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1988 CE
#8635
La scuola medica di Bologna: Settecento anni di storia. Edited by Raffaele A. Bernabeo and Giuseppe D'Antuono.
1946 CE
#8634
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
1975 CE
#8633
La chirurgie à Montpellier de ses origines au début du XIXe siècle.
1975 CE–1999 CE
#8632
La médecine à Montpellier. 7 vols.
1990 CE
#8631
La médecine à Montpellier du XIIe au XXe siècle. Edited by Louis Dulieu.
1832 CE
#8630
Practical essays on medical education, and the medical profession, in the United States.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1997 CE
#8629
The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.
2000 CE
#8628
Medicina in nummis, 1974-1994: Hungarian coins and medals related to medicine.
1991 CE
#8627
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
1996 CE
#8626
The Wellcome Trust illustrated history of tropical diseases. Edited by F. E. G. Cox.
1999 CE
#8625
Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics
1984 CE
#8624
Understanding the liver: A history.
1995 CE
#8623
The history of gastroenterology.
1984 CE
#8622
American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.
1973 CE
#8621
Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.
1973 CE
#8620
The Percival Bailey collection of neurology & psychiatry.
1935 CE
#8619
The doctor's bill. With an introduction by A. Lawrence Powell.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1993 CE
#8618
The uses of life: A history of biotechnology.
2009 CE
#8617
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
1935 CE
#8616
Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
2011 CE
#8615
Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.
1972 CE
#8614
Western medicine in a Chinese palace: Peking Union Medical College, 1917-1951.
Traces the development of Western medicine in China from 1805 to the creation of the Peking Union Medical College.
1872 CE
#8613
A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1983 CE
#8612
Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.
1995 CE
#8611
Becoming a physician: Medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945.
2002 CE
#8610
The word as scalpel: A history of medical sociology.
2007 CE
#8609
My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.
A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…
1999 CE
#8608
Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.
1992 CE
#8607
Histoire illustrée de l'hematologie: De l'antiquité à nos jours.
1986 CE
#8606
The man behind the syndrome.
Portraits and biographies, emphasizing genetic syndromes. Followed by the authors' The person behind the syndrome (1997).
1970 CE
#8605
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
1918 CE
#8604
Medical diseases of the war. Second edition
Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…
1958 CE
#8603
Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.
1996 CE
#8602
The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.
1987 CE
#8601
Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.
1919 CE
#8600
Training school methods for institutional nurses.
Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1916 CE
#8599
Studies in ethics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911 CE
#8598
Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
1994 CE
#8597
The history of cardiology.
2006 CE
#8596
Dr. Franklin's medicine
The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.
1979 CE
#8595
Uses of plants for the past 500 years.
Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).
1937 CE
#8594
Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.
Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.
2010 CE
#8593
The anatomist anatomis'd: An experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe.
History of the practice and teaching of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, in the 18th century, mainly in Europe, but also touching on the introduction of Western methods of studying and teaching anatomy into Japan.
1698 CE
#8592
A journey to Paris in the year 1698.
Includes observations of natural history collections, estates and libraries of Parisians, and commentary on science, art, food, wine, medicine, and more. Late in 1697, William Bentinck, Lord Portland, was sent on a di…
1656 CE
#8591
Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.
The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…
1943 CE
#8590
Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1780 CE
#8589
Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. An an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases.
Includes the first description of the value of digitalis in the treatment of patients with heart failure, with discussion of several successful cases. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Darwin and Withe…
1652 CE
#8588
The English physitian: Or, an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, as they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, julips, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them readie for your use at all times of the yeer. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines, according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted.
"Culpeper attempted to make medical treatments more accessible to laypersons by educating them about maintaining their health. Ultimately his ambition was to reform the system of medicine by questioning traditional me…
1846 CE
#8587
The young stethoscopist; or, the student's aid to auscultation.
Through this book Bowditch established the stethoscope as a diagnostic tool in America. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1957 CE
#8586
Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.
Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…