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1899
#13420
Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures
Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1791
#13419
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Mirabeau l'ainé.
Includes much of Buffon's library, pp. 160-212. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1846
#13418
Catalogue des Livres composant la Bibliothèque de feu … Gilbert Breschet.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1850
#13417
Catalogue des livres de géologie, botanique, zoologie, médecine, anatomie, physiologie, physique, littérature, histoire, français et étrangers … de Feu M. H. D. de Blainville.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1861
#13416
Verzeichniss der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des Geh. Medicinalrathes Dr. v. Ammon in Dresden, welch nebst mehreren anderen Bibliotheken, sowie einem Anhange von Musikalien und Büchern über Musik....
1834
#13415
Mémoire comparatif sur l'histoire naturelle de l'insecte de la gale.
Raspail first described and illustrated the Sarcoptes scabei, diffrentiating it from the horse's sarcopt and the cheese moth that Galès and Patrix, followed by Alibert, had confused with the scabies parasite. Raspail …
1978
#13414
The library of Sir Isaac Newton
1697
#13413
Hortus Regius Monspeliensis, sive catalogus plantarum quae in Horto Regio Monspeliensi demonstrantur.
An illustrated catalogue of plants on display in the Royal Botanical Garden of Montpellier. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1689
#13411
Prodromus historiae generalis plantarum, in quo familiae plantarum per tabulas disponuntur.
Magnol invented of the concept of plant families, a natural classification, based on combinations of morphological character. "In his Prodromus he developed 75 tables, which not only grouped plants into families but a…
1826
#13410
Mémoire médico-légal sur la viabilité de l'enfant naissant.
Chaussier introduced a procedure for the revival of near-dead infants. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1824
#13409
Receuil de mémoires, consultations et rapports sur divers objets de médecine légale.
Chaussier pioneered the practice of forensic medicine in France. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1824
#13408
Manuel médico-légal des poisons, précédé de considérations sur l'empoisonnement, des moyens de le constater, du résultat d'expériences faites sur l'acétate de morphine et les autres alcalis végétaux; suivi d'une méthode de traiter les morsures des animaux enragés et de la vipère; d'un précis sur la pustule maligne; des secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées, noyées ou asphyxiées, etc. Rédigé sous les yeux de M. le Professeur Chaussier, par E. Montmahou.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1727
#13407
Bibliotheca Riviniana sive catalogus librorum philogico-philosophico-historicorum, itinerariorum, imprimis autem medicorum, botanicorum et historiae naturalis scriptorum & c., rariorum....vendenda in vaporario collegii rubri a die xxvii. Octobr. mdccxxvii more auctionis consueto. Praemissa est vita Rivini descripta per Geo. Sam Hermannum...catalogi autorem.
Auction catalogue of Rivinus's library by Georg Samuel Hermann. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1690
#13406
Introductio generalis in rem herbariam.
Rivinus (Bachmann) introduced the concept of classification of plants based upon the structure of the flower. He also introduced the ORDER as a distinct rank of biological classification having its own distinctive nam…
1831
#13405
A catalogue of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-House, prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers.
First edition, 1824. Founded in 1732/33, this institution became known in the 19th century as "Old Blockley" after it moved to the Blockley Township in West Philadelphia. It was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital i…
1929
#13404
History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.
2001
#13403
Botanophilia in eighteenth-century France: The spirit of the Enlightenment.
1842 –1843
#13402
Le Jardin des plantes. Description complete, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, de la ménagerie, des serres, des galeries de minéralogie et d'anatomie, et de la vallée suisse. Moeurs et instincts des animaux, botanique, anatomie comparée : minéralogie, géologie, zoologie. 2 vols. Title of vol. 2: Le jardin des plantes. Description complète, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle (oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, insectes et crustacés), par M. le docteur Emm. Lemaout.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2021
#13401
Preventable: The inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. coronavirus response.
1907
#13400
Multiple Nervenentzündung (Polyneuritis) bei Hühnern.
Marek's disease (fowl paralysis) later named by Peter Biggs, who determined that the disease was caused by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2, and developed the first generation Marek's disease vaccine.
1996
#13399
Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.
1971
#13398
Isolation of a tumor fraction responsible for angiogenesis.
Isolation of the first angiogenic tumor factor. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link.
1971
#13397
Tumor angiogenesis: Therapeutic implications.
Folkman reported that solid tumors are angiogenesis-dependent. He hypothesized that there was an unknown "factor" that tumors secreted to help increase their blood supply, and that if that factor could be blocked, tum…
1658
#13396
Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis: Alphabeticè digestus, duas, præterpropter, plantarum chiliadas complectens, priore duplo auctior, ... : Cui accessere plantæ minimùm sexaginta suis nominibus insignitæ....Cura & opera socia Philippi Stephani et Guilelmi Brounei. Adhibitis etiam in consilium D. Boberto.
Catalogue of plants in the Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1971
#13395
Love between women.
1986
#13394
Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.
1731
#13393
The gardeners dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden. As also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Interspers'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin and English, and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening.
Miller was chief gardener and curator (or 'Hortulanus') at the Apothecaries' (later Physic) Garden in Chelsea. Besides covering methods of cultivation, Miller's Dictionary provided a systematic botanical compendium of…
1800
#13392
Der botanische Garten der Universität zu Halle im Jahre 1799.
Digital facsimile from digitale-sammlungen.de at this link. Followed by Erster Nachtrag zu der Beschreibung des botanischen Gartens der Universität zu Halle (1801). Digital facsimile of the 1801 Nachtrag from bab-muen…
1990
#13391
The condom industry in the United States.
2008
#13390
The age of anxiety: A history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers.
2001
#13389
Devices and desires: A history of contraceptives in America.
1854
#13388
Chemical atlas; or, the chemistry of familiar objects: Exhibiting the general principles of the science in a series of beautifully colored diagrams, and accompanied by explanatory essays, embracing the latest views of the subjects illustrated. Designed for the use of students and pupils in all schools where chemistry is taught.
The diagrams in this pioneering work in information graphics were printed in red and black; a variety of other colors were applied by hand. Digital facsimile from digital.sciencehistory.org at this link.
1930
#13387
What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.
When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1890
#13386
Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis. Ein medicinisch-psychologische Studie.
Among other things, Krafft-Ebing introduced the terms sadism and masochism in this work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1820
#13385
Ueber angeborne menschliche Missbildungen im Allgemeinen und Hermaphroditen insbesondere. Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie, pathologischen Anatomie, und gerichtlichen Arzneiwissenschaft.
Includes an account of the Prussian intersex man, Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835). With two hand-colored plates of hermaphroditic genitalia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1903
#13384
Hermaphrodismus und Zeugungsunfähigkeit: Eine systematische Darstellung der Missbildungen der menschlichen Geschlechtsorgane. Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. med. R. Teuscher.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1741
#13383
A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1614
#13382
Responce au discours fait par le sieur Riolan docteur en medecine & professeur en chirurgie & pharmacie à Paris, contre l'Histoire de l'hermaphrodit de Rouen.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1614
#13381
Discours sur les hermaphrodits. Où il est demonstré contre l'opinion commune, qui'il n'y a point de vrays hermaphrodits.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1872
#13380
Question médico-légale de l’identité dans ses rapport avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels contenant les souvenirs et impressions d’un individu dont le sexe avait été méconnu.
Includes the first printing of the memoirs of "Alexina B" a French intersex person whose actual name was Herculine Barbin. Digital facsimile of the revised second edition (1874) from Google Books at this link. Transla…
1904
#13379
Berlins drittes Geschlecht.
"Third sex" was Hirschfeld's provisional term for gays and lesbians. Translated into English by James J. Conway as Berlin's third sex, Berlin: Rixdorf Editions, 2017.
1931
#13378
Vénus et Mercure.
"Chapter by Pierre Najac, “L’Institut de science sexuelle à Berlin”; includes numerous illustrations from the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, as well as Najac’s eyewitness descr…
2010
#13377
Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement
1977
#13376
Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings
The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."
1816 –1830
#13375
Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les artes. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes....Par plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du Roi, et des principales écoles de Paris. 60 vols. "M. F. Cuvier est chargé de la direction générale de l'ouvrage."
"M. F. Cuvier est chargé de la direction générale de l'ouvrage." Digital facsimile from commons.wikipedia.org at this link.
1924
#13374
Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.
Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.
2021
#13373
Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…
1919
#13372
The old humanities and the new science. An address before the Classical Association, Oxford, May 16th, 1919.
"Osler became a 'despairing optimist' after World War I, in which he lost his son. He closed his last public address, given in May 1919 on “The Old Humanities and the New Science,” with the hope that through the Hippo…
1792
#13371
Description de l'Hôpital général du Cap, dans laquelle on donne une idée de l'influence de l'air des marais sur les maladies endémiques qu'on y observe, avec un apperçu des inconvéniens de la situation du cimetière actuel, et ceux qui peuvent encore résulter du trop grand rapprochement du cimetière général que l'on vient d'établir. Ce mémoire a été lu en presence de MM. de Mirbeck et Roume, commissaires nationaux-civils délégués par le Roi à Saint-Domingue, associés nationaux de la Société royale des sciences et Arts du Cap-Français, dans sa séance du 30 janvier 1792.
Date inferred from reference on p. 14. Arthaud was "médecin breveté par le Roi au Cap, associé de la Société philosophique de Philadelphie, correspondant de la Société royale de médecin de Paris, de la Sociét…
1977
#13369