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1847
#13469
The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility
Published pseudonymously by radical printer Charles Lohman who was married to the abortionist/entrpreneur Ann Lohman known as "Madame Restell." The Lohmans also sold condoms. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Libra…
1888
#13468
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1784
#13467
A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: Proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2020
#13466
Paleoclimatology: From snowball earth to the anthropocene.
1861
#13465
On the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours, and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption and conduction.
Demonstration that gases including carbon dioxide and water can absorb heat, aand could change climate. Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link.
1856
#13464
Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays.
Foote was the first scientist known to have experimented on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases. In this two-page paper she theorized that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere woul…
1920 –1924
#13463
McGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.
https://osler-letters.library.mcgill.ca/about "About the William Osler Letter Collection "Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is one of the most renowned and respected physicians in medical history. Born in Bond Head, Ontar…
1939
#13462
Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).
2002
#13461
Origins of neuroscience: A history of explorations into brain function.
1999
#13460
A dictionary of the history of medicine.
2010
#13459
Medicine after the Holocaust: From the master race to the human genome and beyond. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld.
"Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a führer over God, and personal gain …
#13458
Mélanges d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque. Études choisies de la Revue d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque (1948-1985). Edited by Gad Freudenthal and Samuel Kottek.
1995
#13457
Libro de los medicamentos simples. [Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada]. Edición, traducción, notas y glosarios de Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer. 2 vols.
2010
#13456
Die Mineralien in Der Arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz Zur Mineralischen Materia Medica Der Klassischen Arabischen Heilmittelkunde Nebst ... Kommission (Vok) der A).
2011 –2021
#13455
Novel medical and general Hebrew terminology from the Middle Ages. 5 vols.
2020
#13454
Marwān ibn Janāh, on the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīs). Edition, translation and commentary with special reference to the Ibero-Romance terminology
"In early eleventh century Zaragoza, the eminent Jewish scholar Abū l-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ wrote a glossary containing almost 1100 entries, entitled Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ. This important text, considered lost until recen…
1801
#13453
Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des quadupedes de la province du Paraguay...Ecrits depuis 1783 jusqu'en 1796 (an 4 de la Republique Française); Avec une appendice sur quelques reptiles, en formant suite nécessaire aux Oeuvres de Buffon; Traduits sur le manuscrit inédit de l'auteur par M. L. E. Moreau-Saint-Méry.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Published as Apuntamientos par ala historia natural de los Páxaros del Paragüay y Rio de la Plata. 2 vols. Madrid: La Imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, …
1777
#13452
Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder auf den Caraibischen Inseln. Herausgegeben durch Johan Jakob Bossart. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1801
#13451
Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et des Indes: Ouvrage destiné par l'Auteur à faire partie de son ornithologie d'Afrique.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1719
#13450
Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: In quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula
Originally as Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705. The 1719 contains 12 additional plates and corresponding text, 10 provided by the author's daughters from material left at her death, and 2 suppli…
1714 –1725
#13449
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
Includes in vols. 2 and 3: Histoire des plantes medecinales qui sont le plus en usage aux royaumes de l'Amerique meridionale, du Perou & du Chily, : composée sur les lieux par ordre du Roy, dans les années 1709. 1710.…
1756
#13448
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1756
The natural history of Jamaica: In three parts. Containing, I. An accurate description of that island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of Its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, physic. III. An account of the nature of climates in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illlustrated with fifty copper-plates: in which the most curious productions are represented of the natural size, and delineated immediately from the objects.
2002
#13447
Guide to William Bartram's travels: Following the trail of America's first great naturalist.
2004
#13446
Animals & authors in the eighteenth-century Americas: A hemispheric look at the writing of natural history. By Anita Cavagnaro Been with cataloguing records for selected titles prepared by Burton Van Name Edwards.
1991
#13445
Sir Kenelm Digby, F.R.S.: An annotated bibliography
Based on the collection of the late K. Garth Huston, Sr., this is the first complete annotated bibliographical study of the writings of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), one of the most celebrated figures in 17th-century …
1868 –1874
#13444
Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères comprenant des considérations sur la classification de ces animaux. 2 vols.
Concerns primarily the mammals of China and Tibet. Volume 2 is an atlas of 108 plates. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2010
#13443
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Bibliographie seiner Schriften
1742 –1743
#13442
Bibliotheca Meibomiana hoc est Henrici Meibomii...supellex libraria....a Io. Nicolao Froesio. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1952
#13441
The superb library of Bernhard W. Weinberger, D.D.S., on the history and folklore of dentistry. With a preface by Curt Proskaur.
1849
#13440
Catalogus librorum cum medicorum, anatom., chirurg., artis obstetr., materiei medicae et chemiae, tum historiae natural., geogr, itin. litteraturae, historiae, item effigierum, nec non praeparatorum ad anatomen tum sanam tum morbosam pertinentium, et partem musei efficientium, quibus usus est ... Gerardus Sandifort ... quorum publica fiet auctio ... die XXIX Octobris MDCCCXLIX et seqq. Lugduni Batavorum per E.J. Brill ...
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1816
#13439
Bibliothecae Sandifortianae pars, continens collectionem pretiosam librorum, ... Opera, tabulis artificiose sculptis historiam ... : Quorum omnium publica fiet auctio....
Excludes Sandifort's medical books, which presumably he bequeathed to his son Gerard, who contributed a preface to this catalogue.
1816
#13438
Catalogue of the library of the late Dr. Joseph Priestley, containing many scarce and valuable books. For sale by Thomas Dobson.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1749
#13437
Bibliothecae Platnerianae medicae sectio prior (posterior) auctionis lege distribuenda.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1858
#13436
Catalog der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des am 28 April 1858 verstorbenen Geh. Medicinal-Rathes, Professors der Anatomie und Physiologie, Dr. Johannes Müller.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1793
#13435
Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. Louis, Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie de chirurgie, &c. Dont la vente se fera dans une salle du Collège de chirurgie, rue des Cordeliers, le lundi 7 janvier 1793 & les jours suivans, trois heures de relevée.
1802
#13434
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu C. L. L'Héritier de Brutelle... par G. Debure, l'aîné. Avec un extrait de l'eloge du Citoyen l'Héitier par le Citoyen Cuvier...
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1835
#13433
Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Kloss, of Franckfort a M., Professor; including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with ms. annotations by Philip Melanchthon. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son. on Thursday, May 7th, and nineteen following days, Sundays excepted).
"The Kloss library was the most important collection of early printed books ever made by a medical man." (Note by William Osler in Bibliotheca Osleriana No. 7150). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1939 –1941
#13432
The Dr. Howard A. Kelly library catalogue
Parts 1-6.
1863
#13431
The Humboldt Library. A catalogue of the library of Alexander von Humboldt. With a bibliographical and biographical memoir by Henry Stevens.
1869
#13430
Catalogue de la bibliotheque delaissé par Mr. J. van der Hoeven.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1901
#13429
Katalog der Bücher-Sammlung von J. Hirschberg. (Vom Verfasser Überreicht.)
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2000
#13428
Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).
2002
#13427
Homöopathie in der Klinik: die Geschichte der Homöopathie am Stuttgarter Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus von 1940 bis 1973.
1871
#13426
A. von Grafe's hinterlassene medizinische u. ophthalmologische Bibliothek, sowie ein Anhang von diversen medizinischen Werken und Suiten von medizinischen Journalen zu Antiquarpreisen durch die Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.
1881
#13425
Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
1845
#13424
Catalogue des livres de sciences particulièrement de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et d'anatomie philosophique composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,...: dont la vente se fera le jeudi 20 novembre 1845, et jours suivants, à midi précis, au Jardin des Plantes, rue Cuvier, n° 33.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1783
#13423
Bibliotheca Gaubiana, sive catalogus librorum, viri celeberrimi, Hieronymi Davidis Gaubii, dum in vivis esset medicinae doctoris, hujusque & chemiae professoris in academia Lugduno-Batava, serenissimi principis arausionensis & Nassaviae archiatri, variarum academiarum & societatum membri &c. &c. Quorum auctio siet per S. et J. Luchtmans.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1810
#13422
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M.A.F. de Fourcroy... avec la table des auteurs, et celle des anonymes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1781
#13421
A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of John Fothergill...Containing a fine collection of books in physick, natural history and classics; aslo some good prints, and an elegant collection of drawings in natural history, by some of the most approved masters.
Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.