Search Results: Medicine from Old Saratoga Books

[NY]: Bellevue Training School for Nurses. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front endpapers . smudged.. [1923]. Hardcover. Slate blue cloth. Many wonderful historic photos of nurses, hospital wards, ambulances, graduation groups, and even a circus visit complete with elephant. History of the famed Bellevue Training School for Nurses attached to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Binghamton, NY: Dr. Kilmer and Co.. Good; Pages toned and chipped at edges.. 1926. Softcover. Color illustrated stapled wraps with hole and string in top right corner. Promotional patent medicine almanac touting Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root elixir. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374102570 . Gray cloth binding. Sontag's classic essay about the sociology of AIDS, published as an extension of her thoughts about the stigma of illness originally expounded in her book Illness as Metaphor. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 95 pages .

NY: A. S. Barnes and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, corners rounded, . bookstore stamp on front pastedown, pages toned and soiled.. 1884. Hardcover. Decorated olive cloth. A revised and abridged edition of Steele's Fourteen Weeks in Human Physiology with revisions made to reflect text about alcohol and narcotics to reflect mandates from recent temperance legislation. Many color plates showing skeletal, muscular, and other human anatomical systems, and many other black and white illustrations. ; Steele's Sciences; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions. Very Good; Faint rubbing to boards.. 1979. Reprint. Leather. A facsimile reprint of the 1785 edition of this medical classic. Bound in burgundy leather with gold design stamped on boards and spine. Three raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbleized endpapers. Ribbon marker. Classics of Medicine booklet laid in. xx, 207pp. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Baltimore, MD: The Williams and Wilkin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner name stamp on page tops, inscription . on front free endpaper.. 1942. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Maroon cloth. xii, 288pp. Foreword, black and white photos and illustrations, color illustrations, notes, tables, and indexes. World War II medical instructional focused on neurological, psychiatric, social, and surgical issues. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge weak, pages foxes, fold out . table of recorded chloroform deaths has a 1 inch tear.. 1885. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown pebbled cloth. 75pp appendix, + 12pp publisher catalog. Black and white illustrations, figures, tables, fold-out table, notes, index, and appendix. Includes sections on ether, chloroform, alcohol, nitrous oxide, hydrochlorate of cocaine, and etherization by the rectum. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages .

Albany, NY: Albany Medical Center / New Art Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on half-title, jacket . lightly worn.. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0912809000 . Signed by the author on the title page. Red cloth. xxv, 458pp. Endpaper photograph, short author bio, acknowledgement, black and white photos, black and white illustrations, appendices, and index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Shaken, boards worn and sunned, owner name on front flyleaf, front hinge cracked and front free endpaper detached.. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. 751pp + 16pp of publishers ads. 983 engravings. A textbook for dentists involved in making dental plates, dentures, and other dental appliances. Lots of metallurgical information about melting silver and gold, operation of lathes, aluminum, carving block teeth, English tube teeth (early implants of platinum). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Warmly inscribed by the physician author on the front free endpaper. Many illustrations, photos, and xrays. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages .

NY: D. Appleton & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and soiled, endpapers foxed.. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with titles in gilt on spine. xxvii, 504pp. Many engravings, photos, and other illustrations. Index. A comprehensive manual for World War I Army Dentists developed from the lecture courses at the Cambridge, Massachusetts Forsyth Dental Infirmary (now The Forsyth Institute). Foreword by Robert E. Noble and W. S. Braisted. Includes surgical and medical treatment of maxillary fractures, tooth extraction, anaesthesia, military x-ray techniques, venereal diseases and their effects on the mouth, and military dental laws, among other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1942. Later Printing. Hardcover. xi, 273pp. Green cloth. The author relates his research and personal experiences in improving his terrible eyesight in this collection of essays and feels that opthamologists rely too much on physiology and not enough on the processing of visual information by the brain in treating vision problems.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and lightly . scuffed.. 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0670826464 . Index, glossary, notes, illustrations. The wife of Sir Reid's grandson relates a detailed biography of Queen Victoria's medical doctor and confidante. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages .

Kirksville, MO: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, edges foxed, owner name on . flyleaf, rear hinge slightly torn and weak.. 1897. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt titles and spine illustration. Floral endpapers. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Still with tissue guard, definitions page, black and white and color illustrations, and black and white photos. A beautiful first edition of the autobiography of the noted physician, founder of osteopathy, inventor, politician, and Civil War soldier. Title continued: Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy; and Lectures Delivered Before that Institution from Time to Time during the Progress of Discovery. Morton, L. T. Morton's Medical Bibliography 6954. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner names on front pastedown endpaper, . boards lightly worn, corners bumped.. 1928. Later Edition. Hardcover. Reprint of 1915 edition by the publisher for the National Tuberculosis Foundation. Frontispiece photograph of Dr. Trudeau. Brown cloth embossed with Tuberculosis symbol on front boards. Describes Trudeau's pioneering efforts in the treatment of tuberculosis in his sanitarium at Saranac Lake, New York. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages .

Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows. Good with no dust jacket; Spine faded, boards rubbed, "State Normal School, Farmington, ME" stamped on front endpapers.. 1913. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in gilt. vi, 200pp, index. An antiquarian medical volume about infant care and feeding, including chapters on lactation, newborns, older infants, sleep, bathing, infantile ailments, post-birth convalescence, foods, etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Chicago: Raintree. Very Good. 2006. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1410925447 . Black and white and color photos, glossary, and index. A beautiful copy of this science instructional for kids. A volume in the A Painful History of Medicine series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages .

Norwich, NY: Eaton Laboratories. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1966. Hardcover. A promotional book from Eaton Laboratories given to medical professionals. A compendium of color cartoons by Robert Weber illustrating gags and humorous anecdotes about medical patients. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages .

Worcester, MA: Saint Vincent Celebration Committee. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn, page tops foxed.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0963627732 . xviii, 334pp. Index, photos. Gray cloth titled in gilt. A history of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Tacoma and Seattle: Shaw Supply Co, Inc. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, lower corners bumped.. 1947. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with photos and illustrations. Ex-Library of Congress copy. Great vintage reference for surgical supplies, including operating tables, hospital beds, supply cabinets, stretchers, sterilizers, x-ray units, anesthesia accessories, wheelchairs, syringes, forceps, retractors, bone instruments, etc. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 444 pages .