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A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine for the Use of Students and Practitioners

By: Bartholow R

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.: 1880

Seller ID: 57

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN MEDICAL TEXT. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xvi, 853 pages, original brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Dr. John A. Murphy to front free endpaper, his signature to title page. Illustrated with 46 wood engravings. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Spine ends frayed, corners bumped, library handstamp to fore-edge and title page, library due date slip and pocket at rear. Good condition. ROBERT [aka ROBERTS] BARTHOLOW (November 28, 1831 - May 10, 1904) earned his MD from the University of Maryland in 1852, served as surgeon in the U...
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Notes of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine delivered in the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia

By: Eberle J

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Grigg & Elliott: 1840

Seller ID: 3

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY GUIDE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE. 7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth recent binding with bright gilt title to spine, vii, 248 pages. Age toning and light scattered foxing to first and last pages, otherwise very good. Preface: 'This little work is published expressly for the use of the students attending the author's lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine.' Contents include: Angina pectoris, Arachnitis, or Hydrocephalus acutus, Asthma, Cholera, Chorea, Spasmodic Croup, Diabetes, Dropsy, Epilepsy, Exanthemata-Small pox, Yellow fever, Ty...
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Universities: American, English, German

By: Flexner A;

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York: 1930

Seller ID: 220

1930 SIGNED FLEXNER STUDY OF AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES. 9 inches tall hardcover, ix, 381 pages, original green cloth binding, inscribed in in on front endpaper 'for my dear friends, Pauline & Chatzie, from Abraham Flexner, Nov. 20 '30;' dedication to wife and brother. Corners and edges worn, spine ends frayed, text very good. Signed copies of Flexner's books are scarce. ABRAHAM FLEXNER (1866 - 1959) was an American educator, best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada. His work attracted the Carnegie Foundation to ...
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Medical Education in the United States and Canada. A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

By: Flexner, Abraham

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Carnegie Foundation: 1910

Seller ID: 152

1910 FLEXNER REPORT--RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDY THAT GUIDED US MEDICAL EDUCATION OVER 100 YEARS. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, original paper cover bound at rear. Binding is fine, page edges are age-toned with a small ink stain on top edge, pages unmarked, overall very good. A landmark work which precipitated major reforms in medical education. It recommended closing commercial schools and reducing the overall number of medical schools from 155 to 31, with the aim of raising standards. Includes frank evaluative sketches of each sch...
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The Anatomic Histological Processes of Bright's Disease and their Relation to the Functional Changes

By: Oertel, Horst

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 618

1910 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON KIDNEY PATHOLOGY BY DISCIPLE OF VIRCHOW AND SEVERE CRITIC OF AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, bright gilt title to spine, color frontis of nephron anatomy, xi, 227 pp, 5 color plates, 40 black and white photomicrographs. Light wear to covers, corners worn, light pencil marginal notations, pencil notes on back endpaper, good+. PREFACE: Contains an extensive condemnation of medical education practices, with a plea for a more enlightened approach: These lectures were delivered at the request of the Resident...
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From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist

By: Selye, Hans

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Toronto, London, McGraw-Hill Book Co.: 1964

Seller ID: 374

SIGNED PHILOSOPHY OF RESEARCH BY PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF THE HUMAN STRESS RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, light blue paper-covered boards, navy blue paper covered spine, gilt title to spine, inscirbed on front endpaper, A Monsieur Jean E. Bernard/ Bien amicalement/ Hans Selye/ Universite de Montreal/ 1964. Edges and corners lightly rubbed, text unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. JANOS HUGO BRUNO HANS SELYE (1907 – 1982), was a pioneering Canadian endocrinologist of Hungarian origin. He conducted much important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response...
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Anatomy Notes

By: Towles, W.B.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Anderson Bros., University of Virginia: 1890

Seller ID: 352

1890 LITHOGRAPHED CURSIVE ANATOMY NOTES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BY BELOVED UVA PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY, WILLIAM B. TOWLES. 11 inches tall hardcover, new black cloth binding, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, signature of "'Colonel Jube' Woods, Buckingham Palace" top of title page, "University" spelled as "NNiversity", edges darkened, pages age-toned, text in cursive script, lithographed, scattered pencil notes throughout, overall good+. WILLIAM BEVERLEY TOWLES (1847 - 1893) was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, March 7th, 1847. He was descended from a family ...
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Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects, delivered Chiefly Before the Medical Classes of the University of Pennsylvania

By: Wood GB;

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co.: 1872

Seller ID: 141

Binding: viii

1872 INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. LECTURES TO MEDICAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERED BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR BY FORMER PRESIDENT OF AMA9 1/2 inch tall hardcover, original black pebbled cloth binding, expertly rebacked preserving original gilt spine. Bookplate of Luzerne County Medical Socity Library and of O. F. Harvey's library on front paste-down. Library handstamps and ink inscription 'With the kind regards of the Author' on front endpaper, perforated library stamp to bottom of title page. Text otherwise unmarked, overall very good.Dedication 'TO THE MEDICAL GRADUATES OF THE UNIV...
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