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1976 CE

#9236

Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste. 2 vols.

1996 CE

#9235

The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.

"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…

1990 CE

#9234

Explorers of the Amazon.

The author was a noted explorer.

1985 CE

#9233

An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.

This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…

1958 CE

#9232

Bibliography of international congresses of medical sciences. Prepared by W. J. Bishop under the auspices of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences with the financial assistance of Unesco.

2008 CE

#9231

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.

Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.

2007 CE

#9230

The first miracle drugs: How the sulfa drugs transformed medicine.

"In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines…

2002 CE

#9229

Soldiers to the rescue: The medical response to the Pentagon attack. Edited by Sanders Marble and Ellen Milhiser.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1954 CE

#9228

Medical considerations in helicopter evacuation.

"The introduction of the helicopter to the Army Medical Department's traditional battlefield mission of medical evacuation of sick, injured, and wounded soldiers from frontline units to hospitals in the rear had its r…

1982 CE

#9227

Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.

Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1994 CE

#9226

Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

2009 CE

#9225

A history of dentistry in the U.S. Army to World War II.

The development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the …

1999 CE

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1961 CE

#9223

Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.

"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…

1955 CE

#9222

Medical Department, United States Army. United States Army Dental Service in World War II.

Digital text from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1955 CE–1969 CE

#9221

Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive medicine in World War II. Editor in chief John Boyd Coates, Jr. Editor for Preventive medicine Ebbe Curtis Hoff. 9 vols.

Digital facsimile of vols. 2-9 from the Hathi Trust at this link. (When I created this entry in March 2017 it was unclear whether vol. 1 was ever published.)

1906 CE

#9220

Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1983 CE

#9219

The demands of humanity: Army medical disaster relief.

Digital facsimile from history.army.mil at this link.

2003 CE

#9218

Military preventive medicine mobilization and deployment. Vol. 1. Edited by Patrick W. Kelley

SECTION 1: A Historic Perspective on the Principles of Military Preventive Medicine 1 1. Preventive Medicine and Command Authority—Leviticus to Schwarzkopf 3 2. The Historical Impact of Preventive Medicine in Wa…

1942 CE

#9217

Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.

1943 CE

#9216

Victories of army medicine: Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1998 CE

#9215

U. S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History: Books and Documents.

http://history.amedd.army.mil/books.html "The US Army Medical Department has an extensive and illustrious history. Brief historical highlights include maintaining one of the oldest regiments within the Army, providing…

1866 CE

#9214

Medical recollections of the Army of the Potomac.

Letterman originated modern methods for medical organization in armies and on the battlefield. His system of organization enabled thousands of wounded men to be recovered and treated during the American Civil War. Dig…

1931 CE

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1987 CE

#9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1977 CE

#9211

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

1917 CE

#9210

Sanitation for medical officers. Medical War Manual No. 1. Authorized by the Secretary of War and under the Supervision of the Surgeon-General and the Council of National Defense.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1909 CE

#9209

Manual of military hygiene.

Digital facsimile of the third, revised edition (1917) from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909 CE

#9208

The elements of military hygiene especially arranged for officers and men of the line.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Revised edition, 1915, of which a digital facsimile is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

1901 CE

#9207

The theory and practice of military hygiene.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1815 CE

#9206

Economical observations on military hospitals; and the prevention and cure of diseases incident to an army. In three parts: addressed I. To ministers of state and legislatures, II. To commanding officers, III. To the medical staff.

When this was published Tilton was serving as the first Surgeon General of the Army. On the title page of his book he characterized himself as "Physician and Surgeon in the Revolutionary Army of the United States." Di…

1764 CE

#9205

An account of the diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany, from January 1761 to the return of the troops to England in March 1763. To which is added an essay on the means of preserving the health of soldiers, and conducting military hospitals.

Donald Monro was the second son of Alexander Monro (primus). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1770 CE

#9204

Syllabus of a course of lectures on chemistry.

Rush inaugurated the first regular course of lectures on chemistry taught in America, at the College of Philadelphia. Includes much on pharmaceutical chemistry. Facsimile reprint with an introduction by L. H. Butterfi…

1570 CE

#9203

De canibus Britannicis liber unus. De rariorum animalium et stirpium historia, liber unus. De libris propriis, liber unus.

Caius, a pioneer naturalist as well as a physician, corresponded with Conrad Gessner, with whom he had made friends while returning from Padua. Caius wrote this study of British dogs to send to Gessner as a contributi…

2015 CE

#9202

Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.

1996 CE

#9201

The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.

Focusing on Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the author demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Ruestow argues that while aspects of Dutch culture impede…

1968 CE

#9200

The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture.

1954 CE–1956 CE

#9199

The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.

1682 CE

#9198

Dissertatio epistolaris . . . de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentium nec non de affectione hysterica.

"Sydenham so precisely describes the symptoms of hysteria that even today little can be added to what he said. He maintained that is was the most common chronic disease, and he recognized that in spite of the fact tha…

1820 CE–1823 CE

#9197

Zoological illustrations, or, original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists. 3 vols.

"Apart from the common and scientific names of many species, it is for the quality of his illustrations that he [Swainson] is best remembered. His friend William Elford Leach, head of zoology at the British Museum, en…

2012 CE

#9196

Biology, computing and the history of molecular sequencing: From proteins to DNA, 1945-2000.

2015 CE

#9195

Radium and the secret of life.

2000 CE

#9194

The evolution wars: A guide to the debates.

1999 CE

#9193

The birth of the cell.

2000 CE

#9192

The emergence of life on earth. An historical and scientific overview.

1966 CE

#9191

Phage and the origins of molecular biology. Edited by John Cairns, G. Stent, and J. D. Watson.

Expanded edition, 1992. 40th anniversary edition, 2007.

1755 CE

#9190

Memoire sur les cors des pieds.

The first publication on podiatry, a pamphlet of 19, [1] pp. informally issued by Rousselot to promote his practice. Because of the non-standard title page without mention of place, publisher or date, the pamphlet see…

1972 CE

#9189

Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.

Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. av…

2002 CE

#9188

The structure of evolutionary theory.

A "technical book on macroevolution and the historical development of evolutionary theory.[1] The book was twenty years in the making,[2]published just two months before Gould's death.[3] Aimed primarily at profession…

1994 CE

#9187

Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.

The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reprodu…