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1940 CE

#7830

Appearance of skeletal abnormalities in the offspring of rats on a deficient diet.

Warkany was the first to prove that congenital developmental disorders can be induced by exogenous factors in mammals. His studies led to the definition of both genetic and environmentally induced structural defects. …

1933 CE

#7829

Pigs born without eyeballs.

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmo…

1977 CE

#7828

Problems of birth defects from Hippocrates to thalidomide and after. Edited by T.V.N. Persaud.

An anthology of classic papers edited with introductions by Persaud.

1996 CE

#7827

From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.

2016 CE

#7826

Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs, and health.

The first U.S. Surgeon General's report on substance misuse and the wide range of adverse health effects from alcohol and both legal and illegal drugs. It brought together evidence on prevention; treatment; and recove…

2010 CE

#7825

Disease, health care and government in late imperial Russia: Life and death on the Volga, 1823-1914.

1928 CE

#7824

Bibliographicheskii ukazatel' russkoi literatury po istorii meditsiny s 1789 g. po 1928.

2011 CE

#7823

Famous personalities honored on stamps: Links to medicine.

1970 CE

#7822

Medicine and stamps.

1994 CE

#7821

Medical history through postage stamps.

1544 CE

#7820

Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo Libri cinque della historia, et materia medicinale tradotti in lingua volgare italiana da M. Pietro Andrea Matthiolo Sanese Medico, con amplissimi discorsi, et comenti, et dottissime annotationi, et censure del medesimo interprete.

Mattioli's translation and commentary on Dioscorides provided much new botanical information. As Mattioli continued to expand the commentary, adding new botanical and pharmacological information, through editions in L…

1609 CE

#7819

Monstrorum historia memorabilis, monstrosa humanorum partuum miracula, stupendis conformationum formulis ab utero materno enata, viuis exemplis, observationibus, & picturis, referens. Accessit analogicum argumentum de monstris brutis, supplementi loco ad observationes medicas Schenckianas edita.

Schenck described nearly 100 human and animal examples, illustrated with engravings by Theodor de Bry (1528-98). Most of the examples are from the 16th century. Not all the cases are teratological in the strictest sen…

1875 CE

#7818

Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion, of over a million recruits.... 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1862 CE

#7817

Regulations for the Medical Department of the C. S. Army.

Electronic edition from unc.edu, Documenting the American South, at this link.

1883 CE

#7816

An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion: with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865. Compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.SA. by J. W. Wells and N. A. Strait, Revised by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, giving the number killed, wounded and missing in each of the important battles, Union troops engaged, names of the Generals killed and wounded in both armies; also the total number of enlistments, number discharged, number wounded, number missing, number of deaths, number killed in battle....And a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons of the late war and hospital service.

This was the most complete edition; prior editions were issued in 1875 and 1882. In 1990 Norman Publishing of San Francisco reprinted the 1883 edition with a new index to surgeons and an introduction by Ira M. Rutkow.…

1861 CE

#7815

A manual of military surgery: or, hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice.

Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Hathi Trust at this link. Notably in 1862 this small work written for Union surgeons was reprinted in Richmond, Virginia for the use of Confederate surgeons. The…

1861 CE

#7814

A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1863 CE

#7813

Notes and observations on army surgery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#7812

An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1861 CE

#7811

A manual of military surgery: for the use of surgeons in the Confederate army: with an appendix of the rules and regulations of the medical department of the Confederate army.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1969 CE

#7810

Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement.

The first total artificial heart implant, performed by Colley using a device developed by Liotta on April 4, 1969. The device, known as the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with s…

1856 CE

#7809

Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.

Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…

1766 CE

#7808

Descrizione degl'instrumenti, delle macchine, e delle suppellettili raccolte ad uso chirurgico e medico dal P. Don Ippolito Rondinelli...

Catalogue of the private museum of surgical and medical instruments established by Father Ippolito Rondinelli in Ravenna, which Soldo described as “the first museum of medicine and surgery.” Extensively il…

1552 CE

#7807

Meletius, De natura structuraque hominis opus. Polemonis Atheniensis, Naturae signorum interpretationis. Hippocratis, De hominis structura. Diocles, De tuenda valetudine epistola. Melampus, De nevis corporis tractatus. Omnia haec non prius edita. Nicolao Petreio Corcyraeo interprete.

This collection of Late Antique and Byzantine medicine edited by Nicolas Petreius begins with a Byzantine treatise on anatomy, probably written in the eighth century by Meletius, a Christian monk and physician from Ph…

1786 CE

#7806

Tableau des variétés de la vie humaine. 2 vols.

Massive and early study of puberty among Europeans, with comparative data including mortality tables. Daignan was especially interested in the plight of urban youth. He concluded his work with tables of life expectanc…

2011 CE

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

2016 CE

#7804

Virus: An illustrated guide to 101 incredible microbes.

Includes historical data, spectacular color photomicrographs, drawings, and geographical range maps for 101 viruses

1873 CE

#7803

Experimental researches in cerebral physiology and pathology.

Using a variety of experimental animals, Ferrier demonstrated that various neurologic functions were controlled by separate parts of the cerebrum and that damage or loss of that part created an irrevocable and particu…

1948 CE

#7802

The estimation of acetanilide and its metabolic products, aniline, N-acetyl p-aminophenol and p-aminophenol (free and total conjugated) in biological fluids and tissues.

Brodie and Axelrod confirmed that paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, was the major metabolite of acetanilide in human blood, and established that it was efficacious an analgesic. Unlike its precursors, paraceta…

1811 CE

#7801

The maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors

The first American book on pediatrics, in the tradition of "advice books" or childcare manuals for mothers. This was the first American printed book on a medical subject written by a woman. Pages 248-75 publish a list…

1753 CE

#7800

Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliothèque anatomique et physiologique.

An anatomical dictionary with most of the entries cross referenced to related structures, followed by a very extensive bibliography of anatomical and physiological works. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#7799

History of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1935 CE

#7798

Anatomia della lussazione congenita dell'anca.

Putti made many contributions to the understanding of congenital dislocation of the hip, a condition which was then endemic in Northern Italy.

1930 CE

#7797

Historic artificial limbs.

1887 CE

#7796

Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters. IN: Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, Nachtrag II.

The first systematic monograph on child psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1995 CE

#7795

Human radiation experiments: The Department of Energy roadmap to the story and the records.

1996 CE

#7794

Final report of the Advisory Committee on human radiation experiments.

Report of "an intensive inquiry into the history of government-sponsored human radiation experiments and intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 and 1974. We have studied the ethical…

1533 CE

#7793

Tou sophōtatou Philē, Stichoi iambikoi peri zōōn idiotētos.

The Greek text edited by Aristoboulos Apostolis (1465-1536), who became Arsenios, Archbishop of Monemvasia in 1514. Philes' Greek text was reedited by Joachim Camerarius with Latin translation by G. Bermann and first …

1862 CE

#7792

Poetae bucolici et didactici: Theocritus, Bion, Moschus....Phile De animalibus, elephanti, plantis....

Manuel Philes of Ephesus wrote didactic poems on the characteristics of animals, chiefly based upon Aelian and Oppian, and a didactic poem of some 2000 lines, dedicated to Michael IX Palaiologos; on the elephant, and …

1492 CE

#7791

De venenis. Ed: Dominicus de Canali.

Compiled in the years, 1424-1426, from Greek, Arabic and Latin works on medicine and nature. "Although Ardoini quotes previous authors at great length, his work is no mere compilation, since he does not hesitate to di…

1965 CE

#7790

Mortality from cancer and other causes after radiotherapy for ankylosing spondylitis.

1968 CE

#7789

Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission.

Published 23 years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing for carcinogenesis after the latency period. Digital facsimile available from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at this link.

1931 CE

#7788

American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.

1995 CE

#7787

Effects of atomic radiation: A half-century of studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1948 CE

#7786

No place to hide.

Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …

1925 CE

#7785

Some unrecognized dangers in the use and handling of radioactive substances.

From autopsies on several young women who had painted radium dials, and ingested large cumulative doses by licking their brushes, Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey, provided evidence that ingestio…

2000 CE

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

1970 CE

#7783

Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.

In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.

1956 CE

#7782

Preliminary communication: Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in-utero.

Stewart was one of the earliest to study the effect of prenatal X-rays, later replaced by ultrasound. She found that the children of mothers who received these X-rays were almost twice as likely to develop leukemia or…

2015 CE

#7781

Essays on the history of respiratory physiology.