Anaphylatoxin and anaphylaxis
Chicago: Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1917. [499]-854pp. 246 x 175 mm. Library buckram, front hinge cracked. Good+. "Reprinted from the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 20, nos. 5 and 6, May and June, 1917, pp. 499-854.
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Versuche um auszumitteln, ob die Galle im Organismus eine für das Leben wesentliche Rolle spielt by Th. Schwann; & Neurologische Erlauterungen by R. Remak; In Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med
Berlin: Veit et Comp, 1844. (1) Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882). Versuche um auszumitteln, ob die Galle im Organismus eine für das Leben wesentliche Rolle spielt, 127-59. G.-M. 993. (1) Remak, Robert (1815-1865). Neurologische Erlauterungen, 463-72, pll.[12]. G.-M. 806. Whole volume, 526pp. 16 pll. (14 folding). 125 x 210mm. Contemporary half calf, rebacked. Moderate rubbing on spine. Library stamp on the title page. Bookplate on the front end paper. Very good. (1) Proof of the indispensability of bile to digestion. Garrison-Morton.com... Read More
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The bulletin of mathematical biophysics, volume 1, numbers 1-4
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1939. Contents of number 1: [1] Landahl, H.D. Mathematical biophysics of cell respiration, 1-17. [2] Weinberg, Alvin M. Note on biological periodicities, 19-22. [3] Rashevsky, N. The mechanism of cell division, 23-30. [4] Young, Gale. On the mechanics of viscous bodies and elongation in ellipsoidal cells, 31-46. [5] Rashevsky, N. Mathematical biophysics of the cell with reference to the contractility of tissues and amoeboid movements, 47-62. [6] Householder, A.S. Concerning Rashevsky's theory of... Read More
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Of the night-blindness or nyctalopia; On the Chicken Pox; & An Inquiry concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Davenshire. in Med. Trans. Coll. Phys. Lond., Volume 1
London: S. Baker & J. Dodsley, 1768. Second edition. [no.1] Heberden, William, Sr. (1710-1801). Of the night-blindness or nyctalopia, 60-63. [no.2] Heberden, William, Sr. (1710-1801). On the chickenox, 427-36. [no.3] Baker, Sir George (1722-1809). An Inquiry concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Davenshire, 175-256. Whole volume, xv, 474pp. 130x220mm. Library bookstamp and stamp of Arthur Jacob Bequest (1871) on the title-page. Disbound. Second edition. [no.1] A classic description of nyctalopia. Report of a single... Read More
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Virchow's Archive für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin., Volume 27 in three parts, with papers by Friedreich, Gerhardt, and Kühne
Berlin: G. Reimer, 1863. Whole volume in three parts. Volume 27 (second series, seventh volume), Issues 1-6. 135 x 220mm. each. Original green printed wrappers. Mostly uncut and unopened. Issues are bound together in pairs. Other than slightly soiled wrappers on the first and third journals, some minor foxing on the plates and end papers, all three comprise a very good set. Issues 1 + 2 : pp. 1-224, pll. i-vi. Issues 3 + 4 : 225-432, pll.... Read More
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The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi: A Facsimile Edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, With Critical Essays edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek. Fine copy in fine dust jacket
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
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Acta Crystallographica 8
Copenhagen, 1955. (1) Marsh, Richard E.; Corey, Robert B.; & Pauling, Linus. The crystal structure of silk fibroin, pp. 62. - The structure of Tussah silk fibroin. pp. 710-715. (2) Franklin, Rosalind E. & Gosling, R.G. Structure of sodium thymonucleate fibres. III. The three-dimensional Patterson function. pp. 151 (3) Perutz, M.F.; Trotter, I.F.; Howells, E.R.; & Green, D.W. An X-ray study of reduced human haemoglobin. pp 241-45. (4) Magdoff, Beatrice S. & Crick, F.H.C. Ribonuclease II. Accuracy of... Read More
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. For the year 1811 [Volume 101], part II
Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, a very good copy. [1], 209-397, [index, 6]pp.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1868. Vol. 158. - Part 1
London: Taylor & Francis, 1868. Whole volume, [adverts] iv, x, [1], 369pp.; 21 plates. (230 x 300 mm). Original light green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, top of spine is a little rubbed; mostly uncut & unopened. Potential papers of interest in Part 1: II. Computation of the lengths of the waves of light corresponding to the lines in the dispersion spectrum measured by Kirchhoff. By George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal. . . 29 III. An account... Read More
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Three papers in Philosophical Transactions, Volume 38
London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1735. (1) Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753). An account of symptoms arising from eating the seeds of Henbane, with their cure, and some occassional Remarks, 99-101. (2) Boerhaave, Hermanni (1668-1738). [Experiments on Mercury], 145-167. (3) Sloane, Sir Hans. Conjectures on the Charming or Fascinating Power attributed to the Rattle-Snake: grounded on credible Accounts, Experiments and Observations, 321-331. Whole volume, [1], 470, [7, index] pp., 5 pll. 150 x 200mm. Full calf... Read More
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The method of classifying races according to the cranial or cephalic index by Anders Retzius; and the discovery of the fundus by von Brücke; in Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med. (1845)
Berlin, 1845. (1) Retzius, Anders Adolf (1796-1860). Ueber die Schädelformen der Nordbewohner, 84-129. (2) Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von (1819-1892). Anatomische Untersuchungen über die sogenannten leuchtenden Augen bei den Wirbelthieren, 387-406. Whole volume, 535pp., 15 pll. 125 x 200mm. Disbound. (1) Retzius introduced the method of classifying races according to the cranial or cephalic index. The German translation of this paper (Om formen af nordboernes cranier. Förhandl. skand. Naturforsch., 3, 157-201, 1842) is featured here. Garrison-Morton.com No. 202. ... Read More
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Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelth-Century Spain (Studies in the Arcadian Library) Edited by Charles Burnett. Fine copy in Fine dust jacket
London: The Arcadian Library, 2008. The Arcadian Library manuscript, which is the subject of this book, provides a snapshot of the intercultural dialogue that was taking place in medieval Spain where Muslims, Jews, and Christians were all involved in studying and disseminating medical knowledge. The manuscript itself is of the master work of the early twelfth-century Jewish physician, Ibn Baklarish and was written in A.D. 1130. It provides unique information about the state of medicine in medieval Spain at... Read More
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Allergie et immunologie. Vol. 1 - Vol. 6. From the library of M. B. Sulzberger
1974. 6 vols. 235 x 152 mm. Quarter sheep, marbled boards, spines faded and worn. Suklzberger's name tooled in gilt on all volumes. Presentation card from Dr. Georges Halpern, editor-in-chief of the journal, laid into Vol. 1. Very good.
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The transistor: Selected reference material on characteristics and applications
New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1956. [8], 792pp. Text illustrations. 279 x 215 mm. Original printed boards. Library stamps on title and front endpapers. Contains 35 papers from an important Bell Labs symposium, including 4 papers authored or co-authored by William Shockley, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics with Bardeen and Brattain for their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Two papers in Philosophical Transactions, Volume 78
London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1781. (1) Hunter, William (1718-1783). Essay on a new Method of applying the Screw, 58-66, pll.[11]. (2) Cavello, Tiberius (1749-1809). An Account of some Thermometrical Experiments; Containing I. Experiments relating to the cold produced by the evaporation of various fluids, with a method of purifying ether.; II. Experiments relating to the expansion of Mercury.; III. Description of a thermometrical barometer, 511-525, pll.[27]. Disbound volume with some sections missing, vi, 1-114, 139-227,... Read More
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Two papers in Virchow's Arch. path. Anat., Volume 68
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1876. (1) Cohnheim, Julius (1839-1884). Erkrankungen des Knochenmarkes bei perniciöser Anämie, pp. 291-293. G.-M. 3125.1. (2) Friedreich, Nikolaus (1825-1882). Ueber Ataxie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der hereditären Formen, pp. 145-245. G.-M. 4696 Whole volume, 634pp. 15 pll. 135 x 220mm. Contemporary off-white wrappers with the journal name and volume stamped on the front. Book description and G-M. references tipped to inside front wrapper, mentioning that "This volume also contains valuable neurological works by E.v Leyden, H. Nothnagel,... Read More
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Topographies médicales. 3 vols. containing 45 theses
1866. Topographies Médicales. Collection of 45 medical theses on medical topography; contact us for complete listing. 3 volumes. 1803-66. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, slight edgewear. Minor foxing and toning but very good. Manuscript tables of contents in a 19th-century hand in each volume. Interesting and unusual collection of medical theses highlighting an important aspect of early and mid-nineteenth century public health. Incorporating studies of 45 distinct and varied places, this collection could be the basis of significant... Read More
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Four papers in the Lancet by Horsely, Reid, Fenwick & Bennett
London: John James Croft, 1884. [no.1] Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857-1916). A recent specimen of artificial myxoedema in a monkey, in Lancet, 2, 827, 1884. [no.2] Reid, Robert William (1851-1939). Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp, in Lancet, 2, 539-40., London, 1884. [no.3] Fenwick, Samuel (1821-1902). Clinical lectures on cases of difficult diagnosis; perforation of the appendic vermiformis, in Lancet, 2, 987-90,... Read More
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Proceedings of a Harvard symposium on digital computers and their applications
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. xvi, [2], 332pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket (chipped, a few small tears). First edition.
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The report of the Royal Commission; to investigate the facts relating to and the circumstnaces surrounding the communication, by public officials and other persons in positions of trust of secret and confidential information to agents of a foreign power
Ottowa: Edmond Cloutier, 1946. Original printed wrappers. Singed by Emilio Segre on the front wrapper. 733pp. (165 x 245 mm).
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XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia. Arte e scienza
Venezia: Electa Editrice, 1986. Very good copy in the original printed wrappers.
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Peripheral Nervous System. Collection of 13 offprints, pamphlets etc. from the library of Fred Mettler and Marcus Jacobson
1903. Peripheral Vertebrate Nervous System. Bound collection of 15 offprints / extracts in English, Italian and German, as listed below. 1876-1903. 295 x 236 mm. Library buckram; spine title reads "Peripheral Vert. Nerv. System." Minor toning and dust-soiling, a few edges frayed but very good. From the libraries of Fred A. Mettler (name tooled on spine) and Marcus Jacobson (bookplate). From the libraries of two medical writers: Fred Mettler was editor of History of Medicine: A Correlative... Read More
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Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger & Co, 1967.
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Physician's diary, weekly, semi-monthly and monthly journal
New York, 1900. Blank physician's ledger / diary from around the turn of the 20th century, in original half russia gilt, cloth boards, marbled edges. Mint condition. 272 x 213 mm.
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Lithograph Portrait by M. Gauci after P. W. Wilkins
by Abel, Clarke
244x186 mm. Slight soiling in margins.
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