Entry Nos. 8000–8099

1588

#3416

A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.

This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…

1993

#8000

Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.

2013

#8001

Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.

History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.

1608

#8002

Il vero modo et ordine per dissegnar tutte le parti et membra del corpo humano.

An entirely etched book of 40 leaves, drawn and etched by Fialetti, this was probably the first printed manual on drawing the human body, as distinct from earlier manuals on anatomy for artists. For further informatio…

1572

#8003

Catalogus bibliothecae.

The catalogue of the private library of the Augsburg physician Jeremias Martius may be the earliest printed catalogue of any private library. It is possible that only one copy survived.

1794

#8004

Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...

Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…

1992

#8005

Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.

1803

#8006

Tratado histórico y práctico de la vacuna que contiene en compendio el orígen y los resultados de las observaciones y experimentos sobre la vacuna, con un exámen imparcial de sus ventajas, y de las objeciones que se le han puesto, con todo lo demás que concierne á la práctica del nuevo modo de inocular. [Translated From the French by] Francisco Xavier de Balmis.

On November 30, 1803 Spanish physician Francisco Javier de Balmis and his team embarked from Spain, on an expedition to vaccinate the people of Spanish America against smallpox. This three year voyage, which became kn…

2015

#8007

For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in enlightenment Guatemala.

2003

#8008

From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

2010

#8009

Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.

1996

#8010

Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.

2002

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

2015

#8012

U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.

2010

#8013

A contemporary history of the U. S. Army Nurse Corps.

From the end of the Vietnam War to the year 2000.

1997

#8014

The history of the United States Army Medical Service Corps.

From the American revolution to 1994.

2016

#8015

Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps.

2010

#8016

Navy medicine in Vietnam: Passage to freedom to the fall of Saigon.

2011

#8017

Attack on the Pentagon: The medical response to 9/11.

1998

#8018

The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.

1992

#8019

The Medical Department: medical service in the European theater of operations. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1956

#8020

The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1987

#8021

The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1991

#8022

Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970.

Available as a PDF from www.history.army.mil at this link.

1578

#8023

Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, muy util y provechosa.

Second edition, Mexico, 1595: Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, y examen de barberos ... va añadido en esta segunda impresion el origen ... de las reumas. López de Hinojos was a barber-surge…

1741

#8024

El Orinoco ilustrado y defendido. Historia natural, civil y geográfica de este gran río y de sus caudalosas vertientes, govierno, usos, y costumbres de los indios sus habitadores, con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales ...

Inspired by the success of Acosta’s Natural History, Gumilla wrote lush descriptions of native life along the Orinoco River in Venezuela and Colombia. His characterization of local healing practices was informative, b…

1803

#8025

Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies

Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …

1787

#8026

Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo.

This catalogue of Carrbean fish was the first scientific treatise printed in Cuba and also the first illustrated book printed in Cuba. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

1981

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

1994

#8029

Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.

Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).

2000

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

1998

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1981

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

2002

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

2006

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

2013

#8037

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.

2014

#8038

Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.

2010

#8039

Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.

1782

#8040

Traité des maladies vermineuses dans les animaux.

Includes two plates printed in color by Edouard Dagoty. These were not included in later editions. Digital facsimile of th 1782 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1787 edition at this link.

2002

#8041

Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.

Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.

2015

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

2015

#8043

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

2004

#8044

Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.

2005

#8045

Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.

2006

#8046

Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy.

2016

#8047

Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.

1987

#8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…

1990

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.