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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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'If Only Someone Had Told Me'

By: Bailey HD

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Shrewesbury Publishing Co.: 1917

Seller ID: 2

WORLD WAR I--FIRST EDITION GUIDE TO YOUNG AMERICANS ON THE DANGERS AND CONSEQUENCES OF VENEREAL DISEASE. 7 1/4 inch tall hardcover, green cloth boards, bright gilt title to cover and spine, photographic frontispiece and 6 photographic plates, pencil signature of previous owner front endpaper. 75 pages. Slight wear to corners and ends of spine, near fine. Dedication: 'TO THE MYRIADS OF YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE IN IGNORANCE OF THE TERRIBLE DANGERS OF VENEREAL DISEASE.' CONTENTS: A Few Words of Introduction, Prevalence of Venereal Disease, Gonorrhoea, Soft Chancre, Syphilis, Words of Che...
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Untersuchungen uber die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica und den Antheil, welchen sie an der Entstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verschiedenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.

By: Billroth, Theodor

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Berlin, Georg Reimer: 1874

Seller ID: 594

RARE 1874 FOLIO FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK DESCRIPTION OF STREPTOCOCCAL WOUND INFECTION BY FOUNDING FATHER OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY. 12x15 inches tall folio, orginal printed brown paper covered boards with leather spine, gilt title to red leather label, xiv, 244 pp, 1 text illustration, 5 copper plates engraved by Wilhelm Grohmann. Cover edges rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, spine ends frayed, later endpapers, old water stain to lower right corner of preliminary pages, marginal age-toning, text and plates unmarked, overall good+. THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894) was an Austrian surgeon. regarded as ...
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Yellow Fever and Its Prevention. A Manual for Medical Students and Practitioners

By: Boyce, Rubert W.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1911

Seller ID: 818

1911 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON ALL ASPECTS OF YELLOW FEVER BY BRITISH PIONEER IN TROPICAL MEDICINE--INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, top edge gilt, inscribed on front flyleaf, WIth the author's kind regards & best wishes, frontis photograph of village in Sierra Leone, with tissue guard, xv, 380 pp, 61 figures; edgewear to covers and spine ends, gilt bright, light foxing to edges and endpapers, hinges starting, binding tight, text pages clean and unmarked, very good minus. RUBERT BOYCE (1863 - 1911) was appointed assis...
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The Viruses. Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties. Vol. 1. General Virology; Vol. 2, Plant and Bacterial Viruses; Vol. 3, Animal Viruses

By: Burnet, F. M. and Stanley, W.M.

Price: $220.00

Publisher: New York, Academic Press, Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 789

1959 THE DEFINITIVE 20TH CENTUREY TREATISE ON VIRAL BIOLOGY PUBLISHED 6 YEARS AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF DNA, EDITED BY TWO NOBEL LAUREATES. Three hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, xvi, 609; Vol. II, xvi, 408; Vol. III, xvii, 428. fine in very good+ dust jackets. FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET (1899 - 1985) was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and was best known for developing the theory of clonal selection. Burnet's major achieveme...
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How to Avoid Infection

By: Chapin, Charles V.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press: 1917

Seller ID: 826

1917 LAY MANUAL ON AVOIDANCE OF INFECTION BY LEADER OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA--INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 7 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed, With the regards of the author top of title page, 88 pp; light spotting to endpapers, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CHARLES VALUE CHAPIN (1856 - 1941) was an American pioneer in public health research and practice during the Progressive Era. He received his medical education at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. He was superintendent of health for Providence, Rhode Isla...
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The Sources and Modes of Infection

By: Chapin, Charles V.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 1916

Seller ID: 825

1916 INFLUENTIAL MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN DISEASE TRANSMISSION, IDENTIFICATION OF CARRIERS, INDICATIONS FOR ISOLATION--PUBLISHED DURING WORLD WAR I. 8 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to spine, xi, 481 pp; previous owner pencilled name front flyleaf, no other markings, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CHARLES VALUE CHAPIN (1856 - 1941) was an American pioneer in public health research and practice during the Progressive Era. He received his medical education at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. He was superintendent of health for Provi...
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The Medical Report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil

By: Councilman, W.T. and Lambert, R.A.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press: 1918

Seller ID: 300

SIGNED COPY OF MEDICAL REPORT ON TROPICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY W. T. COUNCILMAN, DISCOVERER OF THE COUNCILMAN BODY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, spine gilt, many black & white photographi illustrations, a map, and color plate. Inscribed on front free endpaper To my good friend Miss Maude Patten with affectionate regards, W.T. Councilman. INTRODUCTION: The expedition, primarily undertaken for geographical research, was organized by Doctor A. Hamilton Rice, and left New York on the steam yacht Alberta, Novem- ber 16, 1916. The members of the expedition were Doctor an...
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Centenary of the Graduation of Dr. Carlos J. Finlay in Jefferson Medical College

By: Exposito, Cesar Rodriguez

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Havana, Cuba, Ministery of Health and Social Assistance: 1956

Seller ID: 822

1956 SCARCE TRIBUTE TO DR. CARLOS FINLAY, DISCOVERER OF MOSQUITO TRANSMISSION OF YELLOW FEVER, PUBLISHED IN HAVANA DURING THE CUBAN REVOLUTION. 9 inches tall booklet, printed paper covers, age-toned, small ink library call numbers and faint institutional library handstamp to front cover, corner of first free endpaper excised, 73 pp, black & white photograps, text unmarked, good+. In archival mylar protective sleeve. CARLOS JUAN FINLAY (1833 - 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes ae...
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Penicillin: Its Practical Application

By: Fleming, A., Bacharach, A.L., Hems, B.A., Berry, H., Garrod, L.P. and Hughes, W.H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Butterworth and Co.: 1946

Seller ID: 338

1946 ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE PHYSICIAN ON USE OF PENICILLIN BEFORE ITS COMMERCIAL RELEASE, EDITED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, spine title gilt, very good, unmarked, no dust jacket. PREFACE: The publishers approached me to write a book for them on penicillin. This request I had to refuse for two very good reasons: first I had too many commitments to spare the time to do justice to such a book, and secondly it would have been impossible for me, a laboratory worker, to place penicillin therapy in its proper perspective relative to other forms ...
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Recent Advances in Vaccine and Serum Therapy

By: Fleming, Alexander and Petrie, G.F.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, J. & A. Churchill: 1934

Seller ID: 828

1903 FIRST EDITION MASTERFUL ACCOUNT OF VACCINE AND SERUM THERAPY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES BY NOBEL LAUREATE ALEXANDER FLEMING. Octavo 14x20.5 cm. green cloth binding, blindstamped front & back, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, x, 463 pp, publisher's advertisements; covers clean, spine title bright, front hinge starting, lacking front flyleaf and half-title page, abrasion to title page removing Fleming's name, binding tight, text pages unmarked, good. PREFACE: Our purpose in writing this book has been to survey the present tate of knowledge regarding the ...
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Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations on Kuru. Smadel-Gajdusek Correspondence, 1955-1958

By: Gajdusek, D.Carleton

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Bethesda, Maryland, National Institutes of Health: 1976

Seller ID: 656

1950s SCARCE COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SMADEL AND GAJDUSEK, WHO RECEIVED NOBEL FOR DISCOVERY OF KURU, PRION DISEASE TRANSMITTED BY CANNIBALISM. 11 1/2 inches tall red buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, institutional library handstamp (crossed out) to front paste-down, 413 pp, 4 p index. Corners bumped, residual from library sticker bottom spine, very good. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK (1923 - 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be...
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The Impact of the Antibiotics on Medicine and Society. Monograph II. Institute of Social and Historical Medicine, The New York Academy of Medicine

By: Galdston I;Waksman SA;Temkin O;Stevenson LG;Thorndike L;Welch H;Mckeen JE;Dauer CC;Luther HG;Nickell LG;Rappleye WC;Alvarez WC;Ginzberg E;Mahoney JF;Hobson LB

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, International Universities Press, Inc.: 1958

Seller ID: 9

FIRST EDITION ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF THE DISCOVERY OF ANTIBIOTICS ON MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY, WRITTEN BY ITS LUMINARIES. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth boards, spine title gilt, faded, 'withdrawn' handstamp to front free endpaper, no other marks, no dust jacket, text very good. Foreword: The impact and effect of the antibiotics medicine and society: a formidable subject no doubt-and the contributions published herein reflect the broad knowledge and the deep insight of a distinguished group of experts. From the Introduction: The immediate effect of the antibiotics upon medicin...
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The mammals of Bitterroot Valley, Montana, in their relation to spotted fever, Bureau of Biological Survey Circular No. 82

By: Henshaw, Henry W. and Birdseye, Clarence

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington, U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Biological Survey: 1911

Seller ID: 998

1911 REPORT ON THE COLLECTION OF MAMMALS FOR ISOLATION OF TICKS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRANSMISSION OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER--BY AN ORNITHOLOGIST AND FOUNDER OF FROZEN FOOD EMPIRE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, printed paper covers stapled, 24 pages, 12 figures; Library of Congress and withdrawn handstamps to cover, no other marks, archival tape repair to bottom fold of paper cover, very good. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: As has long been known, the so-called spotted fever of many parts of the Rocky Mountain region is peculiarly virulent in Bitterroot Valley, Mont., and the present investigations were und...
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Oysters and Disease. An account of certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish

By: Herdman, W.A. and Boyce, Robert

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, George Philip & Son: 1899

Seller ID: 707

1899 MONOGRAPH ON DISEASES OF OYSTERS BY A ZOOLOGIST AND BACTERIOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL--ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. 11 inches tall volume, printed card covers, old pen inscription top edge of cover, cloth spine, [viii], 60 pp, 8 lithographic plates (4 in color), covers worn and browned, pages age-toned, plates bright and clean, very good. WILLIAM ABBOTT HERDMAN (1858 - 1924) was Secretary to the Challenger Expedition Commission: overseeing the deciphering of the huge catalogue of information found during this important exploration. In 1880 he became Demonstrator of Zo...
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Memoirs of the Indian Museum. An Account of the Rats of Calcutta

By: Hossack, W.C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press: 1907

Seller ID: 710

1907 MONOGRAPH ON THE RATS OF CALCUTTA BY MEMBER OF THE PLAGUE DEPARTMENT DURING THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC--LARGE COLOR PLATES OF RATS. Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers; Vol. 1, text, errata slip, 80 pp; Vol. 2, 8 plates with descriptive text: 6 full-page color lithograps, 2 black & white (1 folding). Unmarked, apparently unread, covers darkened with edges chipped, backstrip partially perished, text page edges ate-toned, plates bright and clean. In cusotm mylar cover. WILLIAM CARDIFF HOSSACK, M.D. was a member of the Plague Department, Calcutta. THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC was a ...
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On two remarkable ciliate protozoa from the caecum of the Indian elephant

By: Kofoid, Charles A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, National Academy of Sciences: 1935

Seller ID: 1017

1935 ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF 2 NEW PROTOZOA FROM THE INTESTINE OF AN INDIAN ELEPHANT--REVEALS CO-EVOLUTION OF MAMMAL AND INTESTINAL PARASITE. 10 inches tall offprint from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 21, pp 501-506, 2 figures, 1965, stapled, with handstamp signature of author to cover, very good. CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID (1865 - 1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis. He was Chairman of the Department of Zoology of the University of Calif...
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Paludism

By: Laveran, A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, The New Sydenham Society: 1893

Seller ID: 821

1893 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MALARIA BY NOBEL LAUREATE ALPHONSE LAVERAN--COPY OF ERNEST STARLING, EMINENT BRITISH PHYSIOLOGIST. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt portrait of Sydenham to front cover, gilt title to spine, all edges stained red, handstamp of E. H. Starling, Univ. Coll., xii, 197, 4 color, 2 black 7 white plates; spine ends frayed, abrasions to spine, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, very good. CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN (1845 - 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discove...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

By: Livingstone, David

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Bros., Publishers: 1858

Seller ID: 641

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'S FAMOUS FIRST EXPLORATION OF AFRICA, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND WITH FOLDING MAPS, COPY OF VIRGINIA PHYSICIAN AND LAWYER. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, signature of Jos. A. Waddell to front endpaper, steel engraved portrait of author, tissue guard, wood engraving of tsetse fly to title page, double-page frontis wood engraving of Victoria Falls, xxiv, 732 pp, 43 wood engravings, 22 of which are full-page, fold-out section across south-central Africa, 2 fold-out maps bound at back, ea...
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Pamphlets on Insects, Injurious and Beneficial

By: Lounsbury, Charles Pugsley

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa, 1897 - 1924

Seller ID: 952

UNIQUE BOUND COLLECTION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY ORIGINAL PAPERS CHRONICLING THE WORK OF A YOUNG AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST WHO REVOLUTIONIZED AGRICULTURAL PEST CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA. 10 inches tall hardcover, red buckram binding, gilt title, library call letters to spine, bookplate of University of Tennessee Library (withdrawn) to front paste-down, typescript table of contents, 63 offprints, some signed by the author, some with handstamp or signature of previous owner, H. A. Morgan, many with illustrations, some color. Covers soiled, edges worn, edges of several papers chipped, some pages browned, ...
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Category: Infectious Disease