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
Ayer's Australasian Almanac, 1894 [cover title]
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
Chinese Medicinal Herbs of Hong Kong (Chinese-English). Volume 1, Volume 2 [and] Volume 3
Hong Kong, [N.P.], 1984/ 1983. More
Leprosy in Northern Territory Aborigines. A short guide for nursing sisters in the diagnosis, treatment and management of leprosy in Aborigines
Darwin, A.J. Arthur, Government Printer for Northern Territory Medical Service, 1968. More
Minymaku Kutju Tjukurpa. Women's Business Manual. Standard Treatment Manual for Women's Business in Central Australia
Alice Springs, Congress Alukura and Nganampa Health Council Inc, July 1994 (second edition)/ 1990. '... aims to provide standard management protocols for health staff working with Aboriginal women in Central Australia'. More
Ngangkari Work - Anangu Way. Traditional Healers of Central Australia
Alice Springs, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation, 2003. More
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'Diary from time of departure from Egypt. 11th April 1915' [to Friday 4 June 1915]. An early (possibly contemporary) duplicate typescript of the diary of a doctor serving with the 4th Field Ambulance, AAMC, who landed at Gallipoli on the morning of 26 April 1915
Although this significant account is transcribed, we can find no record that the original diary is held in any institutional collection, or indeed that it survives. The Australian War Memorial has a small collection of material relating to the Boer War service of 'Captain Surgeon Frederick David Jermyn', including 'photocopied..... 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 Surgeon's Log. Being Impressions of the Far East
London, Chapman and Hall Limited, 1912 (fourth edition)/ 1911. 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
Medieval Health Handbook. Tacuinum Sanitas
New York, George Braziller, 1976. With an ink inscription on the front flyleaf, and a loosely inserted Easter card (inscribed in ink 'Gaudia Paschalia, 1981, Leonardus') from Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC, scholar and palaeographer, later Prefect of the Vatican Library (1984-1997). More
In Pursuit. A Selection of Editorial Writings
Sydney, The Author, 1947. Number 88 of only 150 copies 'prepared for presentation' and signed in ink by the author, who has also inscribed this copy to Professor Andrew Abbie, then occupying the Elder chair of anatomy and histology at the University of Adelaide. ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). '... some..... 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
A typed letter signed by David Baltimore to The Honorable Barry O. Jones, declining an invitation to deliver the Centenary Burnet Oration
'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
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Keys to the Dicot Genera in Nepal. Part I: Polypetalae [and] Part II. Gamopetalae and Monochlamydeae
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
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Traditional Bush Medicines. An Aboriginal Pharmacopoeia [by] Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia
Richmond, Greenhouse Publications, 1988. More
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Traditional Bush Medicines. An Aboriginal Pharmacopoeia [by] Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia
Richmond, Greenhouse Publications, 1988. Publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. 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