Facets

1676

#2198

Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiamet curationem.

Sydenham recorded significant observations on dysentery, scarlet fever (p. 387), scarlatina, measles and other conditions. He stressed the clinical study of medicine and kept careful case records. Includes (pp. 272-80…

1780

#5488

Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.

1788 –1789

#5199

Abhandlung über die venerische Krankheit. 3 vols.

Girtanner’s important textbook on the venereal diseases contains some history.

1837

#2213

A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest.

Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described b…

1845

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1847

#2265

Die Krankheiten des Orient’s: vom Standpunkte der vergleichenden Nosologie betrachtet.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1855

#5454.2

Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.

The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, and pr…

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…

1866

#11487

Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1889 –1900

#5226

Die Litteratur über die venerischen Krankheiten von der ersten Schriften über Syphilis aus dem Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahre 1889. (Supplement Band I. Enthält die Litteratur von 1889-99 und Nachträge aus früherer Zeit.) 5 vols.

Reprinted Nieuwkoop, De Graaf 1966.

1889

#12348

Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.

Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…

1895

#5227

Die Geschichte der venerischen Krankheiten. 2 vols.

Vol. 1. Alterthum und Mittelalter. Vol. 2. Neuzeit.

1896

#5088

Der Keuchhusten.

An important history of whooping cough.

1911

#9373

Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.

A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1926

#10467

Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.

Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.

1931

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).

1931

#5227.1

Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.

1931

#5468

Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1933

#5221

A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.

In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …

1949

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1954

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

1962

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1967

#5352.5

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1970

#5546.8

Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.

Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.

1973

#5352.6

Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.

Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.

1977

#5500.2

Influenza: The last great plague.

1979

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

1981

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

1982

#5475.2

Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.

1987

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1988

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

1988

#11255

Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.

Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.

1990

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1991

#9262

Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.

1992

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1995

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

1996

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1996

#14050

The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.

1997

#9385

A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.

1997

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2001

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2003

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

2004

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…