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1994 CE
#8029
Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.
Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).
1981 CE
#8028
Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
2010 CE
#8027
Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael
1787 CE
#8026
Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo.
This catalogue of Carrbean fish was the first scientific treatise printed in Cuba and also the first illustrated book printed in Cuba. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1803 CE
#8025
Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …
1741 CE
#8024
El Orinoco ilustrado y defendido. Historia natural, civil y geográfica de este gran río y de sus caudalosas vertientes, govierno, usos, y costumbres de los indios sus habitadores, con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales ...
Inspired by the success of Acosta’s Natural History, Gumilla wrote lush descriptions of native life along the Orinoco River in Venezuela and Colombia. His characterization of local healing practices was informat…
1578 CE
#8023
Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, muy util y provechosa.
Second edition, Mexico, 1595: Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, y examen de barberos ... va añadido en esta segunda impresion el origen ... de las reumas. López de Hinojos…
1991 CE
#8022
Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970.
Available as a PDF from www.history.army.mil at this link.
1987 CE
#8021
The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
1956 CE
#8020
The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1992 CE
#8019
The Medical Department: medical service in the European theater of operations. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
1998 CE
#8018
The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.
2011 CE
#8017
Attack on the Pentagon: The medical response to 9/11.
2010 CE
#8016
Navy medicine in Vietnam: Passage to freedom to the fall of Saigon.
2016 CE
#8015
Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps.
1997 CE
#8014
The history of the United States Army Medical Service Corps.
From the American revolution to 1994.
2010 CE
#8013
A contemporary history of the U. S. Army Nurse Corps.
From the end of the Vietnam War to the year 2000.
2015 CE
#8012
U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.
2002 CE
#8011
African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.
1996 CE
#8010
Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.
2010 CE
#8009
Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.
2003 CE
#8008
From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.
2015 CE
#8007
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in enlightenment Guatemala.
1803 CE
#8006
Tratado histórico y práctico de la vacuna que contiene en compendio el orígen y los resultados de las observaciones y experimentos sobre la vacuna, con un exámen imparcial de sus ventajas, y de las objeciones que se le han puesto, con todo lo demás que concierne á la práctica del nuevo modo de inocular. [Translated From the French by] Francisco Xavier de Balmis.
On November 30, 1803 Spanish physician Francisco Javier de Balmis and his team embarked from Spain, on an expedition to vaccinate the people of Spanish America against smallpox. This three year voyage, which became kn…
1992 CE
#8005
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
1794 CE
#8004
Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...
Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…
1572 CE
#8003
Catalogus bibliothecae.
The catalogue of the private library of the Augsburg physician Jeremias Martius may be the earliest printed catalogue of any private library. It is possible that only one copy survived.
1608 CE
#8002
Il vero modo et ordine per dissegnar tutte le parti et membra del corpo humano.
An entirely etched book of 40 leaves, drawn and etched by Fialetti, this was probably the first printed manual on drawing the human body, as distinct from earlier manuals on anatomy for artists. For further informatio…
2013 CE
#8001
Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.
History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.
1993 CE
#8000
Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.
1978 CE
#7999
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
1899 CE–1904 CE
#7998
Kunstformern der Natur.
Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…
2013 CE
#7997
Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.
1889 CE
#7996
Electrical stimulation of the heart in man.
MacWilliams described experiments in which application of an electrical impulse to the human heart in asystole caused a ventricular contraction, and that a heart rhythm of 60–70 beats per minute could be evoked …
2000 CE
#7995
The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
2007 CE
#7994
Development of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).
Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.
1953 CE
#7993
The Welch Medical Library indexing project.
A progress report on this pioneering information retrieval project. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1949 CE
#7992
The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.
One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not y…
1961 CE
#7991
The first catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Washington, 1840. Facsimile copy of the original manuscript published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1577 CE
#7990
De arte medica infantium libri quatuor. Quorum duo Priores de tuenda eorum sanitate, posteriores de curandis morbis agunt.
An early illustrated work on pediatrics. The three parts of his book deal with the management of the nurse and her milk, the care and feeding of the new-born, and diseases of children, including skin diseases, and cha…
2006 CE
#7989
Oath betrayed: Torture, medical complicity and the war on terror.
2004 CE
#7988
The Hippocratic oath and the ethics of medicine.
2005 CE
#7987
Bioethics beyond the headlines: Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?
1998 CE
#7986
The birth of bioethics.
2000 CE
#7985
A short history of medical ethics.
1880 CE
#7984
La médecine du Thalmud ou tous le passages concernant la médecine extraits des 21 traités du Thalmud de Babylone.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2002 CE
#7983
Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.
1975 CE
#7982
Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial edition. 2 vols.
Chapter B, "Vital statistics and health and medical care." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link; from the U. S. Census Bureau at this link.
1954 CE
#7981
Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.
The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.
1937 CE
#7980
Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.
Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention …