Search Results: Medicine from Bruce McLeod

London, England: Bailliere Tindall & Cox, 1959. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. NEAR-FINE Third Printing Hardcover. Red boards nearly perfect, binding and all pages as-new. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, tape marks on endpapers. No DJ. Nice vintage nursing book, very collectible, and full of useful info. 6.5" x 4.5", 136 pages .

London, England: Bailliere Tindall & Cox, 1958. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine. NEAR-FINE 6th Edition HC. Red covers show just slight wear. Binding, hinges, and all pages as-new. No DJ. Very nice vintage collectible nursing book. 6.5" x 4.5", 214 pages .

Brandon General Hospital, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. VERY FINE/VG- First Edition. Perfect blue boards with no bumps or wear. Interiors absolutely as-new. Jacket has light shelf wear, 4 short closed tears (archival non-yellowing tape), light chipping. 8.85" x 11.25", 284 pages, bibliography, appendix, index. High quality book contains a complete history of Brandon General hospital. The appendix includes lists of governors, directors, senior staff, medical staff, chiefs of staff, and the names of all graduates of the BGH School of Nursing between 1894 and 1983.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. VG First Edition. Tiny nick on back of spine, otherwise Fine. Crisp and clean interiors. 5.25" x 8", 343 pages, photographs, drawings, graphics, index. Part of the Canadian Social History Series, this book traces 4 generations of Canadian nurses.

Winnipeg, MB: Grace Hospital Nurses Alumnae, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. GOOD+ First Edition, 1st Printing Trade Paperback, SIGNED by author on first page. Covers show edge wear & corner creases. Inside, all pages are excellent, the last few pages have a small mark on the corner. Well-illustrated with vintage letters and historic photos. 5.5" by 8.5", 102 pages. A history of Winnipeg's Salvation Army Grace Hospital, 1886 to 1970.

Winnipeg, MB: Grace Hospital Nurses Alumnae, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. VERY GOOD First Edition, 1st Printing, SIGNED by author on first page. Slight shelf-wear to covers only, interiors AS-NEW. Nicely illustrated with vintage letters and historic photos. 5.5" by 8.5", 102 pages. A well-written history of Winnipeg's Salvation Army Grace Hospital, 1886 to 1970.

Viking, 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. FINE proof in orange-yellow card covers. Pristine unmarked interiors, fine wraps, no creases, appears unread. 6" x 9", 181 pages, illustrated. The author advances an argument that the major diseases throughout history were caused by human misuse of the environment and the planet's resources. The book includes histories of malaria, leprosy, bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, Aids, sphyillis, tuberculosis and the Irish potato fungus.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2002. Trade Paperback. Fine. FINE 2nd Printing Softcover. No creases, superb wraps, small bookplate on inside of front cover. 5.5" x 8.5", 239 pages. This book tells the stories of 22 women, their families and friends, and their epic struggle to come to terms with breast cancer. The women are all members of the Dragon Boat team "Chemo Savvy.

Pasadena,CA: Pacific Book and Printing, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good softcover. An outstanding copy of this hard-to-find book. Clean, square, tight, signed by the author. Well written biography of a Christian American nurse in China.

Very Good second edition softcover. No markings, no creases, clean, straight and solid. 6" x 9", 448 pages, illustrated. For each health issue examined in the text, the authors present basic biological information on specific conditions and then expand their analysis to include evolutionary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives.

Waterdown, Ontario, Canada: Potlatch Publications, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. FINE First Edition Trade Paperback. Crisp, clean, square & tight, no markings, no wear. Approx. 6" x 9", 155 pages, illustrated. Doris Carter's riveting memoirs of her service in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps from 1940 to 1945 in military hospitals in England, Algeria, Sicily, Italy, and Belgium.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dundurn Press - Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW/BRAND NEW First Edition. Unmarked, no wear, gift quality. 6.25" x 9.25", 156 pages, illustrated, notes and sources, appendices, index. An exceptional biography of Saskatchewan physician Robert George Ferguson and the Anti-Tuberculosis League.

University of Manitoba Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-Fine/Very Good First Edition, 1st printing, SIGNED by Dr. Paul Thorlakson on the title page. A really nice copy, clean inside and out, nearly perfect boards, nice & tight, no markings other than Thorlakson's signature. DJ is lightly tanned and has minor edge wear, no tears, no chipping. 6.25" by 9.25", 635 pages, color coat of arms and portrait frontispiece, many photographs, appendices, chronology, list of publications, notes, index.

London, U.K.: Granada, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FINE/VERY GOOD+ First Edition, 1st UK Printing. A clean, crisp, solid book with previous owner's name on endpaper, no other markings. Excellent unclipped DJ.

Toronto: Hannah Insitute for the History of Medicine, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine/Fine 3rd printing. No markings. 5.75" by 8.75", 114 pages plus selected bibliography, frontispiece portrait of William Osler in 1881, two additional photographs. Brown cloth boards with dark brown quarter binding.

Springfield, IL, U.S.A.: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD First Edition, ex-lib in excellent condition. Crisp, clean, solid, DJ in mylar with no tears or chipping. 6.25" by 9.25", 219 pages, illustrated. A thorough guide to the communication problems of hearing-impaired students, written for speech clinicians but also valuable to hearing clinicians, deaf student and special education instructors, audiologists and other professionals who deal with school-age hearing-impaired children.

Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. FINE/NEAR-FINE First Edition, 1st Printing, SIGNED and dated by the author, with short inscription by Dr. Harry Medovy to a colleague. Top edge lightly dusted but still a spectacular copy in a really nice DJ with tiny tears at spine tips and slight sunning of spine. 6.25" x 9.25", 156 pages, many historic b&w photos, index.

Near-Fine 2nd printing trade paperback. SIGNED by the author on both the front cover AND the title page. Nearly perfect covers, as-new binding and pages. This book offers a rare and intimate look at the heart-wrenching experiences and challenges faced by a family with children with special needs, including Prader-Willi Syndrome. 5.5" x 8.5", 170 pages, illustrated.

Very Good trade paperback. Light wear to covers and spine. Interiors unmarked and near-fine. Wraps and pages lightly tanned. 6x9, 246 pages. Why is the medical profession becoming specialized, inaccessible, and expensive? Why is the doctor, with his/her intellect, compassion, energy, and the educated touch, such a rare creature? What has happened to the skillful, common-sense doctor who can make a diagnosis and does not need to order visits to the lab for intensive and expensive testing procedures?

AS-NEW updated 3rd Edition hardcover, no DJ. The first and second editions covered the years 1887 to 1963. This Centennial Edition includes 1964 to 1988. A superb copy with no wear & no markings. Perfect covers, binding and interiors. 6.25" x 9.25", 188 pages, well-illustrated.