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Condoman Says: Don’t Be Shame Be Game. Use Condoms!
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDepartment of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Queensland: Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia, No date.Early/mid 1990s issue of the iconic Aboriginal HIV/AIDS awareness campaign poster (the earliest issues captioned USE FRENCHIES! instead of condoms). Originally conceived in 1987 by Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood and a small team of Aboriginal health workers in Townsville, Queensland, Condoman became one of the most successful Australian sexual health campaigns.
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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Parkinson
London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange Plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry Gummes and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; And a most large demonstration of their Natures and Venues. Shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry Authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuines Herbes and Plants. Distributes into sundry Classes or Tribes. The monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.
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The Philosophy of Physiomedicalism: Its Theorem, Corollary, and Laws of Application for the Cure of Disease
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. Thurston
Richmond: Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Co., 1900.A late text in the school of Physiomedicalism, a natural medicine system which grew out of Thomsonianism in the United States and was influential in modern herbalism and holistic approaches to health.
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The Idol: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Their Kingdoms
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDr. Cantala
New York: Botwen Printing Co., 1924.Considered one of the scarcest books in all of psychoactive drug literature and one of the most important on opiate addiction, predicting the development of synthetic opioids by some 35 years. “Devoted to the medical and social uses of opiates, including sections on opium dens, needlemania, the psychology of the addict, the nature of opiate intoxication, love among addicts, etc. There are chapters on cocaine and hashish, and another on Dr. Cantala’s method of cure.” (William Dailey via Gertz: Dope Menace pp. 30). One of a small number bound in cloth with the original wrapper illustration mounted. 4 copies recorded in OCLC, all in the United States.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. Published when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. A landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper.
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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Butterworths, 1972.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. Facsimile edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte: Toxikologische, Allgemein-verstandliche Untersuchungen der Historischen Quellen
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. Lewin
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920.First edition of German pharmacologist Louis Lewin’s (1850-1929) important contribution to the history of medicine being a history of poisonings with innumerable citations from ancient and modern literature.
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Viavi Hygiene: Explaining the Natural Principles upon which the Viavi System of Treatment for Men, Women and Children is Based.
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Hartland Law]; [Herbert E. Law]; Almah Lawson
San Francisco: The Viavi Company, 1914.Health guide published by the San Francisco based Law brothers, Hartland and Herbert, who throughout the late 19th century established a line of Viavi medicines growing to an international company with offices around the world, in the process making them two of San Francisco’s most wealthly citizens. This copy with the stamps of the NSW Viavi office and their office address at 350 George St, Sydney in manuscript. Also mounted in at the front endpaper is a 4 page booklet of the New South Wales Viavi Co., with an introductory pitch by branch manager Almah Lawson.
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Food of the Gods: Hypernutrition for Sport
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Osiecki
Kelvin Grove: Bio Concepts, 1989.According to Henry Osiecki, his model of “hypernutrition does for sporting performance what turbocharging does for motor cars.” Aimed at democratising the knowledge required to turn your average Joe into a supercompetitor, this book charts a course from carb loading and weight control through to vitamins, electrolytes, overtraining and beyond. Filled with diagrams, statistics and plain English know-how, ‘Food of the Gods’ is a means to transform anyone into their ideal self. Foreword by Laurie Lawrence.
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Dictionnaire Botanique et Pharmaceutique,
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Alexandre]
Paris: Du Fonds de la Veuve Leconte, 1759.Botanical and Pharmaceutical Dictionary containing the Principal Properties of Minerals, Plants, and Animals of use with the most used internal and external Pharmacy Preparations in Medicine, & in Surgery. All taken from the best Authors, especially the Moderns. Useful work for young Pharmacists & Surgeons, Hospitals, Communities, & charitable People who dress the Poor. Mid-eighteenth century edition of the portable medical dictionary attributed to the Benedictine Nicolas Alexandre (1654-1728). 24 editions appeared from 1716 to 1846.
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Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. B. Jacobs
A Gand: Chez J. F. Vander Scheuren, 1785.First French translation of the important Dutch obstetrics manual by Jan Bernard Jacobs (1734-1790). At the time of its appearance, it was one of the most complete treatises on the art of childbirth and remained a standard work into the middle of the nineteenth century being described as a pearl of scientific production from the last years before the French Revolution.
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A Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Bell
Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son, 1797.Primarily regarded as surgeon, Bell is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His scientific approach is especially evident in this treatise in which he convincingly argues, against the prevailing medical opinion of the time, that gonorrhea and syphilis are separate diseases. Bell’s work is foundational to the modern understanding of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The rare Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
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There’s A Bird In My Hand And A Bear By The Bed — I Must Be In ICU: The Pivotal Years of Australian Critical Care Nursing
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValda Wiles; Kathy Daffurn
Sydney: Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), 2002.Foreword by Professor Ged Williams, National Director CACCN/ACCCN 1995-2001.
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Naturopathic Medical Series (3 Volumes: The Eclectic Materia Medica..; American Materia Medica..; A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology)
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarvey Wickes Felter; Finley Ellingwood; David M. R. Culbreth
Portland: Eclectic Medical Publications, 1983.Complete series of the Naturopathic Medical Series, being high quality facsimile editions of: 1. The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Harvey Wickes Felter (A directory of medicine with further notes on their therapeutic actions and the role of the dispenser first published in 1922); 2. American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy: Developing the Latest Acquired Knowledge of Drugs, and Especially of the Direct Action of Single Drugs Upon Exact Conditions of Disease, with Especial Reference to the Therapeutics of the Plant Drugs of the Americas. With a Practical Consideration of the Principles of Pharmacy and Pharmacognosy by John Uri Lloyd (from the 11th Edition of 1919); 3. A Manual of Materia Medica and Phamacology Comprising the Organic Drugs Which Are or Have Been Recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Forumlary together with Important Allied Species Especially Designed for Student of Pharmacy and Medicine, as well as for Druggists, Pharmacists, and Physicians By David M. R. Culbreth.
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A Handbook of Traditional Chinese Gynecology
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Zhang Ting-liang; Bob Flaws
Boulder: Blue Poppy Press, 1991. -
Outback Medicine: Some Vignettes of Pioneering Medicine
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pearn
Brisbane: Department of Child Health, University of Queensland, 1994. -
A Doctor in the Garden: Nomen Medici in Botanicis: Australian Flora and the World of Medicine
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pearn
Brisbane: Amphion Press, 2001. -
Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse together with The Autonomic Nervous System
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKeith Lucas; J. N. Langley
Birmingham: Gryphon Editions, 1990.The Classics of Neurology & Neuroscience Library. Limited to 1,000 copies numbered on a subscriber leather label to the front pastedown.