: 1761A fascinating eighteenth-century medical work on the diseases of army personnel, the personal copy of Scottish physician John Lewis Petit.
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1702 The Third Edition of the Vanities of Philosophy and PhysickLondon: 1702A very scarce copy of Gideon Harvey's interesting medical work, this being the third edition of the work by Charles II's physician.
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1817 On the Nature and Treatment of Tetanus & Hydrophobia, With Some Observations on aDublin: 1817A very scarce first edition work on the treatment of the diseases tetanus and rabies, an interesting early work on the subjects complete with a hand coloured frontispiece.
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1904 Report on the Plague in Natal 1902-3London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: 1904A first edition detailing the plague outbreak in Natal at the turn of the twentieth century, illustrated with folding plates and a large map at the rear of the work.
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1980 Antibacterials in NutritionNorway: 1980A finely bound copy of proceedings in Oslo regarding 'Antibacterials in Nutrition' from 1980. -
1878-1968 5vol Munk's Roll The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians 1515-1965London: 1878-1968Five volumes of this famous reference work, comprising of the original three volumes by William Munk and two further volumes completed by G H Brown and Richard R Trail.
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1867 Recueil de Rapports sur Les Progres des Sciences et des Lettres en France, Rapport sur Les Progres de la ChirurgieParis: 1867A fascinating collection of reports on French science and surgery, in the original French and in its first edition.
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1849 Y Llysieu-Lyfr TeuluaiddAbertawy : 1849A scarce copy of this first edition work on medicinal plants in the original Welsh, with some lovely hand-coloured plates.
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1787 A Set of Anatomical Tables, With Explanations, and an Abridgment of the Practice of MidwiferyEdinburgh: 1787A scarce early textbook on midwifery by William Smellie, an important work illustrated throughout.
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1861 Lecons Theoriques et Cliniques sur la Scorfule Bazin French Folding PlateParis: 1861An interesting work of a collection of lessons on diseases by the French physician Ernest Bazin, with a folding table of information..
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1922 Arab Medicine and Surgery, A Study of the Healing Art in AlgeriaLondon: 1922An exceptional copy of the scarce first edition of Melville W. Hilton-Simpson's study of the history of surgery in North Africa.
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1901 Impressions of a Doctor in KhakiLondon: 1901A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this Doctor's account of his service during the Second Boer War. Presented to a colleague at the Cape Town military hospital. -
1722 Lexicon Phyisco-Medicum: or, a New Physical Dictionary; Explaining the Difficult Terms Used inLondon: 1722A scarce second edition of John Quincy's important and popular medical dictionary, a wonderful example of medicine on the early eighteenth century.
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1889 Suppuration and Septic Diseases Lectures W.W.Cheyne Signed Gilbert BarlingEdinburgh and London: 1889A rare collection of three lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in February 1888, on suppuration and septic diseases.
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Recherches Sur Les Maladies Chroniques, Particulierement Sur Les HydropisiesParis: 1776An uncommon copy of this French work on chronic diseases, looking in detail at dropsy, and providing solutions for doctors treating the illness. Written by Georges-Frederic Bacher.
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1786 Tableau des Varietes de la Vie HumaineParis: 1786The first edition of the first part of Guillame Daignan's work on paediatric medicine and health.
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1921 Contributions to the Study of Precocity in Children Leonard George GuthrieLondon : 1921A scarce collection of the Fitzpatrick Lectures, on the history of Medicine used for the treatment of children.
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1908 Second International Congress on School HygieneLondon: 1908The first edition of this three volume work, bound as one, detailing how to maintain hygiene in schools.
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1926 Virtue's Household PhysicianLondon: 1926Complete five volume set of this 'Household Physician,' a practical medical manual in uniform bindings.
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1940 Medical Work of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of JerusalemBaltimore: 1940A comprehensive illustrated history of the medical work of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, including numerous pieces of ephemera regarding the organisation.
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1837 Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Stomach, the Intestinal Canal, the LiverLondon: 1837An uncommon study of diseases of the stomach by the Scottish physician John Abercrombie, this being the third edition.
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1828 Colloquia de Morbis, Practica et TheoreticaEdinburgh: 1828A scarce edition of this educational work on diseases, in the original Latin.
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1834 Report from the Select Committee on Medical EducationNot Stated: 1834A two volume record of minutes taken regarding medical education for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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Hydropathy; or, The Cold Water Cure, As Practised by Vincent PriessnitzLondon: 1842A lovely rebound first edition copy of Richard Tappin Claridge's best known and most widely cited publication, 'Hydropathy; or, The Cold Water Cure, As Practised by Vincent Priessnitz'. -
1837 Ouvres Completes de Jean-Louis Petit FrenchNot Stated: 1837A French medical work on various subjects by Jean Louis Petit.
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1873 Club-Foot: Its Causes, Pathology, and TreatmentLondon: 1873The scarce second edition of William Adams's important study of club-foot, illustrated throughout and with a further six chromolithograph plates.
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1933-1937 Chinesische DrogenKeijo [Seoul]: 1933-1937Tsutomu Ishidoya's very scarce German and Japanese study of traditional Chinese drugs and medicines. Examining the medicines derived from various plants.
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1838 Medical Portrait GalleryLondon: 1838Illustrated with thirty-six plates of portraits, this is an excellent copy of the first two volumes of Pettigrew's biographical memoirs of those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of medical science.
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1862 Public Health in Relation to Air and WaterEdinburgh: 1862The uncommon first edition of this interesting mid nineteenth century book on public health.
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1832 A Practical Treatise on Uterine Hemorrhage, in Connexion With Pregnancy and ParturitionLondon: 1832A very scarce first edition of this important nineteenth century treatise on pregnancy, childbirth, and uterine hemorrhage, illustrated with a frontispiece.
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1935 RespirationOxford: 1935The very scarce revised edition of a ground breaking work on the science of breathing.
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1805 Nosographie ChirurgicaleParis: 1805-06The scarce first edition of this work on surgical diseases by Anthelme Richerand, complete in three volumes.