HUNDREDS (550+) of HANDWRITTEN FORMULAS for CREATING PRODUCTS for TREATING WOMEN'S BEAUTY "DEFECTS" and for INCREASING A WOMAN'S BEAUTY. Handwritten by an unnamed Chemist or Pharmacist likely as a Book of Formulas Reference Guide.

Undated, however it is likely the formulas were written circa 1890. There are several note sheets "Hazard, Hazard & Co." letterheads laid-in at the front (Hazard, Hazard & Co. was active in the mid to late 1800s); the title page of the Burr's Medical Index in which the formulas are written is dated "Hartford, 1881"; the bookseller's label on the front pastedown states "Agent for The Henry Bill Publishing Company's Physicians' Account Books" - Henry Bill Publishing was founded in 1847 and dissolved in 1896.

Are you a woman with Freckles, Moles, Dark Spots, Warts, Bad Breath, Wrinkles, Dandruff, too much Hair, too little Hair, etc.? Do you need help making your breasts bigger, smaller, or firmer? Is your nose red and oily? Want darker eyebrows, want prettier eyebrows, want prettier eyes? Want to smell prettier, better, or just not stink? Want your face to be lighter, brighter, shinier, and your lips redder, fuller, and more delicious looking? This book has detailed formulas that can be prepared for you, products that will take care of all those, and hundreds of other beauty defects!!!

The detailed formulas are handwritten in a BURR'S MEDICAL INDEX, published by the J. B. Burr Publishing Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1881. Likely by a chemist or pharmacist who would prepare a cream, lotion, spray, etc., based on the detailed formulas in this book.

Hardcovers, leather spine and corners with green cloth covered boards, 8.5x11 inches, filled with approximately 400 pages, indexed with alphabetical tabs. There are approximately 575 formulas for preparing beautification remedies for women, handwritten on 122 of the pages and arranged alphabetically for easy access by the chemist / pharmacist. The rest of the pages are blank.

Laid-in here and there are various slips of paper with handwritten ingredients and a couple relevant newspaper articles ("WILL POWER GROWS HAIR"; "Removal of Tattoo Marks"). The slips of paper and news articles have browned the pages they were inserted between, but the handwritten text remains bright and clear.

Laid-in at the front are three note sheets with the letterhead "Hazard, Hazard & Co., New York". The note sheets have lists of items, perhaps lotions being prepared by Hazard, Hazard & Co.

The formulas are handwritten in ink and arranged alphabetically within the tabs: e.g. within the "A" tab on page "AM" is a long formula for creating "Amandine Skin Cosmetic to Whiten and Soften the Skin"; on page "AP" are formulas for "Aphrodisiac Pastiles"; within the "B" tab on pages "BA" are lots of formulas for various "Bath Aromatics"; on page "BR" are formulas for increasing or decreasing the size of breasts, and lots of formulas for bad breath; within the "C" tab on pages "CO" are various formulas for "Complexion"; within the "F" tab on pages "FA" are formulas for various Face Creams and Face Beautifiers, on page FE are formulas for "FEET OFFENSIVE" and "FETID FEET", on pages "FR" are many formulas dealing with Freckles; etc. etc.

Handwritten on the backside of the front free endpaper is what seems to be the ""Raison d'Etre" for the formulas in this book:

******To be beautiful is the unwritten law of woman.. it is womans right and privilege to do all in her power to add to the bounteous gifts with which nature has endowed her..."

GOOD CONDITION: The covers have wear, some water staining, and have been professionally rebacked with portions of the original spine covering laid on; internally nice, some pages with browning from laid-in relevant paper items, otherwise tight, bright, clean and clear.

A wonderful, c.1890 manuscript "Book of Formulas" aimed at women who, according to this book, need help to fix and beautify every single part of their body.

MEDICINA ESPAÑOLA - CONTENIDA EN PROVERBIOS VULGARES DE NUESTRA LENGUA: Muy Provechosa Para Todo Género De Estados, Para Philosophos Y Medicos, Para Theologos Y Iuristas...COMPUESTA Por El DOCTOR JUAN SORAPAN DE RIEROS, Médico Y Familiar del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición...

[SPANISH MEDICINE - CONTAINED IN PROVERBS OF OUR ORDINARY LANGUAGE: Very Useful for all kinds of Studies, For Philosophers And Physicians, For Theologians And Jurists...COMPOSED BY DOCTOR JUAN SORAPAN DE RIEROS, Physician And Member Of The Holy Office Of The Inquisition...

MADRID: Imprenta de A. Gomez Fuentenebro, 1876. TIRADA DE 200 EJEMPLARES [200 COPIES].

TERCERA EDICION, Y Segunda Que Saca A Luz Su Mayor Apasionado El Presbítero D. JOSE M. SBARBI...Hecha en Granada el Año de 1615.

[THIRD EDITION, And Second Brought To Light By Its Great Enthusiast, Father D. JOSE M. SBARBI...First Edition published by Martin Fernandez Zambrano in Granada in the Year 1615.]

Contemporary finely-bound hardcovers, vellum spine and spine margins with marbled paper covered boards, 5.5x7.5 inches; THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL WORK including its yellow wrappers is nicely bound within, 285 pages.

VERY GOOD condition: Some light wear and soiling to the finely-bound hardcovers; personal bookplate of Walter M. Weber, a Naval Surgeon and noted Book Collector, on the front pastedown; small initials at the top of two blank front endpapers; the original front wrapper has a couple light stains, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A complete, solid, lovely copy.

RARE 1876 THIRD EDITION - recent reprints can be found, but this 1876 third edition of only 200 copies is almost impossible to find.

About JUAN SORAPAN DE RIEROS (from Wikipedia):

******Juan Sorapán de Rieros, b.1572 d.1638, was a Spanish physician of the 17th century . Expert in paremiology and famous for having published a book with a collection of proverbs about Spanish medicine and gastronomy entitled: Spanish Medicine contained in vulgar proverbs of our language.

He began his medical studies at the Monastery of Guadalupe . He graduated in Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1592 and later studied medicine in 1592-1593. In 1616, he published his work with forty-seven Castilian proverbs. He later became a member of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Llerena and Granada.******

About JOSÉ MARÍA SBARBI (from Wikipedia):

******José María Sbarbi y Osuna, b.1834 d.1910, was a Spanish priest, philologist and musicologist. He was director of the musical chapel of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation, and organist at the cathedrals of Badajoz, Seville, Toledo, and Madrid. In love with the musical art and philology of his country, he dedicated his studies to both. Father Sbarbi wrote many works on musical and philological subjects, especially those related to Castilian proverbs and idioms, among them are: Anthology or alphabetical collection of comparative and ponderative proverbs and idioms of the Castilian language, Madrid, 1873; and The Book of Proverbs, Madrid, 1872.******

WOUNDED SOLDIER'S WWI FRENCH HOSPITAL PHOTO ALBUM - YVETOT HOPITAL DE L'ALLIANCE c.1914. Likely the album of JOSEPH BROSSARD, 7th ZOUAVE BATAILLON, 6th Compagnie, who apparently spent time at the hospital recovering from wounds. There are two handmade cards related to him in the album.

Flexible covers, decorated cloth, cord bound, 7x9 inches (18x23.5 cm) oblong, photos mounted on heavy stock leaves, most with tissue guards, approximately 24 leaves (48 pages). There are 18 photographs plus two handmade cards. Most of the photos are glued-in, the cards are laid-in. Twenty of the album's pages have photos or cards, the rest are blank.

There are twelve (12) photographs of nurses, patients and various other shots taken inside the hospital, varying in size from 2.75x4.75 to 4.75x5.75 inches. There are also six (6) other photographs of people who appear unrelated to the hospital, a man sowing seeds, a mother and child, two men in old traditional garb, a portrait of a woman who appears to be a matriarch of some sort, etc.

There are also two handmade cards laid-in. One card has the name of a soldier: Joseph Brossard, 7th Zouave, 6th Battalion, along with a bit of writing in French; and the other card - somewhat tattered - also has the name Joseph Brossard, and a decorative title: "Souvenir de 1914-1915".

These are unique photos of the Nurses and Patients at the Yvetot Hospital during WWI, plus two "I was there" handmade cards of one of the wounded soldiers whose album this likely was. Though real photo postcards of the Yvetot hospital can be found, these original photographs are unique.

GOOD condition: A few of the photographs are lightly faded, most are bright and sharp. The loose photo of two men in traditional garb has some tears. One of the handmade, hand colored, personal cards is in GOOD condition, solid but showing some age, the other card is torn and ragged along the edges but still lovely and informative.

A unique item related to the important WWI Yvetot Hospital, and Joseph Brossard of the infamous Zouave Battalions.

DIRECTIONS for the TREATMENT of PERSONS WHO HAVE TAKEN POISON, and THOSE IN A STATE OF APPARENT DEATH; Together with the Means of DETECTING POISONS and ADULTERATIONS IN WINE; Also, of DISTINGUISHING REAL FROM APPARENT DEATH. By Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila. Translated from the French by R.H. Black, Surgeon.

With an Appendix on Suspended Animation and the Means of Prevention.

BALTIMORE: Nathaniel G. Maxwell, 1819. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, as stated on the title-page.

Hardcovers (front cover detached but present), leather covered boards, 4x7 inches (10x18 cm), 240 pages.

COPY of C.W.G. Rohrer (Caleb Wyand Geeting Rohrer M.D.) with his signature and the date "June 21, 1912" on the front free endpaper.

GOOD condition, front cover detached but present, rear cover appears to have been reinforced with glue along its gutter fold, internally there is browning to the front and rear endpapers, the pages are lightly toned, there is foxing, most noticeable on the early and latter pages and then light throughout; overall a solid copy with a tightly bound text block and clear printing.

SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of this IMPORTANT WORK on TOXICOLOGY.

About MATHIEU ORFILA (from Wikipedia):

******Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila, b.1787 d.1853, was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology.

If there is reason to believe that a murder or attempted murder may have been committed using poison, a forensic toxicologist is often engaged to examine pieces of evidence such as corpses and food items for poison content. In Orfila's time the primary type of poison in use was arsenic, but there were not any reliable ways of testing for its presence. Orfila created new techniques, refined existing techniques and described them in his first treatise, TRAITÉ DES POISONS, Paris, 1813, (TREATMENT OF PERSONS WHO TOOK POISON first American edition, 1819).******

About C.W.G. ROHRER, book's previous owner (from the Internet):

******Caleb Wyand Geeting Rohrer M.D., b.1873 d.1952, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore in 1900. Author of RESEARCHES IN CANCER: Part I 1896-1921; 1922-1932, Baltimore: Brentwood Printing, 1935; and numerous medical articles, e.g. Comparative Anatomy of the Prostate Gland, Baltimore, 1909; Medical Men and the Muses, New York, 1920.******

PSYCHOLOGY, HYPNOTISM, PERSONAL MAGNETISM and CLAIRVOYANCE, by William Abner Barnes.

Self-Published, Boston, Mass, copyright 1898, fourth edition (so stated), c.1900.

Original hardcovers, gray cloth covered boards, front cover titled in black, 5x8 inches, 112 pages. Illustrated with 8 b&w photographic plates.

Sections include: Psychology, Hypnotism, Personal Magnetism, and Clairvoyance, with Testimonials at the rear.

The photographic plates, some showing Dr. Barnes at work, are convincing, convincing me that I would never want to be under his hypnotic spell!

GOOD condition, the covers have some soiling, offsetting / toning, a few small marks, and some wear to the spine ends and corner tips, but are original and still doing their job well; internally, the pages are bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The eight plates are all in very good condition. A solid, presentable copy of this book from 1900.

From the Preface:

******The prime object of this little volume is to set forth clearly and concisely the value of psychology, hypnotism, and clairvoyance as practically applied to education, morality, spirituality, medicine, surgery, business, and to the development and exercise of personal magnetism.

During many years devoted to research, study, and instructing, the author has controlled thousands of persons, and thereby demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt the vast amount of good results obtainable through properly directed mental force... Beston, Mass., June, 1900.******

Though POD copies are common, vintage editions of this book, self-published by the author, have become almost impossible to find.

1871-1895 FIFTEEN OBSTETRIC and GYNECOLOGY MEDICAL PAMPHLETS Bound Together in Hardcovers, by Dr. Vulliet, Maternity Surgeon, Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Paris

FIFTEEN MOSTLY OBSTETRIC and GYNECOLOGY PAMPHLETS dated 1871-1895, by Dr. F. VULLIET (Professor of Medicine University of Geneva, Maternity Surgeon, Member of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Paris). The 15 pamphlets are gathered and bound in one book, a sammelband.

The person who gathered the pamphlets and created this sammelband typed a two page Index which is pasted onto two blank front endpapers. The medical pamphlets are complete, with both their front and rear covers. All are professionally bound in hardcovers, 3/4 leather with five raised spine bands, gilt titling on the spine, and marbled endpapers. The book measures 6x9 inches. The pamphlets have various paginations and various publishers; they are bound-in chronologically with dates from 1871 to 1895. The TEXT of the pamphlets and the typed index are in FRENCH, except for two which are in German.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some light wear to their corner tips and spine ends but are solid and attractive; the bound in pamphlets are all very nice, age toning to some of the pages, overall tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, very nice book and bound-in group of medical pamphlets.

The INDEX includes the following pamphlet titles and subject headings (accompanied with Google English translations, with the usual Google translation goofs)::

D' un nouveau moyen de contention de la Matrice. (A new Matrix restraint.)

D'un moyen de Contention de la Matrice et de traitement de prolapsus utérin. (A means of Compression of the Matrix and treatment of uterine prolapse.)

Rapport sur la potabilité des eaux du Rhône. La Fièvre Typhoide. (Report on the potability of the waters of the Rhône. Typhoid fever.)

Apropos du Traitement des ulcerations par le raclag ge et l'excision. (About the treatment of ulcerations by scraping and excision.)

Un cas de grossesse dans un Kyste Tubo-ovarique. (A case of pregnancy in a tubo-ovarian cyst.)

Contribution à l'étude du traitement des Fibro-Myomes utérins intrapariéteaux. (Contribution to the study of the treatment of intraparietal uterine fibro-myomas.)

Un cas de cancer primitif du col de l'utérus, traité selon la méthode du Prof. Vulliet. (A case of primary cancer of the cervix, treated according to the method of Prof. Vulliet.)

Des avantages de la Dilatation dans le traitement curatif et palliatif du cancer de l'utérus. (Advantages of dilation in the curative and palliative treatment of uterine cancer.)

De l'extraction par les voies naturelles de Fibro-Myomes Utérins intra ariéteaux, selon la procédé de Vulliet. (Extraction by natural means of intra-arieteau uterine fibro-myomas, according to the Vulliet process.)

Vingt cas d'affections Gynécologiques, traités par le massage. Mihran Boyadjian. (Twenty cases of gynecological affections, treated by massage. Mihran Boyadjian.)

Le Listérism, son passé, son présent, son futur. Par Granville Bantock. Preface de Dr. Vulliet. (Listerism, its past, its present, its future. By Granville Bantock. Preface by Dr. Vulliet.)

Le Massage en Gynécologie. (Massage in Gynecology.)

Ueber einen Fall von Tube Ovarialcysten Schwangerschaft. (On a case of tube ovarian cysts in pregnancy.)

Discussion sur les Supperations Pelviennes. (Discussion on Pelvic Supperations.)

Ueber die Erweiterung von Verengerungen des Collum uteri auf plastischem Wege. (About the expansion of constrictions of the collum uteri in a plastic way.)

De la suture perdue, dans l'operation de la fistule vésico-vaginale. (Of the lost suture, in the operation of the vesico-vaginal fistula.)

De la Dilitation de l'utérus par le procédé des obturations progressives. (Of the Dilation of the Uterus by the Process of Progressive Fillings.)

PLUS MORE

ESSENTIALS OF OSTEOPATHY - NERVE CENTERS AND LANDMARKS, by ISABEL M. DAVENPORT, M.D., D.O. "Former Resident Physician and Gynecologist to the Illinois Eastern Hospital for Insane at Kankakee; Former House Physician to the Ravenswood Osteopathic Sanitarium; President Columbia College of Osteopathy."

Self-Published, Chicago, 1903. Printed by the Regan Printing House. First edition, with the date 1903 on the title page and the date July 1st, 1903 at the end of the Preface.

Hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the front cover, 6x9 inches, marbled endpapers, 102 pp. plus 2 pages of osteopathy related ads at the rear.

GOOD condition, the covers have some light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, a couple half-dime size stains to the front edge of the front cover, and some sunning to the margins, but remain solid, with bright gilt titles; internally, there is light toning throughout, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A nice, solid copy.

RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION. This important work by an early female Chicago M.D. and D.O. was reprinted many times, but the first edition has become almost impossible to find.

About ISABEL M. DAVENPORT, M.D., D.O. (from her 1939 NY Times Obituary):

******NY Times September 18, 1939 // DR. ISABEL M. DAVENPORT / ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN MEDICAL GRADUATES OF NORTHWESTERN - Isabel Montgomery Davenport, for many years a physician in Chicago, died today. Dr. Davenport was one of the first women to graduate from Northwestern University Medical School. She served on the staff of the Kankakee State Hospital and for many years was with the Chicago Board of Health.******

She is listed in the 1922 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF CHICAGO Directory published by The Biographical Publishing Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, with the following brief bio:

******Born September 18, 1860, in Bloomington, Illinois. Graduate of Northwestern University Woman's Medical College, 1891. Practice; nervous, mental and children's diseases. Gynecologist and staff physician, Hospitals for Insane, Kankakee, 1893-98, Peoria and Jacksonville, 1917. Professor of surgery, Northwestern University Woman's Medical School, 1892-93. School physician, Chicago, 1916-22. Member of American Medical Association and Medical Women's Club. Author of "Five Cases of Hysterectomy in the Insane." "A Report of Fleischig's Opium Treatment in Epilepsy." "Garden Work for Women in Public Institutions." Originator of garden work for women in public institutions in America. Residence, 1248 Wilson Avenue, Chicago.******

MEDIZINISCHE GEOGRAPHIE, by Caspar Friedrich Fuchs.

BERLIN: Verlag von Alexander Duncker, 1853. First edition. Text in German.

Hardcovers (covers detached but present), cloth covered boards with leather spine and corners, 6x9 inches (23x15 cm). Pagination: xii, 158, [2] pages, plus 11 PLATES at the rear.

Illustrated with eleven plates, six of which show the spread of diseases around the world.

COPY of Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, with his ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE on the front pastedown. Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, known as The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, Secretary of State for India 1910-1915, Ambassador to Paris 1922-1928, and Secretary of State for War 1931. (You can read more about Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes on his Wikipedia page.)

Condition: Covers are detached but present, the front and rear covers are scuffed at the leather on the corners and rear margin, the spine leather covering is mostly intact but is chipped, scratched, and worn. Internally there is some foxing here and there, especially on the first few pages, otherwise the inner pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

1987 MASTER PLAN for SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL Maps Architecture Expansion CITY PLANNING Medical Centers

SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER - INSTITUTIONAL MASTER PLAN - November 1987. Prepared by Kaplan, McLaughlin, Diaz, Architects & Planners; and by Gordon H. Chong & Associates, Architects.

Published by the City & County of San Francisco, Department of Public Health.

Printed paper covers, plastic spiral bound, 8.5x11 inches, 210 pages (pages numbered in sections). Illustrated with b&w maps, architectural renderings, charts, graphs and tables.

VERY GOOD condition: the covers are slightly creased where they overhang the inner pages, the tabs marking sections are bent, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, very nice copy.

From the Executive Summary: "This Institutional Master Plan for the San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, submitted to the City and County of San Francisco, is a record of the Hospital's growth needs and development plans for the future as they are currently defined. This Master Plan...(is) a vehicle for communicating identified needs and preferred methods of resolving those needs. The information presented in this document is grouped into three general parts: 1) background information regarding the nature of the facility, services provided, history of growth, and description of the physical plant; 2) development plans for future growth; and 3) a study of the transportation circulation and parking needs of the facility."

An interesting look at the expansion plans for San Francisco General Hospital as they were envisioned in 1978.

A STUDY OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ASSERTIVENESS AND ANXIETY AS EXPERIENCED BY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENTS. An Original PhD Thesis by Betty H. Briggs.

Dissertation submitted to The Fielding Institute (Santa Barbara, California) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, with an emphasis in Clinical Psychology.

Self published, 1985.

Hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, 8.5x11 inches, 139 pages, pages printed on one side only.

NEAR FINE condition, the covers are sharp and bright, inner pages are lightly toned at the margins, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, very presentable copy.

Fielding Graduate University is a private university in Santa Barbara, California. It offers postgraduate and doctoral studies mainly in psychology, education, and organizational studies.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is heavy and will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

BAKTERIOLOGIE FUR DIE MOLKEREISCHULE (BACTERIOLOGY for DAIRY SCHOOLS), by Professor Dr. W. Henneberg (Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg), of Kiel, Germany.

PRESENTATION COPY from the AUTHOR to FRAULEIN TAMM. Inscribed at the top of the front cover: "Fräulein Tamm / Überreicht vom Verfasser" (Miss Tamm / Presented by the Author).

Interestingly, Fraulein Tamm (Herta Irene Tamm) studied dairy bacteriology under Dr. Henneberg in Kiel, then later emigrated to Los Angeles where her first job was as a bacteriologist at a local dairy. There is a nice obituary on Herta Irene Mock (née Tamm) on the SF Gate website.

Published by Molkerei-Zeitung, Hildeshiem. TEXT IN GERMAN.

Booklet, paper covers, side stapled, 6x8.5 inches (14x27 cm), 56 pages. Laid in are two pamphlets on cultures and bacteriology of Yoghurt and Kefir. One is 2 pages, the other 4 pages.

VERY GOOD condition booklet, just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and clear. The two laid in pamphlets have been folded, are toned, and both have a bit of handwriting at the top in German which I cannot translate.

About Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg (from Wikipedia, roughly translated from the German by Google):

******Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg, b.1871 d.1936,

was a German bacteriologist and first director of the Bacteriological Institute at the Prussian Experimental and Research Institute of Dairy.

From 1897 he was employed in the vinegar department at the Institute of Fermentation in Berlin. From 1906 he headed the bacteriological department of the technical scientific laboratory of the Institute of Fermentation. In 1922 he was appointed to Kiel to head the Bacteriological Institute of the Prussian Experimental and Research Institute of Dairy Farming. In the eleven years as a university professor in Kiel, he supervised more than 80 dissertations and wrote several textbooks on the bacteriology of milk. Henneberg initiated the founding of the Federation of Technical Bacteriologists .

For bacteriological diagnostics, Henneberg invented new methods of investigation, such as the Chinese blue water agar developed especially for dairy farming, the spring stick culture and the cover glass agar method.

In his last years he devoted himself to the study of the saprophyte flora of the intestine and the human intestinal flora, in particular their conversion by the consumption of dairy products such as yoghurt and acidophilus milk.******

ABHANDLUNG ÜBER DEN CROUP, Welche den am Vierten Juni 1807 von dem Vormaligen Kaiser Napoleon Ausgesetzten Preis Getheilt Hat. Von LUDWIG JURINE (By LOUIS JURINE).

Louis Jurine's scarce early work on croup. TEXT in GERMAN. Translated from the French by Dr. Philipp Heineken. Foreword by Dr. J. A. Albers.

Published by Georg. Joachim Göschen, Leipzig (Germany), 1816. First German Edition.

Hardcover Book, speckled boards with leather spine and corners, 4to, 8x10 inches (20x24.5 cm). Pagination: xii, 303, [1] pages, plus a fold open table.

GOOD Condition: Covers are cracking at the spine folds but holding well, wear to the cover corners, edges, and spine ends, and some rubbing to the boards. Internally, the top 1.25 inches of the front free endpaper has been neatly clipped off (perhaps removing a previous owner's signature), there is an early ownership stamp of "F. Mayor Dr. Ch." on the title page, offsetting to endpapers, first and last few leaves foxed with scattered light foxing throughout; overall the inner pages are tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

About LOUIS JURINE (from Wikipedia):

******Louis Jurine, b.1751 d.1819, was a Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist. He lived in Geneva.

He studied surgery in Paris and quickly acquired a great reputation for his expertise in medicine and natural history. He taught courses in anatomy and surgery at the Société des Arts in Geneva and was made honorary professor of zoology at the Academy (today: University of Geneva). He also founded a maternity hospice in 1807 and was awarded prizes for his work on the gasses of the human body, artificial feeding of infants, and pectoral angina.

Upon learning of Spallanzani's experiments with bats, in which Spallanzani showed that bats do not rely on sight when navigating in darkness, Jurine conducted a series of experiments from which he concluded that bats use sound to navigate in darkness. Jurine's collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are in the Natural History Museum of Geneva.******

THÉORIE POSITIVE de L'OVULATION SPONTANÉE de la FÉCONDATION des MAMMIFÈRES et de L'ESPÈCE HUMAINE, Basée sur L'Observation de Toute la Série Animale. Par F. A. POUCHET

(Félix Archimède Pouchet). (English Translation: PROVEN THEORY of SPONTANEOUS OVULATION and FERTILIZATION of MAMMALS and the HUMAN SPECIES, Based on the Observation of the entire Animal Series. By F. A. POUCHET.) Published by Chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire de L'Académie Royale de Medecine, PARIS, 1847. First Edition. TEXT IN FRENCH. Two Volumes: The TEXT VOLUME plus the Especially Rare ATLAS VOLUME that contains 20 HAND COLORED PLATES. TEXT VOLUME: Original printed wrappers, 5.5x9 inches (14x22.5 cm), 8vo. Pagination: xxxi, [1], 476, [1] fold open table, [3], 28 irregularly numbered Publisher's advertisement pages. ATLAS VOLUME: Hardcovers, original printed paper covered boards and cloth covered spine, large format 9x12 inches (23x30cm). Contains TWENTY HAND COLORED PLATES, one folding, all with tissue guards. CONDITION: Text Volume GOOD Condition: Some wear and soiling to wrappers including several inches of splitting at the spine folds, wear to the spine ends, and edge wear including some small chips. Internally, the front and rear endpapers are mostly glued to the inside front and rear covers; there is some scattered foxing though most pages are bright and white; many pages are still uncut / unopened. Overall a solid, complete copy with original wrappers. Atlas Volume VERY GOOD Condition: The covers spine has been neatly rebacked with cloth; the covers have some soiling, light staining, and edge wear, but remain solid and are doing their job well; there are two rubber ink stamps on the title page "Property of the N. York Hospital" and "Triplicate"; there are creases and a few tears to some of the tissue guards; otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The plates are all lovely. (Note: The New York Hospital, whose rubber ink stamp is on the title page of the Atlas volume, was founded in 1771 with a charter from King George III. It is the second oldest hospital in New York City, and the third oldest in the United States.) This Two Volume 1847 First Edition Set with the ORIGINAL ATLAS with its 20 HAND COLORED PLATES is SCARCE. About FÉLIX-ARCHIMÈDE POUCHET (from Wikipedia): ******Félix Archimède Pouchet (b. 1800 d. 1872) was a French naturalist and a LEADING PROPONENT of the SPONTANEOUS GENERATION of LIFE from

NON LIVING MATERIALS, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. From 1828 he was director of the Rouen Jardin des Plantes. In 1838 he became professor at the School of Medicine at Rouen. In 1847, Pouchet effectively launched the study of the physiology of cytology. His major scientific work Hétérogénie was published in 1859. He also wrote a layperson's encyclopedia The Universe, published in 1870, which gives an overview of the sciences, but in which Pouchet ridicules Louis Pasteur's theories. Pouchet was 60 years old while Louis Pasteur was 37 years old when the heart of the debate about spontaneous generation began. Their opinions on generation originated from two competing theories. Pouchet believed in HETEROGENESIS, which assumed that NEW LIVING ORGANISMS CAME FROM INANIMATE OBJECTS, SUCH AS AIR. The parents of these new organisms were not the same species as the new organism. Pasteur supported the germ theory that said microorganisms arose from germs and those microorganisms came from parents of the same species. He supported the idea that germs were mostly everywhere, including things like air and those germs explained the appearance of microorganisms on different inanimate things.****** You can read much more about Félix-Archimède Pouchet on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet. I believe this is the perfect time to bring the SPONTANEOUS GENERATION OF LIFE theory back to life, given our ruling government no longer believes in real science.

LOS SUICIDIOS EN ESPANA (SUICIDES IN SPAIN), by Ambrosio Tapia. MADRID: Published by Libreria de Victoriano Suarez, 1900. First Edition. Professionally and Beautifully Bound in Leather Covered Boards with gilt lettering and lining on the spine. Entire softbound edition bound in, including the covers. 4.5x7 inches, 253 pages. Text in Spanish. Condition: The recent leather covers are cracked at the front spine fold but holding

well, otherwise the covers are lovely. The original book that is bound in has toned with age, has some foxing and spotting to the front and rear covers, and the inner pages have a few previous owner's margin marks, some corner creases, and show light wear. Overall a solid, complete copy that is bound in attractive leather and gilt covers. A 1900 Study on Suicides in Spain. For that Spanish speaking friend of yours with a dark side.

TRAITÉ DES SENSATIONS ET DES PASSIONS EN GÉNÉRAL, Et Des SENS En PARTICULIER, by Claude-Nicolas LE CAT. (TREATISE on SENSATIONS and PASSIONS in General, and on the SENSES in PARTICULAR) PARIS: Chez VALLAT-LA-CHAPELE, Libraire au Palai, fur le Perron de la Sante-Chapell, M. DCC. LXVII. (1767). Ouvrage Divisé En Deux Parties / TWO VOLUMES - Complete in these Two Volumes. (A year later, in 1768, a third volume was issued "La théorie de l'ouie" - "theory of the eye" - which is not here; but this work is complete as originally issued in two volumes in 1767.) TWO VOLUMES. Hardcovers, leather covered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers, xcv, [1], 264; lvi, [4], 201-684. (Note that the numbered pages at the end of Volume One and the beginning of Volume Two are not consecutive - i.e. Volume one ends at page number 264, Volume Two begins with page number 201. This is as the Two Volumes were originally published - probable printer's error. Both volumes have been collated by me with rare copies from major National Libraries that have been digitized online.) PRESENTATION COPY. Each Title-Page is INSCRIBED with a HAND-WRITTEN PRESENTATION by THE AUTHOR: "JEAN CHARLES GROSSARD... ex Dono auctoris". CONDITION: TWO BOOKS. The leather covers of both volumes are rubbed and scraped, the spine ends are chipped, the bottom of the spine of Volume Two is peeling, the front spine hinge of each volume is split but holding well; overall the covers are worn but remain attractive and are still doing their job well. Internally, the front pastedown has a long vertical scrape, as if from the removal of a piece of tape at some point. There are relevant handwritten margin notes and marks, in pencil and in English, here and there throughout. I do not know who might have written them, but they are certainly by someone carefully studying the work. The inner pages of both volumes have a bit of toning, foxing and some margin shorelining, here and there throughout, but overall the inner pages are tight, bright and clean, a remarkably well kept, sharp, clear and lovely printing of this scarce book. ILLUSTRATED with 19 ENGRAVED PLATES: ENGRAVED PORTRAIT by Thomiers at the front of Volume One, Lovely FRONTISPIECE ENGRAVING by Bacheley at the front of Volume Two (showing Women using all five senses: Sight - looking in a mirror, Sound - playing music, Taste - pouring wine; Smell - smoke from an incense burner; Touch - toughing a newly hammered helmet); PLUS 17 additional engraved PLATES (16 of which FOLD-OPEN). Also ILLUSTRATED with lovely ENGRAVED VIGNETTES at the head of many chapters, and with ENGRAVED HEAD and TAIL PIECES. This specific work by LE CAT, TRAITÉ DES SENSATIONS ET DES PASSIONS, is VERY SCARCE. About Claude-Nicolas LE CAT (from Wikipedia): ******Le Cat (1700-1768) surgeon, anatomist, & physiologist. In 1736 he established a school for anatomy & surgery in Rouen. The 'Traité Des Sensations Et Des Passions'; is considered to be Le Cat's most important work. The work grew as much out of his researches in physics as in physiology. In it Le Cat presented a theory of the propagation of light contrary to that of Newtonian attraction. He further reported on the pigmented choroid coat of the eye and assigned it a common embryonic origin with the pigment of the skin. Le Cat's reputation in France and Europe is reflected by his numerous academic awards, publications, and by surgical renown.******