Entry Nos. 10400–10499
99 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1992
#10400
The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …
1838
#10402
Botica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.
The first medical book printed in California, a small 23-page pamphlet of folk or popular medicine. It was printed by Agustín V. Zamorano, the first printer in Alta California under Mexican rule before the region beca…
1982
#10403
The history of medicine in Alabama.
1854
#10404
Voyage médical en Californie.
Translated into English by L. Jay Oliva, introduced and annotated by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. as A medical journey in California (Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1967).
1925
#10405
The scalpel under three flags in California.
1909
#10406
Eradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1983
#10407
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
1938
#10408
The horse and buggy doctor.
The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1991
#10409
The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.
2002
#10410
Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.
Medical rituals of the Lacota people.
1837
#10411
The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…
1876
#10412
The people's medical advisor.
A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…
1912
#10413
Modern methods in nursing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2013
#10414
"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.
2005
#10415
Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
1851
#10416
Ladies' indispensable assistant: Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife ... Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen ... ; also, safe directions for the management of children ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine ... : to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published ....
In spite of the verbose title, the Table of Contents of this work indicates that roughly the first half of the book concerns home remedies for the widest range of complaints and illnesses, and medical properties of pl…
2001
#10417
The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.
2012
#10418
Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
2016
#10419
A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.
2016
#10420
Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.
"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…
2016
#10421
Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.
"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…
2014
#10422
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
2016
#10423
Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.
2015
#10424
L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).
Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
2018
#10425
Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.
1850
#10426
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
1857
#10427
Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.
Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…
2001
#10428
Out of the dead house: Nineteenth‐century women physicians and the writing of medicine.
1999
#10429
Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.
"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …
1985
#10430
Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.
"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…
1987
#10431
American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.
1972
#10432
American physicians in the nineteenth century: From sects to science.
2000
#10433
Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680.
"The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their under…
1998
#10434
Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
1996
#10435
The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
1992
#10436
Hippocrate.
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Translated into English by M. B. DeBevoise as Hippocrates (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999).
1826 –1838
#10437
Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. 6 vols. plus 4 atlases.
Duperrey undertook this circumnavigation under the sponsorship of the French Minister of Marine, to study terrestrial magnetism and meteorology, and to confirm or correct the position of islands and landmarks that wer…
1892
#10438
Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.
The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…
1854
#10439
Histoire de l'électricité médicale, comprenant l'étude des instruments et appareils, le résumé des auteurs, un choix d'observations.
The first history of medical electricity and electrotherapy. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1862
#10440
Chinese immigration and the physiological causes of the decay of a nation.
Medical justification for racism, racial prejudice, and xenophobia in its purest sense. The author, a physician, also published several works of conventional medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…
1831
#10441
Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.
2015
#10442
The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.
2009
#10443
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
1980
#10444
Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.
1803
#10445
An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness; and prolonging the life of man to its natural period. Being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease.
Written by the first great American painter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1844
#10446
The theory and treatment of fevers. Revised and corrected by Ferdinando Stith.
The first medical treatise published in Missouri and the first medical treatise published west of the Mississippi River. "John Sappington provided medical services, was a financial lender, and imported and exported go…
1905
#10447
A history of medicine in Missouri.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1870
#10448
Report on barracks and hospitals, with descriptions of military posts.
Describes military posts in all regions of the U.S., including the Western territories, with details of their hospitals, barracks, etc. In a 1928 talk at Mayo Clinic historian Fielding Garrison wrote about this work, …
1971
#10449
Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail.
1886
#10450
Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.
Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…