Chemistry in Medicine: A Cooperative Treatise Intended to Give Examples of Progress Made in Medicine with the Aid of Chemistry

First edition, first printing.  756pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and occasional monochrome illustrations, diagrams etc in text.  Full limp leather binding with gilt lettering on upper panel.  12mo.  Leather very slightly rubbed at spine tips.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front free endpaper, with date stamp above.  Endpapers and gutters with hint of toning, some rippling on paste downs, with some scattered small marks on rear endpapers else internally neat, clean, bight and tight.

A treatise on the contribution of chemistry to medical developments, with chapters on, for instance, Heredity and Development; The Human Body as a Machine; The Conquest of Dietary Disease;  The Hope of the Leper; The War on the Hookworm; Protection Against Industrial Poisoning; The Battle Against Tuberculosis; A Hope of Mankind – Chemotherapy, etc.