‎Medicine‎

‎TROPICAL MEDICINE WEST AFRICA STRONG Richard Pearson ed‎

‎The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected Curing the Harvard African Expedition 1926-1927 Inscribed Presentation Copy‎

‎Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1930. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong" dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes 27cm; publisher's maroon cloth boards lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi1-568; ix569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume else a tight Near Fine set lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong 1872-1948 was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades. Harvard University Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 52156

‎MEDICINE BRAITHWAITE W.‎

‎The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery. Being a Half-Yearly Journal. Vol. I nos 1-4 Jan. 1840 - Jan 1842‎

‎New York: Adee & Estabrook 1842-3. First American Edition. From the Fourth London Edition. Octavo; contemporary calf; 151158160171pp. The four issues bound as one. Boards lightly chaffed and worn contents lightly aged; still tight sound and Very Good. All four issues of the inaugural volume of this long-running medical journal which aimed to present the most recent work of leading international though chiefly British physicians. Adee & Estabrook unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 49833

‎HISTORY OF SCIENCE & MEDICINE PASTEUR Louis‎

‎Pourquoi la France n'a pas Trouvé d'Hommes Supérieurs au Moment du Peril‎

‎Rome: Forzani et C. 1871. First Edition. Folio 33cm.; publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 18pp. Wrapper lightly soiled faint vertical creasing a few tiny chips to spine ele Very Good internally fresh and fine save the crease. Polemical attack on the state of the French university system written in March 1871 two months after the end of the disastrous for the French Franco-Prussian War. As Pasteur argues whereas in Germany universities proliferated across the country France "stymied by revolution was always occupied with the sterile search for a better form of government giving only distracted attention to her institutions of higher learning" p. 9 our translation. At the root of all this was the regime of Napoleon I who in the early years of the 19th century neglected the country's twenty-eight extant institutions of higher learning in favor of his Université de France a disastrously centralized state-run institution that he established in 1808. The University suffered greatly during the Restoration and with it the quality of education so that by 1868 only £8000 were being spent for "true academic purposes" across the country cf. W. Chandler Roberts et al "Journal of the Society for Arts Vol. 32 no. 1655 August 8 1884 p. 905 creating a lacuna of learned and innovative thinkers to match Germany's. Perhaps in order to combat this downward trend Pasteur later founded the Pasteur Institute in 1887 serving as its director until his death in 1895. <br/><br/>This appears to be the only separate appearance of Pasteur's tract published abroad and distributed to various foreign leading scientific figures among these "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley who makes mention of this work in an address delivered in October of that same year. The essay appeared again in print in 1947 following an even more disastrous encounter with Germany in a collection titled "Pour l'Avenir de la Science Française." This publication quite scarce with four physical copies noted in OCLC as of February 2020. COPAC adds one copy at the LEC Library UK. Forzani et C. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 47582

‎Women in Science Medicine‎

‎Original photograph of a Early Laboratory with Female Technician c. 1910‎

‎Women in Science Medicine Original Gelatin silver print photograph of a Rustic pharmacological laboratory with female technician c. 1910. Three individuals pose amongst dozens of glass vials containing medical powders and remedies. 3.5 x 5 in. Original black and white photograph. Two figures wear white aprons or smocks indicating their important role in mixing and measuring different medicines. The first university Pharmacology department was established in 1847 and thus began the formalization of this field of scientific research as the 20th century witnessed a steady increase in the number of new drugs that would improve the human condition tremendously. Verso inscription in pencil and pen in European language. Very good condition. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 16672

‎Women in Medicine Photo‎

‎Photograph of Female Professor Dissecting Cadaver with Medical Students‎

‎Original vintage photograph of a female teacher directing male medical students dissecting a cadaver c. 1890. Black and white 3"x5" with back matting. One woman surrounded by four men lean over a table with a skeleton. Behind them is a chalkboard with anatomical pull down charts. Although women had participated in the informal practice of medicine for hundreds of years the United States and most industrialized nations did not allow women into the formal practice of medicine until the latter half of the 19th century. This female doctor was part of the first generation formally accepted by medical institution. She wears a medal indicating her importance and perhaps former military involvement. Early photographs of women in medicine are very rare photograph of surgery or dissection much rarer. <br/><br/>Women practiced in the medical field for hundreds of years until new licenser rules established in the Victorian era provided a means for their exclusion. The story of how women reclaimed their role in medicine is one of resourcefulness and determination. In 1849 the first American woman graduated medical school. The path was difficult; few medical schools would accepted them and the reception was not always welcoming. Female doctors were called not only to prove their ability to practice medicine but to justify their unique necessity to the field. Of all the specialties the most embattled for women is surgery; early on they faced a challenge obtaining education training and facilities. A perennial argument was that cadaver dissection necessary to training was inappropriate for the delicate female disposition. However this Victorian-era photograph showing a woman capably participating in cadaver dissection proves that in the words of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi the best known female doctor in 1891 "It is perfectly evident.that the opposition to women physicians has rarely been based upon any sincere conviction that women could not be instructed in medicine but upon an intense dislike to the idea that they should be. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 16189

‎Vaccine Women in Medicine‎

‎Original Photo of Women-Run Vaccination Clinic in Rural Europe 1922‎

‎Vaccines Women in Medicine Original silver gelatin print photograph of a Vaccination clinic in rural European village. 1922. size is 3.5 x 5.5 in. Outdoor vaccination clinic administered by women who are cleaning and preparing the equipment. Six figures stand around a table filled with glass vials test tubes and a makeshift hand-powered centrifuge seated woman holds straps which rotate mechanism. Two clean-cut men in dark overcoats stand among the women; they could be medical specialists from a nearby city overseeing the clinic. While women faced discrimination in pursuing formal medical training to become doctors they took part in many informal yet critically important roles in which they could support public health initiatives. Small loss to bottom left corner not affecting any figures. Very good condition. Exceptional early photograph of a rustic vaccination clinic. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 16875

‎Pennsylvania Medicine Harris Wm‎

‎AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO DR. FAIRLAMB FROM WILLIAM HARRIS A HARRISBURG PHYSICIAN OPPOSING A BILL IN THE LEGISLATURE TO CREATE A NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL WHICH WILL CAUSE THE CONFERRING OF MEDICAL DEGREES ON "MEN UNACQUAINTED WITH MEDICAL SCIENCE" AND "QUACKS.‎

‎Harrisburg PA 1826. Folio sheet folded to 4 pp for mailing. Addressed with Harrisburg postmark to Dr. Fairlamb in Downingtown. With tear from seal remnant affecting a single letter. Very Good.<br/><br/> "My Dear Fairlamb In as much as the passage of the new Medical school bill will crowd our profession which is already full by offering greater facilities to the study of medicine and as the Jefferson Medical faculty have already given us an earnest that they will prostitute medical honours by conferring them on men unacquainted with medical science the interest of medical men throughout the State is consequently deeply involved. The degree of Dr. of medicine has been conferred on Jonathan Pound a book-binder by the Jefferson College after having attended one course only. Five of the six professors were in favour of conferring a degree on my neighbour Henry Zook who is almost an idiot. A letter was received last night from Dr. Hiester of Reading in which he states that "two quacks in Lebanon county have actually received from the professors of the Jefferson College a promise of the Degree of Doctor of Medicine for exertions which they have made and are still making to send forward petitions in favour of the new medical school.<br/> "From such dishonourable proceedings I am confident that your well judging mind will revolt. As the more you view this bill in all its bearings the more you will be convinced that it will interfere with our interest." Harris urges Fairlamb to use his influence by urging Representative Hunt to oppose the bill.<br/> Hon. William Harris 1799-1865 a civil engineer was the son of James Harris a Pennsylvania State Senator and cofounder of the town of Bellefonte. He was son-in-law of Dr. George Ashbridge Fairlamb 1784-1829. Dr. Fairlamb received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1808 and practiced medicine in Downingtown for many years. He also established The Independent Journal of Downingtown a Jackson paper with George Plitt in 1827. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 37211

‎Medicine Quackery‎

‎A Treatise on the Ideal Treatment of Nervous Diseases and Exhaustion in Men by Absorption‎

‎New York: Marston Remedy Company 1905. Revised Edition. <br /><br />16mo 6 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 162 x 113 mm 32 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Pamphlet from a company offering "medicated" suppositories and contraptions that purportedly treat men's sexual nervous and urinary disorders. <br /><br />One "treatment" involves cocoa butter. "The suppository now glides into the rectum with the most perfect ease by means of a little pressure from the finger and which is often important this method of rectal treatment leaves no traces to excite the curiosity of servants or others." page 10. <br /><br />While most of the "treatments" involve suppositories of one kind or another the company also offers devices to relieve men's suffering illustrations helpfully included. There's "Dr. Curling's Varicocele Truss" which supposedly treats pain in the scrotum. This we're told is preferable to surgery. "Several surgeons have been assassinated by patients whom they have thus made hoplessly sic impotent." page 23. <br /><br />There's also Marston's Urethral Tapers pencil-like devices that "soothe heal and at the same time destroy all germ life. They medicate the entire canal never stain the clothing and are rapid in action." So convenient you can carry them in your pocket. page 27. <br /><br />Marston Remedy Company was a defendant in a number of court cases. "Marston Remedy Company was owned by H.D. Van Leuven of New York. The company's advertising methods proved so outrageously fraudulent -- even for the period -- that in September 1906 the Postmaster-General denied the company the use of the U.S. mails." An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform Vol. III Supplement A-Z page 479. <br /><br />OCLC shows a single institutional holding of this pamphlet at the University of Rochester home of the Atwater Collection the Atwater copy appears to have been published earlier than our copy. Yale has a copy under the same title but by a different publisher and with double the page count of our copy or the Atwater copy. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers and heavy toning to pages. Very Good overall. Marston Remedy Company paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 2316

‎Patent medicine D. Ransom Son & Co. Buffalo NY. N. Y.‎

‎Ransom's Family Receipt Book 1883‎

‎Buffalo N.Y.: Published by D. Ransom Son & Co.; Press of Baker Jones & Co 1883. Booklet sewn on cords in wrappers 16.5 x 10 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. A single year from the annual almanac promoting the "Celebrated Family Medicines" of Ransom Son & Co. series 1874 - c. 1923. The booklet consists of a series of alternating pages of recipes culinary household medicinal dyeing etc. with facing pages each advertising an individual patent medicine Trask's Magnetic Ransom's Honey Syrup Ransom's Hive Syrup Universal Magnetic Balm Prof. Anderson's Dermador. Printed orange paper wrappers decorated and with text. Hole with string tie to upper left corner. Very light rippling to wrappers otherwise fine. Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co.; Press of Baker, Jones & Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 7512

‎Japan and Western medicine‎

‎Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki‎

‎<p>Japan and Western Medicine. Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki. Original pen ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century. 483 x 363 mm. mounted as a scroll at a modern date on light grey silk backed with paper with a half-round hanging rail with braided ribbon attached at the top and a suspension bar at the foot measuring 914 x 443 mm. overall; preserved in a custom-made wooden box. A few tiny pinholes in upper corners of image but fine with the coloring fresh and bright.</p> <p> This striking image showing an amputation carried out by a Dutch surgeon in Japan was most likely painted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century during Japan's self-imposed period of national isolation. The hand-painted image is related but by no means identical to a Nagasaki woodblock print titled "Surgery by a Dutch Physician" one of many popular souvenir prints depicting scenes unique to Nagasaki which at the time was the sole point of contact between Japan and the outside world. See our reproduction of the print. It may be that our scroll is the original of the image; however it is also possible that both hand-painted and woodcut versions of the image were produced simultaneously.</p> <p> Western surgery came to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via the Portuguese who in 1543 became the first Europeans to make direct contact with Japan and the Dutch who became the only European nation allowed to trade with Japan after Japan's expulsion of the Portuguese in 1639. Surgeons attached to the Dutch East India Company established practices at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay which led to the formation of several Japanese schools of surgery based on European methods. "This aspect of Western medicine known as K m -ry geka or ‘Surgery of the Red-Haired' has had a profound effect on the development of surgical practice in Japan" Van Gulik p. 37. Van Gulik "Dutch surgery in Japan" in Red-Hair Medicine: Dutch-Japanese Medical Relations ed. Beukers et al. pp. 37-50. </p> <p>. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 44211

‎Product cookbook Patent medicine; Healy & Bigelow New Haven‎

‎Healy & Bigelow's New Cook Book‎

‎New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers 1890. Booklet stapled in wrappers 17 x11.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for the patent medicines of Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company featuring over one hundred seventy simple recipes for beverages biscuits candy cakes fish meat pastry poultry puddings soup stews and vegetables interspersed with information about Kickapoo Indian oil salve and other products. Also included are narratives on Indian culture wildly racist but of the era. John H. Healy and Charles Bigelow began their company in the late 1870s promoting their "traditional" Indian medicines with traveling medicine shows that capitalized on the public's nostalgia for the the Wild West. In orange wrappers with hole punch and ribbon to top left corner some slight discoloration to wrapper otherwise very good. OCLC locates seven copies. Healy & Bigelow Publishers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 3715

‎Women in Medicine letter‎

‎2 Letters Commending a Female Student About to Enter the Medical Field 1890s‎

‎Two letters commending a female medical student Clara Cowles who is about to enter the field. The first is an autograph letter signed and dated 16 March 1893. 1 page handwritten on National Homeopathic Medical College of Chicago letterhead from the desk of W. M. W. Davison M. D. 9 x 5 ¾ in. Excellent condition with two horizontal fold lines. Davison writes in part: "Miss Cowles Kindly I wish to congratulate you for your most excellent paper." This letter also comes with a business card from W. M. W. Davison again dated March 16th 1893 which verifies that "Miss C S Cowles has passed the examination in Histology and Physiology and her standing is 90 in the former and 100 in the latter."<br/><br/>The second is a typed letter signed and dated January 24 1896. 1 page on The People's Health Journal letterhead from the desk of editors L. D. Rogers M.D. and Ida Wright Rogers M.D. two married doctors. 8.5 x 11 in. They write:<br/><br/>"Miss Clara CowlesEl Dorado Kas.<br/>Dear Miss Cowles:--<br/>Your favor of the 17th. together with your first examination papers came duly to hand. We have returned the papers. They were excellent. <br/>We thank you for the names of your two friends and will write to them. Let us hear from you often. <br/>Yours very sincerely Drs Rogers & Rogers"<br/><br/>Very good condition with two vertical fold creases and one horizontal one at center. Small tear at upper left crease. Comes with a joint business card for Drs. Rogers & Rogers and inscribed in pencil on verso is the address for Dr. E. S. Reed Dentist. Four more inscribed business cards from doctors are included. One of the cards is from Dr. E. S. Reed and has a neat inscription on verso in ink declaring that Miss C. S. Cowles "has a standing of 98 in Dental-Surgery for the session of 1892 & '93" signed by E.S. Reed Professor of Dental Surgery. Interesting 19th century correspondence related to a young woman's medical education and those who offered her professional support and encouragement. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 16210

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Epitome of homoeopathic medicine.‎

‎Calcutta: Sett Dey & Co. 1954. 12mo 18 cm 7". 452 pp. <br><br>“Second edition. First Indian edition.”<br>    WorldCat locates three U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition. Publisher's tan cloth. Very good. Sett Dey & Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39504

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎An abridged therapy manual for the biochemical treatment of disease.‎

‎Calcutta: Haren & Brother ca. 1960. 12mo 18 cm 7.25". 178 pp. <br><br>“Twenty-fifth edition in part rewritten. First Indian Edition.” Translated by Prof. Louis H. Tafel.<br>    No copies of this Calcutta edition found via WorldCat. Publisher's red cloth. Very good. Haren & Brother hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39492

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Rheumatism: History of disease cured by homoeopathy.‎

‎Calcutta: Standard Homoeo Literature Co. ca. 1955. 16mo 16.5 cm 6.5". 116 pp. <br><br>This edition not found via WorldCat. Publisher's red cloth. Very good. Standard Homoeo Literature Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39512

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Text-book of homeopathic materia medica.‎

‎Calcutta: Roy Pub. House 1962. 8vo 21.5 cm 8.5". xiii 391 pp. <br><br>Royal was "professor of homeopathic materia medica and therapeutics of the State University of Iowa for 28 years."<br>    WorldCat locates only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership. Publisher's pale brown cloth. Light wear. Else very good. Roy Pub. House hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39494

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Diphtheria: its history causes symptoms diagnosis pathology and treatment.‎

‎Calcutta: Sett Day & Co. 1952. 16mo 16 cm 6.25". 148 pp. <br><br>First Indian edition."<br>    WorldCat locates only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition. Publisher's purple cloth. Very good. Sett Day & Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39510

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Keynotes and characteristics with comparison of some of the leading remedies of the materia medica.‎

‎Calcutta: Sett Dey & Co. 1959. 12mo 18 cm 7". 319 pp. <br><br>“First Indian edition.”<br>    This edition not found via WorldCat. Publisher's blue cloth. Very good. Sett Dey & Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39502

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Therapueutic by-ways being a collection of therapeutic measures not to be found in the text-books. Collected from all sourses. Condensed and arranged.‎

‎Calcutta: Roy Publishing House 1962. 16mo 16 cm 6.25". 203 pp. <br><br>“First Indian edition."<br>    This edition not found via WorldCat. Publisher's tan cloth. Very good. Roy Publishing House hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39503

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Tooth affections and their remedies. Collected & arranged.‎

‎Calcutta: Haren & Brother 1972. 16mo 16 cm 6.5". 93 pp. <br><br>“Third edition revised and enlarged.”<br>    No copies of any Calcutta edition found via WorldCat. Paperback. Haren & Brother paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 39489

‎Homeopathic Medicine.‎

‎Diseases of the liver pancreas and ductless glands.‎

‎Calcutta: Sett Dey & Co. 1970. 12mo 18cm 7". 166 pp. <br><br>“Reprinted 1970.” Blackwood was "professor of Clinical Medicine and Materia Medica in the Hahnemann Medical College Chicago."<br>    WorldCat locates only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership. Publisher's grey cloth. Very good. Sett Dey & Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 39496

‎Quack Medicine: Tanner SA. S. A.‎

‎DR. S.A. TANNER NATURAL DOCTOR HAS ARRIVED AND WILL TAKE ROOMS AT AND REMAIN A SHORT TIME WHERE HE CAN BE CONSULTED IN REGARD TO ALL DISEASES AFFLICTING THE HUMAN SYSTEM.HIS REMEDIES ARE PURELY INDIAN VEGETABLES.caption title‎

‎New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson Steam Job Printers 1880. Broadside 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Minor creasing and edge wear light soiling. Near fine. A rare broadside touting the healing powers of Dr. S.A. Tanner who promises to "give the locations and symptoms" to any disease "WITHOUT ASKING ANY QUESTIONS." Tanner asserts that he uses natural "Indian Vegetables composed of Roots Herbs Barks and Buds" and specifically states that they would heal "lameness hip and spinal diseases." He offers free consultations and house calls as well. Dr. Tanner claimed an office at Apothecaries Hall in New Haven a long-running pharmacy and office building for area physicians. Dr. Tanner's services have the ring of medical quackery one of the defining characteristics of which was the absolute talent to cure any disease with Native American medicines. New Haven was a locus for purveyors of such miraculous "Indian" remedies. Hoggson & Robinson, Steam Job Printers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM56371

‎Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co.‎

‎KICKAPOO ALMANAC AND HOUSEHOLD GUIDE 1895‎

‎New Haven 1894. 32pp. Original color pictorial wrappers. Lightly soiled a few small tears. Very good. Almanac and patent medicine catalog published by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of New Haven. Though it does contain an almanac calendar the publication is primarily comprised of advertisements and testimonials about the company's products - including a cure for tapeworms. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. was operated by John E. Healy and Charles F. Bigelow and was one of the most famous of the Indian patent medicine companies. The bright pictorial cover shows an Indian on horseback in the desert. Relatively scarce. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM43763

‎Medicine‎

‎FORMULAE SELECTAE: OR A COLLECTION OF PRESCRIPTIONS OF EMINENT PHYSICIANS AND THE MOST CELEBRATED PATENT MEDICINES; TOGETHER WITH A SYLLABIC VIEW OF MINERAL WATERS AND POISONS‎

‎New York: R. Donaldson 1818. iii-viii200pp. Dbd. original rear paper board present front board lacking. Front two leaves chipped in upper right corner not affecting text; otherwise good. Intended as a companion to William Lewis' THE EDINBURGH NEW DISPENSATORY. Austin. A collection of perscriptions drawn from a variety of sources. AUSTIN 784. R. Donaldson unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM35016

‎Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co.‎

‎KICKAPOO ALMANAC AND HOUSEHOLD GUIDE 1897‎

‎New Haven 1896. 32pp. Original color pictorial wrappers. Lightly soiled. Very good plus. Almanac and patent medicine catalog published by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of New Haven. Though it does contain an almanac calendar the publication is primarily comprised of advertisements and testimonials about the company's products. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. was operated by John E. Healy and Charles F. Bigelow and was one of the most famous of the Indian patent medicine companies. The bright pictorial cover shows a baby in a papoose. Relatively scarce. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM43762