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T.S. Brothers & Co., Singapore.
Catalogue of dental equipment, appliances, instruments and materials. Editor, T.H.T. 4th ed. Singapore, [1933]
130 p. illus., port. 25.5 x 36.1 cm.
Talmey, Bernard Simon, 1862-1926.
Male impotence and sterility in marriage, by B.S. Talmey. [New York] c1917.
8, [1] p. 20.3 cm.
"Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal for February 17, 1917."
Taylor, Hugh Stott, 1890-
Molecular films, the cyclotron and the new biology, by Hugh Stott Taylor, Irving Langmuir, and Ernest O. Lawrence. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1942.
[4], 95 p. illus., 16 plates. 23.5 cm.
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
Experiments with alternate currents of high potential and high frequency. A lecture delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, by Nikola Tesla. With an appendix by the same author on the transmission of electric energy without wires, reviewing his recent work, and presenting illustrations from photographs never before published. New ed. 2nd impression. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1904.
ix, 162 p. illus. 18.5 cm.
Provenance: Inscribed, "H. P. Hollnagel" and "Brutus Brooks".
Tesla, a Serbian-born engineer and inventor, emigrated to the United States and devised the first alternating motor. In this lecture he refers to the heating effect of high frequency currents on a small body connnected to a coil and suggests a medical use if a large apparatus was built.
Theosophical Research Centre.
Some unrecognized factors in medicine. London, Theosophical Research Centre, 1939.
254 p. col. plate. 22 cm.
Thomas, Lewis, 1913-
The lives of a cell; notes of a biology watcher [by] Lewis Thomas. New York, Viking Press, c1974.
[3], 153 p. 20.8 cm.
"All of these essays originally appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine."
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
Elementary lessons in electricity & magnetism, by Silvanus P. Thompson. London, Macmillan Co., 1903.
xv, 626 p. illus., front. 17 cm.
Provenance: Owner signature, "A. C. Lyell, Clifton College, Bristol, 1905".
Thompson, a British physicist and prolific science writer especially of history of science, narrowly missed demonstrating experimentally Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic propagation, which Hertz accomplished in 1887-1888.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
Elementary lessons in electricity and magnetism, by Silvanus P. Thompson. Rev. and enl. to date, including all of the recent discoveries in x-rays, wireless telegraphy, etc., by Otto H.L. Schwetzky. Chicago, Thompson & Thomas, 1906.
[1], xii, 499 p. illus., front. 19.5 cm.
Provenance: Inscribed, "K. P. Conover 1907 from C. J. Stiffens".
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
Elementary lessons in electricity and magnetism, by Silvanus P. Thompson. New ed. rev. throughout with additions. New York, Macmillan, 1910.
xv, 638 p. illus., front. 19 cm.
Provenance: Owner signature, "Richard Bleros, M.I.T. 1913 ... Bost. Mass ... 1911".
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
Michael Faraday, his life and work, by Silvanus P. Thompson. London, Cassell, 1901.
ix, [2], 308 p. diagrs., facsims., front. (port.) 19 cm.
Provenance: Presentation plate of Bern Dibner, Bundy Library.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt and his Epistola de Magnete, by Silvanus P. Thompson. Appendices A, B, C. London, H. Frowde, 1906.
9 p. 25 cm.
"From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. III."
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
William Gilbert, and terrestrial magnetism in the time of Queen Elizabeth; a discourse, by Silvanus P. Thompson. [London] Chiswick Press [1903?]
[1], 15, [1] p. 20.2 cm.
Provenance: Author's signed presentation copy to, "Gerald Christy".
Thompson & Plaster Co., inc.
Catalog of accessories, x-ray and electro-therapeutic. Leesburg, Va., Chicago, Ill. [ca. 1921]
70, [2] p. illus. 22.8 cm.
Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937.
Selections from the scientific correspondence of Elihu Thomson, ed. by Harold J. Abrahams and Marion B. Savin. Cambridge, Ma., MIT Press, c1971.
xiv, 569 p. front. (port.) 23.5 cm.
Thomson, an American scientist and inventor, became one of the pioneers of the electrical manufacturing industry in the United States. He collaborated with Nikola Tesla in the development of high voltage generators and in 1896 experimented on himself to prove unequivocally that x-rays were harmful.
Thomson, Sir Joseph John, 1856-1940.
Conduction of electricity through gases, by J.J. Thomson. Cambridge, University Press, 1903.
vi, [1], 566 p. illus. 23 cm.
Provenance: Owner bookplate, "Alan A. C. Swinton."
Thomson introduces the term 'ions' for the first time in this book. Based on the Silliman Lectures, Thomson, "attempts to discuss the bearing of the recent advances made in Electrical Sciences on our views of the Constitution of Matter and the Nature of Electricity."--the preface. Thomson discovered the electron, discovered cathode rays were streams of electrons emitted from the cathode and became a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1906.
Thomson, Sir Joseph John, 1856-1940.
Conduction of electricity through gases, by J.J. Thomson. 2nd ed. Cambridge, University Press, 1906.
vi, [2], 678 p. illus. 22.5 cm.
Thomson, Sir Joseph John, 1856-1940.
Electricity and matter, by J.J. Thomson. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1911, c1904.
[7], 162 p. diagrs. 21 cm.
Provenance: Bookseller plate, "B. H. Blackwell, Oxford".
Thomson, Sir Joseph John, 1856-1940.
The electron in chemistry; being five lectures delivered at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, by Sir J.J. Thomson. Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, 1923.
[5], 144 p. diagrs. 24.3 cm.
Provenance: Owner signature, "H. P. Hollnagel, Swampscott Mass."
Tigerstedt, Robert Adolf Armand, 1853-1923.
A text-book of human physiology, by Robert Tigerstedt. Tr. from the 3rd German ed. by John R. Murlin. With an introd. to the English ed. by Graham Lusk. New York, D. Appleton, 1906.
xxxi, 751 p. illus. (part col.) 24.5 cm.
Provenance: Owner bookstamp, "Dr. W. P. Harrison, Teague, Texas".
Tinel, Jules, 1879-1952.
Les blessures des nerfs. Semiologie des lésions nerveuses périphériques par blessures de guerre [par] Jules Tinel. PrÇf. du J. Dejerine. Paris, Masson, 1916. xi, 511 p. illus. 25 cm.
Provenance: Inscribed, "Pierquiy", Library plate, "Bibliotheca Neurological Courville" and stamps, "Bib. Neur. Cou. Cal. Coll. of Med." and, "University of California, Irvine ..."
First edition of a comprehensive study of peripheral nerve injuries suffered by soldiers during World War I, detailing both "examen electrique" and electrotherapeutic treatment.
Toldt, Carl, 1840-1920, ed.
Anatomischer Atlas für Studirende und Ärzte unter Mitwirkung von Alois Dalla Rosa, herausgegeben von Carl Toldt. Dritte verbesserte Aufl. Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1903.
[4], 404-552 p. diagrs. (part col.) 26.5 cm.
Provenance: Owner stamp, "Gustav Bucky".
Torbett, John Walter, 1871-
The use of short wave therapy in medicine, by J. Walter Torbett. Fort Worth, Texas, The State Medical Association of Texas, 1935.
5 p. 23 cm.
"Reprinted from Texas State Journal of Medicine, July, 1935, Vol. 13, pp. 200-203."
Tournay, Auguste, 1878-
Effets des actions mécaniques portant sur la chaîne du nerf sympathique comparés aux effets de l'excitation électrique. Note de Auguste Tournay et Édouard Krebs. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1924.
3 p. charts. 27 cm.
"Extrait des Comptes rendus des séances de l'Academie des Sciences, t. 178, p. 232, séance du 7 janvier 1924."
The authors reproduce one of Claude Bernard's experiments.
Tousey, Sinclair, 1864-
Medical electricity and Rontgen rays with chapters on phototherapy and radium, by Sinclair Tousey. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1910.
[4], 11-1116 p. illus., 16 plates (part col.) 25 cm.
Provenance: Owner signatures, "W. H. Bell ... 1910" (cancelled), "J. W. Black, MD"
Tousey, Sinclair, 1864-
Medical electricity, Rontgen rays and radium with a practical chapter on phototherapy, by Sinclair Tousey. 2nd ed., thoroughly rev. and greatly enl. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1915.
1219 p. illus., 16 plates (part col.) 25 cm.
Tousey, Sinclair, 1864-
Medical electricity, rontgen rays and radium with a practical chapter on phototherapy, by Sinclair Tousey. 3rd ed., thoroughly rev. and greatly enl. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1921.
1337 p. illus., 16 plates (part. col.) 25 cm.
Provenance: Owner stamp, "Joseph B. Hix, MD ... Altus, Oklahoma".
Trajets [par le groupe Lacretelle] Paris, Maloine [19--]
[58] p. (chiefly col. illus.) 26.8 cm.
Transtrom, Henry Leroy, 1885-
Electricity at high pressures and frequencies, by Henry L. Transtrom. Chicago, Joseph G. Branch Pub. Co., 1913.
xi, 247 p. illus. 19 cm.
Provenance: Owner signature, "Chas. E. Apgan".
Triaire, Paul, 1842-1912.
Dominique Larrey et les campagnes de la révolution et de l'empire 1768-1842 [par] Paul Triaire. Tours A. Mame, 1902.
xv, 756, [1] p. port. 25.5 cm.
Provenance: Library plate, "Withdrawn, Presented to the Lib. Med. Soc. of Co. of Kings by Donald E. McKenna, M.D. ... 1933". Inscribed, "gift of Mon. Abeille Villard", signed "A. Millary".
Tromp, Soleo Walle, 1909-
Psychical physics; a scientific analysis of dowsing, radiesthesia and kindred phenomena, by S.W. Tromp. New York, Elsevier Pub. Co., 1949.
xv, 534 p. illus. 24 cm.
Provenance: Owner's signature, illegible.
Contains an analysis of the influence of electromagnetic fields on psychic phenomena with particular reference to divining.
Troup, William Annandale, 1889-
Therapeutic uses of infra-red rays. With a chapter on the treatment of sinusitis by radio-therapy, by W. Annandale Troup. With a foreword by Sir William Willcox. 3rd ed. London, The Actinic Press, 1936.
xv, 149, [2] p. illus., front. 21.5 cm.
Truelle, Roger.
Action des différents courants électriques sur la fibre lisse de l'intestin, par Roger Truelle. Paris, H. Jouve, 1904. 83, [2] p. 21 cm.
Doctoral thesis on medical electricity as applied to the gastro-intestinal tract defended at the medical faculty of the University of Paris.
Tunzelmann, George William von, 1856-
A treatise on electrical theory and the problem of the universe. Considered from the physical point of view, with mathematical appendices, by G.W. de Tunzelmann. London, C. Griffin, 1910.
xxxi, 654 p. illus., diagrs. 20 cm.
Turenne, Louis.
Les mineraux; les ondes des formes géométriques; la lecture sur plans; l'évolution de la matière les ondes nocives [par] L. Turenne. Paris, 1935.
248 p. illus. 22.5 cm.
Provenance: Bookseller stamp, "Maison de la Radiesthesie ... Paris".
Turner, D M
Makers of science, electricity & magnetism, by D.M. Turner, with an introd. by Charles Singer. London, Oxford University Press, 1927.
xv, 184 p. illus., diagrs., ports. 19.8 cm.
Turner, Dawson Fryers Duckworth, 1857-1928.
Radium; its physics & therapeutics, by Dawson Turner. New York, W. Wood, 1911.
x, 86 p. illus., 12 plates. 19 cm.
Turner was a Scottish pioneer radiologist and early proponent of high frequency current treatment as suggested by Nicola Tesla in his lectures to the IEEE in London in 1892 and to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1893. The high frequency apparatus that Turner developed was probably modeled after Elihu Thompson's who had accompanied Tesla on his lecture tour in England.
Turner, Dawson Fryers Duckworth, 1857-1928.
Radium; its physics & therapeutics, by Dawson Turner. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1914.
xiv, 170 p. illus., plates., port. 18.5 cm.
Provenance: Author's presentation copy to the "Womens Students Union, 1915".
Turner, Gerard L'Estrange.
Descriptive catalogue of Van Marum's scientific instruments in Teyler's museum, by G. L'E. Turner. Leyden, Noordhoff [1973]
[4], 129-401 p. illus., plates. 22.4 cm.
"Off-printed from Martinus van Marum Life and work, vol. IV."
Turrell, Walter John, 1865-1943.
The principles of electrotherapy and their practical application, by W.J. Turrell. London, H. Frowde, 1922.
xi, [1], 276 p. illus. 22 cm.
Turrell, a British physician, pioneered the use of electotherapy at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. The electrotherapy unit opened in 1913 and administered 50,000 electrical treatments to wounded soldiers during World War I. Turrell was sceptical however of the then current fad of ionic medication - the therapeutic transfer of ions.
Turrell, Walter John, 1865-1943.
The principles of electrotherapy and their practical application, by W.J. Turrell. 2nd ed. London, H. Milford, 1929.
xvi, 413 p. illus., front., 8 plates. 22.5 cm.
Provenance: Author's signed presentation copy to, "H. W. Budgett": Bookseller plate, "H. K. Lewis & Co. ... London".
Tyler, Albert Franklin, 1881-
Surgical diathermy in the treatment of new growths of the face and mouth [by] Albert F. Tyler. [1924]
[4] p. illus. 29.5 cm.
Reprinted from Journal of Radiology.
Tyndall, Charles Herbert, 1857-1935.
Electricity and its similitudes; the analogy of phenomena natural and spiritual [by] Charles H. Tyndall. New York, Fleming H. Revell, c1902.
215 p. front., plates. 19.5 cm.
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