Category: Obstetrics

The Puerperal Diseases, Clinical Lectures Delivered at Bellevue Hospital

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co. : 1874

Seller ID: 22

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK 19th CENTURY AMERICAN OBSTETRIC TEXT, TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN. 9 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, xiii, 526 pages. Covers and edges soiled and rubbed, spine ends frayed, ink signature of original owner, 'Mohr A. Reany, 1874' across title page, text otherwise unmarked. FROM THE PREFACE: 'For nearly twenty years, it lias been my duty, as well as my privilege, to give clinical lectures at Bellevue Hospital, on midwifery, the puerperal and the other diseases of women. ... I therefore have devoted the vacations of the past two ...
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Surgical Diseases of the Ovaries and Fallopian Tubes, including Tubal Pregnancy

By: Bland Sutton J

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co. : 1895

Seller ID: 1

FIRST EDITION LATE 19TH CENTURY TEXT BY NOTED SURGEON--OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. Small octavo, 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth boards, spine gilt, 119 wood engravings and 5 lithographed color plates, ink signature of previous owner (Dr Reamy) on title page. xvi, 500 pages. Corners slightly bumped, scattered foxing first 30 pages, overall very good. SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON (1855-1936) was a British surgeon specializing in pelvic operations on women. He was knighted in 1912, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal College of Surgeons, as well as Vice-President of the Zoo...
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Techniques of Birth Control

By: Dickinson, Robert Latou

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins Co. : 1942

Seller ID: 1024

1942 ILLUSTRATED WARTIME GUIDE TO CONCEPTION CONTROL BY PROMINENT NEW YORK GYNECOLOGIST AND ARTIST. 10 inches tall pamphlet, printed paper covers, stapled binding, 56 pp, illustrations, light soiling to covers, unmarked, very good minus. ROBERT LATOU DICKINSON (1861 - 1950) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist, surgeon, maternal health educator, artist, sculptor and medical illustrator, and research scientist. He became Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brooklyn Hospital and at Methodist Episcopal Hospital. During the First World War, he was Assistant Chief of the Medical Sect...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate I No 2. The head of the skeleton seen from below with several fetuses

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 976

1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - UNDERSIDE OF THE SKULL AND SEVERAL FETAL SKELETONS. Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), old water stain on corners, not affecting image, very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of ...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate XXII. The matrix [female reproductive organs], after Haller, TOGETHER WITH Plate XXII No 2. Details of the matrix [and fetus], after Haller, Kulm & Huber

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 985

1762 TWO LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS, FETUS AND PLACENTA. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light 1/8 inch spot to Plate XXII, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that...
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The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse. The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi

By: Djerassi, C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books : 1992

Seller ID: 371

SIGNED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPER OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL. 9 1/2 inches tall beige paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, signed and dated by Djerassi on title page (1/27/93), fine/fine. Cited by Pickover in The Medical Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (2009): In the 1930s, researchers had determined thiat high concentrafions of the hormone progesterone, which is normally present during pregnancy, also tricks a nonpregnant body into behaving as if it were pregnant and thus prevent the monthly release of an egg. In the early 1950s, American chemists Carl Djerassi and Frank Go...
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Causes and Curative Treatment of Sterility, with a Preliminary Statement of the Physiology of Generation. With Colored Lithographs and Numerous Wood Cut Illustrations

By: Gardner AK

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, De Witt & Davenport : 1856

Seller ID: 24

1856 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FEMALE STERILITY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES BY NOTED PHILADELPHIA LITHOGRAPHER. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped design, bright gilt title to cover, viii, 170 pages. Spine dulled, spine ends lightly worn, only marks are handstamp of Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Library to title page and dedication page, which reads, 'NOT TO THE INVENTOR OF THE CLAMP SUTURE, THE CROWNING SURGICAL APPLIANCE OF THE AGE; NOR TO THE PHILANTHROPIC PROJECTOR OF THE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL, THE NOBLEST CHARITY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, BUT TO THE MAN...
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Archive of six offprints on early prenatal human fetal activity

By: Hooker, Davenport

Price: $300.00

Publisher: : 1936-1958

Seller ID: 1311

1936-1958 SIX SCARCE LANDMARK PAPERS BY PIONEERING PITTSBURGH PHYSIOLOGIST DAVENPORT HOOKER, WHO RECORDED HUMAN FETAL REFLEX RESPONSES TO STIMULATION. Six offprints stapled in original wraps, documenting key discoveries in the fetal development of neuromuscular reflexes by pioneering anatomist and neurophysiologist Davenport Hooker. 1) Early fetal activity in mammals. Yale J Biol Med 8: (6) 579-602, July, 1936 [cover with ragged edges, text with 1 cm closed edge tear, otherwise very good]; 20 The origin of the grasping movement in man. Proc Am Philos Soc 79: (4) 597-606, November, 1938 [very g...
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The Prenatal Origin of Behavior

By: Hooker, Davenport

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Lawrence, University of Kansas Press : 1952

Seller ID: 1309

1952 LANDMARK OVERVIEW OF PIONEERING STUDIES OF HUMAN FETAL BEHAVIOR BY DAVENPORT HOOKER, INSCRIBED BY HIM TO COLLEAGUE DR. EDITH BOYD. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on front free endpaper, Dr. Edith Boyd/ with the cordial greetings of Davenport Hooker. viii, 143 pp, 6 illustrations in text. Very good in very good jacket in mylar sleeve. CONTENTS: I. Fetal activity in infahuman vertebrates; II. The sequence in human fetal activity; III. The significance of structural and functional interrelationships in prenatal activity. DAVENPORT HOOKER (1887...
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Postures & Practices During Labor Among Primitive Peoples. Adaptations to Modern Obstetrics; With Chapters on Taboos & Superstitions & Postpartum Gymnastics

By: Jarcho, Julius

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. : 1934

Seller ID: 1078

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON LABOR PRACTICES AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 11 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth publisher's binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis drawing of mother in rocking chair preparing for delivery; xvi, 175 pp, 129 illustrations. covers and corners worn, spine ends frayed, 1/2 inch abrasion to lower spine, hinges cracked exposing webbing, light foxing to first and last pages, text clean and unmarked. In custom archival mylar cover. JULIUS JARCHO (1882-1963) was a New York obstetrician and gynecologist. His efforts were fundamental in the establis...
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An Exposition of the Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy: with some other papers on subjects connected with Midwifery

By: Montgomery WF

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea : 1857

Seller ID: 80

AMERICAN EDITION OF EARLY IRISH TREATISE ON OBSTETRICS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxiii, 568 pages, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped design to covers and spine, gilt title to spine, 2 color lithographic plates, each containing 10 figures, 48 wood engravings in text. Spine ends chipped, upper spine edges cracked and chipped, browning to preliminary and last pages, light foxing to plates, overall good +. In custom archival mylar cover. AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S NOTE: 'In reproducing the present enlarged and improved edition of Montgomery's classical work, the object of the publishers has...
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Image for Disputationes ad Morborum. Historiam et Curationem Facientes. Quas Collegit, Edidit et Recensuit [Discussions of Disease, History and Treatment, Reviewed and Published]; Six Volumes: I. Diseases of the Head and Neck; II, Diseases of the Heart; III, Diseases of the abdomen; IV, Diseases of the Abdomen (continued); V, Of Fevers; VI, Of Diseases That Affect the Body

Disputationes ad Morborum. Historiam et Curationem Facientes. Quas Collegit, Edidit et Recensuit [Discussions of Disease, History and Treatment, Reviewed and Published]; Six Volumes: I. Diseases of the Head and Neck; II, Diseases of the Heart; III, Diseases of the abdomen; IV, Diseases of the Abdomen (continued); V, Of Fevers; VI, Of Diseases That Affect the Body

By: von Haller, Albrecht

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Venice (Vols. I - III), Lausanne (Vols. IV - VI), Haeredum Baglioni (Vols. I-III), Marci-Michael Bosquet (Vols. IV-VI) : 1757-1758

Seller ID: 884

1757-8 SIX VOLUMES BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL CALF WITH 30 COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS SPANS 18TH CENTURY INTERNAL MEDICINE--BY SWISS ANATOMIST ALBRECHT VON HALLER. Six volumes, 10 1/4 inches tall (quarto) 18th century full calf binding, spines with raised bands, gilt tooled compartments, gilt titles to red leather labels, edges dyed red, marbled endpapers, book label of Dr. Rene Billard, Dole, to each front paste-down, title pages with red and black printing, engraved medallions of Haller. Vol I, [4] 639, 2 plates; Vol. II, [2] 704, 4 plates; Vol. III, hand-penned bookplate Ex bibliotheca/ Guillau...
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The Pathology and Treatment of Childbed: A Treatise for Physicians and Students

By: Winckel F

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea : 1876

Seller ID: 29

1876 SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MAJOR GERMAN 19TH CENTURY MONOGRAPH ON OBSTETRICS. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, 484 pages. Corners bumped, joints weak, brown stain to lower left corner of first pages, not affecting text, no markings in text. Publisher's catalogue at back. German medical practice dominated American medicine in the 19th century. FRANZ WILHELM CARL LUDWIG RITTER VON WINCKEL (1837-1911) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician. He graduated in 1856 from the University of Berlin and in 1864 he became a professor of gynecology in Rostock . In 18...
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Category: Obstetrics