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1931 CE

#7880

The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.

Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1642 CE

#7879

Figura ductus cuiusdam cum multiplicibus suis ramulis noviter in pancreate in diversis corporibus humanis observati.

Wirsung, assistant to the celebrated German anatomist Johann Vesling, discovered the excretory duct of the pancreas named for him in 1642. To announce his discovery, Wirsung chose the extremely unusual method of publi…

1960 CE

#7878

Surgical diseases of the pancreas.

The first comprehensive textbook on pancreatic disease.

2002 CE

#7877

History of the pancreas: Mysteries of a hidden organ.

1814 CE

#7876

Flora Americae septentrionalis; or, a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America. Containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. 2 vols.

The first survey of all plants of North America above Mexico, including more than 3,000 species and 470 genera; describes more than 100 species collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Digital facsimile from Botan…

1856 CE

#7875

Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.

Originally issued in ten parts from 1853 to 1855. Cassin ran an engraving and lithographing firm in Philadelphia, which produced illustrations for government and scientific publications. He pursued ornithology as an a…

1880 CE

#7874

Histoire des monstres, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'a nos jours.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2003 CE

#7873

Teratology in the twentieth century: Congenital malformations in humans and how their environmental causes were established.

Book form publication with extensive bibliography and index, reprinted from Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 25 (2003) 132-282.

1851 CE

#7872

Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Coniferen.

Hofmeister described the process of fertilization in non-flowering plants as an alternation of sexual and asexual generations in the mosses, ferns, horsetails and liverworts. He showed that asexual generation propagat…

1983 CE

#7871

A short history of breast cancer.

1987 CE

#7870

Les historiens français de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie.

1998 CE

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1963 CE

#7868

Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.

Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …

1861 CE

#7867

A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.

Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …

1977 CE

#7866

Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…

1967 CE

#7865

Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit.

Isolation, identification and structure of the Marburg virus. WITH H. L. Shu, W. Sienczka, D. Peters, and G. Müller.

1952 CE

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

1948 CE

#7863

Aureomycin; a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics.

Discovery of clortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle) the first tetracycline antibiotic identified. Duggar,a plant physiologist, identified the antibiotic as the product of an actinomycete he cultured from a …

2010 CE

#7862

The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer.

2016 CE

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

1965 CE

#7860

Historia de la pediatría española.

1988 CE–1992 CE

#7859

Historia de la medicina valenciana. Edited by José Maria López Piñero. 3 vols.

2014 CE

#7858

The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.

1987 CE

#7857

The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.

1996 CE

#7856

American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.

2015 CE

#7855

Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.

The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…

2015 CE

#7854

Health care in America: A history.

2007 CE

#7853

What is medical history?

2009 CE

#7852

Medical miracles: Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world.

2013 CE

#7851

Medical saints: Cosmas and Damian in a postmodern world.

2010 CE

#7850

Medieval medicine: A reader. Edited by Faith Wallis.

2003 CE

#7849

Honoring the medicine: The essential guide to native American healing.

1874 CE

#7848

The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.

Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…

2011 CE

#7847

The Oxford companion of the history of medicine. Edited by Mark Jackson.

2014 CE

#7846

Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.

2014 CE

#7845

Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.

2010 CE

#7844

The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.

2013 CE

#7843

The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

1927 CE

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1962 CE

#7841

Silent spring.

This very carefully documented book convincingly proved the disastrous effects of DDT in the environment, and generated a storm of controversy. It was later credited with founding the "environmental movement" in the U…

2001 CE

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2003 CE

#7839

History of the treatment of spinal cord injuries.

A history of the treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord and cauda equina injuries.

1999 CE

#7838

Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.

2014 CE

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

1968 CE

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

2007 CE

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2010 CE

#7834

Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.

1999 CE

#7833

Histoire de la médecine en Arménie: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

Translated into English as The history Armenian medicine from antiquity to the present day (2007).

1922 CE

#7832

Di un raro caso di osteite simmetrica ereditaria degli arti inferior.

"Camurati-Engelmann disease", a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that causes characteristic anomalies in the skeleton. It is a form of dysplasia. See No. 4395.1.

1872 CE

#7831

Descriptive catalogue of the teratological series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.