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Toronto: Seccombe House, 1968
Softcover. 72 pages. ENG
Softcover. 72 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Battered and scuffed. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
New York: Anchor Books, 2006
Softcover. 501 pages. ENG
Softcover. 501 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.
New York: Kaplan, 2009
Softcover. 178 pages. ENG
Softcover. 178 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE
Crisp, apparently unread copy.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2011
Softcover. 224 pages. ENG
Softcover. 224 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Crease to back cover.
Survey of poisons throughout human history, from ancient venoms to Victorian arsenic. Covers the science, lore, and notorious cases that made poison one of history's most feared and widely used weapons.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001
Softcover. 266 pages. ENG
Softcover. 266 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Highlighting and underlining. Previous owner's name scribbled out on first page.
Includes appendices, bibliography, index.
Ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics.
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1947. Revised edition
Hardcover. 446 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 446 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Head and tail of spine slightly bruised. Binding is sound. No writing/markings. No dust jacket.
Includes appendix, bibliography, index.
![The Life of Sir William Osler [2 volumes]](https://irolitabooks.com/storeimages/12427.jpg)
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Oxford At the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition
Hardcover. ENG
Hardcover. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
First edition, first impression in first impression dust jackets. Original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles. Bindings are square with sound hinges. No bumping to corners, but a bit of rubbing to the colour. No writing/markings. Dust jackets have toning to spines, chipping to corners, and fraying along edges of spines. Vol II dust jacket has two long parallel archivally mended tears to front panel.
Harvey Cushing's monumental two-volume biography of the great Canadian physician Sir William Osler, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926.
Irwin, 1987
Hardcover. 182 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 182 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / NEAR FINE
Dust jacket is very slightly worn along top edge.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996
Softcover. 343 pages. ENG
Softcover. 343 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Very faint foxing to page edges.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. First edition
Hardcover. 307 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 307 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Head and tail of spine are a bit soft. Dust jacket is lightly shelfworn. No writing/markings. Not price clipped. No tears.
Includes appendices, bibliographical references, index.
History of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, from its origins as a Jewish community institution to its growth as a major academic medical centre.
Calgary: Eleanor King Byers, 2009
Softcover. 237 pages. ENG
Softcover. 237 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Light rubbing to folds. Signed with inscription by author -- Remember Calgary's grand old girl! Eleanor King Byers --
Includes bibliography.
Toronto: Lester, 1995
Softcover. 328 pages. ENG
Softcover. 328 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear. No writing/markings. Binding is square and tight.
Account of the Canadian tainted blood scandal, in which thousands of Canadians were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1980s.
London: Abacus, 2011
Softcover. 590 pages. ENG
Softcover. 590 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Shallow slice to back cover (maybe due to an overzealous boxcutter). Pages are slightly tanned. Otherwise appears unread.
Survey of the key moments of post-war medical discovery.