Author: Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab [Danish Medical-Historical Society]
Title: A volume containing 40 books,pamphlets & offprints issued by the Danish Medical-Historical Society ca.1918-1926
Description: Copenhagen [& various], [various publishers], 1918-1926. half-cloth. 23x16cm, [842] pages. This is a collection of 40 items bound together in a single volume,each with separate paginations. Sizes vary.. Textual illustrations. Binder's half-cloth. Some wear. light spine bump. Good. ¶ Consists of 6 books & pamphlets + 34 offprints running from 2 to 79 pages each. Each bears the published or rubberstamped presentation of the Danish Medical-Historical Society. All but two items are entirely in Danish [one in Swedish, one in German]. Many with original front cover wrappers bound in. Several items bear pencilled marks to a few page margins. Includes items on various topics: Danish Medicine & Disease History, 3 items concerning Possession & Witchcraft; 6 items concerning Danish Folk Medicine,etc. Includes: H.Kjerrulf "Om Alta och Altsmorning" [Stockholm,1922,63pp;(study of medicaments to treat elfshot)]; A.Wimmer "Om Besaettlelser",[Kobenhavn,1924,47pp ("On Possession")]; J.W.S. Johnsson " Den Galliske Syge i Danmark for 1550 og Litteraturen om den" [Kobenhavn,1918,45pp,offprint,caption-titled;("Syphilis in Denmark before 1550 & the Literature about it")]; A.Clement "Tegn og underlige Gerninger" [Kobenhavn,1918,16pp,offprint ("Symbols & Strange Deeds" concerning magical & alchemical symbols]; K.Caroe "Hekseri eller Hysteri paa Ovro for 100 Aar siden" [Kobenhavn,1919,11pp,offprint ("Witchcraft or Hysteria on Ovro island 100 years ago"); C.Fistaine "En Kinesisk Kvaksalvers Reklamebillede"(Leiden,1921,9pp ["A Chinese Quack Doctor's Advertising Pictures" with textual photo illustrations)]; A.Bertelsen "Fra en 'klog Mand's Praksis" [ Kobenhavn,1918,7pp,offprint ("From a 'Wise Man's --Danish folk healer's-- Practice")]; C.S. Andresen "Min Sinds-Sygdom i Aaret 1783" [Leiden,1925,68 pp,("From My Insanity in 1783")]; etc.

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