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  • - With a View to Establish, on Practical Grounds, a System of Rules, for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases Incident to a Disordered State of the Digestive Functions
    av John Ayrton Paris
    478,-

    The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856) published this work on the significance of diet to health in 1826. After describing the physiology of the alimentary system and discussing the benefits and disadvantages of various foods and drinks, Paris suggests cures, including changes of lifestyle, for digestive illnesses.

  • - Being an Exact Outline of the Arguments ... Respecting Cow-Pox Inoculation
    av William Blair
    294,-

    Smallpox was once a common disease ruining the lives of many people across Britain. In this 1806 pamphlet, English surgeon William Blair (1766-1822) challenges the opponents of the first effective vaccine against smallpox. His publication, aimed at a broad audience, also includes a report from the Royal Jennerian Society.

  • - With Remarks and Observations on This Disease, Considered as a Substitute for the Smallpox
    av William Woodville
    309,-

    When Jenner announced his experiments with vaccination against smallpox, William Woodville pursued similar trials, and in 1799 published the results: 200 cases where patients were vaccinated with matter obtained from cows or other cowpox sufferers. This demonstration of the safety and efficacy of vaccination led to its much wider adoption.

  • - An Inquiry into their Connection and Mutual Influence, Specially in Reference to Mental Disorders
    av Henry Maudsley
    325,-

    Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) practised psychiatry in London. He developed ideas of heredity derived from Darwin, aiming to 'bring man, both in his physical and mental relations, as much as possible within the scope of scientific enquiry'. Body and Mind contains his 1870 Gulstonian lectures and two earlier articles.

  • - And of the Introduction, Success, and Final Triumph of the Non-Restraint System
    av Robert Gardiner Hill
    416,-

    In this 1857 work, Robert Gardiner Hill describes his and Edward Charlesworth's reforms at the Lincoln Asylum, and attempts to refute the claim of the more famous John Conolly to primacy in abolishing restraints. Hill also reprints examples from the pamphlet war that arose out of this controversial topic.

  • - 1836-1917
    av Louisa Garrett Anderson
    461,-

    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), physician, feminist and champion of women's medical education, played a key role in advancing the position of women in British professional life. This 1939 biography by her daughter Louisa, herself a distinguished physician, is presented largely through Elizabeth's own letters.

  • - With a Goodlye Doctrine and Instruction, Necessarye to Be Marked and Followed, of All True Chirurgiens
    av John Hall
    340,-

    The surgeon John Hall, born 1529/30, published this work in 1565 as an appendix to his translation of a thirteenth-century surgical work. Hall was vociferously opposed to fraudulent medicine, and this work, edited by surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) and published in 1844, describes his struggles against quacks.

  • - Containing an Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of that Disease
    av James Lind
    670,-

    First published in 1753, this important treatise seeks to provide a thorough account of the nature, causes and treatment of scurvy. James Lind (1716-94) provided the groundwork for later investigations, and his research lent support to the later practice of including the juice of citrus fruit in a sailor's diet.

  • - And of First Help in Sickness and When Wounded
    av Charles Alexander Gordon
    370,-

    This joint reissue comprises two texts on military healthcare, providing instruction on the treatment of wounds and injuries common to soldiers, and advising on topics from malaria to drunkeness. Charles Gordon's 1873 manual precedes A Guide to Health for the Use of Soldiers by R. C. Eaton, first published in 1890.

  • av Jonathan Pereira
    838,-

    Jonathan Pereira (1804-53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.

  • av Jonathan Pereira
    945,-

    Jonathan Pereira (1804-53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.

  • - Ou, cours d'histoire naturelle professe a l'Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris
    av Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt
    548,-

    Reissued in the enlarged four-volume fourth edition of 1849-51, this work remains a landmark publication. The French pharmacist Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt (1790-1867) had revised and augmented the work since 1820. Illustrated throughout, it describes the pharmaceutical properties of mineral, plant and animal substances.

  • - Ou, cours d'histoire naturelle professe a l'Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris
    av Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt
    822,-

    Reissued in the enlarged four-volume fourth edition of 1849-51, this work remains a landmark publication. The French pharmacist Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt (1790-1867) had revised and augmented the work since 1820. Illustrated throughout, it describes the pharmaceutical properties of mineral, plant and animal substances.

  • - Ou, cours d'histoire naturelle professe a l'Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris
    av Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt
    644,-

    Reissued in the enlarged four-volume fourth edition of 1849-51, this work remains a landmark publication. The French pharmacist Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt (1790-1867) had revised and augmented the work since 1820. Illustrated throughout, it describes the pharmaceutical properties of mineral, plant and animal substances.

  • - Ou, cours d'histoire naturelle professe a l'Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris
    av Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt
    741,-

    Reissued in the enlarged four-volume fourth edition of 1849-51, this work remains a landmark publication. The French pharmacist Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gaston Guibourt (1790-1867) had revised and augmented the work since 1820. Illustrated throughout, it describes the pharmaceutical properties of mineral, plant and animal substances.

  • - Faites a la Salpetriere
    av Jean-Martin Charcot
    537 - 622,-

    Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-93) was one of the founders of modern neurology. Detailed analysis of symptoms combined with post-mortem analyses enabled him to produce classic descriptions of different neurological disorders. These lectures, based on Charcot's work at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, were first published in Paris in 1872-3 and 1877.

  • - To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence
    av Thomas Percival
    578,-

    A physician and medical reformer, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the formulation of medical ethics. This four-volume collection, published in 1807, gathers together his diverse works. A selection of his correspondence and a short biography are also included.

  • - To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence
    av Thomas Percival
    670,-

    A physician and medical reformer, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the formulation of medical ethics. This four-volume collection, published in 1807, gathers together his diverse works. A selection of his correspondence and a short biography are also included.

  • - To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence
    av Thomas Percival
    670,-

    A physician and medical reformer, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the formulation of medical ethics. This four-volume collection, published in 1807, gathers together his diverse works. A selection of his correspondence and a short biography are also included.

  • - To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence
    av Thomas Percival
    746,-

    A physician and medical reformer, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the formulation of medical ethics. This four-volume collection, published in 1807, gathers together his diverse works. A selection of his correspondence and a short biography are also included.

  • - With Illustrations of his Doctrines, and Selections from his Correspondence
    av John Baron
    672 - 741,-

    Written by his friend, the physician John Baron (1786-1851), this laudatory two-volume biography of Edward Jenner (1749-1823) appeared between 1827 and 1838. It illuminates Jenner's professional and personal life by drawing heavily on his correspondence, providing also a thorough explanation of the facts of vaccination.

  • - To Which Are Added, Observations on the Bilious Remittent Fever, on Intermittents, Dysentery, and Some Other West India Diseases
    av James Clark
    330,-

    James Clark (c.1737-1819) was a British physician who practised medicine on the Caribbean island of Dominica for many years. In 1793 there was a deadly and widespread outbreak of yellow fever. Clark published this account in 1797, discussing the disease's possible causes and treatments.

  • - With Notes
    av John Hunter
    355,-

    This five-volume collection of the writings of the distinguished surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728-93), edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley, was published between 1835 and 1837. Volume 5 contains the plates which accompany the works in the other volumes, with notes.

  • - With Notes
    av John Hunter
    561 - 700,-

    This five-volume collection of the writings of the distinguished surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728-93), edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley, was published between 1835 and 1837. Volume 3 discusses blood and the vascular system, wounds (especially those suffered in war), and infection.

  • - Naturalist, and Discoverer of Vaccination
    av F. Dawtry Drewitt
    355,-

    Eminent scientist Frederick Dawtrey Drewitt (1848-1942) had general readers in mind when he retraced the steps that led to the growing worldwide recognition of the 'father of immunology', Edward Jenner (1749-1823). The first edition was published in 1931 and this enlarged second edition appeared in 1933.

  • - Being a Review of Captain Tulloch's Statistical Report
    av Sir Andrew Halliday
    309,-

    This 1839 pamphlet by Sir Andrew Halliday on the poor state of health of the British Army in the West Indies argues that many lives could be saved if the local knowledge and advice of experienced medical authorities was given greater consideration by the military.

  • - Dealing with the Historical, Epidemiological, Clinical, Therapeutic and Preventive Aspects of the Disease
    av W. J. Simpson
    622,-

    A comprehensive 1905 study of the bubonic plague, charting its 3000-year history, its spread across the world and its devastating effect on human populations. The book includes clinical data on the causes of the disease, its effects on the human body, its transmission, and its diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

  • - From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932
    av Cyril Elgood
    685,-

    Drawing upon extensive source material, this 1951 publication details the history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia (Iran), from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Packed with medical curiosities and interesting facts, the book outlines the important part played by Persia in the history of medicine.

  • av John Conolly
    517,-

    Published in 1856, this work by John Conolly (1794-1866) describes the abolition of mechanical restraints in the treatment of mentally ill patients at the Hanwell County Asylum in Middlesex, arguing for a system of non-restraint to be introduced to all asylums. It is a key text of asylum reform.

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