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 Connecticut River Valley Medical Association. Fee Bill. [Caption title]
 [141128] (AMERICAN MEDICINE - VERMONT) [Connecticut River Valley Medical Assoc.] .
[N.p.]: [s.n.], [n.d., 1860-1870's?] . A single sheet, 4¾ x 6 inches, solded once to form a two page price list, 4¾ x 3¼ inches. Not located. Rust paper clip mark to front else very good condition. Over forty medical procedures and their associated fees recorded. Divided into fees for obstetrics, surgery, fractures, amputation and operations, the procedures are varied: an extra charge for “Turning Child, Use of Instruments, Retained Placenta” - knee and elbow amputations, breast removal - trephining skull - tracheotomy - tapping hydrocele - paracentesis thoracis - talipes (“clubfoot”) - costs for night visits and autopsy - chemical and microscopical examination of urine or sputa - examination of a person for admission to an asylum or guardian, etc. The Connecticut River Valley Medical Association organized in 1859 with the majority of its members being from Vermont as of 1877. [Thayer, pp. 62-63 “The Vermont Medical Register for the Year 1877...”] $75
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 Something New! The subscriber having taken the ROOM formerly occupied by the Free Democrats; where I intend to keep a keep a good assortment of Drugs and Medicines...
[140677] (APOTHECARY’S HANDBILL) [S.H. Fairbank Druggist] .
[Westboro' - Massachusetts]: [s.n.], 1853. Letterpress handbill with attractive and varied typography. 6½" x 4½" Very good condition. Fairbank also offers to sell fruit and confectionary of all kinds in addition to his pharmaceutical wares. Fairbank may have been operating in Westborough, Massachusetts. $25
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 Electro-homoeopathische Heil-Methode; “Neue Wissenschaft.” Praktischer Leitfaden für Aerzte und Laien zur Behandlung der acuten und chronischen, ja selbst der für unheilbar gehaltenen Krankheiten. Praktischer Leitfaden für Aerzte und Laien
[140491] (HOMEOPATHY) J. Genty de Bonqueval .
Geneva: R. Burkhardt's Buchhandlung, [1885]. xv, 448, xiv. 2. Auflage, Bearbeitet und mit Vorwort versehen von Dr. Fewson. Text in German. Half leather. Joints expertly strengthened. A good strong copy. OCLC records two copies (NLM, EYM). Apparently a revised and expanded translation of “Traité théorique et pratique de l'Èlectro-homoeopathie,” issued in America in 1888 as “Theory and practice of electro-homoeopathy.” $125
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Homöopathischer Haus - und Selbstarzt. Eine fassliche Anweisung, sich mittelst der Homöopathie leicht, schnell und sicher in vorkommenden Krankheiten selbst zu helfen. Nebst einer Einleitung über das Grundprincip und die Vorzüge der Homöopa
[142264] (HOMEOPATHY) Johann Carl Friedrich Brandt.
Nordhausen: Adolph Büchting, 1860. Small octavo, 130 pages. Second edition, improved. Contemporary papered and marbled binding. Spine chipped, edges of covers rubbed and worn; foxed, a good copy. Early name of C. Schlenker within. Text in German. This edition not on OCLC and scarce. An odd gold on red sticker, early, inside the cover that proclaims “Merry War”. Brandt’s work on homeopathy went through numerous editions, nine that we are aware of, with the last being recorded in 1921. $250
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 The Dutch Impact on Japan, (1640-1853).
[4283] (JAPAN - DUTCH - SCIENCES & MEDICINE) Grant Kohn Goodman .
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1967. 242 pages. Bound in publisher's wrappers, paper covers. Owner's name inside; top-edge of book spotted, else very good. llustrated with a fold out map of Nagasaki. Over two hundred years of the Dutch upon Japanese medicine and sciences. $30
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 Driskell's Barb-Wire Healing Oil ... and will Positively Cure all Wounds of Horses, Cattle & Human Flesh So Perfectly That Flesh, Skin and Hair Will Grow Back. Keep Flies Away. Keeps Out Proud Flesh ... [Cover title]
[141519] (KENTUCKY - PATENT MEDICINE) [Geier Silkweed Company].
[Carrollton, Kentucky]: [Geier Silkweed Co.], [n.d. ca. 1880's?]. Single gray-green sheet 6 x 13¾ inches. Printed on both sides and folding down to a brochure of 6 x 3½ inches. Near fine condition; a scarce and ephemeral item. A rather bizarre patent medicine promotional item promoting Driskell's Barb-Wire Healing Oil which was primarily to be used for horses and livestock having unfortunate encounters with barbed-wire. Kentucky Congressmen and Senators lend their testimonials and the item has an attractive graphic of various animals to the front cover. $125
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Lettsom: His Life, Times, Friends and Descendants.
[142033] (MEDICINE - QUAKERS - MEN OF LETTERS) James Johnston Abraham.
London: William Heinemann, 1933. Octavo, 498 pages. First Edition. Hardbound in navy cloth, without dust jacket. Very good condition. Small owner's name inside. Illustrated. History and times of English Quaker doctor John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815), founder of Medical Society of London. $45
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The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, to Which is Prefixed the Life of the Founder, Sir Thomas Gresham.
[4243] (MEDICINE - 18th Century - BIOGRAPHIES) John Ward .
New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Quarto, 1967. 338; 156 pages. The Sources of Science, No. 71. Facsimile reprint of this 1740 London edition. Hardbound in grey cloth, without dust jacket. Small owner's name inside. Book covers are slightly out of square, small bump near heel of spine and back cover, else very good. Illustrated with folding plates. $75
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The Cerebral Convolutions of Man: Represented according to original observations, especially upon their development in the foetus. Intended for the use of physicians.
[141392] (MEDICINE - ANATOMY) Alexander Ecker.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1873. Octavo, 87 + [24] pages of publisher's catalog with illus. adverts. First American Edition. Translated into English by Robert T. Edes. Bound in publisher's orig. flexible cloth. Modestly illustrated. Small break and loss of cloth to joint of lower cover; binding with some mild rubbing and mild soiling. A very good copy. Alexander Ecker (1816-1887). 19th century German anatomist, Ecker assumed the chair of physiology and comparative anatomy in 1850 in Freiburg in Baden. Ecker originated the terminology used today for brain lobes and convolutions which were suggested in this monograph which was first published Germany in 1869. Ecker was also the founder of the Ethnographical Museum at Frieburg. Cordasco 70-1002. $350
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 Traditional Medicine in Modern China; science, nationalism, and the tensions of cultural change
[4230] (MEDICINE - CHINA) Ralph C. Croizier .
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Octavo, xvi, 325 pages. First Edition. Cloth binding, very good in a like dust jacket. Owner's name to front endpaper. $25
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