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1919 CE
#7729
La chirurgie esthétique des rides du visage.
Passot was the first surgeon in France to perform facelifts. In this article with 1 illustration, Passot showed "sites of elliptic skin excision of the hairline, the forehead, and the temporal and preauricular areas t…
1925 CE
#7728
La correction esthétique du prolapsus mammaire par le procédé de la transposition du mamelon.
No vertical scar breast lift technique. Translated into English by Schleich et al, "The aesthetic correction of the ptotic breast by the procedure of nipple-areola transposition - a contemporary translation and commen…
1940 CE
#7727
Esser inlay (Epithethelial inlay).
Though he developed the "skin graft inlay technique" or epithelial inlay during World War I, Esser did not fully publish it until this very extensively illustrated monograph, with about 1500 images, issued in 1940.
1929 CE
#7726
Artery flaps.
1918 CE
#7725
Die Rotation der Wange und allgemeine Bemerkungen bei chirurgischer Gesichtsplastik.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1926 CE
#7724
La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.
Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.
1796 CE
#7723
Anatomisches museum. Gesammelt von Johann Gottlieb Walter. Beschrieben von Friedrich August Walter. 2 vols.
Includes fine hand-colored plates of kidney stones and gall stones. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1997 CE
#7722
Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.
A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.
2003 CE
#7721
Lust ohne Last: Geschichte der Empfängnisverhütung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.
Translated into English as Contraception: A History (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008).
1859 CE
#7720
The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married: on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth.
Possibly the most enlightened, and detailed book on sex, reproduction, and contraception published during this period; illustrated in color. In addition to outlining the era's five most reliable methods of contracepti…
1940 CE
#7719
Adaptive coloration in animals. With an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.
Published during WWII, Cott's book was the first major work on camouflage in zoology, appreciated by zoologists for its scientific information and carried by many allied soldiers during the war for survival purposes. …
1991 CE
#7718
Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.
1998 CE
#7717
Historical perspectives on climate change.
1966 CE
#7716
Écrits.
Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, translated by Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).
2009 CE
#7715
The discovery of hypnosis: The complete writings of James Braid, the father of hypnotherapy. Edited with detailed prefatory essays by Donald Robertson.
1995 CE
#7714
The archaeology of disease.
1985 CE
#7713
Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.
Second edition by Ortner as sole author (2003).
1964 CE
#7712
Bones, bodies, and disease. Evidence of disease and abnormality in early man.
2012 CE
#7711
The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. Edited by Jane Buikstra & Charlotte Roberts.
1930 CE
#7710
Paleopathologie et pathologie comparative.
Pales described a broad range of diseases and noted relationships between disease, evolution and species extinction.
1923 CE
#7709
The antiquity of disease.
An account intended for general audiences, as compared to Moodie's Palaeopathology published the same year. Digital facsimile of The Antiquity of Disease from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886 CE
#7708
Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.
The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1881 CE
#7707
Lésions osseuses de l'homme préhistorique en France et en Algérie.
Le Baron attempted diagnosis and predicted etiology on thousands of bones collected at the Musée Broca, the Musée Dupuytren, and the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle.. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica…
1878 CE
#7706
Etude historique et clinique sur la trépanation du crâne; la trépanation guidée par les localisations cérébrales.
Lucas-Chamionnière asserted that the operation was performed by ancient surgeons for both magical and therepeutic reasons, and noted that ancient surgeons prevented lethal hemorrhage from the sagittal sinus by …
1874 CE
#7705
Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.
Prunières separated postmortem trepanations and rondelles from antemortem operations, and also described tuberculous lesions in Neolithic bones.
1867 CE
#7704
Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.
Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.
1879 CE
#7703
Gesammelte Schriften. 2 vols.
In "Beschreibung und mikroskopische Untersuchungen von Mumien", published in I, 114-156, Czermak used histology to identify arterioschlerosis in an Egyptian mummy. Digital facsimile of this specific paper from ECHO at…
1825 CE
#7702
An essay on Egyptian mummies; with observations on the art of embalming among the ancient Egyptians.
Granville was the first to perform a dissection of an Egyptian mummy. He reported histological observations of samples from a twenty-seventh dynasty Egyptian mummy that he dissected, and he illustrated dissected views…
1998 CE
#7701
The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.
Includes a significant historical introduction.
1934 CE
#7700
Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.
Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visua…
1967 CE
#7699
Sémiologie graphique: Les diagrammes. Les reseaux. Les cartes.
Foundational work in design and cartography concerning the graphic display of quantitative information. Includes display of medical or statistical information. Translated into English by William J. Berg as Semiology o…
1927 CE
#7698
Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.
Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…
1978 CE
#7697
The shows of London.
Characterized on the dust jacket as "a panomaic history of exhibitions, 1600-1862." The first two chapters are a history of museums. Chapter 24, "The waxen and the fleshy", discusses "medica" or anatomical museums.
1843 CE
#7696
Six ethnographic maps illustrative of "The natural history of man".
An atlas of six large hand-colored folding maps originally issued to accompany Prichard's popular work, The natural history of man, first issued in 1843. The maps were revised and re-issued in 1851 and 1861.
1822 CE
#7695
Grundtræk til en almindelig Plantegeographie.
The first atlas of the geography of plants, including distribution maps for the eastern and western hemisphere. Schouw translated the work into German and had the translation published the following year: Grundzü…
1845 CE–1849 CE
#7694
Dr. Heinrich Berghaus’ Physikalischer Atlas: oder, Sammlung von Karten, auf denen die hauptsächlichsten Erscheinungen der anorganischen und organischen Natur nach ihrer geographischen Verbreitung und Vertheilung bildlich dargestellt sind. 2 vols.
Berghaus created a new genre of thematic atlases. He issued this work gradually in eighteen installments from 1837 to1848. The first edition of the complete atlas consists of ninety maps in two vols., dated 1845 and 1…
1849 CE
#7693
Physical Atlas. A series of maps & illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural phenomena. Embracing I. Geology. II Hydrography. III Meterology. IV. Natural History.
30 double-page maps, 15 of which are after the physical atlas of Berghaus. Contributors included Edward Forbes, George Waterhouse, Abbe Boué, etc. Various concern disease.
2012 CE
#7692
Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.
Includes medical, statistical cartography.
2013 CE
#7691
Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.
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In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessa…
1662 CE
#7690
Cista medica Hafniensis: variis consiliis, curationibus, casibus rarioribus, Vitis medicorum Hafniensium, aliisq; ad rem medicam, anatomicam, botanicam & chymicam spectantibus referta. Accedit eiusdem Domus anatomica brevissime descripta.
Histories of famous physicians in Copenhagen along with the description of the building designed for the teaching of anatomy there, designated the "Anatomy House". Bartholin's Domus anatomica brevissime descripta was …
1849 CE
#7689
The history of the cholera in Exeter in 1832.
Includes “Map of Exeter in 1832 Shewing the Localities Where the Deaths Caused by Pestilential Cholera Occurred in the Years 1832, 1833 & 1834.” This map used red horizontal bars to illustrate outbreaks in…
1832 CE
#7688
A treatise on epidemic cholera; including an historical account of its origin and progress, to the present period. Compiled from the most authentic sources.
This compendium contains one of the first world charts of a disease, tracing the spread of cholera from two main sources, India (1817) and China (1820), across Asia and the Middle East via trade routes, to France and …
1797 CE
#7687
An inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.
Includes four early plot maps; Seaman was one of the first to create maps that attempted to show the spread of contagious disease.
1904 CE
#7686
Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.
Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…
1808 CE
#7685
Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity [in the collection of Edward Donovan] contained in the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand, now open to the inspection of the public.
1815 CE
#7684
A descriptive catalogue of a museum of antiquities and foreign curiosities, natural and artifical, including models illustrative of military and naval affairs, armour and weapons, instruments of torture, polytheism, sepulchres, with the manner of depositing the dea, the costume of different nations, manuscripts, natural history, including anatomy &, &c, &c. Collected by P. Dick, Sloane-Street.
Publication date is estimated.
1801 CE
#7683
A concise and descriptive catalogue of all the natural and artificial curiosities in the museum of W. H. Yate, Esq. at Bromesberrow-Place near Glocester: being the extensive and valuable collection of the late Dr. Greene, of Lichfield, with many additions, collected by the present proprietor.
Publication date is estimated. Digital facsimile from the Beinicke Library, Yale University, at this link.
1808 CE
#7682
A catalogue of the anatomical preparations, casts, drawings, machines, instruments, &c. in White's Museum, Lying-in hospital.
2011 CE
#7681
Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.
A history of the Leverian Museum with discussion of other contemporary institutions. Includes an inventory tracing the current location of thousands of items from the Leverian Museum since its dispersal. Many illustra…
1986 CE
#7680