Pyle Walter L M D (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1924; black cloth covered boards with gold titles; wear and discoloration around edges; corners are scuffed and rounded; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinges are cracked with webbing showing; marks and notations present starting on page 190 and ending on page 237; pages are toned; noted on inside of rear cover; 555 pages. Photos available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A fascinating encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary medical conditions, pathologies, and surgical phenomena, originally compiled in the 19th century. This 1956 reprint preserves the complete and unabridged text of the 1896 edition, including 206 illustrations in the text and 12 half-tone plates. Bound in teal cloth with gilt spine titles. Topics range from bizarre anatomical anomalies to rare psychological syndromes, offering an unflinching look into the curiosities of human biology and medical history. Clean pages, solid binding. Light wear to corners and edges. No markings or underlining. An essential addition to any medical history collection or cabinet of curiosities.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Very good condition polished dark blue cloth boards with bright gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preface by Walter L. Pyle; Preface to the Second Edition by Walter L. Pyle dated August 1, 1904; Introduction; Appendix; and Index. Also includes, after the Index, an eleven page collection of catalogs and books dealing with various medical subjects such as Obstetrics and Gynecologic Nursing, Bacteriology and Surgical Technic for Nurses, Essentials of Minor Surgery, Bandaging, and Venereal Diseases, etc. "Strange as it may seem, the one subject which every fair-minded person admits should be taught thoroughly - namely, how to keep healthy - has been largely neglected. With all the recent agitation for educational reform, there remains, to a great degree, the same indifference to the proper teaching of the care of the body, regarding which Herbert Spencer lectured the pedagogic world over forty years ago.The literature for the layman pertaining to personal hygiene is in great measure unsatisfactory and irresponsible. Many of the so-called "health books" are of very questionable authorship, often the compilation of a layman, perhaps an amateur pathologist, an inaccurate physiologist, a moralist of vague opinions, with, unfortunately, a tendency to cater to the prurient. Such books make hypochondriacs of their readers, and if they include advice as to self-treatment, they may do great harm. It is the duty of the professional author to stem and correct any morbid attitude of his readers, and not to add to it under the pretext of necessary explanation. In this connection may be aptly quoted the following abstract from a recent editorial in the British Medical Journal: "If we may speak for parents in the medical profession, it is impossible to suppose the wise fathers and mothers could desire to suggest to their sons or daughters either certain problems raised or in many cases the explanations proffered. There is a multitude of the best parents who think that their way is not made easier by the so-called moral reformer, but rather the reverse. And there are many of the most wholesome-minded boys and sweetest girls who hate him with a perfect hatred. The rest wold probably do very well without him." - excerpt from the Introduction. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dark blue hard cover book with yellow dust jacket. The dust jacket has some light wear and soiling but overall in good shape. There is foxing on the top edge of the text block. The binding is tight and the text is clean and free from marks or writing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. "Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed." "with 296 illustrations in the text and 12 half-tone plates." Published in 1956 by Bell Publishing Company by arrangement with The Julian Press, Inc. Original copyright 1896. The printer's key reads "e f g h." Publisher's navy blue cloth with stamped silver letters on spine. Binding tight and square. Corners sharp. No shelfwear. Gold colored dust jacket with black lettering, lightly soiled with very small chipped edges and 1/2" closed tear on head and foot edges of front panel. 968 pages including index. Approx. 9 x 6.25" w.; a dense, heavy book which may require extra postage.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 248, xvi pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (4 color), 1 fold-out ; portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The early rose / Frank W Halliday -- The rose on the air / J Horace McFarland -- The Allentown rose-garden / C Chester Yost -- More municipal rose-gardens / Robert Pyle -- The garden value of rose species / E H M Cox -- The committee on old roses / Mrs. Francis King -- The duties of the old-rose committee / Stephen F Hamblin -- The old roses of California -- Francis E Lester -- Breeding new roses / George C Thomas -- Rose-breeding in Rhode Island / Josephine Brownell, Walter D Brownell -- A rose foundation / William Crocker -- Breeding better roses / Rev George A Schoener -- Roses from your ice-box / Persis Smallwood Crocker -- The wax treatment for dormant plants / James A Neilson -- The canker scare / R Marion Hatton -- Rose-disease investigations / L M Massey, Bruce Parsons -- The Central East, a symposium -- Roses along Lake Erie: Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo / Melvin E Wyant, Harry B Neumeyer, Paul Fakehany, Charles G Smith -- Roses in and around Detroit / E Genevieve Gillette -- Southeastern Ohio / Mrs. John B Wagner -- Along the Ohio River / Marie Bauer -- Roses in Cincinnati / R J Conners -- Roses in the Blue Grass /. C S Crouse, Maude M Crouse -- Roses in Eastern Indiana / Alexander McGalliard -- No roses without work / Mrs W D Bostick -- Protecting roses in Indiana / Mrs Berenice M Harrison -- Roses in Northern Indiana / A L Hubbard -- Time of planting and winter protection in Michigan / Charles M Greenway -- Roses can be grown in Illinois / E I Lanter -- Roses near the Mississippi / Dr. Ralph Graham -- Roses in industrial Illinois / Perry Wilson -- Roses in "Egypt" / Hon. Kent E Keller -- The rose-mindedness of Ontario / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Rocky Mountains / Maud Chegwidden -- Rugosa roses on a Kansas farm / Carol L Martin -- Why I prefer Spring planting / Agnes Fules Huntington -- Caring for a small rose-garden / Mrs Louis Hurd -- The modern way of feeding roses / Dr G J Raleigh -- Abolishing rose-bugs / Ruth O Ericson -- Failure and success in rose-growing / G F Middleton -- My lifetime with roses / E Gurney Hill -- Tributes to Ernest Henry Wilson -- Wilson, the explorer and teacher / Richardson Wright -- Wilson, the lover of plants / E H M Cox -- Frederick Loveless Atkins / Leonard Barron -- Three fine rose men pass on -- J C N Forestier / J H Nicolas -- John Hickman Dunlop / A J Webster -- Sing Sing's rose man / Lewis E Lawes -- Abyssinia as a land of roses / Franklin P Adams -- Roses in Brazil / Eudoro Ramos Costa -- The 1920 rose summer in Europe / J H Nicolas -- The American Rose Society in Europe / Robert Pyle -- The international rose test-gardens / Dr SPencer S Sulliger -- Roses abroad -- Name, names, names / E S Trott -- Proof of the pudding, 1931 -- Radio rose talks -- Rose notes -- New roses of the world ; wear to covers, else G. Book.…