Item 1518Pharmacopeia of the United States
PA: Mack Publishing, 1960. hardcover. 8vo 1148pp. Sixteenth revision. #01581.
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Item 1269Cryogenics
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 160pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "Here is a clear account of how extremely low temperatures are created and measured. Advanced concepts such as superconductivity and second sound are presented in non-mathematical terms. The author, himself a scientist, tells how.....
Item 3920Stay of Execution
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 312pp. from front flap: "I have quite often wondered what it would be like to be told that I had an inoperable and lethal cancer," Stewart Alsop writes. He found out on July 6, 1971, when he was told that he.....
Item 3601Group Psychotherapy in Nursing Practice
New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 170pp. first printing January 1963. from front flap: "This new book is a milestone in the movement toward interdisciplinary care for the mentally ill. Written by two nurses who have had wide experience in psychiatric work, it is the first nursing.....
Item 2866Magic, Myth and Medicine
New York: Fawcett World Library, 1962. mass market paperback. 16mo 240pp. Fawcett World Library d69. see pictures for synopsis. #02931.
Item 1054The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses
New York: Central Fixation Publishing, 1920. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 314pp. +index. Scarce original printing. Book claiming to be able to improve eyesight through physical and psychological techniques. #01129.
Item 4353Methods Improvement in Hospitals
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. hardcover. oversized 8vo.157pp. from front flap: "This book answers one of the more pressing needs of those concerned with the more efficient management of the modern hospital: the. need for a basic text illuminating the various tools and methods available for the improvement of hospital.....
Item 1169Pathology of the Nervous System
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1949. Second Edition. hardcover. 8vo 352pp. from Preface to the First Edition: "This introduction to the pathology of the central nervous system has grown out of the lectures given to the medical undergraduates and to those preparing for the examination for the Diploma of Psychiatry.....
Item 4064Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Teeth
Philadelphia: S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co., 1902. fifth edition. hardcover. 8vo. 169pp. from Preface to the First Edition: "By my experience as a practitioner as a teacher, and in my intercourse with fellow-practitioners, I have become convinced of a serious defect in the teaching of the details of the anatomy.....
Item 5109The End of Alzheimer's
New York: Avery, 2017. hardcover. 8vo. 308pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05192.
Item 2755Keep Your Old Folks at Home
Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02820A.
Item 2756Keep Your Old Folks at Home
Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02821B.
Item 2757Keep Your Old Folks at Home
Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02822C.
Item 2758Keep Your Old Folks at Home
Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02823D.
Item 1439Ambulatory Surgery
Rockville, MD: Aspen Systems Corporation, 1984. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 216pp. #01502.
Item 3599What Experience Has Taught Me
Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham. hardcover. 12mo. 126pp. autobiography and poetry from black man born into slavery in 1860 who went on to become a doctor, found the Ohio Mutual Medical Association, and serve as president of the Ohio chapter of the National Medical Association. Scarce copy of the.....
Item 1128Manual of Clinical Mycology
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1963. Second Edition. hardcover. 8vo 456pp. from Preface to the First Edition: "Fungus infections are of such common occurrence that we have found it necessary to consider mycotic disease in the differential diagnosis of practically every obscure infection. [. . .] One of the greatest deterrents.....
Item 1048Five Patients
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 239pp. Early Book Club Edition printing. from front flap: "Five patients, five actual cases of men and women in urgent need of medical help rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital in the past year--To witness their treatment, to see how.....
Item 3114Alex
New York: Viking Press, 1983. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 153pp. from front flap: "Alexandra Deford, the daughter of Frank and Carol Deford, was born in Connecticut in 1971 and died there in 1980, just over eight years old. She was a victim of cystic fibrosis, a painful and wasting.....
Item 711Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?
WW Norton & Company, 1997. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 256pp. First edition. From front flap: "We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so. Past--and present--tell us that tropical.....
Item 4034Psychological Treatment of Medical Patients in Integrated Primary Care
Washington D.C. American Psychological Association, 2018. first edition. softcover. 8vo. 197pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04100.
Item 2600The Medical Staff in the Modern Hospital
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. hardcover. 8vo 523pp. from front flap: "To date, research in the field of hospital administration has lagged far behind scientific investigation in other areas of the medical world. With the advent of Medicare and the resulting acute shortage of hospital beds, the need for.....
Item 1202De Re Medica
Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Company, 1951. Editio Tertia. hardcover. 8vo 643pp. from dedication: "To the Medical Profession In offering this publication to the medical profession, Eli Lilly and Company emulates the purpose and title of the original classic work of Celsus, DE RE MEDICA (the first treatise for medical reference).....
Item 4810New Frontiers in Medicine
New York: Pyramid Books, 1965. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo. 159pp. a The Worlds of Science book. see pictures for synopsis. #04893.
Item 4437Invisible Enemies
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 246pp. from front flap: "Here are stories of seven diseases that altered forever the course of human history: smallpox, leprosy, plague, tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, and AIDS. With compassion and an eye for fascinating detail, Jeanette Farrell writes of societies.....