Medical History
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Notes On Nursing
by Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. A 136-page volume, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach one's self to be a nurse but to help in the practice of treating others.
Medical History Books & Ephemera
Autographed Letter Signed to a fellow doctor
by BELL, Luther V. (1806 - 1862)
Charleston, VA, 1855. unbound. 1 page, 9.75 x 7.5 inches, Charleston, Virginia, October 1, 1855, to Dr. Rufus Woodward, during Bell's brief retirement, in full: "Your letter was received just as I was leaving home, and with some others accidentally overlooked until to-day, when the application of an interested party to learn where a patient could be sent when insane, to a State Hospital, reminded me of it. I need scarcely say that I shall be very willing to be referred to via connection with...
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SGD 482.54
Elements of Skateing. A Fundamental Error in the Art of Skateing
by GILLRAY, James
Edinburgh: John Miller, 1818. Etching with hand coloring. Image measures 9.5 x 13". Sheet measures 9.5 x 13.5".<br/><br/> As a part in a 4-part series, this print depicts several "errors" in ice-skating such as skating with a walking cane or not being aware of where you are skating. Popularized in the late eighteenth century, ice-skating became a favorite winter recreation which in some ways could be at extreme odds with the societal emphasis on respectability. Always...
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SGD 344.68
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction: 191 (Very Short Introductions)
by Bynum, William
Paperback. Very Good.
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SGD 4.43
Hierbas Mexicanas
by Del Toro, G. Hernandez
Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1999. Paperback. Text is in Spanish. Used - very good condition. Book shows some shelf wear. Binding glue and rough page edges are visible inside front cover; bottom half of first title page is loose but all other pages are intact. Top outside corner is scuffed and worn at the tip. Front and back covers are wrinkled at the top of the spine. No markings inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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SGD 44.12
Devils, Drugs, and Doctors
by Haggard, Howard W
Blue Ribbon Books, 1929. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 38.60
The Gold-Headed Cane
by William Macmichael
Charles C. Thomas, 1953. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . Signed by person(s) connected with book. 185 pages. Light wear, pages yellowed; a good solid book. The jacket has some stains, chips and tears. Inscribed and signed by Jim Waring, author of the foreword. Reissue of 1827 work. Contents are Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, Pitcairn, Baillie. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Signed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 198478. .
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SGD 13.79
Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War
by Hallett, Christine E
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine, as new copy of this meticulously researched and authoritative history of nurses in the First World War. B&W illus. 359pp..
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SGD 32.77
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
by John Henry Clarke
B Jain Publishers, 1992. 3 vols. Used - Very Good condition. Vol. 1: Abies Can. - Hypericum, Vol. 2: Iberis - Pediculus, Vol. 3: Penthorum - Vaccinium. All vols w/djs. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean, solid 3 volume set with minimal signs of use and no ownership marks. Photo is of 3 volume set that we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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SGD 75.83
Affidavit. (Curing Tuberculosis in the 1880's)
by TUBERCULOSIS
unbound. very good(+). 1 page. 7 x 8". An affidavit from a physician attesting that Issac S. Collins, a Clergyman from Massachusetts, reports he has created a cure for Consumption, quoted in part: "...says that 20 years ago he expected to die long before this with Consumption, but has lived quite stable by taking horehound occasionally after taking cold ... andthen English Commercial Tea, made hot and let stand until cold, and drink it for months ... at a time his spittle was considerable ......
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SGD 172.34
Nosography: The Evolution of Clinical Medicine in Modern Times
by Faber, Knud H
AMS Press Inc, 1978. Second edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 1978 reprint of the original 1930 second edition. Previous owner's stamp and label on first page, otherwise text is unmarked. Cover corners are square; light wear to tips and spine ends. Binding is solid and square. Teal cloth-covered hardcover with gilt title on spine. No jacket, perhaps as issued. Extremely scarce title. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international...
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SGD 320.31
Iatrike sten Archaea Hellada - Apo ton Homero ston Hippocrate: Keimena kai eikones
by Demetrios D. Lypourles
[Medicine in Ancient Greece - From Homer to Hippocrates: Texts and Images]
In Greek. Hard cover, 28x22 cm, 284 pp., ill.; weight 1300 gr.
Ποια πορεία ακολούθησε στον ελληνικό χώρο, από την εποχή του Ομήρου έως τον Ιπποκράτη, η σύλληψη των εννοιών "υγεία", "νόσος", "ίασις"; Από τις πρώτες γραμμές αυτού του βιβλίου παρέχεται στον αναγνώστη η... Read more about this item
In Greek. Hard cover, 28x22 cm, 284 pp., ill.; weight 1300 gr.
Ποια πορεία ακολούθησε στον ελληνικό χώρο, από την εποχή του Ομήρου έως τον Ιπποκράτη, η σύλληψη των εννοιών "υγεία", "νόσος", "ίασις"; Από τις πρώτες γραμμές αυτού του βιβλίου παρέχεται στον αναγνώστη η... Read more about this item
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SGD 106.35
![Ethimologiarium, Liber IIII, De Medicina [Spanish language]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/897/505/395505897.0.b.jpg)
Ethimologiarium, Liber IIII, De Medicina [Spanish language]
by Hispalensis, Isidorus [Isodore, Bishop of Seville, 570-636]
Masnou-Barcelona: Laboratorios del Norte Espana, S. A.. Very Good. 1945. Softcover. In Spanish. Paper wraps have light wear and light soiling at edges. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Includes a biography of the author (St. Isodoro, Archbishop of Seville), a photographic facsimile of De Medicina , and a translation into Spanish. This is a description of medical knowledge in 7th century Spain. A translation into Spanish of Garrison and Morton #6787. With a color frontis and other...
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SGD 62.04
Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences.
by Sajous, Charles E. (Ed)
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and London: F. A. Davis. , 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. The five volume issue, complete for 1890, in dark olive cloth, titled in gilt on spines. A very good firmly bound set, probably unused, with only minor superficial markings to the bindings. 25 x 17 cm. Over 2000 pages in total. Global summaries of research and advances in medical, surgical and health studies, with interesting advertisements at the rear of each volume. The whole comprehensively indexed With...
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SGD 180.22
Autographed Letter Signed
by NEW YORK STATE: Cholera Epidemic of 1849
Utica, 1849. unbound. very good(+). Fine content A.L.S. 4to. 2 pages, Utica, New York, July 6, 1849, in part: "... Dear Father ... we think of you these Cholera times and particularly as we hear that it has visited Rome, and sometimes wish you could all be here again as the city is comparatively healthy, but we must all endeavor to keep cool... with caution" "...We have all been well except Brother Bob who has been complaining a little for a few days though not of anything bearing the...
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SGD 206.80
Iconographie Médicale Anversoise (with a preface by Charles Dumercy)
by DE METS, A
Antwerpen,: J.-E. Buschmann,, 1929.. ]ii], 22, [iv] pp. Small 4to (18,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers over limp board (very slightly dust soiled). With 16 text illustrations and 13 plates of which 5 in full colour. ** The rare special edition. The ordinary edition was printed in a 8vo format in 2000 numbered copies on "papier Holyrood". The present copy is one of the 50 numbered copies (this is # 31) printed in "format Impérial" on "Papier Parcheminé...
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SGD 72.63
Petticoat Surgeon
by VAN HOOSEN, Bertha
Chicago: Pellegrini, 1947. hardcover. very good/poor. 324 pages. 8vo, grey cloth (corner bumped; small ex-library stamp on front pastedown), tattered d.w. Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, (1947). Very good in poor dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Her story covers her 60 years as a doctor, crusader, and international figure.<br/> <br/>
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SGD 36.19
Histoire de la Médecine et du LIVRE MEDICAL (à la lumière des collections de la Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris) ... Sous la direction de André Hahn. Préface J. Cain, introduction Léon Binet
by HAHN, André, Paule DUMAITRE & Janine SAMION-CONTET
Paris,: Pymalion Olivier Perrin,, (1978).. 430, [iv] pp. 4to (21 x 28 cm.). Original gilt decorated publisher's buckram with coloured dust-jacket (jackrt slightly damages along upper and lower edge). With numerous illustrations and plates of which 8 finely coloured. ¶ A nice clean copy and a magnificent "history of medicine" told from old medical books and their illustrations preserved in the library of the Paris faculté de Médicine. One of the best histories from the...
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SGD 113.66
The Gold-Headed Cane
by William MacMichael
The Royal College of Physicians. Very Good. 1968. Hard Cover. 8vo Orange cloth boards with gilt title to spine, top edge pale blue. Facsimile HB of author's 1927 copy. Illustrated and interleaved with his own amendments and additions, a preface by Sir Max Rosenheim and introductory notes by Thomas Hunt. 179pp. incl. colour frontispiece portrait of Macmichael .
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SGD 14.66
Scarce Clipped Signature
by WYMAN, Rufus (1778 - 1842)
1825. unbound. Extremely scarce clipped signature measuring 1.5 x 3 inches. Signed in full with fine, dark handwriting. No place, no date, circa 1825. Very good condition.<br/><br/> First physician in America to be appointed superintendant of the Asylum for the Insane. When it opened in 1818, it was the first hospital in New England and only the fourth special institution for the treatment of the mentally ill in America. He is the father of acclaimed physicians Morrell and Jeffries...
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SGD 275.74
Typed Letter Signed on University of Minnesota letterhead
by WANGENSTEEN, H. Owen (1898 - 1981)
Minneapolis, 1978. unbound. 2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, Minneapolis, August 30, 1978, providing Dr. William B. Rogers with biographical information for an article, in small part: "...History tells us that innovators who attempt to set aside tradition are at great risk. Whereas the first edition of my book on Intestinal Obstructions won the Samuel D. Gross Award in 1935, I had to send the monograph to four publishers before I found a taker. Similarly, a brief report upon suction siphonage of jejunal...
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SGD 758.28
Autographed Letter Signed with the addition of a quote
by RIDDELL, William Pitt (1828 - 1872)
New Haven, CT, 1851. unbound. 1 page, 8.25 x 6 inches, removed from an 1851 Yale yearbook, the year he graduated. Written to fellow classmate Marcus Lyon, a staunch unionist and future judge, in small part: "...It has been said that in college we live a life in miniature - the figure is beautiful and in many respects, true. To us who have now nearly finished, the idea of college does begin to take upon itself the air of the unreal. Its many incidents begin to blend and fade. Thus far does it...
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SGD 1,171.90
Autographed Letter Signed about childbirth on personal letterhead
by POTTER, Irving W. (1868 - 1956)
Buffalo, NY, 1923. unbound. 1 page, 7.25 x 8.5 inches, Buffalo, New York, January 24, 1923, writing to one of his disciples about Internal Podalic Version, in full: "Your letter just arrived and I will answer it now just to be sure how glad I was to hear from you. I was also glad to hear that you are doing well. The OB work will come, it may be a little slow at first, but remember that the general work makes a good foundation. A man during general work makes friends who later can be used in the...
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SGD 689.35
Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
by Philip A. Mackowiak
Hardback. New. This book provides an overview of the history of medicine through a discussion of the mysterious illnesses of thirteen patients who changed the world. The disorders of famous historical figures from King Tut to Eleanor Roosevelt are used as platforms to trace the evolution of medical concepts from the time of the ancient pharaohs to the present.
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SGD 58.45
