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1,041 entries match Europe & United Kingdom [Z01.542]

1934 CE

#6564

The renaissance of medicine in Italy … The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

2019 CE

#11073

The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.

A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."

1959 CE

#6548.1

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.

2001 CE

#9816

The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…

1955 CE

#6548

The Royal Society of Medicine: The realization of an ideal (1805-1955).

1909 CE

#9444

The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1920 CE

#51

The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1990 CE

#10173

The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.

2015 CE

#12531

The shape of spectatorship. Art, science, and early cinema in Germany.

"Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I....Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual inst…

1996 CE

#8688

The shaping of a profession: Physicians in Norway, past and present. Edited by Ivind Larsen and Bent Olav Olsen.

2012 CE

#8105

The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.

The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.

2010 CE

#10117

The Sloane Letters Project.

http://sloaneletters.com/ "A pilot of this project, Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online, was first launched at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Sir Hans Sloane…

2016 CE

#8106

The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.

1943 CE

#6544

The state of medicine in Ireland. Carmichael prize essay.

1777 CE

#1598

The state of the prisons in England and Wales.

Howard devoted much of his life to the improvement of the conditions then prevailing in prisons. The publication of his book led to legislation abolishing abuses in prisons and providing for their proper cleaning. The…

1961 CE

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1832 CE

#10462

The substance of the official medical reports upon the epidemic, called cholera: Which prevailed among the poor at Dantzick, between the end of May and the first part of September, 1831, as transmitted to their lordships; being an analysis of the said epidemic disease in that city--founded upon actual observation and accurate inquiry: With important and well-authenticated facts relative to the same disease, as it prevailed among the poor in other parts of the North of Europe.

Hamett privately published this report after it was rejected for publication by the British government. He included hospital admission tables in his book and produced perhaps the first map based on hospital reports of…

2002 CE

#8450

The surgery of Roger Frugard. Translated into Italian from the Latin Venetian edition by Dario Spallone and Luigi Stroppiana, and into English by Leonard D. Rosenman.

1955 CE–1960 CE

#5551.1

The surgery of Theodoric ca. 1267. Translated from the Latin by Eldridge Campbell and James Colton. 2 vols.

Theodoric, a Dominican friar, was a pupil of Hugh of Lucca (circa 1160-1257), whose teachings are reflected in his writings. Allbutt considered Theodoric to be one of the most original surgeons of all time. Borgognoni…

2010 CE

#8430

The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.

2009 CE

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2014 CE

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

1972 CE

#8805

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

2002 CE

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…

1683 CE

#9308

The way to health, long life and happiness, or, a discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit for the life of man as all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise, &c. with special directions how to use each of them to be the best advantage of the body and mind. Shewing from the true ground of nature whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the like never before published / communicated to the world for a general good, by Philotheos Physiologus.

Tryon, an English merchant, was the author of popular self-help books and an early advocate of vegetarianism. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1996 CE

#9605

The wonderful art of the eye: A critical edition of the Middle English translation of his De probatissima arte oculorum, edited by L. M. Eldredge.

1640 CE

#1823

Theatrum botanicum: The theater of plants: Or, An herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants ... distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... / collected by the many yeares travaile, industry and experience in this subject.

Parkinson, the last of the old English herbalists, was Apothecary to James I. His massive herbal of 1,755 pages described nearly 3,800 plants, nearly double the number described in the first edition of Gerard. Parkins…

2005 CE

#10270

Theophrast und Galen – Celsus und Paracelsus. Medizin, Naturphilosophie und Kirchenreform im Basler Buchdruck bis zum Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Publikationen der Universitätsbibliothek, Nr. 36. 4 vols. plus index vol.

"The project began as a exhibition in the Basle University Library to commemorate the major anniversaries of the birth and death of Paracelsus (1493–1541). Not only did he work and teach in Basle, but many of hi…

1988 CE–2006 CE

#8568

Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.

1976 CE–1990 CE

#9616

Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.

1916 CE

#9615

Theophrastus: Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs. With an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1671 CE

#12881

Thermarum Aquisgranensium et porcetanarum descriptio. Congruorum quoque ac salubrium usuum balneationis et potationis elucidatio, opera.

An extenisvely illustrated work promoting the medicinal value of the sulphur springs of Aachen and Burscheid. Blondel devoted his life to the promotion of the medicinal value of these springs, becoming inspector of th…

1972 CE

#8442

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A digital library of Greek literature.

http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlg.php "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a Special Research Program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG® represents the first effort in the Hum…

1990 CE

#9130

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Canon of Greek authors and works. Third edition.

"In addition to digitizing texts, the TLG developed the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, originally a "registry" of all works included or about to be included in the corpus. Over time the Canon developed into an indi…

1492 CE

#1960

Thesaurus pauperum. [Italian:] Tesoro de poveri. Tr: Zucchero Bencivenni.

One of the most popular medical books of the Middle Ages; first written about 1260. After its first printing about 1492 it was reprinted many times in the next 100 years. "Petrus Hispanus was the only practicing physi…

1776 CE

#9520

Thoughts on general and partial inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there in the Russian language; also outlines of two plans: One, for the general inoculation of the poor in small towns and villages. The other, for the general inoculation of the poor in London and other large and populous places.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1963 CE

#5019.3

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

2001 CE

#8875

Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.

An edition of just over 1500 medical receipts transmitted in three fourteenth-century compendia. The particular interest of these multilingual compilations lies in their date – earlier than most published receip…

1995 CE

#10325

Tincture of time: The story of 150 years of medicine in Atlanta, 1845-1994.

1937 CE–1960 CE

#10200

Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.

Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …

1578 CE

#1819

Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo.

This is mainly a translation of Garcia d’Orta’s Coloquios (No. 1815) with the addition of some illustrations. Acosta, a Portuguese Jesuit physician and surgeon, travelled to India where he met Garcia d&rsq…

1478 CE–1482 CE

#5115

Tractatus de pestilentia.

The most widely disseminated of all plague tracts from the time of the Black Death, of which 33 printed editions appeared in the 15th century. A French rhymed version appeared in 1476, but this version is very differe…

1831 CE–1854 CE

#7246

Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médecine opératoire. 16 vols.

With over 2000 pages of text and 726 lithographed plates (incorporating 3604 individual figures), this work is the most comprehensive, and perhaps the most beautiful anatomical surgical atlas of the 19th century. It w…

1880 CE

#6874

Tratado clinico iconografico de dermatologia quirurgica.

The first medical text in Spanish to use photographs as illustrations. Includes 17 lithographed plates (12 chromolithographs) and 3 original photographs (2 hand-colored). Giné y Partagás was a surgeon, d…

1789 CE

#13134

Tratado de las heridas de armas de fuego, dispuesto para uso de los alumnos del Real Colegio de Chirugia de Cadiz.

Probably the first significant work on military medicine by a Spanish physician. Canivell’s work, prepared for the use of students at Cadiz’s Royal College of Surgery, deals with contusions, wounds and fra…

1799 CE

#9552

Tratado de las operaciones que deben practicarse en la dentadura y método para conservarla en buen estado, recopilado de los mejores autores, y adornado con láminas que manifiestan la diferencia, forma y figura de los instrumentos necesarios para dichas operaciones.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1623 CE

#2262.1

Tratado de las siete enfermedades, de la inflammacion universal del higado, zirbo, pyloron, y riñones, y de la obstrucion, de la satiriasi, de la terciana y febre maligna, y passion hipocondriaca. Lleva otros tres tratados, del mal de Loanda, del guzano, y de las fuentes y sedales.

The first important work on tropical diseases. Only six copies of the original edition of this book are known. It includes full accounts of malaria, typhoid, and scurvy, and the first accurate descriptions of yellow f…

1694 CE

#8930

Trattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.

The first scientific description of yellow fever in Brazil by the first European physician to treat the disease in Brazil, and perhaps in all of Latin America. It includes the description of the first autopsy of a yel…

1763 CE

#7363

Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to various parts of Asia in 1716, 1719, 1722 &c. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1818 CE

#7319

Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.