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Early 20t Century ARCHIVE 89 Medical Offprints SYPHILIS Research STD Syphilology
Early 20t Century ARCHIVE 89 Medical Offprints SYPHILIS Research STD Syphilology
Early 20t Century ARCHIVE 89 Medical Offprints SYPHILIS Research STD Syphilology

Early 20t Century ARCHIVE 89 Medical Offprints SYPHILIS Research STD Syphilology

$ 396

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  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Most of these softbound reports were previously bound together with other articles, leaving raggedness to the spine edges, some more than others, some with light soils/rubmarks, number stamps on top right corners of some; a few have ragged side edges

    Description

    A unique collection of early 20th century medical journal offprints of research articles/papers on SYPHILIS by various authors.  A photo of a couple of articles attached
    The collection includes articles by notable authors such as Flexner (1), Warthin of Ann Arbor (7), Haller of Boston (4), Symmers (3), Jahnel (8), Wasserman (1 as co-author)
    65 articles are in English, 21 in German, 2 in Norwegian, and 1 in French.
    Number of articles by years of publication are 1891 - 1; 1901-05: 5; 1906-1910: 9; 1911-1915: 20; 1916-1920: 19; 1920-1925: 7; 1926-1930: 27; undated - probably 1929: 1
    General breakdown of subjects, all as relate to syphilis: neurology 18;
    treatment/clinical observations 17 including 1 on Salvarsan;
    histopathology 14;
    cardiovascular 12;
    Wasserman /serology 10; congenital 8; etiology 4; population distribution 3; reinfection 3
    Number of pages range from 2 to 76; many have illustrations including some color plates
    A few are inscribed "with the author's compliments"
    All over, a very large archive of information on syphilis which in the early 20th century was quite rampant and destructive.
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