Felix Cunha, a doctor, privately printed his 1939 essays on the history of medicine, pharmacy and alchemy. In 1965 Ahmed H. Shamma published in Baghdad his study of liver fibrosis linked to schistosomiasis, with an Arabic summary that reads from the other cover. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s 1964 Anatomy of the Ox compares the ox with the horse, the dog and the domestic fowl. John Tyler Bonner’s 1952 essay asks how a living thing takes its shape, and Eric J. Nestler and Paul Greengard explain how protein phosphorylation regulates the work of nerve cells.
Felix Cunha’s privately printed 1939 essays on medicine, pharmacy and alchemy.
Ahmed H. Shamma’s 1965 monograph on schistosomiasis, with its summary in Arabic.
The 1964 Indian Council of Agricultural Research anatomy, with notes on other domestic animals.
John Tyler Bonner’s 1952 essay on growth and form, in its original jacket.
Eric J. Nestler and Paul Greengard’s 1984 account.
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