Yesterday’s Muse Books MEDICAL CATALOG Yesterday’s Muse Books 32 W Main St - Ste 1 Webster, NY USA 14580 (585) 265-9295 [email protected] www.websterbookstore.com 2 1. Every-Day Wonders Illustrated; or, Facts in Physiology which All Should Know. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1853. Reprint. 188 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Cloth spine, marbled boards. Hoolihan 1095 (describing the 1851 original): “’The object of the writer of this book has been to present a few of the truths of that science, which treats of the structure of the human body, and of the adaption of the external world to it, in such a form, as that they shall be readily apprehended by children and young people’. Very good. Boards lightly rubbed, ink name on front flyleaf, endpapers foxed. 2. Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New $60 York, for the Year 1861. Albany: Charles van Benthuysen, Printer., 1861. First Edition. 408 pp. 8vo. A collection of medical papers by various authors, significant for the inclusion of the short paper ‘Amputation of the cervix uteri’ by J. Marion Sims, who later released a full-length volume entitled ‘Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery...’ (Garrison-Morton 6057). The paper includes illustrations of a duck-billed speculum, and two figures illustrating a method for applying stitches to close the amputation wound. Good. In pencil on front endpaper: ‘Compliments of A.E. Larney [?] 1861, Dr. Hemstreet’. $75 Hemstreet is listed as the author of ‘Encysted tumor of pelvic origin’, included in this volume. Pages lightly stained & foxed throughout, minor loss from spine base, base of boards bumped. 3. [Faust, Bernhard Christoph; Porter, Henry H.; Condie, D. Francis] Porter’s Catechism of Health; or, Plain and Simple Rules for the Preservation of the Health and Vigour of the Constitution from Infancy to Old Age. For the Use of Schools. Philadelphia: Literary Rooms, No. 121 Chestnut Street, Office of the Journal of Health, Journal of Law, and Family Library of Health, 1831. Seventh edition. x, 202 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Hoolihan 1146. In relation to the original: “In some bibliographies and databases, this work is attributed to Henry H. Porter, who was publisher of the journals $125 stated in the imprint. This attribution may be based on the absence of Faust’s name on the title-page, or the fact the Porter’s Catechism is but loosely based on the original. Porter’s Catechism was extensively edited and/or rewritten by the Philadelphia physician D. Francis Condie, who was closely associated with Porter and John Bell in editing the Journal of health. Thomas Horrocks points out that Condie reoriented Faust’s Catechism to a predominantly middle-class, American readership: ‘Defining middle class life as beneficial to one’s health is just one example of how Condie refashioned Faust’s message... to bring it more in line with the emerging health reform movement of the period.’... In keeping with the theme of personal responsibility inherent to the (closely related) evangelical and health reform movements, Condie placed less emphasis on public health than Faust... Porter frequently reissued the Catechism in its two-year publishing history. In 1831 this first edition of the Catechism was published.” Very good. Former library copy - sticker on front board, Woodstock Historical Society bookplate on front endpaper. Boards rubbed, front free endpaper removed, one gathering loose, endpapers foxed. 4. Allis, Oscar H. An Inquiry into the Difficulties Encountered in the Reduction of Dislocations of the Hip. The Samuel D. Gross Prize Essay. Philadelphia: Dornan, Printer, 1896. First edition. xv, 171 pp. 8vo. The published version of the essay which won the 1895 Samuel D. Gross Fund prize, which was issued every five years by the Library of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. The author won $1000 for his work. The essays discusses various types of hip dislocation and their characteristics, and proposes treatment options. Illustrated with drawings throughout. Very good. Former copy of Rochester Academy of Medicine, with call numbers on spine, bookplate on front endpaper. Inscribed without signature by author $30 on front flyleaf (‘Dr. J.E Summers Omaha - Nebraska - With the compliments of the author -’). To order online, click book image to navigate directly to the listing page on our website. 3 5. An Association of Physicians; [Bell, John; Condie, David, Francis] The Journal of Health, Volume I. [No. 1-24]: September 9, 1829 to August 25, 1830. Philadelphia: L. Johnson, 1830. Fourth improved edition. 385-390, [1]-384 pp. (index bound in before text). 4to. A collection of twenty-four 16-page issues of a semi-monthly medical journal published in Philadelphia. A total of seventy-two issues were released between 1829 and 1832. Notable topics include: smallpox vaccination; temperance; life expectancy; water cure (hydropathy); health spas (baths); births and deaths in various major cities (London, Philadelphia, Charleston, etc.); hygiene; physical education of girls; tobacco and snuff; medical quackery; etc. $125 Hoolihan 2053: “The Journal is notable as the earliest serial publication in the United States that catered to the public’s growing concern with personal health, domestic sanitation, temperance, etc. It is also an example of an emerging phenomenon in American publishing of the 1830s: the mass-circulation periodical... According to Thomas Horrocks, ‘Bell and Condie used the journal to pursue two goals. The first concerned the authority of the medical profession in the management of disease. The editors were unrelenting in their attacks on Thomsonians, botanical doctors, homeopaths, animal magnetists and purveyors of various nostrums... The editors’ second goal related to the broader reform movement of the period. Bell and Condie believed, as did many other health reformers of the time, that their message of individual responsibility concerning one’s health was particularly relevant to their society’. S. Nissenbaum states that in 1831 the Journal became the first American publication to ‘come out unequivocally against the use of fermented as well as distilled beverages,’ though this had not been the editors’ original position. This concern helped place the temperance movement within the context of popular health reform generally.” Good. Rebacked with original spine label laid down and new endpapers, boards heavily toned along edges, a few pages foxed, moderate transfer. 6. An Old Physician [Alcott, William Andrus] The Physiology of Marriage. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1856. Reprint. vi, 259, [1] pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Hoolihan 42. In reference to original edition, Hoolihan states: “Alcott devotes himself in this frequently reprinted work to the social and moral, as well as the physical consideration of the relations of men and women in marriage. Alcott provides admonitions on ‘premature marriage’... the importance of an early understanding of reproductive physiology; the dangers in courtship of the ‘prurient and ungovernable passions and appetites’ of young males upon the ‘citadel of female character’... the $50 deleterious effects of ‘premature sexual indulgences,’ i.e. fornication and masturbation; ‘the physical laws of marriage’... pregnancy... abortion; contraception (coitus interruptus, rhythm method, abstinence); sexual behavior during lactation; venereal disease; and two concluding chapters on the laws of hygiene.” Near fine. 7. Andral, G. [Gabriel]; Townsend, Richard; West, William A Treatise on Pathological Anatomy, in Two Volumes New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1832. First American edition, and the second English translation (preceded by an 1829 Irish imprint). viii, 424; xviii,507 pp. 8vo. Original full calf, gilt titles & rules. A treatise on pathological anatomy by the French physician who also wrote the first monography on haematology. Good. Former library copy, usual marks. Spine labels absent, joints cracked with minor loss from spine head of volume 1, more significant loss from spine of vol. $150 2, ink owner information on endpapers, lightly foxed. 8. Aristotle [Pseudonym] The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher: Containing His Complete Masterpiece, Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man: to which is added The Family Physician, Being Approved Remedies for the Various Distempers Incident to the Human Body: Also, His Experienced Midwife, Absolutely Necessary for Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Childbearing Women: and His Last Legacy, Unfolding the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. London: Miller, Law, and Carter, 1826. Abridged. ‘New and improved edition’. vi, 216, [1] pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Original full calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles & rules. Though this edition specifies nine To order online, click book image to navigate directly to the listing page on our website. 4 engravings, it contains only four, with facsimiles of another two laid in. Hoolihan 126: “The abridged edition. The text of the Last legacy in this edition has been reduced to four chapters, in comparison with the nine chapters of the full text in the 1733 London edition.” Very good. Lightly rubbed, minimal abrasion along front joint. 9. Baunscheidt, Charles; Firmenich, J. Baunscheidtismus or The New Curing Method, Improved by Dr. J. Firmenich, to which is added a Treatise on the Eye, its Diseases and Cure. $200 Buffalo: J. Firmenich & Co., 1862. First American edition. xv, 274 pp. 8vo. Hoolihan 236/237 (describing the German original and the first English translation) together with Baunscheidt’s treatise on the eye (Hoolihan 238): “[Baunscheidt’s] interest in medicine followed a moment of enlightenment described in the 1859 English translation of this treatise... In this treatise $150 Baunscheidt outlines his peculiar theories of life and disease, the importance of applying therapeutic processes to the surface of the skin (rather than poisoning the internal organs with medicines), the practical application of the Lebenswecker and Oleum Baunscheidtii, and the ‘abducent’ principle on which this therapy rests. The Lebenswecker consisted of needles released by a spring mechanism in the handle that punctured the skin to a depth determined by the operator.