First Edition. An introductory medical textbook, illustrated by the author of Citizen 13660. After publishing her illustrated internment memoir (and proto-graphic novel) Citizen 13660 in 1946, Miné Okubo found occasional work as a commercial artist. Here she provides anatomical drawings in a much looser style than the usual technical drawings.....
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Second Edition. An English translation of this noted German work on the use of microscopes for doctors. "In preparing this edition, the work has been thoroughly revised, a large amount of new matter and many new illustrations have been added; a bolder-faced type has been used, and the size of.....
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First Edition. A memoir of Alfred Nobel by the executor of the industrialist's will, and the person widely credited with organizing the prize foundation. The book was published after Sohlman's death, in 1950, and first translated into English in 1983 to mark the 150th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's birth. 144.....
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First Edition. The autobiography of the Australian scientist who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for work with Rolf Zinkernagel on T-cells and the nature of immune defense. 294 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine.....
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Fourteenth edition "enlarged." A guide to painless childbirth, which seems to rely mostly on baths, a fruit diet, and a good attitude. The book was very popular, being reprinted every year for more than a decade. 159, [9] pages. A near-fine copy in terra cotta cloth. While this is not a......
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Recipes, many calling for dandelion greens and celery, that will lead to good health. An uncommon Porltand, Oregon, miracle-cures publication. [16] pages. 9-1/4 by 11-1/2 inches. A large-format pamphlet. With a two-leaf mimeographed introductory letter stapled to the inside front cover and a 6-leaf guide to vitamins and good bowels stapled.....
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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 on.....
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First Edition. A very scarce guide to women's health, written by the first woman admitted to the American Medical Association. It is one of the first guides to women's health written by a female doctor. The Atwater collection of popular medicine included only the second and third editions, the annotations.....
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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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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 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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![Item No: #307182 Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. 19th Century...](/pictures/thumb/307182.jpg?v=1604707212)
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. 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. 14 pages. The printed leaves of this copy.....
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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.....
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First Edition. 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 Museum. Among the plants given full treatment are cannabis sativa ("The general effects of the resin are alleviation of pain, remarkable increase.....
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First Edition. Information on "a number of useful drugs of the indigenous materia medica" derived from leaves, with reports and plates documenting microscopic analysis. Includes entries on tea, tobacco, coca, cannabis sativa, digitalis, etc. Government of India, Ministry of Health, Pharmacognosy Laboratory Bulletin No. 2. vi, 124 pages. 7 by.....
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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. This is the first book to treat extreme old age seriously, and Thoms develops methodologies for testing old-age claims. 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.....
Price: $125
