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New York: Medical Life Press, 1928. [2], 110-162, xxxii pp. Text illustrations. 249 x 175 mm. Original printed wrappers, in cardboard folder. Very good.

Basel & New York: S. Karger, 1939. 400pp. 243 x 170 mm. Original cloth, a bit spotted, inner hinges cracked. Ownership stamp. Good.

1916. Kanavel, Allen B. (1874-1938); Koch, Sumner; & Mason, Michael (1895-1963). Collection of 18 offprints, pamphlets, etc. on infections and orthopedic disabilities of the hand, with typed index and obituary notice of Kanavel. Various sizes, bound in one 4to volume. V.p., 1916-33. Buckram, somewhat soiled & worn; 11 offprints with original printed wrappers bound in. A few leaves frayed, but a very good set, from the library of Edward Delos Churchill (1895-1972; see G-M 3211.1), with his bookplate. A remarkable group of early papers on hand surgery by Kanavel and his successors Sumner Koch and Michael Mason, who together were largely responsible for the development of hand surgery as a separate discipline. Most of these offprints would be nearly impossible to replace. Included is Mason and Clarence Shearon's important paper, "The process of tendon repair: An experimental study of tendon suture and tendon graft" (Arch. Surg. 25 [1932]), described by Boyes as "one of the classics of the literature of… Read More

Boston: Countway Library, 1976. 12 photographic plates plus text, in the original cloth folding case (a bit worn and spotted). Internally very good to fine.

1939. Katz, Bernard (1911- ). Group of 4 offprints / pamphlets, as listed below. Various sizes. V.p., 1939-52. Two offprints in original wrappers. Very good. First / First Separate Editions. Katz shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod for their discoveries concerning the activation, inactivation, and storage mechanisms of neurotransmitters, chemicals in the body that stimulate nerve and muscle cells. In the 1950s Katz and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments that revealed the precise action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which was known to be the primary chemical that monitors nerve and muscle cell stimulation. They found that acetylcholine was constantly being released in small amounts from the end of neurons. Katz's research served as a foundation for understanding the general workings of the entire nervous system, because the storage, release, and inactivation of acetylcholine was later discovered to be the same for other… Read More

New York: Harper Collins, 1993.

Oxford: Buno Cassirer, 1959. 104pp.w/illustrations. Dustjacket, minor foxing and some pencil notation, otherwise very good.

London, 1856. Actor; son of the great tragedian Edmund Kean. 1858. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm.

1891.

Downe, Kent, 1945. Keith's letter to Dr. Curwen concerns a donation to Down House, the onetime residence of Charles Darwin, which had been restored and converted into a museum largely due to Keith's efforts. The letter reads: "Dear Dr. Curwen, Yes! indeed. Cullen's Nosologie with Erasmus Darwin's signature in it is a welcome addition to Down House Records. Dr. Howarth [O. J. R. Howarth, Down House's first curator] of the Brit. Associat. is the resid. custodian & I'm forwarding it to him. Erasmus & his younger brother Charles were together in Edinburgh as you know. With all good wishes from Yours sincerely Arthur Keith.".

1890. Kelly, Howard A. (1858-1943). A successful Caeserean section for a large bony tumor choking the pelvis. In The Medical and Surgical Reporter 62, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1890): 100-106. Whole number. xii, 95-126, xiii-xxiv pp. Text illustrations. 253 x 173 mm. Original printed wrappers, detached, a little chipped. Very good copy, with Kelly's presentation inscription to Henry M. Hurd (1843-1927) on the front wrapper: "Dr. Hurd Compliments HAK." First Edition. Kelly's paper describes his third cesarean operation, undertaken to remove a tumor blocking the pelvis of a pregnant patient. At this time cesarean sections were rare: two years previously, while practicing in Philadelphia, Kelly had become the first surgeon in that city in fifty years to perform a cesarean operation successfully. Kelly joined Johns Hopkins in 1889 as one of the "Four Founders" of the university's school of medicine. During his forty years at Johns Hopkins, Kelly made major advances in gynecological and abdominal surgery, and was… Read More

New York, 1894. Kelly, Howard A. (1858-1943). The direct examination of the female bladder with elevated pelvis. . . . Offprint from Am. J. Obstetrics 29 (1894). 19pp. Illustrated. 240 x 155 mm. Original printed wrappers, creased vertically. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Kelly introduced aeroscopic examination of the bladder and catheterization of the ureters, which he first wrote about in 1893 (see G-M 4187). During his forty years at Johns Hopkins (1889-1919), Kelly made major advances in gynecological and abdominal surgery, and was responsible for establishing gynecology as a separate field from obstetrics. DAMB. DAB. 39581.

Philadelphia: Saunders, 1905.

1903. Kelly, Howard Atwood (1858-1943). Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patient in the knee-chest posture. Offprint from Annals of Surgery 37 (1903). 4pp. Text illustrations. 242 x 160 mm. Original printed wrappers, minor chipping to upper margin. Minor creasing, but very good. Stamp of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Library, dated Oct. 1903, on front wrapper. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Kelly, one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is credited with establishing gynecology as a true specialy. During his career at Hopkins Kelly created new surgical approaches to women's diseases and invented numerous medical and surgical devices, including those described in the present paper. Garrison-Morton 3526. .

1891. Kelly, Howard A. (1858-1943). Hand disinfection. Offprint from Am. J. Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children 24 (1891). 8pp. 229 x 152 mm. Original printed wrappers, vertically creased, light dust-soiling, small marginal tears. Presentation copy, with stamp reading "Compliments of the author" on the front wrapper. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Kelly's paper, written prior to Halsted's introduction of rubber gloves in surgery, concluded that "soap and water plus the permanganate of potash and oxalic acid are the only true germicides and therefore the best [hand] disinfectants we possess today.

Baltimore, 1916. Kelly, Howard A. (1858-1943). The double shame of Baltimore: Her unpublished vice report and her utter indifference. 24pp. Illustrated. [Baltimore]: Raine Print, n.d. [1916]. 223 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers, light dust-soiling at edges. First Separate Edition. Kelly, an evangelical Christian, was a "lifelong moral crusader" (DAB) against prostitution, alcohol abuse and other evils. In the present pamphlet he provided a 5-page preface to Winthrop Lane's article decrying two particularly heinous immoralities unearthed by a government survey--the widespread seduction of young women in the workplace, and the practice of institutionalizing unwanted illegitimate infants. The survey, commissioned by the governor of Maryland, found that over 80 percent of the babies admitted into so-called charitable institutions died within three months of admission.

1900. Kelly, Howard A. (1858-1943). The removal of pelvic inflammatory masses by the abdomen after bisection of the uterus. Offprint from Am. J. Obstetrics 42 (1900). 22pp. Illustrated. 240 x 154 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly dust-soiled and chipped. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Garrison-Morton 6109. Kelly devised the bisection method of excising the densely adherent uterus. In the present paper he described "the great value of a somewhat similar procedure in certain bad pelvic inflammatory affections" (p. 1). During his forty years at Johns Hopkins (1889-1919), Kelly made major advances in gynecological and abdominal surgery, and was responsible for establishing gynecology as a separate field from obstetrics.

Munich: Beck, 1968. 4to. Cloth. Slipcase. Fine copy. Second and best edition.

Amsterdam: A. Fris, 1670. Kerckring, Theodor (1640-93). Spicilegium anatomicum, continens observationum anatomicarum rariorum centuriam unam, nec non osteogeniam foetuum . . . [22], 280pp. Engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved plates; engraved text illustrations. Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1670. 237 x 188 mm. Vellum ca. 1670, lower edge of spine chipped, inner front hinge cracked, some spotting and soiling. Front margin of frontispiece repaired, light foxing and toning, a few edges frayed but very good. From the library of Howard A. Kelly (1858-1943), with his bookplate on the front pastedown; also with the bookplate of Terence Cavanagh, onetime librarian at the Duke University Hospital Library. First Edition. "Kerckring made important investigations on the development of the foetal bones. He was the first to describe the large ossicle sometimes present at the lambdoidal suture; his name is remembered in the valvulae conniventes of the small intestine, previously described by Fallopius"… Read More