[CANCER]. -- RCAMIER, Joseph Claude Anthelm (1744-1852). Recherches sur le traitement du cancer, par la compression mthodique simple ou combine, et sur l'histoire gnrale de la mme maladie; suivies de notes. 1o. Sur les forces et la dynamtrie vitales; 2o. Sur l'inflammation et l'tat fbrile. Paris: Gabon; Brussels: Dpt de librairie mdicale franais, 1829. 8o. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine with green leather labels (joints broken and worn, extremities worn). PRESENTATION COPY (inscription on half-title "De la part de l'auteur." FIRST EDITION. "Rcamier was the first to recognize the process of metastasis. He also described for the first time invasion of veins by cancer" (Garrison-Morton 2610); Norman 1805. -- PAGET, James (1814-1899). "On Disease of the Mammary Areola Preceding Cancer of the Mammary Gland". Extract from: St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports 10 (1874), pp. [87]-[90]. 8o. Bound with three other papers by Paget in modern half brown morocco. Provenence: Walter R. Bett (1903-1968), medical historian (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "First description of 'Paget's disease of the nipple' - eczema of the nipple with cancer ... Paget was Serjeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, and a great surgical pathologist. He was associated with St. Bartholomew's Hospital during most of his life" (Garrison-Morton 5772). Norman 1628. -- HALSTEAD, William Stewart (1852-1922). The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894. Offprint from: The Johns Hopkins Hospial Reports, Vol. IV, No. 6 (1894-1895). [N.p., n.d.]. Large 8o. Printed folding table, lithographed plate, 5 half-tone plates. Original buff printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE. Halsted's method of radical mastectomy is still used, with some modifications, in the surgical tratment of carcinoma of the breast. Plate 12 shows the first use of rubber gloves during an operation. Garrison-Morton 5777; Norman 983. (3)