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St. Martin's Press, 1959. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . 320 pages. Light wear, pages yellowed; a good solid book. The jacket is chipped, torn and creased; some stains. "An intimate history of medical practitioners from 1300 to the present." Illustrated. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medical & Anatomy; Inventory No: 201390. .

London: The Quality Book Club, 1958 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Spine strip is faded; minor wear/marks. "An intimate history of medical practitioners from 1300 to the present." Illustrated..

Quality Book Club. 1958 Quality Book Club edition hardback; VG clean copy with good dj; dj intact, wrinkled; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardback. 1958.

London, Michael Joseph, 1958.. 320pp. 8vo. Original cloth in sligtly chipped dustwrapper. Lightly foxed, otherwise in very good condition. B&W illustrations. . First edition.

Michael Joseph, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Michael Joseph, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: St. Martin's, 1959. hardcover. very good(+)/very good. Illustrated. 311pp. plus index, 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1959. A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

London, The Quality Book Club, (1958).. 8vo; pp. 320; list of illustrations, index; original cloth, minor insect damage and chipping to dustjacket; minor foxing to pages; a good copy.

michael joseph. hardback octavo, with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

London: The Quality Book Club, 1958. owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: edge wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London.: Michael Turner., 1958.. Cloth.. Very Good.

Michael Joseph, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Michael Joseph 1958 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, price clipped.

hardcover. Illustrated. 320pp. Thin 8vo, cloth, chipped d.w. London, (1958). A very good copy.<br/><br/>

London; Michael Joseph; 1958.. First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (xiv), 320; index; 23 b/w illustrations, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket a little worn and chipped, good copy.

New York:: St. Martin's, 1959., 1959. Second printing. 219 x 145 mm. 8vo. 320 pp. Figs., index. Beige cloth. Very good.

London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Small V chip at corner of dust jacket, else fine. In Mylar cover. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is not a history of medicine but a study of the doctor himself and of the varying esteem in which he has been held in the community. It begins in the days when he was beginning to shake himself free from soothsayers, philosophers and theologians. It describes the furious quarrels between physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and quacks, in which the patient tended to be forgotten, and traces the emergence of the General Practitioner with his jars of leeches and his stethoscope in his top-hat. It deals with the royal doctor (nervously performing with operation which may end his career or bring him a baronetcy), the fashionable London doctor (charging a guinea a mile for visits outside the metropolis), the country doctor riding up the endless lanes and glens asleep on his horse, the spa doctor, the lackey doctor in the rich hypochondriac's entourage, the 'penny… Read More

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