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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Biomed Rare Books

United States
About Item: Chicago: American Medical Association Press, 1906. First edition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK BOOK ON INFECTION AND IMMUNITY INCLUDES "DISEASES OF DOUBTFUL OR UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY" (ALL NOW IDENTIFIED!) 8 inches tall hardcover, original black cloth boards, bright gilt title to spine, x, 600 pages. Minor edgewear, handstamp of Dept. of Bacteriology Medical College University of Cincinnati to front free endpaper and title page. Very good. LAID IN ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH of postmortem lungs inscribed on verso, "Lungs/ Joseph Mendoza/ Subacute plague/ ground squirrel infection/ Alameda Co. Calif 1909/ Aug, with handstamp of photographer, R.E. Wales. PREFACE: "Immunity, in its present state of development, with its manifold new terms and special methods of experimentation, is a subject which appears difficult to one who has not studied the newer literature assiduously and grown into a knowledge of the conditions through actual work in the laboratory. Much of the literature is technical in character… Read More
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