Facets

2015 CE

#8431

The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.

2004 CE

#7988

The Hippocratic oath and the ethics of medicine.

1981 CE

#6485.61

The Hippocratic treatises “On generation” “On the nature of the child” “Diseases IV”. A commentary.

1961 CE

#5019.2

The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)

1850 CE

#8808

The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.

Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1992 CE

#7539

The history of British pathology.

1975 CE

#6574.2

The history of medicine in Finland 1828-1918.

1821 CE

#12757

The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.

Concerns the Maltese plague,. 1813-1814. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1918 CE

#8720

The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1775 CE

#7505

The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country....

The author characterized himself on the title page as "a Trader with the Indians and a Resident in their Country for Forty Years." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 CE

#6536

The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1905-06.

1964 CE

#10178

The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.

The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.

2009 CE

#10189

The imperial laboratory: Experimental physiology and clinical medicine in Post-Crimean Russia.

1988 CE

#7671

The Irish body snatchers: A history of body snatching in Ireland.

2004 CE

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

1963 CE

#8835

The journal of James Yonge, Plymouth surgeon (1647-1721). Edited by F. N. L. Poynter.

A complete account of Yonge's life from the age of ten until the age of 61. "It is considered to be the most important diary of the 17th century after those of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.[1] In it Yonge mentioned fa…

2001 CE

#12953

The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.

The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…

1971 CE

#12758

The Liber de diversis medicinis in the Thornton Manuscript (MS Lincoln Cathedral A.5.2). Edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden. Revised reprint of 1938 edition.

Edition of a mid-15th century Middle English compilation of medicinal recipes, a manuscript that records how such recipes were passed on through several centuries.

1976 CE

#6742.8

The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.

1833 CE

#10389

The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.

Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…

1963 CE

#8642

The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland: Studies by Dr. Leon Wulman and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Research and Documentation by Dr. Leopold Lazarowitz and Dr. Simon Malowist. Edited by Louis Falstein.

"Of the more than 3 million Jewish Poles that perished during the Holocaust, approximately 3,000 were physicians. It was the goal of the Alliance members to memorialize those physicians who perished during the Holocau…

1963 CE

#6549

The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.

1995 CE

#10162

The medical mandarins: The French Academy of Medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

1965 CE

#6742.3

The medical practitioners in medieval England. A biographical register.

Precedes Munk’s Roll (No. 6715) as a biographical record.

1888 CE

#8746

The medical profession in the United Kingdom.

(1200pp.) This is the greatly expanded edition of the book first published with the same title nine years earlier. "His most important and voluminous writings were the two Carmichael Prize essays of the Royal College …

2013 CE

#10527

The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.

2010 CE

#8248

The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.

1950 CE

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1947 CE

#9080

The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.

The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.

1992 CE

#7131

The medieval surgery by Tony Hunt.

Reproduction of 51 drawings from Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.1.20 of the surgery of Roger of Parma, best known as Roger of Salerno, with detailed explanation of each drawing by Tony Hunt.

2011 CE

#9607

The Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.

"Odo de Meung’s De Viribus Herbarum was one of the most widely known pieces of Fachliteratur in the latter part of Middle English, corroborated on account of the number of translations hitherto preserved in the …

1979 CE

#8772

The Monro collection in the Medical Library of the University of Otago: A descriptive catalogue with annotations and introduction

Scottish army surgeon John Monro (1670-1740) initiated a series of events that lead to the establishment of a dynasty which, beginning with his son Alexander Monro, changed the course of medical teaching and learning.…

1794 CE–1819 CE

#9086

The natural history of British birds; or, a selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country: The descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus; with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists; and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens. 10 vols.

The first 5 volumes were issued in monthly parts, each consisting of 2 plates and accompanying text. A volume came out each year between 1794 and 1798; the fifth volume stated: "This work being now completed." However…

1802 CE–1808 CE

#9089

The natural history of British fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. Taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living. 5 vols.

"the paint is laid on so thickly that it is frequently impossible to see the engraved lines underneath. The already rich colouring is heightened by the addition of burnished highlights, albumen overglazes and metallic…

1792 CE–1813 CE

#9087

The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. 16 vols.

Includes a total of 576 plates, of which 568 were colored.

1800 CE–1804 CE

#9090

The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each. 5 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1834 CE

#10259

The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.

Characterizing himself "Surgeon-Accoucheur" on the title page, Dewhurst lectured in 1827-8 on anatomy and physiology, and served as a ship's surgeon, making voyage to Greenland and its surrounding seas in 1824. During…

1797 CE

#7768

The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. Including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith.

The earliest illustrated monograph on the butterflies and moths of North America. Text in English and French. 104 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1976 CE

#8055

The naturalist in Britain: A social history.

1999 CE

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

2001 CE

#7894

The Nuremberg medical trial, 1946/47: Transcripts, material of the prosecution and defense, related documents. On behalf of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Edited by Klaus Dörner, Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne in cooperation with Karl Heinz Roth and Paul Weindling. Guide to the microfiche-edition. Compiled by Johannes Eltzschig and Michael Walter. With an introduction to the Trial's history by Angelika Ebbinghaus and short biographies of the participants.

1998 CE

#8889

The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.

Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc. 12th century. "A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, "Saturnalia" and Part 4 i…

1967 CE

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

2018 CE

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.

1994 CE

#9890

The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.

1913 CE

#6537

The physician in English history.

Linacre Lecture, 1913.

2009 CE

#10573

The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.

1979 CE

#8353

The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).

1956 CE

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1544 CE

#6317

The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children.

The “boke of children” is the first work on diseases of children to be written by an Englishman the English language. Phaer enabled Englishmen to read and think of pediatrics in their own language. The edi…