The present work is one of the truly remarkable medical books of the nineteenth century and has long been among the principal desiderata for medical book collectors. Addison describes here for the first time two chronic diseases of the adrenal...
The book is arranged in ten chapters with each containing one hundred paragraphs. The subjects include medicine, botany, physiology, cooking, music, psychology, agriculture, architecture, and asthetics. Also included is a biography of Bacon written...
The first lecture is a criticism of some views by another famous surgeon of Bell's time, Sir Astley Paston Cooper. The second lecture is in support of his brother, John Bell, recently deceased, certain of whose findings had been claimed by Cooper...
The surgical techniques herein described are surprisingly modern. The illustrations, drawn by the author, are mostly colored and are exceptionally graphic and instructive.
More than sixty separate diseases and conditions are described, each accompanied by a lucid account of its history, causes, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment. Though the style is obviously dated, the descriptions of many of the diseases excel in...
The present work, often called "Vulgar errors," is an unusual and interesting work in which Browne attacks falsely-held traditions, superstitions, and folklore relating to the nature of plants, animals, and man.
First 4 leaves are frontispiece, t.p., coat of arms, and dedication leaf, all engraved. The text portion consists of [41] p. of letterpress, and [9] full-page engravings.
Although it was meant to be a second edition of the 1694 issue, the present work is an entirely new publication. Edited by Richard Mead, it has been greatly expanded and enlarged. It now contains more than sixty well-executed copperplates and a...
The thirteen books of descriptive text were taken almost entirely from Bauhin's Theatrum anatomicum. The illustrations are also from Bauhin's book and may be indirectly linked to Vesalius because Bauhin borrowed freely from many anatomists...
An English pharmacologist, Culpeper wrote a successful pharmacopoeia. His herbal, published in 1653, was used as the basis for many herbals during the next two centuries. This 19th c. edition, containing hundreds of colored illustrations of plants,...
What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin's On the origin of species was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds and the world-wide...
This work furnished the link between Hughlings Jackson and the later work on cerebral cortical localization by Sir Charles Sherrington and others at the turn of the century. This classic book summarizes the fundamental and startling new facts...