Category: Infectious disease

Mortality Statistics 1918 TOGETHER WITH Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Washington AND Paris, Government Printing Office AND Masson & Cie : 1918, 1920

Seller ID: 3534

1918 MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR US AND FRANCE: 2 VOLUMES CHRONICLE THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. 1) Mortality Statistics 1918. 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 in the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter...
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Parke, Davis & Co. advertisement in The Apothecary and New England Druggist, March 1919

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Apothecary Publishing Co. : 1919

Seller ID: 1000

1919 PHARMACISTS' TRADE JOURNAL CONTAINING ADVERTISEMENT FOR INFLUENZA PREVENTION AND TREATMENT PRODUCTS DURING SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC. 11 inches tall journal, color printed paper covers, stapled, 52 pp (entire issue) containing on page 50 a full-page advertisement: Influenza has created a large demand for these products, picturing Influenza-Pneumonia Vaccine, Used as a preventive of influenza and the pneumonia sequela; and Pneumonia Phylacogen, Used in the treatment of influenza and the pneumonia sequela. Don't send large orders for these products. We couldn't fill them. Have a few packages on ...
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The Cultivation of Viruses and Rickettsiae in the Chick Embryo

By: Beveridge, W. I. B. and Burnet, F. M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, His Majesty's Stationary Service : 1946

Seller ID: 1010

1946 MANUAL FOR CULTIVATION OF VIRUSES AND RICKETTSIAE ON CHICK EGGS BY LEADERS OF INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING NOBEL LAUREATE MACFARLANE BURNET. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, olive green printed paper covers, signature of J.C.D. Hutchinson top of cover, 92 pp, text figures, 2 plates, darkening and light wear to cover edges, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. FROM THE PREFACE: As a result of the pioneer studies of Goodpasture in America and Burnet in Australia, the virus-worker can now effectively use the developing egg in a number of different ways: besides following th...
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Hydrophobia

By: Bigelow HR;

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton : 1881

Seller ID: 123

1881 RARE AMERICAN TREATISE ON TREATMENT OF RABIES BEFORE PASTEUR'S VACCINATION OF A CHILD IN 1885. 8 inches tall hardcover, viii, 154 pages, original red pebbled cloth covers with blindstamped design and beveled edges. Spine darkened, spine ends worn, institutional bookplate on front paste-down, no other library marks, overall very good. A 19th century American treatise on the history and treatment of rabies published 4 years before Pasteur's successful vaccination of a child bitten by a rabid dog in 1885. Bigelow was unaware of Pasteur's early studies of rabies (beginning in 1880), and belie...
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Les Bacteries et Leur Role Dans l'Anatomie et l'Histologie Pathologique des Maladies Infectieuses

By: Cornil, A.-V. and Babes, V.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Felix Alcan : 1885

Seller ID: 883

1885 THE FIRST TREATISE ON BACTERIOLOGY BY FRENCH AND ROMANIAN PIONEERS IN THE FIELD--ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES AND 156 FIGURES IN TEXT. Two volumes bound as one, 10 inches tall hardcover, recent green cloth binding, gilt title leather label to spine, Vol I, Atlas, engraved frontis of pathogenic bacteria, 26 chromolithograps with facing descriptive text; Vol II, Text, vii, errata, 696 pp, 156 black & white and color figures intercalated throughout text. Covers and binding fine, new endpapers, perforated institutional library stamp to title page, owner handstamp verso frontis, plates and te...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York, Series 63

By: Dulbecco R;Thomas L;Perutz M

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York and London, Academic Press : 1969

Seller ID: 83

KEY LECTURES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE BY WINNERS OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NOBEL PRIZE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 323 pages, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is 'the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences'. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which it publishes in book f...
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A Short Illustrated Guide to the Anophelines of Tropical and South Africa

By: Evans, Alwen M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, University Press of Liverpool, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. : 1927

Seller ID: 1001

1927 GUIDE TO AFRICAN MOSQUITO VECTORS OF MALARIA BY EXPERT BRITISH ENTOMOLOGIST WITH HER ILLUSTRATIONS--SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE. 10 1/2 inches tall volume, olive green printed paper covers, inscribed To D. G. S. Carter with the author's Compliments on cover, 79 pp, 10 text-figures and 12 plates, corners bumped, light wear to covers, very good minus. Laid in, ALS from author to Dr. G. S. Carter, dated 5th March 1931, regarding lakes and swamps in Kenya compared to those in Paraguay. ALWEN MYFANWY EVANS (1895 - 1937) was the first female lecturer in Entomology at the Liverpo...
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Antibiotics. A Survey of Penicillin, Streptomycin, and Other Antimicrobial Substances from Fungi, Actinomycetes, Bacteria, and Plants

By: Florey, H. W., Chain, E., Heatley, N. G., Jennings, M.A., Sanders, A. G., Abraham, E. P. and Florey, M. E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1949

Seller ID: 802

1700-PAGE HISTORY OF THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIBIOTICS BY NOBEL LAUREATE-PIONEERS AND THEIR ASSOCIATES. Two hardcover volumes, 10 inches tall, publisher's red cloth bindings, institutional library bookplates to front paste-downs, handstamps to endpapers, library pockets to back paste-downs, Vol. I, xv, 628 pp; Vol. II, vii, pp 629 - 1774, spines faded, light wear to cover edges, bindings tight, texts unmarked, good+. PREFACE: Although there are comprehensive reviews of the literature on antibiotics boots concerned with penicillin and streptomycin, particularly with their use in the clinic, ...
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Microphtographischer Atlas der Bakterienkunde

By: Fraenkel C;Pfeiffer R;

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Berlin, August Hirschwald : 1892

Seller ID: 171

1892 EARLY ATLAS OF BACTERIAL PHOTOMICROGRAPHS BY DISCIPLES OF ROBERT KOCH - 76 PLATES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 48 pages, 3/4 leather with marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, 1 full page black & white full-page figure of photographic apparatus, 2 unnumbered plates, followed by 74 numbered plates of photomicrographs of microorganisms. Wear to covers, joints weak, hinges reinforced with archival tape, institutional library embossed stamps to title page, text otherwise unmarked. Overall good+. CARL FRAENKEL (1861 - 1915) was a German physician and bacteriologist. I...
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Image for Workshop and Symposium on Slow, Latent, and Temperate Virus Infections held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, December 7, 8, and 9, 1964

Workshop and Symposium on Slow, Latent, and Temperate Virus Infections held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, December 7, 8, and 9, 1964

By: Gajdusek, D.Carleton, Gibbs, Clarence J. Jr. and Alpers, Michael

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington DC, US Government Printing Office : 1965

Seller ID: 774

1965 PROCEEDINGS OF A LANDMARK NIH SYMPOSIUM ON SLOW VIRUS INFECTION INCLUDING PAPERS OF THE PIONEERS THAT LED TO A NOBEL PRIZE FOR GAJDUSEK IN 1976. 10 1/2 inches tall publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, signature of Cornelis Van Ness MD to front flyleaf, xx, 489, black & white and color figures. Covers, binding and pages clean except for several marginal notations; very good. From the FOREWORD: The research projects in our Institute, involving the remote and isolated intense foci of chronic central nervous system disease, namely, the study of kuru in New Guinea an...
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Image for The Impact of the Antibiotics on Medicine and Society. Monograph II. Institute of Social and Historical Medicine, The New York Academy of Medicine

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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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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Tuberculosis Among Certain Indian Tribes of the United States

By: Hrdlicka, Ales

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1909

Seller ID: 831

1909 ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF TUBERCULOSIS IN AMERICAN INDIANS BY SMITHSONIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND EUGENICIST--ANNOTATED COPY OF PROMINENT AMERICAN RACIST STATISTICIAN. 9 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, bookplate of Frederick L. Hoffman front flyleaf, handstamp of Statisticians' Department, Oct 25, 1912, top of title page, 48 pp, 22 plates, corners bumped, pencil marginal annotations, otherwise very good. ALES HRDLICKA (1869 - 1943) was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. Young HrdliÄka attended evening courses to impro...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York

By: Hubel DH;Gajdusek DC

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, San Franciso and London, Academic Press : 1978

Seller ID: 89

LANDMARK DISCOVERIES IN NEUROSCIENCE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY NOBEL LAUREATES. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 398 pages, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which it publishes in book form at the end of the y...
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Lectures on the Study of Fever

By: Hudson A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea : 1869

Seller ID: 25

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 ...
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Diseases Transmitted from Animals to Man

By: Hull, Thomas G.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas : 1930

Seller ID: 823

1930 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF DISEASES TRANSMITTED FROM ANIMALS TO MAN, WHICH REMAINED IN PRINT FOR 35 YEARS (6 EDITIONS). inches tall hardcover, pebbled blue cloth binding, cover blindstamped, gilt title to cover and spine, institutional handstamp to front paste-down and flyleaf, no other library marks, [xvi], 350 pp, 29 illustrations, very good. THOMAS GORDON HULL (1889 - ?) was Chief Bacteriologist, Illinois Department of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Assistant Collaborating Epidemiologist, United States Public ...
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Tropical Medicine and Parasitology: Classic Investigations

By: Kean, B. H., Mott, Kenneth E. and Russell, Adair J.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press : 1978

Seller ID: 829

ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF ABOUT 200 KEY PAPERS IN TROPICAL MEDICINE COVERING 16TH TO 20TH CENTURIES. Two 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover volumes, red cloth bindings, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, xxiii, 286 pp; Vol. II, pp 287 - 677; institutional library handstamp to bottom edge and front flyleaf, index card and bar code back endpapers of each volume; covers clean, spines bright, bindings tight, text pages crisp and unmarked, good+. GARRISON-MORTON No. 2268.1 About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes. BENJAMIN...
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Image for Report of the Proceedings of the Sanatory Committee of the Board of health in Relation to the Cholera, as it Prevailed in New York in 1849 BOUND WITH State of New York Report No. 92 in Senate, March 25, 1850: Of the majority of the committee on Medical Societies and College on so much of the Governor's message as relates to the cholera.

Report of the Proceedings of the Sanatory Committee of the Board of health in Relation to the Cholera, as it Prevailed in New York in 1849 BOUND WITH State of New York Report No. 92 in Senate, March 25, 1850: Of the majority of the committee on Medical Societies and College on so much of the Governor's message as relates to the cholera.

By: Kelly J

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, McSpedon & Baker : 1849

Seller ID: 65

MID-19TH CENTURY REPORTS ON CHOLERA IN NEW YORK. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 106, 43 pages, new red buckram covers, gilt title to spine, very good.
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Image for A Full and Clear Reply to Doct. Thomas Dale, Wherein the real Impropriety of Blistering with Cantharides in the first Fever of the Small-Pox is plainly demonstrated, With some diverting Remarks on the Doctor's great Consistence, and exquisite Attainments in Physick and Philology

A Full and Clear Reply to Doct. Thomas Dale, Wherein the real Impropriety of Blistering with Cantharides in the first Fever of the Small-Pox is plainly demonstrated, With some diverting Remarks on the Doctor's great Consistence, and exquisite Attainments in Physick and Philology

By: Killpatrick J

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Edwards Brothers : 1938 1739

Seller ID: 71

RARE LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE BOUND PAMPHLET ON SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN CHARLSTON, SC, IN 1738. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 49 pages, gray cloth boards with light surface wear and spotting, overall very good facsimile of an original pamphlet in the British Museum, published in June 1938 (only 125 copies printed). FOREWORD: 'The smallpox epidemic of 1738 in Charleston, South Carolina gave rise to a controversy between two of the local practitioners, Thomas Dale and James Kilpatrick. In the fashion of the day they aired their medical quarrel by publishing pamphlets defending their ideas and pract...
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Influenza: The preparation of immune sera in horses TOGETHER WITH Influenza: Experiments on the immunization of ferrets and mice

By: Laidlaw, P. P., Smith, Wilson, Andrewes, C. H. and Dunkin, G. W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. : 1935

Seller ID: 999

1935 LANDMARK STUDIES ON TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA BY HYPERIMMUNE HORSE SERUM AND DURATION OF IMMUNITY IN FERRETS BY PIONEERING BRITISH VIROLOGISTS. 10 inches tall offprint in orange printed paper covers, stapled, two papers from The British Journal of Experimental Pathology, vol. XVI, pp 275 - 302. Previous owner pencil signature and handstamp number top of cover, very good with no internal markings. LAID IN 2 black & white photographs of lungs (1 1/2 x 2, 3 x 3 1/2). SIR PATRICK PLAYFAIR LAIDLAW (1881 - 1940) was a Scottish virologist. From 1920 - 23, he studied the properties of histamine at t...
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Category: Infectious disease