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
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Aids to the Investigation of Peripheral Nerve Injuries. Medical Research Council War Memorandum No. 7
London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946 [revised second edition]/ 1943. More
The Australian Medical Journal ... Volume VI, 1861
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, ranging from adulteration of food, to hydatids and snake-bites. The Hon. William Bland MLC contributed 'Bites of the Venomous Snakes..... More
The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1864. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including several short ones on snake-bite (approximately 6 pages), and a series of three important lectures on the heart by..... More
Chinese Medicinal Herbs of Hong Kong (Chinese-English). Volume 1, Volume 2 [and] Volume 3
Hong Kong, [N.P.], 1984/ 1983. More
The Original Australians
Wellington, Reed, [1969]. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of the anthropologist Peter Sutton. 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..... More
The Constitution and By-Laws of the Adelaide Children's Hospital
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
On the use of the Ophthalmoscope in the Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys..
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1992 [facsimile edition]/ 1871. Copy number 418 with the publisher's bookplate. Classics of Medicine Library. More
On the use of the Ophthalmoscope in the Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys..
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1992 [facsimile edition]/ 1871. Classics of Medicine Library. More
The Treatment of Head Injuries in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). Joannis Scultetus and his Age
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1971. With the contemporary ownership signature of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf. More
The Healing of Nerves
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. The bookplate of the 'Societas Medica Londinensis' on the front pastedown is inscribed in ink 'Presented by the Authors'. Above it is the ownership signature (April 2011) of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018). More
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An Illustrated and Detailed Account of the Early Organisation and Work of the Australian Medical Units in Egypt in 1914-1915
London, H.K. Lewis & Co., 1918. 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, when he was dismissed due to disorganisation at the 1st Australian General Hospital..... More
Le Val-de-Grace. Deux Siecles de Medecine Militaire
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
Constitutional Syphilis. Being a Practical Illustration of the Disease in its Secondary and Tertiary Stages
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
The Australian Medical Journal for 1866. Volume XI
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1866. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including lengthy accounts (totalling 36 pages) of the recently concluded Beaney murder trials. James George Beaney (1828-1891), surgeon, politician and..... More
Home Away From Home
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
Medicine and Modernity. Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Not least, one article on shell shock in World War 1, while other articles address issues raised under National Socialism: sterilization, and abortion, and the Nuremberg Doctor's Trials. More
In the High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division, June 18th, 1877. The Queen v. Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. (Specially Reported)
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
Two very detailed manuscript ledgers from Boettger's practice as an optician (1886-1894), together with approximately 275 invoices covering importations for his extensive engineering, surveying, optical and scientific instruments business (1892-1900)
The foolscap folio ledgers are uniformly bound in half suede and cloth (with the letters A and B respectively on the spines); the covers show signs of wear, but the volumes are very sturdy, with the contents in excellent condition. The first one contains 21 pages of index and 102..... More
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia
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
A Coast Chronicle. The History of the Prince Henry Hospital. Edited by George Caiger
Sydney, The Board of the Prince Henry Hospital, 1963. With the presentation inscription, 'from J.C. Fletcher of the Prince of Wales Hospital'. The 'coast hospital' for infectious diseases was established at the tail end of Sydney's minor smallpox panic in early 1882. More
Progress in Anaesthesiology. Proceedings of the Fourth World Congress of Anaesthesiologists. London, September 9th-13th, 1968
Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica Foundation, 1970. International Congress Series Number 200; the book is over 1300 pages with numerous tables and diagrams (some folding). More
The Sequelae of Amputation. A Report of an Investigation
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
Diseases of the Spinal Cord
Edinburgh, Young J. Pentland, 1884 (second edition)/ 1882. Provenance: Dr Robert Hamilton Russell (1860-1933), the eminent English-born Australian surgeon, with his contemporary signature ('R. Hamilton Russell | Salop Infirmary | 1885') on the half-title (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for further information). The front endpaper contains the paper label..... More