Authors:James M., Ph.D. Edmonso,
Publisher: Norman Pub.
Keywords: makers, norman, surgery, series, instrument, directory, surgical, instruments, history, manufacture, american
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0930405706
ISBN-13: 9780930405700

This is the first comprehensive history and directory of the American surgical instrument trade prior to 1900 and provides a wealth of information never before available. Though a great deal is known about the practice of surgery and the men who performed it in colonial and nineteenth-century America, very little is known about the makers and dealers who provided the tools for these great figures. Dr. Edmonson has created a much-needed resource for historians, curators, and instrument collectors alike. From the foreword by John Kirkup, M.D., F.R.C.S.: "In essence, this book provides a meticul

Authors:Edwin Clarke, Kenneth Dewhurst,
Publisher: Norman Pub.
Keywords: brain, norman, neurosciences, present, series, imaging, history, function, illustrated, antiquity
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 093040565X
ISBN-13: 9780930405656

With 161 illustrations and 11 color plates, this classic work is a chronological survey of attempts to localize brain function from antiquity to the present with detailed interpretive captions. This work is an invaluable guide both to the history of this aspect of the neurosciences and to many of the most dramatic pictorial sources in the history of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology from the ancient world to modern electronic imaging modalities. This new edition of Clarke and Dewhurst’s definitive work is thoroughly revised and completely redesigned and reset. It contains a new preface by

Author: Daniel Bloomfield
Publisher: Norman Pre
Keywords: labor, problems
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $32.45
ISBN-10: 1406746932
ISBN-13: 9781406746938

THE HANDBOOK SERIES SELECTED ARTICLES ON PROBLEMS OF LABOR COMPILED AND EDITED BY DANIEL BLOOMFIELD AUTHOR OF LABOR MAINTENANCE - PARTNER, BLOOMFIELD AND BLOOM FIELD. BOSTON. CoNsulT LSiTS rf jEi k fpjLOYMENT MANAGEMENT 1 - AN INDUSTRIAL REI TIONS. WITH N INTRODUCTION BY AUTHOR OF LABOR AND COMPENSATION YOUTH, SCHOOL AND VOCATION MANAGEMENT AND MEN ET jf. LONDON SIR ISAAC PITMAN SONS, LTD. 1920 Published March, 1920 Printed in U. S. A. EXPLANATORY NOTE The literature concerning the problems of labor is volumin ous and recently there has been published in periodicals, books and reports, a good

Author: James V. Ricci
Publisher: Norman Pub.
Keywords: amp, gynecology, series, obstetrics, norman, gyneological, surgery, instruments, development
Number of Pages: 594
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0930405285
ISBN-13: 9780930405281

The most comprehensive work ever written on the history of gynecological surgery and instruments, from ancient Greece and Rome to the age of antisepsis at the end of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with 236 plates, this authoritative 594-page book includes many translations from original sources and literally thousands of bibliographical footnotes and references.

Author: Francis Peyre, M.D. Porcher
Publisher: Norman Pub.
Keywords: medical, american, civil, war, series, agricultural, economical, southern, fields, forests, resources
Number of Pages: 601
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0930405331
ISBN-13: 9780930405335

A type of survival manual, Resources has been credited with maintaining the Southern war effort for many months longer than if it had not been written. Using this book as reference, Confederate medical officers were able, in spite of the blockade of Southern ports, to supply their medicinal needs through the preparation of drugs from plants indigenous to the Southern states.

Authors:Richard L. Golden, Charles G. Roland,
Publisher: Norman Pub.
Keywords: bibliography, illustrations, norman, annotated, william, osler, sir
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1988-04-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0930405005
ISBN-13: 9780930405007

This extensively illustrated and definitive bibliography of Osler’s prolific writings represents the first new work on the subject in 50 years. To make the book appeal to the widest range of readers, including those previously unfamiliar with Osler’s writings, this edition is published in display format, with 105 illustrations fully captioned and integrated with the text. The illustrations have been selected to emphasize how Osler worked as a clinician, teacher, writer and book collector; many of them are reproduced here for the first time.

Author: J. William Rosenthal
Publisher: Norman Pub.
Keywords: guide, collecting, history, aids, vision, spectacles
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 1994-05
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 0930405714
ISBN-13: 9780930405717

This magnificently illustrated and beautifully designed work is the most comprehensive history ever written on the development of spectacles and other vision aids in Europe, America, Japan, and China. With over 780 photographs, of which 310 are in color, Dr. Rosenthal illustrates and analyzes the historical development of a wide variety of vision aids, from spectacles to opera glasses, tracing their development from antiquity to the present day. No other work has covered the field of vision aids on this grand a scale nor provided such magnificent illustrations of such a variety