Facets

1811

#7801

The maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors

The first American book on pediatrics, in the tradition of "advice books" or childcare manuals for mothers. This was the first American printed book on a medical subject written by a woman. Pages 248-75 publish a list…

1826

#11415

Observations on the May-Bug, and its ravages on plum and other trees, and also on the means of preventing the mischief.

Griffth was probably the first American woman to publish in the sciences outside of materia medica and childcare. This article was probably her earliest non-geological publication. See Robt S. Cox, "A spontaneous flow…

1836

#11430

Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.

The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision in Da…

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…

1843

#13612

Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.

Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…

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…

1856

#14125

Glances and glimpses; or fifty years social, including twenty years professional life.

The autobiography of the first woman to practice medicine professionally in the United States. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1863

#7419

Hospital sketches.

Digital facsimile of the 1863 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Alcott expanded the work for the edition of 1869. Edited, with an extensive introduction by Bessie Z. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University …

1864

#8994

The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.

Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …

1866

#13706

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.

"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…

1867

#7748

Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…

1867

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1868

#8998

Hospital days.

Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…

1876

#12089

Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.

This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …

1881

#11021

The practice of medicine by women in the United States.

"Emily F. Pope, C. Augusta Pope, and Emma Call, doctors on the staff of the New England Hospital, published a study on women physicians. Their sample included a group of 430 women doctors who had graduated from variou…

1885

#10575

Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.

The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…

1888

#8996

My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.

1895

#9001

Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1911

#8598

Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.

Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.

1928

#10287

History of medicine in Nebraska. Albert F. Tyler, Editor. Ella F. Auerbach, Compiler.

This work was edited by Tyler from the writings of 24 collaborators. Reprinted and augmented, with an index, by Bernice M. Hetzner. Omaha, NE: University fo Nebraska Medical Center, 1977. Digital facsimile of the 1977…

1933

#11002

Medical women of America: A short history of the pioneer medical women of America and of a few of their colleagues in England.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1946

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1951

#10293

Doctors under three flags.

Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1957

#8736

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.

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 …

1980

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

1982

#11414

Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.

1984

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

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…

1986

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

1987

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1989

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1994

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1998

#10900

Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…

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 …

1999

#10977

Medicine in Maryland: The practice and profession, 1799-1999.

2001

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2005

#8787

Religion and healing in America. Edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered.

2005

#10931

Our shared legacy: Nursing education at Johns Hopkins, 1889–2006. Edited by Mame Warren in association with the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

2007

#9003

Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.

"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…

2007

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2008

#10289

The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.

2008

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

2009

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

2010

#9002

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

2010

#10973

Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.

"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…

2011

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.