Search Results: History of Medicine from Wykeham Books

Cornell University Press, Ithaca, first edition, 1974. Cloth, large 8vo, 28 cm,. xxi, 531, [4] pp. includes 173 letters in Latin, Italian and French, with English summaries and introduction. Bibl.: p.417-495. - Index. Letters in Latin, Italian, or French, with English summaries and commentaries. . Contents: '... includes letters to Baglivi, numerous drafts of his replies, and a few l Blue endpapers slightly faded, otherwise Very Good.

Photocopied extract from the volume published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969. Cloth, gilt spine-title :'Cushing', 8vo, a bound photocopy,. pp [621] - 663 photocopied as single pages so that the text appears on the rectos only. 333 entries. Reprinted with additions, from A Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing Prepared on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday ( second printing, 1940).

published for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Science History Publications, Sagamore Beach, first edition, 2004. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. xi, 178 pp, ills. Residue of a partly removed label on front free endpaper and library stamp on rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in a duststained dustwrapper which has a small blank ;label on the front panel.

Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens (NY), bookseller's catalogue, Spring 1984. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 56 pp. 176 items. A well-annotated catalogue, with a subject index. Date of receipt noted on front wrapper, otherwise Near Very Good. .

Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens (NY), bookseller's catalogue, Spring 1990. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 40 pp. 120 items. A well-annotated catalogue, with a subject index. Datestamp on rear inside wrapper. Good.

Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens (NY), bookseller's catalogue, Spring 1983. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 56 pp. 177 items. A well-annotated catalogue, with a subject index. Good.

Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, first edition, 1958. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xxiii, 184 pp. Latin & English. De circulatione sanguinis. Endpapers very lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good in a slightly used dustwrapper.

Librairie de Georges Bridel, Lausanne, first edition, 1848. 19th century half calf and marbled boards, 23 cm. ii,[2], 168, [4] pp. Contents include: Préface; Chapitre Ier Généralités; II. Orbites; III. Nerfs et vaisseaux de l'oeil; IV. Muscles de l'oeil; V. Organes lacrymaux; VI. Paupières et leurs pourtours; VII. Cornée, sclérotique et conjonctive de l'oeil; VIII. Voile irien; IX. Pigment noir de l'oeil; X. Chorioide et corps ciliaire; XI. Humeur aqueuse; XII. Crystallin et sa capsule; XIII. Corps vitré et couronne ciliaire; XIV. Rétine et nerf optique; XV. Anomalies physiologiques de la vue; XVI. Oeil dans sa totalité; Additions et corrections. Small printed library booklabel at foot of front pastedown endpaper, old name at head of title-page, boards slightly rubbedm slight edgewear to fore-edge of rear bosrd, otherwise Very Good.

Abelard-Schuman, London, first edition, 1963. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 285 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This is an unusually lively and comprehensive history of the discoverers of blood circulation - a history whose chronicle, perhaps surprising to the reader, is full of daring men, radical ideas and sheer adventure. With an acute sense of historical perspective, Hungarian-born Dr. Tibor Doby describes the work and character of the most outstanding discoverers: Aristotle, Erasistratus, Galen, Al Nafiis, Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius, Servetus, Columbus, Fabricius, Harvey, Malpighi. He tells us of their times, of the conventional ideas of blood, how these ideas were so naturally a part of classical and medieval beliefs; and why the discoverers' ideas were often so revolutionary, representing as they did an enlightening breakthrough against medieval thinking and stagnant traditionalism..With index, bibliography, reference charts, with over fifty new and original prints and drawing, with a preface by… Read More

Scarecrow Reprint, Metuchen, 1973 reprint of the 1839 edition with a new introduction. Cloth, gilt cover-title, 8vo, 22 cm,. xi, xii, 172 pp. From the introduction: "Walker's Documents and dates . . . thus merits reprinting because it is a fascinating document in itself, because of its historical importance in making Bell's Idea generally available for the first time, because it contains a still useful collection of texts on the discovery of the function of the spinal nerve roots, and because it contains an interesting and very early collection of texts on the discovery of the spinal reflex. An ex-library copy with a label round the spine, stamps and numbers on the front pastedown endpaper amnd title-page, number on lower edge of textblock, otherwise Good.

Sigma, [London], first edition, 1947. Cloth, small 8vo, 19 cm,. 119 pp, 12 plates. From the blurb: "This book, written for the general reader, gives an account of some drugs, such as penicillin, ergot and opium, which ere obtained from plants. In a book of this length and character it would be impossible to discuss, or even mention all of the scores of vegetable drugs used in medicine. To make an interesting and readable account a selection has therefore been made of those which are both of scientific importance and whose histories are likely to stir the imagination of the reader. Although emphasis is laid on the historical aspect, in the conviction that this provides an easy, logical and interesting introduction to the subject, equal mention is given to accounts of modern research from both the medical and chemical aspect. With twelve pages of line and halftone illustrations. Offsetting to endpapers, Good in sunned and used dustwrapper.

Typographie Victor Vercellino, Turin, first edition, 1862. 19th century half calf and marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, later red skiver spine-label with gilt-blocked title, 23 cm. vii, [1], 496 pp. Stamp "Gava av Erik Nordenson" of the eminent Swedish ophthalmologist on front pastedown endpaper, name "C.D. Westerton " [?] on title-page, slight wear to board edges and corners, Good.

Sheffield University, Sheffield, first edition, 1947. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 18 pp. Includes discussion of: (i) The control of typhus; (ii) The elimination of the medical complications of war wounds: (a) Tetanus, and (b) Wound sepsis and gas gangrene; (iii) The suppression and prophylaxis of malaria; (iv) The problem of influenza. Somewhat age-toned, otherwise Very Good.

Henry Holt & Company, New York., 11th printing, 1959. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. viii, [1], 182 pp. Good in used dustwrapper.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first paperback edition, 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 23 cm,. viii, 288 pp, ills. From the blurb: "With the exception of famine, scurvy is probably the nutritional deficiency disease that has caused the most human suffering in recorded history. Scurvy plagued sailors on long ocean voyages and broke out whenever groups of people had to be supplied from a considerable distance, as in the California gold rush, the American Civil War, and Arctic expeditions. It also appeared as a "disease of affluence" in the 1880s among infants receiving proprietary foods as substitutes for breast-feeding. In this book, Professor Carpenter surveys the long and fascinating history of the theories about the cause of this strange disease, and illustrates how the changing ideas about scurvy here reflected the central scientific and medical beliefs in each period. The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C is the first full-length treatment of the subject to be… Read More

Dawsons of Pall Mall, London, 1965 reprint of 1931 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xviii, 526 pp, ills, facs. From the introduction - ".. I have chosen to be largely biographical, but I have also endeavoured to trace at the same time the growth of medical interest in children and in their diseases, and have reproduced in full some of those first accounts of diseases which are landmarks in the progress of the study of paediatrics. My aim has been to cover the whole field of literature on the medical care of children, up to the end of the eighteenth century, but chiefly with a view to its bearing upon the development of this department of medicine in England. Pictorial bookplate of Robert Mowbray on front pastedown endpaper, spine somewhat faded, otherwise Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xi, 499 pp, ills. From the blurb: "Profcssor Tanner's volume traces the history of studies of the physical growth of children from the time of the Ancient Greeks to the present day. The author summarises the background to and the achievement of the surveys of child growth made in the course of social reform throughout the nineteenth century, and shows their relevance for social and economic history. About a third of the accounts cover studies from 1930 onwards, especially those in the United States and Europe. These are studies to which the author himself has made outstanding contributions and which he knows intimately, both as to programmes and personalities. It is a unique historical record. The author not only follows the evolution of ideas that lies behind the gradual emergence of studies of growth, but also summarises the results of these studies, charting the growth of children throughout the nineteenth and twentieth… Read More

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 1999 reprint of 1942 first edition. Cloth, small 4to,. 113 pp, ills. Contents: General Observations; I. The Scalpel; II. The Amputation Knife; III. The Saw; IV. The Trepan; V. The Vaginal Dilator and Speculum; VI. Head-Saws; VII. Artery and Dressing Forceps; VIII. Bullet-Forceps and Extractors; IX. Instruments for Phlebotomy and Venesection; X. Tourniquets; XI. Trocars; XII. Operating Tables. Index. As New.

Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, first edition, 1969. Quarter-cloth and patterned boards, 8vo, 23 cm,. x, 77 pp, plates. The story of bladder stone is among he longest in medical history, since this condition was the first to be treated by an elective surgical procedure. Not only is the story long, but it is also a fascinating document which records, on the one hand, the stoicism of the patients who, over many hundreds of years, submitted themselves to the agony of surgery in order to escape the tortures of the stone and, on the other hand, the quite amazing ingenuity, resourcefulness and courage of the surgeons who developed and perfected the techniques of cutting for the stone or removing its crushed fragments per viam naturae. Surprisingly enough. No-one has set down this story in book form. This short work, which represents the collected notes of an amateur medical historian, is offered as a tribute to the surgeons of the past and as a memorial to their patients." - from the blurb. Very Good… Read More

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London, first edition, 1945. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xvi, 448 pp, 72 plates. From the introduction: ".., an attempt has been made in the following pages to construct an outline of the progress of medicine from the days of Imhotep to those of Sir William Osler. An outline does not aim at finality, and many worthy names have been omitted in order that the story may not lose interest by being overweighted with detail...As a guide to the reader who desires to pursue the study more deeply, references have been added, giving the authorities from which the author has drawn his information, and there is also a classified bibliography of works dealing with various aspects of this many-sided theme. In selecting the illustrations an effort has been made to avoid the commonplace and to secure pictures and portraits from original sources. Bookplate of A R Dugdale-Bradley on front free endpaper, Good in used dustwrapper which is torn with slight loss.