Acta Conventus Tertii de Tropicis Atque Malariae Morbis. Pars 1 and 2
Amstelodami, Societas Neerlandica Medicinae Tropicae, 1938. Text in French. 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
Annals of Medical History. Volume 1, 1917 to Third Series, Volume 4, 1942 (the complete set)
New York, 1917 to 1942. + Annals of Medical History. Index (1917-1942) (quarto, 89 photocopied leaves, printed rectos only, in binder's cloth). [25 items]. 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
Psychopathology and Pictorial Expression. An International Iconographical Collection. Series 1-12 [an unbroken run of the first 12 issues]
[Switzerland], Sandoz, 1963 to 1967. Series 6 was issued with 16 plates; numbers 9, 13 and 14 are no longer present. Series 8 ('The Pictorial Representation of Depression' by E. Cunningham Dax, Chairman, Mental Health Authority, Melbourne), lacks the first of its 12 plates. Apart from minor wear to the..... More
Wellcome's Medical Diary and Visiting List, 1913
London, Burroughs Wellcome, 1913. With the ownership signature of Howard Zelling, sometime Supreme Court Judge of South Australia. More
No. 5 A.G.H. Volume 1, Number 1, 5 August, 1918. [Souvenir Copy. August 1918. No. 5 A.G.H. A Magazine published by the Patients and Staff of No. 5 Australian General Hospital, St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Published Monthly (cover title)]. + Volume 1, Number 2, 4 September 1918
Melbourne, printed by Exchange Press [for the No. 5 A.G.H. Magazine Committee], August and September 1918. A third and final number was published in October. A short article in 'The Argus' on 18 September 1918 announced that the 'use of the Base Hospital in St Kilda Road as a general..... 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
Some Points in the Surgery of the Brain and its Membranes
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library, 1989 [facsimile edition]/ 1907. With the publisher's printed leather bookplate of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) mounted on the front pastedown, also noting that the book is number 317 of 1000 copies. Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library, and..... More
The Healing of Nerves
London, Macmillan and Co., 1901. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Presented by the authors' on the Medical Society of London bookplate mounted on the front pastedown; above it is the ownership signature (dated 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
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
General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures. A Text-Book for Students and Physicians. Translated from the fourth German edition .. by Charles E. Hackley
London, Lewis, 1871 (first English translation). 'The fact of this publication going through four editions in Germany, and having been translated into French, Italian, Russian, and Hungarian, should be some guarantee for its standing' (translator's preface, dated 1 December 1870). 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
F.M. The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander, Founder of the Alexander Technique
London, Little, Brown, 2004. 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'. 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