Medicine from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

Chicago: Ritchie & Company, 1922. Twenty-second Edition. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 394, [12]. frontis. portrait & numerous text illus. index. cloth (some rippling to text leaves). dola2702

Philadelphia: F.A.Davis Company, 1921. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 420. 103 text illus. & 12 charts on 3 double-sided plates. biblio. index. cloth (small stain on rear cover). dola2678

Chicago: Spear-Marshall Co., [c1906]-1907-1909. 8vo. pp. 76, [4]index, [4]’Chromatic Therapy’; 120; 120, [7]incl. index; [2], [49]-63, [1], [2]ads. 2 title illus. bound with 5 other short related pamphlets & offprints. cloth (some scoring, Volume I missing title?). dola2693

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1926]. First American Edition. A pioneering work on the creative thought process by the social psychologist and co-founder of the London School of Economics. Wallis outlines the four stages of the creative process (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification), based on his own empirical observations and on the accounts of famous scientists, inventors,… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, [c1902]. Psychopathia Sexualis, originally published in German in 1886, was one of the first books about sexual practices that studied homosexuality and bisexuality. Krafft-Ebing proposed consideration of the mental state of sex criminals in legal judgments of their crimes. In its time, the work became the leading medico–legal textual authority on sexual pathology. Rebman’s English… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J.Walthoe, R.Wilkin, J. & J.Bonwicke, S.Birt, T.Ward, E.Wicksteed & J.Clarke, 1732. Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition (first: 1717). Turner was the author of several popular works that went through up to five and six editions during his lifetime, including the present treatise on syphilis and ‘De Morbis Cutaneis’ (first: 1714), the first English textbook of… Read more about this item

Birmingham: Printed by T.Warren, jun., 1757. First Edition. Included are chapters on ague, asthma, apoplexy, colic, consumption, diarrhea, epilepsy, fevers, gonorrhea, hemorrhoids, jaundice, measles, angina, palsy, menses, dropsy, hysteria, hypochondria, pleurisy, smallpox, scurvy, whooping cough, rheumatism, and gout. Appended is a section on ‘Rules and Directions how to preserve Good Health and Long Life’. Blake p. 291. Wellcome… Read more about this item

New York: D.Appleton And Company, 1860. First American Edition. Nightingale established her reputation as a skillful manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, where her efforts to improve sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and general living conditions resulted in a drastic reduction in the death rate among wounded soldiers. In 1860 she founded her training school for nurses,… Read more about this item

London: John Churchill, 1857. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 95 + [32]publisher’s catalogue. original blind-stamped cloth (extremities worn, spine lacking, covers detached). Inscribed from the Author. elala5691

Leyden: Daniel Elsevier & Abraham Wolfgang, 1679. First Edition. Sylvius was an early supporter of William Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood and the founder of the Iatrochemical School of Medicine, which explained and based the treatment of disease on chemical action. The Dutch physician, scientist, and professor at the University of Leyden “was the first… Read more about this item

Leyden: Pieter vander Aa, 1687. First Edition. Included in Stalpart Van Der Wiel’s medical observations is a description of idiopathic facial paralysis, now named Bell’s palsy after Sir Charles Bell [1774-1842], who was long considered to be the first to describe the condition in the early nineteenth century. Appended in the first volume is a treatise on the… Read more about this item

London & New York: Geo. Routledge & Co, 1858. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, [1]plate list, 722. lacking half-title? text in double columns. 28 wood-engravings by Hodgins after Wells. 15 plates of skin diseases, engraved & printed in colours by Evans after drawings by Wells and Scott, in rear pocket with descriptive leaf of text. contemporary… Read more about this item

Modena: Bartolomeo Soliani, 1722. Second Soliani Edition of this treatise on the plague, its legal, medical, political and religious aspects, and the best practices for avoiding it. The second part, pp. [365]-401, based on an account written by François Chicoyneau, J.Verny, and J.Soulier, concerns the outbreak of the plague in Marseilles in 1720-21. Muratori, an Italian priest and… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1943. Third Edition. Watson-Jones "was considered to be one of the most outstanding orthopaedic surgeons in the mid-twentieth century and is responsible for bringing the treatment of fractures to the specialized position it holds today....Most surgeons at the time found the [present] text to be concise and "non-academic," which was refreshing and enabled… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: F.A.Davis Company, 1925. First Edition, Second Issue with date on title altered to read 1925. 8vo. pp. xv, [1], 263. 140 text illus. A fine copy in original cloth. dola2024

London: Printed for T.Longman, 1761. Thirteenth Edition, Enlarged and Corrected. The author was an apothecary in London. The present material medica was first published in 1718 and enjoyed great popularity, reaching a fifteenth edition by 1782. The second part treats the preparation of simples, saline preparations metallic preparations, officinal compositions containing all the prescriptions of the Edinburgh and… Read more about this item

Geneva: De Tourne Brothers, 1715. First Edition. An important illustrated work on intestinal worms found in humans and animals, particularly the tapeworm, by the Geneva physician and medical historian. The work is based on a number of different sources as well as the author's own personal observations and includes a chapter on remedies. Le Clerc is best known… Read more about this item

Dublin: William Curry, Jun., And Company, 1845. First Edition. Including directions for the regimen of invalids, and observations on indigestion, gout, pulmonary consumption, and other diseases of the chest, stomach, and nervous system. Not in Wellcome. 8vo. pp. viii, 336. wood-engraved frontis. list of subscribers. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with chipped spine mounted (covers soiled). elala5596

London: Printed For J.Johnson, 1790. Third Edition: "In this Edition considerable Improvements are made, and many new cases given; to which is added the Paper on the Prevention and Cure of Cancer, without Operating, which Paper obtained the Prize Medal of the Medical Society of London, for the Year 1788." Blake p. 144. cfWellcome III p. 14. 8vo.… Read more about this item

London: Published for the Author by Simpkin, Marshall & Co...., 1837. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Appended are sections on the treatment of epilepsy, the symptoms and treatment of diseases of the heart, and a medical glossary. Wellcome III p. 145. 8vo. pp. xi, 260, 31. complete with initial advert leaf & with further 8pp. of ads… Read more about this item