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1920
#12067
The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1970
#12066
Dickens and medicine: An exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1858
#12065
Speech of Charles Dickens, Esq., on behalf of The Hospital for Sick Children, 49, Great Ormond Street. Patron, - Her Majesty the Queen. The objects of the institution are - I. The medical and surgical treatment of poor children. II. The attainment and diffusion of knowledge regarding the diseases of children. 3. The training of nurses for children.
Speech of Charles Dickens as Chairman at the Dinner on Behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children, February 9th, 1858. This 10-page pamphlet was first published in 1858 and reprinted in 1864, in 1865, and in 1874 to rai…
1874
#12064
Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica und den Antheil, Welchen sie an der Enstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten Haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verscheidenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.
Billroth provided the first account of streptocci wound infection, calling the bacteria Coccobacteria septica. When Billroth introduced antisepic techniques in his surgical practice the number of surgical patients wit…
1950
#12063
The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize.
"In the summer of 1944 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, McClintock systematic studies on the mechanisms of the mosaic color patterns of maize seed and the unstable inheritance of this mosaicism.[44] She identified tw…
2020
#12062
An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1 "During the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Gardner recognised that the public, researchers and health authorities needed clear, accessible and up-to-date information.[8] Wo…
1983
#12061
Differential equations and mathematical biology.
"This textbook shows how first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to model the growth of a population, the administration of drugs, and the mechanism by which living cells divide. The authors presen…
1932
#12060
Light and life. Address delivered at the opening meeting of the International Congress on Light Therapy in Copenhagen 15. August 1932.
In 1922 Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." Including Bohr's 1932 address, Light and life, in the Nob…
2003
#12059
Victorian detective fiction: The scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.
2009
#12058
Environment & Society Portal.
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/ "The Environment & Society Portal is a gateway to open access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. It addresses the community of teacher…
2005
#12057
Ärzte, Ingenieure und städtische Gesundheit: medizinische Theorien in der Hygienebewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts.
2011
#12056
La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.
1972
#12055
Index alphabétique et biographique du personnel médical pendant l’expédition d’Orient (Égypte-Syrie 1798-1801). Thèse de médecine.
Only a very small number of copies of this thesis appear to have been issued.
2012
#12054
La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
1801
#12053
Observations sur la maladies appelée peste, le flux dissentérique, l'ophtalmie d'Égypte, et les moyens de s'en préserver. Avec des notions sur la fièvre jaune de Cadix, et les projet et plan d'un hôpital, pour le traitement maladies épidémiques et contagieuses.
At the time of publication Assalini, a military surgeon with Napoleon, characterized himself on the title page as "Docteur en Médecine et Chirugien de 1re classe de la Garde des Consuls..." Digital facsimile from well…
1812
#12052
Manuale di chirurgia del cavaliere.
Assalini served as a military surgeon with the Napoleonic armies in Egypt, Spain, Germany, and Russia, taking part in 60 battles and 400 combats. He was wounded three times, and was eventually appointed First Surgeon …
1932
#12051
Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.
"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…
1883
#12050
Notes from sick rooms.
The author "was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of…
1805
#12049
Mémoire sur les hôpitaux civils de Paris, dans lequel on traite de la situation de chacun d'eux, comparé avec les anciens, des améliorations qui y ont été opérées, de celles dont ils son susceptibles, et de la forme de leur administration. Avec des notes historiques sur leur origine et leur accroissement successif; et sur les moyens de former un seul hôpital capable de recevoir tous les malades indigens d'une ville du premier order.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1710
#12048
Considerazioni, e d'esperienze intorno alla generazione de' vermi ordinari del corpo umano fatte da Antonio Vallisnieri, e da lui scritte al Reverendissimo Padre D. Antonio Borromeo.
In this illustrated work on parasitic worms in the human body Vallisnieri proved that these worms were not due to spontaneous generation, but grew from eggs. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1852
#12047
A curious dance round a curious tree.
Dickens' account of his visit on the day after Christmas, 1851 to the wards at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, founded in 1751 to provide free care to the impoverished and incurable mentally ill. "The inhabitants of…
1934
#12046
Oeuvre scientifique. Recueil des principaux travaux publié par les soins de J. A. Barré.
Collected edition of Babinski's previously published works edited by Barré and numerous other editors. Contents: La méthode en sémiologie. - Sémiologie. - Tumeurs cérébrales et compressions cérébrales. - Affections no…
1683
#12045
Description générale de l'Hostel Royal des Invalides établi par Louis le Grand dans la Plaine de Prennelle près Paris. Avec les plans, profils & elevations de ses faces, coupes & appartemens.
A deluxe folio work with numerous full-page engravings illustrating the architecture, floor plans etc. of the Hôtel des Invalides by its administrator, who signed the dedication "L.J.D.B." Designed by Libéral Bruant, …
1684
#12044
Verhandelinge van de opvoedinge en ziekten der kinderen. Vertoonende op wat wyse de kinderen gezond konnen blyven, en ziek zijnde, bequamelyk konnen herstelt werden. Zeer nodig voor alle huyshoudende lieden.
A book intended for a popular audience on raising, educating, and caring for health problems of children. Blankaart offered advice and instructions to parents for treating all sorts of children's illnesses as well as …
2014
#12043
Viruses and man: A history of interactions.
2020
#12042
Sir William Osler: An encyclopedia. Edited by Charles S. Bryan.
The definitive reference on Sir William Osler, his life, his times, his friends, and his influence. Osler was voted "the most influential physician in history" in a 2016 survey of North American doctors, but his inter…
1677
#12041
The astrological judgement and practice of physick, deduced from the position of the heavens at the decumbiture of a sick person.
Saunders "practised astrology and cheiromancy during the golden age of the pseudo-sciences in England." The DNB characterizes this work as "a systematic exposition of astrological therapeutics, based largely upon exam…
2013
#12040
The duke and the stars: Astrology and politcs in renaissance Milan.
Explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical…
1887
#12039
Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur's system containing a translation of all his communications on the subject, the technique of his method, and the latest statistical results
The author, qualified M.D. in both Edinburgh and Paris, characterized himself on the title page of this work as "Commissioned by the Government of the Colony of Mauritius to study M. Pasteur's new treatment in Paris."…
1968
#12038
Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.
Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…
1783
#12037
Lettera dell' Abate Spallanzani al Sig. Marchese Lucchesini.
Records on pp. 80-104 Spallanzani's work on the torpedo. In the 1780's Spallanzani turned to marine biology, making several trips to the Mediterranean region. On his visit to Portovenere in 1783 "he instituted the fir…
1994
#12036
Legal medicine in history. Edited by Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford.
1925
#12035
Pansporella perplexa. Réflexions sur la biologie et la phylogénie des protozoaires.
Chatton was the first to characterize the distinction between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems of cellular organization. See Jan Sapp, "The prokaryote-Eukaryote dichtomy: meanings and mythology," Microbiol. Mol.…
1962
#12034
The concept of a bacterium.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Stanier, Niel. For much of the 20th centurty prokaryotes were regarded as a single group of organisms, classified on the basis of their biochemistry, morphology and met…
1962
#12033
Host specificity of DNA produced by escherichia coli. II. Control over acceptance of DNA from infecting phage lambda.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dussoix, Arber. The authors discovered that restriction of DNA from infecting bacteriophage was due to the attack and breakdown of the modified bacteriophage's DNA by s…
1952
#12032
A nonhereditary, host-induced variation of bacterial viruses.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Luria, Human. Luria and Human discovered the restriction modification system found in bacteria and other prokaryotic organisms. This system provides a defense against f…
1977
#12031
The construction of molecular cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.
Order of authorship in the original publication Bolivar, Rodriguez, Betlach...Boyer...The authors describe the composition and molecular construction of pBR-322 (named after Bolivar and Rodriguez) and call it "the mos…
1972
#12030
Cleavage of DNA by R1 restriction endonuclease generates cohesive ends.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mertz, Davis. Mertz discovered that DNA ends generated by cutting with the EcoRI restriction enzyme are “sticky”, permitting any two such DNAs to be readily “recombined…
1971
#12029
DNA restriction and modification mechanisms in bacteria.
In this single author paper Boyer isolated, characterized and named the enzyme that Arber No. 12028 had observed and described in terms of its basic action on DNA. Boyer called it the “fi R-factor restriction endonucl…
1968
#12028
Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli, X. In vitro restriction of phage FD replicative form.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Linn, Arber. Arber announced the discovery, with proof, of the first restriction endonuclease (restriction enzyme or restrictase)."These enzymes are found in bacteria a…
1968
#12027
The double helix.
Portions of Watson's famous memoir appeared in the January and February issues of the Atlantic Monthly prior to their publication in book form in the Spring of 1968. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)
1856 –1879
#12026
Catalogue of the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London [by Benjamin Robert Wheatley]. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from Google Books at this link, of Vol. 2 at this link.
1831
#12025
Catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1816
#12024
A catalogue of the library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. With a supplement.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2013
#12023
Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…
1995
#12022
The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…
2009
#12021
Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
1997
#12020
Medicine and morals in the enlightenment: John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush.
"Modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world is commonly thought to derive from the medical philosophy of the Scotsman John Gregory (1725-1773) and his younger associates, the English Dissenter Thomas Percival…
1949
#12019
Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]
"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…
1857 –1860
#12018
Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 3 vols. + Atlas.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.