Pickles william norman (5 risultati)

VHS. Language: English. VHS 1 Very good in very good packaging. Ed flanders Norman Lloyd William Daniels David Birney David Morse Howie Mandel Cynthia Sikes Christina Pickles Denzel. (illustratore).

First edition. 8vo., orig. brown cloth, 110pp. Bookplate o/w about fine. `.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The book, first published in 1939, reports on how careful observations can lead to correlations between transmission of infective disease between families, farms and villages. In eight chapters with a bibliography and index. With inked inscriptions on the front loose endpaper.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. viii, 110 pp; 3 text figures; 11 charts (the first chart is between p. 24 and p. 25 and is double-page); 3 unnumbered plates. Original cloth. Text lightly foxed and fore edges of pages foxed. Bookplate of former owner Brian Davies on front pastedown. Very Good, in worn dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. The first printing of this book is scarce--see below for the reason why--and a signed copy of the first printing is even scarcer. SIGNED BY WILLIAM PICKLES: "To C. H. Stuart-Harris,/ as a reminder of a meeting/ at Ripon, from the writer/ of this inconsiderable volume/ who is greatly appreciative/ of his work./ 'Sit down before fact as a little/ child: be prepared to give up/ every preconceived notion: follow/ humbly & kindly wherever Nature/ leads or you shall learn nothing'/ T. H. Huxley/ William Pickles/ Nov 23rd 1947." The quotation is from a letter written by Huxley to Charles Kingsley, September 23, 1860. Huxley's words are slightly different from what Pickles wrote. Huxley wrote: "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this." There is a Wikipedia article devoted just to this book by Pickles. "The book was first published by John Wright & Sons of Bristol in 1939 [offered here]. It had a preface by Major Greenwood [on pp. iii-iv], professor of epidemiology and vital statistics at the University of London. In April 1941, during the Second World War, the entire stock of the book, unbound sheets and the type were completely destroyed by enemy action but such was the demand for the book that in 1949 it was reissued in virtually identical form" (Wikipedia). There have been subsequent reprint editions, testimony to the status of this book as a classic. In 1935 Pickles reported some of his work at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine. After that meeting, Major Greenwood wrote in the British Medical Journal: "We trust that when the full text of Dr, Pickles's paper is available it will be widely read. We are even sanguine enough to hope that it may mark the beginning of a new era in epidemiology." Greenwood suggested to Pickles that he write a book, which Pickles did. It is the book being offered here, with a Preface by Greenwood. ABOUT THE RECIPIENT OF THIS COPY: The recipient Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris, was knighted in 1970. Quoting Wikipedia about him: "In 1935, he received a £55 a year fellowship from the bequest of Sir Henry Royce (of Rolls-Royce) to conduct research at the National Institute for Medical Research into the cause and cure of influenza. The following year he went to the United States on a Rockefeller scholarship. In World War II he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe and the Far East, commanding field laboratories, ending with the rank of colonel and showing an early acumen in the diagnosis of infective diseases. He himself contracted some of those diseases he studied, notably typhus and typhoid. "When he was appointed to the chair at Sheffield in 1946 the shortlist included George White Pickering and Robert Platt who respectively became Regius Professor of Medicine and Master of Pembroke College at Oxford and Professor of Medicine at Manchester and President of the Royal College of Physicians. At Sheffield, Stuart-Harris carried out research into poliomyelitis and influenza viruses (the oral polio vaccine underwent its first trials at Sheffield) and set up a major research and epidemiological unit to investigate respiratory illnesses. He identified the difference between influenza and the common cold, showing that several strains of influenza virus existed and that vaccination against one was not necessarily proof against another.". Signed by Author(s).…