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Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Masson et Cie: 1918

Seller ID: 354

1918 SUMMARY OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY AT PARIS HOSPITALS FOR THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC 100 YEARS AGO. 10 inches tall 2 inches thick hardcover, tan buckram binding, gilt red leather label, marbled edges, bookplate to front paste-down, institutional handstamp to front endpaper, no other library marks; covers soiled, pages age-toned, overall good+. French language. From review in Nature (8 June 2017) of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World: The 1918 influenza pandemic probably infected one-third of the world's population at the time — 500 million people. It killed betwee...
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Mortality Statistics 1918

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1920

Seller ID: 353

US MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR 1918 DOCUMENTS THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC 100 YEARS AGO. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of surplus Library of Congress duplicate to front endpaper, no other library marks, pages age-toned, unmarked, overall very good. From the Introduction: In the 1917 report it was pointed out that, even if no correction m the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this -withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter our Army and Navy would normally reduce tlie general death rate of any...
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Atomic Medicine. The Atom Knocks at the Doctor's Door

By: Behrens, Charles F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1949

Seller ID: 373

SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LANDMARK FIRST TEXT ON ATOMIC MEDICINE WRITTEN DURING THE ATOMIC AGE. Small Quarto black cloth boards, red images of atom and caduceus on cover, bookplates of E. Dale Trout front paste-down. Inscribed and signed by editor on ffep, Inscribed to E. Dale Trout with cordial regards & high esteem, Charles F BEhrens/14 Oct, 1949. Followed by inscription by recipient, I first met Behrens when we installed xray equipment in the first new buildings of the Naval Medical Center in Behtesda--really out in the country at that time. From that time to his death I ehjoyed knowing an...
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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...
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Image for We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

By: de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Yokohama, Japan, Yamagata Press: 1947

Seller ID: 312

PUBLISHED 2 YEARS AFTER END OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PRESIDENT OF FAMOUS HOTEL. Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall, silk-covered paper wrappers, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Volume 1 signed in ink on front endpaper by Alsuharu Sakai (collaborator) Tokyo, Xmas 1948, with Japanese characters; Volume 2 signed on pictorial frontis by K.M. Yamaguchi, President, Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, 20th Jan, 1949, with Japanese characters...
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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...
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Science and War. An Address Delivered at the University of Leeds Medical School on October 1, 1915

By: Osler, William

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon Press: 1915

Seller ID: 543

OSLER'S THOUGHTS ON THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENCE TO MEDICINE AND TO THE GREAT WAR. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 39 pp. Light wear to cover and spine edges, previous owner signature and bookseller handstamp to front endpaper, otherwise unmarked and very good in custom archival mylar cover. Only two years after Osler delivered this address, his only son, Revere, was killed by artillery in France. Osler never recovered from his grief, and died two years later.
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Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg-Sobell Case, with an introduction by Harold C. Urey

By: Sharp MP;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Monthly Review Press: 1956

Seller ID: 148

SIGNED 1956 COLD WAR ACCOUNT OF THE FAMOUS ROSENBERG SPY CASE BY MEMBER OF DEFENSE COUNSEL. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxxvi, 216 pages, original gray and blue binding, gilt title to spine, ink inscription and signature of author on front free endpaper. FROM THE DUST JACKET: 'since Professor Sharp was associated with defense counsel in the closing stages of the case, he has an intimate first-hand knowledge of the facts and many of the personalities involved. Professor Sharp describes the issues, weighs the evidence, pinpoints the weaknesses in the prosecution's case, and gives his own reason...
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The University at the Crossroads. Addresses and Essays

By: Sigerist, Henry E.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Schuman: 1946

Seller ID: 553

ADDRESSES & ESSAYS ON EDUCATION BY NOTED HOPKINS MEDICAL HISTORIAN WRITTEN DURING WWII - SIGNED BY SIGERIST. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper "For Miss E. Wigmore with the kind regards of H.E. Sigerist/ Pura, 8 July 1951," followed by second inscription, "longer the property of E Wigmore--Given to Zdenko, with every good wish for a Happy Birthday from Ethel/ London 9 May 1959." 162 pp, scattered pencil notations, very good in good dust jacket with 1 tear top edge of spine, and 1/4 missing from top of ...
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Drill Regulations and Service Manual for Sanitary Troops, United States Army

By: Wood, Leonard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Government Printing Office: 1914

Seller ID: 725

1914 SMALL SERVICE MANUAL FOR SANITARY TROOPS, US ARMY--SIGNED COPY OF GENERAL JEFFERSON RANDOLPH KEAN, MD, GREAT GRANDSON OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. 6 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover, library numbers to spine, bookplate of University of Virginia Library (presented by General Jefferson R. Kean) front paste-down, signature of J.R. Kean/ Co. Med Corps to front endpaper, perforated stamp of University of Virginia to title page, withdrawn handstamp over library call numbers verso title page and bottom edge, 235 pp, many black and white illustrations; corners bumped, wear ...
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