Publisher:
Boston, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal : 1896
Seller ID: 1025
1896 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK ADDRESS BY HENRY BOWDITCH, EMINENT PHYSIOLOGIST AND DEAN OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. Two journal issues 11 inches tall, Vol. CXXXIV, Nos. 24 and 25, June, 1896, containing an address by Henry P. Bowditch, Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School (continued from issue 24 to 25). Covers age-toned, light soiling, tip of back cover corner torn, overall very good minus. Issue No. 24 also contains a curious misogynistic anecdote titled, An Irate Female: A female medical student, says the Medical Record, who failed at a recent examination in London so effectually ... View More...
Publisher:
New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. : 1945
Seller ID: 108
1945 SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WALTER CANNON, WHO DEFINED THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 229 pages, red cloth binding, covers lightly stained, spine darkened, corners and spine ends rubbed, residue from rusty paper clip on front paste-down and front free endpaper, text unmarked. First printings of this wartime book, an autobiography published the year of Cannon's death, are very scarce. WALTER BRADFORD CANNON (1871 - 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coin... View More...
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF A 19TH CENTURY BRITISH PHARMACOLOGIC TREATISE. 8 inches tall hardcover, viii, 160 pages, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped borders to covers, gilt title to spine. Surface wear to covers, chips along spine edges, water stain to first 3 leaves before title page, contemporary owner's signature to title page, dedication page 'to T. Lauder Brunton, a leader of physiological inquiry into the action of therapeutic agents in Great Britain'. No library markings. PREFACE. 'The aim of the writer, in this Essay, is to pre- sent a fair bird's-eye view of the subject of the... View More...
Publisher:
Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas : 1948
Seller ID: 225
1948 GOLDBLATT'S OWN HISTORY OF HIS SEMINAL DISCOVERIES IN HYPERTENSION. 9 1/4 inches tall viii, 126 pages, original pebbled black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, black & white and color illustrations. Bookplate of academic physician on front paste-down, otherwise fine. See GARRISON-MORTON No. 2719. HARRY GOLDBLATT (1891-1977), internationally recognized for his research in high blood pressure, was born in Iowa, the son of Phillip and Jennie Spitz Goldblatt. He grew up in Canada, received a B.A. from McGill University, and graduated from its medical school in 1916. After serving ... View More...
1925 PRESCIENT ADDRESS BY DR. WILL MAYO EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF BASIC RESEARCH TO MEDICAL PROGRESS--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall offprint in printed paper wrappers, signed on cover by author, W.J. Mayo. Light browning to covers, otherwise unmarked and very good. WILLIAM JAMES MAYO (1861 - 1939), physician and surgeon was one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s. In 1919, that practice became the not-for-pro... View More...
Publisher:
Stroudsburg, PA, Hutchinson Ross : 1983
Seller ID: 230
1983 COLLECTION OF LANDMARK PAPERS ON RADIOIMMUNOASSAY EDITED BY ROSALYN YALOW, NOBEL LAUREATE WHO DISCOVERED THE TECHNIQUE. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 407 pages, green cloth binding with gilt title to cover and spine, unmarked and near-fine, no dust jacket as issued. PREFACE "In agreeing to edit a Benchmark volume on radioimmunoassay (RIA), I appreciated that there might appear to be a disproportionate number of Papers from my laboratory. I felt less guilty when I reflected on the history of RIA and appreciated that from 1959, when the first paper on the assay of plasma insulin in humans w... View More...
