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1665
#13820
Catalogus instructissimae bibliothecae...D. Johannes Antoinidae van der Linden...Professoris...in quae omne benus rariorum libris. Quorum auctio habebitur in aedibus Petri Leffen Bibliopolae.
1659
#13819
Bibliotheca medical Henrici Fuiren.
Catalogue of the library of Henrick Fuiren compiled by his brother Thomas after Henrick's death. Henrick bequeathed the library to the University of Copenhagen.
1663
#13818
Rariora musaei Henrici Fuiren medicinae doctoris quae Academie Regiae Hafniensi legavit.
1869
#13817
Histoire médicale du tatouage. Anatomie - Physiologie - Médecine légale - Pathologie - Applications chirurgicales.
Médecin Principal de la Marine, Berchon based his research on the increasing numbers of tattooed sailors in the French navy. In 1861 he observed the transmission of syphilis from one sailor to another, who claimed to …
1792
#13816
The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus. containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; Class I Mammalia. Being a translation of that part of the Systema naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copperplates.
English translation of parts 1 and 2 of the 13th edition of Linnaeus's Systema naturae (1788-1793) edited by Johann Friedrich Gmelin. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1859
#13815
Zoologie médicale exposé méthodique du régne animal basé sur l'anatomie, l'embryologie et la paléontologie comprenant la description des espèces employées en médicine de celles qui sont venimuses et de celles qui sont parasites de l'homme et des animaux. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2022
#13814
Placental tissue destruction and insufficiency from COVID-19 causes stillbirth and neonatal death from hypoxic-ischemic injury: A study of 68 cases with SARS-CoV-2 placentitis from 12 countries.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Schwartz, Avvad-Portari, Babál, et al.... "Design.—Case-based retrospective clinico-pathological analysis by a multinational group of 44 perinatal specialists from 12 c…
1868
#13813
Sur la paralysie agitante et la sclérose en plaques généralisée.
In his doctoral thesis Ordenstein, a pupil of Charcot, first defined the clinical features of multiple schlerosis in detail, with pathologic confirmation, and distinguished the main symptoms and pathologic findings of…
1601
#13812
Rariorum plantarum historia.
Describing approximately 100 new species, the Rariorum plantarum historia gathers accounts from Clusius’s earlier botanical tours of Spain (Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, 1576) and Aust…
1984
#13811
Histoire illustrée de la rhumatologie.
1988
#13810
La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.
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…
1950
#13808
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
1998
#13807
The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.
This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.
1972
#13806
Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).
1885
#13805
La viruela en la América del Sud y principalmente en la República Argentina: Historia, estadística, clínica, y profilaxia.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1950
#13804
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
1980
#13803
The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.
1914
#13802
The history of small-pox in Australia 1788-1908.
A second volume, The history of small-pox in Australia, 1909-1923 by J.H.L. Compston and F. McCallum was published in Melbourne: H. J. Green, govt. printer, 1925.
1945
#13801
The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
1959
#13800
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
1815
#13799
The history of the small pox.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1987
#13798
CDC and the smallpox crusade.
Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.
2019
#13797
Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.
1979
#13796
The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.
1909
#13795
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2021
#13794
A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.
2002
#13793
Pox Americana: The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82.
1565
#13792
De vini natura, artificio et usu deque re omni potabili.
On the medical sues of wine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1795
#13791
Tratado de las enfermedades de la boca sobre todas las partes del arte del dentista.
The first significant book on dentistry by a Spanish dentist. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1838
#13790
Des maladies les plus fréquentes à bord des navires baleiniers, et de leur traitement.
On injuries and diseases of the crews of whaling voyages in particular. This was Santy's medical dissertation; dissertation and commercially published issues appeared from the same publisher the same year. Digital fac…
2010
#13789
The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.
1979
#13788
The eradication of smallpox from India.
1971
#13787
Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.
Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.
1986
#13786
Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.
2021
#13785
Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.
"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by ke…
1986
#13784
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
1754
#13783
Poissons, écrevisses et crabes, de diverse couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des Terres Australes....
"This extraordinary work purports to show marine life from the seas around Indonesia at a time when the natural wildlife of that area was virtually unknown in Europe. Renard, both a publisher and a spy for the British…
2016
#13782
Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.
1877
#13781
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
1617
#13780
Discursus medico-philosophicus de casu adolescentis [...]: qui [...] mortuus in quodam paternarum aedium loco, adjacente ipsi serpente, à domesticis inventus fuit.
An extensively illustrated work on death from snake bites and species of venomous snakes instigated by the sudden death from snake bite of an otherwise healthy young man. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…
1802
#13779
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1928
#13778
Tumors arising from the blood-vessels of the brain. Angiomatous malformations and hemangioblastomas.
1748
#13777
Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, à M. de Joyeuse, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Montpellier ....
The first account of cataract extraction. Daviel also published this in the Mercure de France in September 1748, pp. 198-218. The separate edition, a 24-page pamphlet, was printed from a different setting of type.
2020
#13776
The human gene editing debate.
"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…
2011
#13775
The history and future of bioethics.
2020
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2021
#13773
Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.
1847
#13772
Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.
2006
#13771
Freud's library: A comprehensive catalogue / Freuds Bibliothek: Vollständiger Katalog compiled and edited by J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner. Introductory volume and CD-ROM.
In January 2022 when I wrote this entry the English language text of this catalogue (dated 2004) was available as a PDF at this link.