Category: Medicine

18th Century Surgical Instruments on 12 Engraved Plates

Price: $525.00

Publisher: About 1800

Seller ID: 003163

12 engraved plates, mounted & preserved on Japan paper. Plates from an unidentified medical volume, with both stipple & line engravings from H. Anderson, B. Tanner and Tiebout & Boyd. Illustrated Plates are:FRACTURE OF THE CLAVICLE; INSTRUMENTS FOR COUCHING AND THE EXTRACTION OF THE CATARACT; INSTRUMENTS FOR THE EXTRACTION OF THE CATARACT AND FOR THE FISTULA LACHRYMALIS; TOURNIQUETS AND AMPUTATING INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS FOR LITHOTOMY (2 different plates); TRUSSES; FRACTURE OF THE LEG; TREPANNING INSTRUMENTS; and 3 more plates with no "specific" title, just drawings of different surgi...
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Bulletin of Basic Science Research, Nos. 1 and 2, Nos.3 And 4. Vol. 4. 2 Bulletins. 1932

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Basic Science Research Laboratory : 1932

Seller ID: 004263

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: Very Good

Nos. 1 and 2: Two articles by Francis F Heyroth: The Evaluation of Vitamin B1, Concentrates by the Rat Cure Method and Deductions as to the Chemical Constitution of Vitamin B1 from the Absorption Spectra of B1 Concentrates(also written by John R. Loofbourow). By G. Park Goode: The Formation of Vitamin A in Corn Sprouts by Light, and the Transfer of the Vitamin from the Sprout to the Grain. By John R. Loofbourow: Vitamin D-A Review, Part I. Ultra-Violet Absorption Spectra in Relation to Vitamin D (continued). 69 graph illustrations, 8 Tables. 112 pp. ex. mus. stamps on front cover, otherwise co...
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DOAN'S DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 1910

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Buffalo, NY, Foster-Milburn Company : 1909

Seller ID: 005995

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+

Provided by the makers of Doan's Kidney Pills, this is an annual census of the population of the United States, which they claim numbered 90 million in 1910. "Doan's 1910 Directory also contains, in handy and concise form, complete information regarding diseases of the kidneys, a subject so little understood that thousands of fatal cases occur every year that could be prevented by prompt treatment." 32 pp. Decorative paper wraps with image of Uncle Sam on front cover and on back cover, a letter from a doctor assuring Doan's Kidney Pills are safe for treatment. Cover corners are cre...
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MICROBIAL GENETICS, Biology Colloquium 1960

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Corvallis, OR., Oregon State College : 1960

Seller ID: 004051

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Twenty-first Annual Biology Colloquium, April 22-23, 1960. Articles: Microbial Genetics, Introduction to the Colloquium by Aaron Novick with frontis. portrait of Novick.plus Microbial Genetics and the Synthesis of Proteins by Novick; Genetic Studies on the Replication of Bacterial Viruses by Gunther S. Stent with illustrations and table; Genetic Fine Structure in Neurospora by David R. Stadler with illustrations; Recent Studies of Transformation in Bacillus subtilis by John Spizizen with tables; Genetic Recombination Between Genera of the Enterobacteriaceae by L. S. Baron with illustrations a...
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POPULAR SCIENCE NEWS AND BOSTON JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY.1892-Complete year. 12 issues. Vol. XXVI: Number 1-12. January-December.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Popular Science News Co. : 1892

Seller ID: 003135

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good or Better

Articles by Harlan Hoge Ballard,"then" President of the Agassiz Association; and THE NEW STAR IN AURIGA, by Charles Augustus Young. Articles include: NOVELITIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY (6 etchings); WATER AND AIR BAROMETERS (2 etchings); PHOTOGRAPHING LIGHTING-STROKES(1etching); FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF COCHIN CHINA (1etching); SOME CURIOUS MINERALS (5 ETCHINGS); ABOUT LICHENS(17 etchings); MIMICRY IN ANIMALS (3 etchings); EXPERIMENTS WITH WATER-JETS(3 ETCHINGS); EVOLUTION FOR THE CONTINENTS( 4 etchings); MINIATURE SUN-DIALS (4 etchings); SOUP-BUBBLES (6 etchings); JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (2 etch...
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SCIENCE RECORD (Formerly Scientific and Literary Gossip), Three Issues 1883-1884.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Boston, S. E. Cassino & Co. : 1883

Seller ID: 003104

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

A monthly journal of Notes and News in all departments of Science. 3 issues: Dec.15,1883 (Vol. 11, No.2); Jan.15, 1884 (Vol.II, No. 3) and Oct.15,1884 (Vol.II, No.12). Articles include: A NEW MICROSCOPE SLIDE CABINET, RESEARCHES ON BACTERIA, MICROSCOPY, SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS IN EASTERN UNITED STATES, BATS, CALIFORNIA SPIDERS, BIRDS, CRUSTACEA, ROCK SECTIONS, WINES, and HARMONY OF THE SPHERES. Jan.1884 issue pages mainly uncut. Illustrations, including publisher advertisements. Paper covers mildly soiled, string-tied. Oct.1884 issue's covers detached from text with tears, still intact. Overall...
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SCIENCE, August 27, 1886. Volume VIII. No. 186

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1886

Seller ID: 003656

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Articles by Famous Americans: J. WILLARD GIBBS: Multiple algebra. in Letters to the Editor: WILLIAM NORTH RICE: The eccentricity theory of the glacial period;HENRY B. BAKER: The causation of pneumonia; and E.W.EVANS: The sweating sickness. Another article:"A New Submarine Torpedo Boat" with illustration. ex.mus.numbers on front cover. mildly soiled. watermark along top edge of front cover and on first page top margin inside. watermark at spine hinge. small chipping around edges. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG.
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SCIENCE, December 18, 1885. Volume VI. No. 150

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003246

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+

With Science Supplement. Some articles: "The Meeting of the American Public Health Association"; "The government and its scientific bureaus" and "Methods of teaching political economy". Articles by or about Famous Americans: in Letters to the Editor: "NEWCOMB's Political Economy"; LESTER F. WARD "A National university"; P. J. FARNSWORTH "The English sparrow"; and WILLIAM FERREL "The temperature of the moon". In Science Supplement:.I. C. RUSSELL "North Carolina coal-fields"; "Laying a Cable" (joining the two islands Mart...
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SCIENCE, May 8, 1885. Volume V. No. 118

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003167

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Good-

Articles by Famous Americans: S. NEWCOMB "Mortality experience of the Connecticut mutual life-insurance Co."; and in Letters to the Editor ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL "The Wisconsin Bill relating to the instruction of deaf-mutes"; and EUGENE A. SMITH " Tertiary phosphates in Albama". Other articles: "Composite Portraits of Members of the National Academy of Sciences" with a full page of 4 portraits protected by a tissue guard; " American Flash Language in 1798" with Tufts's glossary, 1793-98; "Walking and Running" with 5 illustrations; and under Notes...
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SCIENCE, November 20, 1885. Volume VI. No. 146

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003233

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Good+

With Science Supplement. Article by a Famous American: in Science Supplement: E. J. JAMES "Recent land legislation in England". Other articles: "Blackfoot Tribes"; "Some Reaction-Time Studies" with a table; "Ben Nevis Meteorological Observatory" with an illustration of the observatory; and "Entomology in the National Museum" with a table. In Letters to the Editor: "Effigy mounds in Iowa" with an illustration. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front. vertical crease, mildly seen throughout publication, very minor. Slight chipping at bottom ...
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SCIENCE, October 30, 1885. Volume VI. No. 143

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003230

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Good+

With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: F.W. PUTNAM "Man and the mastodon" (found in Worchester County, Mass.). In Letters to the Editor: ALPHEUS HYATT "Cruise of the Arethusa"; and EDWARD S. HOLDEN "The care of pamphlets". In Science Supplement:" The Nordenfelt submarine boat" with illustration. Other articles: "The International Geological Congress at Berlin"; " Localization of Functions in the Brain"; plus "Geographical Notes" (Lieut. H.T. Allen's expedition to Copper or Atna River and Lieutenant Cantwell's exploration ...
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SCIENCE, September 4, 1885. Volume VI. No. 135

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003197

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good-

Articles about/or by Famous Americans: In Letters to the Editor:R.P. WHITFIELD "An American Silurian scorpion"with illustration; CHAS. A. ASHBURNER "The geology of natural gas"; and R. W. SHUFELDT "Probable period of gestation in the 'horned-toad'. Other articles: " The Lick Observatory" with 5 illustrations; and "The Development of the Eye" with 2 illustrations. ex. mus. stamp on front cover. Covers detached. Front cover is Good to Good+. Back cover with tears and missing pieces, Good-. Crease down middle. Interior is tight, clean and VG.
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SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY GOSSIP, 5 Issues 1883

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Boston, S. E. Cassino & Co. : 1883

Seller ID: 003022

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+ or Better

January-October 1883. Vol.I, No.3 January 15, 1883 Articles: Cuvier, and English Universities. Vol. I, No.6 April 16, 1883, Article: American Museums, Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, PA. Vol.I, No.7 May 15, 1883, Articles: American Museums, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and American Archaeology: The Work of the Peabody Museum. Vol.I, No.8 June 15, 1883, Articles: American Museums: The Lyceum of Natural History at Williams College, American Archaeology: The Work of the Peabody Museum (continued), The Atlantic Right Whales, and Land Leeches of Ceylon. Vol...
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Scribner's Monthly, Volume 12 from May 1876 to Oct 1876

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner & Co : 1876

Seller ID: 004605

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

Numerous articles by famous authors: John Burroughs; Ernest Ingersoll, Rebecca Harding Davis; Henry James, Jr; Edward Everett Hale; Bret Harte; Philip Bourke Marston; Fanny Hodgson Burnett; etc. Articles include: Portraiture of William Penn; The True Pocahontas; Bowdoin College; John Gutenberg, Old Landmarks in Philadelphia; How America was Named; Union College, N.Y.; Charlotte Cushman; The Story of the Signing (Declaration of Independence); Harvard University; Wesleylan University, Conn; Oliver Madox Brown; Niagara; Insanity and its Treatment; Notes on Salmon Fishing; Massachusetts Agricult...
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STATE OF NEW YORK, In Assembly, Annual Report of the Commissioners of Quarantine. 1870

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, : 1870

Seller ID: 004434

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

No. 20. January 12, 1870. Submitted by John T. Hoffman, Governor of New York (1869 -1872). " In presenting an account ot their proceedings...the terrible disease which has become an annual visitor to our shores, found a large number of victims among those engaged in our commerce with tropical parts during the past summer, our citizens happily escaped its ravages. The source of cholera, which made the years 1866 and 1867 memorable in the history of quarantine in the port of New York, sought its victims in other climes, and left our commercial metropolis undisturbed by its approach..." ...
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THERAPEUTIC NOTES: January, 1939 to January, 1940

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Detroit, Parke, Davis & Company : 1939

Seller ID: 005139

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Twelve issues of Therapeutic Notes magazine published from January 1939 to January 1940 with a combined issue in July-August 1939. Articles written include: Hemorrhage, Prothrombin, Vitamin K, Bile; Research on Fungi and Fungicides; Physiologists Take Bile Apart; Sternal Puncture for Anemia Study; Adsorbing Urinary Gonadotropic Hormone; Surgical Approach to Bile Research; Improving Digitalis by Genetics; Trailing the Oxytocic Hormone; "Slow Adrenalin"; Common Duct Exposed for Bile Research; Biologic Assay in Vitamin Research; and The Chemistry of Blood Coagulation. Magazines are boun...
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TRANSACTIONS OF VASSAR BROTHERS' INSTITUTE And Its Scientific Section 1885-1887

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, New York,

Seller ID: 003997

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Covers Fair Interior Very Good

Vol.IV Part I and II. " Object of the society is to promote education and useful knowledge in the departments of Science, Literature, and Art, by investigating and discussing subjects...by establishing and maintaining a Museum, a Library and a collection of works of art and objects of historic interest ..." Articles by Famous Americans include: W. LE CONTE STEVENS - "Aerial Navigation" with 4 illustrations; and MARY WHITNEY - "New Stars in Andromeda and Orion" with an illustration. 3 articles by William G. Stevenson, President of The Institute: "Interpretations of ...
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TRANSACTIONS OF VASSAR BROTHERS' INSTITUTE And Its Scientific Section 1894-1896

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, New York, A. V. Haight

Seller ID: 004000

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: Good

Vol.VII Part I and II. Two Articles by Theodor Neumann (Artists and Artisans in the Feathered World and Ento-Parasites and Hygiene); Chas. W. Pilgrim: The care and treatment of the insane; 2 articles by D. B. Ward: Diatoms and Bacteria; Chas. W. Fowler: Purification of Public Water Supplies; Frederick S. Arnold: Gypsies; Rev. Wm. Bancroft Hill, President of The Institute: The Gothenburg or Norwegian System of Liquor Traffic; Edward Elsworth: The Sanitary Disposal of Sewage; Charles B. Warring: The insufficiency of Physical Law and 2 articles by Dr. J. W. Poucher: Tuberculosis and Cremation as...
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AMERICAN RED CROSS FIRST AID TEXT-BOOK

By: American Red Cross

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co : 1933

Seller ID: 006270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good-

Prepared by the American Red Cross for the instruction of First Aid Classes. With 110 illustrations. 237 pages with index. Paperback with olive heavier paper has torn or creased corners, water stains, chipped edges, dirt marks, tears to joints, section of cover missing from lower spine end. Front hinge broken and front cover is pulling away from rest of book. Creasing to interior page corners. Water stains/foxing to interior pages, some waviness, browning to page edges, but text is easily legible. Book in Fair to Good- condition.
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SYMPOSIUM ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON: THE ORTHOPEDIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 1976 (VOL. 7, NO. 2)

By: Banks, Henry H. (Guest Ed.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company : 1976

Seller ID: 006507

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Pages 259-524, with index. Slight wear to cover, including rubbing to corners, edges and spine ends. Light foxing to exterior page edges. Interior tight and clean.
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Category: Medicine