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1828 CE

#7228

Sur le cathétérisme de la trompe d'Eustache, et sur les expériences de M. Itard, mémoire qui démontre l'utilité de l'air atmosphérique dans le traitement de diverse espèces de surdité.

The first publication on the use of air insufflation to cure some types of hearing loss.

1927 CE

#7227

Die Ohrenkrankheiten im Kindesalter mit Einschuss der Grenzgebiete.

The first work on pediatric ear diseases, dedicated to the author's teacher, Adam Politzer. Alexander "was assassinated on the street between his home and the Poliklinik by Johann Sokoup, a Czechoslovakian former pati…

1907 CE

#7226

The dancing mouse: A study in animal behavior.

The first work to examine the characteristics of deaf mice, which became the most important model for the study of genetic deafness. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this l…

1930 CE

#7225

Action currents in the auditory nerve in response to acoustical stimulation.

Wever and Bray discovered the electrical activity of the inner ear−then called the coclear microphonic−which enabled the development of the physiology of the ear.

1931 CE

#7224

Correlations of the differences in the density of innervation of the organ of Corti with differences in the acuity of hearing, including evidence as to the location in the cochlea of the receptors of certain tones.

The first study to relate hair cell and neuron loss to the hearing of patients. It was the first to show that high frequency sound is "heard" at the base of the cochlea and low frequency sound at the apex. With S. J. …

1566 CE

#7223

A detection and querimonie of the daily enormities and abuses committed in physick.

Securis was a Latinized version of the English surname Hatchett.

2009 CE

#7222

The Cambridge world history of medical ethics. Edited by Robert B. Baker and Lawrence B. McCullough.

1988 CE

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

2014 CE

#7220

Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.

Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…

1997 CE

#7219

The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.

When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.

1799 CE

#7218

Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Part First [All Published].

This 24-page pamphlet is the first work by an American devoted entirely to American birds. It deals predominantly with migratory birds, arranged according to the dates throughout the year 1791 in which they were first…

1903 CE

#7217

Les tumeurs du rein.

Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…

1999 CE–2002 CE

#7216

A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.

Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.

1876 CE

#7215

Études historiques, physiologiques et cliniques sur la transfusion du sang.

An excellent and well-documented treatise on blood transfusion, including a comprehensive history of the subject from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its revival in the nineteenth after a long period of d…

1787 CE

#7214

A Discourse before the Humane Society, ... Delivered on the Second Tuesday of June, 1787.

The first separate work on resuscitation published in the United States. A list of “Methods of Treatment to be used with Persons apparently dead from drowning, &c.” appears on p. iv; these methods included…

1986 CE

#7213

Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: The polymerase chain reaction.

Improvements that Mullis made to the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 enabled PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel la…

1890 CE

#7212

Referat über die durch das moderne chirurgische Experiment gewonnen positive Resultate, betreffend die Naht und den Ersatz von Defecten.

The first total joint replacements: Gluck replaced the tuberculous knee joint of a 17 year old woman with a hinged ivory prosthesis on May 20, 1890, followed by a total wrist replacement in another patient three weeks…

1995 CE

#7211

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

1983 CE

#7210

Sertraline, 1S,4S-N-methyl-4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine, a new uptake inhibitor with selectivity for serotonin.

Sertraline hydrochloride, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, developed by the authors of this paper at Pfizer, and marketed under the tradename Zoloft. With R. G. Browne.

2015 CE

#7209

Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions, with beautiful color illustrations, of some of the greatest classics in the history of dentistry in the library of the Svenska Tandläkare-Sällskapet (Swedish Dental Society).

1679 CE

#7208

Dissertation sur les dents.

The third publication in French on dentistry, primarily plagiarized from Martinez (No. 3668.2). Martin was apothecary to Louis I, Prince of Condé, a prominent Huguenot general and founder of the House of Cond&e…

1962 CE

#7207

Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.

First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

1904 CE

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

2009 CE

#7205

Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio: A history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America.

1536 CE

#7204

Institutiones anatomicae secundum Galeni sententiam.

A handbook presenting the principles of Galenic anatomy in a form that was easily accessible to medical students. It epitomized the revolution in the teaching of anatomy, and the new emphasis on dissection, that occur…

2015 CE

#7203

Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.

1527 CE

#7202

Avicenne liber canonis medicinae. Cum castigationibus Andree Bellunensis.

Revised and improved text of the Canon and other works of Avicenna by Andrea Alpago of Belluno, who had acquired a deep understanding of both the language and the subject during his thirty years of service as physicia…

1994 CE

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

1961 CE

#7200

The encyclopedia of sexual behavior.

1906 CE

#7199

Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur modernen Kultur.

An encyclopedia of the sexual sciences. English translation by M. Eden Paul from the sixth German edition as The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization (1909). Digital facsimile of the 1907 Ge…

2013 CE

#7198

"A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse.' Equine medicine in early modern England.

1530 CE

#7197

Veterinariae medicina libri II Johanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. [Hippiatrika].

Ruel, a native of Soissons, was physician to François I. This book, commissioned by the king, was a Latin translation of a collection of excerpts from Greek veterinary writers on equine disease, compiled circa …

2002 CE

#7196

History of the disorders of cardiac rhythm. Third edition.

1992 CE

#7195

Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.

1784 CE

#7194

Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte.

An annotated bibliography of recommended books for the aspiring physician, arranged by subject, and chronologically by date of publication within each subject, with an author index at the end. Digital facsimile of the…

2000 CE

#7193

Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.

A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.

2013 CE

#7192

Naturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.

2001 CE

#7191

Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.

1979 CE

#7190

Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.

1984 CE

#7189

Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.

1993 CE

#7188

Medicine before the plague. Practitioners and their patients in the Crown of Aragon 1285-1345.

1994 CE

#7187

Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.

1929 CE

#7186

The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.

The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1996 CE

#7185

The pioneers of NMR and magnetic resonance in medicine: The story of MRI.

1992 CE

#7184

Radiology: An illustrated history.

1993 CE

#7183

A century of x-rays and radioactivity in medicine. With emphasis on photographic records of the early years.

1993 CE

#7182

Radiological oncologists: The unfolding of a medical specialty.

1997 CE

#7181

Naked to the bone. Medical imaging in the twentieth century.

1990 CE

#7180

From the watching of shadows. The origins of radiological tomography.

1642 CE

#7179

Geneanthropeiae sive de hominis generatione decateuchon. Ubi ex ordine quaecunique ad humanae generationis liturgiam, ejusdemque principia, organa, tempus, usum, modum, occasionem voluptatem, aliasque omnes affectiones, quae in aphrodisiis accidere quoquomodo solent, ac possunt dedita opera plene methodice, & iucunde pertractantur.

An encyclopedic work on sexuality and physical love in all its aspects, practical and credulous, including the widest variety of possible positions, the anatomy and physiology of the sexual organs and varous aspects o…