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Mortality Statistics 1918

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1920

Seller ID: 353

US MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR 1918 DOCUMENTS THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC 100 YEARS AGO. 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 m the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this -withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter our Army and Navy would normally reduce tlie general death rate of any...
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Parke, Davis & Co. advertisement in The Apothecary and New England Druggist, March 1919

By: N/A

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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'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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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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Studies in Immunity by Professor Jules Bordet and his Collaborators

By: Bordet J;

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1909

Seller ID: 147

1909 SCARCE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF NOBEL-WINNING PAPERS BY JULES BORDET, DISCOVERER OF WHOOPING COUGH. 9 inches tall hardcover, vii, 545 pages, orginal black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis portrait of Bordet. Bottom of spine frayed, otherwise very good. PREFACE by editor Frederick P. Gay: 'Although for more than fifteen years a protagonist in the modern development of Immunity, Bordet has continued an investigator instead of becoming a generalizer; he has been led by thoroughness of observation and brilliancy of inductive reason to the collection of successive significant facts r...
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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 Amoebae Living in Man: a Zoological Monograph

By: Dobell C

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, William Wood & Co.: 1919

Seller ID: 23

1919 - EARLY FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN PARASITIC AMOEBAE, WITH COLOR PLATES. 10 inches tall hardcover original navy blue cloth boards, bright gilt title to spine, vi, 155 pages. Very slight wear to corners and spine ends, edges lightly soiled, armorial bookplate of Nathaniel Pendleton Dandridge M.D. Memorial Library and bookseller's ticket (James Book Store) to front paste-down, perforated medical library stamp to title page. Five folding plates at rear (2 color, 3 black & white). FROM THE PREFACE: 'I have devoted a great part of my working life to the study of amoebae of all sorts, for...
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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: $150.00

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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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 imp...
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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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Cases of Cholera collected at Paris, in the month of April, 1832, in the Wards of MM. Andral and Louis, at the Hospital la Pitie

By: Jackson J Jr.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Carter, Hendee, and Co.: 1832

Seller ID: 50

RARE REPORT OF A CHOLERA EPIDEMIC BY 22 YEAR-OLD AMERICAN IN THE CLINIC OF LEGENDARY DR. PIERRE LOUIS IN PARIS, 1832. 10 inches tall hardcover, viii, 212 pages, paper covered boards and spine, edges and spine label worn and rubbed, uncut, hinges starting, contemporary ink signature to front paste-down, faint pencil inscription front free endpaper, text otherwise unmarked, good. JAMES JACKSON, JR. (1810-1834) was the son of the second Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard, and a classmate of Oliver Wendell Holmes. From 1831 to 1832, James Jr. studied with the famed Dr. Louis in Paris, and wro...
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Category: Infectious disease