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1988 CE

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1869 CE

#7076

Die Konträre Sexualempfindung.

The first "scientific" paper on homosexuality. In this paper the psychiatrist Westphal described two cases at length: "The first was of a young woman who from her earliest years liked to dress as a boy and engage in b…

1913 CE

#7075

Animal communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chicago region. A study in animal ecology.

This book represents the beginning of organized theoretical principles for animal ecology, including Shelford's "law of toleration" or "law of tolerance." "Analogous to the physiologists' law of the minimum [developed…

1977 CE

#7074

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

1990 CE

#7073

Portraits of the insane. The case of Dr. Diamond, by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher.

Reproduces many of Diamond's photographs of psychiatric patients. Diamond was fascinated by the possible use of photography in the treatment of mental disorders; some of his many photographs depicting the expressions …

1976 CE

#7072

The face of madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the origin of psychiatric photography. Edited by Sander L. Gilman.

Papers by Diamond, including their illustrations, edited with an extensive annotated introduction.

1989 CE

#7071

Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.

A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …

1886 CE

#7070

Physical training in American colleges and universities. Circulars of information of the Bureau of Education. No. 5-1885.

Concerns training methods and equipment, primarily for men (3 pages devoted to women) in the United States, with a chapter on training in Germany. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1997 CE

#7069

The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.

1994 CE

#7068

Nature's economy. A history of ecological ideas. Second edition.

1802 CE

#7067

Harmonie hydro-végétale et météorologique, ou recherches sur les moyens de recréer avec nos forêts la force des températures et la régularité des saisons, par des plantations raisonnées. 2 vols.

Rauch was particularly concerned with deforestation, which not only affected the agriculture and scenery of the countryside, but also the whole ecological balance of crops, flora and fauna, and human interaction with …

1994 CE

#7066

Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue.

Discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight. Friedman and associates subsequently found that injections of the encoded protein, leptin, decrease body weight of mice by reducing food intake a…

1933 CE

#7065

Some notes on the history of the National Medical Association.

Digital facsimile available from PubMedCental (NLM) at this link.

1875 CE

#7064

De l'obésité: étiologie, thérapeutique et hygiène. Thèse présentée et soutenue le 12 Aout 1875.

Primarily a summary of research on the subject to date. Worthington was an American from Cincinnati who received his M.D. in Paris in 1876, and practiced there until 1879, when he returned to the U.S.A. A geneological…

1940 CE

#7063

Obesity and leanness.

The first American book specifically devoted to obesity research.

1931 CE

#7062

A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.

Online version at Botanical.com at this link.

1727 CE

#7061

A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency, together with the method for its prevention and cure.

The first book on obesity in English.

1760 CE

#7060

A discourse on the nature, causes, and cure of corpulency. Illustrated by a remarkable case, Read before the Royal Society, November 1757. And now first published.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2007 CE

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

1898 CE

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

2003 CE

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…

2007 CE

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

1820 CE

#7055

A treatise on the diseases of Negroes, as they occur in the island of Jamaica: with observations on the country remedies.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive, at this link.

1975 CE

#7054

Textbook of Black-related diseases. Edited by Richard A. Williams.

The first textbook on diseases of African Americans written by African American physicians. The book set the tone for recognizing the importance of race and ethnicity in the evalutation, diagnosis, and treatment of pa…

1984 CE

#7053

The Caribbean slave: A biological history.

1906 CE

#7051

The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.

Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1912 CE

#7050

The Negro in medicine.

An early publication on the medical problems of blacks written by a black physician. Kenney served as school physician at Tuskegee University, was the first director of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee…

1807 CE

#7049

The planter's and mariner's medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. To which are subjoined a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary giving an explanation of technical terms.

Ewell, then practicing in Savannah, Georgia, wrote this self-help book for southern residents, directing his book toward plantation owners. It was "the constant friend of a large number of slave-masters. In emergencie…

1967 CE

#7048

The history of the Negro in medicine.

International Library of Negro Life and History. Revised edition, 1968.

1978 CE

#7047

Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.

1969 CE

#7046

Dawn of Western science in Japan. Rangaku Kotohajime by Genpaku Sugita translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto, supervised by Tomio Ogata.

2000 CE

#7045

Medicine in China. Historical artifacts and images.

1989 CE

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

2004 CE

#7042

Medicine, public health and the Qājār state. Patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran.

1993 CE

#7041

A history of non-printed science. A select catalogue of the Waller Collection.

Describes elements of the Waller Collection not covered in Sallander's 2-volume catalogue of the books. Erik Waller assembled the largest library of the history of medicine and science of any 20th century collector. T…

1996 CE

#7040

Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.

1966 CE

#7039

Human sexual response.

Pioneering work on the human sexual response cycle by the researchers known as Masters and Johnson.

1948 CE

#7038

Sexual behavior in the human male.

1953 CE

#7037

Sexual behavior in the human female

1832 CE

#7036

Fruits of philosophy, or the private companion of young married people,

First edition published privately and anonymously. Second edition, with additions, Boston, 1833. Many times reprinted. Republished by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant, 1891. Edited, with an introductory notice by No…

1936 CE

#7035

Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.

One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.

2013 CE

#7034

Chinese medicine and healing. An illustrated history.

Contributions from 53 scholars, edited by Hinrichs and Barnes.

1961 CE

#7033

Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961

"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1926 CE

#7031

Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.

English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…

1684 CE

#7030

Aristoteles master-piece, or the secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof . . .

The first sex manual in English, neither by Aristotle or a "masterpiece", provided its readers with practical advice on copulation, conception, pregnancy and birth.This anonymous, inexpensively printed work proved to …

1995 CE

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1989 CE

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

1994 CE

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.