Facets

1941

#12379

Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.

1947

#1668

A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947

#11392

Research and writings on training, conditioning, treatment of athletic injuries, and corrective work. 2 vols.

Bohm was probably the first full-time professional physician in professional sports.

1948

#7802

The estimation of acetanilide and its metabolic products, aniline, N-acetyl p-aminophenol and p-aminophenol (free and total conjugated) in biological fluids and tissues.

Brodie and Axelrod confirmed that paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, was the major metabolite of acetanilide in human blood, and established that it was efficacious an analgesic. Unlike its precursors, paraceta…

1949

#4508

The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.

Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…

1951

#14367

Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.

The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…

1953

#11839

Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…

1955

#8329

Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1961

#12165

Hypokinetic disease: Diseases produced by lack of exercise

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1964

#4509.1

A short history of the gout and the rheumatic diseases.

1967

#13258

The great American water-cure craze: A history of hydropathy in the United States.

1968

#11988

Cerebral radiosurgery, I. Gammathalamotomy in two cases of intractable pain.

Leksell Gamma Knife. "Over the subsequent 50 years Gamma Knife surgery has evolved to cover much of what is done in neurosurgery and there are more than 330 Gamma Knife centers all over the world. By the end of 2017 m…

1968

#12282

Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…

1969

#13809

Pain and the neurosurgeon.

This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…

1970

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1975

#2068.17

Manipulation past and present, with an extensive bibliography.

1976

#4478.111

Textbook of sports for the disabled.

Pioneer treatise on sports for the handicapped by the physician who first introduced archery competition as a therapeutic measure for paraplegic war veterans in 1948.

1976

#10781

A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.

The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…

1982

#8333

Das Bad in der byzantinischen Zeit.

1984

#13811

Histoire illustrée de la rhumatologie.

1985

#10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

1989

#11907

The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.

1993

#12882

The history of pain. Translated by Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, S. W. Cadden.

1995

#7211

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

1996

#10120

The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.

"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…

1997

#9371

De la gymnastique aux sports modernes: Histoire des doctrines de l'éducation physique.

1999

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

1999

#10179

Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.

The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.

2001

#12645

Classics in movement science. Edited by Mark L. Latash and Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky.

2006

#12291

Curing the colonizers: Hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas.

Translated into French by the author as À la cure, les coloniaux ! Thermalisme, climatisme et colonisation française, 1830-1962. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

2007

#8342

Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

2008

#9370

De arte gymnastica. The art of gymnastics. Critical edition by Concetta Pennuto. English translation by Vivian Nutton.

This critical edition, based upon the 1601 edition, the last edition published in Mercuriale's lifetime, includes the Latin text and English translation, reproductions of the woodcuts attributed to Coriolan and the or…

2009

#10464

The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. Edited by Cynthia Koss and Anne Scott.

2011

#7541

A history of British sports medicine.

2011

#12883

Historia cultural del dolor.

Translated into English as Pain: A cultural history by Sarah Thomas and Paul House. Houndsmills, Basingsgoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

2012

#6842

Headache: Through the centuries.

The most comprehensive history to date.

2012

#7628

Medicine, sport and the body: A historical perspective.

2015

#10119

An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.

1077 pages.

2018

#9613

GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.