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- Author: Cushing, Harvey.
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1927-1954.
12 offprints and pamphlets bound in library buckram. 245 x 185 mm. 1. A bibliographical study of the Galvani and the Aldini writings on animal electricity. Offprint from Annals of Science 1 (1936). 239-268pp. 5 plates. Original printed wrappers bound in. 2. William Beaumont's rendezvous with fame. Offprint from Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 8 (1935). 113-126pp. Plate. Original printed wrappers bound in. 3. "Apologia" from an unfinished bibliography of Vesalius. Introductory note by W. W. Francis. Offprint from Bulletin of the History of Medicine 8 (1940). 381-391pp. Original printed wrappers bound in. 4. Emancipators. Offprint from Boston Medical... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
Stockholm: 1939.
To Harvey Cushing on his 70th birthday from Scandinavian friends and colleagues. In Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 82, fasc. II-III (March 1939): [8], 99-363. Illustrated. Whole number. 238 x 151 mm. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original printed wrappers (slightly soiled) bound in. Stamp of neuropathologist Dr. Louise Eisenhart (1891-1967) on the front wrapper. Library cancellation stamp. This number of the Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica is a festschrift of neurological papers by Cushing's Scandinavian friends; it includes Arne Torkildsen's "A new palliative operation in cases of inoperable occlusion of the Sylvian aqueduct" (Garrison-Morton 4909.1). A copy of the number was intended to be... more information
Price: 500.00 USD
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas for the Harvey Cushing Society, 1939.
Blue cloth, dustjacket (chipped, spine with waterstains). more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Berlin: Springer, 1935.
Intrakranielle Tumoren. vi, [2], 139pp. Text illustrations. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 251 x 167 mm. Half cloth, boards ca. 1935, paper label on spine, slight wear and fading. First Edition in German of Cushing's "Intracranial Tumors" (1932). Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing 18. more information
Price: 450.00 USD
1928.
Electro-surgery as an aid to the removal of intracranial tumors. Offprint from Surgery, Gynceology and Obstetrics 47 (1928). 34pp. Illustrated. 265 x 194 mm. Cushing’s paper marks the introduction of electro-coagulation in neurosurgery. Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing 269. Garrison-Morton 4897.1. more information
Price: 500.00 USD
Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1932.
Intracranial tumours. ix, [3], 150, [2]pp. Text illustrations. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1932. 250 x 159 mm. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slight wear at extremities. Gift inscription on endpaper from John C. Bennett to E[dmund] W[ebster] Meisenhelder, head of the West Side Sanitarium in York, PA. "[This] book stands as a highly significant landmark, since it represents an over-all report on Cushing's life work. And it represents also the final report of the series which he had started in January 1905 on the 'special field of neurological surgery'" (Fulton, p. 605). The edition consisted of 2039 copies, of... more information
Price: 400.00 USD
Washington DC: National Academy Sciences, 1931.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences Vol. 17. No. 4. Very Good++ complete number. There are three papers by Cushing in this number. The current paper, pps. 163-170 plus 1 Plate. In addition: II-"The Similarity in the Response to Posterior Lobe Extract (Pituitrin) and to Pilocarpine when Injected in the Cerebral Ventricles" and III-"The Action of Atropine in Counteracting the Effects of Pituitrin and of Pilocarpine Injected into the Cerebral Ventricles". Covers mild wear. This together with parts IV-VI which appeared in the May, 1931 issue of the Proc. nat. Acad Sci. were the basis for ther William Henry Welch at Mount... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Washington DC: National Academy Sciences, 1931.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences Vol. 17. No. 5. Very Good++ complete number. There are three papers by Cushing in this number. The current paper, pps. 238-247. In addition: V-"The Counteractive Effect of Tribromethanol (Avertin) on the Stimulatory Response to Pituitrin Injected in the Ventricle" and VI-"Concerning a Possible 'Parasympathetic Center' in the Diencephalon". Covers mild wear. This issue together with the April 1931 issue of the Proc. nat. Acad. Sci. provided the basis for Cushing's William Henry Welch Lectuer at Mount Sinai Hospital (1931) entitled "The Posterior Pituitary Hormone and the Parasympathetic Nervous System". Cushing Bibliography #294. more information
Price: 50.00 USD
Springfiled, IL: Charles C. Thomas , 1939.
Frontispiece. Blue cloth, dust jacket (chipped, small tears). more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1940.
8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Springfield: Thomas, 1939.
Price: 400.00 USD
Charles C Thomas, 1939.
First ed. Orig. cloth, d.j. (sunned, upper edge chipped affecting spine title). 6 plates. more information
Price: 40.00 USD
1901.
Concerning the poisonous effect of pure sodium chloride solutions upon the nerve-muscle preparation. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 6 (1901). 77-90pp. Illustrated. 252 x 175 mm. (, uncut and unopened). Original printed wrappers. Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing 46. more information
Price: 150.00 USD
1899.
Observations upon the origin of gall-bladder infections and upon the experimental formation of gall-stones. Offprint from Johns Hopkins Bulletin 10 (1899). 12pp. 237 x 151 mm. Original printed wrappers, edges a little browned. Stamp of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Library on front wrapper. Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing 33. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
1900.
Exploratory laparotomy under local anesthesia for acute abdominal symptoms occurring in the course of typhoid fever. Offprint from Philadelphia Medical Journal (1900). 22pp. 210 x 140 mm. Without wrappers. Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing 37. more information
Price: 150.00 USD
Birmingham AL: Classics of Neurology and Neurosurgery Library / Gryphon Editions, 1990.
LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES. THIS IS NO. 104. A Fine hardback Facsimile Reprint of the 1917 First Edition. In full leather binding with raised bands spine, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration spine and covers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark. Black leather bookplate with gilt lettering front paste-down and protective tissue guard. With 24 pp. introductory booklet with portrait of Harvey Cushing tipped-in. 8vo. 296 pp. more information
Price: 110.00 USD
Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1944.
A visit to Le Puy-en-Velay. An illustrated diary. xiv, 40, [2]pp. Text illustrations, some in color. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1944. 233 x 154 mm. Original paper-covered boards, white paper spine. Minor spotting on back cover. Embossed ownership stamp of Dr. Franc D. Ingraham. more information
Price: 750.00 USD
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1979.
Quarto. X, 341, [3]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile edition of "The Pituitary Body and its Disorders" in which the Cushing's syndrome is described for the first time. Cushing's syndrom is a disorder caused by an excessive production of cortisol. It can also be caused by excessive use of cortisol or other similar steroid (glucocorticoid) hormones. When too much cortisol is produced in the adrenal glands, or an excess amount is taken as a treatment for other diseases, this affects all of the tissues and organs... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Washington DC: National Academy Sciences, 1932.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences Vol. 18. No. 7. Very Good+ complete number. Cushing's paper pps. 500-510. Cushing Bibliography #302. Original printed covers soil, mild scuffs. more information
Price: 40.00 USD
Washington DC: National Academy Sciences, 1931.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences Vol. 17. No. 4. Very Good++ complete number. There are three papers by Cushing in this number. The current paper, pps. 171-177. In addition: I-"The Reaction to Posterior Pituitary Extract (Pituitrin) when Introduced into the Cerebral Ventricles" and III-"The Action of Atropine in Counteracting the Effects of Pituitrin and of Pilocarpine Injected into the Cerebral Ventricles". Covers mild wear. Cushing Bibliography #294. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
