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1922

#6609.1

Wunder, Wundgeburt und Wundergestalt in Einblattdrucken des 15-18. Jahrhunderts.

History of teratology in art from 15th to 18th centuries.

1922 –1931

#7649

Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.

By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…

1922

#9985

Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.

Medicine in Homer.

1922

#10819

Montaigne and medicine; being the essayist's comments on contemporary physic and physicians; his thoughts on many material matters relating to life and death; an account of his bodily ailments and peculiarities and of his travels in search of health.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925

#6610

De arts in de caricatuur.

German edition, Berlin, 1927.

1925

#10197

Arrowsmith.

"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…

1927

#5142

The plague in Shakespeare’s London.

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.

1928

#6610.1

Esculape chez les artistes.

Chapters and illustrations on deformities, infirmities, medicine, surgery, etc.

1928

#10820

Medical and allied topics in Latin poetry.

1929

#9987

Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.

Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1930

#12158

Seed, a novel of birth control.

1931

#9449

The physician of the Dance of Death: A historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.

"Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of medical history (n. s., vol. II, nos. 4, 5, 6, 1930, and vol. III, nos. 1, 2, 1931)."

1931

#11250

Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings

1932

#12160

Brave new world.

"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…

1933

#6621

Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.

1933

#6622

Doctors in Elizabethan drama.

1934

#6622.1

John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.

Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…

1936

#8726

Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.

Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.

1937

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1937

#11797

A sex starved world.

A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …

1938

#94

The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Arranged, rendered into English and introduced by Edward MacCurdy. 2 vols.

2nd edition, 1956 (reprinted London, Cape, 1977).

1939

#9735

La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.

1943

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1943

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1945

#6623

Poet physicians: An anthology of medical poetry written by physicians.

1945

#9177

Anatomy for artists.

By the famous American social realist artist.

1947

#10822

The diagnosis of the acute abdomen in rhyme by Zeta.

Cope published this humorous version of his Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen under the pseudonym Zeta.

1949

#12784

La chirurgie discipline de la connaissance.

Three hundred copies on papier vélin contain a lithographed portrait of Leriche drawn and hand-signed and numbered by Henri Matisse.

1951

#6742

The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.

1951

#10616

Inherit the wind.

This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

1952

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1952

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

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…

1953

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1958

#6610.2

Rembrandt’s Anatomy of Dr. Nicholas Tulp. An iconological study.

An important supplement to and revision of this work is W. Schupbach, The paradox of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy of Dr. Tulp’. Med. Hist. Suppl. 2, 1982.

1959

#6623.1

Shakespeare and medicine.

1959

#12603

The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem

1960

#6623.2

The torch.

A romantic and inspirational historical novel about Hippocrates by the great Canadian neurosurgeon.

1960

#9442

Lo "Speculum hominis": Poema anonimo di etimologia medica del secolo XIII. Edited by Marco T. Malato and Concezio Alicandri-Ciufelli.

1961

#7033

Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961

"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.

1962

#6984

Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.

Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…

1963

#5019.4

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

Contains 4,460 references.

1964

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1964

#9396

The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 4 vols.

Revised and slightly expanded from Keynes's first edition (6 vols., London: Faber & Faber, 1928-31).

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…

1967

#6610.5

The rod and serpent of Asklepios: Symbol of medicine.

1967

#6610.7

Medicine in art: A cultural history. Jean Rousselot, general editor.

1967

#9741

The doctor on the stage: Medicine and medical men in seventeenth-century England.

1968

#11204

A bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne

Second edition, revised and augmented.