Old Science and Medicine

Abstract

E. P. GOLDSCHMEDT AND Co., LTD., of 45 Old Bond Street, have recently issued three catalogues entitled respectively “Science and Medicine”, “English Science and Medicine” and “Old Medical Books”. The first catalogue contains entries of a complete set in thirteen volumes of Johann Peter Frank's “Complete System of Medical Polity”, the first edition of De Kempelen's works on the talking machine, the first German edition of Kepler's “Steriometria” and numerous original papers by Pasteur, Scheel and others. In the catalogue on “English Science and Medicine” we note the rare third edition of Harvey's “De Motu Cordis”, Gilbert's “De Magnete”, several works by Robert Boyle, including that on “The Mechanical Origine of Production of divers particular Qualities … of Magnetical Qualities”, the first work on electricity in English, the first edition of Sir Robert Dudley's “Arcano del Mare”, one of the foremost English works on navigation and several modern works by Huxley, Galton, Rutherford, Banting and Best, among others. Among the most notable works in the catalogue of “Old Medical Books” are the first edition of John Vigo's treatise on surgery in black letter (1543), the first illustrated edition of Dioscorides (1543), Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne's work on arthritis (1676), and the first editions of Laennec's book on auscultation (1819) and Semmelweis's on puerperal fever (1861).