Entry Nos. 6400–6499

1905

#5803

The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.

1906 –1911

#6401

Geschichte der Medizin. Vol. 1-2, pt. 1.

An English translation was published in London, 2 vols., 1909-25.

1908

#6403

Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin.

1909

#6404

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin.

1910

#6406

Medizinisches aus der Geschichte. 3te. Aufl.

1913

#6408

An introduction to the history of medicine.

One of the best single-volume histories of medicine from the bibliographical point of view, mainly for 19th century and earlier material. A rather compressed work with much detail, this is really more of a reference w…

1916

#6409

Medizin-geschichtliches Hilfsbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entdeckungsgeschichte und der Biographie.

1917 –1921

#6411

Studies in the history and method of science. 2 vols. Edited by Charles Singer.

A collection of essays by several authorities, unusually well produced and illustrated for the time. Introduction to vol. 1 by Sir William Osler. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1921

#6413

Geschichte der Medizin im Überblick.

5th edition, 1965, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin.

1921

#6414

The evolution of modern medicine. A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.

The final text of these lectures, which Osler characterized as "an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages," remained unfinished at Osler’s death, and Osler requested in his will that this and …

1926

#6415

An introduction to the history of medicine from the time of the Pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century … With an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine by F.G. Crookshank.

1926

#6417

Die Lehre von der heilkraft der Natur im Wandel der Zeiten.

The standard work on the history of the doctrine of “the healing power of Nature”. English translation, New York, 1932.

1927

#6418

Storia della medicina.

This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…

1927 –1948

#6419

Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.

An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.

1928

#6421

A short history of medicine.

A highly readable outline history. Second edition revised by E.A. Underwood (1962).

1923 –1958

#6422

A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.

Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.

1931

#6423

Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of medical history. Forward by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

1931

#6424

Einführing in die Medizin.

Traces the evolution of medicine from the stage of superstition and magic to the present time, and shows how our knowledge of the subject has developed through the study of anatomy and physiology. Translated in Englis…

1934

#6425

Historia contemporánea de la medicina.

1935 –1937

#6429

Kulturgeschichte der Heilkunde.

1936 –1949

#6430

Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.

This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.

1936

#6431

A hundred years of medicine.

New edition 1968.

1936

#6432

Disease and destiny.

1936

#6433

The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.

Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.

1940

#6435

Progress in medicine: a critical review of the last hundred years.

1942

#6436

Source book of medical history.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.

1943

#6437

British medicine and the Vienna School: contacts and parallels.

1945

#6439

A history of medicine.

1947

#6440

History of medicine. A correlative text arranged according to subjects by Cecilia Mettler. Edited by Fred A Mettler.

Posthumously published after the author died three days after childbirth.

1947

#6441

Storia della medicina. 2 vols.

1948

#6443

Einführung in die Geschichte der Medizin in Einzeldarstellungen.

1949

#6444

Einführung in die Medizinhistorik. Ihr Wesen, ihre Arbeitsweise und ihre Hilfsmittel.

1949 –1955

#6445

Geschichte der Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. 2 vols. [in 3].

1950

#6447

Medicinens historie.

2nd edition, 1964.

1951 –1961

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1952

#6449

Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.

Contains extensive bibliographies.

1953 –1959

#6450

A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)

1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.

1953 –1966

#6451

Index zur Geschichte der Medizin. Vols. 1-2.

Vol. 1 contains over 10,000 and vol. 2 over 7,000 references to books and papers. Vol. 1 edited by W. Artelt, vol. 2 edited by J. Steudel. Covers the years 1945-48 and 1949-52.

1883

#6452

Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.

Folk-Lore Society Publication No. 12. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893

#6453

Die Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 –1909

#6455

Vergleichende Volksmedizin. Eine Darstellung volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925

#6458

The healing gods of ancient civilizations.

1927

#6459

The infancy of medicine. An enquiry into the influence of folk-lore upon the evolution of scientific medicine.

1932

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

1935

#6461

The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#6462

Healing ritual: studies of the technique and tradition of the southern Slavs.

1936

#6463

La médecine chez les peuples primitifs.

1937

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

1937

#6465

Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.