Series: Johns Hopkins Bulletin No 107, Feb. 1900. Offprint. 23.5 cm. [2], 4 pp. 5 figs. on 3 plates. Printed wrappers; extremities slightly chipped. Very good. Osler describes the successful diagnosis and treatment of a bartender after he developed large gangrenous sores on various body parts. Osler also explores the relationship between malaria and Raynaud's disease. Golden & Roland 721. [HM] View More...
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[Philadelphia]:, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1891. : 1891
Seller ID: M13503
Series: American Journal of the Medical Sciences, March 1891. Offprint. 24 cm. 6 pp. 2 figs. Printed wrappers; extremities slightly chipped. Very good. A fascinating case study in which Osler posits a relationship between aphasia or ?word-blindness? with disease in the parietal ant temporal lobes. Stanley Finger, Francois Boller, Kenneth L. Tyler, History of Neurology, 2009. Golden & Roland 607. [HM] View More...
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[New York]:, American Neurological Association, 1898. : 1898
Seller ID: M13509
Offprint. 25.5 cm. 7, [1] pp. Self-printed wrappers. Near fine. First issue. ?In 1989 Sir William Osler detailed the case of a 31-year old man suffering from 'an acute myxedematous condition, with tachycardia, glycosuria, melena, mania and death.? In particular, Osler was impressed by the rapid weight gain and the 'bloated? appearance of his patient's face. Unfortunately, however, the constellation of symptoms and signs that we now attribute to glucocorticoid excess had not been described and the patient succumbed while being treated for hypothyroidism.? -- Michael Fowler & Lewis S. Blevins, ... View More...
2 pp. ALS on Osler's letterhead mounted in a gold frame (18 x 11.25 in.), alongside an oval photograph portrait of a young Osler. Fine. [Details on request]. The piece is written on stationery bearing the typed heading "13. Norham Gardens, Oxford," Osler's home address from 1907 until his death. This stationery is his personal letterhead from that time. The letter reads: "Dear Fingland, You dear kind man! What a delightful New Year gift! The Fell + Radcliffe letters are specially valuable. R. [Radcliffe] seems t[o] have written very little. We have few letters of his here. I wish you would co... View More...
4.5 x 3.5 inches. 1 page. Single-sided postcard; foxed especially at lower right (not affecting legibility). Very good. [details on request]. Osler dates the letter "Thursday." The letter reads, in Osler's hand: "Many thanks. I would like Osborn to come as my guest. Let me know how much the ticket is. Yours, W. Osler." Julius Arthur Brown, of New Hampshire, Rhodes Scholar 1904, (1880-1970). At first the identity of the correspondent "J. A. Brown" was a mystery but references to him were found in Oxford and scientific literature around 1904-1916 (few using his full name!). He was the son of Re... View More...
Facsimile reprint of the 1929 Oxford edition. Thick 8vo. xxxv, 785 pp. Index. Light gray cloth, gilt-stamped red spine label. Fine. Limited Edition of 150 copies. "Osler was a man of wide culture and catholic interests, a brilliant clinician, a born teacher, and a tireless student. But it was his special personality, his elusive charm, and his outgoing spirit of humanism which endeared him to his contemporaries and which continue to inspire us today. He had a passionate enthusiasm for work, for study, and for human life itself, and one may search the files of medical history without success t... View More...
30 cm. 4to. xxxv, [1], 785, [1] pp. Title printed in red & black. Original navy blue gilt-stamped cloth, original printed dust-jacket; jacket mended. Ink annotation to front pastedown. Book is near fine. FIRST EDITION of Osler?s remarkable annotated library catalogue. Though it has been reprinted several times, this is by far the preferred issue as it is printed in a noble format, whereas the reprints are successively reduced in size (and readability). ?This enormous bibliography of over 7500 titles is the catalogue of Osler?s magnificent library. It is probably the most complete well-annotat... View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia:, Annals of Surgery, 1893. : 1893
Seller ID: M13497
Offprint. 24 cm. 4 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. ?The condition of arteriovenous aneurism has interested Osler for a number of years, he having had under observation at intervals a man whose case he described in the Annals of Surgery, 1893. A the time the patient was 25 years old. When fifteen he had fallen and a lead pencil in his waistcoat pocket penetrated the axilla, causing an arteriovenous aneurism. He had remained very well, had been active and strong, had rowed in boat races. Osler heard of this patient not many months ago. He had served through the South African war, so that his g... View More...
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[Baltimore]:, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1889. : 1889
Seller ID: M13498
Series: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease August, 1889. Offprint. 23 cm. 9, [1] pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. ?Osler reports a case of syphiloma of the cord and cauda equina. Death from diffuse central myelitis. Clinical summary: Chronic alcoholism; history of syphilis. For nine months pains in the legs, particularly in the left, which wasted rapidly and presented vasomotor changes. Pains in the arms, especially the right; no wasting, and, on admission, arms of equal strength. About two months before death loss of control of bladder and rectum. Within the last month of life loss of pow... View More...
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Baltimore:, Maryland Medical Journal, 1898. : 1898
Seller ID: M13490
Series: Maryland Medical Journal, June, 1898. pp. 717-723. Offprint. 25.6 cm. 7, [1] pp. Self-printed wrappers. Very good. Osler briefly discusses the epidemiology and pathology of meningitis or 'cerebro-spinal fever? as it pertained to a mild outbreak in the Baltimore area at the time of publication. ?With the close of the school session, the usual post-graduate courses began, and though these were largely taken over by the junior members of the hospital staff, who thereby eked out their meagre university salaries, Osier always participated. Thus on June 18th he gave them a clinical lecture,... View More...
Series: Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. 5. Offprint. 25 cm. [2], 445,457, [1] pp. Printed wrappers; cover detached. 4 charts. Very good. Osler makes the point that chills, which he felt were generally ignored ?except as a symptom of the onset of the disease,? by most physicians, should be considered more carefully. In this article he describes numerous cases of chills in typhoid fever, as well as his attempts to ascertain their causes and significance. ?Nothing influenced Osler's views of therapeutics as much as his analysis of the treatment of typhoid fever at Hopkins. If no known medic... View More...
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Edinburgh:, Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1899. : 1899
Seller ID: M13517
Series: Edinburgh Medical Journal, May, 1899. Offprint. 22 cm. [441]-453, [1] pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. ?Dr. Rolleston first referred to Osler's chronic splenic anaemia in adults, already mentioned by Dr. Yeo. In this interesting disease there might be recurrent attacks of haematemesis with intervening periods of comparative fair or even good health. That haematemesis Osler described as being due to the obstruction to the passage of blood from the cardiac end of the stomach by the vasa brevia into the splenic vein. As bearing on the explanation he referred to the case of a man under hi... View More...
Publisher:
[Philadelphia]:, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 1896. : 1896
Seller ID: M13523
Series: Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, May 1896. Offprint. 23 cm. 12 pp. Printed wrappers; small chip on lower cover. Very good. This article reproduces a lecture Osler gave during one of his many undergraduate clinics (Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler, Vol. I., p. 434). He describes 3 different cases and their respective symptoms, including aphasia, arterial thrombosis, and neuritis. Golden & Roland 662. [HM] View More...
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Montreal:, Montreal Medical Journal, 1902. : 1902
Seller ID: M13491
Series: Montreal Medical Journal, Feb. 1902. Offprint. 25.2 cm 6 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. ?The twentieth century saw the depersonalization of case reports and the standardization of their structure, with the rise of the now-familiar 'introduction/case report/discussion? format and the gradual disappearance of the author from the narrative. Osler's 1902 report of two cases of intermittent claudication is characteristic of this modern transition point in the case report. He begins with a recollection of a horse autopsy he had viewed with some members of the Montreal Veterinary College m... View More...
Series: Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports Vol. V. Offprint. 25 cm. [397]-416 pp. Printed wrappers; cover partially detached. Good. An examination of some of the neurological effects of Typhoid Fever. Osler discusses problems with typhoid-related peripheral paralysis, as well as a variety of different treatments. Golden & Roland 654. [HM] View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia:, University of Pennsylvania Medical Magazine, 1893. : 1893
Seller ID: M13527
Offprint. 25.5 cm. 3, [1] pp. Printed wrappers; corners slightly chipped. Near fine. Osler describes the circumstances surrounding an isolated outbreak of typhoid at a large house in Darligton, Maryland. 10 cases and 4 deaths were recorded. In the offprint Osler relates the detective work required to identify the probable source of the outbreak. Golden & Roland 616. [HM] View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia:, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 1893. : 1893
Seller ID: M13510
Offprint. 24 cm. 15, [1] pp. Self-printed wrappers. Near fine. ?The rapid spread and wide distribution of knowledge concerning [Huntington's Disease] was in no small measure due to the interest that William Osler . . . took in it. Osler had a lifelong interest in chorea . . . [he] dealt specifically with Huntington's chorea in several case reports and papers (1890, 1893, 1894). -- Gillian Bates, Sarah Tabrizi, Lesley Jones, Huntington's Disease, Oxford University Press, (2002), pp. 9-10, 12, 13. ?Osler had become an authority on chorea, having published a lengthy paper in the Journal of Nervo... View More...
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Los Angeles:, The Plantin Press, 1972. : 1972
Seller ID: B2801
Small 8vo. xiv, [6], 33, [3] pp. Illustrations. Light blue printed boards, dust jacket. Fine. Printed by the Plantin Press. Dust jacket present. View More...
Series: Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. V. Offprint. 25 cm. [2], [321]-326 pp. Printed wrappers; extremities chipped. Good. ?seventy-five per cent of typhoid fever cases would recover under any form of treatment, Osler estimated. Good nursing, diet, and the abandonment of drugging would save the lives of another 15 per cent, he thought, calculating from the Hopkins experience. And then there was hydrotherapy, the cold-bath treatment about which he felt so much ambivalence. by 1894 the reduction in mortality achieved at Hopkins had convinced him that hydrotherapy had saved an extra 3 or 4... View More...
Series: Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. V. Offprint. 25 cm. [2], [321]-326 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good +. ?seventy-five per cent of typhoid fever cases would recover under any form of treatment, Osler estimated. Good nursing, diet, and the abandonment of drugging would save the lives of another 15 per cent, he thought, calculating from the Hopkins experience. And then there was hydrotherapy, the cold-bath treatment about which he felt so much ambivalence. by 1894 the reduction in mortality achieved at Hopkins had convinced him that hydrotherapy had saved an extra 3 or 4 per cent of t... View More...
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