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Mothers, Babies, and Disease in Later Life

By: Barker, D.J.P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, BMJ Publishing Group: 1994

Seller ID: 877

1994 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH BY DAVID BARKER TRACING HIS PATH TO GENERATING THE BARKER HYPOTHESIS--THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, viii, 180 pp, illustrated, fine (no dust jacket as issued). DAVID JAMES PURSLOVE BARKER (1938 - 2013) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that fetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life. Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society an...
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The Acute Radiation Syndrome: A Study of Nine Cases and a Review of the Problem

By: Hempelmann, Louis H., Hermann, Lisco and Hoffman, Joseph G.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: American College of Physicians: Annals of Internal Medicine: 1952

Seller ID: 322

SCARCE EARLY MONOGRAPH ON ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME, INCLUDING 24 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF LESIONS, BY DIRECTOR OF HEALTH GROUP AT LOS ALAMOS. Original brown printed paper covers, signature of Wilbur K Smith to cover, fine; many B&W photographs, photomicrographs, and 24 color photographs at rear. FOREWORD: The cases of acute radiation syndrome reported in this monograph are among the few instances of such injuries that have occurred on the Atomic Energy Program since its inception. The study of the illness of these individuals and the efforts made to aid them add much to our knowledge of acute radi...
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A collection of offprints on the biology and classification of fishes

By: Jordan, David Starr

Price: $300.00

Publisher: 1896 - 1926

Seller ID: 1021

1896 - 1926 COLLECTION OF 49 OFFPRINTS ON FISHES OF THE WORLD BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, FOUNDER OF AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERISTY. 49 offprints 9 1/2 - 11 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, several with age-toning and edgewear, text unmarked, very good. Covers bear the handstamp of Herman Adair Fehlmann or Ernest A. Cachner, both curators at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington. The collection is housed in an archival document box with metal reinforced corners. THE COLLECTION INCLUDES: 1) The history of ichthyol...
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Effect of oil pollution on marine and wild life

By: Lane, F.W., Bauer, A. D., Fisher, H. F. and Harding, P. N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1925

Seller ID: 1018

1925 EARLY STUDY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF COASTAL OIL POLLUTION IN AMERICA: ALREADY A PROBLEM 100 YEARS AGO. 9 inches tall offprint from the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1925, printed paper covers, handstamp dated Nov 31 1945, Library of R. Harry, Jr, to cover, stapled binding, pp 171-181, very good. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: puring the latter part of 1922 and the early part of 1923 the Bureau of Mines, then in the Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the American Petroleum Institute and the American Steamship Owners Association, conducted an investigation of...
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Observations of Insects of Northamptonshire with Watercolor, Pen & Ink, and Pencil Illustrations

By: Wallis, Eustace Frederic and Wallis, Bruce Wakeman

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: 1887 - 1938

Seller ID: 794

1887 - 1938 UNIQUE FIELD NOTEBOOK WITH DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, DOZENS OF ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS OF MOTH CATERPILLARS AND DRAWINGS OF MINUTE INSECTS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover bound in 3/4 leather with pebbled cloth boards, gilt title Observations to cover, title Vol. IV to spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, index with alphebetized tabs, 402 numbered ruled pages. CONTENTS: field notebook with handwritted notes dated from June 30, 1887 to 1938, illustrated with original watercolors, pen & ink, and pencil drawings of insects. Front endpaper with autograph names Eustace Frederic Wallis & Bruc...
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