Xavier Bichat and the Medical Theory of the Eighteenth Century
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 4. Not least, urban housing, water supply and cholera. More
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 4. Not least, urban housing, water supply and cholera. 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, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 3. More
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 2000. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 20. More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd for the William Ramsay Henderson Trust, 1938. With the ink gift inscription to, and with the bookplates (one pictorial, one armorial) of, Walter Russell Brain, First Baron Brain of Eynsham (1895-1966); physician, medical statesman, essayist, public servant, medical scientist, neurologist and poet (who wrote one of..... More
Milano [Milan], Tipografia di Gaetano Bozza, 1863. A curious medical pamphlet giving details details of the wounds sustained by Giuseppe Garibaldi at the Battle of Aspromonte (La Giornata dell'Aspromonte) on 29 August 1862. Among much purple prose advocating Italian unification and a short personal account of the battle (Ripari fought..... More
Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1968 (fifth edition)/ 1950. More
London, The New Sydenham Society, 1897. NSS Volume 161, containing fourteen articles on the diagnosis and treatment of various infections and illnesses (including leprosy, syphilis and gangrene) by prominent nineteenth-century physicians. Osler's contribution is 'On the Visceral Complications of Erythema Exudativum Multiforme' (pages 321-347). More
London, The Minerva Press, 1971 (facsimile edition)/ 1927 (first thus). 'The Historie of Plants, containing the Description, Place, Time, Names, Nature, and Vertues of all sorts of Herbes, for meat, medicine or sweet-smelling use, &c.' (dustwrapper sub-title). More
Cambridge, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1997. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2007. Presentation copy. Dated (14 August 2007), warmly inscribed and signed by Oliver Mayo to eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), and with Simpson's bookplate on the front pastedown. George Fraser 'has made major contributions to clinical genetics, to the delineation of syndromes (including..... More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Presentation copy. To Trevor Alfred Ridley ('Jim') Dinning (1919-2003), warmly inscribed, 'In appreciation of Trevor Dinning's mastery in the field of Brain & Spinal Cord Surgery'; dated (2 December 1966) and signed by the author (and amending one of his qualifications from FRFPS to FRCS)..... More
Bath, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 2005. Loosely inserted is the publisher's bookplate. 'A Victorian Naturalist & His World' (cover sub-title). More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1944/ 1943. More
London, Robert Hale, 1946. With the contemporary initials of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, and his inscription indicating the book was a Christmas gift from a member of the pioneering Hubbe family. A companion volume to 'Surgeon's Mate'. 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
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1978 [facsimile edition]/ 1628. Complete with the 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. Classics of Medicine Library. More
Bath, Kingsmead Press, 1978 (facsimile, first thus)/ 1617. With the ownership signature of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, this first reprinting since the seventeeth century is enlarged by the introductory essay (with biographical outline), an appendix, a map and plates. More
Leeds, Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, [circa 1955]. The most recent date in the addenda is May 1954; there is a contemporary ownership date of 27 January 1956 on the front free endpaper. An endpocket, now empty, presumably originally contained a price list. More
Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1958. With the contemporary ownership signature of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, and his inscription indicating the book was a Christmas gift from a member of the pioneering Hubbe family. More
Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi B.V., 1995. 'Due to its unique richness and variety of facts, interpretations, theoretical models, and moreover unanswered questions, physiology remains a matter of considerable, historical and epistemological interest'. Clio Medica 33, the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. More
Brisbane, The Society, 1996. Not least, 5 articles over 28 pages on the Bligh mutiny; penology and transportation (80 pages); and a short article on the bifurcated transmission of Spanish Influenza to South Africa in 1918. More
Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 2003. 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
Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1981. With the ownership signature and acquisition details of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf. More