1976 COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF MARIHUANA AT THE BEGINNING OF ITS POPULARITY IN AMERICA. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xviii, 299 pages, green binding, spine gilt, handstamp of Ates Tanin, [Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Toronto] on front free endpaper and edges of text, otherwise unmarked, very good; dust jacket edges rubbed, price-clipped, very good. CONTENTS: Pharmacology of Cannabis Sativa; Common Experiences Reported by Users of Marihuana; Les Paradis Artificiels--Charles Baudelaire; Marijuana Intoxication: Common Experiences--Charles T. Tart; Marihuana Effects: A Survey of Regul... View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia and New York, Lea Bros. & Co. : 1903
Seller ID: 226
CUSHNY 'THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE TEXTBOOK IN ENGLISH BY AN EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGIST'. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original blindstamped green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 756 pages. Dedication to Oswald Schmiedeberg, 'dem Meister vom Schuler Gewidmet'. Light wear to cover edges, age toning to pages, binding tight, very good plus. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1899): 'My object has been to bridge over the hiatus which exists between the phenomena occurring in the normal organism and those which are elicited in the therapeutic use of drugs, to show how far the clinical effects of remed... View More...
Publisher:
Philadlphia, Lindsay and Blakiston : 1878
Seller ID: 10
FIRST EDITION REFERENCE MANUAL FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICA. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, faded, many tables throughout, viii, 341 pages. Corners bumped, slight edgewear to top of spine, library numbers arfully removed from spine, overall very good. PREFACE: From personal experience of the wants of the busy practitioner, the author is confident that a work of ready reference containing, in a compact and tangible shape, information of a purely practical character, will prove a desirable addition to his medical armamentarium. The phys... View More...
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF A 19TH CENTURY BRITISH PHARMACOLOGIC TREATISE. 8 inches tall hardcover, viii, 160 pages, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped borders to covers, gilt title to spine. Surface wear to covers, chips along spine edges, water stain to first 3 leaves before title page, contemporary owner's signature to title page, dedication page 'to T. Lauder Brunton, a leader of physiological inquiry into the action of therapeutic agents in Great Britain'. No library markings. PREFACE. 'The aim of the writer, in this Essay, is to pre- sent a fair bird's-eye view of the subject of the... View More...
1912 LANDMARK STUDY OF MENTAL AND MOTOR EFFECTS OF CAFFEIN IN COCA-COLA, FIRST TO USE DOUBLE-BLIND CONDITIONS--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue buckram binding, iv, 166 pp, institutional library handstamp to edges and title page, embossed seal to title page, small library sticker bottom of last text page; signed and dated author inscription verso of table of contents, This book is dedicated to my greatest fans. People who strive to be the best, become the best! Keep up the hard work and good luck in your future. Sincerely, H. L. Hollingworth 1912. Covers unmar... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Chemical Catalog Co., Inc. : 1922
Seller ID: 970
1922 MONOGAPH ON ZIRCONIUM, AN ELEMENT VITAL TO HIGH TEMPERATURE AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, BY PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AND UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 173 pp, unmarked, very good+. FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE (1856 - 1934) was a chemist, educator, and president of the University of North Carolina. Born near Farmville, Prince Edward county, Virginia to Charles Scott Venable, aide-de-camp to Gen. Robert E. Lee from 1862 to 1865 and professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia from 1865 to 1896. In... View More...