Weller Frederick H (8 results)

Stapled; Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Printing. 104 text illustrations. blue stapled cover with black lettering. light handling wear. one small corner crease on back. 158 pages. clean, tight, no marks.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. Light edge and cover wear, stapled binding with moderate wear and rust stains on front and back covers at points where stapled. Content clean, binding strong. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Chicago: The Professional Press, Inc., 1934. First edition, 1934. Professional advice on business practices for opticians, illustrated in black and white. Brown textured cloth printed in gilt, 176 pages, advertising inside both covers. Worn condition with fraying to corners and spine ends, some soil to covers, hinges good, text block sound, endpapers age-darkened, pages clean, name scrawled across front free endpaper, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, ink stamp on front endpaper of fourth volume. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, endpapers of volume three a bit foxed with top corner of front free endpaper clipped, ink stamp on front endpaper of volume four with small spot on fore edge. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee. …

The rare offprint of the paper announcing the first cultivation of polio virus in cell cultures, the breakthrough that made modern vaccines possible. After studying pathogenic bacteria for a decade, Harvard Medical School microbiologist John Enders (1897-1985) turned his attention to viruses, refining his culture techniques with the mumps before applying them to polio. 'Before this discovery, scientists had been able to grow polio virus only in the nervous tissue of susceptible laboratory animals, commonly monkeys, in a painstaking process that yielded minute quantities of the virus. The work of Enders, Weller, and Robbins had the tremendous practical effect of enabling scientists to prepare large amounts of polio virus, making possible the mass production of the Salk killed-virus vaccine and later, the Sabin live-virus vaccine. The impact of their work, however, was not limited to the study of polio. Their culture technique gave researchers an invaluable tool for the study of other viruses; made viral research much less laborious, time-consuming, and costly; and sparked revolutionary progress in the field; (America Association of Immunologists biography). Enders was responsible for 'one of the most gracious acts in the history of the Nobel Prize', refusing to accept the award when it was offered to him alone and insisting that his co-authors, 'those who did the work', be recognised equally (Rosen, 'Isolation of Poliovirus - John Enders and the Nobel Prize', New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 351, no. 1, October 2004). Offprint, single leaf folded once; a fine copy. Garrison-Morton Medical Bibliography 4671.1. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2 pp. Near Fine. First Edition. The offprint is a single large folded sheet, with the article reprinted on pp. 1-2; what would be pp. 3-4 are blank. "John F. Enders, a bacteriologist, had become convinced as early as 1937 that viruses could be propagated by using tissue culture techniques, a procedure that would eliminate the difficult, time-consuming and costly process of cultivating viruses in live hosts. Thomas H. Weller, a specialist in tropical medicine, joined him in 1939, and after World War II Frederick C. Robbins, a specialist in the contagious diseases of children, became a member of the team. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, the team had succeeded in growing the polio virus in a variety of human tissues, including fetal intestine, embryonic skin, foreskin, kidney, and uterus. It was this development, which made possible the laboratory cultivation of large amounts of polio virus for experimental use, that led to great advances in research and enabled the preparation of a vaccine free of neural tissue. In 1954, Enders, Weller, and Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery" (Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine no. 98, pp. 353-56, including fig. 176 showing the first page of the offprint). Enders, Weller, and Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." Garrison-Morton 4671.1: "J. F. Enders, T. H. Weller, and F. C. Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. They received the Nobel Prize in 1954." The story of the research by Enders, Weller, and Robbins is recounted in John R. Paul, A History of Poliomyelitis, pp. 373-81.…