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An Herbarium for the Fair: Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty Shaw-Lawrence; Thomas Fassam
London: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949.Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love (such as for Taking Away Hair, Bettering the Breasts, the Ease of Sighings, Making a Person Chaste, Loth to Love, and Turning a Person’s Head). One of 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 260), signed by Fassam, each of the 20 plates signed by the artist.
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The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartManfred M. Junius
Rochester: Healing Arts Press, 1993.An Herbalist’s Guide to Preparing Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs.
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Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, met with in Great Britain and British India
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartFriedrich A. Fluckiger; Daniel Hanbury
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879.Includes section on cannabis. This copy with a Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia College of Pharmacy award plate dated 1898 presented to Miss J. B. Wollen in manuscript with the autograph signature of Daniel McAlpine, a clipping relating to the latter laid in.
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A Dissertation on Milk
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Ferris
London: John Abraham, [1785].In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases: Likewise to point out the varieties in the food of the animal, from which it is taken; and the circumstances in the mode of life and conduct of those women, who afford it, which more especially tend to change its appearance, and to impair its salutary qualities: and particularly to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race. One of the more substantial English-language eighteenth-century monographs devoted wholly to milk, combining experimental chemistry with medical, moral, and social thought on infant feeding, motherhood, female bodies, and the transmission of health and character. Ferris undertakes comparative chemical experiments on six milks (ass, human, mare, cow, goat, and ewe) and uses the results to advance a sustained argument for maternal breastfeeding against both wet-nursing and the nursery customs of the day. He maintains that a mother’s own milk is the best possible nutriment and casts a woman’s refusal to nurse her child as ‘one of the worst species of inhumanity’. He approvingly cites the late Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), who believed cancers of the breast occurred disproportionately among women who declined to breastfeed, and condemns the common practice of withholding the breast during the first days after birth. Where maternal nursing proves impossible, Ferris subjects the wet nurse to detailed scrutiny. Her diet, habits, mode of life, and even emotional state are made objects of prescription, the infant being thought to absorb the consequences of her conduct through her milk. The nursing body is thus framed throughout as an object of medical and social management, ordered in the interests of the ‘infant race’. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ferris to The Revd. Mr Tonyn, likely the Revd Charles William Tonyn (1732-1805), Rector of Radnage, Buckinghamshire, a parish situated near Great Missenden, where Ferris settled in 1785.
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A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, and the United States
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartG. M. Mowbray
London: J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847.Formulas and preparations interleaved with manuscript notes and formulas of EJ Merrifield, with his signature dated 1850.
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Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs: Risks and Benefits
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJames R. Cooper
Rockville: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1977. -
The Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy, and Transformation
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Wolfson; Glenn Hartellius
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2016.“The Ketamine Papers opens the door to a broad understanding of this medicine’s growing use in psychiatry and its decades of history providing transformative personal experiences. Now gaining increasing recognition as a promising approach to the treatment of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other psychological conditions, ketamine therapies offer new hope for patients and clinicians alike. With multiple routes of administration and practices ranging from anesthesia to psychotherapy, ketamine medicine is a diverse and rapidly growing field. The Ketamine Papers clarifies the issues and is an inspiring introduction to this powerful tool for healing and transformation–from its early use in the 1960s to its emerging role in the treatment of depression, suicidality, and other conditions. This comprehensive volume is the ideal introduction for patients and clinicians alike, and for anyone interested in the therapeutic and transformative healing power of this revolutionary medicine.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Amphetamine Debate: The Use of Adderall, Ritalin and Related Drugs for Behavior Modification, Neuroenhancement and Anti-Aging Purposes
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartElaine A. Moore
Jefferson: McFarland, 2011.“This book covers both sides of the debate over Adderall prescription and use. It discusses the history of amphetamine and related stimulants; ADHD and the use of Ritalin and Adderall to treat it; related neuroenhancers; methamphetamine from Desoxyn to crystal meth; the nature of addiction and side effects; sociological effects of amphetamine compounds; and expert opinions for and against Adderall use.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Acupuncture Point Dynamics Volume One and Two
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn McDonald
: John McDonald, 1998.Volume One: The Six Leg Channels; Volume Two: The Six Arm Channels, Renmai & Dumai.
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Timing and the Times: Chronicity In The American Practice Of Oriental Medicine
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Flaws; Charles Chace; Michael Helme
Boulder: Blue Poppy Press, 1986. -
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul U. Unschuld
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.The Complete Chinese Text with an Annotated English Translation.
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Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn O’Connor; Dan Bensky
Chicago: Eastland Press, 1981.The first printing.
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Cox’s Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest, and Compendium of Domestic Medicine;
AU$200 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 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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Researches on Colour-Blindness
AU$500 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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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Landmark work in chemistry and anaesthesia. Published when Davy was only 21, outlining his experiments with nitrous, popularising the term laughing gas, and suggesting its anaesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. 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 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 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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Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000 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 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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Crash Injuries: The Integrated Medical Aspects of Automobile Injuries and Death
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJacob Kulowski
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1960.The leading 20th century monograph on human injury as a result motor vehicle accidents written by an orthopaedic surgeon for a medical audience. Crash Injuries was a source of inspiration for J. G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash.
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E’tude Medico-Legale et Clinique sur L’Empoisonnement
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAmbroise Tardieu; Z. Roussin
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1875.Medico-Legal and Clinical Study on Poisoning.
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Bush Medicine: A Practical Handbook for Managing Serious Illnesses and Accidents in the Outback
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor H. Webster
Tennant Creek: Jackhammer Press, No date.Victor H. Webster (1905-1980) was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council for Tennant Creek from 1947 to 1950. During this time he published Bush Medicine, an early Northern Territory medical handbook for surviving medical emergencies in the remote outback. Includes a chapter ‘Some Remarks on Sickness in Natives’.
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De la Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Etude Physiologique et Therapeutique
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartLeon-Ernest Monnet
Paris: Lille (Camille Robbe Printing), 1884.Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Physiological and Therapeutic Study. A detailed study of the physiological and therapeutic uses of the African stimulant Gotu Kola. In the original Doctor of Medicine Thesis wrappers, reissued as a monograph in the same year. An advertisement for Fisher & Co’s Mighty Alok Kola Nut tonic in The Brisbane Courier, 1898 quotes Monnet’s report: “I gave a strong infusion of Kola Nut to a railroad track layer, who was suffering from ‘blue devil’s’ (hypochondria) extremely, and within two hours he felt like going to his hard duties, and laughed and talked.”
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Der Kokainismus: Geschichte / Pathologie Medizinische und behordliche Bekampfung
AU$350 Read MoreAdd to cartHans W. Maier
Leipzig: George Thieme, 1926.A professor at the University of Zurich, Maier conducted investigations into the clinical and therapeutic effects of cocaine on users, which included pioneering work on hallucinations and paranoia during his time working at the clinic of Dr. Bleuler. Includes geographical, physiological, and historical background of coca and cocaine along with a comprehensive bibliography. A major work on the subject especially with regard to the history and development of cocaine dependence.
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Histoire d’une Luxation de la Tete du Femur sur la Branche Ascendante de l’Ischion, vers son Union avec la Portion Descendante du Pubis,
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. D’Amblard
Paris and Bourges: Gaon and Bouguet, 1821.History of a Dislocation of the Head of the Femur on the Ascending Branch of the Ischium, towards its Union with the Descending Portion of the Pubis, and Description of a New Method for Proceeding to the Reduction of this Kind of Displacement, followed by a slight overview of the state of Churugia among the ancients and up to the present day. Scarce French medical pamphlet with a folding plate illustrating repositioning of the femur.
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Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartHilary Marland; Anne Marie Rafferty
London: Routledge, 1997. -
Hypnosis 1979
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham D. Burrows; David R. Collison; Lorraine Dennerstein
Amsterdam: Elsevier / North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1979.Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, 1979.
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Patterns of Amphetamine Use: Initial Findings from the Amphetamines in Queensland Research Project
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Lynch; Robert Kemp; Leigh Krenske; Andrew Conroy; Julianne Webster
Brisbane: Crime and Misconduct Commission, 2003.Preliminary findings of a research project aimed at gathering comprehensive data about the attitudes and behaviours of amphetamine users in Queensland.
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A Translation of the Corrected Edition of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Published in July 1815. with Notes
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartA London Physician
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, and S. Highley and Son, 1815.Translation from Latin into English of the Royal College of Physicians’ Pharmacopoeia, providing a list of plants and their parts for use in medicines and other preparations, and recipes for mixing and compounding. The unnamed translator makes an appeal to Lord Stanhope to look into the Royal College of Physicians, which he accuses of quackery, and bring it before the Legislature for ‘reformation and redress’.
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Quinine Formulary
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBureau for Increasing the Use of Quinine
Amsterdam: Bureau for Increasing the Use of Quinine, 1933.Promotional formulary for the malaria medication quinine, demonstrating its wide range of uses treating conditions other than malaria.
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Memoria Chirurgica sui Piedi Torti Congeniti dei Fanciulli, e Sulla Maniera di Correggere Questa Deformita
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAntonio Scarpa
Pavia: P. Bizzoni, 1817.Surgical Memoir on Congenital Twisted Feet of Children, and How to Correct This Deformity. The third edition of the first pathologic description of clubfoot. This copy bound in 19th century wrappers with remnants of other books and manuscripts.
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De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret.
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Beitrage zur Pathologie und Therapie der Syphilis
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Neisser
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1911.Contributions to the Pathology and Therapy of Syphilis edited by German physician Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855-1916). Neisser was a pioneer in sexually transmitted infections who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. He was also a part of leading work on leprosy and syphilis. This book collects research on syphilis in primates which Neisser and a number of colleagues conducted in Java in the early 20th century.
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The Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Century
AU$165 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Thorne Crissey; Lawrence Charles Parish
New York: Praeger, 1981.An accessible history of dermatology.
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The Healing Journey: Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy
AU$28 Read MoreAdd to cartClaudio Naranjo
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2013.“This book takes an in-depth look at the spiritual and psychotherapeutic potential of the amphetamine derivatives MDA and MMDA, harmaline (the active compound in ayahuasca), and ibogaine. To distinguish them from classical psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, Naranjo coins the terms “emotion-enhancers” and “fantasy-enhancers” for these substances.” (publisher’s blurb)