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U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital...
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U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China

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Tsingtao, China, 1947.
1947 ORIGINAL PHOTOS REVEAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING A US MARINE IN IRON LUNG FROM CHINA TO AMERICA.
Archive of photographs documenting U.S. Navy transfer of marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in an iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China, 1947. Included are (3) official 4 X 5-inch sepia-toned photographs, showing Watts in the iron lung prior to transfer from the ship; 2 prints with typescript paper annotations affixed to verso marked "Official U.S. Navy PHOTO", all 3 prints inscribed, "November 1947"; TOGETHER WITH (8) 2 ¾ X 4 ¾-inch photographs with deckled edges, 5 of which are inscribed verso, "USS Repose/ October 1947" including one marked, "Watts", showing the transfer of the patient to a truck on the dock. The month inscribed in one set of prints is presumably incorrect, as all images appear to portray the same event. The remaining 3 prints are inscribed, "Tsingtao, China, January 1948, one of which shows Pier 2 in the snow, and… Read More
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UNIQUE MEDICAL DRAWINGS. Clinical Coordination of Anatomy and Physiology with drawings by Mine...
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UNIQUE MEDICAL DRAWINGS. Clinical Coordination of Anatomy and Physiology with drawings by Mine Okubo TOGETHER WITH Mine Okubo: An American Experience

by Okubo, Mine; Pitel, Martha; Schellig, Mildred;

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New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 1959. First edition, first printing.
UNIQUE MEDICAL DRAWINGS IN RARE HUMAN ANATOMY-PHYSIOLOGY TEXT ILLUSTRATED BY JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNED DURING WW2 WHO BECAME NOTED ARTIST--TOGETHER WITH EXHIBITION CATALOG.
9 3/4 inches tall volume, color printed paper covers, previous owner signature to inside front cover, i-xiii, 320 pp, 101 figures. Light edgewear to covers, light browning to text, very good in custom archival mylar cover. TOGETHER WITH catalog of retrospective exhibition at the Oakland Museum in 1972: 8x10 inches paper bound book with color printed cover, 56 pp, 27 plates (color and black & white). Near fine.
MINE OKUBO (1912 – 2001) was an American artist and writer. Born in Riverside, California, she attended Riverside Junior College and later received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. A recipient of a fellowship in 1938, Okubo spent two years traveling in Europe where she continued her development as… Read More
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The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology
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The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology

by Whyte, Lancelot Law

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London: The Cresset Press, 1949. First edition. 1949 AN EARLY ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE PHYSICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS--COPY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Ink signature "Skempton/ 1949" on front flyleaf, x, 182 pp, covers clean, binding tight, pages age-toned with scattered marginal notations, presumably by Skempton, jacket darkened with crease and closed tear to bottom edge, overall very good in good+ jacket. LANCELOT LAW WHYTE (1896-1972) was a Scottish financier and industrial engineer. He claimed to have worked with Albert Einstein on the unified field theory. He further claimed that this work was based on the theory of the 18th century natural philosopher Roger Boscovich. Whyte proposed something he called "the unitary principle" to unify physics theories. Whyte was the author of the book Internal Factors in Evolution (1968). He proposed that Darwin's theory of natural selection is limited… Read More
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte der Insecten 1. Teil [Discourses on the Natural History of...
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte der Insecten 1. Teil [Discourses on the Natural History of Insects, Volume I]

by Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias

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Augsburg: Engelbrecht, 1796. First edition. 1796 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (MAINLY BEETLES) WITH 46 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER. 6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, green paper covered boards, green leather spine with red leather gilt title label, ink inscription by previous owner dated 3.4.1921 to front free endpaper, engraved title page depicting cherubs in the countryside collecting and mounting insects on a board. 376 pp, 46 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid and unmarked. Very good minus. Volume I (offered here) contains beetles, grasshoppers, mantises, cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids. GOTTLIEB TOBIAS WILHELM (1758 - 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, probably best known for his monumental "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" ("Wilhelm's Discourses on Natural History"). This was issued in weekly instalments from… Read More
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Untersuchungen Uber Das Seelenleben Des Neugeborenen Menschen. Programm Zurn Eintritt in Den...

Untersuchungen Uber Das Seelenleben Des Neugeborenen Menschen. Programm Zurn Eintritt in Den Koniglichen Akademischen Senat Der Friedrich-Alexanders-Universitat Zu Erlangen [Investigations into the mental life of the newborn. Program for Admission to the Royal Academic Senate of Friedrich-Alexanders University, Erlangen]

by Kussmaul, Adolf

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Leipzig: C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandllmg, 1859. First edition. 1859 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INFANCY BY GERMAN PHYSICIAN FAMOUS FOR HIS EPONYMS. 9 inches tall offprint, original printed wrappers; 40pp. Spine neatly mended with clear tape, wrappers worn at edges, else very good with private library tamp on rear wrap (Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago). Kussmaul's doctoral thesis, on the psychology of infancy (German language). KUSSMAUL, ADOLF (1822-1902), a leading clinician of his time, studied at Heidelberg before moving to Würzburg to study for his doctorate under Virchow. He was subsequently Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg (1857), Erlangen (1859), Freiburg (1859) and Strassburg (1876). He was first to describe dyslexia in 1877, and first to describe the emotional symptoms of mercury exposure as a first stage preceding the physical effects. He is known for Kussmaul breathing (labored breathing in severe Diabetic ketoacidosis), Kussmaul's sign (Paradoxical… Read More
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Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica
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Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica: und den Antheil, welchen sie an der Entstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verschiedenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.

by Billroth, Theodor

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Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1874. First edition. RARE 1874 FOLIO FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK DESCRIPTION OF STREPTOCOCCAL WOUND INFECTION BY FOUNDING FATHER OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY. 12x15 inches tall folio, original printed brown paper covered boards with leather spine, gilt title to red leather label, xiv, 244 pp, 1 text illustration, 5 copper plates engraved by Wilhelm Grohmann. Cover edges rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, spine ends frayed, later endpapers, old water stain to lower right corner of preliminary pages, marginal age-toning, text and plates unmarked, overall good+. TEXT IN GERMAN.THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894) was an Austrian surgeon. regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. Torn between a career as a musician or as a physician, he acceded to his mother's wishes and enrolled himself at the University of Greifswald to study medicine, but gave up the whole of his first term to the study of music; Professor Wilhelm Baum, however, took him with him to Göttingen, and his medical… Read More
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The Ureterovesical Junction. The Theory of Extravesicalization of the Intaravesical Ureter
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The Ureterovesical Junction. The Theory of Extravesicalization of the Intaravesical Ureter

by Hutch, John A.

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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. First edition.
LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON DISORDERS OF THE URETEROVESICAL JUNCTION--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, inscribed on front free endpaper, "9-9-58/ Dear Cf (?), Hope you enjoy the book. No G.P. should practice [without] it", [14], 178 pp, 96 black & white figures. Near fine in very good jacket in mylar sleeve. LAID IN: two 2 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch transparencies, Voiding cystourethrogram showing reflux in a 3 month-old girl, and Cystogram showin ureterovesical reflux in a 20 year-old woman. FROM THE PREFACE: "This study is the result of ten years of investigation. It began in 1948 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, a paraplegic center for the Veterans Administration. Here certain anatomical changes were noted in the relationship of the ureter to the bladder wall through which it passed. These observations led to the development of the ureterovesical plastic operation… Read More
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