‎Medecine‎

‎Good, John Mason (1764-1827).‎

‎THE STUDY OF MEDICINE.‎

‎Five volumes. pp. 441; 428; 332; 454; 494. Foxed (sometimes severely). 8vo. XLib. (American College of Surgeons). Contemporary full leather bindings need rebacking and restoration. Fifth American Edition. American Imprints 29041. In 1793 Good moved to London and entered into partnership with a medical man, and was admitted a member of the College of Surgeons. His new partner was jealous of him, and soon caused the business to fail. While struggling to surmount his difficulties, Good in February 1795 won a prize of twenty guineas offered by Dr. Lettsom for an essay on the `Diseases Frequent in Workhouses, their Cure and Prevention' In 1794 he became an active member of the `General Pharmaceutic Association,' designed to improve the education of druggists, who were then notorious for their frequent illiteracy and mistakes. At the request of some members of this society Good wrote his `History of Medicine, so far as it relates to the Profession of the Apothecary,' 1795. He now gained considerable practice, and contributed to several leading periodicals, including the `Analytical' and the `Critical' Reviews, which he edited for some time. Much of his general literary work was done while he walked the streets on his rounds. In 1820 he devoted himself to practice exclusively as a physician. In 1822 he first published his `Study of Medicine' in four volumes, which was well received and sold rapidly. In it he endeavoured to unite physiology with pathology and therapeutics, an attempt which was bound to fail owing to the defective state of those sciences. His enormous labours at length told on his constitution, and for some years before his death his health was bad. No man could be more conscientious or industrious than Good. He had a striking power of acquiring knowledge and of arranging it in an orderly fashion. Remarkably, six American editions of this work had been published up to 1835. Fascinating details of the practice of medicine in the early 19th century. Five Volumes. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 10‎

‎Brown, John.‎

‎HEALTH: Five Lay Sermons to Working People.‎

‎pp. 90 + Plus frontis. Chapter head illustrations. Very dampstained. Top corner edge slightly roughed. 8vo. Original full gold stamped purple cloth binding, faded. Dr. John Brown is most famous as the author of "Rab & His Friends". The original Civil War era edition. MED 9‎

‎Campbell, John D.‎

‎EVERYDAY PSYCHIATRY. Concise, Clinical, Practical. Designed for Practitioners and Students.‎

‎pp. xiv, 333. Inked ownership. Tall 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding. MED 2‎

‎Gynecological and Obstetrical Monographs.‎

‎CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT AND COMPOSITE INDEX.‎

‎pp. xiv, 633. Illustrated. Paste downs and fly leaves foxed. Small 4to. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly worn. Gynecological and obstetrical Monographs. MED 1‎

‎Hamilton, James (1749-1835).‎

‎OBSERVATIONS ON THE UTILITY AND ADMINISTRATION OF PURGATIVE MEDICINES IN SEVERAL DISEASES.‎

‎pp. xx, 168. Foxed. Manuscript ownership of Dr. Jonathan H. Dorsey (Mill Creek Furnace, Huntingdon, PA). Contemporary full leather binding. (Second American Edition) from the Fifth Edinburgh Edition. Important medical text exploring the use of purgative medicines in the treatment of disease. Includes case studies from Hamilton's Edinburgh practice. Austin 871. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 10‎

‎Hechtlinger, Adelaide.‎

‎THE GREAT PATENT MEDICINE ERA. Or Without Benefit of Doctor.‎

‎248p. Profusely illustrated. XLib. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. "Here, with lavish illustrations and in loving detail, is the story of American Folk Medicine from the end of the Civil War until 1906, when Congress, by passing the Pure Food and Drug Act, put an end forever to some of the nation's more bizarre nostrums. It was a time of Indian Snake Root Oil and Electric Belts, of tonics and phosphates, of pills, powders, and elixirs, of herb teas and aphrodisiacs. It was a wild, robust, free-wheeling epoch, when much that was put forward could only be described as far-fetched. In addition to the home remedies there were the countless thousands of patent medicines. To sell them, the manufacturers made any claims they could think of, and hired top-notch illustrators to embellish those claims. and a revolution took place in the field of graphic arts. Many of the steel engravings and color reproductions required so much exacting hand labor that they cannot be duplicated today, and as a result are now much sought after as collectors' items. And it's all here in this volume." MED 3‎

‎Jeaffreson, J. Cordy.‎

‎A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORS. Reprinted from the English Edition.‎

‎pp. 490, (4). Some age and damp stain. 12mo. Original full embossed blue cloth binding, worn. Pleas Note: End leaf describes frontispiece as : Heads contained in Hogarth's Undertakers' Arms. This copy's frontis is the publisher's promotional. Anecdotal history of the (English) medical profession. "Charming book . with the genuine flavor of letters" - Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 663. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 1‎

‎Latz, Dr. Leo J.‎

‎THE RHYTHM OF STERILITY AND FERTILITY IN WOMEN. A Discussion of the Physiological, Practical, and Ethical Aspects of the Discoveries of Dr. K. Ogino (Japan) and Prof. H. Knaus (Germany) Regarding the Periods when Conception Is Impossible and when Possibl‎

‎pp. vii, 151 + Plus three folding charts diagramming conception and menstruation. Illustrated with numerous charts and drawings. 12mo. Original full gold stamped blue cloth binding. Eighteenth Printing. "Published with Ecclesiastical Approbation". MED 9‎

‎Lull, Clifford B. (Editor).‎

‎MANAGEMENT IN OBSTETRIC COMPLICATIONS.‎

‎pp. vii, 235. Illustrated. Paste downs and fly leaves beginning to brown. Tall 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding. Reprinted from Clinics, October, 1945; Vol. IV, No. 3. Nice copy. "A collection of papers, gathered to meet the needs produced by the shortage of civilian physicians due to World War II. It thus presents to 'general practitioners authoritative discussions about the important complications most often encountered during pregnancy and labor' such as the Toxemias of Pregnancy, Ectopic Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Puerperal Infections, and Placenta Previa." MED 4‎

‎Morris, Robert J.‎

‎FIFTY YEARS A SURGEON.‎

‎pp. 346 + Plus portrait frontis. Uncut. XLib. Bookplate of Lucy I. Bolt. Small 4to. Original full gold stamped orange cloth binding, spine faded with white library call numbers. MED 2‎

‎Robinson, Victor. (Editor).‎

‎THE NEW MODERN HOME PHYSICIAN. An Encyclopedia of Medical Knowledge. Completely Revised and Reset.‎

‎pp. 861 + Plus color anatomical frontis. Illustrated. Newspaper clippings. 4to. Original full cloth binding, worn. Spine taped. MED 6‎

‎Schumann, Edward A.‎

‎EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY.‎

‎pp. x, 189. Seventy-One illustrations. Paste downs and fly leaves foxed. Small 4to. Original full blue cloth binding. Gynecological and obstetrical Monographs. MED 1‎

‎Schaefer, Joseph.‎

‎CATALOGUE OF ARTICLES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH AND CURING DISEASE. Most of which are recommended in the Works of Mgr. S. Kneipp. Guide To Health. Imported and Manufactured by Joseph Schaefer.‎

‎n.p. Pictorial decorated title page. Slight dampstain. Includes books printed in German. Books on Health and Cures. Chart of mailing Zones of the States from New York City. Ad for Dr. Lahmann's Babies Compound Food, Silvania Tea and Nerve medicine. Price list for Curative Herbs, Powders, Tinctures, Malt Coffee and Oils. 12mo. Original full decorated printed wraps, chipped and soiled. Extremely scarce "medical" trade catalog. MED 9‎

‎Thomas, Robert.‎

‎THE MODERN PRACTICE OF PHYSIC, EXHIBITING THE CHARACTERS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, PROGNOSTIC, MORBID APPEARANCES, AND IMPROVED METHOD OF TREATING THE DISEASES OF ALL CLIMATES. The Fourth American From the Fifth London Edition. With an Appendix by David Hosack‎

‎pp. xvi, 915, (3) [Publisher's Advertisements. Thick 8vo. Foxed. Contemporary full leather binding, lacking front board. An important and popular guide to the treatment of a wide range of diseases. Austin 1892. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 10‎

‎University of Pennsylvania.‎

‎PRINTED NOTES ON GENERAL CHEMISTRY FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS. Thoroughly Revised and Greatly Enlarged, With Illustrated Notes On Bandaging.‎

‎pp. (2)[Medical Instrument Ads], 91, (5)[Saunder's Question Compends & Medical Instrument Ads] + Plus Medical Ads. Text illustrations on bandaging. Each page interleaved with blank sheet. Inked ownership of G.D. Keefer, Chambersburg. W. B. Saunders, Publisher & Bookseller, paper label on back paste down. Tall 8vo. Original full limp green cloth binding. Nice copy. Very scarce. MED 9. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!‎

‎Wilson, Charles Morrow.‎

‎LIBERIA.‎

‎226p. + Plus photographs. XLib. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, worn. Poor copy. AFRICA/4‎

‎Jones, John Paul.‎

‎JOHN PAUL JONES (1747-1792). Autopsy Reports. Excerpts From John Paul Jones Commemoration. Reprinted by Naval History Division. at the request of the Surgeon General of the Navy.‎

‎17p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original printed wraps, soiled and foxed at the edges. NAVAL/1‎

‎Riznik, Barnes.‎

‎MEDICINE IN NEW ENGLAND.‎

‎26 p. Illustrated. Color printed wraps. 5.5" x 8.5". Brief but valuable review of medicine in early New England. NEW ENGLAND 1‎

‎Boynton, Lyman Crowell.‎

‎QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENTS UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF VITAMIN A IN THE BODY, AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOOD.‎

‎20p. Illustrated with graphs. 8vo. Original printed wraps, slightly soiled with very small loss at bottom of front cover. Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Pure Science, Columbia University. Very good copy. SCIENCE BOX 3 x2.‎

‎Park, Roswell.‎

‎AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. Second Edition.‎

‎370 p. Some staining and chipping to text, without loss. Tall octavo. Original full cloth binding, worn. No endpapers. XLib. from West Point Library. A really underrated history that discusses many important aspects of medical discovery and fashion. MED 4‎

‎Combe, George‎

‎THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO EXTERNAL OBJECTS. Ninth Edition.‎

‎351 p. Small 8vo. Pages browned. Contemporary half leather binding. Early ownerships of John E. Miller and Nellie Bradford. "No book published within the memory of man, in the English or any other language, has effected so great a revolution in the previously received opinions of society. The influence of that unpretending treatise has extended to hundreds of thousands of minds which know not whe nce they derived the new light that has broken in upon them, and percolated into thousands of circles that are scarcely conscious of knowing more about Mr. Combe than his name, and the fact that he wa s a phrenologist. the appearance of which created a sensation unparalleled by any philosophical work ever published in the language" - Illustrated London News, 1858. The book's fame did carry a word for phrenology with it; but Constitution is not a book about phrenology, instead it is a book of natural philosophy which teaches that Man is as subject to natural laws as the rest of Nature- Physical , Organic, and Moral. Ignorance of or disobedience to the natural laws led to 'punishment' - such as catching a cold from exposure to the elements. The first steps towards the good life were to study and obey the distinct natural laws (notably excluding the Bible). Combe's book was hugely controversial from the 1820s through the 1850s. Evangelicals founded societies to oppose it, wrote books and a rticles against it, and sometimes even burned it! The fuss popularly believed to have resulted from Darwin's Origin of Species pales in comparison to that of Combe's Constitution, one of the most infl uential books of the 19th century. The 8th was the final edition revised by Combe. This is the first Henderson Edition. NW45 Rt.Stk‎

‎Henry, George W.‎

‎ALL THE SEXES. A Study of Masculinity and Femininity. Foreword by David E. Roberts.‎

‎pp. xxi, 599. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Slightly worn dust jacket. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! EROS1‎

‎Desilver, Robert.‎

‎DESILVER'S PHILADELPHIA DIRECTORY AND STRANGER'S GUIDE, FOR 1835 & 36.‎

‎pp. [16](Advertisements), 199, [13] (Important governmental, financial, and insurance institutions); ix, 36 (Will of Stephen Girard), [4] (Testimonial letters for Swaim's Panacea, a patent medicine). The first group of advertisements are printed in blue ink, in a large variety of decorative display type, accompanied with a few interesting woodcut illustrations. 8vo. 225 mm. Juniata Library bookplate (withdrawn). Original printed boards binding, with an advertisement for Desilver on the rear board. Leather spine deteriorated; front board almost detached. Age stain to text. Printed on the front cover: 'Note to Borrowers. In consequence of the numerous applications at the store of the publisher to borrow the directory, and as he has been at great expense and trouble to compile it for the accommodation of the public, he has come to the determination of CHARGING SIX CENTS for every search. Purchasers are earnestly requested not to loan their books.' On the title page is the autograph ownership of: 'Francis Shoemaker, 51 S. Wharves.' He was a merchant with an extensive trade in Cuba, and the Caribbean, and is listed in the Directory. Text printed in two columns. It includes: the names of the citizens alphabetically arranged, with their occupations and places of abode; a list of the streets, alleys, lanes, courts, roads and wharves, banks, insurance companies; national and their societies, literary, scientific and charitable institutions; Custom House Department, Post Office, churches with their pastors and sextons, foreign, consular and other agents, resident abroad and in the United States, &c. There is also a chart of Regulations (for the ringing) of the State House Bell in Case of Fire. Many examples of this directory includes an Almanac, but here that is replaced by: The Will of the Late Stephen Girard, Esq Procured from the Office for the Probate of Wills, with a Short Biography of his Life. Philadelphia: Published by Thomas and Robert Desilver 1832. The controversy over the Will of Stephen Girard (1750-1831) was of great interest in this era. His large estate was divided - with $140,000 given to relatives and charities; $300,000 to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania "for internal improvement by canal navigation"; his real estate in Louisiana (208,000 acres) he left to New Orleans; $500,000 he left to Philadelphia to create Delaware Avenue, clean up the waterfront, pave, remove all wooden buildings and other projects to improve the city. The bulk of his estate was left to create what became Girard College, to educate the poor white orphan boys with a trade. His will gives instructions about the College, both physical and administrative. Some of Girard's heirs contested the will in what became a "classic in American legal history, contributing not a little to the clarification of the law of charities" (DAB). Robert Desilver was an entrepreneurial Philadelphia publisher who became famous for his maps, directories, and almanacs. S&S/AI 33704 & S&S/AI 12613; Spear. p. 282. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 Box 5‎

‎Meikle, James (1730-1799).‎

‎THE TRAVELLER; Or, Meditations On Various Subjects. Written On Board A Man Of War To Which Is Added, Converse With The World Unseen. Second American Edition.‎

‎372 p. Old damping. XLib bookplate of the Lancaster, PA Mechanics' Library Association on front paste down. XLib stamp on title page. Front fly leaves loose. 12mo. 175 mm. Original leather binding, very worn. Front board detached. Spine perished. Title continues: "To Which Is Prefixed, The Life Of The Author." "James Meikle was a Scottish doctor who served on the man-o'-war Portland, on duty off the Briish coast and in the Mediterranean. He was intensly religious and even taught himself Hebrew while at sea. The book is the third of four published posthumously in aid of his widow. The text consists mostly of religious meditations of a mystic nature, but the books also contains material about life at sea and ports of call." See Sabin 47402. S&S/AI 26058. Hardbound. AI BX 4‎

‎Philadelphia.‎

‎PHILADELPHIA; OR, GLANCES AT LAWYERS, PHYSICIANS, FIRST-CIRCLE, WISTAR-PARTIES, &c. &c.‎

‎pp. [4], 115. Deckle edged. 24mo. 160 mm. Foxed. Disbound, but with the original front board and printed spine title present. Issued around the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this unusual and scarce guide to the social life and customs of Philadelphia (then the second most populous city in the U.S.) covers a wide territory with a keen eye. Lawyers, doctors, professors, popular fashions, social leaders and climbers, Utopians, etc. are examined. The Wistar Parties are named for Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) a famous physician and anatomist. It was his habit to throw open his house once every week in the winter, and at these gatherings students, citizens, scientists, and travelers met and discussed subjects of interest. These assemblies, celebrated in the annals of Philadelphia under the title of Wistar parties (or balls), were continued long after his death by other residents of that city. Very scarce and interesting. PA29‎