MEDICINE IN ANTIENT ERIN. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH FROM CELTIC TO MEDIAEVAL TIMES. (LECTURE MEMORANDA) (AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION)
London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1909.
Full Leather. First Edition. Lecture Memoranda from the American Medical Association’s 1909 meeting in Atlantic City. Compiled by agents of Henry Wellcome, cofounder of the Burroughs Wellcome & Company. The ‘Tabloid’ brand offered by the company introduced medicine in compressed, tablet form to Britain, as well as direct marketing to doctors, such as this. With “Medicine in Antient Erin,” or ‘Ireland,’ as well as “Historical Medical Equipment,” and lengthy advertisements for ‘Tabloid’ brand medical equipment and cases. Two leaves of color photographic advertisements. Thirty two blank pages of ‘memoranda.’ Cartographic endpapers. Sunning to the spine, wear to the binding, and soiling to the boards. Green leather with gilt lettering and decoration. 168, [32], 169-172, [12] pp. (William Hoffman “The Long View from the Watonwan Ricer: The Millenarian Odyssey of Pioneer Druggist Henry Wellcome”
Very Good binding.
Item #285748
Price: $75.00