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2008 CE

#7026

The history of natural history: An annotated bibliography. Second edition

First published, New York: Garland, 1994.

1990 CE

#7025

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.

The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…

1996 CE

#7024

Eye and instruments: Nineteenth-century ophthalmological instruments in the Netherlands.

Extremely high quality color images throughout compliment the expert text.

1932 CE–1957 CE

#7023

British Optical Association Library and Museum catalogue. 3 vols.

Vol. 1 primarlily by Sutcliffe; vol.3 by Mitchell. The 3 volumes describe more than 1000 items; every entry is annotated. The first volume is extensively illustrated.

1993 CE

#7022

Men of vision: Lives of notable figures in ophthalmology.

1995 CE

#7021

Crossing frontiers: Gerontology emerges as a science.

1995 CE

#7020

Profiles in gerontology: A biographical dictionary

1893 CE

#7019

Kanyaku maou seibun kenkyuu seiseki (zoku).

Nagai synthesized methamphetamine from ephedrine.

1995 CE

#7018

Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.

1992 CE

#7017

The development of American pharmacology. John J. Abel and the shaping of a discipline.

1938 CE

#7016

Chemisch-Pharmazeutisches Bio-und Bibliographikon. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie durch Fritz Ferchl. 2 vols.

1996 CE

#7015

The history of ophthalmology.

1995 CE

#7014

Source book of ophthalmology.

An annotated bibliography of significant books in the history of ophthalmology, with brief biographical notes regarding authors.

2002 CE

#7013

Dates in ophthalmology.

An annotated chronological listing of significant events in the history of ophthalmology.

1996 CE

#7012

The Bernard Becker collection in ophthalmology. An annotated catalogue. Third edition, compiled by Lilla Wechsler, Christopher Hoolihan, Mark F. Weimer.

1898 CE

#7011

The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.

KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS

The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم

1970 CE

#7010

Discoveries in biological psychiatry.

Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…

1974 CE

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

1984 CE

#7008

Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.

1672 CE

#7007

The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate

The earliest work in English on the medicinal virtues of North American tropical plants. Based on first-hand observations made in the West Indies, Evidence suggests that Hughes began his career in 1651 with a privatee…

1759 CE

#7006

Traité d'ostéologie. 2 vols.

Monro Primus' textbook on the anatomy of the bones was originally published in 1726 as an octavo volume without plates, and went through more than ten editions. The French translation, published in large folio, transl…

2011 CE

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

2005 CE

#7004

Body worlds. The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

In 1977 Gunther von Hagens invented plastination, a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. In the process water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be …

1932 CE

#7003

The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

1842 CE

#7001

The anatomy of sleep; or, the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will.

This semi-popular work was one of the first scientific studies of sleep. It was also the first book typeset by a mechanical typesetting machine, rather than hand-set type. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this l…

1920 CE

#7000

The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.

The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …

1890 CE

#6999

La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.

The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.

1987 CE

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what wa…

1984 CE

#6997

Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.

Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …

1983 CE

#6996

Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The …

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1990 CE

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1992 CE

#6993

Chiropractic: History and evolution of a new profession.

1948 CE

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1910 CE

#6991

The chiropractor's adjuster: A textbook of the science, art, and philosophy of chiropractic for students and practitioners.

1914 CE

#6990

The chiropractor.

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

1906 CE

#6989

The science of chiropractic. Its principles and adjustments by Dr. D. D. Palmer, discoverer and developer of chiropractic, and B. J. Palmer, D. C.

D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic; his son B. J. developed the practice. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1822 CE

#6988

New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.

The "Bible" of Thomsonism or "Thomsonian medicine", which employed botanical remedies, often based on native American medicines. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1985 CE

#6986

Symposium on Byzantine medicine. Edited by John Scarborough.

Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 38, 1984.

1996 CE

#6985

Views of the cell. A pictorial history.

Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.

1962 CE

#6984

Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.

Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…

1996 CE

#6983

Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.

1981 CE

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.

1994 CE

#6980

Pour une histoire de la préhistoire. Le paléolithique.

1986 CE

#6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

1997 CE

#6978

History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.

2007 CE

#6977

Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.

Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…

1552 CE

#6976

Libri septem, nunc primum e tenebris eruti a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino accuratissime in Latinum sermonem versi. Ruffi Ephesii medici clarissimi, De corporis humani partium appelationibus libri tres.

Aretaeus, a Greek physician who lived during the reign of Nero or Vespasian, wrote a general treatise on diseases which displays great accuracy in the detail of symptoms, and is of great value in the diagnosis of dise…