Entry Nos. 7800–7899
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
2010
#7850
Medieval medicine: A reader. Edited by Faith Wallis.
2013
#7851
Medical saints: Cosmas and Damian in a postmodern world.
2009
#7852
Medical miracles: Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world.
2007
#7853
What is medical history?
2015
#7854
Health care in America: A history.
2015
#7855
Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.
The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…
1996
#7856
American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.
1987
#7857
The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.
2014
#7858
The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.
1988 –1992
#7859
Historia de la medicina valenciana. Edited by José Maria López Piñero. 3 vols.
1965
#7860
Historia de la pediatría española.
2016
#7861
Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.
2010
#7862
The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer.
1948
#7863
Aureomycin; a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics.
Discovery of clortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle) the first tetracycline antibiotic identified. Duggar,a plant physiologist, identified the antibiotic as the product of an actinomycete he cultured from a …
1952
#7864
Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.
First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…
1967
#7865
Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit.
Isolation, identification and structure of the Marburg virus. WITH H. L. Shu, W. Sienczka, D. Peters, and G. Müller.
1977
#7866
Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…
1861
#7867
A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.
Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …
1963
#7868
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
1998
#7869
Native American ethnobotany.
Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.
1987
#7870
Les historiens français de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie.
1983
#7871
A short history of breast cancer.
1851
#7872
Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Coniferen.
Hofmeister described the process of fertilization in non-flowering plants as an alternation of sexual and asexual generations in the mosses, ferns, horsetails and liverworts. He showed that asexual generation propagat…
2003
#7873
Teratology in the twentieth century: Congenital malformations in humans and how their environmental causes were established.
Book form publication with extensive bibliography and index, reprinted from Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 25 (2003) 132-282.
1880
#7874
Histoire des monstres, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'a nos jours.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1856
#7875
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.
Originally issued in ten parts from 1853 to 1855. Cassin ran an engraving and lithographing firm in Philadelphia, which produced illustrations for government and scientific publications. He pursued ornithology as an a…
1814
#7876
Flora Americae septentrionalis; or, a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America. Containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. 2 vols.
The first survey of all plants of North America above Mexico, including more than 3,000 species and 470 genera; describes more than 100 species collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Digital facsimile from Botan…
2002
#7877
History of the pancreas: Mysteries of a hidden organ.
1960
#7878
Surgical diseases of the pancreas.
The first comprehensive textbook on pancreatic disease.
1642
#7879
Figura ductus cuiusdam cum multiplicibus suis ramulis noviter in pancreate in diversis corporibus humanis observati.
Wirsung, assistant to the celebrated German anatomist Johann Vesling, discovered the excretory duct of the pancreas named for him in 1642. To announce his discovery, Wirsung chose the extremely unusual method of publi…
1931
#7880
The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.
Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2007
#7881
Culturing life: How cells became technologies.
A history of tissue culture.
1847
#7882
Surgical operations performed during insensibility, produced by the inhalation of sulphuric ether.
The first use of ether as an anesthetic in Britain (for a dental procedure) was conducted in Boott's house at 24 Gower Street on 19 December 1846. Boott issued the second announcement of ether anesthesia published in …
1990
#7883
A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
1968
#7884
The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.
Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.
2003
#7885
Bullets and bacilli: The Spanish-American War and military medicine.
1994
#7886
Fighting for life: American military medicine in World War II.
2009
#7887
The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941.
1995
#7888
A history of medicine in the early U.S. Navy.
2014
#7889
The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.
1999
#7890
Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.
2012
#7891
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
1947
#7892
Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.
English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…
2004
#7893
Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.
2001
#7894
The Nuremberg medical trial, 1946/47: Transcripts, material of the prosecution and defense, related documents. On behalf of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Edited by Klaus Dörner, Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne in cooperation with Karl Heinz Roth and Paul Weindling. Guide to the microfiche-edition. Compiled by Johannes Eltzschig and Michael Walter. With an introduction to the Trial's history by Angelika Ebbinghaus and short biographies of the participants.
1943
#7895
GESNERUS: Revue Trimestrielle publiée par la Société d'Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Naturelles. Current title: GESNERUS: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences. 1-
1949
#7896
ASCLEPIO. Revista de Historia de la Medicina e cienca. 1-
1978
#7897
BERICHTE ZUR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE. 1-
Organ der Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
1952
#7898
CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-
Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.
1981
#7899