John h girdner (10 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: VG. 4pp article, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XLII, No. 5, March, 1907. From the subtitle, "One-half of the billion and a half of the world's population eat no animal food, and science proves the benefits of a lacto-vegetable diet for all mankind." Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with with wear at the spine extremities and edgewear.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the spine extremities.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the bottom of the spine.

Embossed Red Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 164p. A few pages smudged, endpapers toned, cover has fade spots with corners bumped and worn with spine sunned and top spine cloth beginning to unravel, p. 5 has a 2" tear near hinge, pages 106-116 torn along fore edges. "[T]he result of twenty-five years of study and observation of the people and conditions which exist on Manhattan Island. That a very large percentage of all sorts and conditions of people lead an artificial life here, no one can successfully deny. This manner of life has brought about a condition of mind, body, and soul, which I have endeavored to describe under the title of Newyorkitis." (7-5/8"x5-3/8").…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Binding tight; pages clean; spine slightly cocked; text rubbed on spine and front cover. "The following pages are the result of twenty-five years of study and observation of the people and conditions which exist on Manhattan Island." An uncommon and unusual title. 164 pages.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Bookplate of Theodore De Vinne to front endpage (De Vinne was the printer for this volume). Some foxing to prelims. Binding is firm. Boards are clean loss of titling to spine. Binding is firm with moderate forward lean.

First edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Scarce, especially signed. Dark blue/black cloth-covered boards, gilt- and white-stamped illustration of the Manhattan skyline on upper front board (gilt still bright), 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 164 pp. Fair (wear, white lettering, spine; wear, upper spine end, with 5/16 inch tear to cloth; spine slant; soiling, top edge of book block; foxing, varying from mild to moderate; damp stain, lower right aspect of book block; binding intact). The author was a physician in New York. "The following pages are the result of twenty-five years of study and observation of the people and conditions which exist on Manhattan Island. That a very large percentage of all sorts and conditions of people lead an artificial life here, no one can successfully deny. This manner of life has brought about a condition of mind, body, and soul, which I have endeavored to describe under the title of Newyorkitis. Newyorkitis is a disease which affects a large percentage of the inhabitants of Manhattan Island, and is making serious inroads on their mental, moral, and physical health. when we say of a person that he has Newyorkitis, we mean that he has got his New York inflamed. Newyorkitis is a communicable disease. It seems to spread by mental and moral contact of the healthy with the afflicted. It is customary, when writing about a disease, to divide its symptoms into groups, and then to study each group separately. I shall follow this rule in describing Newyorkitis. I shall also give a few clinical reports of typical cases of the disease which have come under the author's personal observation, selecting the cases so that each phase of the malady will be illustrated. Sufficient space will then be devoted to the treatment and cure. Newyorkitis is a disease in which the mind, soul, and body have departed more or less from the normal. In some cases the mental phenomena are most marked; in others the moral system seems to have departed farthest from the normal; the physical or somatic symptoms are not so constant, but when present they are of practically the same character in all cases." (3214006).…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 10 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

This prominent New York physician, a close friend of William Jennings Bryan, was brought in as a consultant after the assassination attempt on President Garfield and was the last survivor of the four physicians brought in to attend the president; he took part in Alexander Graham Bell's disastrous attempt to use metal detection to pinpoint and extract the bullet, causing a fatal infection; later he developed the Girdner telephonic bullet probe, supposedly plagiarizing the concept from Bell; in 1869 he was the first physician to use cadaver skin to cover a burn wound on a 10-year-old child. TLS, 1p, 8½" X 11", New York, NY, 1912 March 22. Addressed to Charles White of the New York Hall of Records (later a noted Abraham Lincoln scholar). Very good. Moderately age toned. Chatty note to the tax commissioner on his medical office letterhead, reading in part: "I regret as much as you can that we do not see more of each other, but I have got an endless job on my hands which requires all my time sleeping and waking." Of his profession, Girdner remarks: "You remember I used to want to reform other people and things: well, one day I looked myself over, and I have been a busy man ever since, and the end of the job is not in sight. You call me a 'rich physician' and so I am, but my wealth is not of the kind your office recognises as taxable, fortunately for me. I think you do yourself an injustice when you speak of having 'slipped back'. You know the old Methodist doctrine that one 'cannot fall from grace' and I am certain that when I knew you you were so well grounded in the faith that not even the temptations etc. of your present occupation and environment can drag you down." Bold full signature. Most unusual.…