Fine in Fine jacket. The story of diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen used from the 1940's through the 1970's, which has caused adverse health effects in the offspring of the women who took it.
Very Good. No Jacket. A medical classic translated into English by Henry Copley Greene and a part of the "Great Books of St. John's". Only 250 copies of this edition were printed for the sole use of members of St. John's College.
Fine in Fine jacket. An atlas of 20th Century descriptive epidemiology and disease patterns in the United States, with beautiful color charts covering TB, cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, AIDS, more. Plus distribution and supply of health care resources.
Edition: Reprint of First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sun Dial Press, Inc., NY
Date Published: 1937
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. Ex-Library The definitive biography of Pasteur, by his son-in-law, translated from the French. Introduction by Sir William Osler. Very complete, indexed. Light exterior wear/light soils. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780674406308ISBN:0674406303
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. A nontechnical guide to the goals and results of medical research up to 1977. Covers most health areas. read more
Edition: 1890 Printing of 1889 First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: American Public Health Association, Rochester, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. The practical guide is "adapted to persons of moderate and small means", covering "the five food principles, illustrated by practical recipes. " Winner of the Lomb Prize Essay. Stamp on frontispiece "With the compliments of Henry Lomb, Rochester, NY. " read more
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Inc., Philadelphia
Date Published: 1898
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. Covers such ailments as nausea, thirst, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, worms, vertigo, headache, fevers, and others. Minor edgewear. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: American Ethnological Press, NY
Date Published: 1934
Description: Good. No Jacket. This rare edition, translated from the German by David Berger, was limited to 1500 copies, sold only to physicians, members of the clergy and adult students of the social sciences. Covers the reasons for circumcision, customs and geographical distribution, with a separate section of the highly controversial practice of circumcision of girls. Also includes an interesting section on circumcision in art. Cover has edgewear and light rub marks. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Date Published: 1931
Description: Good. No Jacket. Collection of essays, entitled "The Difference between Art and Science in their Relation to Nature", "The Development of the Harveian Circulation", "Purposes in Medical Research", "Medicine and Science", "Physiology and Medicine", and "The Hierarchy of Medicine". Mild to moderated edgewear and peeling of paper covered boards. Upper outer corner of flyleaf torn away. read more
Edition: 1996 Printing of 1993 First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
Date Published: 1996
Description: Very Good + in Near Fine jacket. Presentation of the changes in American medicine via biographical essays of six scientific innovators at the University of Michigan Medical School-which was recognized by the turn of the 20th Century, as "one of the finest medical schools in the country". Some minor pencilling. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: L. H. Jenkins, Publisher, Richmond, VA
Date Published: 1915
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. Signed. IMPORTANT PROVENANCE Early 20th century look at the business of medicine. Briefly explores the profit and loss account of medicine; more thoroughly explores specific clinical conditions and their treatment. Was the personal copy of Johns Hopkin's great HOWARD A. KELLY and bears his SIGNATURE on the flyleaf. Later as his gift to Johns Hopkin's Hospital Library. And still later, belonged to medical historian Patricia Spain Ward and bears her signature on ... read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Publisher: National Medical Book Co., Inc., NY
Date Published: 1935
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. Early look at hypertension-its etiology; symptoms; consequences of the cardiac system, neurologic system, renal system; prognosis; therapy; and specific issues related to shock, surgery, and pregnancy. Illustrated. Light exterior wear/soils. read more
Introduction a L'Etude De La Medecine Experimentale
Disease and Medical Care in the United States
