Ibn Bu l n; Luisa Cogliati Arano; Oscar Ratti (Trans. & Adapt.); Adele Westbrook (Trans. & Adapt.)

Medieval Health Handbook: Tacuinum Sanitatis

New York, George Braziller, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 153. Royal 8vo. Publisher's olive-green cloth over boards, gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Richly and beautifully illustrated with dozens of black-and-white, and full-page colour plates, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; as new and housed in pictorial slipcase. Appears unread; fine. A lavishly decorated handbook of medicine was conceived for the lay public on topics such as human health, healing, medicine, and household management.

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Book number: 5728

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: history; health; medicine; medical history

Napheys, George H.; M. L. Holbrook

The Physical Life of Woman ; Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother, to Which is Added: Parturition Without Pain by M.L. Holbrook

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Hunter Rose Publishing Company, N.D. [Circa 1890]. Third Canadian Edition. Hardcover. pp. 382. Small thick 8vo. measuring 7.25" x 5.25". Publisher's stamped forest-green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Sections include: The Maiden: Puberty; Love; The Wife; Pregnancy; Confinement; The Mother; The Single Life; The Change of Life; How to Stop Abortion; the Wickedness of Abortion; Why Women Can Be Too Prolific; Is Genius Hereditary?; To Have Boys or Girls. A remarkably unscientific work, approaching the "health" of women through a decidedly patriarchal, rigid, and religious approach (not uncommon for its time). Extremities rubbed, evidence of fraying to the spine ends and tips, pages uniformly age-toned owing to the age, and acidic composition of the pages, slight worming to the margins (entirely unaffecting the text), text-block remains clean and unmarked with sound binding. Overall, good+. Corresponds to OCLC #8269868. Not found in Osler. In bringing about a new Canadian edition of Dr. Naphey's invaluable Work, little need be said by way of Preface. No one can read the book without profiting by it; and no one need expect to find in its pages a single word to offend any mind rightly constituted. In the words of the New York Evangelist, "the most delicate subjects are treated in language so chaste as not to offend any pure mind; and the highest authority we acknowledge declares, that 'to the pure all things are pure',".

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Book number: 6699

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: women's studies; public health; canadian medical history; science; obstetrician; religion; abortion; women's health

Nicholson, G.W.L.

The White Cross in Canada: A History of St. John Ambulance

Montréal, Quebec, Harvest House, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 206. Royal 8vo. Original red cloth over boads with gilt lettering and crest embossed to the spine, and front board; map endpapers. Many black-and-white photographs, and portraits. Light bumping to the spine ends, else, extremities very well-preserved, contents clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good, unclipped, lightly rubbed dustjacket. Near Fine .

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Book number: 6748

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: medical history; canadian history; benevolent societies; religion

Palairet, John

A Short Treatise Upon Arts and Sciences in French and English, by Question and Answer; 'Enlarged with an Infinite Number of Things Both Curious and Instructive. Revised and Carefully Corrected by M. Du Mitand. '

London, Printed for C. Nourse, 1787. 8th Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 120. 12mo. Recent beautiful re-bind in full dark brown leather. The spine is in compartments with title, author, and date of publication stamped in gilt. Gorgeous fresh marbled endpapers. Small circular stamp of St. Paul's College to bottom right of first blank page. Text is unmarked, although there is some typical foxing and age-toning. Table of Contents and one-page catalogue of books bound in at end. The book contains 240 pages of text, half of which is in English, and the facing half in the French translation making this, "A Work very useful to Those who desire to improve themselves in the French tongue, and containing a great Variety of Subjects." Overall, near fine. John Plairet (1697-1774) was the French teacher to three of King Geroge II's children, and wrote several French education compendiums. .

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Book number: 289

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: technology; history; science; fine bindings;

Kali Shiva AIDS Services; Sexuality Education Resource Centre; AIDS Community Action Program, Health Canada; Youth Working Group; Multiple Additional Contributors

Harsh Reality ; [Cover Title: Harsh Reality: Inside: Drugs, STDS, Gangs, Mental Health, Piercing; Ideas for Youth by the Youth Working Group."]

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kali Shiva AIDS Services, March, 2009. Second Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 240. Square 8vo. measuring 7" x 8.5". Illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding, map endpapers. Rich with many black-and-white, and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, collage-art, et al. Sections include: "The Body"; "Nutrition"; "Using Condoms for Safer Sex"; "Drugs"; "Rehab"; "Mental Health", et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, very good+. Fourth Edition.

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Book number: 4185

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: medicine; health; aids; hiv; public health; health policy; manitoba history; local history; canadian history; indigenous health; aboriginal studies; first nations; native studies; drug use; substance use; mental health; psychiatry; psychology

Roland, Charles G. (Ed.)

Sir William Osler, 1849-1919: A Selection for Medical Students

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Hannah Institute For The History Of Medicine, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. vii,114. 8vo. Publisher's textured quarter brown buckram over tan cloth boards, gilt lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws to the exremities, neat bookplate affixed to the ffep, else, bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine, unclipped, dustjacket. Appears unread; as new. .

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Book number: 4607

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: philosophy; medical ethics; healthcare; health; medical history

Sagan, Carl

Cosmos

New York, Random House, 1980. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 365. 4to. Publisher's original black cloth over boards, white and bronze lettering to the spine. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, photographic reproductions, illustrations, et al. Extremities very lightly rubbed, neat bookplate affixed to the ffep, else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in good+ price-clipped, rubbed dustjacket showing some chipping, and short closed tears long the edgs of the panels. Overall, very good. This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan's thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds. Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds. Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.

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Book number: 3392

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: astronomy; science; astrophysics

Sagan, Carl

Cosmos

New York, Random House, 1980. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 365. 4to. Publisher's original black cloth over boards, white and terracotta lettering to the spine. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, photographic reproductions, illustrations, et al. Extremities entirely without blemish, contents remain equally bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ price-clipped dustjacket. Overall, very good+. This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan's thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds. Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds. Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.

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Book number: 6257

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: astronomy; science; astrophysics

Sanchez, Dennis Paul Nino

The Mind of the Black Hat: Understanding Today's Cyber Criminals

Privately Printed (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform), 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. viii, 150. Slim 8vo. As new. The Mind Of The Black Hat 2017 Edition- By Dennis Paul Nino S. Sanchez -- Understanding Today's Cyber Criminals -In today's tech savvy world, our valuable assets are much more vulnerable from theft and destruction. Both personal and business endeavors rely too much on technology and the internet, where a new breed of criminals are thriving. Defend yourself and protect your valuables from these cyber criminals by understanding what makes them tick. Configure your networks and systems securely by knowing the activities of your attackers. "The Mind of the black hat" shows the multiple areas where computer networks can be vulnerable, and is a good learning tool from where you can start to develop countermeasures against today's modern and sophisticated criminals.

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Book number: 2527

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: hacking; cybersecurity; cyber criminals; law; crime

[Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.]

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

New York, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. 1986. Thirty-third Printing. Hardcover. pp. 192. Small 8vo. Publisher's quarter-black cloth over teal boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Extremities remarkably well-preserved showing no detectable flaws, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in very good+, original, unclipped, dustjacket showing a few very faint spots to the front panel. Uncommon in commerce in this condition and state. Overall, very good+ to near fine. .

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Book number: 5642

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: medical history

The Canadian Red Cross Society

The Canadian Red Cross: Historical Review, Peace-Time Work, Voluntary Service for Health Reform; Membership Enrollment, May and June, 1921. ; [At head of title: "The Crusade for Good Health"]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Canadian Red Cross Society, N.D. [Circa 1921]. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 56. Tall 8vo. measuring 23 x 10 cm. Plain, twice-stapled, self-wrappers bearing the distinctive red cross to the centre of the front cover. Comprises of a detailed list of the objectives of the Society as they sought to undertake a nationwide, peacetime "Membership Enrollment Campaign". Further includes a brief chronological synopsis of the founding and aims of the Red Cross Society, beginning with its origins in the Crimean Campaign, the history and involvement of Florence Nightingale, an accounting of the Canadian Red Cross' financial efforts during the First World War (referred to here simply as the "World War") including details related to its financial health (cash contributions, etc.), their efforts to secure food and render medical services to Canadian and allied prisoners of war, a detailed listing of the various national and provincial societies (Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Quebec, P.E.I. et al.), and the respective dates they joined the Society, the nature of the work carried out by each division. Table of Contents: Membership Enrollment Campaign, Red Cross Societies, The Canadian Red Cross in the World War, How the Red Cross Came to Have Peacetime Programme, World-Wide Organization Directed to Local Service, Beginnings of Peacetime Work in Canada, Hygiene, What is Meant by Public Health, Notes to Speakers, Othe Quotations. Additionally, the rear cover comprises of a detailed list of the Patrons, Executive Committee members, and the names of the various Executive Officers of the Provincial Divisions, their respective roles, vocations, and addresses. Light spotting, and neat period ink name and scrawl to the front cover, one page has come loose from the stapled binding (all pages present and accounted for), small chip to the heel of the spine, sound binding. Contents uniformly without blemish with clean, and unmarked pages; good+. See OCLC #1007329909. Not found in Peel, Osler, Fisher, et al. .

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Book number: 6692

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: canadian medical history; medicine; canadian medicine

[National Audubon Society]

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Limp leather. pp. 714. Small 8vo. Light blue leatherette covers, white lettering to the spine. Replete with many hundreds of black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations; fine and housed in fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 2227

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: astronomy; astrology; history;

Soukup, Anthony M.

Matka a Diet'a [Mother and Baby]

Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Ant. M. Soukup, 1915. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 203. Slim 8vo. Dark green utilitarian buckram over boards with gilt lettering, and blind-stamped motif to the centre of the front board. Replete with wonderful anatomical engravings, and illustrations of the female body. A highly unusual, and exceedingly scarce obstetric and gynaecological manual published in the Czech language, presumably for the benefit of the public. Rare in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #11937590 indicating only two known institutional holdings. No detectable flaws; near fine. .

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Book number: 1617

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: czech language; linguistics; medical history; medicine; women's health; gender studies; women's studies; american medical history; ANGLICKO-CESKÍ SLOVNIK; medical; american medical history;

Stall, Sylvanus

What a Man of Forty-Five Ought to Know

Philadelphia, PA, London, U.K. & Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Vir Publishing Company, 1901. Purity and Truth, Self and Sex Series. Hardcover. pp. 284 + 23 pages of puslishers' advertisements; 12mo. measuring 4.5" x 7". Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped title to the front board. Light fading of the gilt lettering to the spine otherwise the extremities in near fine condition; internally, the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, near fine. An interesting and unapologetic (for its time) treatise directed towards men on all manner of manhood in the latter stages of life. Sections include: Physical Changes in Men at Middle Age; Evidence of Change; Virility - How Destroyed, How Preserved; Functional Disorders; Enlargment of the Prostate; The Marriage of Men of Middle Life; The Years Beyond; Mental Manifestations During the Menopause Period. .

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Book number: 1299

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: medical history; religion; christianity; theology; sex; sexual relations; health; medicine;

Stokes, William

A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest; Diseases of the Lung and Windpipe

Philadelphia, Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. pp. xii, 528 + 32 pages of publisher's catalogue. 8vo. 24cm. New contemporary dark green buckram utilitarian binding with gilt rules, lettering to spine. Embossed gilt emblem of the Parliament Library of Canada to tail of spine. New endpapers. Slight age-toning and a few small chips to the edges of the title page, one library stamp to the ffep, tide marks to the right corner of pages 265 - 306. Overall, a very good and presentable copy of this increasingly scarce medical treatise. Very Good .

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Book number: 428

Catalogue: Science Medicine & Mathematics

Keywords: history; rare medical books;