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Lecons sur le Diabete et la Glycogenese Animale

By: Bernard, Claude

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, J.-B. Bailliere et Fils: 1877

Seller ID: 647

1877 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON DIABETES BY CLAUDE BERNARD, DEAN OF FRENCH PHYSIOLOGY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding, marbled paper covers, gilt title to spine, previous owner signature top of title page, viii, 576 pp. Corners bumped, spine ends worn, lower edge of cover paper chipped, lacking half-title, light foxing to front and back pages, circular ink stain pp 440-441, some pages dog-eared. A good copy of the first edition of an important book in the history of diabetes. GARRISON-MORTON No 3942. CLAUDE BERNARD (1813 â€“ 1878) was a French physiologist. H...
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Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage. An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement

By: Cannon, Walter B.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 849

CLASSIC STUDY OF THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth boards, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner bookplate to front flyleaf, xiii, 311 pp, 39 text figures, list at back of original research publications from the physiological laboratory of Harvard University on which the present account is based. Spine faded, binding tight, text unmarked, pages crisp, very good in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: Fear, rage, and pain, and the pangs of hunger are all primitive experiences which human beings share with the lower animals. These exp...
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Thyroid and Thymus, with 96 illustrations and 33 plates in color

By: Crotti, Andre

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger: 1918

Seller ID: 772

FIRST EDITION OF COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED EARLY 20TH CENTURY MONOGRAPH ON THYROID DISEASE. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black cloth with marbled boards, spine recently recased with black cloth, marbled endpapers, xiv, 567 pp, 96 illustrations in text and 33 color plates. cover edges, corners and covers worn, hinges starting, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, good+. ANDRE CROTTI (1873 - 1958) was born in Argentina, and earned his MD in Switzerland, He then moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he established a practice specializing in thyroid surgery. He served leadership roles in White C...
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The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse. The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi

By: Djerassi, C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1992

Seller ID: 371

SIGNED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPER OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL. 9 1/2 inches tall beige paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, signed and dated by Djerassi on title page (1/27/93), fine/fine. Cited by Pickover in The Medical Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (2009): In the 1930s, researchers had determined thiat high concentrafions of the hormone progesterone, which is normally present during pregnancy, also tricks a nonpregnant body into behaving as if it were pregnant and thus prevent the monthly release of an egg. In the early 1950s, American chemists Carl Djerassi and Frank Go...
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Endocrine Medicine

By: Engelbach, William

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1932

Seller ID: 782

1932 MASSIVE ILLUSTRATED TEXT REFLECTS PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT ENDOCRINOLOGY BEFORE WILKINS. Four 10 inches tall hardcover volumes, publisher's pebbled red cloth bindings, bookplate of hospital library to front paste-down, embossed library seal to title page, library handstamp to edges, covers clean, bindings tight, texts unmarked, very good. Vol. I, xxvii, 460 pp, 214 figures, 42 tables, 16 charts; Vol. II, xvii, 473 pp, 109 figures, 44 tables, 13 charts; Vol. III, xxiv, 862 pp, 366 figures, 58 tables, 28 charts; Vol. IV, pp 3-51, bibliography, 55-68, index of names, 71-117, index of subject...
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Essays in Biology in Honor of Herbert M. Evans

By: Evans, Herbert M., Fahrquhar, Samuel T., Leake, Chauncey D., Lyons, William R., Simpson, Miriam E., Allen, F.M., Althausen, T.L., Alvarez, W.C., Anderson, E.N., Purkinje, J.E., Bensley, R.R., Cole, H.H., Goss, H., de Graaf, R., Coward, K.H., Crowe, S.J.,

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of Calofornia Press: 1943

Seller ID: 798

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF 3 EMINENT BIBLIOPHILES OF SCIENCE IN THE BERKELEY CIRCLE: FESTSCHRIFT FOR HERBERT EVANS, COPY OF CHARLES SINGER AND MELVIN EDWARD JAHN. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of Dr. Charles Singer and Melvin Edward Jahn to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Herbert M. Evans, xxvii, 684 pp, many illustrations, plate with facing descriptive text; corners bumped, edges soiled, binding tight, very good in very good dust jacket. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist. In 1908, he obtained hi...
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The Growth and Gonad-Stimulating Hormones of the Anterior Hypopysis

By: Evans, Herbert M., Meyer, Karl, Simpson, Miriam E., Szarka, Alexaner J., Pencharz, Richard I., Cornish, Robert E. and Reichert, Frederick L.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press: 1933

Seller ID: 907

1933 ILLUSTRATED PIONEERING STUDIES OF GROWTH HORMONES IN RATS AND DOGS BY HERBERT EVANS, INSCRIBED TO NOBEL RECIPIENT RICHARD KUHN, 12 3/4 inches tall thick volume with printed paper covers, inscribed and signed on half-title page, To Prof. Richard Kuhn/ with highest regard/ Herbert M. Evans/ Berkeley Oct 8 1933; numerous plates, text-figures and tables, [9], 446 pp, light wear to cover edges, soiling to edges, binding tight, text and plates clean and bright, very good. HERBERT MCLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was an anatomist and embryologist at Johns Hopkins University. He moved back to Californ...
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Comparative Anatomy and Pharmacology of the Pituitary Gland

By: Geiling, Eugene M.K.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Iowa City, State University of Iowa: 1940

Seller ID: 693

1940 SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LECTURE BY EMK GEILING, FIRST CHAIR OF PHARMACOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND PIONEER INVESTIGATOR OF PITUITARY FUNCTION. 9 inches tall pamphlet, printed paper covers, stapled, 28 pages, with black & white illustrations, inscribed top of cover, To Dr. Wm Bloom/ with the author's compliments,/ E.M.K. Geiling. Age-toned but otherwise very good. EUGENE M.K. GEILING (1891 - 1971) was born in South Africa,and earned his Ph.D. in physiological chemistry in 1917 from the University of Illinois. In 1921, he became a research assistant in the Department of Pharmac...
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The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination

By: Goldschmidt, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London and New York, Methuen & Co., Ltd., George H. Doran Co.: 1923

Seller ID: 565

1923 MONOGRAPH BY BRILLIANT GENETICIST AT THE TIME OF FORMULATION OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF GENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 259 pp, over 100 figures (including fold-out plates). Covers lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, endpapers darkened, page margins darkened, unmarked. Very good-. REVIEW BY JULIAN HUXLEY IN NATURE [Vol. 112, pp 927-930, 29 Dec. 1923] "The earlier rigid belief that sex-determination was entirely a matter of the chromosome-constitution must the...
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Collected Writings Alfred F. Hess, with a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner

By: Hess, Alfred F. and Flexner, Abraham

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1936

Seller ID: 806

BIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTED PUBLICATIONS ON PEDIATRIC NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE BY ALFRED HESS--COPY OF HENRY H DONALDSON, NEUROLOGIST OF THE WISTAR INSTITUTE. Two hardcover volumes 10 1/4 inches tall, green cloth binding, gilt title to spines, teg, Wistar Institute bookplate to front paste-downs, Wistar Library discard handstamp to title page, embossed library seal of Henry H. Donaldson to title page. Vol. I, frontis portrait of Alfred Hess with tissue guard, xxxi, 719 pp; Vol. II, ix, 734 pp, light wear to cover edges, bindings tight, text pages clean and unmarked, very good minus. ALFR...
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Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy

By: Hunter, John

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, G. Nicol and J. Johnson: 1792

Seller ID: 773

1792 COLLECTION OF ANATOMIC AND EXPERIMENTAL PAPERS BY EMINENT SCOTTISH SURGEON, JOHN HUNTER, WITH FINE COPPER PLATES BY JAN VAN RYMSDYK. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather with pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, [ii], title, dedication to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, ii (contents), 277 pp (including index), has all 19 plates after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk and William Bell (including the two plates numbered as 2, the first is a key to the second); spine rubbed with peel marks at one corner but sound, new endpapers with private book plate on front pastedo...
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The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus, with Observations upon the Disese Based Upon One Thousand Cases

By: Joslin, Elliott P.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger: 1916

Seller ID: 681

1916 ELLIOTT P. JOSLIN FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXTBOOK OF DIABETES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, color frontis of diabetic blood in test tubes, xvi, 440 pp, many tables. Wear to front edge of spine with small (1/8 inch) abrasion, binding tight, light age-toning page edges, pages clean without marks. Very good In custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: In writing this book I have tried to record those facts which have proven of service to me in the treatment of diabetes. For the benefit of my patients it has...
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The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus

By: Joslin, Elliott P., Root, Howard F., White, Priscilla and Marble, Alexander

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger,: 1917, 1923, 1937, 1959

Seller ID: 662

1917, 1923, 1937, and 1959 ORIGINAL COPIES OF FOUR KEY EDITIONS OF JOSLIN'S GROUNDBREAKING TEXT ON TREATMENT OF DIABETES BEFORE AND AFTER INSULIN. Four hardcover volumes, each 9 1/2 inches tall, publisher's cloth bindings: Second (1917), Third (1923), Sixth (1937) and Tenth editions. Unmarked except for previous owner's pictorial bookplate in 1937 copy. DIETARY CONTROL: Second edition, enlarged and thoroughly revised (1917): The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus, with observations on the disease based upon thirteen-hundred cases. Color frontis of test tubes showing lipid content in blood from dia...
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Researches on the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes

By: Pavy, Frederick W.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, John Churchill: 1862

Seller ID: 628

1862 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK 19TH CENTURY MONOGRAPH ON DIABETES BY BRITISH PHYSIOLOGIST WHO LINKED GLYCOSURIA WITH HYPERGLYCEMIA. 9 inches tall hardcover, brown publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, expertley rebacked in matching cloth with gilt black leather label to spine, presentation bookplate (from R. Atkinson Stoney to Library of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) to front paste-down, pencil signature of previous owner top of title page, library handstamp to verso of title page, ix, frontis lithograph depicting apparatus for measurement of urinary glucose, 210 pp...
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Hormones and Atherosclerosis

By: PIncus, Gregory

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Academic Press, Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 836

1959 PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE ON HORMONES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS CHAIRED BY GREGORY PINCUS, STEROID BIOCHEMIST WHO DEVELOPED ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES. 9 1/4 inches high hardcover, red cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to spine, xvi, 484 pp, illustrations, corners bumped, spine faded, binding tight, unmarked, very good. GREGORY GOODWIN PINCUS (1903 - 1967) was an American biologist who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill. Dr. Pincus began studying hormonal biology and steroidal hormones early in his career. He was interested in the way that hormones affected mammals' reprod...
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The Physiology and Pathology of Exposure to Stress, a Treatise Based on the Concepts of the General-Adaptation-Syndrome and the Diseases of Adaptation

By: Selye, Hans

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Montreal, Acta, Inc.: 1950

Seller ID: 801

1000-PAGE EXPOSITION: HANS SELYE'S MAGISTERIAL TREATISE ON STRESS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE. 10 inches tall 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xx, 822 pp, 203 pp references, illustrations. Covers slightly bowed, light wear to edges, hinges starting, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, good+. HANS SELYE (1907 - 1982) was a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist. He conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. He became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in Prague in 1929 and wen...
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Image for The Human Testis. Its gross anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology, with particular reference to its endocrinology, aberrations of function and correlation to other endocrines, as well as the treatment of diseases of the testes and studies in testicular transplantation and the effects of the testicular secretions on the organism

The Human Testis. Its gross anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology, with particular reference to its endocrinology, aberrations of function and correlation to other endocrines, as well as the treatment of diseases of the testes and studies in testicular transplantation and the effects of the testicular secretions on the organism

By: Thorek, Max

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 249

1924 COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED MONGRAPH ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE TESTIS AND ITS DISEASES. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, Bookplate of academic urologist to front paste-down, 308 illustrations, overall very good. From the Introduction: Only too often, sad, though true it is, the laboratory worker does not take the trouble to check his results with data gained by the clinician, and the latter usually is too much engrossed at the bedside of patients and in his clinical work to permit of his spending much time in the laboratory or in the experimental room. To obviate such co...
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Testicular Grafting from Ape to Man: Operative Techniques, Physiological Manifestations, Histological Evolution, Statistics

By: Voronoff S;Alexandrescu G

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Brentano's Ltd.: 1930

Seller ID: 16

DETAILED ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF NEARLY 500 CASES OF TRANSPLANTION OF 'MONKEY GLANDS' TO HUMANS. 8 1/4 inches tall paperback book, color printed cover, lightly soiled, containing 39 photographic illustrations of surgical technique and histologic sections, and table listing statistical summary of 475 cases of simian testicular grafting upon man, 125 pages. Very good. SERGE ABRAHAMOVITCH VORONOFF (1866 - 1951) was a French surgeon of Russian extraction who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes while working ...
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Life. A Study of the Means of Restoring Vital Energy and Prolonging Life

By: Voronoff, Serge

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1920

Seller ID: 574

1920 THE SCIENCE BEHIND VORONOFF'S FAMOUS MONKEY GLAND TRANSPLANT PROCEDURE FOR PROLONGING LIFE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, printed title to cover and spine, armorial bookplate of previous owner to front paste-down, xx, 160 pp, 39 figures (including full page black & white plates). Light edgewear to covers, 2 small spots to back cover, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. FROM TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE: In this translation of my husband's Vivre, I Ã ave endeavored to present in English faithfully and accurately, the profound creative thought of his scientifi...
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The Diagnosis and Treatment of Endocrine Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

By: Wilkins, Lawson

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1957

Seller ID: 812

1957 SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXTBOOK IN THE WORLD DEVOTED TO PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY BY LEGENDARY LAWSON WILKINS OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xxvi, 526 pp, illustrations,light wear to cover, very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAWSON WILKINS (1894 - 1963) . After serving in World War I and graduating from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Wilkins completed his pediatric residency at Yale and then settled down in his home town of Baltimore to practice general pediatrics. He developed a relationship ...
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Category: Endocrinology