Published by Brewin Books, United Kingdom, Warwickshire, 2007
ISBN 10: 1858584124 ISBN 13: 9781858584126
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. West, a Londoner by birth, trained at St Thomas' Hospital. He settled in Birmingham in 1854 at a time when surgery was being transformed. Anaesthesia, after its inception in the mid-1840s, enabled surgeons to operate without subjecting patients to the agonising ordeals of the past and was adopted with enthusiasm by West and his colleagues. Lister's antiseptic methods, on the other hand, were greeted with hostility by many when they were first communicated to professional colleagues in 1867. Those, like West, who did embrace Listerism, had to convince their more sceptical counterparts of its efficacy while they, in turn, sought to prove rigorous attention to hygiene was equally effective.James West kept a journal. The last and only surviving example has been included in the biography. The diary contains a wealth of information about his family, friends, colleagues and patients, as well as providing an insight into West's character. West was also an inveterate traveller visiting - on occasions with his wife, a native of Great Houghton, near Barnsley in Yorkshire - British and continental hospitals, medical schools and health resorts. West's career was not trouble free. In 1857/8, he fought a long and bitter election dispute for the post of Honorary Surgeon to Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, but by the time he died at the age of fortynine, West was a well-respected, successful and wealthy man. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, Providence, R.I., 2001
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Softcover. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear with dampstained and rippled back. Contents: Foster, An appreciation of Eleanor. Sax, Rabbi Bohnen and the Rainbow Haggadah. Goodman, Lester Jacobs: Jewish volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. Percelay, Wartime experiences of Russian immigrants, part II. Miller, The first Russian Jews in Rhode Island. Aronson and Aronson, A population in transition: the role of demographic data. Brown, The rebirth of the Jewish communitiy in Newport, 1850-1854. Silver, Lawrence Spitz, champion of the common man. Barber, My life at the Jewish orphanage of Rhode Island. Bibliographical notes. Forty-seventh annual meeting of the association. Necrology. Erratum. Funds and bequests. Life members of the association. ; 9.0" tall; 154 pages. Good with No dust jacket as issued.
Published by Brewin Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 1858584132 ISBN 13: 9781858584133
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs, cover has light scratches, book content is in like new condition.
Published by Brewin Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 1858584132 ISBN 13: 9781858584133
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs, cover has light scratches, book content is in like new condition.
Published by Brewin Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 1858584132 ISBN 13: 9781858584133
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. A new copy, square and tight with no creases or splits. Contents fresh and clean, not showing any pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.
Published by Brewin Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 1858584132 ISBN 13: 9781858584133
Seller: Invicta Books P.B.F.A., Builth Wells, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. some light surface wear the the dust jacket, illustrated, 328 pages.