Locarno 1937 (3 Ergebnisse)

Part of Letter, c.16 x 7cm, good condition. Surviving text: "[.] I hope these notes will be useful, but I have no papers or books of reference here." Image on request.

93pp. Con una bella portada en color y grabados en el texto de Renau. El autor fue Director del Instituto Ginecológico de Haarlem. Su libro Het volkomen huwelijk (El matrimonio perfecto), escrito en 1926, lo hizo conocido internacionalmente, y fué puesto en la lista de libros prohibidos denominada Index Librorum Prohibitorum por la Iglesia Católica. Se lo recuerda por demostrar en 1905 que la mujer solo ovula una vez por cada ciclo menstrual. Esto contribuyó a la creación del método del calendario para el control natal, y más tarde al desarrollo de otros sistemas de determinación de fases fértiles e infértiles en el ciclo menstrual.…

2pp.,8vo, black-bordered, bifolium, good condition. "I am at the present time so tied by public work that I should hesitate to take any fresh engagement, but in addition to this Ifeel that the times are unsuitable [First World War] for anniversary celebrations for which none of us can have much heart at tyhe moment. I beg of you therefore, to excuse me,and, did I not fear to be impertinent, I should suggest that it would be more consonant with everyone's feelings at the present time if the Union postponed the celebration of its centenaryuntil the War is over." Note: Barnard had just become President of The Cambridge University Union Society. He obtained a commission to the Rifle Brigade in 1915 and was killed in action in August 1916.…