103 pages plus a reduced-size reproduction of the original Latin text. A fine hardcover in a very good unprinted glassine dust jacket.

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.....

"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.....

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.....

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. 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.

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.....

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.

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....