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2002
#12416
One hundred years of heroin. Edited by David F. Musto with the assistance of Pamela Korsmeyer and Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr.
2002
#12415
The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.
1989
#12414
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
1961
#12413
The toadstool millionaires.
Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.
1911 –1936
#12412
Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.
Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …
1909
#12411
Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.
This exposé of useless or dangerous drugs was followed in 1912 by More secret remedies. What they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Digital facsimile of the 1909 wor…
1966
#12410
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori medicine.
"Arriving in Kaikohe (in the Far North) as a pharmacist he [the author] "passed into a new world as far as medicine was concerned." He found that customers made their own "concoctions" and were under the influence of …
2017
#12409
Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.
"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…
2015
#12408
Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.
2019
#12407
Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.
"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…
1922
#12406
History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago. Endorsed and published under the supervision of the council of the Chicago Medical Society.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1967
#12405
The history of medicine in New Zealand.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1868
#12404
Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.
An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1640
#12403
A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, ... are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.
“Hamond, author and explorer, published a translation of Ambroise Paré’s ‘Methode de traicter les Playes faictes par Harquebuses et aultres batons a feu,’ 1617, 4to. He was in the service of the East India Company, an…
1951
#12402
The ancient art of feeling the pulse.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1878
#12401
William Harvey: A history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1936
#12400
Harvey, iniciador del método experimental.
First edition in Spanish of De motu cordis as well as a facsimile of the first edition. "Contains an important historical review of the circulation with particular reference to Servetus and to the Spanish reception of…
1803
#12399
Flora Boreali-Americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux, Instituti Gallici Scientiarum, necnon Societatis Agriculturae Caroliniensis socius. Tabulis Aeneis 51 ornata [after Pierre-Joseph Redouté]. 2 vols.
"The French government sent Michaux to the United States to collect North American seeds, shrubs, and trees ; he landed at New York City on 1 October, accompanied by his son [François-André Michaux] and a gardener. In…
1938
#12398
William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I-V.
"The most comprehensive bibliographical reference work on the history of the circulation" (Bedford 200).
1767
#12397
An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.
Holwell's account of smallpox variolation in India prior to Jenner has been disputed by historians. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1758
#12396
A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen and others who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756, in a letter to a friend.
Holwell was a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Fort William, Calcutta , a poorly ventilated dungeon measuring 4.30 × 5.50 metres (14 × 18 feet), in which troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, hel…
1834
#12395
An inquiry into the claims of Doctor William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood; with a more equitable retrospect of that event. To which is added an introductory lecture delivered on the third of November, 18929, in vindication of Hippocrates from sundry charges of ignorance preferred against him by the late professor Rush.
Perhaps the earliest American monograph on the history of circulation. Keynes characterized this volume as "an elaborate and very learned attempt to belittle Harvey's achievement" Keynes, Life of William Harvey, p. 42…
1929
#12394
The rapid shallow breathing resulting from pulmonary congestion and edema.
First description of the Churchill–Cope reflex, a reflex in which distension of the pulmonary vascular bed, as occurs in pulmonary oedema, causes an increase in respiratory rate (tachypnoea) by stimulation of the juxt…
1902
#12393
Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1942
#12392
Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.
Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…
2013
#12391
Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.
2018
#12390
Landmark papers in otolaryngology. Edited by John S. Phillips and Sally Erskine.
2013
#12389
Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.
1980
#12388
Purification and characterization of the major allergen from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus-antigen P1.
First purification and publication of a dust mite allergen in 1978 by Platts-Mills and Chapman.
1934
#12387
The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin
Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.
1926
#12386
Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.
Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.
1908
#12385
Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.
First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for screeni…
2009
#12384
Laboratory disease: Robert Koch's medical bacteriology.
1927
#12383
Muscular movement in man: The factors governing speed and recovery from fatique.
1925
#12382
Chirurgie der Sportunfalle.
1914
#12381
Die Sportverletzungen. Neue Deutsche Chirurgie, hrsg. von P. von Bruns., 13. bd.
Sportart, Sportverletzung, Sportmedizin, Kampfsport, Ballspiel, Leichtathletik, Tanz, Bergsport, Gerätturnen, Wassersport, Wintersport, Motorsport, Pferdesport, Rudersport, Radsport, Sporttraumatologie.
2014
#12380
Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine
"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…
1941
#12379
Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.
2002
#12378
The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).
2010
#12377
Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.
"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…
1986
#12376
Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.
1994
#12375
Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.
Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…
2012
#12374
British cardiology in the 20th century. Edited by Mark E. Silverman, Peter R. Fleming, Arthur Hollman, Desmond G. Julian, Dennis M. Krikler.
"The first and only detailed history of mdoern cardiology and cardiac surgery in Britain" (W. Bruce Fye, 2020).
2000
#12373
Devices and desires: Gender, technology, and American nursing.
"Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurs…
2017
#12372
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
2003
#12371
Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.
"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…
1971
#12370
International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.
Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.
1966
#12369
Creation of an atrial septal defect without thoracotomy. A palliative approach to complete transposition of the great arteries.
Rashkind balloon atrial septostomy to treat transposition of the great vessels.
1982
#12368
Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.
1997
#12367