Practical Application Rontgen Rays Therapeutics by Pusey William Allen Caldwell Eugene (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 591 pages. Binding rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 690p; 16p ads in back. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed; spine faintly buckled down the middle. Early owner's signatures on front endpapers, plus an inscription dated 1906. Some pages lightly foxed, but otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. An early book on X-rays, which were referred to as "Rontgen rays" after the scientist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, who discovered them. This book is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, including fascinating before-and-after images of patients treated with X-rays.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In blue cloth. 591pp. Previous owner name. Rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corners. Hinges are sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1903 [first edition]. Large octavo, [3]-592, [15] (catalogue) pages with 176 illustrations plus 4 colour plates. Cloth lightly marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities, with resultant minor loss of colour to the cloth; head of the spine very slightly snagged; an excellent copy. A comprehensive early monograph on the use of X-rays in medicine, published less than a decade after their discovery by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. It is divided into two parts, 'X-Ray Apparatus and its use in Diagnosis' and 'The Therapeutic Application of X-Rays'. The irregular pagination at the beginning of the book comprises a blank leaf and the title leaf (both unnumbered), followed by the first page of the list of contents, numbered 7. This copy is undisturbed in its original binding and is presumably as issued.…