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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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Image for The Practitioner's Pharmacopoeia and Universal Formulary: containing 2000 Classified Prescriptions, selected from the Practice of the Most Eminent British and Foreign Medical Authorities, with an abstract of the Three British Pharmacopoeias, and much other useful information for the practitioner and student, with corrections and additions by an American physician

The Practitioner's Pharmacopoeia and Universal Formulary: containing 2000 Classified Prescriptions, selected from the Practice of the Most Eminent British and Foreign Medical Authorities, with an abstract of the Three British Pharmacopoeias, and much other useful information for the practitioner and student, with corrections and additions by an American physician

By: Foote J

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Samuel S. & William Wood: 1855

Seller ID: 14

RARE FIRST EDITION OF 2000 REMEDIES FOR INJURIES AND ILLNESSES IN MID-19TH CENTURY. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth boards with blindstamped pattern to covers, spine title gilt with library numbers, bookseller's embossed stamp to title page, 390 pages. Light scattered foxing, front endpaper inscribed in ink 'Prof John S. Murphy with respects of the publisher.' Page of publisher's ads inserted before title page, and after last page. Corners and top of spine rubbed, otherwise very good. Contains treatments for accidents, poisons, antacids, antihelminthics, antiscorbutics, antiseptics, a...
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Image for Yellow Fever: Its Nature, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis, and Quarantine Regulations Relating Thereto by Officers of the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service, together with An Abstract of the Report of the Medical Officers Detailed as a Commission to Investigate the Cause of Yellow Fever, Prepared under the direction of the Supervising Surgeon-General, followed by reports on quarantine and inspection of shipments

Yellow Fever: Its Nature, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis, and Quarantine Regulations Relating Thereto by Officers of the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service, together with An Abstract of the Report of the Medical Officers Detailed as a Commission to Investigate the Cause of Yellow Fever, Prepared under the direction of the Supervising Surgeon-General, followed by reports on quarantine and inspection of shipments

By: Government US

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1899

Seller ID: 42

RARE US GOVERNMENT REPORT ON YELLOW FEVER ON THE EVE OF THE DISCOVERY OF ITS TRANSMISSION BY MOSQUITOES (1900). 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, recent black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, iii, 285-454, 98 pages. Abstracted from 1898 Annual Report of the Marine Hospital Service. Very good. CARLOS FINLAY (1833-1915) , a Cuban doctor and scientist, first proposed in 1881 that yellow fever might be transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct human contact. Since the losses from yellow fever in the Spanish-American War in the 1890s were extremely high, Army doctors began research experiments wit...
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Image for Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Laparotomies for Various Diseases, with tables showing the results of the operations and the subsequent history of the patients, a resume of the writer's experience in abdominal surgery during the last fifteen years.

Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Laparotomies for Various Diseases, with tables showing the results of the operations and the subsequent history of the patients, a resume of the writer's experience in abdominal surgery during the last fifteen years.

By: Homans J

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Boston, Nathan Sawyer & Son: 1887

Seller ID: 55

REMARKABLE RECORD OF 19TH CENTURY ABDOMINAL SURGERY--ASSOCIATION COPY. 9 inches tall hardcover, 56 pages, original brown cloth boards, printed title to cover, library numbers on cover, embossed stamp of Cincinnati Hospital Library to title page, fine ink signature of Dan Millikin top of title page, errata slip, 26 folding tables. JOHN HOMANS (1877 - 1954) was an American surgeon who described Homans' sign and Homans' operation. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School, completed residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by work in Baltimore and London. He returned to Boston to ...
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Cases of Cholera collected at Paris, in the month of April, 1832, in the Wards of MM. Andral and Louis, at the Hospital la Pitie

By: Jackson J Jr.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Carter, Hendee, and Co.: 1832

Seller ID: 50

RARE REPORT OF A CHOLERA EPIDEMIC BY 22 YEAR-OLD AMERICAN IN THE CLINIC OF LEGENDARY DR. PIERRE LOUIS IN PARIS, 1832. 10 inches tall hardcover, viii, 212 pages, paper covered boards and spine, edges and spine label worn and rubbed, uncut, hinges starting, contemporary ink signature to front paste-down, faint pencil inscription front free endpaper, text otherwise unmarked, good. JAMES JACKSON, JR. (1810-1834) was the son of the second Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard, and a classmate of Oliver Wendell Holmes. From 1831 to 1832, James Jr. studied with the famed Dr. Louis in Paris, and wro...
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Lectures on the Epidemiology and Control of Syphilis, Tuberculosis, and Whooping Cough, and Other Aspects of Infectious Disease

By: Madsen T

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 6

SCARCE FIRST EDITION COLLECTION OF LECTURES ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS HEALTH COMMITTEE. 8 inches tall hardcover, maroon cloth boards, ix, 216 pages. Spine gilt title faded, numerous figures, maps, and tables, very good. Fifth Abraham Flexner Lectureship, 1937. This Lectureship was created in recognition of the great service which Doctor Abraham Flexner, as Sec- retary of the General Education Board, rendered to medical education through the reorganization and development of the new School of Medicine of Vanderbilt University. CONTENTS: Control of Venereal Disease ...
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Report of the Committee on Inquiry into the Departments of Health, Charlities, and Bellevue and Allied Hospitals in the City of New York. appointed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment

By: McAneny, George and Cromwell, George

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, City of New York: 1913

Seller ID: 803

PUBLIC HEALTH IN AMERICA: REPORT OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY BELLEVUE AND ASSOCIATED NEW YORK CITY HOSPITALS WITH LARGE FOLDING MAPS AND TABLES. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, handstamp of Lamar T. Berman to front flyleaf, 788 pp, folding tables listing admissions to Bellevue Hospital, children's cases, and two 29-inch long folding maps of Manhattan & the Bronx showing distribution of children's cases covered by Bellevue and allied hospitals; covers soiled, library call numbers bottom of spine, spin...
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Dental Caries and Fluorine

By: Moulton, Forest Ray

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1946

Seller ID: 780

1946 PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM TO EVALUATE WATER FLUORIDATION TO REDUCED DENTAL CARIES IN THE UNITED STATES--SCARCE. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, viii, 111 pp, tables, illustrations, wear to corners, spine ends frayed, corporate library handstamp to front paste-down, title page, back flyleaf, library stickers and pocket to back paste-down, binding tight, text pages age-toned but unmarked, good+. FOREWORD: Tooth decay is one of the most prevalent diseases of civilized man and of great importance from the standpoint of both the individual and public he...
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Transactions of the First Pan-American Medical Congress, held in the City of Washington, D.C., U.S.A., September 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1893. In Two Parts

By: Reed CAL

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 1895

Seller ID: 54

TWO MASSIVE VOLUMES--ILLUSTRATED PROCEEDINGS OF HISTORIC PAN-AMERICAN MEDICAL CONGRESS AT DAWN OF THE RISE IN AMERICAN MEDICINE. Two 9 1/2 inches tall thick hardcover volumes, vol. 1, vi, 1-1145; vol. 2, 1146-2250 pages, original dark navy cloth covers, faded gilt titles to spines. Light surface wear, small spot to lower corner of both covers, corners bumped, text unmarked; 1 loose signature, otherwise very good. CONTENTS: Invitation issued by the President of the United States, Department of State, Washington, October, 1892: 'Sir, The American Medical Association, which is the great national ...
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The Milk Question

By: Rosenau, M.J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1912

Seller ID: 359

1912 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ARGUMENT FOR PASTEURIZATION OF MILK IN AMERICA. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth boards, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate of John Barnes Miller front paste-down, otherwise unmarked and very good. Half title: Northwestern University/ The N. H. Harris Lectures for 1942. Engraved 1 1/2 x 3 inch calling card Mr. Norman Wait Harris laid in. PROVENANCE: John Barnes Miller (1869-1932) was first president of Southern California's Edison Company. SPONSOR OF LECTURE SERIES: Norman Wait Harris (1846 – 1916) was an American banker. He founded Chicago-ba...
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