Minor Oral Surgery Simplified
Philadelphia: Patterson & White Co, 1928. First edition. 8vo. Illustrations in text. Original cloth.
Philadelphia: Patterson & White Co, 1928. First edition. 8vo. Illustrations in text. Original cloth.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [1937]. First edition, inscribed. 8vo. xii, 726 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Presentation copy, inscribed to Cincinnati pediatrician A. Graeme Mitchell on the front free endpaper. Published to celebrate Riesman's 70th birthday, this volume collects his papers on the cardiovascular system, diseases.....
Paris: G. Masson, 1879. First edition. 8vo. Roger's paper is on pp. 1074-94 and 1189-91. Entire volume: 1359 pp. Half-title. Modern cloth. Roger was the first physician to present a comprehensive description of asymptomatic interventricular septal defect. "Roger drew attention to an important anomaly of the septum, interventricular patency ('maladie.....
Washington: Gibson Brothers, November 1886. First edition. 8vo. Salmon and Smith's paper is on pp. 204-05. Entire volume: pp. 201-20, 4 pp. advertisements at end. Original printed wrappers. "Discovery of Salmonella cholerae-suis. The Salmonelleae tribe was named after Salmon, even though the discovery was made by [his assistant] Smith" (Garrison-Morton-Norman.....
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.....
London: William Johnston, 1763, 1762-84. Third edition of vol. 1, first editions of vols. 2-6. 6 volumes, 8vo. Plates, many folding. Modern half leather, marbled boards, untrimmed. A fine set of this important journal, with ten notable contributions in the history of medicine:HUNTER, William (1718-1783). "The history of an aneurysm.....
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.....
London: Longman, Hurst, et al, 1814. First edition. 8vo. Stevens' paper is on pp. 422-39. Entire volume: xx, 456 pp. 8 engraved plates at end, two hand-colored. Contemporary half sheep. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac, Dec. 27, 1812. The patient died in 1822 and an account of the.....
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: New Sydenham Society, 1882. Later edition, revised and with additions. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. 596 pp. Half-title. Modern half leather. An important reprint of "an historical landmark in medicine," with additions mainly prepared by Stokes himself. Stokes turned over the preparation of a new edition to his friend Alfred Hudson.....
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1815. 8vo. Contemporary sheep.
New York: H. Stevenson for the Author, 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf-backed boards. In 1812, Travers’s researches on intestinal sutures recorded the first accurate knowledge on this subject. See G-M-N 3433.
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, 1886. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Includes papers by Kussmaul, Ziemssen, Volkmann, Leyden, Biermer, and others.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Second, revised edition. 8vo. Color frontispiece. Original cloth. "Important experiments on gastric function, made on 'Tom', a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 1041).