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Entry Nos. 7500–7599

99 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.

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1966 –1972

#7500

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: A selection of surviving specimens illustrating [John] Hunter's opinions on the nature of diseases, experiments and observations on cases in surgery. 2 vols.

2013

#7501

Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.

2015

#7502

Patients and healers in the High Roman Empire.

2014

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

2015

#7504

Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.

1775

#7505

The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country....

The author characterized himself on the title page as "a Trader with the Indians and a Resident in their Country for Forty Years." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2007

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

1736

#7507

Dissertatio de arteries et venis intestinorum hominis. Adjecta icon coloribus distincta.

The small color mezzotint printed by the painter Jan Ladmiral included with this pamphlet on the arteries and veins of the human intestine was among the earliest applications of full color printing, and the first use …

1826

#7508

Every woman's book; or, what is love? Containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family.

This radical and progressive sex manual was the first book to specify methods of contraception, including the sponge, condoms, and withdrawal. It also took the position, radical at the time, that with respect to sexua…

2015

#7509

The technical image: A history of styles in scientific imagery.

2010

#7510

A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.

1826

#7511

Descriptio musei anatomici.

Bleuland's catalogue of his museum of anatomical and pathological specimens. Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.

1828

#7512

Otium academicum, continens descriptionem speciminum nonnullarum partium corporis humani et animalium subtilioris anatomiae ope in physiologicum usum praeparatarum, aliarumque, quibus morborum organicorum natura illustrator.

Issued in 12 fascicules from 1826 to 1828. Consists of 3 parts concerning anatomy and physiology, comparative anatomy specimens and pathological specimens. Includes 37 plates printed in color; 35 plates in black & whi…

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1991

#7514

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

1878 –1883

#7515

Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1991

#7516

Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.

A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.

1962

#7517

Les reflets de la sphygmologie chinoise dans la médecine occidentale.

2016

#7518

A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.

An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.

1976

#7519

The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.

1996

#7520

Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.

1974

#7521

Telediagnosis: A new community health resource, Observations on the feasibility of telediagnosis based on 1000 patient transactions.

In 1968 Bird founded and directed the first "telemedicine" system, which linked a medical station at Boston's Logan Airport with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who supplied remote diagnosis, treatment and …

1975

#7522

Telemedicine: Explorations in the use of telecommunications in health care.

The first book on telemedicine, with contributions by 18 authors, including Kenneth T. Bird. In the final chapter the editors summarize telemedicine programs then operational in the United States. The book also includ…

2009

#7523

History of telemedicine: Evolution, context, and transformation.

2001 –2008

#7524

An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.

1995

#7525

The earliest occupation of Europe. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation workshop at Tautavel (France) 1993.

The first effort to present summaries of the evidence for earliest occupation in all the regions of Europe including Russia, edited by Roebroeks and van Kolfschoten.

2016

#7526

A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.

The first comprehensive introduction to all 186 Linnaean dissertations, in the form of short essays (many illustrated) on each dissertation. Most of these dissertations, which were published in Latin, have remained re…

2013

#7527

La biblioteca di Avraham ben David Portaleone Secondo L'inventario della sua eredita.

An attempt to reconstruct the library of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) of Mantua, physician to the ducal house of Gonzaga, on the basis of two interesting inventories, including a Hebrew list of 1585 and an inventory…

1995

#7528

Diktatoren im Spiegel der Medizin: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin.

Translated into English by David J. Parent as Dictators in the Mirror of Medicine: Napoleon, Hitler Stalin (Bloomington, IL: Med-Ed Press, 1995).

1927

#7529

Die Zukunft einer Illusion.

1997

#7530

Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.

1989 –1991

#7531

Musik und Medizin. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik; Vol. 2: Am Beispiel der deutschen Romantik; Vol. 3: Chopin, Smetana, Tschaikowsky, Mahler. The three volumes were translated into English by Bruce Cooper Clarke, and published i…

1996

#7532

Kunst & Medizin: Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh.

1990

#7533

A history of contraception from antiquity to the present day.

2007

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

1999

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

2002

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

1950

#7537

Childhood and society.

1958

#7538

Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.

1992

#7539

The history of British pathology.

1969

#7540

Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.

2011

#7541

A history of British sports medicine.

1913

#7542

The complete athletic trainer, by S. A. Mussabini in collaboration with Charles Ranson.

Includes advice on health, diet, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1813

#7543

Pedestrianism; or, An account of the performances of celebrated pedestrians during the last and present century : with a full narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches; and an essay on training.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013

#7544

The drug book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 milestones in the history of drugs.

1855

#7545

Physical, sexual and natural religion: by a student of medicine.

Drysdale emphasized that sexual intercourse should be pleasurable for both sexes, but believed that the ever-present possibility of pregnancy prevented it from being so. He also believed that overpopulation itself was…

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1994

#7547

La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.

Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

2009

#7548

Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.

1988

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.