PROFESSOR EOIN OBRIENS IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON MEDICINE, MEDICAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, IRISH MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, HIS CLINICAL SPECIALTY OF CARDIOLOGY AND HYPERTENSION, ETC.,
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PROFESSOR EOIN OBRIENS IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON MEDICINE, MEDICAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, IRISH MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, HIS CLINICAL SPECIALTY OF CARDIOLOGY AND HYPERTENSION, ETC.,
a lifetimes collection in 14 boxes, including special, limited and signed editions, generally clean, mostly with wrappers where called for: an ideal opportunity for an institution or a collector to acquire a significant medical library in excellent condition.

 

Contents briefly as follows:

 

Box 1. Classics of Medicine Library. Special Editions in full leather.

Cushings Life of Osler, 2 vols; Osler, Collected Papers on the Cardiovascular System; Osler, Principles and Practice of Medicine; Harvey, De Motu Cardis; Browne, Religio Medici; Thomas Sydenham, Works; Larrey, Memoirs of Military Surgery; Jenner, Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, all handsome editions in fine condition; a few other items (not leather bound), about 11 in all.

 

Box 2. The Keynes Press Special Editions [B.M.A.]

A collection including Lowbury, An Anthology; Mackenzie, Fredk The Noble, slipcase; Marks, A Varied Life; Pickles, Epidiomology; Keynes, Portraiture of William Harvey; Blatt vs. Pickering (2 copies); Trotter, Instincts; Ross, Malaria (slipcase); A Sense of Asher; Greenwood, The Medical Dictator, slipcase; Allbutt, Composition; Moynihan, Truants; Lord Moran, The Anatomy of Courage; Osler, Aequanimitas; Ryle, The Natural History of Disease; others, about 17 in all, handsome editions virtually in mint condition, mostly in cloth with original glassine wrappers.

 

Box 3. High Blood Pressure.

A collection including Birkenhager & Reid, A Handbook of Hypertension v. 14, Blood Pressure Measurement (ed. OBrien & OMalley); Naqvi & Blaufox, Blood Pressure Measurement; Postel-Vinay (ed.), A Century of Arterial Hypertension 1896-1996; White, Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, 2nd ed.; Oliver, Blood and Blood Pressure; Dally, High Blood Pressure, 3rd; OBrien & OMalley, High Blood Pressure; Mancia, Grassi, Kjeldsen, Manual of Hypertension; Mackenzie, The Study of the Pulse; others including some pamphlets and paperbacks,about 30 in all. A number of these books have contributions by Prof. Eoin OBrien, a distinguished specialist with an international reputation in cardiology research.

 

Box 4. Medical History General.

Including Hamusco, Anatomia, plates, facsimile edition in slipcase, letter; Gribbin, Science: A History; Morton, A Medical Bibliography; Garrison, History of Medicine; Major, Classic Descriptions of Disease; Porter & Wear, Problems in the History of Medicine; Ahrens, The Crisis in Clinical Research; Lock, A Difficult Balance; Anatomical Drawings of Andreas Vesalius; Stevenson, Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology; some pamphlets and paperbacks, about 14 items in all.

 

Box 5. Medical History. Portraiture, Photography, Instruments.

A collection including Bruno, The Tradition of Science; Royal Coll. of Physicians of London, Portraits; Fannin (Dublin), Surgical Instrument Catalogue 1908; Bennion, Antique Medical Instruments; Bettmann, Pictorial History of Medicine; Emery, Medicine and Art; Burns Archive, Masterpieces of Medical Photography; OBrien, A Portrait of Irish Medicine; others, about 15 in all.

 

Box 6. Medical History. US, Canada, international.

A collection including Cheney & Reiner, An American Medical Odyssey; Connor, The Book of Skin; Illustrated Catalogue of the Slide Archive of Historical Medical Photographs at Stony Brook; Mayo Clinic, Dermatology, The First 90 Years; Hellstedt, Gold Medallist, autobiography; Oslers Principles & Practice of Medicine; Heymans Institute of Pharmacology 1890-1990; Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820; Essays in appreciation of Dr. Harold Nathan Segall; Pioneers of Cardiology in Canada; English, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain; others, including pamphlets and paperbacks, about 20 in all.

 

Box 7. General Cardiology.

A collection including Forssmann, Experiments on Myself; White, Heart Disease; East, Story of Heart Disease; Wood, Diseases of the Heart & Circulation; White, Take Heart; Snellen, History of Cardiology; Turner & Durham, Integrated Cardiac Safety; Acierno, History of Cardiology; Bynum, Lawrence, Nutton, Emergence of Modern Cardiology; Willius & Keyes, Classics of Cardiology, 3 v.; others similar, circa 20 items, a cardiologists working library.

 

Box 8. Medical History, United Kingdom and general.

A collection including Cule, A Doctor for the People; Hamilton, The Healers [medicine in Scotland]; Sandblom, Creativity and Disease; Durey, Return of the Plague; Karlen, Plagues Progress; Keynes, Gates of Memory; Iserson, Death to Dust; Pelling, Cholera, Fever and English Medicine; Hansell, Westminster Hospital 1716-1966; Youngson, Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine; Fitzharris, The Butchering Art; Waddington, The Medical Profession in the Industrial Revolution; Bradford Hill, Principles of Medical Statistics; Clark, Modern Methods in the History of Medicine; others, some paperbacks and pamphlets, about 30 in all.

 

Box 9. Medical History, United Kingdom.

A collection including Memoir of Dr. James Hope, by Mrs. Hope; Bartrap, Mirror of Medicine; Power, Short History of St. Bartholomews; An English Physician, Tuberculosis; Rose, Curator of the Dead (Thomas Hodgkin); Porter, Bodies Politic; Trombley, Sir Frederick Treves; Bauder, Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method; Oxford Illus. Companion to Medicine; Dow, Influence of Scottish Medicine; Rivett, Development of the London Hospital System; Reid, Ask Sir James; others, some paperbacks, circa 20 in all.

 

Box 10. Medical History. Irish Biographical and Scientific Books and Pamphlets.

A collection including NGI, The Anatomy Lesson. Art and Medicine; Fallon, Sketches of Erinensis; Steen, Infants in Health and Sickness; OBrien, Conscience and Conflict [Sir Dominic Corrigan]; Charles Cameron, Reminiscences, inscribed; Lyons, A Pride of Professors [RCSI 1813-1985, 2 copies, one inscribed]; Solomons, Handbook of Gynaecology; Coakley & ODoherty (ed.) Borderlands (essays in honour of J.B. Lyons), 2 copies; Coakley, Robert Graves; Coakley, Irish Masters of Medicine; others, some paperbacks and pamphlets, about 25 in all.

 

Box 11. Medical History. Irish Biographical & Scientific Books &