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1929

#14096

Gestaltungsanalyse am Amphibienkeim mit Örtlicher Vitalfärbung: II. Teil. Gastrulation und Mesodermbildung bei Urodelen und Anuren.

Modern fate mapping began in 1929 when Walter Vogt marked the groups of cells using a dyed agar chip and tracked them through gastrulation.

1930

#12158

Seed, a novel of birth control.

1931

#6633

Medicina in nummis. A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences.

This consists mainly of a catalogue of 6,000 medals collected by Horatio Storer, an eminent Boston gynecologist. The collection is now in the Boston Medical Library at Harvard Medical School, and the very thick book, …

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

#12051

Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.

"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…

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…

1934

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…

1936

#6499

Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.

References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.

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

#6633.1

Katalog der Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer Medicina in Nummis.

5557 items; references to works on numismatics and medical history.

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 –1960

#10200

Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.

Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …

1937

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

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

#459

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

1939

#9735

La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.

1939

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

1940

#6649

Faiths that healed.

1940

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

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…

1943

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1943

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

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.

1946

#6631.02

Musical sons of Aesculapius.

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.

1948

#6631.1

Music and medicine.

1948

#6639.2

Medicine and science in postage stamps.

1948

#10204

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.

This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.

1948

#11946

La médecine et l'eglise: Contribution à l'histoire de l'exercice médical par les clercs.

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

#7164

Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.

1951

#8202

Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

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

#2068

Plants of the Bible.

The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.

1952

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

1952

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

1952

#10851

Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.

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

#6501

The Bible and modern medicine: A survey of health and healing in the Old and New Testaments.

1953 –1990

#10203

Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.

"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…

1953

#11200

Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works