Facets

1972

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

1972

#9189

Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.

Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. availabl…

1972

#9917

Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.

1972

#9918

The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.

Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.

1972

#10320

Medicine in North Carolina: Essays in the history of medical science and medical service, 1524 1960. Edited by Dorothy Long. 2 vols.

1972

#10432

American physicians in the nineteenth century: From sects to science.

1972

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

1973

#3705.04

A bibliography of dentistry in America, 1790-1840.

Covers monographs and periodical literature.

1973

#8621

Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.

1973

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1973

#9153

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

1974

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1974

#10982

Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.

1974

#12491

A history of public health in New York City.

1975

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1975

#10808

The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975.

1976

#6596.3

Two centuries of American medicine 1776-1976.

A valuable supplement to Packard (No. 6590), besides covering the main events in American medicine.

1976

#8658

Physician signers of the Declaration of Independence.

1976

#10781

A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.

The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…

1977

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1977

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1977

#10300

Medicine in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: 1810-1976. Edited by Kent L. Brown.

41 chapters that address all aspects of medical and surgical practice (arranged by specialty) in addition to studies of specific institutions and special groups (e.g. women physicians and black physicians).

1977

#10323

Medicine in Kentucky.

1977

#10803

Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.

1977

#10956

Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.

1977

#12609

Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia by Burton A. Konkle, with the collaboration of James M. Anders ... [et al.] ; edited by Frederick P. Henry. Revised by Lisabeth M. Holloway, with an index and bibliography.

1978

#2188.2

Naval and maritime medicine during the American revolution.

1978

#7047

Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.

1979

#6357.2

History of American pediatrics.

1979

#7190

Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.

1979

#10888

Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)

Order of authorship in the original paper was Spielman, Clifford, Piesman. The authors identified and described the insect vector of Babesiosis. This was a new species; the same species causes Lyme disease. (Thanks to…

1980

#6311.7

Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.

1980

#6596.4

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.

1980

#8999

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

1980

#9163

Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.

1981

#2188.3

The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.

1981

#6596.5

American medicine in transition, 1840-1910.

1981

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1981

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

1981

#8659

The American Red Cross: The first century.

Extensively illustrated with photographs.

1981

#8668

Science at the beside: Clinical research in American medicine 1905-1945.

Definitive account of the development of academic medicine and clinical research in America during the period covered.

1981

#9329

Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.

The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; ho…

1981

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1981

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1981

#11740

Research and discovery in medicine: Contributions from Johns Hopkins.

Essays on the history of pioneering clinical research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

1981

#13583

Medicine and the Mormons: An introduction to the history of Latter-day Saint health care.

1982

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1982

#9775

Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).

1982

#10403

The history of medicine in Alabama.

1982

#11414

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

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.