DE LITERATORUM ET EORUM QUI MAGISTRATIBUS
First Paris edition of this pocket-sized medical book, offering advice on exercise, bathing, sleep, a healthy diet, and sex, with several rather telling sections underlined by an early owner.
First Paris edition of this pocket-sized medical book, offering advice on exercise, bathing, sleep, a healthy diet, and sex, with several rather telling sections underlined by an early owner.
Scarce early monograph on human subject research by the pioneering medical ethicist, whose work was foundational to the current understanding of informed consent.
Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass.
A typescript on the medical and surgical treatment of burns, written by Army Nurse Corps Major Martha C. Peake.
A complete, two volume patient ledger covering the entirety of the year 1957 from the office of Dr. John Melvin Thomason, a general practitioner operating out of Bruce Hospital in Florence, SC.
First edition of this dissertation on the use of ice packs to treat various mental illnesses, defended at the University of Leipzig.
First edition of this manual of forensic psychology by the influential psychiatrist, author of THE MIND OF THE MURDERER, frequent expert witness and examiner of Ian Brady in the matter of the Moors murders, and a founder member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Uncommon first edition of these collected papers and discussions on the state of psychical research and the evidence for ESP in laboratory experiments, among the European peasantry, and in homing pigeons.