Facets

1885

#10575

Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.

The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…

1887

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

1888

#8996

My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.

1889

#2100

Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.

Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.

1890

#884

Nouvelle théorie chimique de la coagulation du sang.

First demonstration of the essential role of calcium in the mechanism of blood coagulation.

1891

#11911

The opening of the Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Reprinted from Open Letters in the Century Magazine for February 1891.

A collection of articles by various experts supporting the opening of the planned Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Contributors included Cardinal Gibbons, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Josephine Lowell, C. F. Folsom, Care…

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…

1893

#1522

Eine neue Theorie der Licht-Empfindung.

Ladd-Franklin theory of vision.

1893

#14364

Nursing: Its principles and practice for hospital and private use.

Isabel Hampton Robb was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her textbook standardized the education of nursing in the U.S. and abroad. It included an outline for a 3-year long nu…

1894

#12456

Quelques observations expérimentales sur l'influence de l'insomnie absolue.

The first experimental study of sleep deprivation. Manaseina "performed her experimental investigation on 10 puppies (2, 3, or 4 months old), fed by their mothers, by keeping the animals in constant activity. The expe…

1895 –1901

#1424

Anatomie des centres nerveux. 2 vols.

Classic summary of neuroanatomy at the end of the nineteenth century—comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and scholarly. It is a goldmine of historical information with an outstanding bibliography.

1895

#6649.92

Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women; autobiographical sketches.

Blackwell led the movement in America to open the medical profession to women.

1895

#9001

Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896

#12454

Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.

Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…

1896

#13592

Women in medicine.

Kelly was one of the first influential male physicians in America to advocate for the advancement of women physicians. This presentation was primarily a review of Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering work in opening the m…

1897

#14308

De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.

Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …

1898

#2003

Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.

The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…

1898

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1900

#6649.93

Histoire des femmes médecins depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.

1901

#11180

An atlas of the medulla and midbrain: A laboratory manual.

1902

#3780

On the pathological changes in Hodgkin’s disease, with especial reference to its relation to tuberculosis.

Dorothy Reed’s classic work on Hodgkin’s disease included a study of the histological picture. She described the proliferation of the endothelial and reticular cells, and the formation of lymphadenoma cells – “Dorothy…

1902

#12082

Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905 –1906

#1180

An experimental enquiry into the factors which determine the growth and activity of the mammary glands.

In their classic paper on the mammary gland, these workers attributed its changes during pregnancy to the fetus.

1905

#3571

The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.

The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906

#732

The importance of individual amino-acids in metabolism.

Demonstration of the importance of tryptophan in diet. The pioneer work of Hopkins led eventually to the discovery of vitamins.

1906

#1300

On the distribution of chlorides in nerve cells and fibres.

1906

#3959

Morphology and physiology of areas of Langerhans in some vertebrates

Lydia De Witt ligated the pancreatic ducts and obtained extracts from the islets of Langerhans in cats, noting their glycolytic qualities.

1907

#2596

De l’anaphylaxie et de l’anti-anaphylaxie vis-à-vis du sérum de cheval.

“Anti-anaphylaxis” was the term given by Besredka and Steinhardt to the specific desensitization of sensitized animals.

1907 –1912

#6635

A history of nursing. The evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses [and] From the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.

1907 –1951

#11297

Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1910

#1028

Studien über die spezifische Anpassung der Verdauungssäfte. III. Mittheilung.

Digital facsimile from ECHO at this link.

1911

#2638

Zur Diagnose des Karzinoms.

A serum reaction, employed by Freund and Kaminer in 1910 for the diagnosis of cancer.

1911

#8598

Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.

Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.

1913

#1049

The necessity of certain lipids in the diet during growth.

Discovery of “fat-soluble A” (vitamin A). See also J. biol. Chem., 1915, 23,181-246, in which the same authors showed the necessity in diet for at least two factors – “fat-soluble A” and “water-soluble B”.

1913

#1113

The origin and development of the lymphatic system.

1913

#10791

Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.

Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…

1913

#11438

Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung.

The Michaelis-Menten equation, which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex. This relationship between reaction rate and enzyme–substrate con…

1914 –1915

#561

Mitochondria and other cytoplasmic structures in tissue cultures.

Original investigations upon the visible mitochondria.

1916

#2642

Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.

Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.

1916

#8599

Studies in ethics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1917 –1940

#7106

The Birth Control Review.

Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…

1919

#6371.2

Ueber einen Typ multipier Abartungen, vorwiegend am Sklettsystem.

Hurler syndrome (lipochondrodystrophy, gargoylism), earlier described by Hunter (No. 6371.1).

1920

#4720

Zur Lehre der Erkrankungen des striären Systems.

“Vogt syndrome”, disease of the corpora striata.

1920

#7157

Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919

Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…

1921

#5287

Studies on the treatment of human trypanosomiasis with tryparsamide (the sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid).

Introduction of tryparsamide in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

1922

#1055

On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction.

Discovery of vitamin E. See also their later paper in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1923, 81, 889-92.

1923

#1641.2

Contraception (birth control). Its theory, history and practice. A manual for the medical and legal professions.

The first formal handbook on birth control.

1924

#530

Über Induktion von Embryonalanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren.

This was Hilde Mangold's thesis. Spemann designed the experiment, and Mangold performed the work, and was the co-discoverer of the "organizer," the chemical that directs the embryonic development of tissues and organs…

1924

#5082

A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.

The “Dick test” for the determination of individual susceptibility to scarlet fever.