Facets

1493 –1494

#363.1

Fascicolo di medicina. Tr: Sebastianus Manilius. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda. Mundinus: Anatomia (Ed: Petrus Andreas Morsianus).

This Italian translation contains an entirely new and more extensive series of woodcuts and additional text. The dramatically improved and more realistic illustrations, which were reproduced in the numerous later edit…

1530

#2364

Syphilis sive morbus gallicus.

The most famous of all medical poems. It epitomized contemporary knowledge of syphilis, gave to it its present name, and recognized a venereal cause. Fracastorius refers to mercury as a remedy. First complete English …

1722

#10199

A journal of the plague year: Being observatrions or memorials, of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before.

Though he may be most widely remembered as a novelist--especially for Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was an English trader, writer of non-fiction as well as fiction, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. This book is an account of…

1877

#4344.1

Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic quali…

1892 –1896

#10621

Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.

Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…

1914

#5138

Plague and pestilence in literature and art.

Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.

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.

1973

#9131

Awakenings.

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2007

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

2011

#10360

Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.

2015

#8800

History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.

2021

#13373

Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.

Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…