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2008 CE
#9035
Cocaine: Global drug.
Traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Conne…
1999 CE
#9034
Cocaine: Global histories.
1952 CE–1961 CE
#9033
World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.
In English and German.
1944 CE
#9032
Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.
1954 CE
#9031
La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.
1950 CE
#9030
La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.
1903 CE
#9029
The geography of disease.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#9028
The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1955 CE
#9027
The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.
Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.
2007 CE
#9026
Medicina, ideología e historia en España (siglos XVI-XXI). Edited by Ricardo Campos, Luis Montiel and Rafael Huertas.
2004 CE
#9025
Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.
'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…
1948 CE
#9024
The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.
1963 CE
#9023
World health and history.
1958 CE
#9022
The first ten years of the World Health Organization.
Digital facsimile from who.int at this link.
1972 CE
#9021
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who cam…
1868 CE
#9020
Donnolo. Pharmakologische Fragmente aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, nebst Beiträgen zur Literatur der Salternitaner hauptsächlich nach handschriftlichen hebräischen Quellen. (Sonderabdruck in 50 Expl. aus d, "Archiv f. patholog. Anatomie u.s.w. "herausg. von Rud. Virchow, Bd. 38-42). Als Beilagen: Constantinus Africanus und seine arabischen Quellen (aus demselben Archiv, Bd. 37)., Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache, zum ersten Mal herausgegeben von M. Steinschneider.
1867 CE
#9019
Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
Written about 970 CE, this is the earliest surviving medical treatise written in Hebrew to which an approximate date can be assigned. Donnolo, who was at one time Byzantine court physician, is one of the earliest Jewi…
1908 CE
#9018
Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.
This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …
1993 CE
#9017
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
1539 CE
#9016
Actuarius de medicamentorum compositione. Ruellio interprete.
The 5th and 6th books of Actuarius's De methodo medendi, concerning materia medica. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897 CE
#9015
Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.
Crateuas was the personal physician of Mithridates VI. Of Pontos. He wrote a three-part herbal book describing the medicinal properties of plants. This work, which was illustrated, is the earliest known herbal book to…
1568 CE
#9014
Noni medici clarissimi de omnium particularium morborum curatione sic ut febres quoque & tumores praeter naturam complectatur, Liber, nunc primum in lucem editus & summa diligentia conversus per Hieremiam Martium medicum physicum Augustanum. Hieronimus Wolphius Oetingensis ad lectorum.
Nonnus, a Byzantine physician, wrote an outline of medicine dedicated to Emperor Constantine Prophyrogenitus (probably Constantine VII). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1977 CE
#9013
Les sciences biologiques et médicales à Byzance. (Cahiers d'historie et de philosophie des sciences, n. 3)
1879 CE
#9012
Cassius Felicis De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus (anno 447) nunc primu editus a Valentino Rose.
Editio princeps. Cassius Felix was a Roman African medical writer, probably native of Constantina (now Algeria). His De medicina is a simple handbook for practical use, drawing on Greek medical sources. Digital facsim…
1532 CE
#9011
Octavii Horatiani reum medicarum Lib. Quatuor. I. Logicus, De curationibus omnium ferme morborum corporis humani, ad Euporistum. II. De acutis & chronicis passionibus, ad eundem. III. Gynecia, De mulierum accidentibus, & curis eorundem, ad Victoriam. IIII. De physica scientia, experimentorum liber, ad Eusebium filium. Albucasis. chirurgicorum omium primarii, lib. tres. I. De cauterio cum igne, & medicins acutis per singula corporis humani membra. Cum instrumentorum delimatione. II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulternibus, & extractione sagittaru, & certeris similibus. Cum formis instrumentorum. III. De restuartione & curatione, dislocationis membrorum. Cum typis item instrumentorum.
In this, the first printed edition of Rerum medicarum libri quatuor by the late antique Byzantine physician Theodorus Priscianus, his work was misattributed to Octavianus Horatianus. Digital facsimile from Google Book…
2016 CE
#9010
Quintus Serenus, Medizinischer Rat (Liber medicinalis). Edited and translated into German by Kai Brodersen.
1916 CE
#9009
Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis. Edited by Friedrich Vollmer.
1974 CE
#9008
Bestimmung der Instensität im medizinischen System Galens: Ein Beiträg zur theoretische Pharmakologie, Nosologie und Therapie in der Galenischen Medizin.
1896 CE
#9007
Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.
This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…
2008 CE
#9006
Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.
1897 CE–1899 CE
#9005
The adult: A journal for the advancement of freedom in sexual relationships. 3 vols.
When I created this entry in February 2017 there was, inexplicably, no digital facsimile of this rare periodical on the web; however, there was an exceptionally excellent and most comprehensive finding aid available f…
2008 CE
#9004
Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2007 CE
#9003
Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.
"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…
2010 CE
#9002
This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.
1895 CE
#9001
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2015 CE
#9000
Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.
Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…
1980 CE
#8999
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
1868 CE
#8998
Hospital days.
Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…
2016 CE
#8997
Nurse writers of the great war.
1888 CE
#8996
My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.
2007 CE
#8995
Pride of America, we're with you: The letters of Grace Anderson, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I.
1864 CE
#8994
The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.
Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …
1958 CE
#8993
Darwin's century: Evolution and the men who discovered it.
An elegantly written and profound book that was a powerful influence to my own intellectual development when I read it in 1958; it also a great inspiration for me to study the history of evolution and biology. "Eisele…
1966 CE
#8992
Adaptation and natural selection: A Critique of some current evolutionary thought.
1994 CE
#8991
Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine.
1991 CE
#8990
The dawn of Darwinian medicine.
"While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained new power to explain many aspects of disease. This progress results largely from the disciplined applicat…
1994 CE
#8989
Evolution of infectious disease.
1980 CE
#8988
Evolutionary biology and the treatment of signs and symptoms of infectious disease.
"When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, manifestations of infectious diseases can be classified as (1) adaptations of the host to counteract harmful aspects of the disease, (2) adaptations of the pathogen to ma…
1561 CE
#8987
De habitu et constitutione corporis, quam Greci χρασιν, triviales complexionem vocant, libri duo.
One of the earliest self-help medical guides, written by a pupil of Vesalius. Translated into English by Thomas Newton as The touchstone of complexions generallye appliable, expedient and profitable for all such, as b…
2016 CE
#8986