SCARCE--DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MEDICAL DISORDERS IN LATE 19TH CENTURY AMERICA. 8 1/2 inches tall hardback, pebbled brown cloth boards, 223 pages. Spine ends worn, bookplate of University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Library, perforated library stamp to title page, publisher's advertisements at rear. Many tables comparing diseases to be differentiated (measles vs. smallpox, typhoid vs. typhus, gout vs. rheumatism, epilepsy vs. hysteria, croup vs. diphtheria, asthsma, vs. emhysema, aortic obstruction vs. aortic incompetency, etc.) Overall very good. CONTENTS: The fevers; Diseases of the ... View More...
SCARCE 1869 FIRST EDITION LECTURES ON FEVER FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT MEAD HOSPITAL, DUBLIN. 9 inches long hardcover, 3/4 leather with brown cloth, edges worn, spine with gilt title and raised bands, library numbers. Pages age-toned, no marks to text. FROM THE PREFACE: 'It has long appeared to me that the student usually has a less clear idea of fever than of any disease which he meets with in the wards of the hospital. ... The object I have had in view in delivering the ensuing Lectures to the students of the Meath Hospital, and in now publishing them, is to furnish the student with a guide to ... View More...
1860 SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF LECTURES ON ACUTE DISEASES BY INNOVATIVE BRITISH PHYSICIAN AND EDUCATOR. 9 1/2 inches tall harcover, xxvii, 308 pages, original brown pebbled cloth binding, small dent edge front cover, bottom front hinge weak, light foxing to first and last pages, unmarked and very good. T0 THE FORMER AND PRESENT HOUSE-PHYSICIANS AND CLINICAL CLERKS OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, WHO HAVE FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS KINDLY AND ABLY ASSISTED THE AUTHOR IN HIS CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS, THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED. PREFACE: 'The conclusions, which the clinical observations detailed in t... View More...
