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Small 8vo. [3 pp.] BOUND WITH 23 OFFPRINTS AND OTHER FORMATS. 8vo. All bound together in one volume. Later quarter red morocco, gilt-stamped spine, raised bands, marbled paper over boards; head of spine replaced with red kozo. Foot of spine reads "REMONDINO" spine label reads "MEDICAL / HISTORIES". Bookplate of the San Diego County Medical Society Library (now defunct). All Peter Charles Remondino papers are scarce, some are rare. Remondino gained an international reputation for promoting the health benefits of sunny southern California. Remondino was a very early resident of San Diego. In all my years of bookselling, the Remondino group owned by George Kaplan was the finest I have seen. An inventory of the titles: [1] Determined Suicides. [3 pp.] / [2] Phymosis and the prepuce or a plea for circumcision. [pp.101-118] / [3] The marine climate of the Southern California coast and its relations to phthisis. [pp. 5-58] / [4] Longevity and Climate. Relations of climatic conditions to longevity, history, and religion: relations of climate to national and personal habits: the climate of California and its effects in relation to longevity. San Francisco: Woodward, 1890. Read before the Medical Society of the state of California, at Los Angeles, April 17, 1890. [44 pp.] / [5] Reflections on the Military and medical lessons taught by the late Madagascar campaign. Medical Age, Jan. 25, 1896. [16 pp.] / [6] The evolution of relic worship - a page from the history of medicine. Detroit, 1895. [11 pp.] / [7] A page from the history of ancient medicine. Medical Age, Oct. 25, 1895. [8 pp.] / [8] Empyema pulmonary abscess. Chicago: Printed at the Office of the Association, 1890. [7 pp.] / [9] History of the evolutionary processes that led to the discovery of the circulation of the blood by William Harvey. Reprinted from the Philadelphia Monthly Medical Journal, Nov. 1899. [27 pp.] / [10] A study in retrospective therapeutics: the evolutionary processes through which have traveled transfusion, infusion, subcutaneous injection, enteroclysis, peritoneoclysis, and cystoclysis in the treatment of Asiatic cholera, from 1830 to 1895. Reprinted from the Philadelphia Monthly Medical Journal, Dec. 1899. [57 pp.] / [11] Ventilation and Impure Air as prophylactic or causative of disease. Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1891. [25 pp.] / [12] Some heads of Napoleon. San Francisco: Californian, 1892. [pp. 16-32]. Extract. / [13] The study of Inebriety, and its proper prosecution. Boston: Journal of Inebriety, Jan. 1902. [20 pp.] / [14] Some observations on continence as a factor in health and disease. Reprinted from Pacific Medical Journal, January, 1900. [37 pp.] / [15] Some observations on the history, psychology and therapeutics of impotence. Reprint from the American Journal of Dermatology, November, 1899. [16 pp.] / [16] Imperative Need of Strict Sanitary Regulations against the spread of consumption in Southern California. Sacramento: A.J. Johnston, Superintendent State Printing, 1896. [9 pp.] / [17] Certificates of death. San Diego County Medical Society, April 7, 1893. [8 pp.] / [18] An interesting and instructive case of uraemia, combining coma and mania, with marked local toxaemic manifestations. Reprinted from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, October, 1891. [8 pp.] / [19] The climate of Southern California in its relation to renal diseases. Reprinted from Southern California Practitioner, 1889. [21 pp.] / [20/15] Some observations on the history, psychology and therapeutics of impotence. Reprinted from the Pacific Medical Journal, Sept. 1899. [20 pp.] Cover corner clipped. / [21/20] Some observations on dyspepsia. Reprinted from the Southern California Practitioner, 1890-91. [18 pp.] / [22/21] Report of the committee on the suppression of inebriety. [San Diego?, 1896?]. [pp. 101-122] / [23] Pancreatic cysts. Reprint from The Los Angeles Polyclinic, October, 1895. [7 pp.].
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