A compelling image of Dr. Walker, wearing her usual frock coat, trousers, a necktie, and her Congressional Medal of Honor. The image dates from her lecture tour of Great Britain in 1866 and 1867. Walker (1832–1919) obtained a medical degree in 1855 and practiced medicine into her old age. During.....

First Edition. The text of a lecture issued as Vortragsreihe "Panta rhei" der Hans Erni-Stiftung, 3. Arber won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. 52 pages. First edition. A fine copy in silver boards (hardcover). This copy is inscribed to the future Nobel Prize winner.....

First Edition. With an introductory commentary and editorial contributions by Harry J. Jerison. Translated by Harry J. Jerison and Irene Jerison. vii, 340 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This copy with Stephen Jay Gould's ownership signature. This copy came from.....

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.....

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......

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....