Category: Surgery

View Categories / Medicine / Surgery

Sort

Showing 1-20 of 28

The Transsexual Phenomenon. A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female

By: Benjamin, Harry

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, The Julian Press, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 744

1966 VERY SCARCE FIRST SCIENTIFIC VOLUME EVER PUBLISHED DEALING WITH CHANGE OF SEX THROUGH HORMONES AND SURGICAL TREATMENT. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding with color embossed symbols to cover, gilt title to spine, black & white photographs; unmarked, very good in very good jacket with chipped spine ends. CONTENTS: transvestism, transsexualism, homosexuality; the transvestite in older and newer aspects; the male transsexual; the etiology of transsexualism; nonsurgical management of transsexualism; conversion operation; fifty-one male transsexuals and the results of their opera...
View More...

General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures. A Text-Book for Students and Physicians

By: Billroth, Theodor

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.: 1871

Seller ID: 658

1871 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LECTURES BY FAMED GERMAN SURGEON WHO MODERNIZED SURGICAL TRAINING. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown pebbled cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, leaf of publisher's ads laid in, xviii, 676 pp, 152 wood engravings in text, 2 pp publisher's ads, binder's label lower corner back paste-down. Corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, hinges starting, binding tight, text unmarked, pages age-toned, top corner of pages 266-406 creased, very good minus. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE: During the past ten years the microscope has greatly advanced onr knowledge of Patholo...
View More...

The Medical Sciences in the German Universities. A Study in the History of Civlization, with an introduction by William H. Welch

By: Billroth, Theodor and Welch, William H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 657

1924 MONOGRAPH ON MEDICAL EDUCATION BY LEADING GERMAN SURGEON WHO INFLUENCED WILLIAM WELCH IN ESTABLISHING JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped, glilt title to spine, pictorial bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, xiii,, 292 pp. Covers with minimal edgewear, spine title bright, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894) was an Austrian surgeon. regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. In 1860, Billroth accepted an offer from the University of Zurich to beco...
View More...

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...
View More...

Image for A Treatise on Lesser Surgery; or the Minor Surgical Operations by D.M.P. Bourgery, Translated from the French with notes and an appendix by William C. Roberts and James B. Kissam

A Treatise on Lesser Surgery; or the Minor Surgical Operations by D.M.P. Bourgery, Translated from the French with notes and an appendix by William C. Roberts and James B. Kissam

By: Bourgery, D.M.P.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles S. Francis: 1834

Seller ID: 343

FIRST AMERICAN TRANSLATION OF TREATISE ON MINOR SURGERY BY NOTED FRENCH ANATOMIST, COPY OF ALEXANDER H. BAYLY, DATED 1835 - YEAR OF HIS MD FROM UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent marbled paper covered boards cloth spine, new endpapers, pages untrimmed, light foxing throughout, overall very good-. Section of original free endpaper affixed to front paste-down, containing contemporary ink signature of Alexander H. Bayly, Cambridge Md, 1835, i-xvi (leaf containing list of testimonials by American physicians of the original French edition [1829], dedication to Valentine Mot...
View More...

Image for 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

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...
View More...

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...
View More...

History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series: Surgery

By: Cope, Zachary

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office: 1953

Seller ID: 785

1953 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGICAL MEDICINE DEVELOPED DURING WORLD WAR II--BY EMINENT BRITISH SURGEON. SIR ZACHARY COPE. 9 3/4 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, armorial bookplate to front flyleaf, xix, 772 pp, 92 plates, 14 figures. Corners bumped, abrasions to spine, bottom spine end frayed, page edges soiled, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+. FOREWORD: This volume of the Official Medical History of the War of 1939~45 chronicles the chief advances made in Surgery during that War. The History owes much to all those distinguished contrib...
View More...

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...
View More...

Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie, demontrees au Jardin Royal

By: Dionis, Pierre

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Paris, Laurent d'Houry: 1707

Seller ID: 401

1707 RARE FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS BY SURGEON TO KING LOUIS XIV. 8 inches tall hardcover (octavo) [28]-746-[23] pages, 11 copper plate engravings (portrait frontispiece & 10 plates, including anatomy theater engraved by J. B. Scotin), 52 woodcuts in the text (numbered in sequence with copper plates, including un-numbered woodcut page 163 depicting stones from the kidneys of Pope Innocent XI in 1689. The remaining woodcuts and plates depict surgical instruments used in operations ranging from ophthalmic surgery to abdominal, obstetric, urologic, and orthopedic ...
View More...

The Surgical Treatment of Bright's Disease

By: Edebohls, George M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Frank F. Lisiecki: 1904

Seller ID: 624

1904 SCARCE TREATISE ON SURGICAL TREATMENT (DECAPSULATION, NEPHROPEXY, OR NEPHRECTOMY) OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, physician owner and institutional library bookplates to front paste-down, 327 pp, 2 plates, many tables in text, index [5], author's bibliography [3]; corners bumped, spine darkened, pages age-toned but unmarked, binding tight, very good. This volume is a collection of 12 papers reprinted from medical journals, followed by the histories of 72 patients operated upon by the author for chronic...
View More...

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 ...
View More...

The Treatment of Burns

By: Harkins, Henry N.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1942

Seller ID: 957

1942 CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED WARTIME MONOGRAPH ON BURN TREATMENT BY FOUNDER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. 10 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician previous owner bookplate to front paste-down, xvii, frontis portrait of Dupuytren, xiii, 457 pp, 117 figures, bibliography. Corners bumped, sunning to spine, missing corner of back endpaper, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus. HENRY NELSON HARKINS (1905 - 1967) attended the University of Chicago, ultimately graduating in 1926 with a Ph.D. in chemistry. He then obtained his medical...
View More...

Image for Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Laparotomies for Various Diseases, with tables showing the results of the operations and the subsequent history of the patients, a resume of the writer's experience in abdominal surgery during the last fifteen years.

Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Laparotomies for Various Diseases, with tables showing the results of the operations and the subsequent history of the patients, a resume of the writer's experience in abdominal surgery during the last fifteen years.

By: Homans J

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Boston, Nathan Sawyer & Son: 1887

Seller ID: 55

REMARKABLE RECORD OF 19TH CENTURY ABDOMINAL SURGERY--ASSOCIATION COPY. 9 inches tall hardcover, 56 pages, original brown cloth boards, printed title to cover, library numbers on cover, embossed stamp of Cincinnati Hospital Library to title page, fine ink signature of Dan Millikin top of title page, errata slip, 26 folding tables. JOHN HOMANS (1877 - 1954) was an American surgeon who described Homans' sign and Homans' operation. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School, completed residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by work in Baltimore and London. He returned to Boston to ...
View More...

Practical Observations on the Treatment of the Diseases of the Prostate Gland, Illustrated by Copper Plates

By: Home, Everard

Price: $425.00

Publisher: London, G. and W. Nicol, W. Bulmer and Co.: 1811

Seller ID: 313

1811 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED TREATISE ON THE PROSTATE BY BRITISH ANATOMIST, PALEONTOLOGIST, AND SURGEON TO THE KING. 9 inches tall hardcover, original gray paper-covered boards, edges worn, rebacked with new cloth spine and gilt black leather label, 13 fine copper plate engravings, descriptive text with case studies, explanation of the plates with observations on them, Appendix with tables for individual patients' listing quantity of urine voided in 24 hours for 6 successive months. SIR EVERARD HOME, 1st Baronet FRS (1756 - 1832) was a British surgeon who assisted his brother-in-law, John Hu...
View More...

The Vermiform Appendix and Its Diseases

By: Kelly, Howard A. and Hurdon, E.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincoitt Co.: 1908

Seller ID: 240

SIGNED COPY - MASSIVE ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC MONOGRAPH ON THE APPENDIX BY LEGENDARY SURGEON, MEMBER OF BIG FOUR PHYSICIAN FOUNDERS OF JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3 inches thick, 3/4 black leather with green cloth binding, spine gilt with raised bands, original marbled endpapers, color frontis with tissue guard, with 399 original illustrations, some in color, some fold-out, and 3 lithographic plates. Inscribed and signed on front endpaper, "To my friend and colleague, Charles F. Fisher from Howard A. Kelly, 22 June 09." Age toning to edges, light wear to cove...
View More...

Image for Cancer of the Larynx: 3 volumes by Dr. John Edmund Mackenty and his associates, together with Cancer of the Larynx (1926), together with Malignant Disease of the Larynx (1934), together with Commemorative Meeting in Honour of John Edmund Mackenty, M.D. (1932)

Cancer of the Larynx: 3 volumes by Dr. John Edmund Mackenty and his associates, together with Cancer of the Larynx (1926), together with Malignant Disease of the Larynx (1934), together with Commemorative Meeting in Honour of John Edmund Mackenty, M.D. (1932)

By: Mackenty, John Edmund

Price: $100.00

Publisher: 1926-1934

Seller ID: 581

1926-1934 TWO REVIEW PAPERS ON LARYNGECTOMY BY NEW YORK SURGEON TOGETHER WITH COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME BY HIS ASSOCIATES--COPY OF FAMILY OF ONE OF HIS PATIENTS WITH PHOTO. Three hardcover volumes, black cloth binding, gilt title to covers. 1. Mackenty, John Edmund. Cancer of the Larynx, offprint Arch. Otolaryngol. 1926 (3) 205-232. Library numbers bottom spine, bookplate and handstamp of institutional library to front paste-down and front endpaper respectively, 63 pp, 25 black & white illustrations. 2. Mackenty, John Edmund. Malignant Disease of the Larynx, offprint Arch. Otolaryngol. 1934 Vol. 20...
View More...

Image for Selective Partial Ablation of the Frontal Cortex. A Correlative Study of its Effects on Human Psychotic Subjects by the Columbia-Greystone Associates

Selective Partial Ablation of the Frontal Cortex. A Correlative Study of its Effects on Human Psychotic Subjects by the Columbia-Greystone Associates

By: Mettler, Fred A.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc.: 1949

Seller ID: 428

LANDMARK REPORT OF CONTROLLED STUDY OF FRONTAL LOBOTOMY IN PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS--ASSOCIATION COPY. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Frank K. Beach to front endpaper, 517 pages, many illustrations and photographic plates. Light fading to spine, gilt lettering bright, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, very good. PREFACE: In this report we present a detailed account of our study of the 48 patients in our series—24 of whom were operated upon and 24 in a control group. ... While we feel that much has been accomplished by this projec...
View More...

Bier's Hyperemic Treatment in Surgery, Medicine, and the Specialties. A Manual of Its Practical Application: Illustrated

By: Meyer, Willy and Schmeiden, Victor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders Co.: 1909

Seller ID: 779

1909 TREATISE ON HYPEREMIC TREATMENT (TOURNIQUETS AND HOT AIR) FOR ACUTE AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION--STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHS. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, library pocket front paste-down, inscribed top of front flyleaf, Department of the Interior, Office of the Medical Director, 280 pages, 16 pages publisher's advertisements, original green cloth binding, gilt title on cover and spine, dedicated to Professor August Bier by the Authors. Many photographic illustrations demonstrating the application of tourniquets and hot air to the head, testicles, breast, spine, knee, and tuberculous lesions. PREFAC...
View More...

The Pathlogy of the Living and Other Essays

By: Moynihan, B. G. A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadlphia, W. B. Saunders Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 916

1910 LECTURES AND ESSAYS ON ABDOMINAL SURGERY BY NOTED BRITISH SURGEON. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 260 pp; wear to spine ends and edges, front hinge starting, previous owner signature to front flyleaf, binding tight, pages clean and crisp, very good. BERKELEY GEORGE ANDREW MOYNIHAN (1865 - 1936) graduated MB BS at the University of London in 1887 and joined Leeds General Infirmary as house surgeon. He was then successively demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School (1893â€“96), assistant surgeon to the infirmary (1896), surgeon from 1906 and...
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Surgery