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Browne, Sir Thomas (M.D.) Religio Medici; A Letter to a Friend; Christian Morals
Birmingham, AL Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1981 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Original dark green leather lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. The first of the three works included in this volume, Religio Medici, was also the earliest to be published, about 1643. This essay, which was a forthright sharing of his religious views, earned much attention across Europe. Although Anglican, he liked some Roman Catholic rituals as well. Among his many admirers were Carlyle, Samuel Johnson, De Quincey, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Borges, and others. 388 pp. in the three parts.
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Lind, James (M.D.) A Treatise on the Scurvy in Three Parts
Birmingham, AL Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1980 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Original bright red leather lettered and illustrated in gold on boards. Reprint of the Third Edition of 1772. Previous owner's bookplate. Preliminary discourses into the causes, symptoms, prognostics, prophylaxis, cure, theory, dissections, and symptoms of the disease. Bibliographical history. Postscripts. 560 pp.
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Louis, P.C.A. (M.D.) Researches on the Effects of Bloodlettingin Some Inflammatory Diseases Together with Researches on Phthisis
Birmingham, AL Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1986 Reprint Full Leather Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Original full green leather on boards. The portion on Bloodletting was published originally in 1836. Full title is Researches on the Effects of Bloodletting in Some Inflammatory Diseases and on the Influence of Tartarized Antimony and Vesication in Pneumonitis. Translated by C.G. Putnam, M.D. 171 pp. The portion on Phthisis comprises 571 pp. and is translated by Walter Hale Walshe, M.D. Originally published for the Sydenham Society in 1844. White ribbon bookmark. Heavy book might need extra postage.
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Lowe, Peter The Whole Course of Chirurgerie
Baltimore, MD Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1981 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Original bright green leather lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Being a facsimile of the First Edition of 1597, with Engravings from tne Second Edition of 1612. Previous owner's bookplate. 250 pp. approximately. Gruesome tools !
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Manson, Patrick (M.D.) Tropical Diseases; A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates
Baltimore, MD Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1984 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Drawings
Original dark blue leather lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. Fevers, General Diseases of Undetermined Nature, Abdominal Diseases, Infective Granulomatous Diseases, Animal Parasites and Associated Diseases, Skin Diseases, Local Diseases of Uncertain Nature. First published 1898. 607 pp.
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Pringle, Sir John (Bart.) Observations on the Diseases of the Army
Birmingham, AL Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1983 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Original dark green leather lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Originally published 1810. Previous owner's bookplate. The account begins with the campaign into Germany in 1743, moving into Flanders in 1744, and Britain in 1745. Some concerns are inflammation of the eyes, the feet, and other body parts. Extensive treatment of dysentery and various fevers. 411 pp.
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Semmelweis, Ignac The Etiology, the Concept and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, Together with the "Open Letters"
Birmingham, AL Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1981 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Portraits
Original dark green leather lettered and decorted in gold on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. All edges gilt. The Enigma of Semmelweiss - An Interpretation; English Translation of the Etiology, the Concept and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever; English Translation of the Semmelweiss "Open Letters"; Translators' Note; Two Open Letters to Drs. J. Spaeth and F.W. Scanzoni, 1861; Two Open Letters to Drs. E. Siebold and F.W. Scanzoni, 1861; Open Letter to All Professors of Obstetrics, 1862; Biographical Sketches of Physicians Referred to in the "Open Letters". 893 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Withering, William (M.D.) An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases
Birmingham, AL Leslie B. Adams, Jr./Classics of Medicine Library 1979 Reprint Full Leather Near Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Original maroon full leather on boards. Maroon ribbon bookmark. All edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate. This is Digitalis Purpera as classified by Linnaeus. Lovely colour foldout frontispiece, copied from Flora Londinensis, published in 1777 by William Curtis. The title being described was first published in 1785. Following the 11-page Introduction are sections on Cases, Hospital Cases, Correspondents, and other subjects. 207 pp.
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