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1902 CE
#7979
The Goulstonian lectures on some abnormal psychical conditions in children. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 4th, 6th, and 11th, 1902.
Considered by many historians to be the scientific starting point of the study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.
1798 CE
#7978
An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement: comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind, and a history of the passions and their effects. 2 vols.
In chapter 2 of vol. 1, pp. 254-90, “On Attention and its Diseases” Crichton described a mental state much like the inattentive subtype of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He did not mentio…
1977 CE
#7977
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
2000 CE
#7976
A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
From Pre-Columbian times to the present.
1996 CE
#7975
Information retrieval: A health care perspective.
Third edition as Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective (2009).
1998 CE
#7974
MEDLINE for health professionals; How to search PubMed on the internet.
1999 CE
#7973
MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching.
Second edition, 2006.
2007 CE
#7972
Experimental design for biologists.
Explains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up all of the components of an experimental system, design experiments within that system, determine and use the correct set of controls,…
1802 CE
#7971
Ausführliche Beschreibung und Abbildung der beiden sogenannten Stachelschweinmenschen aus der bekannten engelischen Familie Lambert, oder, the porcupine man.
Tilesius continued the study of the Lambert family of sufferers from ichthyosis hystrix begun by Machin and Baker (see No. 4013). Notably Tilesius illustrated the bizarre condition with several color plates. In 2016 o…
1980 CE
#7970
The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.
Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.
1997 CE
#7969
Landmarks in cardiac surgery. By Stephen Westaby, with Cecil Bosher.
History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.
1596 CE
#7968
De naturali vinorum historia de vinis Italiae et de conviviis antiquorum libri septem....Accessit de factitiis ac cervisiis de q[ue] Rheni, Galliae, Hispaniae et de totius Europa vinis et de omni vinorum usu compendiaria tractatio.
A comprensive study of the production, storage, characteristics, and use of wines. Book two considers wine in relation to health. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1969 CE
#7967
Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile.
Discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures. This is one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcus–Thermus group, and the source of the heat-re…
1990 CE
#7966
The emergence of bacterial genetics.
1699 CE
#7965
The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.
An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.
2016 CE
#7964
Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.
The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.
2007 CE
#7963
"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.
The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…
2006 CE
#7962
The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.
2012 CE
#7961
Roots of ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel.
1998 CE
#7960
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
2001 CE
#7959
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…
2004 CE
#7958
Robotic surgery: A current perspective.
A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1986 CE
#7957
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
2003 CE
#7956
Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism
1688 CE
#7955
Remèdes contre les cours de ventre.
"The remedy here treated of is ipecacuanha: although its antidysenteric virtues had previously been made known in 1649 by the writings of Piso and Marggraf [No. 2263.1] it was left to Helvetius, about forty years subs…
2007 CE
#7954
The emergence of genetic rationality: Space, time & information in American biological science, 1870-1920.
2002 CE
#7953
Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.
1988 CE
#7952
A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.
With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.
2006 CE
#7951
Robotics in surgery: History, Current and future applications. Edited by Russel A. Faust.
1980 CE
#7950
Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2011 CE
#7949
Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.
1968 CE
#7948
Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service.
The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requ…
1963 CE
#7947
The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1962 CE
#7946
Peresadka zhiznenno vazhnykh organov v eksperimente. Experimental transplantation of vital organs. Authorized translation from the Russian by Basil Haigh.
Demikhov coined the term transplantology, and this work, first published in Russian in 1960, and translated and published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, was the first monograph on transplantation of organs an…
1883 CE
#7945
Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.
Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a …
2004 CE
#7944
Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.
2008 CE
#7943
The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.
2015 CE
#7942
Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.
2003 CE
#7941
Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
2011 CE
#7940
The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.
2011 CE
#7939
Historia de la medicina en el Paraguay.
1960 CE
#7938
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
2014 CE
#7937
Historia de la medicina Argentina: Desde la dominación hispánica hasta la actualidad.
2014 CE
#7936
Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.
An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.
1859 CE
#7935
A practical treatise on diseases, pathology, and treatment of diseases of the heart.
The first major American textbook on cardiology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1971 CE
#7934
La odontología en el México prehispánico.
1965 CE
#7933
Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.
1801 CE–1803 CE
#1315
Traité d’anatomie descriptive. 5 vols.
Bichat was the creator of descriptive anatomy. He introduced the terms “animal” and “vegetative” system. This was his last work, unfinished at his death. Vol. 4 was prepared by Bichat's student…
1815 CE
#7932
Journal of a mission to the interior of Africa, in the year 1805. Together with other documents, official and private, relating to the same mission. To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park.
Park died in Africa in 1806, as a result of conflicts with native peoples. This volume includes the journal of Isaaco, an African, who served as Mungo Park's guide. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …
1799 CE
#7931
Travels in the interior districts of Africa: Performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell.
Park, a Scottish physician, was the first Westerner to travel to the central portion of the Niger River. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.