Clinical Remarks on Some Cases of Liver Abscess Presenting Externally
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. First edition. 8vo. Original muslin.
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. First edition. 8vo. Original muslin.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1839. 8vo. Stafford’s paper appears on page 218-21. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. “Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 4259). In this volume.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1840. 8vo. Burton’s paper appears on page 63-79. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Burton was the first to note the blue line on the gums in lead poisoning – 'Burton’s blue line' – an important diagnostic sign. He was physician to St.....
Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell, 1842. Second American edition. 8vo. 560 pp. Contemporary sheep. "Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine and one of the most important figures in Irish medicine at the middle of the 19th century" (see Garrison-Morton-Norman 2218).
London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1842. Third edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1842. 8vo. Curling's paper appears on page 260-81. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "'Curling’s ulcer'. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it".....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Third edition, revised. 8vo. 644 pp. Contemporary sheep, red morocco lettering-piece. "In 1839, [Stewart] translated Billard's The Diseases of Children from the French with an appendix of one hundred pages of Stewart's pediatric comments. His own Diseases of Children was first published in 1841.......
London: S. Highley, 1846. 8vo. [4], 23, [1] pages. Disbound. First offprint edition, printed for private circulation, this essay was read at the London Medical Society and originally appeared in The Transactions of the Medical Society of London for 1845. Forbes Winslow (1810-1874) was a British psychiatrist, author and an.....
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. Second edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. "Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian half-breed who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont as the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First edition. 8vo. Simpson's paper is on pp. 934-37. Entire volume: [1], 1172 pp. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece. "In an attempt to find an anesthetic less irritating than ether, Simpson discovered the advantages of chloroform. He had previously used.....
Paris: Labé, 1848. First edition. 8vo. Bernard's paper is on pp. 303-19. Entire volume: 512 pp. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. "Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Medical Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 995).
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. First edition. 8vo. xxxi, 367 pp. Original embossed cloth, partly unopened. Stanley notes in his preface that there were only two earlier works on the subject, those of Petit (1705) and Boyer (1803). In the same year, Stanley produced an atlas on the.....
Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co., 1850. First edition. 8vo. 878 pp. Folding frontispiece lithographed map by A. Wocher after B. P. Whiting, and 18 single-page maps. Original calf, black morocco lettering-pieces. Provenance: signature of an early owner from New Orleans on the pastedown. "This classical contribution to the social.....
New York: McSpedon and Baker, 1852. 8vo. 88 pages. Superb folding frontispiece "View of the New-York Quarantine, Staten Island," lithographed by G. Hayward for David Valentine's 1851 Manual. Original cloth, gilt letterered on front cover. First edition. A wonderful association copy, inscribed by the author to Alfred E. Beach on.....
New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1853. Twentieth edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
New York: Samuel S. and W. Wood, 1856. Fourth edition. Three volumes, thick 8vo. Illustrations in text. Contemporary sheep, black morocco lettering-pieces. Provenance: Dr. Otto Juettner (1865-1962), German-born physician primarily responsible for the development and study of medicine in Cincinatti after his emmigration in 1881 (bookplate, ink gift inscription on.....
London: New Sydenham Society, 1860-61. First edition in English. Two volumes, 8vo. Two color frontispieces, illustrations in text. Original embossed cloth. "Frerichs’s classic monograph on diseases of the liver summarized the existing knowledge and included his own important work on the subject. He discovered leucine and tyrosine in the liver.....
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1861. First American edition. 8vo. 463 pp. Wood-engravings in text. Original cloth. Provenance: C. H. Ferguson, Toledo, OH (signature on pastedown). This is the first of three books Barwell wrote on orthopedics. Includes sections on synovitis, rheumatism, pyarthrosis, acute articular osteitis, chronic rheumatic arthritis, hip-joint disease.....
London: New Sydenham Society, 1863. Later edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1864. Third American edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
Paris: J. B. Baillière et fils, 1866. Second edition, revised and corrected. 8vo. 880 pp. Half-title. Illustrations in text. Contemporary French morocco-backed boards. An extensive study, well-illustrated, of the liver and biliary diseases by University of Berlin Professor of Clinical Medicine, Fr. Theodor von Frerichs. He made several contributions to.....
London: New Sydenham Society, 1866-67. First edition in English. Two volumes, 8vo. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. "One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 6048, first edition in French, 1860-62).
London: J. E. Adlard, 1869. First edition. 8vo. Plates. Original cloth.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1873. First edition. 8vo. Baker's paper is on pp. 198-211. Entire volume: 257 pp., 81 pp. tables at end. Contemporary half cloth, marbled boards. "First description of erythema serpens, usually called 'erysipeloid of Rosenbach', following the latter’s paper in Arch. klin. Chir., 1887, 36, 346".....
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 387 pp. Half-title, advertisement at end. 12 lithographed plates. Modern half leather, untrimmed. "In Pasteur's important study of fermentation, he discovered that contamination of beer was caused by microorganisms found in the air and not spontaneously generated as had been previously believed. He made.....