Medicine

# 16140

HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY (HOBART)

The Medical telephone : containing hints on the preservation of health, notes on nursing and feeding, plain directions for treating diseases, ambulance lectures on wounds and fractures. 

Hobart : The Homoeopathic Pharmacy, 1883. Duodecimo, original printed linen wrappers, 116 pp; a fine copy. Scarce.  

# 16143

GIBSON, William.

The true method of dieting horses containing many curious and useful observations concerning their marks, colour and external shape; their temper and instinct ; and how they are to be governed, so as to prevent accidents and diseases

London : Osborn and Longman, 1731. Octavo, contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (boards rubbed and a little scuffed, corners a little worn, front hinge is a little weak), spine with raised bands with gilt lettering; pp iv, iv, [ii], 236, vi; historiated initials, headpieces, side notes; a good copy. The third edition of this …

# 15493

OSLER, William (1849 - 1919)

The principles and practice of medicine (first edition with clipped signature)

Designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine. New York : D. Appleton, 1892. First edition, second state (the spelling of Gorgias corrected on p. vi), with the advertisements dated September 1892. Octavo, handsomely bound in full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with contrasting title label, marbled endpapers (with a clipped signature of Wm. Osler …

# 15509

Hospitals in Persia

Medical Mission Series. Philadelphia : The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, 1913. Duodecimo, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrations. A fine copy. History and guide to medical mission work in various cities across Persia, including views of hospitals in Tabriz and Urumia with a Kurdish Chief. No other copy recorded.

# 15420

BRAGG, Paul C.

The South Sea culture of the abdomen

[Cover: Bragg System]. Burbank, California : Health Science, 1971. Sixth printing. Octavo booklet, illustrated wrappers, staple bound, 30, [4] pp; illustrated; a very good copy. Guide to maintaining a healthy digestive system through diet and exercise. Bragg’s method is purportedly based on aspects of physical culture in Pacific Islands communities.

# 14988

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Tempting cooking recipes

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1933]. Octavo, original wrappers (a few light marks), calendars for 1933 and 1934 inside upper wrapper, 16 pp, illustrated; a very good copy. Hoyle, 899. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes.

# 14985

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Health hints and cooking recipes

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1930]. Octavo, original wrappers (upper wrapper with light foxing, lower wrapper with short tear), calendar for 1930 and first half of 1931 inside upper wrapper, 16 pp, illustrated; internally clean and sound. Hoyle, 896. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains …

# 14984

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Economical cooking recipes

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1926]. Octavo, original wrappers (upper wrapper with light foxing), calendar for 1927 on lower wrapper, 16 pp, illustrated; internally clean and sound. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes. Copies are recorded in five Australian collections (State Library of New …

# 14981

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

The value of keeping fit : this booklet also contains a number of cooking recipes.

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1932]. Octavo, original wrappers (upper wrapper with tear and corner crease at bottom edge), calendar for 1932 and 1933 inside front cover, 16 pp, illustrated; internally clean and sound. Hoyle, 902. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes.

# 15217

McIVOR-TYNDALL, Alexander J.

[CHEIROGNOMY] Revelations of the hand. A scientific study of the shape and markings of the hand, as an index to character, disease and tendencies, with explanatory illustrations.

New York : G.A. Dahlgren, 1900. First edition. Square octavo, publisher’s illustrated red cloth boards, front free endpaper bearing a presentation inscription by the author, dated March 4 1901, pp 169 (including plates and line illustrations) followed by [15] leaves of full page plates showing the hands of various celebrities of the day; a marginal tear …

# 13999

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. VICTORIAN BRANCH.

Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia.

[Melbourne] : Stillwell & Co., printers & publishers, [between 1900 and 1910]. Broadsheet, 500 x 310 mm, printed recto only in red and black ink; original horizontal folds; foxed and with tearing and loss to the edges. 

# 13986

VICTORIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRAILLE WRITERS

Eyes to the blind

Melbourne : Victorian Association of Braille Writers, [c. 1940]. Oblong duodecimo, pamphlet, die-cut, revealing an image of Louis Braille, pp [8], Braille alphabet insert; waterstained, staples rusted. Rare, unrecorded in Australian libraries. 

# 12365

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 …

# 12275

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, …

# 11786

McLAREN, Chas. I.

[MISSIONS] Eleven weeks in a Japanese police cell

Melbourne : S. J. Bacon (Marshall, Morgan &​ Scott Ltd.), [1943]. Second edition, revised. Small octavo, publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers (a little toned), 43 pp, foreword by R. Wilson Macaulay, Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, 1 photographic portrait, music notation, a good copy.  McLaren was an Australian Presbyterian missionary and Professor of Neurology …

# 9960

FNLAYSON, J.C.

Life and journeyings in Central Australia

Melbourne : printed by Arbuckle, Waddell, for the author, 1925. First edition. Small octavo, original green wrappers with gold lettering, (some edge wear to lower wrapper), pp 76, photographic illustrations, a fine copy. Memoir of a nurse who spent two and a half years at Oodnadatta hospital between 1914 and 1916.

# 8583

HOWITT, William (1792-1879)

[BOTANY] Holograph letter of William Howitt re. propagation of Eucalyptus globulus in North America

Single sheet, 210 x 270 mm, folded, manuscript in ink over [4] pp octavo, in the hand of writer and traveller William Howitt (father of A.W. Howitt), headed 'Vielenheim, Bruneck, Tyrol, Sept. 30, 1877', to an unnamed correspondent (evidently a natural scientist in Connecticut, U.S.A.), discussing the idea of propagating Eucalyptus globulus in North America, …

# 6956

[FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA, VICTORIAN SECTION]

Background information on the Flying Doctor Service of Australia (unpublished)

Cover title. [Melbourne?] : [Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Victorian section], [circa 1950]. An unrecorded text, which appears to be a draft for a Flying Doctor Service of Australia fund raising leaflet. Quarto, roneo printed, 5 pp (staples rusted, but complete, with light horizontal fold), dating based on mention of statiistics for the year 1949, …