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  1. ABERNETHY, JOHN – Physiological Lectures exhibiting A General View of Mr. Hunter’s Physiology and His Researches in Comparative Anatomy. SECOND EDITION. London, Longman, Hurst, …., 1822. 8vo., pp.352.
    Together with:
    ________________ - Introductory Lectures, exhibiting some of Mr. Hunter’s Opinions respecting Life and Diseases. London, 1823. p.97-135.
    Together with:
    _______________ - An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter’s Theory of Life; Being the subject of The First Two Anatomical Lectures. London, 1821. p.79.
    Together with:
    ________________ - The Hunterian Oration for the year 1819. Delivered before The Royal College of Surgeons in London. London, 1819. p.66
    Together with:
    ________________ - Reflections on Gall and Spruzheim’s System of Physiognomy and Phrenology. London. London, 1821. p.75 $175.00

     
  2. ALTHAUS, J. – A Treatise on Medical Electricity, Theoretical and Practical; and its use in the treatment of paralysis, neuralgia, and other diseases. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. London, Trubner & Co., 1859. 8vo., pp.xvi, 352, orig. embossed cloth binding, vg.
    This work is an extensive treatise on the general principles of electricity, electro-physiology, electro-therapeutics, etc.
    Althaus took his medical degree at Berlin in 1855. He then worked with Charcot in Paris and afterwards settled in London where he was instrumental in founding the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis in Regent’s Park. Scarce.                                                          $250.00

     
  3. AMERICAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION – Program of annual meeting held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC. May 1-3, 1928. marginal notes by an unknown hand.. This meeting held in association with the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons and other societies. Pp.79, wraps.                                       $15.00

     
  4. ASCHOFF, LUDWIG – Lectures on Pathology (Delivered in the United States, 1924). New York, 1924. 8vo., pp.363.           $20.00

     
  5. BARTHOLIN, THOMAS – Anatome Ex omnium Veterum Recentiorumque Observationibus…. Ad Circulationem Harvejanam, et Vasa Lymphatica quartum renovate. Leyden, Off. Hackiana, 1673. 8vo., pp. 12ll.,804, (16), extra engraved title, port., contemporary calf, re-backed. Krivasty781                                                         $250.00

     
  6. BARTLETT, ELISHA – The History, Diagnosis, and treatment of the Fevers of the United States. THIRD EDITION, REVISED. Philadelphia, 1852. 8vo., pp.595, original sheep, a very nice unmarked copy.
    Osler was of the opinion that this work on fevers by Bartlett which went through four editions “remains one of the most notable contributions of American physicians to the subject.            $110.00

     
  7. BASS, J. HERMANN – Outlines of The History of Medicine and The Medical Profession. Translated by H.E. Handerson. Two Volumes. Reprint of the 1889 edition by Krieger Publishing. Huntington, 1971.
                                                                                                      $40.00

     
  8. BEADLE, ORMOND A. – The Intervertebral Discs. Observations on Their Normal and Morbid Anatomy in Relation to Certain Spinal Deformities. London, 1931. 8vo., pp.79, 45 figures, wraps bound in linen binding. scarce                                                                $40.00

     
  9. BELL, CHARLES – Letters concerning The Diseases of the Urethra. London, Longman, Hurst…., 1811. 8vo., pp. xi, 149, half-title, 5 plates drawn by Bell, later ½ calf binding. This is apparently the second printing of the 1810 edition. This 1811 imprint is not in any the usual collections and nor listed by Gordon-Taylor.        $150.00                                

     
  10. BELL, CHARLES – A System of Operative Surgery, Founded on the Basis of Anatomy. SECOND EDITION. Two Volumes bound in one. London, Longman, Hurst…., 1814. 8vo., pp.xxii, (4), 410, 8 plates, one not numbered; xxxi, 523, plates I-V, I-XIII (on 7 pull-out leaves) A fresh copy, crisp plates, bound in early 20 C. linen.
    GM 5583 (London, 1807-9)                                                  $450.00

     
  11. BELL, CHARLES – Institutes of Surgery: Arranged in the order of the lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh. Two Volumes. Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1838. 8vo., pp.xxiv,353; ix,380, half-titles present, contemporary cloth re-backed. Signature of William Smith, Sept. 14, 1838 on half-title.                          $300.00

     
  12. BITSCHAI, J. AND BRODNY, M. LEOPOLD – A History of Urology in Egypt. Foreward by Max Thorek. Privately Printed at the Riverside Press, 1956. 8vo., pp.vi, 122.                                 $40.00

     
  13. BRAZIER, MARY A.B. – The History of the Electrical Activity of the Brain. The First Half-Century. London, 1961. 8vo., pp.vii,119, illustrated, dw.                                                                       $40.00

     
  14. BROWN-SEQUARD, C.E. – Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System. Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in May, 1858. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860. 8vo., pp.xii,276, 3 plates, skillfully rebacked, vg.
    Iowa 1841 Brown-Sequard’s investigation of spinal cord transaction in which he defines the relative function of the posterior and anterior cord sections and their relationship to other neural pathways is one of his foremost accomplishments and is explained fully in this impressive series of lectures.
    Cushing B755                                                                      $400.00

     
  15. BUZZARD, THOMAS – Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System. FIRST EDITION. London, 1882. 8vo., pp.xvi,466, From the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic. A near fine copy in original pebbled cloth binding.                         $200.00

     
  16. CARDIOLOGY – A collection of 42 offprints from 1926 to 1968 by Harry Vesell, M.D. mostly from the Beth Israel, New York.  $50.00

     
  17. CHEYNE, GEORGE – The English Malady: Or, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, as Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Sprits, Hypochondriacal, and Hysterical Distempers &c. In Three Parts. Part I. Of the Nature and Cause of Nervous Distempers. Part II. Of the Cure of Nervous Distempers. Part III. Variety of Cases that illustrate and confirm the Method of Cure. With the Author’s own Case at large. SECOND EDITION (printed one year after the first edition) London, G. Strahan and J. Leake, 1734. 8vo., pp.xxxii,xvi,370, plus G. Strahan advs. Attractively rebound in ½ calf, raised bands, and linen. GM4840 (London, 1733)                                           $375.00

     
  18. (CLOWES) – Selected Writings of William Clowes 1544-1604. Edited by F.N.L. Poynter. London, 1948. 8vo., 179, frontis port., dw., illus.                                                                                       $20.00

     
  19. COOLEY, DENTON A. and HALLMAN, GRADY L. – Surgical Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease. FIRST EDITION. Philadelphia, 1966. 4to., pp.213, drawings by Herbert. R. Smith, vg.
                                                                                                $90.00

     
  20. COOPER, SAMUEL – The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery….in two parts. Third American from the Third London Edition. Boston, Timothy Bedlington, 1828. 8vo., pp.xvi,17-447, 9 plates, contemporary tree-calf binding.
    The book is arranged in two parts, treating general subjects such as inflammation, fever, erysipelas, hemorrhage, wounds, fractures, and dislocations in the first part and specific subjects such as head injuries, eye diseases, hernia and amputation in the second. Cooper was a field surgeon at the Battle of Waterloo.
    See Iowa 1357 (Philadelphia, 1808 ed.)                               $175.00

     
  21. Cope, Sir Zachary – William Cheselden 1688-1752. London, 1953. 4to., pp.viii,112, illustrated with 22 plates.                            $35.00

     
  22. CULPEPPER, NICHOLAS – The English Physician Enlarged. With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, That were not in any Impression until This. London, E. Ballard, L. Hawes…., 1775. 12mo. pp.(10), 387, (9), contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked.                                                                                $150.00

                                         
    TWO LANDMARK PAPERS IN NEUROSURGERY

     
  23. CUSHING, HARVEY – The Establishment of Cerebral Hernia as a Decompressive Measure for Inaccessible Brain Tumors; With the Description of Intermuscular Methods of Making the Bone Defect in Temporal and Occipital Regions. Extracted from Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1:297-314, October, 1905 in attractive linen binding.
    GM4879 This method of paliative treatment of non localized tumors in the days prior to the discovery of contrast radiography was an improvement on the trap-door methods of the English and continental surgeons                                                                                 $200.00

     
  24. CUSHING, HARVEY – Electro-Surgery as an Aid to the Removal of Intracranial Tumors. With a Preliminary Note on a New Surgical-Current Generator by W.T. Bovie Extracted from Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 47:751-784, December, 1928 in attractive linen binding.
    GM4897.1 Unquestionably the single most important neurosurgical instrument developed to facilitate the removal of vascular brain tumors especially meningiomas up to that time.                     $225.00

     
  25. (CUSHING-CODMAN)  BEECHER, HENRY K. – The First Anesthesia Records  (Codman, Cushing) In: S, G. & O. Nov. 1940. pp.689-693.  Vol.71, No.5. complete.                                      $20.00

     
  26.  The HARVEY CUSHING Collection of Books and Manuscripts.. New York, 1934. 4to., pp.205.
    GM 6779                                                                                  $75.00                                                

     
  27. DALBY, W.B. – Lectures on Diseases and Injuries of the Ear: delivered at St. George’s Hospital. Philadelphia, First American Edition. 1873. 8vo., pp.228, 21 illus.
    Blocker p.99.                                                                            $75.00

     
  28. DANA, CHARLES L. – The Peaks of Medical History. New York, 1926. 8vo., pp.105, illustrated.                                                 $40.00

                                                       
    A NEUROSURGICAL LANDMARK

 

  1. DANDY, WALTER E. – Intracranial Aneurysm of the Internal Carotid Artery. Cured by Operation. In Transactions of the Southern Surgical Association. Philadelphia, 1938. Vol. L, pp.14-19. The patient being the first successful clipping of an intracranial aneurysm was operated in March, 1937. The case was presented at the Southern Surgical meeting in December, 1937. The identical paper was also later published in the Annals of Surgery in 1938.
    The article following Dandy’s is a discussion of his case by Rudolph Matas.                                                                                      $90.00

 

  1. DOBSON, JESSIE – Anatomical Eponyms. Being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references t the works in which they are described. Second Edition. Edinburgh, 1962. 8vo., pp.235, dw.
    GM 460                                                                                 $35.00

     
  2. DOE, JANET – A Bibliography of The Works of Ambroise Pare’: Premier Chirurgien & Conseiller du Roy. Chicago, 1937. 4to., pp.xx,266, Addenda and Errata tipped in. vg.                        $100.00

     
  3. Doctors at War. Edited by MORRIS FISHBEIN. New York, 1945. 8vo., pp. xiii,418, Illustrated with 82 photographs many showing surgeons under combat conditions in the European and Pacific theaters, vg.                                                                              $25.00

     
  4. DOYLE, A. CONAN – Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. Eighth Edition. (published only 2 years after the first edition) New York, 1896. 8vo., pp.iv,307. 15 short medical stories. The red lamp was a sign of a doctor’s office. This was Doyle’s only book of medical stories.                                                    $90.00

     
  5. (DUCHENNE) – Selections from the Clinical Works of Dr. Duchenne de Boulogne. Translated and edited by G.V. Poore. London, The New Sydenham Society, 1883. 8vo., pp.xxii, 472, frontis port.        $90.00

     
  6. DUDLEY, E.C. – Displacements of The Uterus. Philadelphia, 1888, 8vo., pp.147-181. Reprinted from Pepper’s System of Medicine. – “Complimentary to the Graduating Class Chicago Medical College, 1888” in gilt on front cover.                                                     $10.00

     
  7. EDELSSTEIN, LUDWIG – The Hippocratic Oath. Text, Translation and Interpretation. Baltimore, 1943. 8vo., pp.64, wraps.       $35.00

     
  8. EPILEPSY – Transactions of the National Association for the Study of Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics at the Second and Third Annual Meetings ….1902 & 1903. Edited by William P. Spratling, M.D. Rochester, (1906) 4to., pp.xiv,154, wraps.
    On p.31 William Osler discusses Dr. Roswell Park’s paper. Golden and Roland addenda 792 A.  SCARCE                                  $90.00

     
  9. EWING, JAMES – Neoplastic Diseases. A Treatise on Tumors. THIRD EDITION. Philadelphia, 1928. 4to., pp.1127, 546 illustrations, vg.                                                                      $20.00

     
  10. Familiar Medical Quotations. Edited by MAURICE B. STRAUSS. Boston, 1968. 4to., pp.968, dw. Mint.
    GM 6807 Over 7000 quotations, arranged under broad subject headings; author and subject indexes.                                    $30.00

     
  11. FERRIER, DAVID – The Localization of Cerebral Disease. Being the Gulstonian Lectures of the RCP for 1878. First American Edition. New York, 1879. 8vo., pp.142. orig. binding, head and tail with small chipps.                                                                                     $125.00

     
  12. FLEXNER, SIMON. – 12 Offprints 1894-1928 in original wraps dealing with the subjects of epidemic encephalitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis. Included are GM 4683 and GM 4684.                $240.00

     
  13. FLINT, AUSTIN – A treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine. THIRD EDITION. Philadelphia, 1868. 4to., pp.1002, original sheep binding, a clean tight copy.                            $75.00                                    

     
  14. FOSTER, MICHAEL – A Text Book of Physiology. FIFTH EDITION. London, 1888. Three Volumes. Orig. green cloth bindings. In Part III “The Central Nervous System” The author cited his former pupil, Charles Sherrington for his help and preparing most of the figures from his own drawings.
    GM 631(1883)                                                                         $50.00

     
  15. FULTON, JOHN F. – A Collection of 92 Original Offprints by Fulton chiefly on Neurophysiology. Most in original wrappers, various dates, in archival clam shell box.                                                     $150.00

     
  16. GARRISON, FIELDING H. – John Shaw Billings. A Memoir. New York, 1915. 8vo., pp.432, frontis port., illustrated.
    Osler 6589                                                                             $75.00

     
  17. GIBNEY of the Ruptured & Crippled. Edited by Alfred R. Shands, Jr. New York,1969. 8vo., 152, frontis, ex.lib.                            $35.00

     
  18. GNUDI, MARTHA TEACH and WEBSTER, JEROME PIERCE – The Life and Times of GASPARE TAGLIACOZZI Surgeon of Bologna 1545-1599. Los Angeles, 1976. 4to., pp.xxii, 538, illustrated with 76 figures. This copy No 1534 of 2100 copies printed in Bologna, Italy, 1950. See GM 5734                                       $90.00

     
  19. GOLDBERGER, EMANUEL – Unipolar Lead Electrocardiography. Philadelphia, 1947. 8vo., pp.182, 88 illustrations.                 $10.00

     
  20. (GOOD) – GREGORY, OLINTHUS – Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Character, Literary Professional and Religious of the late JOHN MASON GOOD, M.D. with the Sermon Occasioned by His Death. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1829. 8vo., pp.344, frontis port., contemporary binding.                                                           $40.00

     
  21. GOSS, CHARLES MAYO – A Brief Account of Henry Gray F.R.S. and his Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical…. Philadelphia, 1959. 8vo., pp.51, stiff wraps.                                                            $35.00

     
  22. GRAYBIEL, ASHTON and WHITE, PAUL D. – Electrocardiography in Practice. Philadelphia, 1941. 4to., pp.319, 272 illus.           $15.00

     
  23. GREENFIELD, J. GODWIN, SHY, G. MILTON, et.al. – An Atlas of Muscle Pathology in Neuromuscular Diseases. Edinburgh, 1957. 8vo., pp.104, color illustrations.                                                       $15.00

     
  24. GUNN, JOHN – Gunn’s Domestic Medicine or Poor Man’s Friend; describing , in plain language, the Diseases of Men, Women, and Children….Tenth Edition. Xenia, (Ohio), J.H. Purdy, 1838. thick 8vo., pp768, cont. tree calf, tail of spine chipped else a very nice tight copy without the usual foxing.
    See Iowa 1619 for eighth edition. For a description of Gunn’s “Domestic Medicine”.                                                           $175.00

     
  25. HAAGENSEN, C.D. and LLOYD, WYNDHAM E.B. – A Hundred Years of Medicine. New York, 1943. 8vo., pp.433               $20.00

     
  26. HAMMOND, WILLIAM A. – A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System. EIGHTH EDITION with corrections and additions. New York, 1890. 4to., pp.945. The first edition was the first American textbook on neurology.                                                            $35.00

     
  27. HARTLEY, SIR PERCIVAL HORTON-SMITH and ALDRIDGE HAROLD RICHARD. Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartoolomew’s, Smithfield. His Life and Works. Cambridge, 1936. 8vo., pp.191, 4 plates.                                                                                      $35.00

     
  28. HAYMAKER, WEBB and WOODHALL, BARNES – Peripheral Nerve Injuries. Principles of Diagnosis. FIRST EDITION. Philadelphia, 1945. 8vo., pp.227, 225 illustrations.                $10.00

     
  29. HELFERICH, HEINRICH – On Fractures and Dislocations. Translated by J. Hutchinson, Jun., F.R.C.S. London, The New Sydenham Society, 1899. 8vo., pp.162, Illustrated with 68 colored plates and 126 figures.                                                          $150.00

     
  30. HOLT, L. EMMETT – The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. SECOND EDITION. New York, 1902. 4to., pp.xvii, 1161, illustrated. The author notes the chapters on milk and infant feeding have been completely re-written. GM 6342.2 (NY, 1897)                      $75.00

     
  31. JACKSON, J. HUGHLINGS – A Study of Convulsions. London, Odell & Ives, 1870. 8vo., pp.45, wraps. Reprinted from Trans. St. Andrews Med. Grad. Assoc. Vol. III. 1870. This article is cited in “Neurological Classics” p.136.                                             $200.00

     
  32. JOSLIN, ELLIOTT P. – The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus. SECOND EDITION Revised. Philadelphia, 1917. 8vo., pp559, colored frontis showing “Lipemia in Diabetes”. Laid in is envelope “Diabetic Cards & Charts” Used by E.P. Joslin.                  $20.00

     
  33. KEYS, EDWARD L. – Urology. New York, 1928. FIRST EDITION, third printing. 8vo., pp.763, 128 illus., vg.                               $20.00

     
  34. KRAFFT-EBING, RICHARD v. – Psychopathia Sexualis with especial reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct. A Medico-Forensic Study. New York, 1904. 8vo., pp.xv, frontis port.
    GM 4944 (Stuttgart, 1886)                                                     $15.00

     
  35. LABAT, GASTON – Regional Anesthesia. Its Technic and Clinical Application.. foreward by WILLIAM J. MAYO. Philadelphia, 1923. 4to., pp.xv,496, 315 illustrations.
    GM 5704                                                                                  $60.00

     
  36. LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, M. and MOLINERY, M. RAYMOND. French Medicine. Translated by E.B. Krumbhaar. New York, 1934. 12mo., pp.187.
    GM 6555                                                                                 $35.00

     
  37. LEWIS, SIR THOMAS – The Mechanism and Graphic Registration of The Heart Beat. THIRD EDITION. London, Shaw &Sons, 1925. 4to., pp.xix, 529, 400 figs., orig. green cloth binding.
    GM 854 This book is both an exhaustive treatise on the subject and a valuable bibliographical source.                                              $175.00

 

  1. MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES – Diseased of the Heart. THIRD EDITION. London, 1921. 4to., pp.502.                                   $45.00

 

  1. MACKENZIE, MORELL – Diseases of the Pharynx, Larynx, and Trachea. New York, 1880. 8vo., pp.440                                  $35.00

 

  1. MACKENZIE, MORELL – Case of Emperor Frederick III. Full Official Reports by the German Physicians translated by Henry Schweig, M.D. New York, 1888. 8vo., pp.viii,276, 22 illustrations, scarce.                                                                                      $50.00

 

  1. LA PRATIQUE NEUROLOGIQUE. Publiee sous la direction de PIERRE MARIE. Paris, Masson Et Cie, 1911. 4to., pp.xviii,1402, 302 illustrations, ¾ dec. calf binding. Collaborateurs include: Crouzon Delamare, Desnos, Georges Guillain, Huet, Lannois, Leri, Moutier, Poulard, and Roussy.                                                               $250.00

 

  1. MACMICHAEL, WILLIAM – The Gold-Headed Cane. A new edition. Foreward by James J. Waring and a Preface by William J. Kerr. Springfield, 1953. 4to., pp.xxxii,186.                           $35.00

 

  1. MAJOR, RALPH H. – Classic Descriptions of Disease With Biographical Sketches of the Authors. FIRST EDITION. Springfield, 1932. 4to., pp.630, 127 illustrations.
    GM 2241                                                                                $60.00

 

  1. MAJOR, RALPH H. – A History of Medicine. Two Volumes. Springfield, 1954. 8vo., pp. 1155, dw., vg.
    GM 6451.2                                                                            $125.00

 

  1. (MAYO CLINIC) –Physicians of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation. With Portraits. Philadelphia, 1927. 8vo., pp.vii, 578, small lib. stamp on title.                                                          $30.00

 

  1. MCALPINE, WALLACE A. – Heart and Coronary Arteries. An Anatomical Atlas for Clinical Diagnosis, Radiological Investigation, and Surgical Treatment. New York, 1975. Lrg. 4to., pp. 224, 1098 figures, mostly in color.                                                         $125.00

 

  1. METTLER, CECILIA C. – History of Medicine. A Correlative Text, arranged According to Subjects. Philadelphia, 1947. 4to., pp1215, vg.
    GM 6440                                                                                $75.00

 

  1. MEYER, ALFRED and BECK, ELIZABETH. Prefrontal Leucotomy and Related Operations: Anatomical Aspects of Success and Failure. Springfield, 1954. 4to., pp.60, 20 illustrations.                      $50.00

     
  2. MODERN UROLOGY. In original contributions by American authors. Edited by HUGH CABOT. Second edition. Two Volumes. 398 illus. and 11plates.                                                             $40.00

     
  3. MOLL, ARISTIDES A. – Aesculapius in Latin America. Philadelphia, 1944. 8vo., pp.xi,639.
    GM 6600                                                                                   $35.00

     
  4. MONIZ, EGAS – Diagnostic des Tumeurs Cerebrales et epreuve de L’Encephalographie Arterielle. Preface de M. le Docteur Babinski. Paris, 1931. 8vo., pp.iii, 512. bound in lined. Original front wrap bound in.                                                                                  $200.00

     
  5. MONRO, DONALD – Cranio-Cerebral Injuries Their Diagnosis and Treatment. New York, 1938. 8vo., pp.412, ex.lib.                  $15.00

     
  6. MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT – The Theory of the Gene. New Haven, 1926. 8vo., pp.xvi,343, extensive bibliography.
    GM 251                                                                                    $175.00

     
  7. NEEDHAM, JOSEPH – Order and Life. New Haven, 1936. 8vo., pp.175, illustrated. The Terry Lectures, Yale University.       $15.00

     
  8. NICHOLSON, G.W. – The Nature of Tumour Formation. The Erasmus Wilson Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England Feb. 23, 25, & 27, 1925. Cambridge, 1926. 8vo., pp. 99, illustrated.                                                                    $15.00

     
  9. OSLER, WILLIAM and McCRAE, THOMAS – Cancer of the Stomach A Clinical Study. Philadelphia, 1900. 8vo., pp.ix, 157, orig. cloth, vg.                                                                                  $150.00

     
  10. OSLER, WILLIAM – The Principles and Practice of Medicine. FOURTH EDITION. New York, 1902. 4to., pp.xvii, 1182, original green cloth binding.                                                                  $75.00

     
  11. PACKARD, FRANCIS R. – History of Medicine in the United States. Two Volumes. New York, 1931. 8vo., pp.1323, 103 illus., vg.
    GM6590. The first edition appeared in 1901                           $80.00

     
  12. PENFIELD, WILDER AND ERICKSON, THEODORE C. – Epilepsy and Cerebral Localization. A Study of the Mechanism, Treatment and Prevention of Epileptic Seizures. Springfield, 1941. 4to., pp.x, 623. ex.lib. still a nice bright copy.
    GM 4910.1                                                                              $275.00

     
  13. PENFIELD, WILDER – No Other Gods. Boston, 1945. 8vo., pp.340, second printing.                                                                         $15.00

     
  14. PENFIELD, WILDER – The Difficult Art of Giving. The Epic of Alan Gregg. Boston, 1967. 8vo., pp.414.                                  $15.00

     
  15. PENFIELD, WILDER – No Man Alone. A Neurosurgeon’s Life. Foreword by Lord Adrian. FIRST EDITION. Boston, 1977. 8vo., pp.398, dw.                                                                                $35.00

     
  16. PETER, ROBERT – The History of The Medical Department of Transylvania University. Louisville, 1905. Large 4to., pp.xi, 193, 15 full plates, wraps.                                                                      $45.00

     
  17. RAMON-CAJAL, S. – Histology. Revised by J.F. Tello-Munoz. Baltimore, 1933. 8vo., pp.738, frontis port. Illustrated.           $50.00

     
  18. RHAZES – A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles. Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. London, The Sydenham Society, 1848. sm. lib. stamp on title, re-backed.
    GM 5441                                                                                   $45.00

     
  19. RICCI, JAMES V. – One Hundred Years of Gynecology 1800-1900. Philadelphia, 1945. 4to.. pp.xiv, 651. vg.
    GM 6309                                                                                $75.00

     
  20. RITCHIE, WILLIAM THOMAS – Auricular Flutter. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York, 1914. 8vo., pp.xi, 144. Henry Vesell’s copy.
    GM 2843                                                                                  $90.00

     
  21. ROBERTS, JOHN B. – The Field and Limitation of the Operative Surgery of the Human Brain. In Ann. Surg. Vol. II, Nos. 7,8,9., 1885. PP. 1-22, 110-129, 214-238. The 3 nos. complete in wraps.
    See: Stone, J.L. “Neurosurgery” October, 2001 pp.974-985 for a review of the importance of this early American contribution to cerebral surgery.                                                                     $125.00

     
  22. RODIN, ALVIN E. – The Influence of Matthew Baillie’s Morbid Anatomy. Springfield, 1973. 8vo., pp.293, dw.                       $20.00

     
  23. SCHAEFFER, J. PARSONS – The Nose, Paranasal Sinuses, nasolacrimal Passage-Ways, and Olfactory Organ in Man. A Genetic, Developmental, and Anatomico-Physiological Consideration. Philadelphia, 1920. 4to., pp.370, 204 illustrations. Inscribed by the author on half-title. Small lib. stamp on spine, else vg.          $90.00

     
  24. SIMPSON, JAMES Y. – Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women. Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea, 1863. 8vo., pp.510, 101 woodcuts, original cloth binding re-backed.                        $150.00                               

     
  25. SHARP, WILLIAM – Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Injuries. Philadelphia, 1920. 8vo., pp.757, illus.               $15.00                         

 

  1. SINGER, CHARLES – Vesalius on the Human Brain. London, 1952. 8vo., pp.151, dw.                                                        $25.00             

 

  1. SMITH, HOMER W. – Lectures on the Kidney. The Porter Lectures and the William Henry Welch Lectures. Lawrence, 1943. 4to., pp134, vg.                                                                  $15.00                          

 

  1. STEVENS, WILLIAM – Observations on the Healthy  and Diseased Properties of the Blood. London, 1832. 8vo., pp.xx, 504, contemporary ¾ calf binding, bookplate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on verso of title.
    Blocker p. 376.                                                                         $80.00

 

  1. STILLE, ALFRED – Epidemic Meningitis, or Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. Philadelphia, 1867. 8vo., pp.178.                         $90.00

 

  1. STOKES, WILLIAM – Lectures on Fever: Delivered in the Theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Philadelphia, 1876. 8vo., pp.264.  $75.00

 

 

  1. The Precentral Motor Cortex. Edited by Paul C. Bucy. Urbana, 1944. 4to., pp. 605.                                                                    $25.00

     
  2. TILDESLEY, MIRIAM L. – Sir Thomas Browne: His Skull, Portraits, and Ancestry. With an introductory note by Sir Arthur Keith. Cambridge, (1923). 4to., pp.76, XXXIV Plates. Published in Biometrika, vol. 15. This in copy No.131 of 200 copies issued to subscribers. Signature of “J. Johnston Abraham, 38 Harley St.” on fep.
    Osler 4563                                                                               $90.00

     
  3. TYNDALL, JOHN – Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to  Putrefaction and Infection. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York, 1882. 8vo., pp.xix, 338.
    GM 2495 Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat led him to the discovery in 1877 of fractional sterilization. His work on the subject in included in the above book, in which he also described the bactericidal effects of moulds. The researches of Tyndall, even more than toose of Pasteur, delt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation; they were fundamental for the progress of bacteriology.             $75.00

     
  4. VALLERY-RADOT, RENE’ – The Life of Pasteur. With an introduction by SIR WILLIAM OSLER. New York, 1919. 8vo., pp.xxi,484, frontis portrait.                                                   $20.00

     
  5. (WALLER) – BIBLIOTHECA WALLERIANA The Books Illustrating The History of Medicine and Science. Collected by Dr. Erik Waller. FIRST EDITION. Stockholm, 1955. Two Volumes. With the dw., like new. GM 6786.1                                                $200.00                                                                

 

  1. WALSH, JAMES J. – Medieval Medicine. London, 1920. 8vo., pp.xi, 221.   GM 6521.                                                         $40.00

 

  1. WARTHIN, ALDRED SCOTT – Practical Pathology…. A manual of laboratory and post-mortem technic for students in pathology at the Univ. of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1897. 8vo., pp.129
                                                                                                  $15.00             

 

  1. WATSON, FREDERICK – The Life of Sir Robert Jones. Baltimore, 1934. 8vo., pp.327. “….quite possibly the greatest orthopedic surgeon the world has ever seen” LeVay p.137 $25.00                                   

 

  1. WECHSLER, ISRAEL S. – A Text-Book of Clinical Neurology. SECOND EDITION. Philadelphia, 1932. 8vo., pp.759, vg.                                                                                       $20.00

 

  1. WELLS, SAMUEL – How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Hand-Book on Phrenology and Physiognomy…. With a descriptive chart. New York, 1873. 8vo., pp.191                $15.00

 

  1. WHITAKER, J. RYLAND – Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord. FOURTH EDITION. Edinburgh, 1911. 8vo., pp.xvi, 228, XXXVI Plates.                                                                       $35.00

 

  1. WILLIS, ROBERT – The Works of William Harvey, M.D. Translated from the Latin with A Life of the Author. London, The New Sydenham Society, 1847. 8vo., pp.xcvi, 624. Signature of Edward Clapham.  Edin. Univ. 1862 on fep.
    GM 61.1                                                                               $80.00

 

  1. WILLIS, R.A. – Pathology of Tumors. London, 1948. 4to., pp.xxiii, 992 , index.                                                            $20.00

 

  1. WILLIUS, FREDRICK A. – Clinical Electrocardiograms Their Interpretation and Significance. Philadelphia, 1929. 4to., pp.219,  368 illustrations.                                                                          $50.00

 

  1. WINSLOW, FORBES – The Anatomy of Suicide. London, Henry Renshaw, 1840. 8vo., pp.xv, 339, frontis, a vg. copy.
    Winslow was the founder editor of the Journal of Psychological Medicine, 1848-1860, and owner of two private madhouses in Sussex and Hammersmith.                                                                $175.00                          

 

  1. WINTROBE, MAXWELL – Clinical Hematology. FIRST EDITION. Philadelphia, 1944. 8vo., pp. 703, illus.           $20.00                         

 

  1. WITHINGTON, ALFREDA – Mine Eyes Have Seen. A Woman Doctor’s Saga. Preface by the late Sir Wilfred Grenfell. London, 1945. 8vo., pp.268, illustrated. Her adventures and practice in Labrador, France in WW I, and rural Kentucky.                    $20.00

 

  1. WOLFF, HAROLD G. – Stress and Disease. Springfield, 1953. 8vo., pp.199.                                                                                $10.00

 

  1. WOOD, H.C. – Thermic Fever or Sunstroke. The Boylston Prize Essay. Philadelphia, 1872. 8vo., pp.128. Dedicated to S. WEIR MITCHELL. Ex.lib., no external marks.                                    $40.00

 

  1. WOODS, GRACE E. – Cerebral Palsy in Childhood. The Aetiology and Clinical Assessment with Particular Reference to the Findings in Bristol. Bristol, 1957. 8vo., pp.xi, 157, frontis photograph from. Little’s original article, 1862.                                          $15.00

 

  1. ZIEGLER, ERNST – A Text-Book of General Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis. English Translation by Donald Macalister. New York, 1833. 8vo., pp.371
    GM 2305 (Jena, 1881-82)                                                        $20.00

                                
                                                                   
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  1. ADAMS, FRANCIS – The Genuine Works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations. Two Volumes in one. New York, (1900) 4to., pp.388; 366, plates. Inscription on fep. “To Rothchild, With many thanks for much valuable help and with my appreciation of many kindnesses – E. Lebiman – September, 7, 1913. See Iowa 13.
    GM 14 (London, 18490                                                         $45.00                          

     

 

  1. ALBEE, FRED H. – Bone-Graft Surgery. Philadelphia, 1915. 4to., pp.417.
    GM 5757 Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make inlaid, perfectly-fitting grafts.                                                                             $130.00

 

  1. BALFOUR, GEORGE WILLIAM – The Senile Heart Its Symptoms, Sequelae, and Treatment. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York, 1894 8vo., pp/vii, 300.                                          $35.00

 

  1. BARTHOLIN, THOMAS – De Cruce Christi Hypomnomata IV. I. De Sedili Medio. II. De Vino Myrrhato. III. De Corona Spinea. IV. De Sudore Sangvineo. Hafniae, Melch. Martzan, 1651. 12mo., pp.173, (7 index & errata), later binding blue calf. Very scarce.
    Wellcome II p.108; Osler 1944 (Amsterdam, 1670)                $225.00

 

  1. BELL, CHARLES – Surgical Observations; Being a Quarterly Report on Cases in Surgery; Treated in the Middlesex Hospital, in the Cancer Establishment, and in Private Practice. Embracing an Account of the Anatomical and Pathological Researches in the School of Windmill Street. London, Longman, Hurst,…., 1816. Volume I. 8vo., pp.500, 15 plates, contemporary marbled boards skillfully rebacked. This volume stands as it is alone. The work was issued in five parts of which this volume contains the first four parts. The second volume or fifth part is often lacking as in Wellcome II, p. 136, and the Royal College of Physicians Library, p.108.                                     $325.00

 

  1. BERNARD, M. CLAUDE – Lecons sur Le Diabete et La Glycogenese Animale. Paris, J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1877. 8vo., pp.viii, 576, linen binding, gilt label.
    GM 3942 In this work, Bernard first showed that one of the primary signs of diabetes is an excess of sugar in the blood and usually in the urine. (Iowa, 1800)                                                                 $400.00

 

  1. BIGELOW, HENRY JACOB – Orthopedic Surgery and Other Medical Papers. Boston, 1900. 8vo., pp.ix, 373, illus. vg.
    Most of the papers are related to orthopedic surgery. One paper “Case of Injury of Head” is on the famous Phineas P. Gage who recovered from a iron bar driven through his head.                                 $110.00

 

  1. BRODEL, MAX – Three Unpublished Drawings of The Anatomy of the Human Ear. Philadelphia, 1946. 4to., pp.4 leaves, 3 plates.                                                                                         $40.00

 

  1. CASTIGLIONI, ARTURO – A History of Medicine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Translated from the Italian and Edited by E.B. KRUMBHARR. New York, 1941. 4to., pp.xxviii, 1011,xl, dw. Vg. “ A very nice inscription in ink by Krumbaar to the owner together with a quote from Hippocrates also in Krumbaar’s hand”.
    GM 6418                                                                                    $150.00

 

  1. COOPER, SAMUEL – A Dictionary of Practical Surgery, Containing a Complete Exhibition of the Present State of the Principles and Practice of Surgery…..With Notes and Additions, by JOHN SYNG DORSEY, M.D. Two Volumes. Philadelphia, 1816. 8vo., pp.531; 522, contemporary tree calf binding.
    GM 5585 (London, 1809) It is significant that Dorsey, who published the first surgical text by an American in 1813, chose to publish this second edition of Cooper’s surgery as it would render an important service to his fellow practitioners throughout the United States.
    Austin 529                                                                        $200.00

 

  1. COURVILLE, CYRIL B. – Commotio Cerebri. Cerebral Concussion and the Postconcussion Syndrome in their Medical and Legal Aspects. Los Angeles, 1953. 4to., pp.xi, 161. ex. Lib.
    As a consultant to the Coroner’s Office of the County of Los Angeles the author has had the occasion to study the effects of craniocerebral injuries in hundreds of cases.                                                $40.00

 

  1. DIONIS, PIERRE – Cours D’ Operations de Chirurgie, Demontrees au Jardin-Royal. FOURTH EDITION. Paris, D’Houry, 1751. 4to., pp.xxxii, 920, portrait, engraving of operative theater, plates, one folding of the Royal Garden, contemporary, raised bands, gilt dec spine. An exceptional copy.
    GM 5575 (Paris, 1710) Wellcome II, p.471                            $725.00

 

  1. EBERLE, JOHN – A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine in Two Volumes. Philadelphia, John Grigg, 1830. FIRST EDITION.  8vo., pp.528, 550, contemporary tree calf. Signed in ink “John Crosby 1831 $5.00” on title page with his book plate on front paste down. The two volumes in near fine condition.
    Blocker p. 121 cites the second edition. Eberle’s treatise went through six editions.                                                                             $90.00

 

  1. FARABEUF, L.H. – Ligation of Arteries. Translated by John D. Jackson. Philadelphia, 1874. 12mo., pp157, wood engravings. Lib. stamp on title, else vg.                                                             $45.00

 

  1. GROSS, SAMUEL D. – A System of Surgery; Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative. FIFTH EDITION. Philadelphia, 1872. Two Volumes. 4to., pp.1098, 1170, 1400 engravings. Original sheep bindings.
    GM 5607 (Phila., 1859) “Intended to be the most elaborate, if not the most complete treatise in the English language”. It remains his greatest work.                                                                            $250.00

 

  1. HALL, MARSHALL – On the Reflex Function of the Medulla Oblongata and Medulla Spinalis. Phil. Trans. , 1833, 123, 635-665, bound in blue linen, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson’s copy with his book plate.
    GM 1359 Marshall Hall established the difference between volitional action and unconscious reflexes. This and subsequent work by Hall gave “reflex action” (a term invented by him) a permanent place in physiology.
    Hall may be said to be the first true experimental neurologist. (McHenry, p.193)                                                                     $350.00

 

  1. HAY, WILLIAM – Practical Observations in Surgery, Illustrated by Cases. SECOND EDITION, corrected and enlarged with additional plates. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. 8vo., pp.xi, 573, (14), 16 plates, one folding. Plate I illustrating the “Hay Saw” devised by the author for operating on cranial fractures. Fine later binding in ½ calf, marbled paper. The second edition is the best edition.                                                                                     $275.00

 

  1. HUMPHRY, G.M. – The Human Foot and the Human Hand. Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1861. 12mo., pp.215, 84 figures, fine ¾ calf binding. Two popular lectures Humphry delivered at the University of Cambridge.                                                           $90.00

 

  1. LISTER, JOSEPH – Ligature of Arteries on the Antiseptic System. The Lancet, New York, June, 1869. pp.289-296. With James Spence – On the  Use of Carbolised Catgut Ligatures. Pp.483-4, extracted from the Lancet and attractively bound in blue linen.
    GM 2964 Lister evolved a carbolized catgut ligature, better than any previously produced. He was able to cut short the ends of his ligature, closing the wound tightly and eliminating the necessity for bring the ends of ligatures out through the wound.                                 $125.00

 

  1. MANUAL OF THERAPEUTICS. Referring especially to the products of the pharmaceutical and biological laboratories of the Park, Davis & Company. FIRST EDITION. Detroit, 1910. 8vo., pp.643, orig. leather binding, spine worn and hinges starting else contents very good and unmarked. The first edition is scarce                           $50.00

 

  1. O’MALLEY, C.D. – English Medical Humanists Thomas Linacre and John Caius. Lawrence, 1965. 8vo., pp.54.              $20.00

 

  1. OSLER, WILLIAM – Aequanimitas. With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine. FIRST EDITION, third impression. London, H.K. Lewis, 1905vii,389. Signature on front pastedown “J. Gillies Priestley B.M.  3 Buckingham Gate S.O.  27-IX-05. Laid in is the Oxford Graduates Medical Club Rules for 1904.                                                 $125.00

 

  1. (OSLER) SIR WILLIAM OSLER – Brief Tributes to His Personality, Influence and Public Service. Written by His Friends, Associates and Former Pupils, In Honor of Hs Seventieth Birthday and First Published in the Bulletin of The Johns Hopkins Hospital for July, 1919. Baltimore, 1920. 8vo., pp.167.                              $90.00

 

  1. OSLER, WILLIAM – A Way of Life: An Address delivered to Yale Students on the Evening o  Sunday, April 20th, 1913. Foreward by Francis R. Packard. New York, 1937. 12mo., pp.41. With greeting card of Dr. Packard laid in.
    Together with:
               OSLER, WILLIAM – Man’s Redemption of Man: An Address delivered at the University of Edinburgh in July, 1910. With a Foreward by Francis R. Packard. 12mo., pp.35. Both volumes uniformly bound in original marbled paper, vg.                       $60.00

 

  1. PARKER, W. KITCHEN – A Monograph on the Structure and  Development of the Shoulder-Girdle and Sternum in the Vertebrata. London, 1868. Folio, pp.237, XXX plates.                              $90.00

 

  1. PATERSON, ROBERT – Memorials of the Life of James Syme. Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1874. 8vo., pp.xv, 334, frontis port.                        $45.00

 

  1. SELETZ, EMIL – Surgery of Peripheral Nerves. Springfield, 1951. 4to., pp.xv, 185, 136 figures.                                         $50.00

 

  1. SENN, NICHOLAS – Principles of Surgery. FIRST EDITION. Philadelphia , 1891. 4to., pp.xiii, 611, 109 wood engravings, vg.
    Senn’s work intended to connect the modern science of bacteriology more intimately with the etiology and pathology of surgical affections. His major contributions were to abdominal surgery. See Rutkow GS144 for the importance of this work.                                $150.00

 

  1. SHARP, SAMUEL – Traite’ des Opoerations de Chirurgie. Paris, Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1741. FIRST FRENCH EDITION, from the Third English edition.  8vo., pp.xiii,(5),391,(4), 14 plates illustrating various surgical instruments, contemporary calf.
    Blake p.416; Waller 8898                                                       $250.00

 

  1. SHERRINGTON, CHARLES S. – The Integrative Action of the Nervous System. FIRST EDITION, Fourth Printing. New Haven, 1916. 8vo., pp.xvi, 411.
    GM 1432 His work on the nervous system had a profound effect on physiology, especially his experiments on reflex action.         $90.00

 

  1. SIGERIST, HENRY E. – The Great Doctors. A biographical history of medicine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York, 1933. 8vo., pp.436, numerous illustrations, vg.
    GM 6735(Leipzig, 1932)                                                        $35.00

 

  1. SUDHOFF, KARL – Essays in the History of Medicine. Translated by Fielding H. Garrison. New York, 1926. 8vo.pp.xiii, 397, vg.                                                                                   $50.00

 

  1. TAYLOR, ALFRED SWAINE – The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence. Edited by Fred J. Smith FIFTH EDITION. Two Volumes. London, 1905.
    GM 1738 One of the best-known English texts on the subject. The 13th. Edition appeared in 1984                                               $60.00

 

  1. TAYLOR, HENRY LING – Orthopedic Surgery for Practitioners. FIRST EDITION. 4to., pp.xxiv, 503, 254 illustrations, ex.lib. but a nice copy.                                                           $35.00

 

  1. THACHER, JAMES – American Modern Practice; Or, a simple method of Prevention and Cure of Diseases, according to the latest improvements and discoveries, comprising a practical system adapted to the use of medical practitioners of the United States…. Boston, Ezra Head, 1817. 8vo., pp.744, original calf binding, an unusually bright unmarked copy.                                                             $150.00                                                              

 

  1. THOMPSON, C.J.S. – The Quacks of Old London. Philadelphia1929. 8vo., pp.356, illustrated.
    GM 6643                                                                                     $40.00

 

  1. (WELCH) – Papers and Addresses by WILLIAM HENRY WELCH. Three Volumes. Introduction by Simon Flexner. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1920. 4to., pp.678,655,633, portraits. This set number 485.
    GM86.2; Reynolds 4307                                                          $150.00

                                                    
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  1. ADDISON, THOMAS – On The Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules. London, 1855. 4to., pp.43, 9 full page colored plates                                                $35.00

 

  1. GOWERS, W.R. – A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. American Edition. Philadelphia, 1888. 8vo., pp.1357, illustrated.                                                                                  $35.00

 

  1. HUNTER, JOHN – A Treatise on The Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds. London, 1794. 4to., pp.565, VIII plates.
                                                                                                        $35.00

 

  1. JENNER, EDWARD – An Inquiry into The Causes and Effects of The Variolae Vaccinae, …. London, 1798. 4to., pp.75, 4 colored plates.                                                                                          $35.00

 

  1. LISTER, JOSEPH – The Collected Papers. In Two Volumes. Oxford, 1909. 4to., pp.429,589                                               $60.00

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