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1694

#12767

Exercitatio anatomica, in qua de cochleis, maxime terrestribus & limacibus, agitur. Omnium dissectiones tabulis aeneis, ad ispsas res assabre incisis, illustrantur.

First anatomical supplement to the Historia conchyliorum. This was the first separate work devoted to snails. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1678

#12766

Historia animalium angliae tres tractatus. Unus de araneis. Alter de cochleis tum terrestribus tum fluviatilibus. Tertius de cochleis marinis. Quibus adjectus est quartus de lapidibus eiusem insulae ad cochlearum quandam imaginem figuratis. Memoriae & rationi.

Lister was the first arachnologist and conchologist. This work was the first organized, systematic publication on shells. In spite of the wording of the title, the work contains four sections on spiders, land snails, …

1536

#12765

Reformation der Apotecken, welche inhaltet vil guter stück, die eynem yeglichen fast nützlich sein [.]. Von edlen steynen, wie die zuken[n]en [.] Wie man Syrupen, Latwergen, und Confect machen soll, verteütscht auß dem Latein durch D. Hansen Eles.

A manual for equiping and operating a pharmacy and making drugs and syrups. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1532

#12764

De partu hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt.

Eucharius Rösslin the Younger translated his father's Der schwangeren Frauwen und Hebammen Rosengarten (1513) into Latin, from which it is was translated into French, Dutch, and English, and was frequently reprinted. …

1533

#12763

Kreutterbuch von allem Erdtgewächs. Anfenglich von Doctor Johan Cuba zusamen bracht/ Jietz widerum(m) new Corrigirt/ und auß den bestberümptsten Artzten/ auch täglicher erfarnuß/ gemehrt. Mit warer Abconterfeiung aller Kreuter. Distillirbuch Hieronymi Braunschwig/ von aller kreuter außgebren(n)ten Wassern/ hiemit füglich ingeleibt.

An illustrated and enhanced version of the Gart der Gesundheit (1485) and the Kleinen Destillierbuchs of Hieronymus Brunschwig (1500). Contents include animals, including imaginery animals, a bit of human anatomy, min…

1814

#12762

An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with syphilis, and the symptoms which exclusively arise from that poison. Illustrated by drawings of the cutaneous eruptions of true syphilis, and the resembling diseases.

Carmichael "subdivided venereal infections into four major classes, each of which he maintained had a distinct exciting poison, a peculiar primary manifestation and a separate series of constitutional affections. From…

2010

#12761

Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance: Formes et fonctions de l’image hippiatrique.

1995

#12760

Pelagonius and Latin veterinary terminology in the Roman Empire.

1997

#12759

Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.

Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…

1971

#12758

The Liber de diversis medicinis in the Thornton Manuscript (MS Lincoln Cathedral A.5.2). Edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden. Revised reprint of 1938 edition.

Edition of a mid-15th century Middle English compilation of medicinal recipes, a manuscript that records how such recipes were passed on through several centuries.

1821

#12757

The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.

Concerns the Maltese plague,. 1813-1814. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#12756

Chronologia medica: A handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine.

An illustrated outline of people and events the authors considered significant in 1923. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902

#12755

The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.

Digital facsimile of the 33rd impression (1922) from the Internet Archive at this link.

1999

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

1932

#12753

The sexual side of marriage.

A very good advice book for its time by a physician. Initially published by a small publisher, this book was rapidly reprinted, many times by W.W. Norton. The cover reprinted an endorsement by Havelock Ellis: "An admi…

1883

#12752

Sexual impotence in the male.

One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…

2012

#12751

Eyewire: A game to map the brain.

https://eyewire.org/explore Eyewire is a game to map the brain from Sebastian Seung's Lab at Princeton University. This citizen science human-based computation game challenges players to map retinal neurons. Eyewire l…

1820 –1847

#12750

Chirurgische Kupfertafeln. 4 vols.

This collection of 417 plates on surgical procedures, instruments, and bandages, with 4 pages of explanatory text, was published in 96 parts between 1820 and 1847. Fifty-two of the plates were issued hand-colored. The…

1843

#12749

Die rheumatische Schweile. Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie und Therapie des Rheumatismus.

Froriep described what would later be known as fibromyalgia, describing it as "rheumatism with painful, hard places" that could be felt in many locations on the body. He characterized the condition as muskelschwiele (…

1996

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1989

#12747

De opkomst van het medisch beroep in Belgie: de evolutie van de wetgeving en de beroepsorganisaties in de 19e eeuw.

1817

#12746

Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome premier. (All published.)

This unfinished work with 22 spectacular plates included some full body images of patients, and unlike other illustrated works by Alibert, it concerned more than skin diseases. Vol. 2 was never published but a second,…

1832 –1854

#12745

Encyclographie des sciences médicales. Réimpression générale des ouvrages periodiques sur ces sciences, publies en France.

From 1845 to 1854 this enigmatically titled work was pubished under the title, Nouvelle encyclographie des sciences médicales. Rather than an encyclopedia, it was a series of reprints of books and periodicals to which…

1913

#12744

Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.

1913

#12743

Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.

Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1929 –1935

#12742

Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by Franz Hübotter with Wilhelm Haberling and Hermann Vierordt. 5 vols.

Very substantially revised second edition of No. 6716. Unchanged third edition, 1962.

1929

#12741

Die chinesische Medizin zu Beginn des XX. Jahrhunderts und ihr historischer Entwicklungsgang.

2009

#12740

The Human Connectome Project.

In 2009 The National Instiututes of Health announced that it would fund a five year program called the Human Connectome Project to build a "network map" (connectome) to will shed light on the anatomical and functional…

1906

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

2018

#12738

Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain).

"Significance "The right and left cerebral hemispheres (together forming the endbrain) support cognition and affect, and, structurally, each hemisphere consists of a cortical sheet and set of deep nuclei (often called…

2017

#12737

Organizing principles for the cerebral cortex network of commissural and association connections.

"Significance "The cerebral cortex supports cognition and is a structure common to all mammals. The major cortical subdivisions (its gray matter regions) are connected by a complex network of axonal connections that i…

2015

#12736

Architecture of the cerebral cortical association connectome underlying cognition.

"Significance "Connections between cerebral cortex regions are known as association connections, and neural activity in the network formed by these connections is thought to generate cognition. Network analysis of mic…

1949

#12735

The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory.

Hebb connected the biological function of the brain as an organ together with the higher function of the mind. He studied how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. In this wo…

1898

#12734

Neue Untersuchungen über die Markbildung in den menschlichen Grosshirnlappen.

Flechsig devided the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 40 areas.

1770

#12733

Lectures on the materia medica: Containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: Also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing. Published from the manuscript of the late Dr. Charles Alston...by John Hope. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2006

#12732

Atlas of regional anatomy of the brain using MRI with functional correlations

Though this book is intended for clinical and neurosurgical applications, the authors take an historical approach. Chapter 1 is "Historical review of cross-sectional anatomy of the brain."

2006

#12731

Fiber pathways of the brain

"... a comprehensive,well-illustrated study of the organization of the white matter pathways of the brain. Schmahmann and Pandya have analyzed and synthesized the corticocortical and corticosubcortical connections of …

2011

#12730

Lexique des terms de la pharmacopée syriaque. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 47; Chrétiens en terre d'Iran, 5)

A dictionary of Syriac names for plants used to make botanic drugs.

1998

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

2000

#12728

Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.

2016

#12727

Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.

"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…

1864

#12726

Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris, d'après des documents entièrement inédits, suivies d'une notice sur les manuscrits qui y sont conservés.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this liink.

1929

#12725

La Bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris. Aperçu historique de son développement et de son fonctionnement dans ses rapports avec l'évolution des sciences médicales et biologiques. Suivi d'un index complémentaire de bibliographie médicale.

2008

#12724

Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.

Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…

2010

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.

2014

#12722

Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.

"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…

1791

#12721

Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté.

"The Autobiography remained unpublished during Franklin's lifetime. In 1791, the first edition appeared, in French rather than English, as Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, published in Paris. This trans…

2005

#12720

Cloning of a human parvovirus by molecular screening of respiratory tract samples.

Discovery of the first Human Bocavirus (HBoV1), a new virus species associated with lower respiratory infection almost always in children. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Allander, Tammi, Eriksson). …

2011

#12719

Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.

The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available…

1974

#12718

Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.

The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…