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John Gach Books, Inc. 10514 Marriottsville Road (Rear Building) PO Box 267 Randallstown, Maryland 21133 |
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GM 2223 (1868 edition). Facsimile reprint of the 1868 New Sydenham Society edition.
The great medieval synthesis of Galenic medicine. Facsimile reprint of the London 1930 edition. "This translation of Book I of the Canon is accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avicenna had upon many medieval scholars" [GM-5] #45.
The classic exposition of scientific method in medicine. Facsimile reprint of the 1927 Macmillan first edition in English.
Facsimile reprint of the 1845 Tegg edition.
Corvisart originally published in French 1806, this being a facsimile of the 1812 English translation; Auenbrugger first published in Latin in 1761, English translation 1824.Napoleon's favorite physician, "Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. He was the first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dyspnoea of effort" [GM-5 #2737]. Auenbrugger's discovery of immediate percussion of the chest, reproted in his 1761 Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani, did not become important in medicine until Corvisart's 1808 French translation.
Facsimile reprint of the 1925 Oxford University Press edition.
Cushing's first separately published monograph and the first clinical monograph on the hypophysis.
Walleriana 3973; GM-5 1966; Heirs of Hippocrates 1140.
The foundation text for homoeopathy. "The minute doses set down by [Hahnemann] did much to correct the evils of the polypharmacy of his time, in which overdosage was pervasive" [GM].
Contains all of Heberden's important papers. "The book was published by Heberden's son and at once acquired a European reputation" (GM-5 #2207). Facsimile reprint of the London 1802 translation.
Facsimile reprint of the London 1822 edition.
Facsimile reprint of the 1849 Sydenham Society London edition.
Facsimile reprint of the 1897 first edition of the first modern pediatrics textbook.
Facsimile reprint of the 1892 first American edition published by Blakiston.
Facsimile of the 1491 first edition of the first important printed medical book. With an appendix reproducing four illustrations from the 1493 Italian edition with commentary by Charles Singer. Reproduces in facsimile the original Latin text.
Facsimile reprints respectively of the London 1852 and 1833 editions.
Facsimile reprints in one volume of the 1919 and 1921 first editions in English published in Edinburgh by E. & S. Livingstone. Originally published in German as sections in the 8th edition of Kraepelin's Psychiatrie, 1909-1915.
The clinical companion to Kraepelin's great Lehrbuch, consisting of thirty lectures on every aspect of clinical psychiatry (hysteria, dementia praecox, manic-depression, paranoia, chronic alcoholism, delusions, addiction, imbecility, et cetera).
Facsimile reprint of the 1892 first edition in English, which translated the 7th revised German edition.
Facsimile reprint of the London 1821 original edition.
Translation of the 1745 edition with cases not included in the first edition.
Only four copies of the first edition are known to exist, the only one in America being at the Countway.
Manson is regarded as the father of tropical medicine.
Outstanding discussions of neuropsychiatric figures with much material not duplicated in other histories. In my opinion, a much-undervalued history of medicine.
Includes all the essays, albeit rearranged, in Aequanimitas and An Alabama Student.
Facsimile reprint of the 1921 Yale University Press original edition.
The only easily accessible Western edition of the original Russian text.
Pavlov won the Nobel Prize in physiology for the work reported in this volume - work which led directly to his discovery of the conditional reflex. GM 1022" "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric & pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments". The English translation was preceded by translations into German and French editions.
GM-5 #1764. The most influential work published on the subject in English.
Facsimile reprint of the rare 1806 edition.
Facsimile reprint of the 1838 first edition.
Facsimile reprint of the more complete 1842 NY edition. The 1841 London translation omitted dozens of cases. Ricord described the initial lesion in syphilis ("Ricord's chancre"), distinguished between gonorrhea and syphilis, and divided the progression of the latter into primary, secondary and tertiary stages. See GM-5 #2381.
Facsimile reprint of the 1812 first edition.
The first American treatise on psychiatry, published posthumously, which saw five unchanged editions through 1835 and which was the standard American textbook of psychiatry for a generation.
Facsimile reprint of the London 1806 English translation. "This beautifully illustrated work was the first textbook on the subject published in the Italian language. Its author has been called 'the father of Italian ophthalmology'" [GM-5] #5835.
GM-5 #6277: "One of the epoch-making books in medical literature." Facsimile reprint of the 1941 translation in Medical Classics, 5: 350-773.
Hunter & Macalpine pp.221-24; Meynell pp. 17-21. First issued by the Sydenham Society in Latin in 1844 in with more scholarly apparatus than this translation."Competing theories about hysteria circulated in the latter half of the [17th] century. London physician Thomas Sydenham used the term in a nonspecific sense to signify any mental disorder short of what we would call outright psychosis" [Stone Healing the Mind, p.42]. Sydenham, for whom hysteria was a catch-all category more or less corresponding to what we call 'neurosis,' diagnosed hysteria in a sixth of his patients, noting that depression often accompanied the symptoms and that they could co-exist with physical disease. Also contains separate discussions of madness.
The original is GM 1836. Facsimile reprint of the Birmingham 1785 first edition.Return to Gach Books home page
"Withering was one of the greatest medical botanists and his book is a pharmacological classic. … it was due to him that correct dosages were established and the action of digitalis in dropsy and on the heart became generally recognized" [GM].