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1910rif. 166721910. 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
1900rif. 162081900. Original photograph of an operating room and surgical team early twentieth century showing two women among eleven medical personnel gathered around a patient during a surgical procedure. One woman positioned at the left wears an operating apron and rubber gloves placing her within the immediate surgical environment rather than among unidentified observers outside it. The second woman stands at the opposite edge of the group. Their precise professional roles cannot be determined from the photograph alone but their presence records women working within a medical setting during a period when women were establishing careers as physicians surgeons nurses and other hospital professionals. Original sepia photograph 8 x 10 inches. Eleven figures dressed predominantly in white surround a patient on an operating table. Most appear to be men; two women stand at the edges of the group including the woman at left wearing an apron and rubber gloves. The room clothing operating table and other visible equipment provide evidence of contemporary surgical practice and hospital procedure. No names institution location or date are supplied and the photograph does not provide sufficient evidence to identify the participants' specific medical positions. The image preserves the physical arrangement of an early modern operating room while documenting women's presence among its medical personnel. The gloved and aproned woman at left is particularly notable because her clothing associates her directly with the procedure although the photograph does not establish whether she served as a physician surgeon nurse or in another capacity. Light surface scuffing two water marks in the lower-left quadrant and dirt and staining along the image borders; light crease at upper-left corner and a small tear to the lower-right edge. Image remains crisp and clear; good condition. A detailed visual record of women working alongside men in an early twentieth-century surgical setting. unknown books
1895rif. 162091895. Houston E. C. Autograph letter signed to Dr. Lydia Bailey 1895 documents a male physician deliberately seeking a woman physician as a prospective wife and the personal scrutiny directed toward a professionally educated woman in late nineteenth-century courtship. Writing from Memphis Tennessee to Bailey in Philadelphia Houston addresses her professionally as "Dear Doctor" and explains that he wishes to correspond with a "lady physician" with marriage in mind. His stated preference is explicitly tied to professional education: he seeks a woman "educated in the same profession" because he believes he "could love her better" than a wife who did not share his medical background. The letter acknowledges Bailey first as a physician while simultaneously subjecting a prospective professional equal to detailed questions about marriage biography and physical appearance. Houston E. C. 1895. Autograph letter signed to Dr. Lydia Bailey Philadelphia. Six pages 7¾ x 5 inches. Houston supplies information about himself and asks Bailey to reciprocate with particulars about her background. His inquiries extend to her physical measurements including "height weight and measurement around hips waist & chest" placing unusually specific questions about her body alongside his expressed interest in her medical education. Accompanying the letter are the original envelope Houston's calling card identifying him as a medical doctor and a blank prescription sheet bearing his medical credentials. These supporting pieces substantiate the professional identity from which Houston writes and preserve the medical stationery associated with his Memphis practice. By 1895 women had established a sustained presence in American medical education and practice but they remained a small minority of physicians and continued to encounter institutional and social barriers within the profession. Houston's letter records one consequence of that changing professional landscape at the level of private correspondence: the possibility that a male physician might seek a spouse specifically because she possessed the same professional training. His language also shows how recognition of a woman's medical status could coexist with conventional expectations surrounding marriage and female appearance. Two worn horizontal mailing folds with separation beginning along fold edges; minor tape repairs to sheets two and three and light handling soil while the handwriting remains clean and legible. Original envelope calling card and prescription sheet present; very good condition. A direct record of professional status courtship and gender expectations addressed to an American woman physician in 1895. unknown books
1991rif. 142191991. Sabin Albert B. Autograph note reflecting on intellectual influences late in the career of the scientist who developed the first successful oral vaccine against poliomyelitis. Albert B. Sabin became internationally known during the mid twentieth century for creating the live attenuated oral polio vaccine a development that transformed global public health by enabling mass immunization campaigns against one of the most feared diseases of the twentieth century. Written in 1991 when Sabin was eighty four years old this note records a reflective statement on the book that he regarded as having a profound influence on his understanding of scientific discovery and intellectual history. Sabin Albert B. Autograph Note Signed. February 14 1991. One page measuring 8.5 x 4 inches. In bold black fineline pen Sabin writes about the book he considered most influential in shaping his philosophical outlook late in life: "I have read many books in my 84 years that had an impact on my career and philosophy of life but not until I began reading and re reading the book named below did I realize how ignorant I was all my life: 'THE DISCOVERERS: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself' by Daniel J. Boorstin former Librarian of Congress." He signs the note "Albert B. Sabin." Sabin's oral polio vaccine introduced in the early 1960s became the cornerstone of international polio eradication campaigns and remains one of the most consequential medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century. His work dramatically reduced the global incidence of poliomyelitis a disease that had caused widespread paralysis and death during the first half of the century. This late life reflection connects Sabin's own scientific career with a broader intellectual tradition of discovery and inquiry represented by Daniel J. Boorstin's historical study of scientific exploration. Original mailing folds visible; otherwise well preserved. Overall very good to near fine condition. A reflective manuscript note by the virologist responsible for one of the most important medical advances of the twentieth century. unknown books
1762rif. 305478Salem MA 1762. 2 pp. pen and ink on paper. 6-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. Old fold minor soiling stains very good. 2 pp. pen and ink on paper. 6-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. These items offer a quaint glimpse of a beloved New England Physician. Edward Augustus Holyoke 1728-1829 the son of Rev. Edward Holyoke 1689-1769 and Margaret Appleton was born in Marblehead Massachusetts on August 1 1728. Holyoke moved with his family to Cambridge when his father was appointed president of Harvard and graduated from the college in 1746. After a brief tenure as a school teacher he apprenticed himself to a physician in Ipswich. He later opened his own practice in Salem where he gained his greatest notoriety as an early pioneer in small pox treatment and prevention during an outbreak in 1777. During his lifetime he would serve as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society was awarded the first M.D. degree given by Harvard Medical School and spent six years as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holyoke continued to practice medicine in Salem until 1821 and was honored by the town during a tribute at the Essex House on his 100th birthday. 1. Autograph Document Signed. To Capt. Thos. Dean. Reading: "Sir please send by the bearer an hundred w. of your best white powder sugar in two separate 1/2 hundreds: - and an hundred w. of your best & whitest Brown Sugar - to your humble sevt. E.A. Holyoke" 2. Prescription listing four ingredients including "camomilla" and "gentian" with the directions: "Steep in one quart maderah & take a glass every noon. unknown books
1684rif. 264562v.p. Strasbourg Heidelberg Marburg Wittenberg etc. 1684. 1 vols. 4to. Later vellum-backed boards. Front joint split some foxing browning marginal stains. 1 vols. 4to. A collection of 26 medical dissertations mostly published in Strasbourg 1637-1684 related to various topics including dysentery gunshot wounds the plague kidney stones psychological ailments sleeplessness surgery on tumors tooth rot and other maladies. The book includes a manuscript index note at the beginning of the volume and each pamphlet is numbered in manuscript. Most of the titles are quite rare OCLC showing 3-5 institutions as holding the individual titles. The variety of topics suggests that a physician documenting current research or academic activity in medical studies in Strasbourg compiled the volume. The unique French title in the collection closes the volume and discusses the use of the earliest eau de toilette L'eau de la Reine de Hongrie as an antiseptic tonic for the plague. The following is a list of the titles herein: STURMIO S. Discursus medicus de medicis non medicis in salutem periclitantis proximi. Wittenberg 1663. 16 42 pp. LOMBARDIUS C. Centum Theses de Officio Medici. Marburg 1655. 44 pp. HEINTZ J. Disputatio inauguralis medica De affectibus soporosis. Strasbourg1677. 40 pp. ISRAEL J. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de ligatione vulgo von Nestel Knopffen. Heidelberg1672. 24 pp. OCLC: Cornell and NML. KUEFFER W. C. Galaktologian Seu Dissertationem De Lacte Inauguralem Sub Auspicio Divino . Strasbourg1672. 8 40 pp. OCLC: only Cornell in North America. WILLIUS J.V. Disputatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria. Strasbourg 1640. 16 pp. WILLIUS J.V. Auxiliante pacis authore affectuum vehementissimum vehementissimorum affectuum effectum et causam Iram dissertatione. Strasbourg 1671. 4 44 pp. TACKIUS J.M. Disputatio inauguralis Medica Juvenem Phthisi Incipiente Laborantem. Giessen 1684. 16 pp. NIEMAND H. Disputatio medica inauguralis de suffusione. Strasbourg 1676. 2 28 pp. BIX J.U. Sphygmographia; seu Dissertatio De pulsu inauguralis. Strasbourg 1677. 28 pp. HERTEBRODT J.M. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de peste. Strasbourg 1667. 16 pp. NICOLAI H. Disputatio Inauguralis Medica. De Vulneribus Sclopetorum. Strasbourg1675. 4 40 pp. WIDT J.R. S.S. Triade Fortvnante Et Praesidente Phthisiologia Decreto Et Avthoritate Magnifici Nobilissimi Gratiosissmi Collegii Medici Universitatis Argentinensis. Strasbourg 1637. 32 pp. SEBISCH J.A. Disputatio cheirurgica de tumoribus praeter naturam in genere. Strasbourg 1669. 2 40 2 pp. SALTZMANN L. Disputatio inauguralis medica qua abscessum internum insignis magnitudinis. Strasbourg 1671. 28 pp. SCHERBIUS C. Disputatio medica inauguralis de renum calculo. Ultrajecti 1669. 16 pp OCLC: BL only. PHILIPPUS JACOBUS. Disputatio medica inauguralis. Strasbourg 1673 8 56 pp. MAPP M. and SCHEID J.V. Zetematon peri phusog dekas h. e. De flatibus quaestiones decem.Strasbourg 1675. 2 34 pp. SCHEID J.V. Visus vitiatus ejusque demonstratio mathematico-medica. Strasbourg 1677. 8 70 2 pp. MAPP M. Disputatio de fistula genae terminata ad dentem cariosum. Strasbourg 1675. 28 pp. WIETZEL J.C. Disputatio inauguralis medica De morsibus et puncturis animalium. Strasbourg 1676. 30 pp. SCHERPFF M. Disputatio medica inauguralis exhibens febrem petechialem. Strasbourg 1676. 8 28 pp. SENCKENBERG J.H. Disputatio medica inauguralis De ptyelismo. Strasbourg 1676. 28 pp. DULCKEN J.H. Disputatio Inauguralis De Nakir Id est Nakir Arabum.Heidelberg 1684. 20 pp. AMELUNG J.C. Der Röm. Käyserl. Majestät Und Churfürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen Allergnädigst- Und Gnädigst-ertheiltes Privilegium. Leipzig 1680. 12 pp. Les vertus de l'eau de la reine d'Hongrie. Paris c1670s. 3pp. unknown books
1741rif. 224902Halle: Waysenhaus 1741. Collation; 1 a-c8A-pppp8. 7 ff. 1-1232 pp. 56 ff. index. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum soiled foot of spine worn some browning of text. A few faint contemporary ink markings in prelims. A fresh sound copy. Collation; 1 a-c8A-pppp8. 7 ff. 1-1232 pp. 56 ff. index. 1 vols. 8vo. Mid-eighteenth-century edition of this popular German medical work by Christian Friedrich Richter 1676-1711 medical doctor and theologian and medical director of the Halle orphanages. From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. cf. Blake 381 12th ed. Leipzig same year; Hirsch/H. IV 799 Waysenhaus] unknown books
1779rif. 10470Yverdon .et Paris: P. Fr. Didot le jeune. and Méquignon l'aîné 1779. First edition. xii 130 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary quarter leather and boards slightly rubbed fine copy bound with two other titles see below. First edition. xii 130 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare treatise on Rabies by this surgeon physician 1742-1832 and author of several medical treatises including a six volume History of Anatomy and Surgery Paris 1770-73. Bound with two other works: 2 Levret André 1703-1780. Observations sur l'Alaitement des Enfans.132pp. 8vo Paris: Chez Méquignon 1781. First Edition. Rare work by this obstetrician and pediatrician who according to Garrison-Morton "improved the obstetric forceps and was a famous teacher in Paris." Not in NLM; not in NUC nor RLIN. 3 Maret Hugues 1726-1786. Mémoire dans lequel on cherche à déterminer quelle influence les mœurs des François ont sur leur santé.4 159 3 pp. 8vo Amiens: chez la veuve Godard 1772. First Edition. NLM 18th-C. p. 287. Fascinating essay on a subject much in the news today. NLM 18th-C. p. 359 P. Fr. Didot le jeune... and Méquignon l'aîné unknown books
1976rif. 21944London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medecine 1976. First edition. 1 vols. Large 4to. Cloth. Fine. First edition. 1 vols. Large 4to. The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medecine unknown books
1915rif. 86631New York: Kny-Scheerer Companyy 1915. Twentieth Edition. Quarto 27cm. Full flexible pebbled-morocco boards; variously paginated ca. 1000pp; 52 page index illus. with over 10000 engraved text figures of surgical instruments. Front hinge thinly cracked; we note intentional excisions of products to three leaves costing at most about 30% loss. Still a well-preserved example of a highly desirable medical trade catalog. unknown books
1846rif. 81781Milford NH: John Burns 1846. 12mo 18cm. Full contemporary sheep; 181pp 1p; ten woodcut text illustrations included in pagination; verso of terminal leaf advertises John Burns's Thomsonian Depot in Milford. Front and rear endpapers removed; scattered pencil marginalia and pencil ownership signature "Attalena Mower" to front endpaper; general mild to moderate foxing to contents still a tight complete copy Very Good. A popular 19th-century book of botanical home remedies based on Thomson's system and written from the author's premise that ".the preparation and use of medicine to cure disease requires no more science than the preparation of bread" p.xii. Includes an alphabetical catalog of common ailments with their treatments and recipes for compounded remedies including Spiced Bitters Diarrhea Powders Elder Salve etc. This edition not noted by Atwater who notes 708 that the "fourth edition is designated the third edition on the title-page which is dated 1846. On the verso of the title-page however apears the 'Preface to the fourth edition' dated May 1948." Our copy bears no such notice on the verso of the title page and indeed appears like the fourth to be a stereotype reprint of the 1845 Second edition with only the date on the title page altered. John Burns unknown books
1855rif. 1250181855. London: John Churchill 1855. Slim 8vo 77pp. 2 plates at the end then 28 pp. ads for Churchill's "Publications in Medicine Surgery and Science". Original green cloth hinges repaired at front and back cloth dull and backstrip with some wear. § First edition of the author's first book; presentation copy inscribed on the title-page by the author "With the Author's best complts" and a 4pp. mostly illegible ALs from the author to Dr. Long tipped in facing the title-page. A little known but apparently quite early and important study by this ophthalmic surgeon best known for his recognition of Laurence-Moon syndrome and his research on retinitis pigmentosa. The essay won the Liston prize for 1854. In the Journal of Ophthalmology for 1932 there is a long essay on Laurence who died at the age of 42 entitled "A Belated Tribute" by Arnold Sorsby pp. 727-740 with a bibliography of his writings. Laurence was a brilliant student and later ophthalmologist who founded the South London Ophthalmic Hospital now the Royal Eye Hospital. Among many other unrecognised achievements he was the first to describe macular degeneration. The tribute concludes: "the work that he started and did not see completed is today a living force. He has become an integral part of modern ophthalmology as founder of an important hospital as a pioneer in ophthalmic journalism and as one of the forerunners of that growing school of thought which correlates ocular defect with bodily structure." Not in Garrison-Morton. Armorial bookplate of Richard Long M.D. unknown books
1822rif. 54222New York: James V. Seaman 1822. First Edition. Quarto 28cm signed in twos. Original paper-covered boards with printed spine label; 19912pp; 9 leaves of plates bound in at rear. Early ink ownership signature to title page John Wheeler. A complete but worn copy. Covers are somewhat rubbed and worn with some flaking of paper at spine and portions of printed spine label rubbed away; text conspicuously foxed throughout; half-title lacking; front endpaper partially excised one plate partially detached at gutter. Text is uncut and despite the prominent foxing to text the plate leaves are mostly unblemished. Complete and Good. An infrequently encountered American surgical text. Anderson who trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh emigrated to America in 1820 and after delivering a series of anatomical lectures in New York under the patronage of Valentine Mott the current work was published to supplement these lectures became affiliated with the Vermont Academy of Medicine see Kelly American Medical Biographies. NY: 1920. This work is notable for the nine anatomical plates all engraved by A.B. Asher Brown Durand including four engraved from his original illustrations. These are quite early works by Durand who would achieve his first prominence as the engraver of John Trumbull's edition of the Declaration of Independence 1823 and later great renown as a landscape painter of the Hudson River School from about 1840 on. Not cited in any of the standard medical bibliographies and infrequent in commerce with only a single copy traced at auction in the past 50 years Swann 1979. James V. Seaman unknown books
1844rif. 52438Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo 1844. Fourth edition enlarged. Octavo 23cm; contemporary full sheep; 559p. Upper 1/2" of title page margin excised to remove an ownership signature. Else a tight copy in contemporary binding faintly foxed at prelims; Very Good. Engraved bookplate of S.H. Bibighaus to front pastedown with later pencil presentation to Thomas B. Bibighaus. Better known for his psychological works especially Brief Outline of an Analysis of the Human Intellect 1865; Rush son of the noted American physician Benjamin Rush devoted much of his early career to the current work which presents a detailed physiological and medical study of the human voice followed by a treatise on elocution. "Although unattractive to the modern reader this work achieved popularity in an age of declamation and went through six editions by 1867" DAB. A solid and attractive copy. Lippincott, Grambo unknown books
1821rif. 49283Boston: Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham 1821. First Edition. Octavo 24cm.; removed; 135pp. Some light foxing and dampstaining along margins long closed tear to pp. 3/4 touching text without loss else Very Good and sound. Among the author's other medical treatises include works on spotted fever and the self-limited nature of typhoid fever Hale advising physicians not to overdose. SHOEMAKER 5514. Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham unknown books
1827rif. 49948Bath: Joseph G. Torrey 1827. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; removed; 17pp. Faint vertical fold old ink signature to title page serving as upper cover else Very Good and sound. Address to and about the duties and history of the Medical Society of Maine. Quite uncommon. SHOEMAKER 28065. Joseph G. Torrey unknown books
1869rif. 49873Manchester NH: John B. Clarke 1869. First Separate Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within double rule; 23pp. Light chipping and a bit of toning to wrapper extremities splitting along top half of upper wrapper spine edge faint vertical fold else Very Good and sound. Faint ink inscription at head of upper cover: "Compliments of A.B.C." Address on the life and works of American surgeon and educator Reuben Dimond Mussey 1780-1866 first published in the "Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society. John B. Clarke unknown books
1852rif. 49883New York: G.A.C. Van Beuren 1852. First Edition. Slim octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 28pp. Wrappers slightly worn and dust-soiled else Very Good internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author at head of upper cover. Address delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine October 6th 1852 on the life and works of the late New York surgeon J. Kearny Rodgers. The final two pages of the sketch focus primarily on the description and symptoms of the disease which killed the subject "Inflammation of the veins of the portal system." Delafield was himself an important member of the medical profession as a pediatrician and obstetrician founding the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in 1842. SABIN 19331. G.A.C. Van Beuren unknown books
1846rif. 49312New-York: William Radde 1846. First American Edition. Octavo 23cm.; removed retaining original stitching; 66pp. Some light dust-soil and wear from handling contemporary gift inscription at head of title page serving as upper cover else Very Good and sound. Letter first published in the "British Journal of Homœpathy" April 1846. The author a Scottish physician was one of the earliest British practitioners of homeopathy losing both his position at the Royal Infirmary and most of his practice while also drawing criticism from not just Forbes but many others. Interestingly even Forbes' original article was itself deemed too sympathetic to homeopathy and his Review closed shortly after its publication while the present article raised Henderson in the eyes of the public if not the medical profession DNB. William Radde unknown books
1850rif. 50123Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins 1850. First Edition. Slim octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's brown wrappers printed within decorative border; 53pp.; illus. throughout. Upper cover separated and a bit chipped else Very Good internally sound. Inscribed and signed by the author at head of upper cover. Contents cover cases of idiocy congenital and not "both parents intemperate / simpletons / puny / scrofulous / related by blood" vs. "self-pollution.blow to the head.head stuped in hot rum by a nurse when three days old" p. 31. T.K. & P.G. Collins unknown books
1815rif. 49357Boston: C. Stebbins 1815. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; removed; 34pp. Lacking half title page contemporary ownership signature of a Miss Louisa G. Archibald at head of title page serving as upper cover else Very Good and fresh. Funeral oration delivered on the occasion of the death of John Warren the "single more important figure in the early institutionalization of Boston medicine" anb.org. AUSTIN 1036; SABIN 35425; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 35007. C. Stebbins unknown books
1851rif. 50146Boston: William Chadwick 1851 but 1852. First Edition. Slim octavo 23.5cm.; pubilsher's brown printed wrappers printed within double rule; 68pp. Wrappers rather chipped and toned faint crease across upper cover rear cover raggedly split at bottom half of spine edge else a Good or better copy internally fine. Title page dated 1851 upper cover 1852. William Chadwick unknown books
1795rif. 50032Boston: T. Fleet Jun 1795. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; removed; 32pp. Long shallow loss along fore-edge of title page serving as upper wrapper slightly touching text without loss of meaning else Good or better overall. Address on the state of medicine in the country by John Brooks future Governor of Massachusetts followed by appendices including correspondence with the Humane Society in London; "Premiums adjudged by the Trustees"; and a "Catalogue of the Members of the Humane Society." AUSTIN 278; ESTC W20162; EVANS 28351; SABIN 8355. T. Fleet, Jun unknown books
1870rif. 50190Boston: James Campbell 1870. First Separate Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's pale blue-grey wrappers printed within thick funereal rule; 27pp. Tiny chips and minor toning to wrapper extremities else Very Good and sound. Funeral address for the Scottish obstetrician and anaesthesiologist James Young Simpson 1811-1870 "Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church Beach St. at the request of the Gynæcological Society of Boston June 19 1870" and first published in the Society's Journal August 1870. Quite uncommon. James Campbell unknown books
1847rif. 49328Chicago: Printed at 128 Corner of Lake and Clark Streets 1847. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; removed; 221pp. Lacking original wrappers else Very Good and fresh. Final leaf of text provides a complete list of fees for medical services. Baccalaureate address delivered to one of the earliest graduating classes of the College founded in 1842. The speaker Moses L. Knapp was professor of materia medica and here advises the class of 1847 that "There will be but little difficulty in getting along with rivals who may be either secret or open enemies if you will act honestly and uprightly yourselves and command your feelings" p. 19. BYRD 1218 noting 1000 copies printed; McMURTRIE 121. Printed at 128 Corner of Lake and Clark Streets unknown books
