Spector Benjamin M D (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Works to show "that the inheritance of one period is of capital importance in the labored efforts of the next perior". Covers Egyptian medicine (Iimhotep, Antep, Amenemhat, Khuy, Hekanacht, Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Chrysippus, Aretaeus, Plato and Aristotle); Renaissance Medicine (Roger Bacon); Modern Medicine (Lavoisier, Pinel, Jenner, Laennec, Darwin, Virchow, Rontgen); and offers an historical-bibliographical demonstration. Illustrated. Spine and edges are faded; light exterior wear, starting to split along the bottom front spine edge. Book.…

Boston: Tufts College Medical School, 1934. xi,181 pages. Frontispiece of Medical Pageant cast in costume, portraits, bibliography. 7.75x5.25", paper boards. 3rd in series of pageants produced to inspire interest in medical history. Cover bit scuffed, faded, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Medical history "pageant" with biographical sketches and stories of Babylonian-Assyrian Medicine, Moses, Galen, Avicenna, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paracelsus, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, John Hunter, Claude Bernard, Anesthesia History, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Marie Sklodowska Curie. Illustrated. This copy is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Spector to Professor Herbert V. Neal. Cover has fading of spine and edges; moderate chipping of spine edges; otherwise light exterior wear. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Ex-Library.…