Category: Pediatrics

Life Scenes from a Children's Hospital

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society : 1882

Seller ID: 1245

1882 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH AN UPBEAT MESSAGE ABOUT A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, PUBLISHED 30 YEARS AFTER FOUNDING OF THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN IN LONDON, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN ENGLAND. 10x16.5 cm tall hardcover, red cloth binding with stamped pictorial cover, title in gilt, pictorial gilt title to spine, frontis wood engraving, illustrated title vignette, 125 pp, [ii] publisher's adverts. Full page wood engravings. Covers darkened, edges rubbed, hinges weak. Text good. 5 copies OCLC. GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL (formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) was founded on 14 Fe...
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The Surgery of the Common Congenital Cardiac Malformations

By: Barnard, Christiaan N.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Staples Press : 1968

Seller ID: 551

1968 GUIDE TO PEDIATRIC HEART SURGERY BY PIONEER CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, WHO PERFORMED FIRST HUMAN HEART TRANSPLANT. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 179 pp, black & white illustrations, very good in good dust jacket with faded spine, top spine edge worn, soiling to back cover. CHRISTIAAN N. BARNARD (1922-2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1955, he traveled to the United States and was introduced to the heart...
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The Ureterovesical Junction. The Theory of Extravesicalization of the Intaravesical Ureter

By: Hutch, John A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1958

Seller ID: 247

LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON DISORDERS OF THE URETEROVESICAL JUNCTION. 9 1/4 inches tall hardback, green cloth boards, bookplate of academic urologist to front paste-down, 96 black & white figures. Residue of library sticker to cover, spine, and rear paste-down, text unmarked, overall good.
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The Lower Urinary Tract in Childhood. Some Correlated Clinical and Roentgenologic Observations

By: Kjellberg, Sven R., Ericsson, Nils O. and Rudhe, U.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, Year Book Publishers : 1957

Seller ID: 248

IMAGING THE LOWER URINARY TRACT IN CHILDHOOD BEFORE ULTRASONOGRAPHY OR SCINTIGRAPHY. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, fold-out color plate, 265 black and white figures. Inconspicuous library numbers bottom of spine, institutional library hand stamp bottom of title page, no other marks. Overall good.
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Roentgenology of the thymus in infancy and differential diagnoses of enlarged thymus and its treatment

By: Pancoast, Henry K.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: American Journal of the Medical Sciences : 1930

Seller ID: 1043

1930 EARLY REPORT OF THE USE OF RADIOLOGIC EVALUATION OF THYMIC SIZE IN INFANTS--BY FIRST PROFESSOR OF RADIOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES. 9 inches tall offprint, 23 pp, 10 figures, notations top of cover, text unmarked, very good minus. HENRY KHUNRATH PANCOAST (1875 - 1939) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1898, and in 1900, he started surgical training there. However, he was appointed professor of radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1912, the first professor of radiology in the United States.
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Practical Treatise on Disease in Children

By: Smith E;

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, J. & A. Churchill : 1884

Seller ID: 209

1884 FIRST PEDIATRIC TEXTBOOK TO RELATE DISEASE IN CHILDREN TO DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxiv, 844 pages, recent gray paper-covered boards, paper label to spine, binder's ticket on front paste-down (Antiquarian Bookcrafts of Dublin), contemporary ink inscription 'Oded Lowsley to Philip Kavanaugh' top of title page. Binding is fine, text age-tone but unmarked, very good. PREFACE: 'The constitutional peculiarities of childhood, and the weakness due to immaturity, so shape the course and symptoms of disease that there are few complaints which do not assume special feature...
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Common Happenings in Childhood

By: Still GF

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1938

Seller ID: 60

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ESSAYS ON CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR BY THE FATHER OF BRITISH PEDIATRICS. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, ix, 180 pages, original navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good. CONTENTS: of crying, of laughter, of temper, of tiredness, of appetite, of fears and antipathies, of sleep, and of school. SIR GEORGE FREDERIC STILL (1868 - 1941) was an English paediatrician and author of numerous medical textbooks and articles who first described a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis as well as the common functional Still's murmur,[1] both of which bear his name, as ...
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Atlas of Skeletal Maturation

By: Todd, T. Wingate

Price: $200.00

Publisher: St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Co. : 1937

Seller ID: 1306

1937 SCARCE CLASSIC ATLAS OF SKELETAL MATURATION--A KEY REFERENCE FOR DOCUMENTING CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to spine, dedication To the Children of America and of the World this book and its successors are dedicated by those workers drawn from all disciplines of biological science and banded together as the Associated Foundations of the Laboratory of Anatomy to promote the welfare of the Child in the interest of the Nation to the end that physical and mental health, in their fullness, may be added to the ideals ...
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Interesting Cases and Pathological Considerations and a Numismatic Suggestion

By: Weber, F.Parkes

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. : 1956

Seller ID: 1288

SMALL VOLUME OF MEDICAL CASE REPORTS BY 93 YEAR-OLD DR. F. PARKES WEBER, MASTER OF THE INTERESTING CASE--PRESENTATION COPY TO A COLLEAGUE WITH SIGNED LETTER. Slim hardcover, 9 inches tall, yellow paper covered boards, title to cover, autograph dictated signed letter from author to medical colleague affixed to front paste-down, salutation and author's initials to front free endpaper. Covers slightly worn, corners bumped, very good. The letter is written on Dr. F. Parkes Weber's stationary, dated August 10th 1956. Dear Dr. Barnard, Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I am sending you a copy...
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The Diagnosis and Treatment of Endocrine Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

By: Wilkins, Lawson

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas : 1957

Seller ID: 812

1957 FIRST PRINTING OF 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 develop...
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Lower Urinary Tract Obstruction in Childhood

By: Young, Bradford W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger : 1972

Seller ID: 246

EARLY MONOGRAPH ON DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CHILDHOOD LOWER URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION. 9 1/2 inches tall hardover, red cloth binding, academic urologist's bookplate to front paste-down, color frontis, dedication to Professor Salvador Gil Vernet, 62 black and white figures, bibliography with 572 references. very good, no jacket.
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Category: Pediatrics