Medicine
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1724-300x300.jpg)
# 46766
WALKER, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); lower margin recto with imprint of ‘Joseph B. Forster, Pho.’, and a roughly contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitter as ‘Dr. Mary Walker’; verso with the studio’s printed motto ‘Light and Truth’; in very good condition. A rare full-length studio portrait of …
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# 27137
KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)
Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer.
Paris : Annales maritimes et coloniales. II.e partie. Année 1824. – Juin. Octavo, bound in contemporary marbled wrappers, pp [2], 457-541, with an engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator (p.540); light browning to some of the leaves, but a very good copy. Text in French. An important treatise on the causes of, and preventive measures …
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# 46403
KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)
Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé
dans les ports et à la mer. Half title: Médecine nautique. A Paris : de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1824. Second edition. Octavo, bound in modern cloth backed marbled boards, spine with gilt ornament and leather title label lettered in gilt, pp 115, [1] engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator; mild foxing to the last few leaves, …
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![[MELBOURNE] Thomas N. Fitzgerald, surgeon : autograph private note, signed, on his "Rostella" letterhead. Melbourne, October 1903.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_DSFB_6668-300x300.jpg)
# 45860
FITZGERALD, Thomas Naghten, Sir (1838-1908)
[MELBOURNE] Thomas N. Fitzgerald, surgeon : autograph private note, signed, on his “Rostella” letterhead. Melbourne, October 1903.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, octavo (200 x 125 mm), on FitzGerald’s personal stationery with embossed letterhead of a racehorse and jockey and the name of his residence, Rostella; dated ‘Saturday Oct 12 03’, the note is addressed ‘My dear Mrs McWilliams’ and is signed in full at the foot ‘T. N. FitzGerald’, who writes: …
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# 45636
BARRY, Edward, Sir (1696-1776)
Observations historical, critical, and medical, on the wines of the ancients.
And the analogy between them and modern wines. With general observations on the principles and qualities of water, and in particular those of Bath. London : T. Cadell, 1775. First (and only) edition. Quarto, full tree calf (joints expertly reinforced), flat panelled spine ruled in gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate …
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![The first lines of the practice of surgery in the West [Seii ryakuron] [Xi yi lue lun] [西醫略論]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_2549-300x300.jpg)
# 43300
HOBSON, Benjamin [author]; GUAN, Maocai [translator]; MIYAKE, Gonsai [editor]
The first lines of the practice of surgery in the West [Seii ryakuron] [Xi yi lue lun] [西醫略論]
Edo [Tōkyō] : Yorozuya Heishirō, Ansei 5 [1858]. Four volumes (complete), original decorated Japanese Fukuro-toji binding with title labels, 25.6 x 17.5cm. 62, 48, 62, 22 leaves, woodcut illustrations of (sometimes graphic) surgical practices, previous owner’s stamps (in Japanese) on the wrapper of the first volume, and first & last pages on each volume, pale …
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![[MEDICINE] Portrait of Andrew W. Nash. Newcastle, New South Wales, c.1884.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_DSFB_5954-300x300.jpg)
# 45552
SLADE, William Joseph
[MEDICINE] Portrait of Andrew W. Nash. Newcastle, New South Wales, c.1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘SLADE (Late Williams), Artist in Photography, Hunter Stree, Newcastle, N.S.W.’, and a signed inscription in pencil by the sitter: ‘A. W. Nash, Australian Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. A.W.N.’; the print has some light rubbing and mottling in the negative; …
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# 44733
VALLERY-RADOT, Rene
The life of Pasteur
Translated from the French by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. London : Constable & Company, 1948. Reprint. Octavo, Geelong College prize binding of full calf, ruled in gilt, the school’s motto to upper board, spine sunned, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title label, marbled edges and endpapers, prize label to upper …
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# 43448
POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)
De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …
Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …
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# 38365
POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT, Johannes Lijdius Catharinus (1829-1908)
Beknopte handleiding tot de geneesmiddelleer : ten gebruike van de Keizerlijke Japansche Geneeskundige School te Nagasaki.
Desima [Nagasaki] : ter Nederlandsche Drukkerij, 1862. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary Japanese binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, mauve endpapers, the front free-endpaper with early inscription in Japanese and straight-line stamp of the Deutsche Jesuiten-Mission Japan e. V. Köln, half title with circular stamp of the same library and early Japanese owner’s seal stamp …
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![[WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4308-300x300.jpg)
# 44598
[SIMPSON, John] COWTAN & BLAND
[WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, written on the first side of a quarto bifolium of blue paper; headed ‘Belfast, 2 April 1859’, the letter is addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald’, and is signed at the foot ‘Truly yours, Cowtan & Bland’; front panel addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald by Wycliffe [i.e. …
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![[GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_DSFB_4041-300x300.jpg)
# 44287
SAVAGE, Albert William
[GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).
Group of 13 (thirteen) gelatin silver print photographs in uniform 110 x 150 mm format, versos all with a blue wet stamp ‘Photographed by A. W. Savage, No. 3 Australian General Hospital (Not to be used for Publication)’, and with a fully contemporary handwritten caption (often with a date) in violet ink; the group comprises …
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![[SYDNEY] Lady de Chair requests the pleasure of the company of Mrs A. Weston at a Meeting at Government House, on 11th March at 11 am, to form a Committee to organise a Ball at "The Wentworth," for the Babies in the Women's Hospital, Crown Street.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_DSFB_4072-300x300.jpg)
# 44399
[CROWN STREET WOMEN'S HOSPITAL]
[SYDNEY] Lady de Chair requests the pleasure of the company of Mrs A. Weston at a Meeting at Government House, on 11th March at 11 am, to form a Committee to organise a Ball at “The Wentworth,” for the Babies in the Women’s Hospital, Crown Street.
R.S.V.P. to the A.D.C. in waiting, Government House. Sydney, NSW : Government House, [1924]. Invitation card, 160 x 100 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; old water staining (no loss of text); verso blank. ‘Crown Street Women’s Hospital was established in Hay Street in 1893 and moved to Surry Hills in 1897. …
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![[SYDNEY] The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mrs W. H. Lambert) requests the pleasure of Mrs A. Weston's Company at A Gift Afternoon in her Rooms at the Town Hall on Thursday the 2nd June ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_DSFB_4075-300x300.jpg)
# 44396
[ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, AUBURN]
[SYDNEY] The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mrs W. H. Lambert) requests the pleasure of Mrs A. Weston’s Company at A Gift Afternoon in her Rooms at the Town Hall on Thursday the 2nd June …
from 3.30 pm to 5 pm. Gifts of linen or money will be thankfully received for the assistance of the St. Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn. Sydney, NSW : Mrs. W. H. Lambert, Lady Mayoress, [1921]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; mild toning; verso blank. ‘The story of …
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![[BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2018/01/11181605/2018_DSFB_0051-293x300.jpg)
# 17332
VAN AMBURGH & CO.
[BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children
are Evidently of a Cannibal Race! / Judging From Their Natural Proclivities, Their Long Sharp Teeth, etc. / Perhaps the Only Specimen From That Country Now Living … These Wonders of All Wonders were captured about 7 years ago by a party of gold hunters in the mountainous regions of Australia … Can Be Seen In a …
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![[QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5391-300x300.jpg)
# 41334
HENDERSON, Marc Antony (pseud. of STRONG, George Augustus 1832-1912]
[QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.
San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on …