First Edition. A signed copy of this "short autobiographical account of Willeford's hemorrhoid operation." Self-published (the contact address printed in the book was Willeford's condo in Miami) in an edition of 1000 copies. [2:blank], [4], 32, [2:blank] pages. [Quote from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.]. First edition (first and.....
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First Edition. A scarce inscribed copy of this memoir of the physician who pioneered the Heimlich maneuver, a simple procedure to help civilians clear blocked airways. The press popularized Heimlich's method and it became widely known in the United States. As an elementary school student, your cataloguer inhaled a piece.....
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First Edition. A particularly nice signed copy of this "short autobiographical account of Willeford's hemorrhoid operation." Self-published (the contact address printed in the book was Willeford's condo in Miami) in an edition of 1000 copies. 32 pages. [Quote from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.]. First edition (first printing). Minor.....
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First Edition. A signed copy of this "short autobiographical account of Willeford's hemorrhoid operation." Self-published (the contact address printed in the book was Willeford's condo in Miami) in an edition of 1000 copies. 32 pages. [Quote from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.]. First edition (first printing). Very good in.....
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First Edition. A signed first edition of this dual exploration of neuroscience and the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). 281 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Ferris on the front free endpaper. Rather.....
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First Edition. An inscribed first edition of this lecture on hallucinations by a French doctor who reviews the literature on the subject and then provides case studies, including one of demonic possession (p. 63–64). Bottex (1796–1849) published a number of studies on mental disease and insanity as well as treatises.....
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A pair of Second World War-era photographs of American scientists cultivating the coca plant at the US Plant Introduction Station near Miami, Florida. 6-3/8 by 7-3/8 inches. Gelatin silver prints with mimeographed captions mounted to the back (verso) of the image. Both photos are fine.
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First Edition. A 19th century account, possibly unrecorded, of the effects of taking hashish written by a reporter for the New York World newspaper. He describes highs ("a thrill unspeakable"), followed by a crash ("the marrow was all gone from my bones"), that turned into hallucinations ("each drop of water.....
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First Edition. The first separate printing of an important paper in the history of the treatment of glaucoma. In this paper, Argyll Robertson was "the first to recommend trephining the sclera in those cases of glaucoma where extensive degenerative changes in the iris made an iridectomy impracticable"—Andrzej Grzybowski, "A Tribute.....
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First US edition. An uncommon mid-19th century American edition of work on ophthalmology. The first edition was London, 1840. Series: Dunglison's American Medical Library. pp. iv, [5]-201, [v]-vi. Half leather binding over marbled paper-covered boards, recently rebacked. Generally very good, with wear to the edges. Stamp of a defunct library.....
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![Item No: #307182 Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. 19th Century...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604705549)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Root (1859–1944) graduated from the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia and was the first female doctor.....
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First Edition. This is a romance set in Seattle and on Puget Sound, with some scenes in San Francisco. The plot follows two friends, both doctors, whose families intermarry in 1909. The author seems to be the wife of Dr. A. A. Lindsay, a physician operating out the the Savoy.....
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