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2021
#13669
Inventory of the editions of Andreas Vesalius's works and letters (Opera litteraeque Andreae Vesalii). Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.
http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ An update of Harvey Cushing's Biobibliography. When I added this entry in October 2021 the most recent online version of this bibliography was a 506-page PDF dated January 2021.
2020
#13668
In the shadow of Vesalius: An exciting series of new insights into life and work of Andreas Vesalius and his friends. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2021
#13667
Vesaliana: An updated and annotated Vesalius Bibliography, including all known publications on Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and his works. Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.
http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ A bibliography of studies about Vesalius and his works. When I added this entry in October 2021 the latest version was a 582-page PDF dated January 2021.
1849
#13666
Compte-rendu de l'état del'enseignement médical et du service de santé civil et militaire de l'Égypte au commencement de mars 1849.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1858
#13665
Compte rendu de l'examen des élèves de l'École de Médecine et de l'École d'Accouchement du Caire, pour la première année de sa réorganisation ... 6 avril 1858.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833
#13664
Compte rendu des travaux de l'École de Médecine d'Abou-Zabel (Égypte), et de l'examen général des élèves pour les 1re, 2e, 3e, 4e, et 5e années da sa fondation 1242-1243 (1827-1828)....Suivi de l'exposé de la conduite et des travaux de l'auteur lui-même en Égypte, depuis 1240 à 1248 (Hégyre) 1825 à 1832, et de diverses pièces relatives à son voyage en France.
"During the French occupation of Egypt, Napoleon designated Kasr al-Aini a hospital for his troops in 1799, and then afterwards proposed the opening of a school to teach local Egyptian students the medicine required t…
1840
#13663
De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.
Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…
2009
#13662
Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.
2013
#13661
The history of color blindness. Translated from the original French manuscript by Colin Mailer.
2013
#13660
Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.
2002
#13659
History of strabismology.
2020
#13658
The history of glaucoma.
2004
#13657
The history of ophthalmology in Japan.
1978 –1980
#13656
Atlas on the history of spectacles. 2 vols.
Vol. 1 catalogues spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of Spectac…
1995
#13655
The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn
1994
#13654
The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.
2008
#13653
The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…
2010
#13652
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversi…
1849 –1851
#13651
The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya: Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2010
#13650
Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.
Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.
1854
#13649
L'Algérie médical: Topographie, climatologie, pathogénie, pathologie, prophylaxie, hygiène, acclimatement et colonisation.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1850 –1852
#13648
Maladies de l'Algérie. Des causes, de la symptômatologie, de la nature et du traitement des maladies endémo-épidémiques de la province d'Oran. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2013
#13647
Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.
"Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This…
2003
#13646
Against the spirit of system: The French impulse in nineteenth-century American medicine.
"... the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medi…
2007
#13645
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
1818
#13644
Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.
Catalogues 1150 anatomical preparations in the anatomical museum at Kiel. Foreward by anatomist/pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833) who was responsible for much of the collection.
1724
#13643
Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbis historia: Secundum medicae artis leges conscripta.
Boerhaave's syndrome: complete, transmural laceration of the lower part of oesophagus with exit of the gastric content into the mediastinum in the patient with a pre-existing oesophageal disease. This typically occurs…
1790 –1814
#13642
English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks. 36 vols.
Issued in parts. Images by Sowerby; text by Sir James Edward Smith. Only Sowerby is credited on the title page. Includes 2,592 hand-colored plates of British plants. "Buyers of this work today must exercise extreme ca…
2011
#13641
Linnaeus Link.
http://www.linnaeuslink.org/search/ "The Linnaeus Link Project is an international collaboration between libraries with significant holdings of Linnaean material. It is funded, maintained and co-ordinated by the Linne…
1760
#13640
Caroli Linnaei ... disquisitio de qvaestione ab Academia Imperiali Scientiarum Petropol. in annvm MDCCLIX. pro praemio proposita: sexum plantarum argumentis et experimentis nouis, praeter adhuc iam cognita, vel corroborare, vel impugnare, praemissa expositione historica et physica omnium plantae partium, quae aliquid ad foecundationem et perfectionem seminis et fructus conferre creduntur, ab eadem Academia die VI. Septembris MDCCLX. in conuentu publico praemio ornata.
This work is typically referred to as Disquisitio de sexu plantarum. Translated into English as A dissertation on the sexes of plants translated from the Latin of Linnaeus by James Edward Smith. London: Printed for th…
1975
#13639
The hospital: A social and architectural history.
"This book is about the hospital ward, also called the nursing unit or inpatient unit. Part 1 gives a history of nursing unit floor plans since roman times. Part 2 reviews contemporary planning problems. Part 3 contai…
1946
#13638
The Huxley papers: A descriptive catalogue of the correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley ... preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
1934
#13637
The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith
2002
#13636
Œuvres / Nicandre. Texte établi et traduit par Jean-Marie Jacques. Vol. 2: Les théraiques. Fragments iologiques antérieurs à Nicandre.
2004
#13635
Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain.
2007
#13634
The medieval hospital and medical practice. Edited by Barbara S. Bowers.
2002
#13633
"Dearest G ...Yours WO." William Osler's letters from Egypt to Grace Revere Osler. Edited by Lawrence D. Long and Philip M. Teigen.
1960
#13632
Bibliographie des Kaffe, des Kakao der Schokolade, des Tee und deren Surrogate bis zum Jahre 1900.
1812
#13631
Traité usuel du chocolat, contenant la description et la culture du cacaotier ou cacaoïer, arbre qui produit le fruit avec lequel on fabrique le chocolat, celles de la canelle, de la vanille, du salep de Perse, de l'ambre gris, du sucre, et autres substances que l'on fait entrer dans la fabrication du chocolat, les différentes façons de préparer ce commestible pour en faire un aliment recherché et propre à flatter le goût de tous les consommateurs les plus distingués, ce qui lui a fait donner, avec just tire, le sur-non de METS Des DIEUX. On y fait voir assi son utilité précieuse dans médecine.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1631
#13630
Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate, divido en quatro puntos. En el primero se trata, que sea chocolate; y que calidad tenga el cacao, y los demas ingredientes. En el segundo, se trata la calidad que result de rodos ellos. En el tercero se trata el modo de hazerlo, y de quanta maneras se toma en las Indias, y qual dellas es mas saludable. El ultimo punto trata de la quantidad, y como se ha de toma, y en que tiempo, y que personas.
Digital facsimile of the 1631 edition from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link . Translated into French in 1643 as Du chocolate discours curieux, divisé en quatre parties. Par Antoine Colmenero de Ledesma medecin & chirurgien…
1671
#13629
De l'usage du caphe, du the, et du chocolate.
The Library of Congress attributes this anonymous work to Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, but characterizes Jacob Spon as the "supposed author." They also state as follows: "Attributed also to Jacob Spon. cf. Paris. Bibl. …
2001
#13628
The world of caffeine: The science and culture of the world's most popular drug.
1772
#13627
The natural history of the tea-tree, with observations on the medical qualities of tea, and effects of tea-drinking.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1730
#13626
A dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties by many new experiments; and demonstrating from philosophical principles, the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea; and a detection of the several frauds used in preparing it. Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water, and an enquiry into the reasons why the same food is not equally agreeable to all constitutions....
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1749
#13625
A general chronological history of the air, weather, seasons, meteors, &c. In sundry places and different times; more particularly for the space of 250 years. Together with some of their most remarkable effects on animal (especially human) bodies and vegetables. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1687
#13624
Le bon usage du the, du caffe, et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1790
#13623
De l'usage du quinquina dans les fièvres rémittentes. Mémoire qui a remporté en 1785, au jugement de la Societé Royale de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2005
#13622
Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.
Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This technology wa…
1804
#13621
Coup d'oeil sur les révolutions et sur la réforme de la médecine.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1802
#13620
Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.