Vintage Medical Books in Fine Gilded Leather from the Classics store of Medicine Library (1978-1982) all in Mint Condition!

These Classics of Medicine store by Gryphon are Numbered Limited Edition Full Leather-Bound Books featuring Hubbed Spines, 22k Gold Accents, 22k Gold Gilt Edges, Marbled Endpapers, And Sewn-In Silk Bookmarks. Smyth sewn binding with hidden muslin joints accentuate the fine binding.

All 5 of these books are in MINT CONDITION (Fine Condition) without blemish and include the pre-printed limited edition numbered (#5343) Ex-Libris cards for the first owner (Dr Joseph Mollura, MD) from whose estate they originate.

The 4 offerings of this listing are:
1) The Works of Thomas Sydenham (1979 – orig 1848) Two Volumes in one cover, 276 & 395 pages
Thomas Sydenham (1624 –1689) was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance.

2) The Life of Sir William Osler (1982- orig 1925) Volume I (685 pages) & Volume II (728 pages) by Harvey Cushing
Sir William Osler (1849 –1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope".

3) Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion (1980- orig 1883) (280 pages) by William Beaumont
William Beaumont (1785 –1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion. Billed as the most famous book in American Medicine, this book details the experiments on and observations of Alexis St. Martin, whose gunshot wound to the stomach never healed but became Beaumont's portal for observation for a period of several years.

4) The Etiology of Childbed Fever (1981- Orig 1861) by Ignac Semmelweis
Semmelweis angered the medical community by suggesting Doctors should wash their hands…
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865) was an ethnic German-Hungarian physician now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (AKA "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis supposedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating.