Medicine from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1959 4to (26 cm), mounted front. in color, XVI, 104 pp, 113 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). Between 1211 and 1220 Peter of Eboli wrote a poem in Latin on medical baths of Pozuoli, near Naples, which enjoyed great popularity in classical times. The poem achieved tremendous success and was… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc, 1991 2 volumes, 4to (28.5 cm), frontispiece, LXXX, 511 pp, 17 plates; XVI, pp. 513-1007 pp, 15 plates. Publisher's black and red cloth (edges slightly foxed, minor wear to extremities). Limited to 500 copies. The catalogue of the collection formed by a psychiatrist Haskell F. Norman from San Francisco, encompassing descriptions of 2,595… Read more about this item

London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1976 4to (30 cm), XVI, 565 pp. Publisher's clot, gilt-lettered spine (minor shelf-wear).

London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966 4to (30 cm), XI, 540 pp. Publisher's clot, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed).

London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962 4to (30 cm), XV, 408 pp. Publisher's clot, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed).

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1957 4 volumes 8vo (23 cm), front., XII, 256 pp,14 plates; XII, 332 pp, 17 plates; front., XII, 404 pp, 14 plates; front., XII, 300 pp, 12 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets (dj slightly toned and rubbed at extremities, bookplates tipped in front free endpapers, endpapers somewhat stained but overall a good copy).… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1986 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 288 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "In this book, Professor Carpenter surveys the long and fascinating history of the theories about the cause of this strange disease, and illustrates how the changing ideas about scurvy here reflected the central scientific and medical beliefs in each period. The History of Scurvy and… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: at the University Press, 1953 8vo (23 cm), front., XI, 440 pp, 4 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly dusted and rubbed at extremities, a bookplate and a leaf with notes tipped in front free endpaper).

Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1962 8vo (22 cm), XVI, 856 pp, 21 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (price clipped). "The advances made in the field of medicine in recent years have necessitated a complete revision of this work, first published thirty years ago; this has been done by Dr. Underwood with Professor Singer’s detailed approval and co-operation. This… Read more about this item

Grafton Books / Andre Deutsch, 1970 8vo (22 cm), 872 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, top edge painted red (minor shelf-wear). "This work provides in a convenient form a chronological bibliography of the most important contributions to the literature on medicine and its ancillary sciences. Annotations are added to explain the significance of individual contributions to the history and… Read more about this item

University of Texas Press, 1985 8vo (25 cm), 144 pp, 4 ff of plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Drawing on the wealth of medical illustration to be found in medieval manuscripts in the British Library and the library of the Wellcome Institute, London, Peter Murray Jones traces the history of medieval medicine, the artistic traditions that shaped… Read more about this item

John Libbey & Co Ltd, 1997 8vo (24 cm), XIII, 617 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers somewhat rubbed at extremities). "This book focuses in particular the latest information on 'Magnesium in Cardiology' which is surely the most attractive topic since controversial outcomes on the efficacy of intravenous magnesium application in acute myocardial infraction resulted from the clinical mega-trials LIMIT-2 and ISIS-4.… Read more about this item

River Publishers, 2018 8vo (24 cm), XXXV, 467 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. "Chlamydiae are a group of obligate intracellular microorganisms with a homogeneous group-specific antigenic structure, and a unique mode of development. The infections caused by them are unprecedented and wide-spread throughout the world, including a broad range of hosts among domestic and animal species and humans, and a variety… Read more about this item

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 2018 8vo (23.5 cm), 406 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. "Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) has been used since the inception of radiation treatment, but its usage became routine with the development of gantry-mounted cone-beam CT systems in the early 21st century. IGRT is now the norm in the clinics equipped with modern radiation therapy… Read more about this item

Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences, 2017 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 89 pp. Laminated wrappers. Synopsis: Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Variability in pathogenesis and complex pathophysiology often delay diagnosis and create significant challenges for clinical studies in this group of critically ill patients. Mainly for those reasons, there is no therapy… Read more about this item

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2016 8vo (25 cm), XI, 77 pp. Laminated wrappers. Synopsis: This book provides detailed and current information on using fullerenes (bucky-balls) in photodynamic therapy (PDT), one of the most actively studied applications of photonic science in healthcare. This will serve as a useful source for researchers working in photomedicine and nanomedicine, especially those who are investigating… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Thomas-Scheler, 1990 8vo (21 cm), 32 pp. Laminated wrappers. Catalogue Nouvelle série No. 14. 4 items.

Amsterdam: Janssonius van Waesberghe, 1681 In-16, [8], 503 pp. Contemporary Dutch vellum with yapp edges (binding slightly stained, paper browned at the beginning). This medical bibliography, compiled by the foremost bibliographer of the 17th century, contains works published from 1651 to 1681. It includes about 2000 writers (4000 titles according to Besterman), arranged alphabetically by the last name of the… Read more about this item

Rowman and Littlefield, 1971 12mo (19.5 cm), XIV, 409 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly stained, bookplate). The fourth edition of Theodore Besterman's "A World Bibliography of Bibliographies" was published in 1965-66. It's a monumental edition which contains 6664 columns. Rowman and Littlefield in 18 separate publications gathered all the titles in some of the major fields. The… Read more about this item

Maurizio Martino, 1998 4to (28 cm), XI, 140 pp, 16 plates. Publisher's cloth. A facsimile reprint of 1923 edition of a study of the earliest printed medical books. Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press. 214 items described in the catalogue.