Medicina e salute

Adventures in Self-Discovery

Seabury, David · 1938 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

New York / London, Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1938. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in grey cloth wih gilt titles on spine. ix, 324 pages 24 cm. G+. Binding slightly cocked, some spotting and edge wear and bumping to boards. Front joint cracked .

The Student Life and Other Essays

Osler, William; Bashford, H.H. · 1931 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Hardcover. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with gilt stamped titles. xxxvi, 145 pages frontispiece (portrait) 19 x 11 cm. The student life.--Man's redemption of man.--A way of life.--Science and immortality. VG. Some t...

Tumors of the Eye

Reese, Algernon B. · 1951 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. / Harper & Brothers, 1951. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in rust cloth with gilt titles on spine. x, 574 pages : illustrations. Signed letter to a colleague from the author pasted to the front end paper, and a copy of the authors 1968 chris...

Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted, with Additions and Modifications, from the Journal of the American Medical Association

Young, James Harvey · 1912 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Chicago, American Medical Association Press, 1912. Hardcover. Blue-green fabric-bound hardcover book with the title in bronze lettering down the spine. Pages: (3), 4-708, (5). Contains several black-and-white illustrations. G: Serious wear to the edges of the spine and the cor...

Anthropophyteia: Jahrbucher Fur Folkloristische Erhebungen Und Forschungen Zur Entwicklunggeschichte Der Geschlechtlichen Moral: Band I.

Krauss, Friedrich S. · 1904 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Leipzig, Deutsche Verlag-Aktien-Gesellschaft, 1904. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering; 530 pp. Text in German. An early scientific journal devoted to erotica and sexual behavior. Includes bookplate of Samuel B. Woodward, "the medical superintendent of one of...

Elements of Surgery: For the Use of Students

Dorsey, John Syng · 1818 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Philadelphia, B. Warner, 1818. Second edition. Hardcover. Full brown leather; spine label has gilt lettering. 422 pp. with some bw illustrations. THIS BOOK IS VOLUME 1 ONLY. "John Syng Dorsey is one of the unsung heroes of American surgery. In 1811 he performed this country's ...

Anthropophyteia Jahrbücher Fur Folkloristische Erhebungen Und Forschungen Zur Entwicklunggeschichte Der Geschlechtlichen Moral. III Band

Krauss, Friedrich S. · 1906 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Leipzig, Deutsche Verlagsactiengesellschaft, 1906. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, vi, 448, (7), 18, x pp bw plates. Text in German. Title translation: Anthropophyteia yearbooks for folkloristic surveys and research on the history of d...

Domestic Medicine or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines

Buchan, William · 1789 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$200.00 (€181.47 | £151.39 | ¥31,937)

Hartford, Patten, 1789. Hardcover. Brown leather with red title block and gilt lettering on spine. 789 pp. No illus. Fascinating volume with diagnoses, cures, a wonderful glossary and extensive index. A collectible reference volume!. G+. Leather is worn, but substantially inta...

Uber Das Coecumcarcinom. Inaugural-Dissertation Zur Erlangung Der Doktorwurde Der Hohen Medizinischen Fakultat an Der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Zu Berlin

Bardeleben, Walter · 1919 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Berlin, H. & R. Kunz, 1919. Softcover. Brown paper stapled wraps, 48 pp. Text is in German. A dissertation dealing with the treatment of cancer (possibly, specifically, colon cancer.) A tract of interest as a piece of medical history. G- (Front cover has come off; moderate wea...

Medicinal Elixirs

Parke, Davis & Co · 1911 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Detroit, Michigan, Parke, Davis & Co, 1911. Softcover. Green wraps. 64 pp. 8 color plates. Includes formulas for medicinal elixirs and the conditions they are designed to treat. From back in the days when coca and heroin could be found in your doctor's prescrption. VG- (Some w...

Book of $2,000. 00 Prize Enigmas, 1883

H. H. Warner & Co · 1883 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Rochester, NY, H. H. Warner & Co, 1883. Softcover. Pinkish paper wraps, 32 pp. BW illus. A pamphlet that touts the virtues of H. H. Warner's Safe Kidney & Liver Cure, which treated Bright's disease; stones found in kidney and bladder; inflammation of the kidneys, liver and uri...

Medicine at the Courts of Europe, 1500-1837

Nutton, Vivian (editor) · 1990 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.42 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London and New York, Routledge, 1990. Hardcover. Black buckram, gilt letters on spine, reddish-brown decorated dust jacket, 301 pp. A collection of 9 essays on the subject. "Documents the diverse influences of custom, wealth, religion and royal intervention, along with foreign...

The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries

Sanchez, Gonzalo M. and Edmund S. Meltzer · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$300.00 (€272.20 | £227.09 | ¥47,906)

Atlanta, Georgia, Lockwood Press, 2012. Hardcover. Glossy grey/black boards with color image and red/putty lettering. 379 pp. with XVII color plates, 42 figure (mostly bw) and the manuscript reproduced in bw. "This volume contains the original hieratic text, complete transcrip...

Cheselden's Plates of the Human Bones, Correctly Reduced from the Original Copy, and Improved with Additional Figures; Accompanied with Concise Explanations for the Use of Students

Cheselden, William · 1816 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$195.00 (€176.93 | £147.61 | ¥31,139)

Edinburgh, T. Underwood (Printers), 1816. Hardcover. Card boards with brown paper/spine and small, white title block with black lettering. Small, approx. 4x7. 32 pp. plus 13 bw plates. Extremely clear illustrations from detailed engravings of all parts of the human skeleton, s...

Tabulae Anatomicae Qvas Ad Illustrandam Humani Corporis Fabricam (Tabularum Anatomicarum, Volumen II - Tab. XCI - CLXXXII)

Loder, Iustus Christianus · 1803 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$775.00 (€703.18 | £586.65 | ¥123,758)

Vimariae, Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1803. Hardcover. Marbled paper over boards; quarter leather with gilt on spine. Volume 2, complete. Mostly bw plates (numbered 91-182) of human anatomy, some with color contrast, and with several pages of addenda. Plates have been collated ...

Exhibition of the History of Indian Medicine and Its Spreas in Asia

n/a · 1966 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

New Delhi, International Academy of Indian Culture and Institute for the Advancement of Science and Culture, 1966. Softcover. Cream stapled wraps with small, bw image and black lettering. 16 pp. including covers, with 11 total images in bw. Images are of Asian (Indian, Indones...

Ciba Symposium, Vols. 1-11, April 1938 to Fall 1951

Various · 1951 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$600.00 (€544.40 | £454.18 | ¥95,812)

Summit, NJ, Ciba Pharmaceuticals, 1951. Softcover. Vols. 1-4: 42 separate booklets in tan library pamphlet file box. Vols. 5-6: bound together in blue library buckram with gold spine lettering. Vols. 7-9: 24 separate booklets in green card file box, open on one side. Vols. 10-...

Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani (3 Vols. )

Haller, Alberto v. [Albrecht von Haller] · 1761 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$625.00 (€567.08 | £473.10 | ¥99,805)

Lausanne, Switzerland, Marci-Michael Bousquet / Sigismundi D'Arnay, 1761. First. Hardcover. 3 vols. Smooth brown leather with gilt letters and decorations on spines, marbled flyleaves, 1489 pp. total, 3 BW plates. Text is in Latin. Title on spines: HALLER ELEMEN PHYSIOL. The f...

Survival in the Land of Dysentery: The World War II Experiences of a Red Cross Worker in India

van Hogendorp, Katharine Harris · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Fredericksburg, Va, Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society, 1998. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt letters, white & photographic dust jacket, 150 pp. BW illus. Foreword by Patrick F. Gilbo, Historian, The American Red Cross. The Baroness tells her story of serving for two...

The Faith Healers

Randi, James · 1987 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Buffalo, NY, Prometheus Books, 1987. Hardcover. Black leatherette, illus. dust jacket, 314 pp. 16 pp. of BW plates. Foreword by Carl Sagan. "Lays bare the pracrices of leading televangelists -- among them Peter Popoff, W. V. Grant, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts -- and other ...