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1992

#12216

The evolution of cardiac surgery.

1958

#12215

Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.

2008

#12214

Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.

1982 –2012

#12213

Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.

2000

#12212

Shaping biology: The National Science Foundation and American biological research, 1945-1975.

"Scientists by training, NSF biologists hoped in the 1950s that the new agency would become the federal government's chief patron for basic research in biology, the only agency to fund the entire range of biology—from…

1987

#12211

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.

"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…

1901

#12210

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1952

#12209

The pathology, symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system.

Dix–Hallpike test or Nylen–Barany test, a diagnostic maneuver used to identify benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2000

#12208

Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.

1994

#12207

Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.

2000

#12206

The demography of Victorian England and Wales.

1969

#12205

Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. (1798-1866): An annotated bibliography

An outstanding, very extensively annotated bibliography covering the full range of Hodgkin's publications.

1835

#12204

Lectures on the means of promoting and preserving health, delivered at the Mechanics' Institute.

Lectures for "working men" and women on preventative medicine and self-help. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1951

#12203

Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.

Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…

1991

#12202

Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.

Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…

2015

#12201

An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).

This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in English, and …

1882

#12200

Sorani gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina. Nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum codicem Parisiensem nunc recognitis a Valentino Rose.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1950

#12199

On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.

The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1832

#12197

On the influence of physical agents on life, by W. F. Edwards. Translated from the French by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher. To which are added, in the appendix, some observations on electricity by Dr. Edwards, M. Pouillet, and Luke Howard; on absorption, and the uses of the spleen, by Dr. Hodgkin; on the microscopic characters of the animal tissues and fluids, by J. J. Lister and Dr. Hodgkin, and some notes to the work of Dr. Edwards.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1812

#12196

Collection d'opuscules de médecine pratique, avec un mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire.

Frank was with Napoleon in Egypt; this volume contains numerous reports on aspects of medicine during that campaign. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2003

#12195

Human survival: Life and death in extreme environments.

2013

#12194

Mankind beyond earth: The history, science, and future of human space exploration.

1987

#12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

1943

#12192

Barometric pressure: Researches in experimental physiology. Translated from the French by Mary Alice Hitchcock and Fred A. Hitchcock. [Foreward by John F. Fulton].

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1948 –1966

#12191

A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.

Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

2020

#12190

Covid-19 changed how the world does science, together. Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world's researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.

April 1, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/europe/coronavirus-science-research-cooperation.html "Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts hav…

1999

#12189

Corneal transplantation: A history in profiles. Edited by Mark J. Mannis and Avi A. Mannis.

1910

#12188

The faith that heals.

Perhaps Osler's most significant discussion of "faith" and faith healing. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. The same journal issue also contains Clifford Albutt's "Reflections on faith healing," pp. 1…

1872

#12187

Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2020

#12186

COVID-19 COMPILER. MAP

https://covid19.topos.com/ "COVID-19 Compiler aims to display relevant data about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. "Our goal is to provide a multidimensional view of covid-19’s impact in counties a…

1937

#12185

A combination resuscitator and incubator for new-born infants.

In 1931 Robert Bauer invented the first incubator to combine heat, oxygen, and humidity. Abstract: "The apparatus herein described was built in July 1931 to meet in a practical way the well established needs of the pr…

1953

#12184

A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant.

The Apgar score for summarizing the health of newborn children, based on skin color, pulse rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone, and respiratory effort. These form a backronym, referring back to the author: Appearan…

2018

#12183

Digital medicine, on its way to being just plain medicine.

"There are already nearly 30,000 peer-reviewed English-language scientific journals, producing an estimated 2.5 million articles a year.1 So why another, and why one focused specifically on digital medicine? "To answe…

2020

#12182

Harnessing wearable device data to improve state-level real-time surveillance of influenza-like illness in the USA: A population-based study.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Radin, Wineinger, Topol, Steinhubl. "Background "Acute infections can cause an individual to have an elevated resting heart rate (RHR) and change their routine daily ac…

2020

#12181

Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications.

"Abstract "Neanderthals are often considered as less technologically advanced than modern humans. However, we typically only find faunal remains or stone tools at Paleolithic sites. Perishable materials, comprising th…

2005

#12180

Les classes zoologiques en Grèce ancienne d'Homère à Élien (VIIIe av.-IIIe ap. J.-C.)

2020

#12179

A companion to Byzantine science. Edited by Stavros Lazaris.

Chapters relevant to this bibliography include: Zoology by Arnaud Zucker Botany by Alain Touwaide Medicine and Pharmacy by Alain Touwaide Veterinary Medicine by Stavros Lazaris Byzantine Theories of Vision by Katerina…

2010

#12178

"Teaching surgery in late Byzantine Alexandria" by John Scarborough [in] Manfred Horstmanshoff, ed., Hippocrates and medical education. Selected papers presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005.

1981

#12177

Pflanzen, Wurzeln, Säfte, Samen. Antike Heilkunst in Miniaturen des Wiener Dioskurides.

1903

#12176

P. Vegeti Renati digestorum artis mulomedicinae libri edidit Ernestus Lommatzsch. Accedit Gargili Martialis de curis boum fragmentum.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Includes an edition of the Late Antique Latin writer Quintus Gargilius Martialis's fragmentary treatise on the tending of cattle.

1754

#12175

Graecorum chirurgici libri Sorani unus de fracturarum signis. Oribasii duo de fractis et de luxatis e collectione Nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino descripti conversi atque edited ab Antonio Cocchio.

A scholarly edition of the Nicetas Codex containing various texts on fractures and luxations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1977

#12174

Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].

1983

#12173

Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]

1997

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].

1975

#12171

Iohannis Alexandrini commentaria in sextum librum Hippocratis epidemiarum. Edited and critically annotated by C. D. Pritchet.

2005

#12170

Agnellus de Ravenne. Lectures galéniques: le «De pulsibus ad tirones». Introduction, texte latin (adiuuante Ivan Garofalo), traduction française, notes explicatives, bibliographie et index par Nicoletta Palmieri, «Mémoires XXVIII du Centre Jean Palerne».

2019

#12169

Epidemics and society from the Black Death to the present.

1849 –1851

#12168

Alkoholismus Chronicus eller Chronik Alkoholssjukdom. Ett bidrag till dyskrasiernas kännedom; enligt egen och andras erfarenheit. . . . Första afdelningen.

The first monograph on alcoholism considered as a disease. Huss was the first to define alcoholism and to give a scientific analysis of its physical, psychological, moral and social effects. Translated into German, 1852.

1863

#12167

A report on hospital gangrene, eryipelas and pyaemia, as observed in the departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland, with cases appended. Published by permission of the Surgeon General U.S.A.

Middleton, surgeon in the U.S. Volunteers, recommended the placement of volatile bromine in all patient wards. He developed a method of applying bromine deep into muscular layers after wound debridement then injecting…