AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
by Hays, Isaac, M.D. (ed.)
- Used
- poor
- first
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1853. First Edition. Cloth. Poor. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 562 pp. George M. Grant's article on the sanitary conditions in Memphis, Tennessee in the early 1850's (open piles of excrement, left as food for dogs and hogs; He has also contributed an article on a new obstetric forcebs with a (folding plate) Lower right front board gnawed with damage to corners of opening pages, not affecting text. Otherwise volume is clean and good.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009866
- Title
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Author
- Hays, Isaac, M.D. (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1853
- Keywords
- Hermaphroditism Iwith Woocut); Sanitary Conditions in Memphis; Obstetric Forceps with Plate; Retroversion with Plate
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Poor
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- Octavo
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