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BERNARD, Claude |
| Title: |
LECONS SUR LES EFFETS DES SUBSTANCES TOXIQUES ET MEDICAMENTEUSES. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Paris, Bailliere et Fils. 1857. lacks half title. pp. vii, 488; 32 text Figs. Contemporary quarter morocco, scuffed with head of spine knocked. Bookplate on front pastedown and small stamp at foot of title. Contents very clean. |
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* G&M 1863 - 'Bernard included a summary of his experiments with curare in the Lecons to establish his priority in researching its effects. He demonstrated in these experiments the susceptibility of the nerve-muscle preparation to a chemical (pharamcological) effect'. £150 |
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HUXHAM, Doctor (John) |
| Title: |
MEDICAL AND CHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ANTIMONY |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. FIRST ISSUE. London, John Hinton, 1756. pp. (viii), 78 (interleaved with blanks), (iv). Old marbled boards, recently rebacked. Ink sig. of Alfred Haviland Dec 1841 at top of title. Very occasional spotting. A nice copy. |
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* Wellcome III, p.323. Huxham was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1755 for this treatise. In this work he gives directions for the preparation and use of antimony and briefly discusses its medical uses (HoH 821). Paracelsus is credited with the introduction of antimony, chiefly as an emetic and purgative; it was banned in France in the 16th century by royal decree as a dangerous poison; however, Louis XIV overturned the decree in 1666 after a cure by tartar emetic containing antimony. £150 |
| Author: |
JONES, John |
| Title: |
THE MYSTERIES OF OPIUM REVEAL'D |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, Richard Smith, 1701. pp. (xi), 371; folding Table of doses of opiates, tear neatly repaired. Contemporary panelled calf with gilt decoration to spine which is relaid, corners repaired; two old ink sigs. on title; light spotting/browning in the text and two old red ink marks in margin of two pages; small burn in one leaf with loss of one letter; browning of fore-margin of last leaf. |
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* Blake, p. 236. The earliest English description of drug addiction. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 282-284 - 'From this early treatise on opium, its actions, uses and abuses are quoted descriptions of chronic opium addiction which the author recognised as comparable to alcoholism; the opium withdrawal or abstinence syndrome; and his method of withdrawing the drug from an addict which included the use of wine as a partial substitute until withdrawal was complete'. £695 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
A MECHANICAL ACCOUNT OF POISONS IN SEVERAL ESSAYS. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION but may be a pirate edition. London, Printed by J.R. for Ralph South, 1702. pp. (xiv), 175, (i); 1 folding engraved Plate. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked retaining original label, corners repaired. Slight soiling of title page, mainly at margins, otherwise a clean copy. |
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* Blake, p. 295. Mead's first and most important published work and based on numerous experiments done during his leisure time. Apart from the well known essay on the viper and its anatomy (he tasted viper venom with no ill effects) other essays include the tarantula, the mad dog and opium. £265 |
| Author: |
MORTIMER, W. G. |
| Title: |
PERU. HISTORY OF COCA. "THE DIVINE PLANT" OF THE INCAS. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. New York, J.H.Vail & Company, 1901. pp. xxxi, 576; Frontis. and numerous Figs. Original red cloth, recased. Ex lib. with small stamp only at top of both f.e.ps, title and first page of Preface. |
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* G&M 2040.1 - The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Research on the active principle, cocaine, is documented from its isolation in 1859 to the end of the 19th century. £210 |
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