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1998 CE
#7780
High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.
1996 CE
#7779
Respiratory physiology: People and ideas, edited by John B. West.
1958 CE
#7778
John Wesley among the physicians: A study of eighteenth-century medicine.
1974 CE
#7777
Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
2001 CE
#7776
Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.
Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.
2007 CE
#7775
Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.
Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…
1841 CE–1849 CE
#7774
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts, and their introduction into commerce; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European trees. Illustrated by 156 coloured engravings. Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ... With three additional volumes, containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States. Illustrated by 122 finely coloured plates. 6 vols.
The first study of all the trees of North America. Digital facsimile of all 6 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1832 CE–1834 CE
#7773
A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Vol. 1: The land birds. Vol. 2: The water birds.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1821 CE
#7772
A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.
Nuttall travelled from Philadelphia, down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Arkansas. From there he travelled across Arkansas to the interior of the modern Oklahoma; returning via the Arkansas and Mississippi riv…
1818 CE
#7771
The genera of North American plants, and a catalogue of the species to the year 1817. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive botany of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1791 CE
#7770
Travels through North & South Carolina, George, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws [sic]...
Digital facsimile of London, 1794 second edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1845 CE–1854 CE
#7769
The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.
The largest and most significant color plate book produced in America during the 19th century.
1797 CE
#7768
The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. Including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith.
The earliest illustrated monograph on the butterflies and moths of North America. Text in English and French. 104 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1772 CE
#7767
Cours d'hippiatrique, ou traité complet de la médecine des chevaux.
The leading 18th century French work on these subjects; some copies were issued with hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile of an uncolored copy from BnF Gallica at this link.
1934 CE
#7766
L'angiographie cérébrale, ses applications et résultats en anatomic, physiologie et clinique.
1991 CE
#7765
Asceticism and healing in ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist monastery.
1952 CE
#7764
Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.
1989 CE
#7763
Socioeconomics of surgery.
Probably the first book-form study of these issues.
1911 CE
#7762
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
1970 CE
#7761
Low dose radiation and cancer.
This paper, delivered at the 1969 Nuclear Science Symposium and Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Symposium, October, 1969, provided powerful scientific evidence that the then currently allowable radiation dose (Feder…
1981 CE
#7760
Radiation and human health.
The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.
1914 CE
#7759
Zur Frage der Entstehung maligner Tumoren.
Boveri argued that malignancy arises as a consequence of chromosomal abnormalities, and that multiplication is an inherent property of cells. He predicted the existence of tumor suppressor mechanisms and was perhaps t…
1955 CE
#7757
The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.
Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…
1697 CE–1701 CE
#7756
Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum tam orientalis, quam occidentalis Indiae, aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum magno studio ac labore, sumptibus civitatis Amstelodamensis, longâ annorum serie collectarum, descriptio et icones ad vivum æri incisæ. Opus posthumum, latinitate donatum, notisque & observationibus illustratum, à Frederico Ruyschio & Francisco Kiggelario. 2 vols.
In 1682 Jan Commelin helped establish the Amsterdam Botanical Garden, which introduced many new exotic plants to Europe, collected during the voyages of the Dutch East and West India Companies (VOC and WIC) in the Eas…
2002 CE
#7755
Jews and medicine: An epic saga.
2014 CE
#7754
African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.
Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.
2007 CE
#7753
African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
2010 CE
#7752
Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.
Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.
2012 CE
#7751
Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.
A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …
1810 CE–1811 CE
#7750
Die Literatur der Heilwissenschaft. 2 vols.
14,995 titles arranged according to medical subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1800 CE
#7749
Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath.
The first clinical demonstration of the placebo effect, specifically in the context of Perkins' metallic tractors. Haybarth demonstrated the placebo effect caused by the tractors by obtaining the same results with woo…
1867 CE
#7748
Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.
Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…
1853 CE
#7747
A materia medica animalia, containing the scientific analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties and uses of the substances that are the products of beasts, birds, fishes or insects ...
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1921 CE
#7746
Wunder in uns. Ein Bch von menschlichen Körper für Jedermann von Hanns Günther [Walter de Haas].
Remarkable illustrations in the 1920's "modernizing" industrial style later, made more famous by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) who got his start by contributing an essay to this work. Günther was the pseudonym of the po…
1878 CE
#7745
The life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl.
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-89, the first deaf-blind person ever to read, write, and converse in the finger alphabet. The book includes a signed holograph facsimile of Bridgman's widely circulated religious poem…
1886 CE–1890 CE
#7744
Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.
Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…
1911 CE
#7743
Atlas d'anatomie topographique. 7 parts in 12.
With J.-P. Bouchon and R. Doyen. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1995 CE
#7742
Jews and medicine: Religion, culture, science, edited by Natalia Berger. Based on the exhibit at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, [Tel Aviv, Israel].
Essays, extensively illustrated, sometimes with rarely seen images, tracing the most significant points of encounter between the history of the Jewish people and the history of medicine, beginning with the Bible and e…
1831 CE
#7741
Icones selectae praeparatiorum Musei Anatomici Universitatis Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae.
Discussion of various specimens in the anatomical museum of Medical Faculty of the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, highlighting a number of embryological, teratological and obstetrical items, so…
1864 CE–1865 CE
#7740
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal.
Confederate States of America, Surgeon-General's Office
Issued monthly from January 1864 to February 1865. (Ordinarily this bibliography does not cite complete runs of periodicals; however, because the Confederate States of America issued so few medical publications, and t…
1863 CE
#7739
A manual of instructions for enlisting and discharging soldiers. With special reference to the medical examination of recruits, and the detection of disqualifying and feigned diseases.
Digital facsimile of the 1864 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863 CE
#7738
Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States Army as observed during the present war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862 CE
#7737
The hospital steward's manual; for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Arhive at this link.
1863 CE
#7736
A manual of military surgery, prepared for the use of the Confederate States Army by order of the Surgeon-General [Samuel P. Moore].
". . . confined to those affections most intimately connected with gun-shot wounds and operations, as Shock, Tetanus, Hospital Gangrene, Pyaemia, &c." (from the preface). This is the only extensively illustrated Confe…
1861 CE
#7735
Handbook for the military surgeon: Being a compendium of the duties of the medical officer in the field, the sanitary management of the camp, the preparation of food, etc.; with forms for the requisitions for supplies, returns, etc.; the diagnosis and treatment of camp dysentery; and all the important points in war surgery: Including gunshot wounds, amputation, wounds of the chest, abdomen, arteries and head, and the use of chloroform.
Digital facsimile of second edition (1861) from Google Books at this link.
2006 CE
#7734
Forensic science: An encyclopedia of history, methods and techniques.
1906 CE
#7733
De l'acrocéphalosyndactylie.
"Apert syndrome", consisting of a triad of disorders: craniosynostosis, syndactyly and maxillary underdevelopment. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1967 CE
#7732
Osteotomies totales de la face: Syndrome de Crouzon, syndrome d'Apert: oxcephalies, scaphocephalies, turricephalies.
1967 CE
#7731
Osteotomies cranio-naso-orbito-faciales: Hypertelorisme.
With G. Gulot, J. Rougerie, J. P. Delbet and J. Pasteriza.
1931 CE
#7730
Chirurgie esthétique pure (technique et résultats).
Describes cosmetic surgery for the face, nose and breasts.