Sales catalogue 117: Davis & Orioli

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/24

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 117: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 ST. MARTIN’S STREET, MEDICINE—continued. 346 Richardson (Sir Benjamin Ward) Diseases of Modern. Life. London, 1876 18s 8vo. Cloth. 520 pp. Contains much on nervous diseases, diseases from tobacco, alcohol, impurity of air, errors of dress, occupational diseases, etc., etc. 347 Richardson (Sir Benjamin Ward) The Field of Disease. A Book of Preventive Medicine. London, 1883 21s Thick 8vo. Cloth. 1014 pp. 348 Richardson (Sir Benjamin Ward) Vita Medica: Chapters of Medical Life and Work. London, 1897 21s 8vo. Cloth. 495 pp. Partly autobiographical, partly on medical subjects, anaesthesia, nervous system, on the blood, etc., etc. 349 Robertson (John) The Generative System of John Robertson. By Thomas Little, Esq. The Fifth Edition, Enlarged, with Kighteen Plates. London, J. J. Stockdale, 1824 15s 8vo. 548 pp. Original boards (joints cracked and backstrip defective). Portrait and plates. 350 Roboretus (Octavianus) De Peticulari “bre Tridenti anno 1591 publice vagante deque Vesicatoriorum in ea _ potissimum usu, Tractatus . . . in quibus de Putredine, de Contagio, de Sanguinis missione pertrac- tantur. Trient, J. Baptista Gelminus, 1592 £4 10s 4to. Limp vellum. 8 Il., 423 pp., 12 ll. - A very rare book, printed in Trient in the Austrian Tyrol, describing a local outbreak of the epidemic there in 1591 with rules for its prevention, diagnosis and history. Slight stains on first few pages. 351 Rollesten (Sir Humphry, M.D.) Associa- tions between Medicine and Literature: The .Lloyd Robert’s Lecture... 1933. London, Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1933 6s _ 8vo. 36 pp. Original wrappers. 352 Roth (M., M.D.). The Prevention and Cure of many chronic diseases by- move- ments. London, 1851 258 8vo. Or. cloth. 302 pp. Many illustrations. One of the earliest books on osteopathy. 353 Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Statistical Tables of the: Being an Appendix to the Report of the Managers, for the year 1842. Compiled by Thomas Bevill Peacock, M.D. Edinburgh, Neill and Company, 1843 7s 6d 8vo. 23 pp. Unbound. 354 Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, Annual Report by the Managers of the, for the year 1840. Edinburgh, Andrew. Shortrede, 184l. [With Report for 1841, and List of Subscriptions | 10s 6d 8vo. 14, 16,8 pp. Unbound. 355 Russel (Richard, M.D.) A Dissertation on the Use of Sea-Water in the Diseases of the Glands, particularly the Scurvy, Jaundice, King’s Evil, Leprosy, and the Glandular Consumption. Translated from the Latin, by an Eminent Physician. London, W. Owen, and R. Goadby, 1752 Tall 12mo. 204 pp. Half calf. Frontispiece. It is to Dr. Russell that Brighton owes its early and lasting fame. 356 Russell (William) A Physical Treatise gounded not upon tradition nor phancy, but experience, consisting of three parts: CABLE ADDRESS: an I., A manuduction discovering the true foundation of the art of medicine ; If., an explanation of the general natures of diseases ; II!l., a proof of the former posi- tions by practice. London, J. Williams, 1684 £5 53 8vo. Old calf, rebacked. 7 Il. (the first blank missing), 179 pp., 6 Il The author is described as Chemist in Ordinary to the Queen. } Very rare: 357 Ryan (Michael) The Philosophy of Mar- riage, in its social, moral and physical rela- tions, with an account of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs. ... London, 1837 10s 6d 8vo. Cloth. 364 pp. 358 Sangiorgio (Paolo) La Farmacia descritta secondo i Moderni Principi di Lavoister. Milano, 1805 Sold 3 vols. 8vo. Half calf. A frontispiece showing the interior of a pharmacy and 2 plates. 359 Searification——Mannus (Jo. Jac.) De malleolorum scarficatione ex veterum sen- tentia, ad Hieronymum Fabricium ... protitentem. Padua, Meietus, 1583 35s 4to. New boards. 18 leaves. Printer’s device on title and at end. A rare pamphlet on scarification, in form of a letter from _a physician at Cyprus to the great anatomist Fabricius. 360 Servetus.—In Leonardum Fuchsium Apo- logia autore Michaele Villanovano. 1536 21s 8vo. Boards. Facsimile reprint of the copy in the Dr. Williams Library. 361 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Works. Vol. 1: Selected Obstetrical and Gynaecological — Works. Midwifery, edited by J. Watt Black. Vol. 2: Anaesthesia, Hospitalism, Hermaphrodotism and a proposal to stamp out Small-Pox and other contagious di- seases, edited by Sir W. G. Simpson. Vol. 3: Clinical Lectures. on the Diseases of Women, edited by Alexander R. Simpson. Kdinburgh, 1871 £2 10s 8vo. 3vols. Original cloth. 362 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Answer to the Religious Objections Advanced . against the Employment of Anaesthetic Agents in Midwifery and Surgery. Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1847 £4 4s 8vo. 23 pp. New boards & cloth back. Very rare. 363 Simpson (Sir James Y.).—Duns (J.) Memoir of Sir James Y. Simpson. [Edin- burgh, 1873 — 21s 8vo. Original cloth, binding worn. Portrait. With a two page autograph letter by Sir J. Simpson inserted. 364 Simpson (Sir James Y.).—Duns_ (J.) Memoir of Sir James Y. Simpson. Edin- burgh, 1873 15s 544 pp. With portrait. 365 Spailanzani (Gio. Battista) Sulla Nuova Dottrina Medica Italiana. Teste sviluppata dal Signor Prof. Giac. Tommasini Lettere Medico Critiche del Dr. Gio. alts Spallan- zani. Reggio, 1818 21s 8vo. Orig. paper wrappers. 2 vols. thieag copy. A criticism of Tommasini, the well known Italian doctor, who was a witngss in the trial of Queen Caroline, and who had published a new system of medicine which created great inferest at the period. 8vo. Half calf.

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