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Quinine Formulary
Bureau 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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Sex and the Cardiac Patient: A Practical Guide
Eduardo Chapunoff
Miami Beach: Bendy Books, 1991.Sex counselling for heart disease patients.
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Memoria Chirurgica sui Piedi Torti Congeniti dei Fanciulli, e Sulla Maniera di Correggere Questa Deformita
Antonio 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
A. 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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Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill
Philip Nitschke; Fiona Stewart
Melbourne: Penguin, 2005.This copy inscribed by both authors.
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The Medical Marijuana Guidebook: America’s First How-To Guide for Patients and Caregivers
David Downs
Atlanta: Reset.me, 2016. -
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
Liz P. Y. Chee
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021.“A history of the rising use of “medicinal animals” in modern China. While animal parts and tissue had been present in Chinese medicine from an early date, the book argues that their role in the Chinese pharmacopiea greatly expanded and became systematized in the changed political and economic circumstances of the early Communist period. Mao’s Bestiary is the first book to place medicinal animals squarely within the historiography of Chinese medicine. In an age of controversy over the ethics and efficacy of faunal medicalization, its perpensity to foster zoonotic diseases and its devastating effect on wildlife conservation in China and worldwide, the book contributes a much-needed historical perspective, explaining the modern origins of what is too casually taken to be traditional practice” (publisher’s blurb)
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Beitrage zur Pathologie und Therapie der Syphilis
Albert 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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Period.
JoAnn Gardner-Loulan; Bonnie Lopez; Marcia Quackenbush
San Francisco: Volcano Press, 1981.Discusses menstruation and other related mental and physical changes girls experience, gives suggestions for coping with these changes, and explains what happens during a pelvic exam.
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All The Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
Ruth Coker Burks; Kevin Carr O’Leary
London: Trapeze, 2021.“Ruth Coker Burks was a young single mum in Hot Springs, Arkansas who cared for people with AIDS when no one else would in the 1980s and 1990s. With no medical background, Ruth single-handedly created a network of care, and saw to the final resting places of roughly a thousand men abandoned by families and neglected by medical professionals. For 30 years, Ruth has been an advocate for the LGBTQ community. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas.” (publisher’s biographical note)
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The Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Century
John Thorne Crissey; Lawrence Charles Parish
New York: Praeger, 1981.An accessible history of dermatology.
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The Physician and His Workshop
C. G. McDonald
Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Co., 1951.A short essay in praise and detail of the clinical physician. Listerian oration. Reprinted from The Medical journal of Australia, June 23, 1951, p. 889. Delivered at a meeting of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association on April 27, 1950. Scarce, 4 copies recorded in OCLC at October, 2020.
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Health Quality in Indigenous Communities: A Culturally Secure Quality Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services
Christine Ryan
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2010. -
Pain Is Really Strange
Steve Haines
London: Singing Dragon, 2015.Easy to comprehend comic illustrated explanation of pain, how and why we feel it, and how we can better understand it. Illustrated by Sophie Standing.
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The Healing Journey: Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy
Claudio 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)
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Backwoods Surgery & Medicine
Charles Stuart Moody
Olympia: Last Word Press, No date.Backwoods Surgery & Medicine, written a century ago, contains much relevant knowledge for how to treat the most common injuries, as well as more serious threats to life found in backcountry travel. Minor and compound fractures of limbs, bites from frost and snake, lions and tigers and bears, Moody describes the simplest methods of dealing with injuries in a clear, if archaic voice. Your great-grand-father probably read this book and saved your grandfather during a camping trip in the summer of 1923, thus resulting in your birth and the ability to read these pages now a century later.