Medicine from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Luzern (Lucerne): Verlag Hans Erni-Stiftung, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 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… Read more about this item

New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An English translation of an 18th-century work that "hypothesize much of what has become the basis of modern genetics." Sources of Science, no. 29. 86 pages. First edition (of this edition). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with surface… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: V. H. Winston & Sons, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 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… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 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… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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… Read more about this item

New York: M. L. Holbrook, 1881. Hardcover. Near fine. 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… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1842. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. 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… Read more about this item

[London]: Harrison and Sons, 1876. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 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… Read more about this item

Cambridge, England: At the University Press, published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 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… Read more about this item

Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers, 1866. First Edition. Very good. 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… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 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… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Abell & Priest, 1892. 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 to… Read more about this item

Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1952. 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 10… Read more about this item

London and Bombay: Richardson & Co. and Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 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… Read more about this item

Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1891. 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… Read more about this item

Seattle and Portland: Lindsay Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. 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… Read more about this item