ADAMI, J. George:

Charles White of Manchester (1728-1813) and the Arrest of Puerperal Fever.

Liverpool University Press,1922, pp.142, with 4 illustrations. Original cloth with paper label. Name and small label inside,some slight foxing,but a good copy. Includes reprints of White's writings on puerperal fever.

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Book number: 1405

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Keywords: medicine,puerperal fever,childbirth,obstetrics,Semmelweis,

CONSTANT, Thos E:

The Naked-Eye Anatomy of the Human Teeth.

John Wright, Bristol, 1903, pp.xi, 194. Original cloth, some light foxing, but a good, sound copy.

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Book number: 2708

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: dentistry, teeth,

DONALD, Archibald:

The Transition; a Retrospect of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.

Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes,1924, pp.(8),32. Original cloth a little stained,but a sound copy.The Lloyd Roberts Lecture,1923.

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Book number: 1359

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: medicine,surgery,gynaecology,obstetrics,ovariotomy, St. Mary's Hospital Manchester,Sir William Sinclair,Dr Walls,

DUDGEON, R. E. (editor and translator):

The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann.

London, W. Headland, 1851. First English edition, pp. xii, 881, with the handwriting plate, but probably lacking a portrait frontispiece. Modern half calf over marbled boards (Hahnemann misspelt on spine). Pages a bit browned, name inside. Sound condition. The first English edition is scarce with no copies recorded on Library Hub.

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Book number: 3519

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: Homoeopathy,medicine,medical, venereal disease,syphilis,Hahnemann,

FICARRA, Bernard J:

Essays on Historical Medicine.

New York,Froben Press,1948, first edition,pp.220,illustrated.

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Book number: 590

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Keywords: medicine,medical history,abdominal surgery,amputation,prostheses,blood transfusion,pathology,autopsies,

FOWLER, Thomas:

Medical Reports, on the Effects of Tobacco in the Cure of Dropsies and Dysuries or Cases of Pain and Difficulty of Passing Urine.

London, Printed for the Author, 1788, second edition, revised, with considerable additions, 8vo, pp. xv, (5), 98. Neat modern half calf with marbled boards, very short tear in fore-margin of title, and repair to lower corner, also 3 or 4 tiny ink spots, else a clean, sound copy. A printing error on page v of the Preface has made half of three lines very faint, but only one is more or less illegible.

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Book number: 2352

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Keywords: medicine medical dropsy dysury urine bladder tobacco

HENRY, William, M.D. F.R.S.:

Further Experiments on The Disinfecting Powers of Increased Temperatures.

Richard Taylor, London, 1832, pp. 12. Offprint from the Philosophical Magazine and Annals, 1832. Original wrappers, rather rubbed and dusty and separated from the stitching, but still in sound condition. Front wrapper with inscription from the author to Jas Heywood and by him given to B. H. Bright. Henry was a prominent chemist and doctor in Manchester, and developed Henry's Law relating to the absorption of gases by water. He shot himself in 1836 in Pendlebury.

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Book number: 2603

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Keywords: medicine,disinfectants, infection, infectious diseases,quarantine

LANCISI, Giovanni Maria:

Aneurysms.

New York,Macmillan,1952, first edition,pp.xxxv,362. Very good in worn,price-clipped d.w. which has been strengthened on the reverse with brown paper. The Latin text of Rome 1745 with translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright. A landmark in the history of cardiology and the first complete translation.

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Book number: 671

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Keywords: medicine,Lancisi,cardiology,heart disease,aneurysm,

ROBINSON, N.:

A New Method of Treating Consumptions. Wherein All the Decays Incident to Human Bodies, Are Mechanically Accounted for.

London,for A. Bettesworth and T. Warner, G. Strahan, and C. Rivington, 1727, first edition, 8vo, pp.xvi, 218, (6), 160, (4). Contemporary panelled calf with original spine label. There is a clean repaired tear to the margin of page 108 in part 2, but this a very clean, sound, attractive copy. Inscription at top of title-page from Wm Chapman to John Chapman 1775.

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Book number: 2353

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Keywords: medicine consumption ulcers lungs diabetes blood diarrhoea scurvy

RODDIS, Louis H:

James Lind, Founder of Nautical Medicine.

Heinemann, 1951, pp. xii, 177. Dust jacket just a trifle rubbed at the top edge, else very good condition.

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Book number: 2712

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Keywords: James Lind, naval medicine, scurvy,

SMITH, Southwood:

The Common Nature of Epidemics and their relation to Climate and Civilisation. Also remarks on Contagion and Quarantine.

Trubner, London, 1866, pp. vi, 130. Original cloth, largely unopened. Very small area of damage to the spine, else excellent condition.

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Book number: 2714

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: medicin,conagion,quarantine,epidemics,disease,plague,cholera,yellow fever,