Brieger Gert Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fne-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 338pp. Owner's name blacked-out on endpaper. Slight dampstain to bottom of dust jacket spine, very faintly affecting binding, but not pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Clean and crisp, with no markings and no signs of prior use. The covers bow out a bit, as one often sees. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 350 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. orange binding, bright gilt lettering on front and spine, contents are 7 essays by 3 authors - 4 by the editor, 1. Teaching the Two Faces of Medical History, 2. Reference Works Related to USA Surgical History, 3. A Chronologic Bibliography of American Textbooks, Monographs, and Treatises Relating to the Surgical Sciences, 1775-1899, 4. American Surgical Biographies, 5.A Portrait of Surgery: Surgery in America 1874-1889; 6. A History of Surgical Clinics of North Amereica, 7. The Surgical Clinics During the 1920's, vi.[ & 1121 -1350 pages including a Cumulative Index for 1987.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [Signed/inscribed by Editor: Gert H. Brieger, on title page] Softcover. Minimal shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Inscribed by author. Signed.

Hardcover. Black cloth, black & white illus. dust jacket, 338 pp. A selection of "papers that illustrate the issues and developments in medical education, medical practice, surgery, hospitals, hygiene, and psychiatry." Included are remarks by Daniel Drake, Andrew Boardman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, F. Campbell Stewart, Edwin L. Godkin, Benjamin Rush, Jacob Bigelow, Nathaniel Chapman, Elisha Bartlett, Nathan S. Davis, Austin Flint, Edouard Seguin, Francis Delafield, Ephraim McDowell, Henry J. Bigelow, Edmund Andrews, John Eric Erichsen, Samuel D. Gross, Robert F. Weir, Stephen Smith, Pliny Earle, S. Weir Mitchell, John Jones, W. H. Rideing, Robert Tomes, Stephen Smith, Frederick A. P. Barnard, Dorman B. Eaton, and John Shaw Billings. VG- (dj corner clipped, light foxing on page edges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 143 pages. 10.25x7.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [A massive 73 volume set of incredibly important medical and scientific material.] Tipped in signature of Owsei Temkin. Interesting provenance, previously owned by Arthur Earl Walker, and later by Owen and Caroline Hannaway. Printed 1933-2017. Mixed set with mostly hardcovers. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Bookplate of A.E. Walker inside many volumes. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: Vol. I, 1933; Vol. II, 1934; Vol. III, 1935; Vol. IV, 1936; Vol. V, 1937; Vol. VI, 1938; Vol. VII, 1939; Vol. VIII, 1940; Vol. IX, 1941; Vol. X, 1941; Vol. XI, 1942; Vol. XII, 1942; Vol. XIII, 1943; Vol. XIV, 1943; Vol. XV, 1944; Vol. XVI, 1944; Vol. XVII, 1945; Vol. XVIII, 1945; Vol. XIX, 1946; Vol. XX, 1946; Vol. XXI, 1947;Vol. XXII, 1948; Vol. XXIII, 1949; Vol. XXIV, 1950; Vol. XXV, 1951; Vol. XXVI, 1952; Vol. XXVII, 1953; Vol. XXVIII, 1954; Vol. XXIX, 1955; Vol. XXX, 1956; Vol. XXXI, 1957; Vol. XXXII, 1958; Vol. XXXIII, 1959; Vol. XXXIV, 1960; Vol. XXXV, 1961; Vol. XXXVI, 1962; Vol. XXXVII, 1963; Vol. XXXVIII, 1964; Vol. XXXIX, 1965; Vol. XL, 1966; Vol. XLII, 1968; Vol. XLIII, 1969; Vol. XLIV; 1970; Vol. XLV, 1971; Vol. 46, 1972; Vol. 47, 1973; Vol. 48, 1974; Vol. 49, 1975; Vol. 50, 1976; Vol. 51, 1977; Vol. 52, 1978; Vol. 67, No. 3, Fall 1993; Vol. 69, No. 3, Fall 1995; Vol. 71, No. 4, Winter 1997; Vol. 72, No. 1, Spring 1998; Vol. 76, No. 2, Summer 2002; Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 2008; Vol. 82, No. 3, Fall 2008; Vol. 84, No. 1, Spring 2010; Vol. 84, No. 3, Fall 2010; Vol. 85, No. 2, Summer 2011; Vol. 86, No. 1, Spring 2012; Vol. 86, No. 3, Fall 2012; Vol. 86, No. 4, Winter 2012; Vol. 87, No. 2, Summer 2013; Vol. 89, No. 1, Spring 2015; Vol. 91, No. 2, Summer 2017; Index to Volumes I-XX 1933-1946; Index to Volumes XXI-XXXVI 1947-1962; Index to Volumes and Supplements 1933-1982; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. XIII, No. 3, Jul. 1958; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. XIII, No. 4, Oct. 1958; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Index I-XXX 1946-1975. Interesting essays in this collection include: Medical Practice Among the Somalis by Leon Brotmacher; Medicine and Graeco-Arabic Alchemy by Owsei Temkin; Stomach and Psyche: Eating, Digestion, and Mental Illness in the Medicine of Philippe Pinel by Elizabeth W. Williams; The Beauty of Anatomy: Visual Displays and Surgical Education in Early Nineteenth Century London by Carin Berkowitz; On Anecdote and Antidotes: Poison Trials in Sixteenth Century Europe by Alisha Rankin; The Scientific Personality of Galileo by Leonardo Olschki; Primitive Medicine and Culture Patterns by Erwin H. Ackerknecht; James Rush, Pioneer in American Psychology, 1786-1869 by Stephen G. Kurtz; Milton's Gout by Edward A. Block; Cultures of Death and Politics of Corpse Supply: Anatomy in Vienna, 1848-1914 by Tatjana Buklijas; Aphasia Studies and Language Theory in the Nineteenth Century by Otto M. Marx; Cortisone and the Politics of Empire: Imperialism and British Medicine 1918-1955 by David Cantor; The Campaign for Medical Microscopy in Antebellum America by Deborah Jean Warner; When Ice Cream Was Poisonous: Adulteration, Ptomaines, and Bacteriology in the United States, 1850-1910 by Edward Geist; A View from the Streets: Women and Medical Work in Elizabethan London by Deborah E. Harkness; Blood and Expertise: The Trials of the Female Medical Expert in the Ancien-Regime Courtroom by Cathy McClive; Amatus Lusitanus and the Obturator in Cleft Palates by Joshua O. Leibowitz; Early History of Pulmonary Surgery by Horace Herbsman; Development and Use of the Rubber Glove in Surgery and Gynecology by Curt Proskauer; The Legend of Jesse Bennet's 1794 Caesarian Section by Arthur G. King; Michel Foucault: The Knowledge of Power and the Power of Knowledge by Jean-Claude Guedon; Veterinary Medicine and Rural Health in Pre-Revolutionary France by Caroline Hannaway; Observations on the Chronology of the Galenic Corpus by Donald W. Peterson; The End of Greek Diet by Erwin H. Ackerknecht; Spinal Irritation and Osteopathy by Frank Schiller; Early Medical Experiences in Hawaii William S. Middleton; The Physician Versus the Negro: Medical and Anthropological Concepts of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century by John S. Haller Jr.; Structure and Function in Gall by Erna Lesky; Galen on Contaminated Cereals as a Cause of Epidemics by Elinor Lieber; History of the Exchange Transfusion; Its Use in Treatment of Erythroblastosis Fetalis by Carl Pochedly; Non-Venereal Treponematosis in Colonial North America by Thomas C. Parramore; The Introduction of Lemon Juice as a Cure for Scurvy by Christopher Lloyd; Sydenham and Locke on the Limits of Anatomy by David E. Wolfe; The Influence of Benjamin Rush on the Practice of Bleeding in South Carolina by Joseph I. Waring; The Cause of Cholera: Aspects of Eitological Thought in Nineteenth Century America by Charles Rosenberg; The Fountain of Life: A Greek Version by Charles Talbot; The Development of the Concept of Cerebral Localization in the Nineteenth Century by Arthur Earl Walker; John Browne, 1642-1702, A Seventeenth Century Surgeon, Anatomist, and Plagiarist by K.F. Russell; When Medicine was in Flower by Lynn Thorndike; Empedocles and Freud, Heraclitus and Jung by Garfield Tourney; The Professional Ethics of the Greek Physician by Ludwig Edelstein; Significance of Osteitis in Ancient Peruvian Trephining by T.D. Stewart; Obstetrical and Genito-Urinary Remedies of Thirteenth Century Spain by J. Horace Nunemaker; English Military Surgery During the Age of Elizabeth by Henry J. Webb; Evidence of Scurvy among Ancient Hebrews by John H. Swanson; The Early History of the Adrenal Glands, with Particular Reference to Theories of Function by Harris B. Shumacker Jr.; The Hebrew-Aramaic Element in Vesalius, A Critical Analysis by Mordecai Etziony; St. Gregory of Nazianzus and E. Signed.