Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life, by Erasmus Darwin. London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1794-96.
2 v. plates (part col.) 26.5 cm.
Contains mentions of electrophysiology and electrotherapy.
Deiman, Johan Rudolph , - 1743-1808.
Von den guten Würkungen der Elektricität in verschiedenen Krankheiten [von] J.R. Deiman. Aus dem Holländischen. Mit einigen Anmerkungen und Zusätzen von Karl Gottlob Kühn. Erster [Zweyter] Theil. Kopenhagen, bey C.G. Proft, 1793.
2 v. 20.8 cm.
In Ronalds.
Delandine, Antoine François , - 1756-1820.
De la philosophie corpusculaire, ou Des connoissances et des procédés magnétiques chez les divers peuples, par Del******. Paris, Chez Cuchet, 1785.
[5], 200 p. 14.8 cm.
Provenance: Ex Libris Pierre Lambert
Dell uso e dellattivitĂ dellarco conduttore nelle contrazioni dei muscoli. , -
With Supplemento al trattato dell´uso e dell´ attivita dell´ arco conduttore nelle contrazioni de muscoli. Bologna, S. Tommaso d´Aquino, 1794. 168, 23, [1] p. 20.7 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 196.
Reports for the first time the experiment that demonstrated electricity in living tissue. The Dell´ uso is attributed to Galvani and its Supplemento to Aldini.
Deluc, Jean Andre , - 1727-1817.
Recherches sur les modifications de l´atmosphere. Contenant; l´histoire critique du barometre et du thermometre, un traité sur la construction de ces instrumens, des experiences relatives a leurs usages, et principalement à la mesure des hauteurs & à la correction des refractions moyennes, par J.A. De Luc. Geneve, 1772.
2 v. 7 plates (6 fold.), fold. table. 26.5 cm.
Desaguliers, John Theophilus , - 1683-1744.
A course of experimental philosophy, by J.T. Desaguliers. London, Printed for W. Innys, 1744-45.
2 v. 78 fold. plates. 24 cm.
Provenance: Burndy Library (bookplate)
Desaguliers, John Theophilus , - 1683-1744.
A course of experimental philosophy, by J.T. Desaguliers. 3d ed., corr. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1763.
2 v. 78 fold. plates. 25 cm.
Desaguliers, John Theophilus , - 1683-1744.
Dissertation sur l´électricité des corps, par Desagulliers. Bordeaux, P. Brun, 1742.
[1], 28 p. 26.1 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 135.
Desaguliers, John Theophilus , - 1683-1744.
A dissertation concerning electricity by J.T. Desaguliers..., to which is annex´d a letter from President Barbot perpetual secretary of the Academy of Bordeaux, to acquaint him that his dissertation had won the prize proposed by that academy to be given to the person who should write best upon that subject. London, Printed for W. Innys and T. Longman, 1742.
[2], 6, 50, [2] p; 21 cm.
Provenance: Ex Libris Eric Quayle
Desaguliers, John Theophilus , - 1683-1744.
Lectures of experimental philosophy. Wherein the principles of mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments: with a description of the air-pump, and the several experiments thereon: of the condensing-engine; as also of the different species of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers; with several experiments to prove and explain Sir Isaac Newton´s theory of light and colors, as performed in a course of mechanical and experimental philosophy, by J.T. Desaguliers ... to which is added a description of Rowley´s machine, called the orrery, which represents the motion of the moon about the earth, Venus and Mercury about the sun, according to the Copernican system ... 2nd ed. London, Printed for W. Mears, 1719.
[19], 201 p. illus., 10 fold. plates. 20.5 cm.
Provenance: Jolliffe (bookplate)
Wheeler 249.
Desaguliers, John Theophilus , - 1683-1744.
Physico-mechanical lectures, or, An accont of what is explain´d and demonstrated in the course of mechanical and experimental philosophy, given by J.T. Desaguliers, wherein the principles of mechanics, hydrostatics and optics, are demonstrated and explain´d by a great number of experiments. Design´d for the use of all such as have seen, or may see courses of experimental philosophy. London, Printed for the author ... 1717.
[4], 80 p. illus. 19.8 cm.
Provenance: Burndy Library (bookplate)
Desbois de Rochefort, Louis , - 1750-1786.
Cours élémentaire de matière medicale, suivi d´un précis de l´art de formuler. Ouvrage posthume de Desbois de Rochefort. Paris, Méquignon, 1789.
2 v. 19.6 cm
Deshais, Jean Étienne , -
.. De hemiplegia per electricitatem curanda, ... propugnabit ... Joannes Stephanus Deshais. Monspelii, J. Martel, 1749.
[4], 40 p. 22.5 cm.
Provenance: F. Du Puy ... (inscription)
Another issue.
[2], 19-46 p. Unbound. Title: ... De hemiphlegia per electricitatem curanda. 25 cm.
Traité des maladies des yeux et des oreilles, considérées sous le rapport des quatre parties ou quatre ages de la vie de l´homme; avec les remÇdes curatifs, & les moyens propres à les préserver des accidens; par Desmonceux. Paris, Chez l´auteur [et] Lottin, 1786. 2 v. 4 plates (1 port.) 20.2 cm.
De vi electrica artificiali , -
nempe arte excitata. [n.p., 17--]
56 p. fold. plate. 19 cm.
De vi electrica, carmen didacticum ,promotore R.P. Antonio Purgstall ... -
Tyrnaviae, Typis academicis societatis Jesu, 1746.
[12], 52 p. 2 fold. plates. 15.3 cm.
Didactic poem on electricity accompanied by illustrations of electrical apparatus.
Directions for performing the metallic operation with Perkinss patent tractors ,London - 1798
broadside. 21.5 cm.
Bound with Langworthy, C.C. A view of the Perkinean electricity. Bristol, 1798.
Dissertationes selectae , -
Jo. Alberti Euleri, Paulli Frisii, et Laurentii Beraud quae ad Imperialem Scientiarum Petropolitam Academiam an. 1775 missae sunt, cum electricitatis caussa, & theoria, praemio proposito, quaereretur. Petropoli, & Lucae, Apud V. Junctinium, 1757.
15, 204 p. fold. plate. 18.5 cm.
Provenance: David P. Wheatland (bookplate)
Contains three papers on the cause and theory of electricity, identifying it with the ether or as a subtle fluid
Domin, Joseph Franz , -
[Josephi Francisci Domin.] Ars electricitatem aegris tuto adhibendi, cum propriis, tum aliorum virorum celeberrimorum experimentis innixa. Pestini, Typis M. Landerer, 1795.
124, [1] p. fold. plate. 19.7 cm.
Provenance: A Krszthelyi Premontrw Gimnazium Tanabi Konyvtara (ink stamp)
Pioneered medical electricity in Yugoslavia.
Dominici, Domenico , -
L´elettricismo applicato alla spiegazione delle leggi economiche del corpo umano dalla cui moderatezza ne risulta il giusta moto del mechanismo e ne ha origine la sanita trattato del Domenico Domenici... Macerata, Presso Bartolommeo Capitani, 1784.
68, [1] p. 23.5 cm.
Provenance: Dono dele´autore (inscription)
Applies electricity to physiology.
Donndorff, Johann August , - 1754-1837.
Ueber Elektricität, Magnetismus, Feuer, und Aether. Eine Abhandlung worin aus gesammleten Faktis, und bewährten Grundsätzen der philosophischen Naturlehre, mit Prüfung der Gründe und Gegengründe, die Meinung erörtert wird: dass die elektrische Materie von der magnetischen Materie, wie auch von der Materie des Feuers, und des Lichts wesendlich verschieden sey, von Johann August Donndorff. Quedlinburg, F.J. Ernst, 1783.
104 p. 17.5 cm.
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel , - 1671-1750
Neu-entdeckte Phaenomena von Bewundernswürdigen Würckengen der Natur, welche bey der fast allen Cörpern zukommenden electrischen Krafft und dem dabey in der Finstern mehrentheils erscheinenden Liecht einige berÅhmte Mitglieder der preisswürdigen Konigl. Engl. Societaet der Wissenschafften vornemlich aber, herr Hauksbee und herr Gray in London und nach einer weitern Untersuchung, Monsieur du Fay in Paris durch viele Experimenta, zu unsern Zeiten glÅcklich hervorgebracht, und in unterschiedlichen Wercken dem publico mitgetheilet, vorjetso wegen ihres besondern und sehr nützlichen Innhalts, in einem Systemate vorstellig gemacht, mit vielen nöthigen Anmerckungen und Figuren, auch zu letst mit allerhand physicalischen Betrachtungen und einer dienlichen hypothesi erläutert, von Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. Nürnberg, J.J. Fleischmann, 1744. [8], 88 p. 5 fold. plates. 21.3 cm.
With this is bound Waitz, J.H. Abhandlung von der Electricitat und deren Ursachen. Berlin, 1745.
Provenance: Jos. Xav. Rehmann (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 311.
Summarizes the electrical research and theories of Hauksbee, Gray, and Dufay, and introduces Doppelmayr´s own; considered to be the earliest German language book entirely on electricity.
La Mesmériade, ou Le triomphe du magnétisme animal, poeme en trois chants, dÇdiÇ a la lune. Genäve, et se trouve a Paris, Chez Couturier, 1784. [4], 15 p. 19.7 cm.
Bound with [Servan, J.M.A.] Doutes d´un provincial. Lyon, 1784.
Traité théorique et pratique du magnétisme animal, par Doppet. Turin, J.M. Briolo, 1784. 76, [1] p. 19.8 cm.
Provenance: Cong. Missionis Genuensis Domus (ink stamp)
Dujardin, François , - 1738-1775.
Histoire de la chirurgie, depuis son origine jusqu´à nos jours, par Dujardin. Paris, De l´Impr. royale, 1774-80. 2 v. 4 plates. 25.8 cm.
Du magnetisme ,ca - 1784
[7] p., bound. 34.5 cm. [manuscript]
Bound with Théorie du monde & des étres organisés. Paris, 1784
Dupont, Jean Louis , -
Essai sur la chlorose, presénté à l´école de médecine de Montpellier, et soutenu le 4 messidor an VI, par Jean Louis Dupont. Montpellier, de l´Impr. de G. Izar et A. Ricard, l´an VI de la RÇpublique [1798] 45, [1] p. 17.7 cm.
Remarks on the therapeutic use of electricity in chlorosis.
Duraeus, Samuel ,praeses. -
De inclinatione magnetica ... sub praesidio Samuelis Duraei ... offert Carolus Gust. Avelin. Upsaliae, 1763.
[4], 18 p. charts. 19.5 cm.
Dutens, Louis , - 1730-1812.
Recherches sur l´origine des découvertes attributées aux modernes, où l´on démontre que nos plus célèbres philosophes ont puisé la plûpart de leurs connoissances dans les ouvrages des anciens: & que plusieurs vérités importantes sur la religion ont été connues des sages du paganisme [par Dutens]. Paris, Duchesne, 1766. 2 v. in 1. 19.8 cm.
In Ronalds.
Treats electricity and magnetism at length.
Dutour, Étienne François , -
Recherches sur les différens mouvemens de la matiere électrique, par Dutour. Paris, Vincent, 1760.
xxiii, [1], 318, [6] p. 4 fold. plates. 16.8 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 145.
Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand , - 1806-1875.
Diagnostic et curabilité de la surdité et de la surdi-mutité nerveuses par la faradisation des muscles moteurs des osselets et de la corde du tympan, par G.B. Duchenne (de Boulogne). Paris, J.B. Ballière, 1861.
47 p. illus. 22.2 cm.
(In his Contributions a l´étude du système nerveux. Paris, [187-])
"Extrait de l´ouvrage de l´auteur: De l´électrisation localisée et de son application a la pathologique et a la thérapeutique. 2. éd. entièrement refondue. Paris, 1861 ..."
