Facets

1825 CE

#13874

Travels in Russia, the Krimea, the Causcasus and Georgia.

1815 CE

#7368

Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1811 CE

#13755

Travels in the island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX.

Only Mackenzie is credited with authorship on the title page. Holland and Bright accompanied Mackenzie on this voyage and exploration. On p. xi of the Preface Mackenzie indicates that he benefitted from Hooker's notes…

1766 CE

#12496

Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: To which is added a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. "After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled acro…

1766 CE–1767 CE

#7365

Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particularly description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: to which is added a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1802 CE

#13779

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1603 CE

#6821

True bill of the vvhole number that hath died at London.

BILL OF MORTALITY

The collection, recording, and publishing of medical statistics in the form of Bills of Mortality began in England as a result of the epidemic of plague in 1592-93. The earliest surviving copy of the Bills of Mortalit…

1922 CE

#6581

Über Medizin und Krankenpflege im Mittelalter in Schweizerischen Landen.

1868 CE

#1616

Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.

Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.

1916 CE

#5387

Ueber eine neue periodische Fiebererkrankung (Febris Wolhynica).

His encountered a form of “trench fever” in Volhynia, Russia, and named it after that district.

1853 CE

#7241

Ueber einen neuen Muskel am Duodenum des Menschens, über elastische Sehnnen, und einige andere anatomische Verhãltnisse.

Treitz, a Czech pathologist, discovered the muscle at the duodenojejunal junction, later called “muscle of Treitz”; the fold of peritoneum over the muscle of Treitz is known as the "ligament of Treitz."

1913 CE

#2915

Ueber experimentelle Cholesterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse.

Anichkov and Chalatov of St. Petersburg, Russia, discovered that atherosclerosis of large arteries is critically dependent on cholesterol. (Translated in Arteriosclerosis, 1983, 3, 178-182). The inflammatory nature of…

1881 CE

#2176

Ueber primäres Debridement der Schusswunden.

Reyher, a Russian surgeon, reintroduced débridement and made a controlled study of its value in contaminated gunshot wounds during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. See No. 2177.

1951 CE

#6533

Uit drie eeuwen Nederlands geneeskunde.

2012 CE

#12339

Ultrasound in clinical diagnosis: From pioneering developments in Lund to global application in medicine. Edited by Bo Ekloff, Kjell Lindström and Stig Persson.

Concerns applications in echocardiography, echoencephalography, in obsterics and gynecology, Doppler ultrasound in vascular disease, ultrasound in radiology, and development of ultrasound in ophthalmology.

1776 CE

#668

Undersökning om blasestenen.

Discovery of uric acid. English translation in his Chemical Essays, London, 1786.

1899 CE

#13420

Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures

Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2014 CE

#11061

Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.

1623 CE

#5821

Uso del los antojos para todo genero de vistas, en que se enseña a conocer los grados que a cada uno le faltan de su vista, y los que tienen qualesquier antojos.

The earliest scientific work dealing with spectacles. It includes sight testing tables and points out the value of convex lenses after cataract operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Eng…

1685 CE

#10190

Verdadera albeyteria. Divido en quatro libros....Lleva diferentes estampas, donde vàn delineadas las enfermedades que sobrevienen en el cuerpo, braços, y piernas del cavallo....

Includes both anatomical engravings and engraving that relate to astrological influences. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2007 CE

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …

2002 CE

#7915

Vernichten und Heilen: Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Folgen.

1491 CE

#6314

Versehung des Leibs.

Written in 1429, this didactic poem is the first known text to be devoted to the normal physiology and common illnesses of children. It was written in old Swabian, and its author was a monk. The poem was probably inte…

1939 CE

#4660.1

Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]

Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.

1992 CE

#8846

Viejo y nuevo continente: La medicina en el encuentro de dos mundos. Edited by J. M. López Piñero.

1843 CE

#992.1

Voie artificielle dans l’estomac des animaux.

First gastric fistula established specially for the purpose of experimentation.

1478 CE

#1959.2

Von Bewahrung und Bereitung der Weine.

The first printed book on wine, its production and preservation, translated from the Latin by Wilhelm von Hirnkofen. It discusses the value of wine in diet and as a medication. Wine has been called the oldest document…

1671 CE

#10124

Voyage des pais septentrionaux: Dans lequel se void [sic] les moeurs, maniere de vivre, & superstitions des Norweguiens, Lappons, Kiloppes, Borandiens, Syberiens, Samojedes, Zembliens, & Islandois, enrichi de plusieurs figures.

Translated into English as A new voyage into the northern countries being a discription of the manners, customs, superstition, buildings, and habits of the Norwegians, Laponians, Kilops, Borandians, Siberians, Samojed…

1844 CE

#11666

Voyage scientifique à Naples avec M. Magendie en 1843.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

2009 CE

#8973

Vulgariser la medecine: Du style medical en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siecles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret.

1980 CE

#6551.1

Wales and medicine. A source-list for printed books showing the history of medicine in relation to Wales and Welshmen.

1975 CE

#6550.6

Wales and medicine. An historical survey from papers given at the Ninth British Congress on the History of Medicine, edited by J. Cule

2002 CE

#8830

Wellington's doctors: The British Army Medical Services in the Napoleonic wars.

1928 CE

#12605

With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.

Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in …

2015 CE

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…

1682 CE

#8836

Wounds of the brain proved curable, not only by the opinion and experience of many (the best) authors, but the remarkable history of a child four years old cured of two very large depressions, with the loss of a great part of the skull, a portion of the brain also issuing thorough a penetrating wound of the dura and pia mater…

Probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head and brain. Yonge was a naval surgeon who set up in practice in Plymouth after he gave up the sea. He had just performed the operation for an injury of the…

1839 CE–1855 CE

#13838

Zbiór wiadomości do historyi sztuki lekarskiéj w Polsce od czasów najdawniejszych, aź do najnowszych. 4 vols.

Gasiorowski is considered the father of medical history in Poland. Digital facsimile from polona.pl at this link.

1645 CE

#289

Zootomia Democritaea: Id est, anatome generalis totius animantium opificii....

One of the most important of the early works on comparative anatomy. It includes the Anatomia porci, attributed to Copho of Salerno. Severinus dissected many animals and was convinced that the microscope would throw l…

1858 CE

#204

Zur Kenntniss der ältesten Rassenschädel.

The first comprehensive description of the Neanderthal skull, following Schaaffhausen’s and Fuhlrott’s preliminary announcements of the discovery in the Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der pre…

1962 CE

#7207

Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.

First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

1856 CE

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…