Guns and Brooches. Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992. More
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1935. More
Paris, Editions Hervas, 1993. 'Since the Revolution Val-de-Grâce has been the spearhead of military medicine, and today also civil medicine ... Few journalists have had access to the VIP areas of Val-de-Grâce hospital, adding to its mystique. Fantastic rumours have spread of its supposedly luxurious presidential suites, good food and..... More
Melbourne, F.F. Bailliere, 1872. James George Beaney (1828-1891), surgeon, politician and philanthropist, settled in Melbourne in 1857, and 'after a period as locum tenens, acquired the practice of Dr John Maund when he died in 1858. Beaney rapidly established himself as a prominent surgeon, a position he maintained although he..... More
Wellington, Central Institute of Technology, 2000. Robert Boyne Home, army surgeon in the Seven Year's War; his son Everard Home, who became an eminent surgeon, and Everard's son, James Everard, 'a hitherto neglected figure in the early colonial history of New Zealand'. More
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in..... More
London, A. & H. Bradlaugh Bonner, [circa 1900]. Bradlaugh and Besant were prosecuted for publishing Charles Knowleton's 'Fruits of Philosophy'. The preface states that 'its importance lies in the fact that it is condemned - says Lord Chief Justice Cockburn - because it advocates prudential restraint to population, while also..... More
London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891. Demography in its broadest sense: 'a description of the geographical features of the colony which have a hygienic relationship; of the meteorological conditions and their relation to certain diseases; of the sanitary progress of the colony'. Ferguson 7288; Ford 362. More
Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica Foundation, 1970. International Congress Series Number 200; the book is over 1300 pages with numerous tables and diagrams (some folding). More
Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2003. More
Melbourne, The Trustees of the Services Canteen Trust Fund, 1955. Melbourne neurosurgeon and anatomist Keith Bradley was selected by the Trustees for this study; from 2nd January 1951, he spent three years studying the subject, including one year abroad. More
Folkestone, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1970 (facsimile edition)/ 1570, and 1970. Number 130 of only 250 sets, with the facsimile produced from 'the only complete copy known to exist'. The original edition, 'printed in Mexico in 1570, is the first medical book published in the New World' (Guerra's introduction). [2..... More
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist who was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated with his details..... More
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1973. More
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 3. More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (second printing)/ 2005. An attractive edition of Burton's 1621 classic, with a new introduction by Philip Pullman. The text follows the 1932 edition published by J.M. Dent & Sons. [3 items]. More
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. With the ownership signature and acquisition details of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf. More
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1988. With the bookplate of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), annotated with his acquisition date: '31 August 1989, Adelaide', mounted on the front pastedown. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 8. More
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 11. Not least, urban housing, water supply and cholera. More
London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1887. One of the 'Clinical Manuals for Practitioners and Students of Medicine' series. More
New York, Grune & Stratton, 1971 [first edition in book form]. The book is essentially a bound reprint of the February 1971 issue (Volume 3, Number 1) of 'Seminars in Psychiatry'. The introduction notes that 'To date no publication has attempted to gather in one issue the current thinking about..... More
London, Fact, 1938 [first edition]. Loosely inserted is an inscribed and signed memo on F.H. Faulding and Co letterhead to Mr Scammell (of Adelaide). More
Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988 (facsimile edition)/ 1491. Mounted on the front free endpaper is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 376) with the original subscriber's name. More
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1978 [facsimile edition]/ 1628. Complete with the 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. Classics of Medicine Library. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, Ltd., 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1798. More