Facets

1930

#10316

The centennial history of the Tennessee State Medical Association, 1830-1930.

1930

#10333

A brief history of medicine in Massachusetts.

1930

#12150

A history of the California Medical Society.

1931

#6590

History of medicine in the United States. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.

An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States. The first edition appeared in 1901. Dr. Packard edited the Annals of Medical History from its commencement in 1917 until its decease in 194…

1931

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1932

#8074

Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.

See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…

1932

#9283

The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.

1932

#9295

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.

Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.

1932

#10279

California's medical story.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1933

#4656

Encephalitis: studies on experimental transmission.

Isolation of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. With C. Armstrong and H. A. McCordock.

1933

#6592

Amerika und die Medizin.

This is not a systematic history of American medicine, but an account of the most important landmarks in the development of medical science and teaching in the United States. An English translation, American Medicine,…

1933

#9348

Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

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.

1934

#4688

Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis epidemic.

Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningits.

1934

#8677

Jewish contributions to medicine in America from colonial times to the present.

1935

#8616

Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.

1935

#9303

The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.

"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…

1936

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

1936

#13588

Snakes of Maryland.

1937

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

1938

#10408

The horse and buggy doctor.

The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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.

1939

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

1940

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

1940

#10324

Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

1941

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1941

#11000

The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.

Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."

1942 –1943

#12088

A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.

"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…

1944

#1766.605

Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.

Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.

1944

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu 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…

1946

#9504

The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.

1946

#10996

Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.

1946

#11725

Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.

1947

#6595

American medical research, past and present.

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1947

#10284

The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.

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.

1949

#5015.1

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

1949

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

1949

#11726

The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1950

#5546.1

Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.

Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.

1950

#12323

Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.

Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.

1951

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1951

#6596.1

The health of slaves on southern plantations.

Chiefly from contemporary MS records.

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.

1952

#2187.1

Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.

1952

#7175

Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.

Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…

1953

#9505

A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.

1955

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.