B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is rubbing and biopredation to the covers which looks a lot like mottling. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and place on the front endpaper. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper in blue ink. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright, with the exception of generalized, noticeable foxing / spotting to the reverse of the dust jacket. "Between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries midwiferly passed from a female mystery, employing traditional medicines and superstitions, to a scientifically-based clinical skill, with both... View More...
Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some beginning fading / toning to the spine, along with a couple of small edge tears. "Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 ? November 11, 1938) , commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of up to 50. She was the first person in the U... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a large trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good glassine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers and a couple of spots of foxing as well. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and tears and some light wrinkling. "Salerno is, however, specially noted for the intellectual trend of life which it conducted at all times, and particularly during the Middle Ages, when the ... View More...
Full calf leather. This book is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in generally solid condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have wear, rubbing and bits missing. The front cover joint is going and the rear joint is in little better condition. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there is some light generalized foxing throughout. There is a penciled previous owner's name and date on the front pastedown page. The front endpaper and first free page have been roughly removed. (it does look better than it sounds) . " Co... View More...
Full calf leather. This book is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in generally solid condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have wear, rubbing and bits missing. The front cover joint is going and the rear joint is in little better condition. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there is some light generalized foxing throughout. There is an inked previous owner's name and date on the front pastedown page. The front endpaper and first free page have been roughly removed. (it does look better than it sounds) . " Coli... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some light creasing and edge wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one "small tear around the bottom staple. This series of plates, published by Johnson & Johnson in the leading surgical journals, is prepared in collaboration with the staff of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. "The surgeon who casually views or carefully studies these illustrations will realize that they are ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; Revised and Enlarged. This is a trade paperback book with cardstock coves and a side stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. The bottom front spine joint has a smallish edge tear. There are a couple of white spots of discoloration to the book covers. The text pages are generally clean, though there is tidemarking / foxing to all edges (mostly to the first several pages, including the front endpaper. The book covers, in general detail, dise... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. "Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds. The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encom... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. There is some beginning fraying to the spine ends as well. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The front and rear endpapers have a previous owner's name doodled on the edges several times. "Historically, physiology is one of the main foundations on which all the biological and medical sciences have been built. Recently, there have been intense deba... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the half title page. The dust jacket has several edge tears and chips missing. "Reed Miller Nesbit (October 8, 1898 ? August 1, 1979) was an American urologist, surgeon, and professor. He was Head of the Urology Section of the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1930?1967. Nesbit was a pioneer of trans... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and several small spots of fraying. The green cloth cover have several spots of discoloration and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean, though there is tidemarking to the bottom edges of all of the text pages. The front endpaper has an ink stamped previous owner's name, and there is a previous owner's bookplate (Wiekko M. Tienhaara) on the front pastedown page. "Lip reading, also known as speechreading, is a technique of understan... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and was most likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Includes contributions by: B. R. Alford, Ch. Beck, P. Bretlau, M. R. Dix, H. Eichner, J. Gleditsch, and more. "Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that causes episodes in which you feel as if you're spinning (vertigo) , and you have fluctuating hearing loss with a progressive, ultimately permanent loss of hearing, ringing in the ear (tinnitus) , and sometimes a feeling of fullness or press... View More...
This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The half title page and last text page have toning and foxing. View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The organization grew out of the surgical practice of Frank J. Weed (died 1891) at 16 Church Street on the near-west side of Cleveland. The practice was purchased by his two assistants, Frank E. Bunts and George Washington Crile. In 1892 they were joined by Crile's cousin, William E. Lower, and in 1897 the practice moved to the Osborn Bu... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a pamphlet style paperback with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have rubbing to the bottom spine and some light generalized toning. The text pages are clean and bright. "This may sound strange, for the majority of people imagine that there is a different and specific cause for every ailment, , and physicians generally do not combat the opinion. But as a matter of fact, there is only one disease, although its manifestations are various, and there is one cause for it, and that is ... View More...
This is a trade sized pamphlet with self covers and stapled spine. The spine joints (both front and rear) of the pamphlet covers have noticeable toning and some foxing. The corners and spine ends of the pamphlet covers have some very beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid-in is a typed letter from the A. Schweitzer Fellowship regarding this pamphlet, signed by Emory Ross, along with a trifold describing an exhibition at the Princeton University Library - called Albert Schweitzer the Bibliographical Approach. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1947, Larry Mellon, ins... View More...
Signed edition. This copy of the book has been signed, with an inscription by the author on the front endpaper. This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a side stapled spine. The book is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book cover has ground-in dirt, Tearing to the spine joints, small edge nicks, and general wear and tear. There is an inked price on the front cover of the book. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "The lectures include: Hahnemann and His Time, The Philosophy of Homeopathy, The Scope of Homeopathy, Life, Healt... View More...
