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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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On the Functional Diseases of the Renal, Urinary, and Reproductive Organs, with a General Review of Urinary Pathology

By: Black DC

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston: 1872

Seller ID: 35

1872 FIRST EDITION OF UROLOGY MONOGRAPH BY SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original dark red cloth boards, spine darkened with library numbers, previous physician owner signature and perforated library stamp to title page, xi, 300 pages, publisher's catalogue at rear, Pages age-toned, but unmarked. CONTENTS: ON THE CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT THE SECRETION OF URINE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SUPPRESSION; SUPPRESSION FROM GOUT AND RHEUMATISM; RETENTION OF URINE ; ITS VARIETIES, CAUSES, AND TREATMENT; RETENTION FROM VESICAL PARALYSIS; RETENTION FROM OLD AGE; RETENTION FROM REFLEX IRR...
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The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia

By: Blalock, Alfred and Taussig, Helen B.

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: 1945

Seller ID: 1020

ONE OF 100 PUBLICATIONS FAMOUS IN ALL MEDICINE: THE DAWN OF SURGICAL CORRECTION OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE--BLALOCK & TAUSSIG, 1945. 1) 8 1/2 inches tall offprint of paper, reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, May 19, 1945. Vol. 128, pp. 189-202, wrapped in blue printed paper covers, stapled binding, text reimposed in single-column pages, with different page breaks, 44 pp, 7 halftone and 5 line-block illustrations in text; unmarked, fine. TOGETHER WITH 4 OFFPRINTS PUBLISHED 1947-48 BY HELEN B. TAUSSIG DESCRIBING TETRALOGY OF FALLOT AND ITS MANAGEMENT: 2) Diagnosis o...
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Surgical Diseases of the Ovaries and Fallopian Tubes, including Tubal Pregnancy

By: Bland Sutton J

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 1

FIRST EDITION LATE 19TH CENTURY TEXT BY NOTED SURGEON--OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. Small octavo, 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth boards, spine gilt, 119 wood engravings and 5 lithographed color plates, ink signature of previous owner (Dr Reamy) on title page. xvi, 500 pages. Corners slightly bumped, scattered foxing first 30 pages, overall very good. SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON (1855-1936) was a British surgeon specializing in pelvic operations on women. He was knighted in 1912, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal College of Surgeons, as well as Vice-President of the Zoo...
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Tumours Innocent and Malignant, Their Clinical Features and Appropriate Treatment

By: Bland Sutton J

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 33

1893 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH BY NOTED BRITISH SURGEON WITH 250 WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND 6 COLOR PLATES. Octavo, 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, spine title gilt. 250 wood engravings and 9 plates (6 colored) with tissue guards, all very good, xvi, 511 pages. Slight rubbing to corners, front hinge starting, handstamp of bookseller to front paste-down, chip top of front free endpaper, stain bottom corner of pages 425-465, not affecting text. SIR JOHN BLAND-SUTTON (1855-1936) was a British surgical pathologist and gynecologist. Bland-Sutton was President of the Royal Society o...
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The Story of a Surgeon, with a Preamble by Rudyard Kipling

By: Bland Sutton J;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1930

Seller ID: 118

1930 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON, NOTED BRITISH SURGEON AND FRIEND OF RUDYARD KIPLING. 9 inches blue cloth binding, xii, 204 pages, gilt title on spine, frontis photograph of author with Rudyard Kipling, 26 photographic plates. spine faded, bookplate of previous owner (Hortense and George Piness) on front paste-down, otherwise very good. SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON (1855-1936) was a British surgeon specializing in pelvic operations on women. He was knighted in 1912, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal College of Surgeons, as well as Vice-President of the Zoological...
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A Series of Lectures, on the Most Approved Principle and Practice of Modern Surgery: Principally Derived from the Lectures Delivered by Astley Cooper, Esq. F.R.S. etc. at the United Hospitals of Guy and St. Thomas, and in which will be found Some of the Opinions of the Most Celebrated Surgeons, from the Time of Hunter, to the Present Moment, Interspersed with Numerous Cases by Charles Williams Jones

By: Cooper A;

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles Ewer: 1823

Seller ID: 102

1821 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION LECTURES ON EARLY 19TH CENTURY SURGERY BY ASTLEY COOPER, SURGEON TO BRITISH ROYALTY. 10 inches tall hardcover recently rebound in red buckram with gilt title on spine, 456 pages uncut, age-toned, with scattered light foxing and occasional marginal pencil notes. Overall very good. TITLES OF LECTURES: Temperature of the blood; Inflammation; Ulcers; Furuncles; Wounds of veins, chest and gun-shot wounds; Poisons; Head injuries; Hydrocoele; Aneurism; Cataract; Removal of the eye; Puncturing the bladder; Lithotomy; Diseases of the testicle; Diseases of the breast; Amputat...
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Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery

By: Cooper BB;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, John Churchill: 1851

Seller ID: 103

1851 RARE FIRST EDITION LECTURES ON SURGERY AT GUY'S HOSPITAL, LONDON, BY NEPHEW OF ASTLEY COOPER. 9 inches tall hardcover, xx, 964 pages, original 3/4 leather binding, with gilt finish to covers, spine with raised bands, gilt title and decorative detail, medical library bookplate on front endpaper, library slip and pocket at rear, pages age-toned, but crisp and unmarked--overall very good. DEDICATION: 'To those who have been educated at Guy's Hospital, and to the pupils at present in that institution, in which the author has been for the last twenty-five years actively engaged as a teacher, t...
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Clinical use of the total artificial heart

By: DeVries, WIlliam C., Anderson, Jeffrey L., Joyce, Lyle D., Anderson, Fred L., Hammond, Elizabeth H., Jarvik, Robert K. and Kolff, Willem J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts Medical Society: 1984

Seller ID: 1002

1984 FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT OF LANDMARK PAPER REPORTING FIRST CLINICAL USE OF THE TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART, TOGETHER WITH TIME MAGAZINE ISSUE PUBLISHED THE PREVIOUS MONTH. 11 inches tall offprint, 6 pages, 6 figures, stapled binding, 2 folding creases (to fit standard envelope), unmarked, very good. New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 310, pages 273-278, 1984. TOGETHER WITH photocopy of an editorial in the Journal 20 years after the initial report, vol. 350, pages 542-544, 2004, TOGETHER WITH Time magazine, January 10, 1984 with cover of De Vries. WILLIAM CASTLE DE VRIES (born 1943) is an Amer...
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On Lesions of the Vascular System, Diseases of the Rectum, and Other Surgical Complaints

By: Dupuytren, Guillaume and Le Gros Clark, F.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Sydenham Society: 1854

Seller ID: 576

1854 COLLECTION OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF PAPERS BY NOTED FRENCH SURGEON WHO TREATED NAPOLEON'S HEMORRHOIDS AND DESCRIBED CONTRACTURE OF THE FINGERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, covers blindstamped with gilt armorial emblem, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 378 pp, binder's stamp to back paste-down. Cover edges bumped and worn, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good-. GUILLAUME DUPUYTREN (1777-1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonap...
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Mechanical Devices to Assist the Failing Heart

By: Eiseman, Ben

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Academy of Sciences: 1966

Seller ID: 837

1966 PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM ON MECHANICAL DEVICES TO ASSIST THE FAILING HEART INCLUDING LUMINARIES IN THE FIELD. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, charcoal cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, xiv, 287 pp, wear to corners and spine ends, embossed library stamp and withdrawn handstamp to title page, library pocket to back paste-down; binding tight, no markings to text, good+. BEN EISEMAN (1917 - 2012) at Yale University (B.A. in 1939) and Harvard University (M.D. in 1943), and his residency in surgery was a...
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A Text-Book of Minor Surgery

By: Foote EM

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and Co.: 1908

Seller ID: 43

FIRST EDITION OF 1908 TEXT ON MINOR SURGERY--752 PAGES WITH OVER 400 ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches tall, 2 1/4 inches thick hardcover, red publisher's cloth boards, spine title gilt, no marks to text, xxvi, 752 pages. Hinges reinforced with acid-free conservation tape, Very good. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MAN AT THE POINT OF THE KNIFE FOR HIS GRIT AND PATIENCE, AND ESPECIALLY FOR HIS WILLINGNESS TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED THAT OTHERS MAY PROFIT BY HIS MISFORTUNE. PREFACE: 'In preparing this 'Minor Surgery,' it has been my purpose to apply to the less serious, every-day problems of surgical practise ...
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Psychosurgery. Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental Disorders

By: Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas: 1942

Seller ID: 191

RARE FIRST EDITION OF 'PSYCHOSURGERY' BY PHYSICIAN WHO SUBJECTED THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS TO FRONTAL LOBOTOMY. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, dedication 'To Egas Moniz who first conceived and executed a valid operation for mental disorder.' 81 figures, many of which are photographs of patients. 1/2 inch closed tear to rear edge of spine, corners and edges slightly bumped, no external or internal markings, gilt title to spine bright, binding tight, pages clean and crisp, very good. cf GARRISON-MORTON No. 4906 Prefrontal lobotomy in agitated depression. Report of a case. Med. An...
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Heart-Lung Bypass. Principles and Techniques of Extracorporeal Circulation

By: Galletti, Pierre M. and Brecher, Gerhard A.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Grune & Stratton: 1962

Seller ID: 838

1962 ILLUSTRATED TECHNOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF HEART-LUNG BYPASS STATE-OF-THE-ART 9 YEARS AFTER ITS FIRST USE IN 1953. In 1988, he was one of four founding scientists of Cellular Transplants Inc., a biotechnology company in Providence that is now named Cytotherapeutics Inc., and he was involved with many other biotechnology companies. After retiring in 1991, he continued to teach medicine at Brown and was head of the artificial organ laboratory there. From 1968 to 1978, he was editor in chief of the journal Cardiology and held the same post at The Journal of the American Society for Artificial ...
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Causes and Curative Treatment of Sterility, with a Preliminary Statement of the Physiology of Generation. With Colored Lithographs and Numerous Wood Cut Illustrations

By: Gardner AK

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, De Witt & Davenport: 1856

Seller ID: 24

1856 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FEMALE STERILITY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES BY NOTED PHILADELPHIA LITHOGRAPHER. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped design, bright gilt title to cover, viii, 170 pages. Spine dulled, spine ends lightly worn, only marks are handstamp of Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Library to title page and dedication page, which reads, 'NOT TO THE INVENTOR OF THE CLAMP SUTURE, THE CROWNING SURGICAL APPLIANCE OF THE AGE; NOR TO THE PHILANTHROPIC PROJECTOR OF THE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL, THE NOBLEST CHARITY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, BUT TO THE MAN...
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Image for A Treatise on the Effects and Various Preparations of Lead, Particularly of the Extract of Saturn, for Different Chirugical Disorders Translated from the French of Mr. Goulard Surgeon-Major to the Royal and Military Hospital at Montpellier, with remarks by G. Arnaud, M.D., and a Table exhibiting the difference between English and French weights

A Treatise on the Effects and Various Preparations of Lead, Particularly of the Extract of Saturn, for Different Chirugical Disorders Translated from the French of Mr. Goulard Surgeon-Major to the Royal and Military Hospital at Montpellier, with remarks by G. Arnaud, M.D., and a Table exhibiting the difference between English and French weights

By: Goulard T;

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London, P. Elmsley: 1777

Seller ID: 111

18TH CENTURY TREATISE ON LEAD PREPARATIONS AS TREATMENT FOR VARIOUS AILMENTS. 6 1/2 inches tall recent brown buckram binding, viii, 231 pages, gilt title on spine, new endpapers, title page browned and repaired with tape, remaining pages lightly foxed, otherwise very good. THOMAS GOULARD (1697-1784) was a French surgeon famous for Goulard's extract, a solution of lead acetate and lead oxide. REVIEW of TREATISE ON LEAD by J. H. Thompson, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 31:27-31, 1938: 'Thomas Goulard was demonstrator of anatomy and surgery, and later chirurgienmajor, at the Milita...
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Practical Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations

By: Hamilton FH

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea: 1860

Seller ID: 95

1860 FIRST COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE IN ENGLISH ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS BY SURGEON SUMMONED TO PRESIDENT GARFIELD AFTER HE WAS SHOT. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xx, 757 pages, new brown cloth binding with original gilt label affixed to spine, new endpapers, library handstamp to title page, text otherwise unmarked, 289 wood engravings throughout, overall very good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 4420: The first comprehensive treatise in English on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. FRANK HASTINGS HAMILTON (1813 - 1886) was a noted American surgeon. Hamilton graduated from Union College in 18...
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The Vagi in Medicine and Surgery

By: Holt, George W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1968

Seller ID: 852

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VAGUS NERVES IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DISORDERS. 10 inches tall hardcover, sky blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xv, 92 pp, illustrations; residue from stickers on cover, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, no other library marks, very good.
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Some Radium Cases at the Middlesex Hospital. A Photographic Record

By: Macleod, A. Cameron

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1931

Seller ID: 560

1931 SCARCE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE BEGINNINGS OF RADIATION THERAPY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, printed paper-covered boards, printed title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, 154 pp, over 100 black & white photographs of patients' lesions with descriptive text. Very good. FROM THE PREFACE: "Radium now holds an important position in the treatment of many different conditions. Owing to the advent of improved technical methods of radiation, certain types of malignant disease, even when in an early stage, are now being treated with radium in preference to surgery. ...
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Sympathectomy. An Anatomical and physiological Study with Clinical Implications

By: Monro, P. A.G.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1959

Seller ID: 853

1958 MONOGRAPH ON EFFECTS OF SYMPATHECTOMY ON LONG-TERM PHYSIOLOGIC FOLLOW-UP OF OVER 50 PATIENTS, CORRELATED WITH POST-MORTEM FINDINGS. 10 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of physician owner to front paste-down, xx, 290 pp, 84 figures, folding table; near-fine in very good dust jacket. PETER ALEXANDER GEORGE MONRO (1919 - 2005) was anatomist, lecturer, and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. After the war, Monro worked at the EMS hospital at Harold Wood, Essex, before returning to the London Hospital Medical College in 1948 as Demonstrator in Anato...
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Category: Surgery