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1754

#7429

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its first rise, to the beginning of the fifth month, called May 1754.

Franklin was a prime mover in establishing the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first permanent hospital built in the future United States. This publication included the text of most of the founding documents of the hospita…

1761

#7430

Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.

Written in Franklin's absence, this continuation was printed in the same style and format as Franklin's 1761 work. Rhoads was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia.

1788

#3426

Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.

First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published. Beard…

1806

#10379

A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.

Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…

1808

#10067

The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,

The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1824

#11315

Report on the state of the anatomical museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 30th June, 1824.

This 36-page pamphlet is the earliest printed record of Caspar Wispar's museum collection. It was augmented by William Horner, whom Wistar appointed to manage the collection. The combined collections beame known as th…

1825

#7603

Catalogue of the anatomical museum in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1831

#10441

Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.

1831

#13405

A catalogue of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-House, prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers.

First edition, 1824. Founded in 1732/33, this institution became known in the 19th century as "Old Blockley" after it moved to the Blockley Township in West Philadelphia. It was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital i…

c. 1838

#11310

Anatomical cabinet, belonging to R. D. Mussey, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Ohio. Printed for the use of pupils.

This 20-page pamphlet described Mussey's personal collection of anatomical and pathological specimens. No place of printing or date of publication is indicated in the pamphlet; because of the reference to the Medical …

1840

#8828

Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

Numbers 901-929 in Morton's catalogue are "Thirty Skulls of genuine unmixed NEGROES born in Africa. This interesting series series was collected by Don José Rodriguez Cisnerso, M. D. of Havana, in the island of Cuba, …

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…

1847

#7602

A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1847

#10063

Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.

The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…

1848

#10056

Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Adopted May 1847.

Heavily influenced by Percival's work, the AMA's code of ethics was written by Isaac Hayes. The first leaf of this 30-page pamphlet indicates that it was "Printed for Private Distribution by the Philadelphia Delegatio…

1854

#9116

On the construction, organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1855

#10103

History of the American Medical Association, from its organization up to January, 1855. To which is appended biographical notices, with portraits of the presidents of the association, and of the author

The first history of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, written by one of its chief founders. Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1857

#7470

Catalogue raisoneé of the medical library of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Listing 10,500 items, the library of the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1763, was undoubtedly the largest hospital library in the United States in 1857, and possibly the largest medical library in America. The firs…

1857

#8829

Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.

"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…

c. 1865

#11316

Hand-book & descriptive catalogue of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Natural Science, now open at the Eureka Theatre, Montgomery St., between California and Pine, San Francisco.

A commercial medical and "natural science" museum operated by Jordan. This may have been the earliest commercial medical museum in California. Pages 50 onward describe what Jordan called the "Pathological Room, For re…

1865

#11384

La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis, son origine, son organisation et ses résultats avec une notice sur les hôpitaux militaires aux États-Unis et sur la réforme sanitaire dans les armées Europénnes.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1866

#10375

Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1867

#10369

Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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…

1870

#7601

A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870

#10448

Report on barracks and hospitals, with descriptions of military posts.

Describes military posts in all regions of the U.S., including the Western territories, with details of their hospitals, barracks, etc. In a 1928 talk at Mayo Clinic historian Fielding Garrison wrote about this work, …

1872

#8613

A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1873

#11388

Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".

The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…

1875

#10652

Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.

Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …

1876

#10795

The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.

Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…

1881

#10334

History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1881

#10809

Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.

The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…

1886

#10350

The relation of hospitals to medical education.

Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…

1897

#8725

The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903

#11020

The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905

#8689

History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.

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.

1916 –1917

#5006

The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.

Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1918

#10807

The history of the Boston Medical Library.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#11008

A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1924 –1929

#7097

A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1929

#13404

History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.

1930

#10301

Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.

1939

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1948 –1963

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

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.

1957

#10322

A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.