Acupuncture anaesthesia
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Paperback. 37p. pamphlet, old price penned on cover, interior clean. Includes discussion of acupuncture anesthesia used during brain surgery. More
Cat.No: 177728
medicine, alternative
American Indian Millennium; Renewing Our Way of LIfe for Future Generations, a special edition of Native Americas Journal: Fall/Winter 2002, Hemispheric Journal of Indigenous Issues. Volume xix number 3 & 4
Fredericksburg VA: First Nations Development Institute, 2003. Magazine. 130p., scattered illustrations in a triple-column text; softbound magazine in 11x8.5 inch color pictorial wraps. Clean, sound and unmarked, a near-fine copy. More
Cat.No: 219197
An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Handwriting Analysis Research. Prepared by the IGAS Research Department
Chicago: International Graphoanalysis Society, 1970. Pamphlet. 30p., softbound, a 9x6 inch stapled pamphlet in plain printed grey wraps. Item is a bit crimped along the spinefold and the staples are rusted with migration. Else sound and clean and free of any markings. Most entries are in English but preparers include..... More
Cat.No: 253804
Catalogue of Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to Wine and Food, The Property of Mrs. J.D. Simon from the Library of The late Andre L. Simon, Founder and sometime President of the Wine and Food Society. Monday, 18th May, 1981
London: Sotheby's, 1981. Paperback. [vii], 76p., one color exhibit photo and a number of b&w (including a frontis portrait of Andre Simon (gloating a friendly gloat), small softbound in 9.5x7 inch plain printed green wraps, nice clean copy with a printed "estimates" list laid in. More
Cat.No: 262886
Color your own farmacy
Providence, RI: Farmacy Herbs, 2010. Pamphlet. [10]p., 4x5.5 inch zine, not bound, b&w illus., in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 311913
Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned - For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to Their Relief - and for the Treatment of Frostbites. As practiced in the United States life-saving service.
Washington DC: GPO, 1909. Pamphlet. 11p., illustrated with modern diagrammatic depictions and one interesting old woodcut. Softbound, a stapled pamphlet in 9x6 inch plain printed tomato-bisque wraps, an oddly attractive item in nearly-new condition. Tincture of opium, to be used in combination with lime-water and linseed oil, must have been..... More
Cat.No: 305392
Dr. Buckland's Scotch Oats Essence, nature's nerve and brain food. For sleeplessness, nervous debility, paralysis, sciatica, epilepsy, neuralgia.
New York: Scotch Oats Essence Company, [c1870-1900?]. Ephemera. Double-sided illustrated trade card for Scotch Oat Essence, claiming to cure epilepsy, sciatica, and opiate addiction, faint rubbing on edges, backside is slightly toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 313474
Etablissements Thermaux; Plombieres, les Bains, Vosges. Saison du 15 Mai au 30 Septembre
no city {Vosges): the spa, or spa collective, no date, circa 1890. 28p., coated alkaline paperstock throughout with presswork in orange and black, profuse b&w photoillustrations, a sewn softbound: cord-fastened pamphlet in 8x4.5 inch grey wraps titled by embossed gilt. Nice copy. Front cover has mild handling signs: a very..... More
Cat.No: 250575
The Herb Store [trade catalog]
Vancouver, BC: The Herb Store / Golden Bough, [1978-?]. 76p., staplebound wraps, closed edge tear to front cover, even toning, otherwise very good. Undated, but mentions a rumor of increasing postage costs to come in April 1979. Countercultural shop's catalog of herbs, seeds, and alternative medicines. Biochemic teething tabs for..... More
Cat.No: 209891
Humor, Sarcasm, mockery and laughter; essential anarchist weapons and medicines
[Bay Area, CA?]: n.pub. n.d. Handbill. Single-sided handbill, 8.5x11 inches; middle crease, else in very good condition. Short communique on humor as power, especially against Stalinists and Maoists. More
Cat.No: 293168
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Massage [cover title] Le Massage [titlepage]
Paris: Ch.Chardin, [1930s?]. Pamphlet. 8p., numerous b&w photos/artists' renderings of electrical devices (stored neatly or in use), a few patients photographed or sketched, semi-glazed alkaline paperstock. No merely manual techniques are shown (compiler recommends a book for that), instead, everything shown is electrically enhanced: "air chaud et froid, vibro-masseurs w/accessories..... More
Cat.No: 253723
Medicine for the People / PMC / Medicina para el Pueblo [pinback button]
n.p. PMC, n.d. Pinback Button. 1.5 inch diameter pin, raised fist with snake twined around, as a caduceus. May refer to the People’s Medical Center in East Redwood City, CA. More
Cat.No: 202341
Mental health care - who's calling the shots?; non-technical bulletin on mental illness and mental health care
Chapel Hill, NC: DHARMA [Diversity, Humanity, And Resourcefulness in Mental Anguish], 2002. Pamphlet. 80p. [1], 5.5x8 inch photocopied zine format; graphics, illus., non-priority variant copy, slight coffee stain on front wrap, else in very good condition. One holding found in OCLC as of 5/2022. Anti-psychiatry zine. More
Cat.No: 285470
Mental health care - who's calling the shots?; non-technical bulletin on mental illness and mental health care
Chapel Hill, NC: DHARMA [Diversity, Humanity, And Resourcefulness in Mental Anguish], 2002. Pamphlet. 80p. [1], 5.5x8 inch photocopied zine format; graphics, illus., non-priority variant copy, slight coffee stain on front wrap, else in very good condition. One holding found in OCLC as of 5/2022. Anti-psychiatry zine. More
Cat.No: 285472
Natural Food News. Vol. 12 no. 3 (January 1974)
Atlanta, TX: Natural Food Associates, 1974. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, paper evenly toned, old archive stamp in corner of front cover. Health food publication, including advocacy of vitamin supplements, an article about the over-medication of beef cattle, and more. More
Cat.No: 251906
The order of the universe; the way of life in the age of humanity. vol. II, no. 1
Boston: The Order of the Universe, nd. 21p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound magazine; covers toned, foxed, and soiled. Reading copy. More
Cat.No: 346723
Paso Robles Hot Springs
Paso Robles CA: Southern Pacific / the Hotel & Bathhouse, approx 1912. Pamphlet. 52p., glazed alkaline paperstock with captioned b&w photo-reproductions throughout, perhaps half of which show bathing apparatus and persons (male & female) in treatment. Softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch stapled color pictorial wraps. The staples have failed and have..... More
Cat.No: 284085
Peoples medical handbook
Berkeley: Christian Revolutionary Medical Committees, [197-]. [12p.] staplebound pamphlet, 6x9 inches, very good. Errata slip laid in. "We are part of a cultural revolution. The whole world scene is changing - from the youth up. Most of us have turned the materialism gig down. We are building new life styles..... More
Cat.No: 328034
Promotion and Development of Traditional Medicine. Report of a WHO meeting
Geneva: World Health Organization, 1978. Pamphlet. 41, [3] pages, staplebound pamphlet. Former owner’s name on front cover in pen: G[eorge] M[cClelland] Foster[?]. Marginal annotation and some underlining in red ink. Very Good. More
Cat.No: 341024
Save the free clinic [handbill]
Berkeley: Medical Committee for Human Rights - Berkeley Community Health Project, 1970. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; in very good condition. Discusses the surprise invasion and assault of the Free Clinic physicians and patients by the Berkeley Police Department on May 5, 1970. More
Cat.No: 307578
Scaling peaks in medical science
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. iv, 68p., illust. wraps, very good. Collection of articles claiming amazing advances for the modern application of traditional Chinese medicine - for example, non-surgical treatment of extrauterine pregnancy, and treatment of deafness with acupuncture. B&W illustrations. More
Cat.No: 128860
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The Spotlight; your populist weekly newspaper from Washington [reprint] April 8, 1985 Special health supplement
Washington DC: The Spotlight, 1979-1985. Newspaper. Four reprint issues of the right-wing folded tabloid newsprint style paper, published by the newspaper; slightly toned, else very good. Topics include a special health supplement with homeopathic medical advice and critiques of medical establishment, threats against the constitution, and more. Issues from 1979..... More
Cat.No: 307076
These preparations are all Wright
New York: Wright's Indian Vegetable Pill Co., nd. Ephemera. 3x5.5 inch pharmacist advertisement printed on the back of a postcard featuring the New York Subway, rubberstamp on back of an Iowa druggist; corners faintly rounded, otherwise in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 313470
Traditional Medicine in South-East Asia. Report on a Seminar, Colombo 1-5 April 1977
New Delhi: World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, 1977. Pamphlet. [2], ii, 33, [1] pages, tables, staplebound pamphlet. Covers dustsoiled, stains at head of front cover. Former owner’s name on front cover in pen: G[eorge] M[cClelland] Foster[?]. Sparse underlining in red ink to text. More
Cat.No: 341025
The Water Mill
Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood & Co., [between 1880 and 1889?]. Pamphlet. [16]p., illustrations, wraps. 4 x 4.5 in. Very Good. Advertisement for Hood’s sarsaparilla, here marketed as a miracle cure. With two poems: “The Water-Mill” by Sarah Doudney and “Der Vater-Mill” by Charles Follen Adams, the second being written in..... More
Cat.No: 316523