Facets

1465

#6819

Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)

In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…

1759

#7006

Traité d'ostéologie. 2 vols.

Monro Primus' textbook on the anatomy of the bones was originally published in 1726 as an octavo volume without plates, and went through more than ten editions. The French translation, published in large folio, transl…

1838

#11431

Barn-Yard rhymes; showing what opinions the turkey, the cock, the goose, and the duck, enterain of allopathia, homopathia, electro-galvanism and the animalcule doctrines.

A critique of medical practice and procedures in 80 pages of rhymed couplets voiced by farmyard animals. Mary Griffith, who published these satirical poems anonymously, dedicated the work to the Philadelphia physician…

1858

#7481

Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army. Founded chiefly on the experience of the late war. Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.

This privately printed pamphlet contained a color statistical graphic entitled "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army of the East" which showed that epidemic disease, which was responsible for more British de…

1863

#7419

Hospital sketches.

Digital facsimile of the 1863 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Alcott expanded the work for the edition of 1869. Edited, with an extensive introduction by Bessie Z. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University …

1875

#6643.9

Science and health.

Includes an exposition of the system of faith healing that holds a significant place in Christian Science.

1892

#9725

The yellow wall-paper.

This 6,000-word short story by is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating and critiquing 19th century attitudes toward women's health, both physical and mental. Digital facsim…

1892

#13199

Helen Brent, M. D. A social study.

A short, memorable novel about a woman who faces the agonizing choice between career and marriage, and chooses medicine. Among her achievements, Meyer was a founder of Barnard College. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…

1943

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1952

#2068

Plants of the Bible.

The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.

1953

#11200

Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works

1953

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1982

#11328

Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.

"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1989

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1989

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1992

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1994

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1997

#9060

Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.

1998

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2005

#8787

Religion and healing in America. Edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered.

2006

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

2007

#11171

Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.

2007

#13645

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.

2009

#7852

Medical miracles: Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world.

2011

#10562

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.

This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…

2012

#10294

The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.

"The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. Th…

2013

#10712

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .

2015

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

2018

#11382

Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.

"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…

2019

#13010

Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.

"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in…