280 Rare Medical Books

Our unrivalled library of 280 rare and historic medical works (18th–early 20th century, some earlier), spanning medicine, surgery, anatomy, psychiatry, pathology, obstetrics, medical instruments, and global medical history. Thousands of pages of facts, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs. The most comprehensive collection available.

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Medical history, biographies & general works

A Biographical Cyclopedia of Medical History (Bostock, 1905); A Book About Doctors (Jeaffreson, 1861); A Brief Historical Sketch of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood (Fisher, 1877); Ancient & Medieval Medical Histories (Burchell 1878; Moir 1831; Lettsom 1778; Black 1782; Royle 1837); Chronologies & Encyclopedias (Richards 1880; Power 1923; Buchanan 1891); American & Regional Medical Histories (Clarke 1876; Mumford 1903; Indiana, Missouri, California, Philadelphia, Kentucky, Maryland, Illinois, North Carolina, Norfolk MA); Osler works; Buck (1917, 1920); Walsh (1911, 1920); Riesman 1899; Libby 1922; Gorton Vols 1–2 (1910); Hamilton Vols 1–2 (1831); Renouard 1867; Dunglison 1872; Davis 1903; Comrie 1900; Allbutt 1905; Moore 1908; Cameron 1886; Wellcome (1909, 1912); Singer (1917, 1922); Camac 1909; Drinkwater 1924; Haggard; Robinson 1912; Paget 1914; Andrewes 1920; Poore 1889; Dickinson 1899; Peaslee 1859; Moon 1909; Bard 1921.

Anatomy & atlases

Gray’s Anatomy (1858; 1918); Sobotta Atlas & Text-Book of Human Anatomy (1914); Toldt Atlas (1919); Applied Anatomy (Davis 1916; Ivy 1917; M’Lachlan 1889); Surgical Anatomy (Deaver 1904; McGrath 1902); Lyser 1740.

Surgery & operative techniques

Cooper’s Dictionary of Practical Surgery (1813, 1830); Chelius System of Surgery Vols 1–3 (1847); Billings System of Surgery Vols 1–4 (1895); Treves Manual of Surgery Vols 1–3 (1886); Tillmanns Textbook of Surgery (1897–1901); Bryant 1899; Gask 1920; Wyeth 1908; Esmarch 1901; Bernard 1878; Norton 1886; Bickham 1910; Operative Ophthalmology & Surgery Atlases (1898, 1905); Foreign Bodies in Surgical Practice Vols 1–2 (Poulet); Plastics & Orthopedics (Prince 1871); Facial Surgery & Disfigurements (Roberts 1900, 1901, 1912); Artificial Limbs (Broca 1918); Skin Grafting (Padgett 1942); Guthrie 1862.

Obstetrics & gynecology

Grandin 1897; Ramsbotham 1851; Smellie history 1894.

Pathology & post-mortem

Virchow 1885; Cattell 1906; Shennan 1912; Caven 1900; Medico-legal post-mortems (1885); Blackburn brain atlas 1908; General Pathological Anatomy & Pathogenesis Parts 1–2 (1885).

Psychiatry, psychology & neurology

Tuke Dictionary of Psychological Medicine; Freud (Totem & Taboo 1918; Delusion & Dream 1922; Group Psychology 1922; Collected Papers Vols I–III 1924–25); Bleuler 1924; Kellogg 1897; Mendel 1907; White 1921; Glueck 1916; Jelliffe 1908; Psychiatrical Society of NY 1912; Lawrence 1910; Grasset 1907; Galt 1846; Conolly 1856; Types of Insanity 1883; The Alienist and Neurologist; Burton 1925.

Non-Western, ancient & comparative medicine

Sushruta Samhita (English translation Vols 1–3, 1907; Hoernle 1897); Ayurveda 1899; Hindu Medicine (Wise 1845; Chakraberty 1923; Hoernle 1907; Gupta 1891; Dutt 1877; Mukhopadhyaya 1913); Canon of Avicenna 1489; Paulus Aegineta (Seven Books Vols 1–3; Medical Works 1834); Hippocrates & Galen; Egyptian, Greek & Roman medicine (Singer; Ruffer; Caton; Elliott; Royal College of Physicians); Chinese, Burmese, Arab & Oriental medicine (Culin 1887; Macdonald 1879; Melville 1922; Foo & Wing 1902); Anglo-Saxon, Irish & Celtic medicine (Wellcome; Wilde; Meddygon Myddvai).

Materia medica, herbals & therapeutics

Blackwell Curious Herbal Vols 1–2 (1737); Culpeper 1800; Brunschwig 1527; Therapeutic Guide (Jahr 1879); Sangui-suction/Leeching (Price 1822); Verminous diseases; Merck Index 1896 & Materia Medica 1899; Science of Sphygmica.