| Author: |
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria |
| Title: |
DE MOTU CORDIS ET ANEURYSMATIBUS. |
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Opus Postumum in Duas Partes Divisum. Naples, Felix-Carolus Musca, 1738. 4to. pp. half title, title in red and black with publisher's vignette, xxviii, 219; 8 engraved plates (6 folding). Modern half vellum with marbled boards. Ex lib. Karolinska Institute with discreet stamp on title page. Occasional light spotting/browning in the text; inkspot on p. 219 (last page) and lower outer corner replaced. Plates very clean. |
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* Blake, p. 254; Wellcome II, p. 441.
Lancisi (1654-1720) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Italian school. He noted the frequency of aneurysm and showed the importance of syphilis, palpitation, violent emotions, and excess as causes of aneurysms. He was the first to describe cardiac syphilis and recognised the relation of heart alterations to valvular stenosis and chronic lung lesions. Lancisi shares with Vieussens the honour of laying the foundation of the pathology of heart disease - G&M 2973 (1728 edition), Long, History of Pathology p. 109 £1400 £1200 |
| Author: |
LANGRISH, Browne |
| Title: |
PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS UPON BRUTES |
| Description: |
In Order to discover a Safe, and Easy Method of dissolving the Stone in the Bladder, by Injections etc. FIRST EDITION. London, C. Hitch, 1746. pp. xxii, 154. Recent quarter calf and marbled boards. Slight foxing; number in red ink on half title and title page. |
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* Wellcome III, p. 446. The experiments were upon dogs and demonstrated the efficacy of a number of treatments for bladder stones. £385 £320 |
| Author: |
LEE, James |
| Title: |
AN INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY |
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Containing An Explanation of the Theory of that Science, and an Interpretation of its Technical Terms. Extracted from the Works of Dr Linnæus, and calculated to assist such as may be desirous of studying that Author’s Method and Improvements….To which is added an Appendix; Containing Upwards of Two Thousand English Names of Plants, referred to their proper Titles in the Linnæan System. FIRST EDITION. London, J. and R. Tonson, 1760. pp. xvi, 320; 12 copper plates each with opposing descriptive text (some slight offsetting/browning), two Tables. Bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. Contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt decoration; spine ends reinforced; new label. An attractive tight copy. |
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* Wellcome III, p. 525; Soulsby 453. The author describes himself on the title page as Nursery Man, at the Vineyard, at Hammersmith. The work is mainly taken from Linnaeus's 'Philosophia britanica'. £125 £100 |
| Author: |
LEWIS, William |
| Title: |
AN EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. |
| Description: |
Or of the Natural and Artificial Substances made use of in Medicine etc. The Third Edition with numerous additions and corrections by John Aikin. London, J. Johnson, 1784. Large 4to. pp. xxiii, 691, (xxx), (ii -Pubs. ads). Contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original (damaged) label. Staining on title and occasionally in the text. |
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* In this work Lewis discusses the individual history, pharmaceutical properties, and therapeutic value of a variety of medicines whose efficacy was known or could be deduced from logical reasoning - HoH, 927. Wellcome III, 312 £350 £270 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, P.C.A. |
| Title: |
RESEARCHES ON PHTHISIS |
| Description: |
Anatomical, Pathological and Therpaeutical. Translated by Walter Hayle Walshe. London, Sydenham Society, 1844. pp. xxxv, (i), 571. Original blind-stamped black cloth, small dent at edge of front cover. A very good clean copy. |
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* G&M 3221 (first edition in French). This work on tuberculosis established Louis' reputation as a clinician £50 £35 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, P.C.A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMIQUE, PATHOLOGIQUE ET THERAPEUTIQUE SUR LA MALADIE CONNUE SOUS LES NOMS DE FIEVRE TYPHOIDE |
| Description: |
Putride, Adynamique, Ataxique, Bilieuse, Muqueuse, Gastro Enterite, Enterite Folliculeuse, Dothinenterie, etc. Comparée avec les Maladies Aigues les Plus Ordinaires. Deuxième Edition, Considerablement Augmentée. 2 Volumes. Paris, J.B.Bailliere. 1841. pp. (i), xxiii, 542; (iv), 523. Original quarter leather,marbled boards. Spines chipped and worn and laid down; light foxing of some of text. |
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* G&M 5023 - First edition of 1829 but has slightly different title.'Although Louis did not clearly differentiate typhus from typhoid fever, he gave the first clinical - pathological description of the latter, and he was the first to use the term 'typhoide' (meaning stupor) to indicate the mental condition of the patient This 2 volume treatise was based on a multitude of case studies' - Heirs of Hippocrates, 1440. Louis has been said to be the father of evidence-based medicine £165 £135 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, Pierre, Ch. A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGIQUES SUR LA PHTHISIE. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Paris, Gabon, 1825. pp. xxiv, 16, 560. Contemporary blue quarter calf with marbled boards, original owner's name, Dr Reilhac, at foot of spine. Browning of text, mainly light. |
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* G&M 3221. One of the most influential figures in French medicine, Louis received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1813. This work on tuberculosis, which established Louis' reputation as a clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on 358 dissections and 1,960 clinical cases. His use of statistical analysis is noteworthy. £320 £270 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, Pierre, Ch. A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGIQUES SUR LA PHTHISIE |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Paris, Gabon. 1825. pp. xxiv, 16, 560. Recent quarter red morocco, marbled boards. Very occasional minor browning in the text and index but an unusually clean and crisp copy. |
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* G&M 3221. One of the most influential figures in French medicine, Louis received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1813. This work on tuberculosis, which established Louis' reputation as a clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on 358 dissections and 1960 cases. His use of statistical analysis is noteworthy £320 £220 |
| Author: |
LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. |
| Title: |
THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHER, His Six Books DE RERUM NATURA Done into English Verse, With Notes. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. |
| Description: |
Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield...For Anthony Stephens. 1683. Engraved Frontispiece, pp. (xl), 223, 59. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Slight water staining at margins, mainly early and at the fore-edge, otherwise, a very good copy. |
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* Translated by Thomas Creech. A pencilled comment on the rear pastedown notes that this translation was highly praised by Mr Dryden.
Lucretius Carus (95-55 B.C.) was a contemporary of Varro and a poet and philosopher and, as Castiglioni notes, 'author of the most beautiful scientific work of classic Latinism, the De Rerum Natura, in which Lucretius discusses the mystery of life with the marvellous clarity of genius. Although he was not a physician, his famous work contains many advanced statements about anatomy and physiology, diet and hygiene, and the effect of climate; the sixth book gives the celebrated account of the Plague of Athens'. £255 £190 |
| Author: |
LUNACY |
| Title: |
FIFTY-EIGHTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR |
| Description: |
London, H.M.S.O., 1904. pp. xx, (ii), 504; many Tables, most folding. Original blue cloth, spine (faded) relaid, patchy fading of covers. Title page a little soiled and very occasional light browning of margins in the text. |
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These reports were required by the Act of 1845 £55 £30 |
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