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LEWIN, Louis (1850-1929). The Untoward Effects of Drugs. A Pharmacological and Clinical Manual. Detroit: George S. Davis, 1883.
8vo. Original gilt-stamped and lettered dark plum cloth (extremities a bit rubbed). Provenance: indecipherable ownership signature and stamp; Parmly Billings Memorial Library (early booklabel gifted from W.X. Sudduth, M.D.).
FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION. “The only book of its kind dealing with the borderline between the pharmacological and toxicological action of drugs with the untoward or side-effects of all kinds of medicaments” (Garrison-Morton 2081).
[With:] LEWIN. Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. 8vo. Original half cloth, marbled sides (joints cracked and starting, corners bumped). FIRST EDITION of this significant book in the history of medicine and “perhaps his best work” (Garrison-Morton 2116). -- [Also:] LEWIN. Lehrbuch der Toxikologie. Vienna and Leipzig: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1897. 8vo. Contemporary cloth (rebacked with original spine laid down). Second edition. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all Horowitz high spots.