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You can support the library's conservation program by adopting one of the titles below. Your gift will help to preserve these indispensable works of medical history for generations to come. You will be acknowledged as the adopter of the book in our online catalogue as well as on a bookplate inside the adopted volume.

Book are available to adopt in the following specialities 

Anatomy | Cardiology | Internal Medicine | Paediatrics | Public Health | Surgery



Anatomy


Anatomical exercitations concerning the generation of living creatures
William Harvey, 1653


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Anatomical tables of the bones, muscles, blood vessels and nerves of the human body
Bernardi Siegfried Albini, 1828


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Cardiology


Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis & sanguinis
William Harvei, 1648


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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The diseases of the heart and the aorta
William Stokes, 1854



   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Internal Medicine


De re medica
Aulus Cornelius Celsus, 1766



   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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De tabe glandulari; sive, De usu aquae marinae in morbis glandularum dissertatio
Ricardo Russell, 1750



   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Paediatrics


Treatise on the history, nature and treatment of chincough...principal diseases of children.
Robert Watt, 1813



   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Lectures on children's diseases : a handbook for practitioners and students volume 2
E. Henoch, 1889


   Awaiting adoption : $1000.00
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Public Health


Advice to the people in general with regard to their health
Samuel Tissot, 1766


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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A description of ventilators whereby great quantities of fresh air...
Stephen Hales, 1743


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Surgery


Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery.
Astley Cooper, 1839

   Awaiting adoption: $500.00
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A discovrse of the art of chyrvgerie
Peter Lowe, 1634


   Awaiting adoption: $500.00
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