Medicine
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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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# 26903
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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# 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 …
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# 26525
Camp Publication Committee
Normal : souvenir of the quarantine camp, Jubilee Oval, Adelaide, Feb. 26th – Mar. 5th, 1919.
[Adelaide : Camp Publication Committee, 1919]. Quarto, gilt-lettered wrappers, string tied (small tape repairs to spine), pp. 22, illustrated with photographs of camp life, a couple of pencil marks. Includes essays, poems, photographs, songs and other records of daily life. The title of the souvenir comes from ‘the monotonous verdict of our common friend, the …
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# 26519
O'BRIEN, William
[WESTERN DISTRICT] Account for the hire of horses and traps from William O’Brien, Warrnambool, to Dr. William Boyd. January 1866 – March 1868.
Manuscript account, single octavo sheet (180 x 112 mm) written in ink on both sides, headed ‘Warrnambool, March 30th / 68, Dr. Boyd, Dr. to W. O’Brien’, itemising a number of transactions involving the hire of horses and/or traps by Dr. William Boyd from merchant William O’Brien, made between 3 January 1866 and 30th March …
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# 25826
FOOTE, E. B.
The seven wonders of the human body and some of its freaks. An illustrated lecture of popular physiology.
[Together with] Autotoxæmia self poisoned blood. Explaining the origin, relation and treatment of a variety of common ailments and chronic diseases. [Cover title : Human wonders, freaks and diseases]. New York : Murray Hill Publishing Co., 1892. Octavo, decorated wrappers (lacking the lower wrapper), edges worn, old sticker to upper wrapper, pp. 68; 149; [1 – …
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# 25444
AIDS Health Project
HIV Counselor perspectives
San Francisco : written and produced by the UCSF AIDS Health Project for the California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS. Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1991 – Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2007. 77 issues, two in photocopy, hole punched as issued. ‘Started in 1991, PERSPECTIVES (and the PERSPECTIVES Supplement) is devoted to …
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# 26271
DURHAM, Stephen & WILLIAMS, Susan
AIDS hysteria : a Marxist analysis
Presented at the Pacific Northwest Marxist Scholars Conference, University of Washington, April 11-13, 1986. Seattle, WA : Freedom Socialist Publications, 1986. Quarto, stapled lettered wrappers, pp. 11.
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# 25228
Anon.
Medical aspects of human sexuality (five issues)
A journal for physicians, covering the physical, psychological, and cultural components of human sexuality and related aspects of family life. Vol. II, No. 2; Vol. II, No. 4; Vol. II, No. 5; Vol. II, No. 10; Vol. III, No. 5. New York : Clinical Communications, February 1968 – May 1969. Five issues, quarto, lettered wrappers, …
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# 25422
BRODSKY, Isadore
Double talk. The facts of identical twins (signed copy)
Sydney : Old Sydney Free Press, 1963. First edition. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (spine faded), pp. 102, illustrations. With signed personalised inscription from the author on the endpaper.
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# 24477
[A. J. WHITE, LTD.?]
[QUACK MEDICINE; SHAKERS] Mother Seigel’s Syrup / Prehistoric animals
[U.K.] : [for A. J. White, Ltd., New York, U.S.A.?], [c. 1910]. Single sheet, 130 x 292 mm, folding to 130 x 73 mm, printed on both sides, with colour illustrated front panel advertising Mother Seigel’s Syrup, and colour illustrated rear panel featuring a mammoth and titled in red ‘Prehistoric Animals’, with a further 4 …
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# 23828
WILKINSON & CO. (ADELAIDE)
The Viceroy home guide : useful everyday hints for the home
Adelaide : Wilkinson & Co., 1914. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with view of Wilkinson & Co.’s Grenfell Street headquarters), inner wrappers with advertisements for Viceroy tea and Arab coffee, pp 97, [1], with numerous photographic plates illustrating Wilkinson & Co.’s tea, coffee and general merchant business, advertisements; a good …
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# 23518
W.H. COMSTOCK CO. LTD.
Do you value your health? Cooking recipes to interest every housewife will also be found in this little book.
/ published by the proprietors of Dr. Morse’s Root Pills and Mirpil Skin Balm. [Sydney : W.H. Comstock Co. Ltd., 1934]. Octavo pamphlet (190 x 120 mm), pictorial wrappers (faint vertical crease), calendar for 1934 and 1935 inside upper wrapper, 16 pp; a good copy.
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# 23345
CUTTING, C.K.; THE NAYTURA FOODATORIUM (MELBOURNE)
Chart No. 1 Planned Menus : Diet and rejuvenation chart; Chart No. 2 Plain facts worth a fortune : Health rules and hints; Chart No. 3 Classification and combined meals : Simple health food combination chart.
Melbourne : The Naytura Foodatorium (The Nutritional Reasearch Group), 300 Little Collins Street, [between 1930 and 1940]. Three folding cards in identical narrow folio format (320 x 125 mm folded, opening to 320 x 600 mm), printed on yellow, orange and green card respectively, each with dietary information and planned menus printed across [8] panels; …
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# 23343
"THE WARDMASTER" [Disabled Men's Association of Australia]
The home nurse
Melbourne : Veritas Pub. Co., 1930. Octavo (183 x 123 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, 63 pp, a very good copy.
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# 22297
BATCHELDER & CO.
Photographic portrait of Dr. James Bridgeham Motherwell, Melbourne, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 194 x 63 mm (mount), verso imprinted ‘Photographed at Batchelder’s, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’; a strong print with some very mild scattered foxing, not affecting the vignetted image; the sitter is identified from the 19th century caption on the accompanying original window mount. The distinguished Dr. Motherwell …