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A Clinical Guide to Chinese Herbs and Formulae
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChen Song Yu; Lie Fei
Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2000.Foreword by Giovanni Maciocia.
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The Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiovanni Maciocia
Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2000. -
Chinese Herbal Medicines: Comparisons and Characteristics
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYifan Yang
Edinburgh: Churchill Livingtone, 2002. -
Shen’s Textbook on the Management of Autoimmune Diseases with Chinese Medicine
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShen Pi’an
Harnet: Donica Publishing, 2012. -
Cox’s Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest, and Compendium of Domestic Medcine;
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Edward Cox]; R. Davis
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1866.Particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists. With plain rules for taking the medicines, to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of Asiatic or spasmodic cholera. Pocket guide for the medical practitioner at sea. Includes a summary of drugs for the doctors medicine chest, with corresponding labels at the rear to be cut out and applied to bottles, here still intact.
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Coca and Its Therapeutic Application
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo Mariani
New York: J. N. Jaros, 1892.Second Edition in English of the influential cocaine monograph by the inventor of the first coca wine (vin Mariani) which became a popular medicinal tonic in Europe and America from the 1860s and was the forerunner to Coca-Cola. An ardent entrepreneur Mariani marketed heavily the curative properties of his spirited beverage, of which this monograph played an important part.
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Ephemeris Pharmacologica. Being Terse Synopses relating to Drugs and Modern Scientific Preparations,
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOppenheimer, Son & Co.
London: Oppenheimer, Son & Co., 1907.Collated with the utmost care from the Most Recent and Most Authentic Publications with References and Notes on Emergencies. A doctor’s diary.
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An Introductory Lecture to the Venereal Disease
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Hunter
New York: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1994. -
Researches on Colour-Blindness
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Wilson
Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, 1855.With a Supplement on the Danger Attending the Present System of Railway and Marine Coloured Signals. Early work on colour blindness and one of the most important books on the subject which led to testing for colour-blindess in many critical jobs. This copy inscribed by the author to Alexander Russell, Dean of Adelaide and relative by marriage to Wilson, and with an engraved portrait of Wilson mounted to the front pastedown
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Cognitive Systems and Culture Models of Illness
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMatti Kamppinen
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1989.Examination of cultural perceptions of illness, linking cognitive frameworks, folk beliefs, and traditional healing practices. FF Communications No. 244 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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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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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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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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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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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.