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Your search for Medical has returned 100 results. Accidents, Emergencies and Illnesses: A Manual for Reference  The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.  New York.  1900.  Publisher's blue ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. Contains alphabetical listings for: Accidents; Emergencies; Poisons; Care of Invalids; Remedies and an index. 171 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Medical Guide. Home Health. Insurance  (Book ID 7974)  $17.50 California Medical-Economic Survey; Formal Report on Factual Data; Presenting Factual Information, Compiled in a Study Made During the Years 1934 and 1935 on the Need of Medical Care By Citizens, on the Distribution of (continued in Description)  California Medical Association.  (San Francisco).  1937.  Illustrated Wrappers.  Title continued: "...Healing Art Practitioners, and the Economics of Healing Art Care in the State of California; November, 1937". 174-pages plus pages i-xivi. Inked stamp imprint on front cover. Contents include: Purpose and Scope of the Study; Distribution of Health Facilities; Professional Incomes and Private Practice; The Organization of Medical Services; Conclusions and Recommendations; etc. Numerous tables including: Distribution of Physicians in California in 1934 by Counties; Hospitals in the United States, According to Size; Family Medical Payments; Total and Average Family Indebtedness; Status of Practice of Dentists Replying; Type of Practice of Osteopaths Replying; Average Charges of Practicing Doctors of Medicine, 1929; Ownership or Control of Hospital Bed Capacity at Beginning of Year 1935; etc.   Public Health. Physician's Finances. Statistical Project. Population Sampling. Health Costs. Family Budgets.  (Book ID 4238)  $25.00 Davis Cook Book  Chicago, Illinois.  [16] pages; paper wrapper (4 1/2 x 7 inch) with title on the cover. Advertisements for Magda Toilet Cream, Ajax Tablets, Blood Wine Co. Liver Pills, Cole's Carbolisalve, Mrs. Logan's Rocky Mountain Cough Syrup, Dr. Davis Anti-Headache, and Veterinary Carbolisalve. Three columns of text, one column for the cookbook and two for ads. Minor chipping along the edges, else very good.   Condition: Very Good.  Drug Advertisement, Cookbook. Dk-88  (Book ID 11867)  $15.00 Dr. Miles New Joke Book.  Miles Laboratories, Inc..  Elkhart, Indiana.  32 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (6 x 4 3/4 inch). A joke book with ads for Dr. Miles Nervine and Alka-Seltzer.   Condition: Very Good.  Advertising Brouchure. DK-26  (Book ID 10267)  $15.00 Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer Calendar and Useful Information Pamphlet.  Emerson Drug Co..  Baltimore, Maryland.  1915.  Pocket book calendar (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inch) with 1915-16 calendar, advertisement for bromo-seltzer, multiplication table, blank writing pages, and sheet-music promo list from the drug company. [16] pages; stiff paper wrapper. Very good clean specimen.   Condition: Very Good.  Advertising Calendars. DK-29  (Book ID 10372)  $12.50 First-aid Suggestions. a Booklet Prepared By the Prudential for Distribution to Its Members and the Public. This is One of a Series Dealing with the Subject of Health and Safety. The Health of Each of Us Depaends on the Health of All of Us.  The Prudential Insurance Company of America..  Newark, New Jersey.  1927.  [32] pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (4 1/8 x 5 5/8 inch) with color illustrations on the cover. 63 procedures listed for various first-aid emergencies with photo illustrations. Very informative in a very good copy, no marks.   Condition: Very Good.  First-aid, Prudential Insurance Company. DK-95  (Book ID 12017)  $15.00 Grape Juice as a Therapeutic Agent.  The Welch Grape Juice Company.  Westfield, New York.  1921.  28 pages; portrait; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover (4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inch). Small booklet prassing the benefits of grape juice, especially Welch's. Writes about the medicinal uses for grape juice and in the back of the booklet are other products produced by the Welch's Grape Juice Company. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Grapes, Grape Juice, Welch Grape Juice. DK-87  (Book ID 11854)  $17.50 Health for Man and the Domestic Animals.  S.F. Baker & Company.  Keokuk, Iowa.  112 pages; index; tan paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 7 inch). Small tear to the bottom of the spine with folded lower right corner along with a stain to the pages on the corner (1/2 x 1/2 inch). Cover's the health of humans in a general way along with some domestic animals recommending S.F. Baker & Co. products as cures to any problems.   Condition: Very Good.  Health Guide on the Farm. DK-26  (Book ID 10260)  $17.50 Health: How to Get it and How to Keep it.  Calotabs.  Atlanta Georgia.  circa.1920s. Sheet (10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch) folds to (3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch); printing on both sides with illustration. Advertisement for Calotabs to aid in one's cleansing of the food canal for an effective purgative. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Purgatives, Patient Medicines. DK-68  (Book ID 11327)  $15.00 How to Keep Well and Live Long from the Standpoint of the New Philosophy Accompanying the Educations Charts for the Prevention of Disease  The American Society for the Prevention of Disease.  New York.  1907.  First Edition.  Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. An attempt to explain health, disease prevention and cures though simple statements. Illustrated. Former owner's bookplate (Dr. William Most, Cheney, Wash.) on front pastedown. 108 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Health Science. Prevention and Cure  (Book ID 8406)  $25.00 Keep Physically Fit: Health Through Natural Forces.  Electronet Sales Co..  Salt Lake City, Utah.  circa.1930. Brochure 10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch which folds to 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 with printing on both sides. An advertisement for the Electro-Magnetic Health Garment to cure rheumatism, kidney and liver troubles. Even nervous debility. Includes testamonials from doctors and patients. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Medical, Magnecoil. DK-87  (Book ID 11864)  $15.00 Lydia E. Pinkham's Food and Health.  Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co..  Lynn, Mass..  32 pages; paper wrapper (4 1/2 x 7 inch) detached, title and illustration on cover. Each page contains a recipe for a different meal with testimonials at the bottom of the page for Pinkman's Vegetable Compound. circa.1920s. Some browning to the pages due to cheap paper used.   Condition: Good.  Personal Health, Medicine, Medical Guide. DK-35  (Book ID 10549)  $15.00 Memorandum. The Great Hudyan.  Hudyan Remedy Co..  San Francisco, California.  1900.  32 pages; illustrations; stiff paper wrapper (2 3/4 x 5 inch). Pencil writings on memo pages. Has a calendar for 1900 along with facts about the earth, popular/electoral votes for president in 1896. Filled with ads for vegetable drugs by Hudyan Remedy Co. and there application.   Condition: Good.  Advertisement Almanac . DK-26  (Book ID 10286)  $25.00 Memorial of Joseph G. Nancrede, Vaccine Physician, Philadelphia, January 14, 1828, Read, and Laid Upon the Table (cover title)  Printed By Gales & Seaton.  Washington.  1828.  Self Wrappers.  5-page pamphlet. "20th Congress, 1st Session. (Doc. No. 66) Ho. of Reps." Disbound. Uncut page edges. Plea to exterminate small-pox. "To the Senate and House of Representatives..." "Having been entrusted, since the year 1816, with the public vaccination of the city of Philadelphia, he has constantly sought, by every means in his reach, to promote the diffusion of the cow-pock; and, under the impression that Congress will consider the present a favorable moment, to receive his suggestions, he confidently proceeds to state the reasons which, in his belief, will support his views".   Small-Pox Extermination. Presentation. Request. Plea. Doctor. Vaccinate. Public Health.  (Book ID 4753)  $25.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Ether Monument."  American Stereoscopic Views.  circa.1880. Part of the 'Boston and Vicinity' Series, Public Garden. Stereograph on pink board (3 1/2 x 7 inch) with square corners, title label pasted on the backside. Image of a woman in period dress and umbrella with her black attendant holding her bag, both looking up at the monument. The monument was created to celebrate the use of ether in operations, but no names are given as there was controversy as to who used it first so a 12 century Moorish doctor is depected applying the either to a sick man. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Ether, Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. DK-86  (Book ID 11805)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Hospital Grounds And Ancon Hill from Hotel Tivoli, Panama."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, Pa.  # 21786 (255). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the hospital and the american battle with disease and the misquito. A view of the hospital grounds and Ancon Hill behind it. Clean copy save a brown spot on the left photo (1/8 inch across).   Condition: Good.  Panama City, Panama, Hospital, Disease - Malaria, Yellow Fever. DK-6  (Book ID 9313)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "The Temple of Aesculapius, Atherns, Greece."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  1900.  # 11163. Stereography tan card (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the back side of the card. Nice view of the remains of the temple in Athens. Clean copy with slight bump to the upper left corner.   Condition: Very Good.  Geece, Aesculapius, Classical Greece, Medicine. DK-3  (Book ID 9064)  $15.00 Parergon: From the Greek Word Meaning "Work By the Side of Work".  Mead Johnson & Company.  Evansville, Ind..  1947.  208 pages; illustrations; illustrated wrapper (9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inch). Although called "Third Edition" each of the three "editions" of this title are seperate books, with completely different text. Contains illustrations (up to six a page) of paintings, photos, sculptures, and watercolors by various doctors of the Untited States. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Art, Sculpture, Photographs. DK-22  (Book ID 10092)  $25.00 Reducing the Cost of Medical and Hospital Care.  The Sutter Hospital.  San Francisco, California.  1932.  [12] pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (3 3/4 x 9 inch) with envolope canceled January 26, 1932, 2 cent stamp. Pamphlet discusses the medical plan, along with departments, and fee schedule. Blood tests for $1.75, X-Rays $5-10.00, Operations $75.00, Hospital $2.50 or Home $1.75 visits, and so on. An example of an early health plan.   Condition: Fine.  Medical Plans, Hospital Fees. DK-23  (Book ID 10148)  $25.00 Steel Engraving Portrait. "Rufus Pratt Lincoln"  Engraving, circa 1900s (4 x 5 1/2 inch) of Rufus Pratt Lincoln (1841-1900) of Massachusetts in civilian clothing. Lincoln joined the war in 1862, after graduating from Amherst College, with the Massachusetts Volunteers rising to captain in several months. He fought at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and the assault on Petersburg. By 1864 he reached the rank of brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious services. After the war he returned to college and became a doctor after graduating from Harvard in 1868. He became a famous doctor specializing in diseases of the throat, lungs, and nose.   Condition: Very Good.  Civil War Veteran, Doctors. DK-36  (Book ID 10595)  $15.00 Tablets - Anasarcin - Elixir.  The Anasarcin Chemical Co..  Winchester, Tenn..  circa.1920s. [4] pages; paper wrapper (3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Basicly a catalog of medical products and administration. Related to internal organ conditions and their treatment. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Medical, Heart Medicine. DK-89  (Book ID 11896)  $15.00 The Daily Diet  Dr. Miles Laboratories, Inc..  Elkhart, Indiana.  circa. 1940s. 32 pages; drawings, tables, photos; illustrated paper wrapper (6 x 4 3/4 inch). Series of ads from the Miles Laboratories for their products - Alka-Seltzer, Dr. Miles Nervine, Dr. Miles anti Pain Pills, Little Pills, Laxative Tablets, and Aspir-Mints. Tables of Acid Producting Foods and testamonials for satisfied customers. Clean copy printed on cheap paper.   Condition: Good.  Advertisement, Alka-Seltzer. DK-60  (Book ID 11198)  $15.00 The Green River Hot Springs Hotel and Sanitarium. Steam Heated, Electric Lighted. On the Main Line of Northern Pacific Railroad, King County, Wash. Temperature of Springs, 132o F. Altitude, 1531 Feet.  Lowman & Hanford Co..  Seattle, Washington.  1900.  [4] pages; paper folded to 5 1/2 x 7 inch, evidence of having been folded again. Illustration of the Hotel and Sanitarium on the cover. The town was founded in 1886 along the mainline of the Northern Pacific Railway over the Cascade Mts through Stampede Pass. The Large Sanatarium at one time had over 160 patients with 2 doctors under the supervision of Dr. J.S. Kloeber. It contained nice suites, bowling alleys and pool tables along with the natural springs. The Sanatorium burned down in about 1912 and the area around it is now a ghost town. Unusual piece of local history for the Stampede Pass region of Washington.   Condition: Very Good.  Sanatorium, Cascades, Green River Hot Springs. Land Promotional Pamphlets. DK-102  (Book ID 12150)  $47.50 The Magic of Salt. 6th Edition.  Worcester Salt Company.  New York, New York.  20 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (4 1/4 x 6 inch) with title on the cover with illustration of a 18th century sailing ship. This small pamphlet contains inofrmation on medicinal purposes, cooking uses, peronal hygiene, cleaning of household goods, killing weeds, melting snow, along with a history of salt and its value over the years.   Condition: Very Good.  Salt, Food Additives, Advertisement. DK-109  (Book ID 12264)  $15.00 The Surgical Clinics of John B. Murphy, M.D. At Mercy Hospital, Chicato, October, 1912, Volume 1, Number 5  W.B. Saunders Company.  Philadelphia and London.  Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated (some gruesome). Enjoyable anecdotal accounts of the patients and their maladies. Text pages 613 through 778, plus16 page catalog of other W.B. Saunders books at end.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 8530)  $17.50 Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California, During the Years 1873 and 1874.  H.A.Weaver, Printer.  Sacramento, California.  1874.  "Fourth Annual ... ". 151 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (chips missing along the spine, 2 inch tear on the last page. Stamp of the California State Library on the cover. Contents: Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting; "Report on Public Hygiene and State Medicine" by Dr. Thos. M. Logan; "Removal of a Tumor Involving the Parotid Gland" by Dr. Levi C. Lane; "Contribution to the Botany of California" by H.P. Gibbons; Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Medical Society. Good overview of the the state of medicine in California.   Condition: Very Good.  California Medical History. DK-29  (Book ID 10373)  $37.50 Work for Chimney-Sweepers or A Warning for Tobacconists. With an Introuction By S.H.Atkins, 1601.  The Shakespeare Association & Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd..  Oxford, England.  1936.  "Shakespeare Association Facsimiles No. 11". xiv, [46] pages; bound in publisher's paper over boards binding with title on the spine. Bumped lower right corners on cover. An early pamphlet, 1601, about the evils and problems with tobacco smoking and its introduction to England. Fine clean copy, clean inside and outside. Unopened.   Condition: Very Good.  Tobacco, Shakespere Association. DK-63  (Book ID 11277)  $17.50 Wright's Pictorial Family Almanac 1872  Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills.  New York, New York.  1871.  24 pages; illustrations, tables; faded yellow paper wrapper (5 x 8 1/4 inch) wtih title on the cover. Chipping along the edges of the cover, and corners have been folded up at one time. Deals with the months along with moons movements and common sense advice. Includes cartoons and music scores. Advertisement for Wright's Indian Vegetale Pills and Wright's Indian Vegetable Syrup.   Condition: Very Good.  Almanac, Medicine Advertisement. DK-97  (Book ID 12085)  $15.00 Year Book of the American Pharmaceutical Association 1912; Containing the Fifty-Fifth Annual Report on the Progress of Pharmacy, and the Constitution, By-Laws and Roll of Members; Volumes 1-5, 1912 through 1916  American Pharmaceutical Association. 1914. Scio, Ohio..  Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations. Annual reports for the years 1912 through 1916. Five volumes. 541 to 803 pages. Volume 1, page 121 has small hole in text; volume 3 has slight fading to front cover; volume 4 has spotting to covers; vol ume 5 has spotting and slight wear to covers. Books also contain latest information in the field of pharmaceuticals, materia medica, information on inorganic and organic chemistry; etc.   DRUGGISTS. DRUGS. PHARMACISTS. INORGANIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Medicine  (Book ID 3396)  $100.00 Alsaker, R.L., M.D.  How to Live on 3 Meals a Day  Frank E. Morrison, Publisher.  New York.  1917.  First Edition.  Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. In the author's own words: "Right eating is almost enough in itself to insure health. It is economical, builds health and reduces the cost of living." Advice, plus menu plans, including some vegetarian meals. 96 pages, plus two pages of advertisements for author's other books.   Condition: Very Good.  World War I. Nutrition.  (Book ID 8037)  $25.00 Bender, Lauretta  Instuctions for the Use of Visual Motor Gestalt Test.  American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc..  1946.  7 pages; bibliography; paper wrapper with title on the cover. With 9 cards in plastic envelope; and manila envelope to hold the material. Revised test for mental problems and intelligence.   Condition: Fine.  Intellegence Test, Gestalt. DK-57  (Book ID 11146)  $15.00 Brodie, Benjamin C.  Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at St. George's Hospital  Lea and Blanchard. 1846. Philadelphia..  First American edition. 3/4 leather with patterned boards. Some margin notations in pencil. Ink notation front end paper. Water stains to front and back end papers and marginal damp stains. Sir Brodie held the highest surgical appointment in Gr eat Britain during this time period, that of Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen. His clinical lectures included: On Mortification; Extraction of Foreign Bodies; On Sero-Cystic Tumours of the Breast; Various Forms of Local Hysterical Affections; Disease s of the Hip-joint; On Hemorrhoids; etc.   HEALING ART. MEDICAL AID. CURATIVE POWERS. Medicine  (Book ID 2669)  $125.00 Browne, Sir Thomas  Religio Medici and Other Essays.  Brentano's.  New York, New York.  1915.  "The Books of the Verulam Club". Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Ltd., London, England. 231 pages; portrait; gray boards with title paper label on spine, gilt design upper right corner on front board, dust jacket with paper label on spine under mylar. Minor missing chips to the top of the spine d.j. Copies are usually found rebound. Uncommon in original binding and almost unhead of in the original dust wrapper. Inscribed in ink on front flyleaf "September 29, 1918. For Ruth Bosley from Father", former owner's bookplate inside cover "Thompson S. Weikel". Volume contains: Religio Medici; Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial; A Letter to a Friend; On Dreams. The Verulam Club was named after Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam.   Condition: Fine.  Verulam Club, Press Books, Medicine. DK-47  (Book ID 10890)  $75.00 Browne, Thomas  Browne's Religio Medici and Digby's Observations  At the Clarendon Press. 1909. London..  Boards. 227 pages. In the style of 1643. Facsimile edition. From the Note page: "This edition of Religio Medici and Digby's Observations is printed from copies lent by Professor William Osler. The text of Religio follows that of the first auth entic edition of 1643, page for page and line for line". Many unopened pages. Page edges are uncut. One illustration after the title page.   HEALING ART. MEDICAL AID. CURATIVE POWERS. Medicine  (Book ID 2683)  $50.00 Browne, Thomas  Religio Medici, a Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-Burial and Other Papers.  Ticknor and Fields.  Boston.  1862.  xviii, 432 pages, portrait, cloth, gilt spine title, all edges stained red, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". Spine sunned, lightly chipped at head, tight, foxing to portrait, signed in pencil at end of introductory biographical sketch, "James T. Fields". The portrait is newly engraved from the folio published in 1686. Sir Thomas Brown was born in London in 1605 and died in 1682. His "celebrated treatise" went through many printings and was a masterpiece. Coleridge is quoted as saying, "This book paints certain parts of my moral and intellectual being (the best parts, no doubt) better than any other book I have ever met with; - and the style is throughout delicious."   Medicine; Philosophy; Morals; Religion  (Book ID 5957)  $47.50 Cabot, Richard C., M.D.  Social Work: Essays on the Meeting-Ground of Doctor and Social Worker  Houghton Mifflin and Company.  Boston and New York.  1919.  First Edition.  Purple cloth, slightly dull spine. Former owner's name on front end paper. 188 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 5190)  $25.00 Caldwell, George W.  Oriental Rambles. Illustrated with Numerous Snap-Shot Photographs.  G.W. Caldwell.  Poughkeepsie, New York.  1906.  167 pages; illustrations; green cloth binding with title and author on the cover and spine; added photo pasted on the cover. Inscribed by the author "Merry Xmas to Mrs. Muldowney, from Geo. Caldwell, M.D. Dec 25 - '13". George Caldwell, a physcian, traveled westward around the world by land and sea. He visited Japan and its inland sea; China and its major cities; Singapore; India and its major cities and sites; and finally Egypt with its pyramids and ancient cities. Included are the author's photographs.   Condition: Very Good.  Travelers to China, Round the World Travelers. DK-37  (Book ID 10625)  $37.50 Chalmers, Stephen  The Beloved Physician: Edward Livingston Trudeau  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston and New York.  (1916). Photo illustrated. Dr. Trudeau founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium in Saranac Lake New York in the 1880's for the treatment of tuberculeosis. Chalmers, the author, was secretary of the Robert Louis Stevenson society, also in Saranac Lake. Publisher's gray ribbed cloth with black lettering and decorations. 76 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  New York History. Infectous Disease. Tuberculosis  (Book ID 8360)  $17.50 Chambon de Montaux, Nicolas  Maladies des Femmes; Cinquieme Partie; Maladies Chroniques a la Cessation des Regles  A. J. Dugour et Durand. (1799). Paris..  Second edition, expanded. Early quarter brown calf, purple paste-paper boards. Issued as part five in an eight volume set. Each volume was complete in itself. See: Wellcome II, p. 324. Ink notation front end paper. Inked library stamp on bot tom of title page, partially covers publisher's name.   MEDICINE. HEALING ART. MEDICAL AID. CURATIVE POWERS.  (Book ID 2665)  $100.00 Clapp, George Wood  The Life and Work of James Leon Williams, Doctor of Dental Surgery; Licentiate of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland... Author, Artist, Philosopher  The Dental Digest..  New York.  1925.  First edition. Cloth backed boards. Illustrations. Small scrape to front cover. Top corner of front cover has some wear. Chapters include: The Williams Family as Pioneers; The Establishment of Practice in England; Events Leading to the Presentations in Histology and Bacteriolgy; Dr. Williams Discovers Typal Forms in Natural Teeth; Dr. Williams as an Anthropologist; etc.   MEDICINE. MEDICAL AID. TOOTH CARE. HEALING ART.  (Book ID 2653)  $25.00 Clark, James Bayard  Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway  G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1917. New York..  First edition. Cloth. Frontispiece. Ink notations front end papers. Born in 1841, Dr. Janeway became a physician in 1864. Most of his medical career was spent in New York City at Bellevue and Charity Hospitals. During his long career at Bellev ue he earned much distinction in the pathological department. He also was Health Commissioner of New York, vice-president of the New York Pathological Society, president and a trustee of the Academy of Medicine, etc. In this little book, the autho r prov ides his personal memories of Dr. Janeway.   HEALING ART. MEDICAL AID. CURATIVE POWERS. Medicine  (Book ID 2678)  $17.50 Cobb, Irvin S.  "Speaking of Operations---"  George H. Doran Company.  New York.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Sarg, Tony.  (1915), first edition. 64 pages, 4 plates by Tony Sarg, end leaves depict a doctor's waiting room, pictorial boards, dust wrapper, 7.5 x 5". Very good or better, jacket with some wear and soil. Humorous stories about hospitals, operations, billing, etc. The cover illustration shows a patient in a bed in front of an axe, drill and huge saw, what the jacket calls "Perfectly Painless".   Medicine. Literature. Humor  (Book ID 6855)  $25.00 Cook, James  Remedies and Rackets: The Truth About Patent Medicines Today  W.W. Norton & Company, Inc..  New York.  First Edition.  Three quarter leather binding (spine very slightly sunned) in slipcase. A very handsome book. Introdeuction by Oliver Field, directors of the Bureau of Investigation, American Medical Association. Debunks the medical claims of many of the popular over-the-counter medicines of the day. 252 pages, including index.   Condition: Fine.  Quackery. Drugs. Diet.  (Book ID 7919)  $50.00 Cornet, Georg, Dr.  Ueber Tuberculose; Die Verbreitung der Tuberkelbacillen Ausserhalb des Korpers; Die Sterblichkeitsverhaltnisse in den Krankenpflegeorden  Verlag Von Veit & Comp. 1890. Leipzig..  First edition. Very attractive 3/4 leather with cloth. In German. Charts and tables. . Previous owner stamp on title page.   MEDICINE. HEALING ART. MEDICAL AID. CURATIVE POWERS.  (Book ID 2685)  $75.00 Coster, Jacques  Manual of Surgical Operations; Containing the New Methods of Operating Devised by Lisfranc; Followed by Two Synoptic Tables of Natural and Instrumental Labours; The Translation and Notes by John D. Godman  H. C. Carey & I. Lea. 1825. Philadelphia..  First edition of Godman's translation. Leather. 265 pages. Front end paper split at spine. Quite foxed. Water stain bottom of numerous pages. From the Introduction: "The operations contained in this volume are generally described according to the mo difications introduced by Mr. Lisfranc".   MEDICINE. HEALING ARTS. SURGERY. MEDICAL AID.  (Book ID 2646)  $250.00 Cowan, John  The Science of a New Life  Cowan & Company, Publishers. 1870. New York..  Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. 405 pages. Ink notation front end paper. The author writes about: Marriage and its Advantages; Age at Which to Marry; Qualities the Man (and Woman) Should Avoid in Choosing; The Prevention of Conception; The Co ncep tion of a New Life; Disorders of Pregnancy; Subjects of Which More Might be Said; A Happy Married Life - How Secured; etc.   MEDICAL HEALING ART. MARITAL AID. Medicine  (Book ID 2677)  $37.50 Day, Dr David  Carte-de-viste Photograph Portrait.  Whitney's Gallery.  St Paul, Minnesota.  Original Carte-de-Viste photograph (2 3/8 x 4 inch) inside a paper framing with opening for photo (4 3/8 x 5 3/4 inch) with evidence of being folded to the paper frame. Dr. David Day (1825-1896) was born in Virginia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849 and moved to Minnesota in the same year. He practiced medicine in St. Paul and late was in the drug business (1849-1866). He served in the State Legislature in 1852 and 1853. He was appointed Postmaster of St. Paul in 1875, a position he held until 1888.   Condition: Very Good.  Photographs, Minnesota, Post Master. DK-107  (Book ID 12218)  $37.50 De Lorme, M.F.  A Manual of Pharmacy for Medical Students  The John C. Lindsay Co..  New York.  1905.  First Edition.  206 pages, including index. A variety of interesting formulas Folding frontispiece showing pharmaceutical apparatus and glassware. The author, a physician, was a professor at Long Island College.   Condition: Very Good.  Drugs. Medical Texts.  (Book ID 7074)  $37.50 Dewey, Edward Hooker, M.D.  The No-Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure  Published By the Author and L.N,. Fowler & Co..  Meadville, PA and London, England.  First Edition.  (1900). Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. The author, a medical doctor, used his experiences in the American Civil War and the treatment of his patients to come to the belief that two meals a day were better to sustain health. He advocated complete fasting for diseases and afflictions, and relates some successes in this book. Photo illustrated. Former owner's small address plate on front end paper. 207 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Food and Health.  (Book ID 8404)  $47.50 Dorvault  L'Officine Ou Repertoire General De Pharmacie Pratique; Contenant  Asselin, Libraire.  Paris, France.  1867.  1499 pages; 20 page catalogue in the back for publications by the publisher; drawings, tables; index; bound in green leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Corners bumped. Very good copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Pharmaceutical. DK-94  (Book ID 11989)  $150.00 Go to page: 1 2

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