Facets

1490

#47

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

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…

1931

#5227.1

Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.

1937

#8751

The history of the acute exanthemata.

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

1942

#2237

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

1954

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

1962

#3978.5

The story of insulin: Forty years of success against diabetes.

With G. Hetenyi and W. R. Feasby.

1964

#3979

The history of diabetes mellitus. 2nd ed.

1982

#3979.1

The discovery of insulin.

1987

#3979.2

Histoire illustrée du diabète de l’antiquité à nos jours.

1989

#9465

Diabetes, its medical and cultural history: Outlines — texts — bibliography. Edited by Dietrich von Engelhardt.

1995

#11019

The private science of Louis Pasteur.

"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…

2001 –2013

#8477

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

2007

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

2009

#9817

Fatal thirst: Diabetes in Britain until insulin.

2009

#12144

The evolution of obesity.

2010

#9661

Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.

Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

2010

#9662

Obesity: The biography.

2014

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…

2015

#8043

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

2017

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.