Some of the titles in the McGovern Collection published by Samuel and William Wood.

• Title: Catalogue of books on medicine, anatomy, surgery, midwifery, chemistry agriculture, & C., & C., & C. / for sale by Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl Street.
  Author: Samuel S. & William Wood.
  Subject(s): Catalogs, Booksellers'
  Publisher: New York : [Samuel S. & William Wood], 1845.
  Description: 45 p. ; 19 cm.
  


• Title: Lectures on natural and difficult parturition / by Edward William Murphy.
  Author: Murphy, Edward William, 1802-1877.
  Subject(s): Labor, Obstetric. Labor Complications. Labor Presentation. Obstetrics.
  Publisher: New-York : Samuel S. and William Wood, 1846.
  Description: 281, 55 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  Note: Includes errata on p. 12. Spine title: Natural and difficult parturition. Includes "Catalogue of books on medicine, anatomy, surgery, midwifery, chemistry, agriculture, &c., &c,. &c., for sale by Samuel S. & William Wood ..., 1846" separately paged following p. 281. Includes bibliographical references and index.
  


• Title: Report of the cholera in Paris.
  Subject(s): Cholera--Government Policy--Paris Cholera. Public Health--history--Paris
  Publisher: New York: Samuel and William Wood, 1849.
  Description: 198 p., 1 l.: map (fol.); 23 cm.
  Note: "Published by Authority of the French Government. Translated from the original and printed by Recommendation of the Board of Health and the Academy of the City of New-York." T.p. Includes bibliographical references. TMCL: Copy bears the bookplate of the Twelve Members of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, May 1901. Copy signed to: Dr. F. T. Ferris (?) by ? Sarthie ?, New York, 24th May 1849.
  


• Title: The diseases of the rectum / by Richard Quain.
  Author: Quain, Richard, 1800-1887.
  Subject(s): Rectal Diseases.
  Publisher: New York : Samuel S. and William Wood, 1855.
  Description: 2nd ed., with additions.
  xv, 332 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
  Note: Includes errata on the verso of p. xv. Includes bibliographical references.
  


• Title: Essays on infant therapeutics : to which are added, observations on ergot, history of the origin of the use of mercury in inflammatory complaints, together with the statistics of the deaths from poisoning in New York in the years 1841-2-3 / by John B. Beck.
  Author: Beck, John B. (John Brodhead), 1794-1851.
  Subject(s): Pediatrics--essays. Mercury--therapeutic use. Disease--Child. Poisoning--New York--statistics.
  Publisher: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1855.
  Description: 2nd. ed, enl. and rev. 168 p. ; 20 cm.
  Note: Cover title: Beck on infant therapeutics. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851 ..." Includes bibliographical references. TMCL: Gift of Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library in memory of Mrs. Russell J. Blattner.
  


• Title: On the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach / by George Budd.
  Author: Budd, George, 1808-1882.
  Subject(s): Stomach Diseases.
  Publisher: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1856.
  Description: 283, 4, 49 p. ; 24 cm.
  Note: Spine title: Diseases of the stomach. Includes publisher's ads after p. 283.
  


• Title: Headaches: their causes and their cure / by Henry G. Wright.
  Author: Wright, Henry Goode, 1828-1869.
  Subject(s): Headache. Headache--therapy.
  Publisher: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1856.
  Description: 140 p. ; 18 cm.
  Note: Spine title: Wright on headaches. Includes "Formulae" p. [125]-140. TMCL: Library's copy signed by Theodore C. Erikson.
  


• Title: The uræmic convulsions of pregnancy, parturition, and childbed / by Carl R. Braun ; translated from the German, with notes by J. Matthews Duncan.
  Author: Braun, Carl Rudolf, 1822-1891.
  Subject(s): Pregnancy Toxemias. Uremia. Publisher: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1858.
  Description: 182 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
  Note: Translation of: Die uraemische Eclampsie der Schwangern, Gebärenden und Wöchnerinnen, a chapter of the author's Lehrbuch der Geburtshüfe. Originally published in the Edinburgh medical journal, 1856-57. Includes publisher's ads before the title page. Includes bibliographical references.
  


• Title: Mind and matter, or, Psychological inquiries : in a series of essays, intended to illustrate the mutual relations of the physical organization and the mental faculties / by Benjamin Brodie ; with additional notes by an American editor.
  Subject(s): Brain. Psychology.
  Publisher: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1859.
  Description: viii, 279 p. ; 19 cm.
  Note: Includes bibliographical references.
  


• Title: Clinical lectures on the diseases of women and children / by Gunning S. Bedford.
  Author: Bedford, Gunning S., 1806-1870.
  Subject(s): Gynecology. Pediatrics. Obstetrics.
  Publisher: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1860.
  Description: 6th ed., carefully rev. and enl. xvi, [5]-653 p. ; 24 cm.
  Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Spine title: Diseases of women & children. "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855..." Includes publisher's catalog of books preceding the title page. TMCL: Gift of Philip M. Teigen, 1986.