Facets

1856

#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…

1861

#2221

Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel Dieu de Paris. 2 vols.

Trousseau, clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu, made important advances in the treatment of diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever and other conditions. In his book he emphasized the value of bedside observation. He supported the…

1866

#7378

Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.

Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.

1881

#5002

Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.

A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.

1903

#5005.1

Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.

An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).

1952

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1971

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1971

#1588.8

Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.

A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1988

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

2001

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

2001

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2003

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

2003

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

2008

#7569

The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.

2011

#11167

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the invention of sex.

Published in the US as Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the sexual revolution came to America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

2013

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

2013

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

2014

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

2015

#6824

Neuroanatomical terminology: A lexicon of classical origins and historical foundations.

The first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized parts list of the human nervous system. "This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural featur…

2016

#11138

Anatomy: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them.