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ZSOLNAY, Samuel de. Dissertatio inauguralis medica Scarlatina... Viennae [i.e. Vienna]. Typis Math. Andr. Schmidt, 1816. First edition. 8vo. 75pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Extremities a trifle spotted. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to foot of title-page. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19103

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PORTAL, Antione. Observations sur la nature et sur le traitement du rachitisme, ou des courbures de la colonne vertebrale, et de celles des extremities superieures et inferieures. A Paris. Chez Merlin, 1797. First edition. 8vo. viii, 388pp. With half-title. Contemporary sheep, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbed, spine discoloured. Half-title browned, leaves lightly toned/spotted. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 17017

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JOHNSON, James. The economy of health, or, the stream of human life from the cradle to the grave: with reflections moral, physical, and philosophical on the septennial phases of human existence. London. S. Highley, 1836. First edition. 8vo. viii, 220pp. With an engraved plate. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate to FEP of Guy Haswell Furness, recent bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to verso of FFEP, occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16517

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HEATH, George Y.. Address in Surgery, Delivered at the Thirty-Eight Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, Held in Newcastle, August 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th. 1870.. [London]. T. Richards, [Reprinted from the British Medical Journal], [1870]. Offprint. 8vo. [2], 18pp. With the colour plate illustrating the results of surgery on three different afflictions of the leg; an amputation through the knee joint, a mal-united fracture and a club foot. Sewn within original publisher's pale-blue paper wraps. Slight creasing, else a fine presentation copy from the author. Inscribed 'H. Lonsdale M.D. With authors Compt.' to head of title, with a short annotation in the ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 10090

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HUNGERBYHLER, Aloys. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de oleo ricini, medicamento purgante et anthelmintico praestantissimo... Friburgi Brisgoviae [Freibourg] . Typis Joannis Andreae Satron, 1778. Quarto. [4], 28pp., [2], with one engraved folding plate illustrating the castor oil plant. Marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. Extremities a trifle rubbed. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 20110

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LONSDALE, Henry. History of a monstrosity presenting remarkable peculiarities in the arrangement of the nervous system; with a brief inquiry into its teratological and medicolegal relations. (From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 157.). Edinburgh. Printed by Stark & Company, [c.1844]. 8vo. 17pp, [1]. With one engraved plate. Contemporary (original?) plain tan paper wraps. Slight dust-soiling and wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 13282

LEVACHER DE LA FEUTRIE, Thomas. Du rakitis, ou abrege de son histoire; suivi de propositions aphoristiques sur cette maladie. Paris. [s.n.], [1803]. First edition. 8vo. 43pp, [1]. With a half-title. Modern brown cloth, red calf lettering-piece. Bookplate of John Yudkin to FEP, scattered spotting More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31013

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A MEDICAL MAN. Juvenile smoking: an essay setting forth to the young the evil effects which result from an indulgence of the habit of tobacco-smoking. Bodmin. Liddel and Son, 1883. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Extremities dulled, chipping to edges, loss to spine. Text-block detached from wrappers. Ink-stamps of the British Museum to verso of title page and foot of p.16. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29777

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TURNBULL, A[lexander]. Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents. London. John Churchill, 1843. First edition. 8vo. vi, ii, [1], 4-89, [7]. With an engraved frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Offsetting to title page. Presentation copy, pencilled inscription to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18469

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POTT, Percivall. Nuovo metodo di curare le fratture, e le lussazioni opera del signor percivall pott... Venezia [i.e. Venice]. Presso Leonardo e Giammaria fratelli Bassaglia, 1784. 8vo. 160pp, [2]. Uncut in original publisher's cream paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, short tear to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 19340

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BOYER, Joseph-Thomas. Dissertation sur le scorbut, Presentee et soutenue a l'Ecole de Medecine de Paris, le 11 Germinal an 13... A Paris. De l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune, 1805. First edition. Quarto. 49pp, [1]. Uncut. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's drab wrappers. Extremities a trifle marked, loss to spine. Foxed, occasional light damp-staining. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21935

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WEGELIN, Christophorus. Dissertatio inauguralis medica duas circa vermes observationes cum earum epicrisi sistens quam consensu gratiosae facultatis medicae in alma Argentoratensium universitate [...].. Argentorati [Strassbourg]. Ex Prelo Jonae Lorenzii Typohraphi, 1779. Quarto. 32pp. 18th-century marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. A bit rubbed, slightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20111

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STADTMANN, Johann Friderick. Dissertatio medico-chirurgica de tetano quam gratiosae facultatis medicae consensu in alma argentoratensium universitate... Argentorati [Strasbourg]. Typis Joh. Henrici Heitzii, Universitatis Typographi, 1785. Quarto. 34pp. Marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. Slightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20109

COLLINS, Robert. A short sketch of the life and writings of the late joseph clarke...containing minute results of his private practice, extending over a series of forty-four years, including three thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight births. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. First edition. 8vo. 88pp. Original publisher's cloth-backed plain paper boards. Without cloth spine panel, some marking. Without FFEP, foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title; 'With the author's compt. / To Dr. W. Fasque'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 13898

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KITTO, John. The lost senses. Series I. - deafness. London. Charles Knight, 1845. First edition. 12mo. [2], 206pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's blind-stamped tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Heavily sunned, lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19731

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KITTO, John. The lost senses. Series II. - blindness. London. Charles Knight, 1845. First edition. 12mo. [2], iv, [1], 6-254pp. With a half-title. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Heavily sunned, lightly rubbed and spotted. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19732

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RITTER VON RITTERSHAIN, Gottfried. Die pathologie und therapie der rachitis. Berlin. Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1863. First edition. 8vo. x, 316pp, [2]. With four plates. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed, marked, bumped, and dulled. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31009

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NIXON, Montgomery. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de hydrope anasarca... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1789. First edition. 8vo. [6], 30pp. With a half-title. Uncut. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28533

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A PHYSICIAN. The pocket medical guide; being a popular treatise on diet and regimen, cold and its effects, and the use and doses of medicine... Glasgow. W. R. M'Phun, 1838. Sixth thousand. 16mo. iv, 90, 2pp. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25114

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SPROULE, John Watson. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de rachitide... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1787. 8vo. [4], 21pp, [1]. Recent brown cloth. A clean and crisp copy. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21618