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1627

#1094

De lactibus sive lacteis venis.

Records the discovery of the lacteal vessels. While performing vivisection on a dog that had recently fed, Aselli noticed a network of vessels in the mesentery and along the peritoneal surface of the intestine. The ve…

1708

#582

Theoria medica vera.

Stahl tried to explain vital phenomena by mystical means. He was the head of the so-called Animistic School which explained disease as caused by misdirected activities on the part of the soul. A three-volume German tr…

1829 –1833

#2288

Traité d’anatomie pathologique. 2 vols. and atlas.

Includes a historical review of the subject from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to Corvisart, and a summary of the advances in pathology during the preceding 50 years. Vol. 2, pp. 553-600 deals with diseases of the…

1852

#440

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…

1891

#11124

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.

Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.

1898

#446

Histoire d’anatomie plastique: Les maitres, les livres et les écorchés.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

1906

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1907

#451

Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.

1908

#452

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

1925

#2316

Entwicklung und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung.

Traces the development of pathological anatomical illustration, and includes a chronological bibliography of all important publications known to Goldschmid containing illustrations of pathological conditions, and an i…

1926

#8362

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.

Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Condé at …

1928

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

1939

#459

Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.

1943

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1953

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…

1964

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1967

#461.1

Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung.

Full descriptions and illustrations of 355 of the most important paintings, prints, sculpture, and book illustrations concerning anatomy in its widest sense.

1967 –1972

#461.2

Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.

A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…

1983

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1987

#461

British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.

Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.

1988

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1990

#7025

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.

The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…

1992

#6953

The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration.

An essential reinterpretation of the classics in the history of anatomical illustration, with many fine plates.

1996

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

1998

#10477

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

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

2000

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

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…

2004

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2006

#6839

Dream Anatomy... Anatomy and the artistic imagination.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of Medicine from October 9, 2002 to July 21, 2003. In May 2015 the website built for the exhibition was available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/.

2006

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

2006

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

2007

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2008

#13166

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.

An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.

2009

#9677

De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).

A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.

2009

#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…

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2011

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

2012

#8389

Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.

2014

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

2014

#11195

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.

"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …

2015

#9870

Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.

2016

#7566

The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.

2016

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

2017

#9591

History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal.

http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/ "The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Web Portal is designed to gather resources in medical humanities for students, scholars, physicians, and the general public fo…

2017

#9849

Visualizing disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.