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Techniques of Birth Control

By: Dickinson, Robert Latou

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins Co.: 1942

Seller ID: 1024

1942 ILLUSTRATED WARTIME GUIDE TO CONCEPTION CONTROL BY PROMINENT NEW YORK GYNECOLOGIST AND ARTIST. 10 inches tall pamphlet, printed paper covers, stapled binding, 56 pp, illustrations, light soiling to covers, unmarked, very good minus. ROBERT LATOU DICKINSON (1861 - 1950) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist, surgeon, maternal health educator, artist, sculptor and medical illustrator, and research scientist. He became Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brooklyn Hospital and at Methodist Episcopal Hospital. During the First World War, he was Assistant Chief of the Medical Sect...
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The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse. The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi

By: Djerassi, C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1992

Seller ID: 371

SIGNED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPER OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL. 9 1/2 inches tall beige paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, signed and dated by Djerassi on title page (1/27/93), fine/fine. Cited by Pickover in The Medical Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (2009): In the 1930s, researchers had determined thiat high concentrafions of the hormone progesterone, which is normally present during pregnancy, also tricks a nonpregnant body into behaving as if it were pregnant and thus prevent the monthly release of an egg. In the early 1950s, American chemists Carl Djerassi and Frank Go...
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Image for Child-Birth, or, the Happy Delivery of Women. Wherin is set downe the Government of Women in the time Of their breeding Childe: Of their Travaile, both Naturall and contrary to Nature: And Of their Lying in. Together with the diseases, which happen to Women in those times, and the meanes to helpe them. With a Treatise for the Nursing of Children. To which is added, a Treatise of the diseases of Infants, and young Children; with the Cur of them and also of the Small Pox. Written in French by James Guillimeau, the French King's Chirurgion.

Child-Birth, or, the Happy Delivery of Women. Wherin is set downe the Government of Women in the time Of their breeding Childe: Of their Travaile, both Naturall and contrary to Nature: And Of their Lying in. Together with the diseases, which happen to Women in those times, and the meanes to helpe them. With a Treatise for the Nursing of Children. To which is added, a Treatise of the diseases of Infants, and young Children; with the Cur of them and also of the Small Pox. Written in French by James Guillimeau, the French King's Chirurgion.

By: Guillemeau, Jacques

Price: $850.00

Publisher: London, Printed by Anne Griffin for Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker: 1635

Seller ID: 430

1635 RARE LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED OBSTETRIC MANUAL, ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH. 7 inches tall hardcover, 4to. [16], 247; [14], 118pp. Numerous woodcuts in text, depicting various fetal positions, twins, obstetric instruments. Contemporary tooled full calf binding, bookplate of The Janus Foundation to front paste-down. Covers cracked, corners worn through to boards, spine rubbed, lacking 1.5x2.5 cm at base of spine, exposing cords, lacking endpapers, page corners worn, scattered browning and water stains throughout, lacking leaves 79/80 and 117/118, replaced in facsimile, in custom archiv...
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Image for Diseases of the Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women, with 628 illustrations for the most part by Max Brodel

Diseases of the Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women, with 628 illustrations for the most part by Max Brodel

By: Kelly, Howard A. and Burnam, Curtis F.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 241

MASSIVE TWO-VOLUME MILESTONE IN THE FIELD OF UROGYNECOLOGY SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED. 10 inches tall hardcover, original olive cloth bindings, gilt title to spines, color frontis to vol. 1, with 628 black & white illustrations in the text. Volume 1 from institutional library, corners bumped, otherwise very good covers, handstamp to front endpaper and title page, no other marks; volume 2 from physician's library with his bookplate and signature to front pastedown, otherwise unmarked, edges rubbed, hinges cracked, binding sound, overall good. HOWARD ATWOOD KELLY (1858 – 1943), M.D., an American...
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Category: gynecology

Techniques of Birth Control

The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse. The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi

Diseases of the Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women, with 628 illustrations for the most part by Max Brodel