medicine

Softcover. Girard KS, Haldeman-Julius, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray-green wrappers, 155 pages. Copyright page states 1947, but most likely reprinted from a 1938 publication, edited here by the publisher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Mundell & Son, 1802, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages. Brown leather, gilt. Hinge cracked. Pages lightly tanned throughout, though heavily tanned on end papers.

Hardcover. Boston, John P Jewett and Company, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Stated "Fourth Thousand" on title page, 418 pages. Early women's rights advocate Harriot K Hunt, considered the first female doctor in the United States. After two refusals to have her study at the Harvard Medical School, she received a private medical education and practiced with an emphasis on prevention of disease. She was a dedicated advocate for women as professionals and as an educated populace. A very early advocate for changes to voting rights and property rights for women. Each year when she paid her taxes, in fact, she issued a "taxation without representation" protest. An intriguing look at attitudes and treatment of early women's rights advocates from a well-educated and outspoken women. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine, name on inside front cover, ownership stamp to blank leaf preceding half-title page.

Hardcover. New York, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Small corner bump on front top right corner. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages with index. "Healing Elements is a beautiful ethnography of the practices, products and epistemology of Tibetan Medicine. Through her rich and gifted storytelling of experiences spanning a decade, Craig weaves together a mosaic of the medical and therapeutic engagements of the troubled whole that is Tibetan Medicine today. Healing Elements shows us how this conversation itself constitutes a path toward healing." - Vincanne Adams, Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Honolulu HI, The Institute for Polynesian Studies , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, about 15 pages with light pencil marking.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 605 pages, b&w and color diagrams and illustrations. Embossed red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A study on heredity and genetics. Sir John Arthur Thomson (1861-1933), Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen, was a follower of August Weismann.Edge wear, light soiling to covers; spine faded. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Front hinge cracked. Else a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. ASEP, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages, b&w photos. Blue cloth, silver titles to front and spine. Light wear and rubbbing to edges, slight scratch down center of rear board. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. Mc Bride and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. Old tape marks on end papers, light staining; else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Humphrey's Medicne Co., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, stapled. Decorated red wrappers, small 3 X 4 1/2". Clean.

Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards stamped in black and red, red cloth spine, 401 pages with b&w illustrations, 3 color plates. Enlarged edition with selected readings. Latest date on copyright page is 1888. Previous owner's name, notation on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Steidl/The George Eastman House , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Imagining Paradise is the first book to showcase the treasures of The George Eastman House's incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library. It features over 250 rare books, each beautifully illustrated here and accompanied by commentary from prominent scholars. A large and handsome volume itself, as befits its subject, it ranges over the history of the medium of photography, its practitioners and its processes -- from bucolic landscapes, to travel and exploration, science and medicine, the literary and the illustrious. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot through the reveries of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith; the vision of Peter Henry Emerson to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291; and the exceptional published and unpublished books by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with tipped-in original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations in five languages of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's seminal instructional manual describing the daguerreotype process and works of great and unusual beauty, such as a red leather, bronze-trimmed Bible, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world holds this breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography and no other book can bring them so thoroughly into the reader's hands. This exceptional collection of rare books was formed from the Eastman Historical Photographic Collection of the Kodak Company, which encompassed the collections of many of the most important photographic scientists, historians and collectors in the world. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 362 pages. This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer, founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools (Yale, Vermont, and Bowdoin), and progenitor of a long line of physicians. Smith was a central figure in early American medical education, from 1787 when he began practicing in New Hampshire, to his death in New Haven in 1829. In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. In the process of telling Smith's life and story, authors Hayward and Putnam fill out in new ways the picture of medical treatment and medical education in post-Colonial America.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 484 pages. INSCRIBED BY RAJ PATEL on the title page. "Physician Marya, cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and University of Texas research professor Patel (The Value of Nothing) examine the social and environmental causes of ill health in this thought-provoking treatise . . . a persuasive argument for the need to address the systemic problems that plague people's minds and bodies." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. B Treat, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed maroon boards and spine with gilt lettering. 410 pages plus index. Edward Charles Spitzka was an eminent late-19th century alienist, neurologist, and anatomist. He pioneered studies of the anatomy of the human nervous system. A few b&w illustrations. Bookplate from private library of a doctor inside front cover. Copyright page states 1887 so maybe a reprint. Some light spotting to covers. Solid, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight fraying at corners of dust jacket and faded spine. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Publishers Company, 2nd edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 volumes: 291, 291, 317, 304, and 306 pages. Light brown cloth covers, with silver and black titles, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Slight rubbing to covers, small brown stain to spines of Theater and Civil War volumes, previous owner's embossed stamp to all title pages, ex-lib bookplates to all copyright pages, pages very crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, volumes are in clean, tight condition. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. The story of how hysterics were "invented" in 19th-century Paris is a fascinating one. All the more so because the staged performances that Freud witnessed at the famous Salpetriere asylum were to form the basis of his theory of hysteria, a theory which had a lasting impact on both psychiatry and medicine. Photography played an important role in the way doctors learned about so-called hysteria, often under the guise of objectivity.

Hardcover. Birmingham, Eng, Royal College of Surgeons, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bradshaw Lecture for 1894: A Study of His [Syme's] Influence and Authority on the Science and Art of Surgery During that Period. Syme was a leading surgeon of his day in Edinburgh's golden age of surgery. He was a master of surgical technique, a rival of Liston, a contemporary of Simpson and father-in-law and mentor of Joseph Lister. Hardcover, 27 pages. Red covers with gold lettering and decoration. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Light foxing to first and last pages. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Light soiling to rear cover, upper corner.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 114 pages. "This debut novel--by an acclaimed Argentinean writer, and first published in 1958--centers on a sixteen-year-old who becomes pregnant after an assault by an older man. Setting the story in the sweltering heat of Argentina's Pampas, Gallardo re-creates the world of ranchers and missionaries from the perspective of the girl, with her adolescent confusion and private sense of guilt. Gallardo juxtaposes her solitary desperation--she visits a local medicine woman for an abortion, and gallops recklessly on horseback to induce a miscarriage--with the conservative Catholic society that closes ranks against her." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Eastland Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 251 pages with fold-out diagram in rear. Meridian therapy is a school of Japanese acupuncture which is distinguished by its emphasis on the classics, its utilization of the five-phase points in treating the root of disease, and the importance which it attaches to palpatory skills in diagnosis and point location. Japanese Classical Acupuncture: Introduction to Meridian Therapy is noted for the clarity and simplicity of its style, and is the most highly regarded introduction to this subject in Japan. The theoretical and historical basis, diagnostic framework and treatment strategies of meridian therapy are discussed in detail. The author provides a step-by-step introduction to pulse and abdominal diagnosis, and explains how to incorporate the concepts and techniques of meridian therapy into other styles of acupuncture. The text is interwoven with case histories and anecdotes from the author's lengthy practice. Extensively edited in collaboration with the author to fit the needs of Western acupuncturists, this book opens the door to Japanese classical acupuncture for Western practitioners. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 104 pages, b&w illustrations. Biography of an 18th century man of medicine and natural science. Small name stamp on front fly leaf, oterwise clean.

Softcover. Rochester VT, Healing Arts Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations. This complete guide to kava summarizes the literature and research on a plant that is now considered comparable or superior to anti-stress prescription drugs, and describes its use in the religious, political, and economic life of the Pacific islands for centuries. Beyond its soporific qualities kava is also used throughout the the Pacific as an analgesic, a diuretic, and an anesthetic. There is even evidence suggesting it is effective in the treatment of asthma, tuberculosis, and venereal disease. Exhaustively researched, Kava: The Pacific Elixir offers an extensive survey of this amazing plant from the perspective of the horticulturist, the ethnobotanist, and the pharmacologist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Barcelona SP, FKG. , reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Facsimile edition. Folio. Cloth binding, 191 pages. In 1834 the leading scholars of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, led by Professor A.L.G. Bayle, compiled a remarkable atlas of exquisite anatomical drawings. It immediately became a benchmark work in international medical and scientific communities, praised not only for its scientific value but also for the artistry of the color plates. This large facsimile volume features 94 color plates, 11 x 15 inches, labeled in English, German, French, and Dutch.