Medicine
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# 31351
HUNTER, Jack
Freak Babylon : an illustrated history of teratology and freakshows
[London?] : Creation Books, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. A sometimes startling, sometimes disturbing documentary of the history of one of mankind’s most fascinating sciences – teratology – and its dubious cultural correlative, the freak show, from ancient times to the present day. The book features over 200 rare and intriguing photos of …
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# 30579
HAHNEMANN, S. (Samuel) (1755-1843)
The Homoeopathic Medical Doctrine, or, “Organon of the Healing Art;”. A New System of Physic,
translated from the German of S. Hahnemann, By Charles H. Devrient, Esq. with Notes by Samuel Stratton, M.D. Dublin : W. F. Wakeman, 9, D’Olier-St. / London : Simpkin & Marshall & R. Groombridge / Edinburgh : Maclachlan & Stewart, 1833. First edition in English. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), original half calf over marbled papered …
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# 28252
[BROMILOW, William Edward, 1857-1929, translator]
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso. ‘Ida ‘Inapwana ta ‘Ida To-‘Etoseana ‘ina Onoaupaupa Auauna. (Missionary Sister Badcock’s own copy, with a manuscript letter in Dobuan from a woman at the leper colony on Ubuia Island)
Verso of title page: The New Testament in Dobuan, Papua, New Guinea. Sydney : Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1908. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), contemporary yapp-edged limp morocco (a little scuffed, worn at head and tail of spine and rear top edge) with the name ‘Sister Irene Badcock’ stamped in gilt in …
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# 29318
VICTORIA. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
[PANDEMICS] Report of a Case of Infectious Disease. (Melbourne, January 1919).
[Melbourne : Government printer, 1918]. Proforma document, 110 x 210 mm, headed ‘Report of Case of Infectious Disease’, with manuscript entries made by Dr. V. Reid, Richmond, dated 31 January 1919, reporting a case of Influenza in a patient named Wm. Cuttries, aged 27 years, residing at 65 Type St. Richmond, who has had symptoms for …
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# 30196
SCHUURKAMP, Gerrit T. J.
The epidemiology of malaria and filariasis in the Ok Tedi region of Western Province, Papua New Guinea
/ by Gerrit T. J. Schuurkamp, … being a thesis submitted as a requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Community Health, in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Papua New Guinea, June 10th, 1992. Tabubil, PNG : Ok Tedi Mining Limited, 1992. Small quarto (245 mm), publisher’s papered boards lettered in gilt, in …
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# 29355
VICTORIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRAILLE WRITERS
Eyes to the blind
Melbourne : Victorian Association of Braille Writers, [c. 1940]. Oblong duodecimo pamphlet (100 x 155 mm) with cut-out to front revealing an image of Louis Braille, pp [8]; Braille alphabet loosely inserted; water staining around gutters, staples rusted. Informational booklet about the Victorian Association of Braille Writers’ Library, with biographical sketch of Louis Braille. Rare. …
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# 29326
VICTORIA. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
[PANDEMICS] Report of Case of Infectious Disease (Diphtheria). (Melbourne, June 1919).
[Melbourne : Government printer, 1919]. Proforma document, 240 x 150 mm, headed ‘Report of Case of Case of Infectious Disease to the Municipality’, with manuscript entries made by Dr. J. Davis, Church Street, Richmond dated 3 June 1919, reporting a case of diphtheria in a patient named Elsie Smith, aged 23 years, a clerk residing at …
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# 29322
VICTORIA. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
[PANDEMICS] Report of Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Melbourne, October 1915).
[Melbourne : Government printer, 1915]. Proforma document, 110 x 210 mm, headed ‘Report of Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: To be forwarded by First Post’, with manuscript entries made by Dr. P. B. Bennie, Collins Street, dated 6 October 1915, reporting a case of tuberculosis in a patient named Paul Fielder, aged 45 years, residing at 7 …
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# 28564
BAYLEY, Richard (1745-1801)
An account of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the city of New-York, during part of the summer and fall of 1795.
New-York : Printed and sold by T. and J. Swords, printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street, 1796. Octavo, later half black morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt (corners bumped), spine with raised bands lettered in gilt (joints a little worn); patterned endpapers, pp [i]-iv, 5-160 (includes errata on …
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# 28701
H. FRANCIS & CO. (MELBOURNE)
Twentieth century almanack for 1904.
Containing much varied and useful information, and illustrated with fifteen views of European cities and scenery. Melbourne : H. Francis & Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists, 298 Bourke Street, 111 Collins Street, [1903]. Small octavo (180 x 120 mm), original illustrated wrappers with scene of interior of H. Francis & Co. pharmacy, inside and lower wrappers with …
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# 27324
Altered States : the Library of Julio Santo Domingo
New York : Anthology Editions, 2017. Quarto, boards in slipcase, pp. 480, illustrated. New copy. Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more than 50,000 …
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# 27743
AMALGAMATED DENTAL CO. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
[DENTISTRY] Installation & maintenance. A simple plan whereby the practitioner is saved much worry and inconvenience.
[Cover title]. Melbourne : Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd. [for Amalgamated Dental Co. Ltd.], [circa 1930]. Folding card, octavo (205 x 132 mm), printed in black, gold and red on cream card; centre with explanatory text; last side with colophon; in fine condition. Beautiful piece of graphic design by the Melbourne printing firm Arbuckle, Waddell. Rare. …
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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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# 27209
BOCK, Valerie
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ge Hama
London : Leprosy Mission, 1971. Second edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled, pp x, 67, b/w photographic illustrations, map; a very good copy. The story of the fight against leprosy in Papua New Guinea. Trove locates 4 copies (NLA; SLNSW; Monash University Library; Lohe Memorial Library)
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# 26930
YAP, P. M.
Suicide in Hong Kong.
With special refeence to attempted suicide. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1958. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Octavo, lettered wrappers (spine darkened), pp. x; 101, graphs and charts.
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# 26680
WILLETTS, George
Carte de visite commissioned by monumental mason J. Hanson of Ballarat to advertise his work, showing the headstone in the Old Ballarat Cemetery erected to the memory of the children of John and Mary Little.
[Circa 1870]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm, recto of mount with imprint of ‘Willetts, Photo, 19 Sturt Street, Ballarat’; verso inscribed in ink J. Hanson / Momental [i.e. Monumental] Works / Ballarat; the print has excellent clarity – all of the poignant text on the headstone is legible: Sacred to …