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American Medical Association, Chicago, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. Hardcover. No dj, dark blue cloth. Vg condition. Top edge gilt, cover corners slightly rubbed, binding tight, contents clean. 331 pp. + 10 illus.

Chicago: American Medical Assosiation, 1920. Original navy blue cloth, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 331 pages, photo frontispiece of the author in military uniform, nine additional plates. A fine copy, bright and clean. Gearge Miller Sternberg was a renowned American physician who was active as a medical officer during the Civil War, the Nez Perce Campaign and Spanish American War. He is considered to be the first bacteriologist in the United States. . Hard Cover. Fine.

Chicago: American Medical Association. Good+. 1920. Hardcover. 331 pages, untrimmed, navy blue cloth with gilt printing to the spine. The covers are soiled and rubbed with some dampstaining to the contents (only really noticable on the title page and frotnis- the contents -otherwise are just a bit rippled). The contents are bright. A Good+ copy. .

American medical Association, 1920. Very Good. nice blue boards with a dent in rear board

American medical Association, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. dent in rear cover otherwise book in Greta shape

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Chicago: American Medical Association. Very Good+. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. ix, (1), 331, (1) pages; Clean and secure in original blue-black cloth with gilt lettering at spine; Former owner's name on ffep - "M. Jennings" for Mary L. Jennings. Frontispiece portrait, 9 full page plates, index. Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg (1838 – 1915) was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886). On May 28, 1861, he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army, and on July 21 of the same year was captured at the First Battle of Bull Run, he managed to escape and soon joined his command in the defense of Washington. He later participated in the Peninsular… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated, tall 8vo, blue cloth. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. Very good (+).<br/><br/> "A great pioneer in the study of bacteriology" - Garrison.<br/><br/>

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. Very Good+. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's navy blue ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; ix,[1],331pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Light wear to extremities, corners gently tapped, very brief white splatter to upper cover and spine, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Miss M[?] Richards, from her friend Martha L. Sternberg. Washington DC / April 29th / 1921." Biography of the George Miller Sternberg (1838-1915), 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General and author of the first American work on bacteriology, his "Manual of Bacteriology," in 1892.