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2015 CE

#8431

The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.

2010 CE

#8430

The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.

1989 CE

#8429

Geschichte der Tiermedizin. 5000 Jahre Tierheilkunde.

2009 CE

#8428

The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.

1528 CE

#8427

Vegetii Renati Artis veterinariae, sive mulomedicinae libri quatuor, iam primum typis in lucem aediti.

The earliest surviving work on veterinary medicine, by a writer from Late Antiquity, presumably in the Western Roman Empire. Digital facsimile from BayerischeStaatsbibliothek at this link.

1980 CE

#8426

Pelagonii Ars veterinaria. Edited by K. D. Fischer.

1987 CE

#8425

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et Haut Moyen Âge.

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins: Antiquité et haut moyen âge : Premier supplément, 1986-1999, Volume 2 by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Université de Saint-Etienne, 2000.

1842 CE

#8424

De auctorum graecorum versionibus et commentariis syriacis, arabicis, armeniacis persicisque commentatio.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1989 CE

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1978 CE

#8422

I codice greci di medicina nelle tre Venezie. (Università di Padova, Studi bizantini e neogreci, 10).

1961 CE

#8421

A chronological census of Renaissance editions and translations of Galen.

Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.

1834 CE

#8420

Apollonii, Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, aliorum: Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum e codicibus Mss. Vindobonens. Monacens. Florentin. Mediolanens. Escorialens, etc. Primum Graece edidit Fridericus Reinholdus Dietz.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1966 CE

#8419

Medicinalia Arabica. Studien über arabische medizinische Handschriften in türkischen und syrischen Bibliotheken. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaftern in Göttingen. phil. hist. Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 66).

1853 CE

#8418

Notices et extraits des manuscrits médicaux grecs, latins et français, des principales bibliothèques de l'Europe. 1er partie. Manuscrits Grecs d'Angleterre.

All published. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1877 CE

#8417

L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1885 CE

#8416

Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1969 CE

#8415

A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;

Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.

1992 CE

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

2007 CE

#8413

Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …

1991 CE

#8412

Romantic medicine and John Keats.

1984 CE

#8411

The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.

For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.

1824 CE

#8410

Bibliotheca Britannica, or, A general index to British and foreign literature. 4 vols.

This bio-bibliographical encyclopedia of English and foreign literature includes many articles on physicians from the ancient world up to Watt's time, and is an extraordinary achievement for one man. Typically the fir…

1812 CE

#8409

Catalogue of medical books, for the use of students attending lectures on the principles and practice of medicine; with an address to medical students, on the best method of prosecuting their studies.

This is the catalogue that Watt prepared of his own very carefully chosen medical library, and published for the use of his students. Because Watt chose the roughly 1000 books with great care the library is representa…

2011 CE

#8408

History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.

Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.

1912 CE

#8407

On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.

Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…

1968 CE

#8406

Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.

2003 CE

#8405

Psyche and soma: Physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.

1954 CE–1973 CE

#6471.2

Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.

Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…

1935 CE

#8403

Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.

2012 CE

#8402

La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.

1838 CE

#8401

Herophilus. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1893 CE

#8400

Herophilus and Erasistratus: A bibliographical demonstration in the library in the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 16th March 1893. Reprinted from the Glasgow Medical Journal for May, 1893.

1966 CE

#8399

Physico-chemical properties of human reaginic antibody. IV. Presence of a unique immunoglobulin as a carrier of reaginic activity.

The antibody class labeled immunoglobulin E (IgE) discovered simultanteously by two independent groups: Ishizaka's team at the Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and by Gunnar Johan…

1963 CE

#8398

Clinical aspects of immunology.

Gell-Coombs classification of hypersensitivity. Prior to development of this classification, all forms of hypersensitivity were classified as allergies, "and all were thought to be caused by an improper activation of …

2014 CE

#8397

History of allergy. Edited by K. C. Bergmann and J. Ring. (Chemical Immunology and Allergy Vol. 100.)

Allergy through 20 centuries; most common allergic diseases: historical reflections; mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries; detection and environmental influences and allergens; progress in allergy management; …

2001 CE

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

1495 CE–1498 CE

#8395

Aristotle. [Opera omnia]. 5 vols.

Between November 1495 and June 1498 scholar printer Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Mannucci) of Venice issued the first edition in the original Greek of Aristotle's Opera omnia. The set appeared in five thick quarto or smal…

1995 CE

#8393

Les papyrus médicaux de l'Egypte pharaonique. Traduction intégrale et commentaire.

French translations, with commentary of the Egyptian medical papyri.

1989 CE

#8392

Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.

Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.

1955 CE

#8391

The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.

A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…

1905 CE

#8390

The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary by George A. Reisner. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 1.

The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE. The papyrus is so unus…

2012 CE

#8389

Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.

1985 CE

#8388

Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.

Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are pro…

1978 CE

#8387

A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.

In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.

1974 CE

#8386

Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.

This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…

1944 CE

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2002 CE

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

1854 CE

#8383

The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered: An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1992 CE

#8382

Medicine meets virtual reality: Discovering applications for 3-D multi-media interactive technology in the health sciences. A symposium, June 4-7, 1992, San Diego, California.

The first conference on the medical applications of virtual reality.

1961 CE

#8381

The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.

The Hayflick limit. Hayflick demonstrated that a population of normal human fetal cells in a cell culture will divide between 40 and 60 times. The population then enters a senescence phase.