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Anno I, Fasc. V, Settembre. 116 p., illus.; 24 cm. Monographic issue. Ematologia ed Emotrasfusione in Italia. Hematology and blood transfusions in Italy. An historical survey and biographies of current practioners. Stock#48110.

Oxford University Press [ 1926, c1908].. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 334 p., 1 l. inc. fascisms. front., plates, ports. 22.5 cm. "Second impression 1926." Preface -- An Alabama student [John Y. Bassett, reprinted from the Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan., 1896] -- Thomas Dover, physician and buccaneer. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan., 1896] -- John Keats, the apothecary poet. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan. 1896] -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. -- John Locke as a physician. [The Lancet, Oct. 20, 1900] -- Elisha Bartlett, a Rhode Island philosopher. [Transactions of the Rhode Island medical society] -- A backwood physiologist [William Beaumont] -- The influence of Louis on American medicine. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, nos. 77-78, August-September, 1897] -- William Pepper. -- Alfred Stillé. [University of Pennsylvania medical bulletin, June, 1902] --Sir Thomas Browne. [The Library, Jan., 1906] - Fracastorius. [Proceedings of the… Read More

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, c1993. Hard Cover. xvi, 388 p., illus., 25 cm. Biography of American philosopher Charles Peirce, 1839-1914. ‘He is perhaps the most important mind the United States has ever produced. He made significant contributions throughout his life as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodeist, surveyor, cartographer, meteorologist, engineer, and inventor. He was a psychologist, a philologist, a lexicographer, a historian of science, a lifelong student of medicine, and, above all, a philosopher, whose special fields were logic and semiotics. He is widely credited with being the founder of pragmatism.’ VG/dj vg. 101752.

NY, Viking, 1937. Hard Cover. xiv, 370 p., index, plates; 22 cm. Biographies of John Morgan, Benjamin Rush, Ephraim McDowell, Daniel Drake; William Beaumont; and Crawford W. Long and William T.G. Morton. Good+, ink owner signature/ no dj. Stock#30458.

NY, Garden City [1939]. . Hard Cover. xi, 370 p., index; 21 cm. First pub. 1937. Biographies of seven early physicians. IAB. Stock# 30,459. Good+, green cloth/ no dj. Biography.

Chicago UP [1963]. Hard Cover. vii, 287 p.;24 cm. First published as articles in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Five of the twelve became Noble laureates. IAB. Stock# 31,679. Vg/ dj vg.

London, Methuen [1933]. . Hard Cover. Signed. 212 p., index; 19.5 cm. Medical biographies. Byron's lame foot; Christopher Columbus and syphilis, the medical life of Lord Nelson, etc. Author's presentation inscription; Stock# 31,666. Good+/ no dj.

Paris, Hachette, 1901. Louis Pasteur was one of the founders of bacteriology. See Garrison-Morton 83n. Hard Cover. 692 pages, engraved portrait frontispiece; 26 cm. Bound in 3/4 red morocco & marbled boards; edges worn; Very Good. Stock#34208 (iab).

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1961. Hard Cover. xv, 506 p. 19 cm. " The physician and the world of medicine as seen through the doctor's own eyes and through those of his patients. Anthology of comment from Hippocrates to H.L. Mencken and Kenneth Roberts." Stock #29,405. Vg/ dj vg.

In Spanish. Monardes was a 16th-century Spanish physician & botanist widely known throughout Europe; he described American materia medica (tobacco, balsam, coca among others); his treatises and monographs in pharmacology, toxicology, medicine, therapeutics, phlebotomy, still read true. Bibliografía, pages 115 to end. 226 pages, 105 illustrations (facsimile title-pages); 23 cm. Red cloth over boards, gold spine lettering; ex-John Carter Brown Library with bookplate & release stamp and librarian's pencil marginal annotations (this copy was used to fill out the Library's collections); minor wear; no dust jacket; Good+. No. 259 of 500 printed. Stock#ofc0812.

Harvard Medical Alumni Association, 1970. Hard Cover. xi, 384 p., index, plates; 24 cm. Biography of David Linn Edsall, 1869-1945, Dean of the Harvard Medical School for 17 critical years in the 1920s and '30s. Stock#29757. Vg, ink owner signature/ dj vg.

First Wing: The Frame of the Renaissance: Exploration and Education. Second Wing: Mathematics and Astronomy. Third Wing: Physics, Chemistry, Technology. Fourth Wing: Natural History. Fifth Wing: Anatomy and Medicine. Sixth Wing: Leonardo da Vinci: Art and Science. Appendix: Leonardo Chronology. xiv, 318 pages, index, illus. & plates; dust jacket poor, torn, chipped, clipped; book Good with bookplate of Samuel J. Hough. Stock#ofc0390.

University of Cincinnati Occasional Papers No. 7, 1969. Hard Cover. 194 p. 23.5 cm. 29 essays on subjects related to medicine. IAB. Stock# 31,687. Vg/ no dj.

NY, Viking Press, 1983. Hard Cover. xvi, 270 p.; 22 cm. "A magnificent memoir of the life and work of a great doctor." ISBN (10): 067079533X. Stock#47024. Vg. gift inscription / dj vg.