Acta Conventus Tertii de Tropicis Atque Malariae Morbis. Pars 1 and 2
Amstelodami, Societas Neerlandica Medicinae Tropicae, 1938. Text in English, French and German. Not inscribed as such, but from the collection of Hedley Marston FRS. More
Amstelodami, Societas Neerlandica Medicinae Tropicae, 1938. Text in English, French and German. Not inscribed as such, but from the collection of Hedley Marston FRS. More
London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946 [revised second edition]/ 1943. More
Lowell, Massachusetts, Dr J.C. Ayer & Co., Practical and Analytical Chemists, 1894. Largely an advertisement for Ayer's Saraparilla and other tonics, along with a calendar for the Australian colonies and New Zealand. Printed on the rear wrapper is a small panel reading 'Presented by T. Kast & Co., Hair Dresser..... More
Darwin, A.J. Arthur, Government Printer for Northern Territory Medical Service, 1968. More
Adelaide, The South Australian Trained Nurses' Centenary Committee, [1945, revised third edition]/ 1939 (revised second editon)/ 1938. With the 146-page World War 2 supplement bringing the history up to September 1945. More
London, Frederick Muller, 1969 [first UK edition]. The author was Professor of Anatomy and Histology at the University of Adelaide, and this book was based on 'some twenty years of work on Aborigines, both in the laboratory and on expeditions to many parts of Australia' (mainly in the Northern Territory)..... More
London, Chapman and Hall Limited, 1912 (fourth edition)/ 1911. More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1876. We successfully tendered for a large quantity of duplicate pamphlets from the SLSA in 2001; this is one of them, which we are finally getting around to processing. More
Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1914. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 26 of 1914; only 950 copies. Training, results of examinations, sanitation, tables of admissions and diseases and the like; one statistic soon to change was the..... More
Adelaide, [AAMC Reunion Committee], 1938. 'Ever since the cessation of hostilities of the Great War, 1914-1918, it has been the wish of Australian Army Medical Corps AIF ex-servicemen in South Australia, that we should have some permanent record of our Fallen Comrades, and to those who have "Passed On" since..... More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936) was already an eminent surgeon when, from '1899 to 1901 he was engaged in studying the processes of degeneration and regeneration of the peripheral nerves and in 1901 he published the results in collaboration with Sir James Purves-Stewart. The..... More
'Each year at the ASID [Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases] scientific meeting, a world-renowned expert in infectious diseases is invited to give the Macfarlane Burnet Oration, named in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning Australian virologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, a pioneer in the fields of virology and immunology' (ASID website)..... More
Kathmandu, His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests, Department of Medicinal Plants, 1967 and 1968. Each volume is one of 1000 copies. More
Richmond, Greenhouse Publications, 1988. More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1918. Loosely inserted is a small mimeographed slip reading 'With the Author's Compliments'. James (later Sir James) Barrett (1862-1945), a leader of the medical profession in Melbourne and an able publicist, was Assistant Director of Medical Services, Australian Forces, in Egypt until August 1915..... 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
Bethel bei Bielefeld, Schriftenniederlage (Verlagshandlung) der Anstalt Bethel, [circa 1932] (the most recent date noted in the book, on page 133). A well-illustrated account (in German) of the Bethel Foundation, 'a Protestant charitable psychiatric hospital in Bethel, formerly a town, today a neighbourhood of Bielefeld, Germany.... The institution is notable..... 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
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1940. Approximately half the book is made up of lists of foodstuffs and their nutritional values with the aim of showing how a balanced diet can be achieved during wartime scarcity. More