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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
- 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
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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
- ASCHOFF,
LUDWIG – Lectures on Pathology (Delivered in the United
States, 1924). New York, 1924. 8vo., pp.363.
$20.00
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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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
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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
- 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
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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
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CARDIOLOGY – A collection of 42 offprints from 1926 to 1968
by Harry Vesell, M.D. mostly from the Beth Israel, New
York. $50.00
- 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
- (CLOWES)
– Selected Writings of William Clowes 1544-1604. Edited by
F.N.L. Poynter. London, 1948. 8vo., 179, frontis port., dw.,
illus.
$20.00
- 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
- 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
- Cope,
Sir Zachary – William Cheselden 1688-1752. London, 1953.
4to., pp.viii,112, illustrated with 22
plates. $35.00
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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
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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
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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
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(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
- The
HARVEY CUSHING Collection of Books and Manuscripts.. New
York, 1934. 4to., pp.205.
GM
6779
$75.00
- 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
- DANA,
CHARLES L. – The Peaks of Medical History. New York, 1926.
8vo., pp.105,
illustrated.
$40.00
A NEUROSURGICAL LANDMARK
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- (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
- 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
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EDELSSTEIN, LUDWIG – The Hippocratic Oath. Text, Translation
and Interpretation. Baltimore, 1943. 8vo., pp.64,
wraps. $35.00
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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
- EWING,
JAMES – Neoplastic Diseases. A Treatise on Tumors. THIRD
EDITION. Philadelphia, 1928. 4to., pp.1127, 546
illustrations, vg.
$20.00
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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
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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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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GARRISON, FIELDING H. – John Shaw Billings. A Memoir. New
York, 1915. 8vo., pp.432, frontis port., illustrated.
Osler 6589
$75.00
- GIBNEY
of the Ruptured & Crippled. Edited by Alfred R. Shands, Jr.
New York,1969. 8vo., 152, frontis,
ex.lib. $35.00
- 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
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GOLDBERGER, EMANUEL – Unipolar Lead Electrocardiography.
Philadelphia, 1947. 8vo., pp.182, 88
illustrations. $10.00
- (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
- 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
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GRAYBIEL, ASHTON and WHITE, PAUL D. – Electrocardiography in
Practice. Philadelphia, 1941. 4to., pp.319, 272
illus. $15.00
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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
- 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
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HAAGENSEN, C.D. and LLOYD, WYNDHAM E.B. – A Hundred Years of
Medicine. New York, 1943. 8vo., pp.433 $20.00
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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
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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
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HAYMAKER, WEBB and WOODHALL, BARNES – Peripheral Nerve
Injuries. Principles of Diagnosis. FIRST EDITION.
Philadelphia, 1945. 8vo., pp.227, 225
illustrations. $10.00
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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
- 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
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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
- 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
- KEYS,
EDWARD L. – Urology. New York, 1928. FIRST EDITION, third
printing. 8vo., pp.763, 128 illus.,
vg. $20.00
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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
- 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
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LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, M. and MOLINERY, M. RAYMOND. French
Medicine. Translated by E.B. Krumbhaar. New York, 1934.
12mo., pp.187.
GM
6555
$35.00
- 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
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MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES – Diseased of the Heart. THIRD EDITION.
London, 1921. 4to.,
pp.502. $45.00
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MACKENZIE, MORELL – Diseases of the Pharynx, Larynx, and
Trachea. New York, 1880. 8vo.,
pp.440 $35.00
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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
- 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
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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
- 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
- MAJOR,
RALPH H. – A History of Medicine. Two Volumes. Springfield,
1954. 8vo., pp. 1155, dw., vg.
GM
6451.2
$125.00
- (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
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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
- METTLER,
CECILIA C. – History of Medicine. A Correlative Text,
arranged According to Subjects. Philadelphia, 1947. 4to.,
pp1215, vg.
GM
6440
$75.00
- 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
- MODERN
UROLOGY. In original contributions by American authors.
Edited by HUGH CABOT. Second edition. Two Volumes. 398
illus. and
11plates.
$40.00
- MOLL,
ARISTIDES A. – Aesculapius in Latin America. Philadelphia,
1944. 8vo., pp.xi,639.
GM
6600
$35.00
- 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
- MONRO,
DONALD – Cranio-Cerebral Injuries Their Diagnosis and
Treatment. New York, 1938. 8vo., pp.412, ex.lib.
$15.00
- MORGAN,
THOMAS HUNT – The Theory of the Gene. New Haven, 1926. 8vo.,
pp.xvi,343, extensive bibliography.
GM
251
$175.00
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NEEDHAM, JOSEPH – Order and Life. New Haven, 1936. 8vo.,
pp.175, illustrated. The Terry Lectures, Yale
University. $15.00
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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
- OSLER,
WILLIAM and McCRAE, THOMAS – Cancer of the Stomach A
Clinical Study. Philadelphia, 1900. 8vo., pp.ix, 157, orig.
cloth,
vg.
$150.00
- OSLER,
WILLIAM – The Principles and Practice of Medicine. FOURTH
EDITION. New York, 1902. 4to., pp.xvii, 1182, original green
cloth
binding.
$75.00
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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
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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
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PENFIELD, WILDER – No Other Gods. Boston, 1945. 8vo.,
pp.340, second
printing.
$15.00
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PENFIELD, WILDER – The Difficult Art of Giving. The Epic of
Alan Gregg. Boston, 1967. 8vo., pp.414.
$15.00
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PENFIELD, WILDER – No Man Alone. A Neurosurgeon’s Life.
Foreword by Lord Adrian. FIRST EDITION. Boston, 1977. 8vo.,
pp.398, dw.
$35.00
- PETER,
ROBERT – The History of The Medical Department of
Transylvania University. Louisville, 1905. Large 4to., pp.xi,
193, 15 full plates,
wraps.
$45.00
- RAMON-CAJAL,
S. – Histology. Revised by J.F. Tello-Munoz. Baltimore,
1933. 8vo., pp.738, frontis port. Illustrated.
$50.00
- 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
- RICCI,
JAMES V. – One Hundred Years of Gynecology 1800-1900.
Philadelphia, 1945. 4to.. pp.xiv, 651. vg.
GM 6309
$75.00
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RITCHIE, WILLIAM THOMAS – Auricular Flutter. FIRST AMERICAN
EDITION. New York, 1914. 8vo., pp.xi, 144. Henry Vesell’s
copy.
GM
2843
$90.00
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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
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