Category: Therapeutics

Medical Electricity: A Practical Treatise on the Applications of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea's Son & Co. : 1882

Seller ID: 91

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN MANUAL OF THE USE OF ELECTRICITY TO TREAT MANY DISEASES, INCLUDING SURGICAL APPLICATIONS--COPIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches hardcover, xx, 291 pages,original green cloth binding, gilt title on spine, covers rubbed, corners bumped, 109 wood engravings in text. Institutional handstamp to Introduction page, no other library marks. light pencil underlining throughout, pencil notations on rear endpapers; good +. Illustrations show a wide variety of the apparatus used to apply electrical stimuli to subjects, including laryngeal, vaginal, uterine, rectal, and urethral electrod...
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The French Practice of Medicine: being a translation of L. J. Begin's Treatise on Therapeutics: with occasional notes and observations illustrative of the treatment of diseases in the climate of North America

By: Begin LJ;Tessier X

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, E. Bliss : 1829

Seller ID: 64

RARE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH EARLY 19TH CENTURY TREATISE ON THERAPEUTICS ADAPTED FOR NORTH AMERICAN PHYSICIANS. Two volumes in one, 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, viii, 243; 236 pages, new black cloth boards with paper spine label, very good. Edges of pages darkened and wrinkled, with scattered marginal pencil notations. Signature of Joseph A. Eve, Dec 19th, 18** top of title page, volume 1; signature of Robert C. Eve, 1880 top of Preface. Begin classifies medications in three types: debilitating medications, direct stimulating medications, and revulsive medications. Tessier has added note...
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Water: A Medical Essay: Its History, Characteristics, Hygienic and Therpeutic Uses

By: Francis, Samuel W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter : 1861

Seller ID: 1046

1861 A UNIQUE CULTURAL AND MEDICAL HISTORY OF WATER PUBLISHED AT BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR BY WEALTHY NEW YORK PHYSICIAN-INVENTOR. 10 inches tall offprint, printed pink paper covers, Table of contents, Errata on verso, 47 pp; covers soiled, edges chipped, text pages age-toned, clean, unmarked, good+. CONTENTS: 1. Religious history; 2. Mythological history; 3. Profane history; 4. Therapeutics; 5. Anatomy and Physiology; 6. Water as a drink; 7. Chemistry; 8. Natural Philosophy; 9. Geology; 10. Botany; 11. Tortures of Water; 12. Mineral Waters; 13. Inhabitants of Water. SAMUEL WARD FRANCIS (1835...
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Category: Therapeutics

Medical Electricity: A Practical Treatise on the Applications of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery

The French Practice of Medicine: being a translation of L. J. Begin's Treatise on Therapeutics: with occasional notes and observations illustrative of the treatment of diseases in the climate of North America

Water: A Medical Essay: Its History, Characteristics, Hygienic and Therpeutic Uses