Rickets, First Edition (23 results)

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 100 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliography (p. 97-98) and index. Subject: Ricketts, Charles S. - 1866-1931. 3 Kg.

1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 301, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 100 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliography (p. 97-98) and index. Subject: Ricketts, Charles S. - 1866-1931. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12.5 x 8.5 inch. Cover with photo + 3 pages internally.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. 1st Edition.

Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. Type: Book Type: Book Type: Book Type: Ex-Library Good Clean Tight Copy. Front Cover Has Tide Marks On Top. Interior Good. Ex-Library Book With Usual Markings. Book Plate Inside From The Archibald Church Library Northwestern University Medical School. Bas 3 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex library with the usual blemishes. Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects number 92. 36 pp. 6601044.

paperback. First Edition. Illustrated. 9 pages (pp. 29-37) IN: American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, Vol. 24, No. Slim 4to, original printed wrappers. Springfield, Ill., 1930. "Milkman's syndrome" GM 4398.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. 245 x 165mm. pp. 285. English text. An examination of the various forms of hereditary and acquired rickets. No. 21 in the Nestle nutrition workshop series. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original blue cloth with silver lettering to spine and front cover. Housed in blue dust jacket. Book and dust jacket clean and tight. No ownership inscription.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. First British Edition. SCARCE in the British First Edition. Very Good Plus, light soiling to end pages and edges of page block, gilt at spine a bit dulled. A classic study of the disease by a doctor considered to be " the foremost investigator among pediatricians in this country." (JAMA).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. From an academic library, evidence confined to pastedown. xii, 329 pp. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Binding is maroon cloth covered boards with blind stamped ruling. Gilt titles and ruling to spine. Textblock tight and clean. A00009559.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. From an academic library, their bookplate and barcode label on front pastedown. xii, 329 pp. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Binding is maroon cloth covered boards with blind stamped ruling. Gilt titles and ruling to spine. Textblock tight and clean. A00007337.

Frontispiece, xv, [17]-485 pp; 52 figs; 32 tables. Original cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 3735. "The history of rickets during the first quarter of the century would be incomplete without mentioning the important contributions Alfred F. Hess made to our understanding of this disease. Besides his many clinical observations on both rickets and scurvy, he discovered that antirachitic properties could be imparted to certain oils and to food by exposing them to ultraviolet rays. He was also the first physician in this country to discover the antirachitic property of sunlight alone in the treatment of rachitic children, even in winter. Hess's book Rickets, Including Osteomalacia and Tetany is an encyclopedic review of the subject and contains a splendid history and bibliography of this disease" (Cone, History of American Pediatrics, p. 168).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 172 pages : illustrations. Subjects; Radiotherapy. Rickets. Phototherapy. Rickets. Radiotherapy. Rickets. Phototherapy. Radiotherapy. Rickets. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 172 pages : illustrations. Subjects; Radiotherapy. Rickets. Phototherapy. Rickets. Radiotherapy. Rickets. Phototherapy. Radiotherapy. Rickets. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed: "To Dr. Ralph E. Wheeler/with best wishes from/Alfred F. Hess/Nov. -30.". Signed by Author.

lxxxi, 378; 13 plates. Original cloth. Top of spine chipped. Very Good. Entire volume offered. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 3720: "Classic description of infantile scurvy ('Barlow's disease'), which includes the pathology of the condition." Bloomfield, A Bibliography of Internal Medicine, Selected Diseases, pp. 284-86. Abt/Garrison, History of Pediatrics, p. 103.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Library bookplate stamped "withdrawn" (no other library marks).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Medical and Surgical Aspects of In-knee (genu-valgum): Its Relation to Rickets, Its Prevention and Its Treatment With and Without Surgical Operation. By W.J. Little, M.D., F.R.C.P., Late Senior Physician and Lecturer on Medicine at the London Hospital; Founder of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital; Etc. Assisted by E. Muirhead Little, M.R.C.S.Illustrated by upward of Fifty Figures and Diagrams. London: Longmans, Green & Co., Paternoster Row. 1882. Paginates: [viii]-xvi, [1]-161, [3]. Collates: [A]-L8, M2. Complete. First Edition. Author's Presentation Copy. Bookplate to the brown front endpaper "Birmingham Medical Institute. This Book was Presented by 'The Author'". The Half-title with an ink inscription; "With the Authors Compliments". Bound in blind-stamped brown cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine: Externally the boards and spine show light scuffing, with the spine somewhat darkened, some light fraying to the head and tail of the spine, with the board corners bumped a bit, but still Very Good Plus. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, with some mild toning in the margins of the first and final leaves. Front and rear brown endpapers intact with minor splits to the paper due to drying over time. The volume measures about 23 x 15 x 1 cm. Each leaf measures about 220 x 140 mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 161p octavo, illustrated. Recased, a very good copy in the original brown cloth, new endpapers. Scarce.

1st edition. Barlow, Thomas (1845-1945). On cases described as "acute rickets" which are probably a combination of scurvy and rickets. . . . Offprint from Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 66 (1883). [2] 61 [1]pp. Chromolithographed plate. London: J. E. Adelard, 1883. 215 x 139 mm. Original plain wrappers, a little soiled. Occasional foxing, but very good. First Separate Edition, and extremely rare in offprint form. Garrison-Morton 3720. The classic description of infantile scurvy ("Barlow's disease"), including the pathology of the disease and a detailed list of cases. Up until the latter half of the 19th century, infantile scurvy had been confused with rickets: "the isolation of scurvy from rickets as a definite and separate disease-although often concomitant in the same child-was a triumph of deductive reasoning" (DNB) Barlow recommended fresh foods as a cure for the disease. Abt-Garrison, p. 103. Nichols et al., History of Pediatrics 1850-1950, p. 10. .

Original cloth. Ink stamp on top and bottom fore edges. Very Good. Entire volume offered. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 3719: "Infantile scurvy was confused with rickets until Cheadle differentiation between the two conditions.".

First edition. THE FIRST FULL CLINICAL DESCRIPTION OF RICKETS . First edition, co-author?s copy, of the first full clinical description of rickets, then thought to have appeared only recently in England, and the first description of infantile scurvy. ?In 1645 the Royal College of Physicians assigned to Glisson, Bate and Regemorter the task of writing a book on rickets ? one of the earliest Instances of collaborative medical research in England. Six years later they published De rachitide, which, though not the first, was the fullest and most important account of rickets that had yet appeared [Daniel Whistler?s Leiden 1645 dissertation was the first description of rickets as a definite disease]. Glisson?s investigation of the essential nature of the disease so impressed his fellow workers that they allowed him to draft the entire book, which combined the observations of the three principal investigators with those of five other contributors. Glisson?s account of rickets, his first major publication, occupies chapters 3-14; aside from the clinical material and post-mortem observations on rickets, he deals with such subjects as circulatory regulation, mechanisms of nervous function and the nature of hereditary disease. He denied that rickets was caused by either syphilis or scurvy, and gave the first published description of infantile scurvy? (Norman). ?Glisson emphasised the importance of morbid anatomy in the study of this disease and, indeed, described his post mortem findings before giving a description of the clinical signs and course of the disease. He was the first to appreciate that infantile scurvy was a separate entity, although it might coexist with rickets, whereas the profession generally considered them to be one disease until Barlow?s paper was published 200 years later. Glisson recognised, too, that rickets were neither congenital nor inherited, were not contagious, nor caused by syphilis. The nearest he came to a nutritional cause was to blame excessive feeding with its resulting indigestion, adding: ?and perhaps this may be reputed among the especial causes why this disease doth more frequently invade the cradles of the rich than afflict poor men?s children? ? The discovery of this new disease, rickets, in the middle of the 17th century was probably due to the increasing urbanisation taking place at the time, as well as to misguided practices in infant feeding? (Dunn). The list of contributors on A5v includes the three main authors as well as the physicians R. Wright, T. Sheafe, N. Paget, J. Goddard, and E. Trench, making it ?hard to tell how much of the classic anatomical and clinical descriptions of the disease belongs to Glisson alone. He claimed originality specifically for chapters 3-14. These are concerned mainly with the nature of the disease, which he believed to be a cold and humid distemper? (DSB). Like Glisson?s other works, this one is presented in an archaic, scholastic framework of reasoning. Harvey?s new theory is incorporated in the work ?as a matter of course? (DSB) in a chapter on regulation of the circulation of the blood. ABPC/RBH list five other copies in the last half-century. Provenance: Ahasuerus Regemorter (1614-50), with his signature on p. 416, holograph corrections throughout (following the printed errata list), and a prescription in his hand at the foot of p. 377; Later signature of James Peiree on recto of front paste-down (detached from board); King's College [Columbia University] Medical School (ink stamp on p. 100); Purchased from H. P. Kraus; Haskell F. Norman (bookplate). ?It is exactly three hundred years since Francis Glisson (1597?-1677) published the monograph on rickets which is justly regarded as one of the glories of English medicine. He was the son of William Glisson and was born at Rampisham in Dorset in 1597. He entered Caius College, Cambridge, in 1617, graduated B.A., later proceeded M.A., and became fellow and lecturer in Greek of his college. In 1627 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford and soon afterwards, at the age of thirty, began the study of medicine. This was a time when interest was beginning to be diverted from the subtleties of metaphysics to physics and scientific method. In 1628 Harvey published his great revolutionary treatise Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis, and declared that wise men must learn anatomy, not from the decrees of philosophers, but from the fabric of nature herself. Glisson graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 1634, was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians the following year, and in 1636 was appointed Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. At the College of Physicians he lectured on anatomy, which included human, comparative and morbid anatomy. In 1640 he delivered the Goulstonian Lecture. In 1642 the great Civil War broke out; Oliver Cromwell defended Cambridge for the Parliamentarians but he was well disposed towards the University, having represented Cambridge in the Long Parliament and having been an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College. Glisson left Cambridge soon after the outbreak of hostilities, but this could hardly have been due to military interference with his work; he was, moreover, a Presbyterian. He moved to Colchester where he built up a large private practice from a house in the parish of St Mary at the Walls. In the second Civil War the town was held by the Royalists, and in 1648 was besieged by Fairfax. Fifty-three houses were destroyed in the very parish where Glisson resided, and it was he who was chosen to be sent out to seek favourable terms of peace. He failed to obtain any concession even after two interviews with Lord Fairfax, and the defenders thereupon held out until forced to surrender through threat of starvation. After the siege Glisson left Colchester and settled in London. During previous visits he had lodged in a house in Fleet Street but ultimately took a lease of a house in New Street, Shoe Lane, in the parish of St Bride. Here he remained for the re.