Medicine

  • [WESTERN DISTRICT] Mr. Marchant, consulting optician, "Kent House", Geelong.

    # 40083

    MARCHANT, Percy

    [WESTERN DISTRICT] Mr. Marchant, consulting optician, “Kent House”, Geelong.

    Visits professionally as follows: Ararat – Tuesday morning, June 11th, at Mr. Wild’s Pharmacy. Coleraine – Wednesday (till 2.30 only), June 12th, at Mrs. Braithwaite’s Koroit Inn. Heywood – Thursday morning, June 13th, at Righetti’s Hotel. Portland – Thursday afternoon and evening, June 13th, at Mr. Martell’s Pharmacy. Hamilton – Friday (from 11 till 5), …

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  • An essay on the nature and treatment of Australian diseases, including, more especially, dysentery and fever

    # 39258

    CLUTTERBUCK, James B.

    An essay on the nature and treatment of Australian diseases, including, more especially, dysentery and fever

    Melbourne : Stillwell and Knight, Printers, 1868. Republished from the “Australian medical journal.”. Octavo, gilt-lettered flush cut limp cloth, bookplate from the John Chapman Collection to front pastedown, pp. [iv]; 60; [4], a fine copy. Ferguson, 8391a. Rare, with no copy sold at auction for nearly a quarter-century (Australian Book Auctions, 17 October 2000, lot …

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  • [MARITIME] Wire splicing for yachtsmen

    # 37427

    SKIRVING, Robert Scot (1859-1956)

    [MARITIME] Wire splicing for yachtsmen

    / by R. Scot Skirving, an old “Conway”. Drawings by J. Hazelton and photographs by E. A. Bradford. Sydney : The Australasian Medical Publishing Company, Limited, 1931. Octavo (215 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards with vignette illustration of the 1870s sailing ship HMS Conway to upper board (both boards sunned at edges), pp. 34, …

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  • James Miller, surgeon and theologian : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

    # 36425

    MOFFAT, John (1819-1894)

    James Miller, surgeon and theologian : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 75 x 65 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of ‘Edinburgh Stereographic Company’ (probably a publishing imprint of John Lennie); verso with facsimile signature of the sitter ‘Jas. Miller’, and with the original Scots-Australian owner’s name in pencil ‘McMillan’; the albumen prints are both …

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  • Sir Robert Christison, toxicologist and physician : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

    # 36035

    MOFFAT, John (1819-1894)

    Sir Robert Christison, toxicologist and physician : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 75 x 63 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of ‘Lennie / 46 Princes St. / Edinburgh’; verso with facsimile signature of the sitter ‘R. Christison’, and with the original Scots-Australian owner’s name in pencil ‘McMillan’; the albumen prints are both crisp images with …

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  • Flexible capsules of Haemoglobin

    # 33875

    BOOTS PURE DRUG CO. LTD.

    Flexible capsules of Haemoglobin

    [Title from printed caption on lid]. Nottingham : Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., circa 1890. Antique medical tin (100 x 85 x 30 mm), which would have originally contained haemoglobin capsules for the treatment of baldness and other conditions; the tin is oxidised. ‘To meet those troubles that are caused by Nerve Waste, Blood Poverty, Indigestion …

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  • Altered States : the Library of Julio Santo Domingo

    # 35528

    Altered States : the Library of Julio Santo Domingo

    New York : Anthology Editions, 2017. Quarto, boards in slipcase, pp. 480, illustrated. New copy, still sealed. 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 …

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  • The Homoeopathic Medical Doctrine, or, "Organon of the Healing Art;". A New System of Physic,

    # 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), contemporary half calf over marbled …

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  • [PANDEMICS] Report of a Case of Infectious Disease. (Melbourne, January 1919).

    # 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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  • [PANDEMICS] Report of Case of Infectious Disease (Diphtheria). (Melbourne, June 1919).

    # 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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  • [PANDEMICS] Report of Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Melbourne, October 1915).

    # 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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  • [DENTISTRY] Installation & maintenance. A simple plan whereby the practitioner is saved much worry and inconvenience.

    # 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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  • 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.

    # 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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  • The home nurse

    # 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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  • [NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843

    # 19085

    Anon.

    [NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843

    [Drop title] Nominal Roll of of Men who have become Non Effective Since the Regiment left New South Wales, up to the 1 May 1843, Cawnpore, 1843. Manuscript in ink on pale blue wove paper, folio (340 x 205 mm), 2 bifolia written on [6] sides in a neat clerical hand, manuscript column rules; a …

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  • [EASTER ISLAND] Double Bay from South Head Road. [1853]

    # 16001

    CROFT, Thomas; TERRY, F.C. [Frederic Casemero] (artist), 1825-1869; SANDS & KENNY

    [EASTER ISLAND] Double Bay from South Head Road. [1853]

    Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867]. Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (lacking the blank third and fourth sides), steel engraving in black ink 118 x 168 mm (irregular), signed in image ‘Terry, del., 1853’; the letter paper is written on both remaining sides and bears a letter from the Tahiti-based merchant Thomas …

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