![Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. Abell, Priest, photographers](/pictures/thumb/307182.jpg?v=1604707212)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore while in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). In one photograph, Root wears the sari in traditional style, over her left shoulder and.....
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First Edition. The "father of cognitive therapy" looks at destructive behaviors. First edition (with a numberline ending in 1). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Beck to the mystery writer and therapist Mark Schorr, "To Mark, regards, Aaron Beck." Books signed by Beck are uncommon.
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Possibly the earliest surviving image of Helen Keller (1880–1968), taken in August 1887, when she was seven years old, about five months after Anne Sullivan (1866–1936) became her teacher; together with a second photograph of Sullivan taken about the same time. The image of Keller shows her sitting in a low.....
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First Edition. Government of India, Ministry of Health, Pharmacognosy Laboratory Bulletin No. 2. vi, 124 pages. 7 by 10 inches. 51 half-tone plates, most reproducing four photographs of plant specimens, plus a folding map, "Distribution of Leaf Drug-Yielding Plants in India." Information on "a number of useful drugs of the indigenous.....
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First Edition. 14 pages. A table of drugs, mostly plant-based, in use in India, with the scientific or English name, the provincial name, and notes by the author. Dey was an early proponent of indigenous medicine. Pepared for the world's fair at the Crystal Palace. The printed leaves of this copy.....
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First Edition. 117 including 14 plates. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; lacking the dust jacket and the errata slip.
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First Edition. The great 19th century German ophthalmologist's first book in America. This short volume collects two papers, first published in the Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde in 1865 and 1863, then translated for the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and soon after reissued in this pamphlet. Graefe is especially remembered for.....
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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 on.....
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A scarce 19th century European view of India, notable for its reports on drugs. One of the plates depicts three types of drug use: a b'hangee, or hemp-plant drinker; a chursee bhistee, or a person smoking cannabis resin; and a faqueer postee, an opium "poppy-head drinker." This is the first Indian.....
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First Edition. An important work in the history of gynecology and feminism—a scientific argument by one of the first American women doctors against the standard prescription of total rest for women during their periods. This medical practice sidelined middle- and upper-class women for several days each month (poor women have.....
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Second Printing. Fourteen children recount their struggles with disease and adversity. Illustrated with Krementz's photographs. Krementz is Kurt Vonnegut's widow. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Nicely inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, with a posthumous bookplate noting the provenance.
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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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First Edition. An important early work on birth defects affecting the eye, based on Dr. Mann's extensive research on embryology. Ida Mann (1893–1983) was a leading expert on the eye in Great Britain. In the 1920s, she was one of a handful of women who were fellows of the Royal.....
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First Edition. A collection of popular science essays, including the title piece on grafts and transplants, the field for which Medawar won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960. Medawar (1915–1987) was a distinguished scientist whose research contributed significantly toward transplants as a medical therapy. He was also an innovative thinker.....
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First Edition. The TV star recounts living with diabetes. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Spine ends bumped; some fading to the front panel of the jacket. Signed by Moore on the front free endpaper.
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First Edition. xxxv, 219 pages, including indexes by scientific name and common names in English and various Indian languages. Printed and bound in Bombay. Descriptions of plants in the Southern province of Pakistan, with information on their use, organized by class and family. The author was curator of the Kurrachee Municipal.....
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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 Edition. Essays on fascinating cases of neurological disease, revised from their appearances in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. First edition (stated). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with cracking to back fold.
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First Edition. xi, 161 pages, including indexes in English, French, German, Hindustani, and several other Indian languages. "Printed and published by order of the Madras government, at the recommendation of the Madras working committee, Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883–1884. A listing of plants, with descriptions of their medical use, often citing earlier.....
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"This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first 'definitive textbook' of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created."—Garrison-Morton Bibliography of the History of Medicine no. 2878. Taussig founded the field of pediatric cardiology and was the first woman elected to be the head of.....
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First Edition. xii, 320 pages, plus ads. The author collects stories about centenarians and marshals evidence, most from other sources, that debunks the claims. He quotes from autopsy reports, the opinions of doctors, and press accounts. At the end of the book he cites cases where he believes the person.....
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First Edition. 276 pages. An autobiographical account of a radical anti-abortionist's escape from jail and his use of an anthrax scare to disrupt hundreds of abortion clinics following 9/11. Waagner, now serving a long prison sentence, is associated with the Army of God, perhaps the most militant wing of the.....
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