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1903
#12166
Collected essays and articles on physiology and medicine. 2 vols.
Flint was one of the founders of laboratory research on physiology in America. Besides the regular trade edition Flint issued a deluxe version of this set limited to 25 copies. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heri…
1961
#12165
Hypokinetic disease: Diseases produced by lack of exercise
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1783
#12164
Aphorisms in the application and use of the forceps and vectis, on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemorrhage and with convulsions.
Denman "was the first physician whose authority made the practice general in England of inducing premature labour in cases of narrow pelvis and other conditions, in which the mother's life is imperilled by the attempt…
1787
#12163
A collection of engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species.
An idiosyncratic collection of rarely reproduced images with explanatory commentaries in English and French, concerning reproduction and obstetric complications in animals and humans. Topics include: The Funis of a nu…
1920
#12162
Aviation medicine in the A. E. F.
"This publication contains an account written by Col.William H. Wilmer, Medical Corps, who was in charge of the Air Service Medical Research Laboratories in Issoudon, France, from September, 1918, until the armistice.…
1884
#12161
Prophylaxie et géographie médicale: Des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène.
Includes several colored world maps of diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932
#12160
Brave new world.
"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…
2007
#12159
Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.
1930
#12158
Seed, a novel of birth control.
2020
#12157
Documenting COVID-19, [a collaborative document.]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5tso8spFq6SpW53h2OJULcdRoPEbyI6xpah31kW-H0/edit [I copied this document into this database on April 9, 2020.] "Documenting COVID-19 "https://bit.ly/doc-covid19 #doccovid19 This is …
2020
#12156
Archiving web content on the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19).
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/03/26/archiving-web-content-on-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19/ "The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbr…
2014
#12155
Global Health Events web archive.
Global Health Events web archive "Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine b…
2012
#12154
The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.
1964
#12153
History of the Medical Society of the State of California.
Digital facsimile from ssvms.org at this link.
1858
#12152
Diphtheritis: A concise historical and critical essay on the late epidemic pseudo-membranous sore throat of California (1856-7), with a few remarks illustrating the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of the disease.
For publishing this 46-page pamphlet Fourgeaud has been called "California's first medical historian." Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1958
#12151
History of the San Francisco Medical Society. Vol. I, 1850 to 1900.
1930
#12150
A history of the California Medical Society.
2014
#12149
Urolithiasis: A comprehensive history.
2009
#12148
Of books and botany in early modern England: Sixteenth-century plants and print culture.
1985
#12147
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
1929 –1931
#12146
Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.
Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.
2001
#12145
Aristotle on life and death
1476
#274
De animalibus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza. Edited by Ludovicus Podocarthus.
Includes Aristotle's De historia animalium, De partibus animalium, and De generatione animalium. Aristotle was the first scientist to gather empirical evidence about the biological world through observation. By his ca…
2009
#12144
The evolution of obesity.
2012
#12143
The evolution of the human placenta.
Chapter one is "The history of placental investigations."
2000
#12142
Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
2013
#12141
Cholera in Detroit: A history.
2009
#12140
Tormented hope: Nine hypochondriac lives.
Accounts of writers, artists, and scientists: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol.
1987
#12139
A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.
1907
#12138
Plague in Queensland, 1900-1907.
Ham was Queensland's first Commissioner of Public Health. Extensively illustrated. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2003
#12137
Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.
1844
#12136
Life in the sickroom: Essays by an invalid.
"Life in the Sickroom is one of many first-hand accounts of the experience of being ill written by an invalid. Martineau was ill for six years, but she found taking on the identity of an invalid a reprieve from the st…
1636
#12135
Pharmacopoea Amstelredamensis, Senatus auctoritate munita. [Edited by Nicolaes Tulp.]
Tulp was both a surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. As such he was responsible for inspections of apothecary shops. Thanks to new shipping routes, pharmacists in Amsterdam had access to many exotic herbs and spices from t…
1806
#12134
The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; Together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry: Comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's second edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States. With several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus.
Coxe's "formulary" was the first attempt at standarization of drugs and their preparation in the United States. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
2000
#12133
Chemical biology. Selected papers of H. Gobind Khorana (with introductions).
Khorana edited this selection of his key papers and wrote the introductions to each paper.
2003
#12132
The scientific study of mummies.
2012
#12131
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.
"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …
2015
#12130
Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.
2001
#12129
The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.
1997
#12128
U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.
Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…
1839
#12127
First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
In 1836 the Births and Deaths Registration Act was passed in England with provisions for inquiry into causes of death in the population, and registration began during the following year through the General Registratio…
1869
#12126
The nomenclature of diseases drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. (Subject to decennial revision).
"The first authoritative source of disease terminology, with the names in English, Latin, French, German and Italian. Standardization of disease terminology was necessary for accurate recording and study of mortality,…
1966
#12125
Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.
1987
#12124
Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur
1943
#12123
Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
1885
#12122
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1978
#12121
International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
1981
#12120
The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.
2020
#12119
A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…
2009
#12118
The evolution and emergence of RNA viruses.
"This impressive monograph by Edward Holmes opens with a quotation from La Peste, by Albert Camus: “Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones …