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1761 –1762
#11816
Die gottliche Ordnung in den Veranderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts, aus der Geburt, dem Tode und der Fortpflanzung desselben erwiesen. Zwote und ganz umgearbeitete Ausgabe. 2 vols.
Twenty years after publication of the first edition (No. 1691), Süssmilch published a second edition "that was so different from the earlier book that it may well be called a separate work. While maintaining his origi…
1983
#11814
U.S. cancer mortality rates and trends, 1950-1979. 4 vols.
Riggan supervised this long-term project of calculating and publishing cancer mortality rates and trends for every county in the United States over several decades. The last 30 of the 40 years of the underlying data b…
1837
#11813
Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés.
A thorough analysis of the problem of foundling children from a social, medical, legal and historical standpoint. The work begins with a history of the treatment of abandoned children from antiquity to the time of wri…
1912
#11812
Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.
Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…
2005
#11811
Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.
1893
#11810
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its products and potentialities, containing an account, with copious coloured and photographic illustrations (the latter here produced for the first time), of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, other fishing Industries, and the marine fauna of the Australian Great Barrier region.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary at this link.
2011
#11809
Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.
Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005.
1847 –1852
#11808
Flora medico-farmaceutica. 6 vols.
Digital facsimile of the complete set from the Internet Archive at this link.
2015
#11807
The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.
1857
#11806
Omphalos: An attempt to untie the geological knot.
In Omphalos, published in 1857, two years before the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Gosse attempted to reconcile the paleontological record with creationist religious beliefs by arguing that the fos…
1860
#11805
Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2019
#11804
The professional library of James W. Porter on corals and coral reefs.
1872
#11803
Corals and coral islands.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1807
#11802
The Oriental voyager, or descriptive sketches and cursory remarks on a voyage to India and China in His Majesty's ship Caroline, performed in the years 1803–4–5–6. Interspersed with extracts from the best modern voyages and travels. The whole intended to exhibit a topographical and picturesque sketch of all the principal places which are annually or occasionally visited by our East Indian and China fleets....
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1819
#11801
Bdellomètre du docteur Sarlandière.
Privately printed pamphlet describing Sarlandière's "artificial leech," a mechanical bleeding device designed to replace leeches when they were not available. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1825
#11800
Histoire naturelle et médicale des sangsues, contenant la description anatomique des organes de la sangsue officinale, avec des considérations physiologiques sur ces organes; des notions très-étendues sur la conservation domestique de ce ver, sa reproduction, ses maladies, son application, etc.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1816
#11799
A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also, remarks upon the diseases, preservation, and management of leeches.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1780
#11798
Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, que jussu Mariae Theresiae Ausgustae.
Born was commissioned in 1776, by Maria-Therese, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, to inventory and arrange the imperal collection that formed the foundation of the imperial museum, now the Naturhistorische Museum in …
1937
#11797
A sex starved world.
A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …
1798
#11796
An entire new treatise on leeches, wherein the nature, properties, and use of that most singular and valuable reptile, is most clearly set forth.
Digital facsimiel from WellcomeLibrary.org at this link.
1995
#11795
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
2016
#11794
The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.
2017
#11793
Fearful asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the localization of language, Paris, 1825-1879.
2008
#11792
Milestones in the history of aphasia: Theories and protagonists.
1991
#11791
Neurolinguistics: Historical and theoretical perspectives. Translated by Terence MacNamee.
1872
#11790
Key to North American birds containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary.
Coues continued to revise and expand this work, putting it through four editions during his lifetime. Digital facsimile of the 1872 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. The Hathi Trust also makes available digit…
1874
#11789
Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.
This work incorporated Coues' A check list of North American birds (1873). Coues had the check list portion of this work printed with the versos blank so that users could enter in their own information. Digital facsim…
1878 –1880
#11788
American ornithological bibliography. 4 parts. (Also called "Ornithological bibliography").
This is an exhaustive work up to time of publications, including scientific references to American birds in publications, the titles of which do not indicate any ornithological material. [Pt. 1.] Geological and Geogra…
1939
#11787
The measurement of adult intelligence.
Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…
2014
#11786
Doctors of another calling: Physicians who are best known in fields other than medicine. Edited by David K. C. Cooper.
1994
#11785
Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.
1857
#11784
Noticia da vida e trabalhos scientificos do medico Bernardino Antonio Gomés.
Biography and annotated bibliography of the physician and botanist Gomés senior, written by his son. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1790
#11783
Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, para uso da naçaõ Portugueza publicado por ordem da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa.
The first work on pediatrics written by a Brazilian physician. Digital facsimile from Biblioteca digital Luso-Brasileira at this link.
1794
#11782
Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde, feita a todos os senhores confessores e directores, sobre o modo de proceder com seus penitentes na emenda dos peccados, principalmente da lascivia, colera, e bebedice.
The first Portuguese work on psychosomatic medicine. The author was a Brazilian who worked in Portugal. Digital facsimile from Wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
2011
#11781
Percursos na história do livro médico, 1450-1800. Edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa and Adelino Cardoso.
1988
#11780
Molecular Koch's postulates applied to microbial pathogenicity.
"Molecular Koch's postulates are a set of experimental criteria that must be satisfied to show that a gene found in a pathogenic microorganism encodes a product that contributes to the disease caused by the pathogen. …
1773 –1774
#11779
Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthecorum, et testaceorum non marinorum, succincta historia. 2 vols.
In this work Müller arranged the Infusoria into genera and species for the first time. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1988
#11778
Southern African botanical literature, 1600-1988.
1931
#11777
Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.
2004
#11776
Bibliographie der deutschen vogelkundlichen Literatur von 1480 bis 1850.
1938
#11775
Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.
1988
#11774
Outlines of entomology. Seventh edition.
Includes an outstanding analytical bibliography of the primary entomological literature.
1928 –1975
#11773
Index litteraturae entomologicae serie I: Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive. Index litteraturae entomologicae series II: von 1864 bis 1900. 9 vols.
The first part, by Horn and Schenkling, was privately published by Horn in 4 vols., 1928-29. The second part, by Derksen and Göllner-Scheiding, was published by the Akademie der Lanwirtschafwissenschaften der DDR in 5…
2006
#11772
MykoLibri. Die Biliothek der Pilzbücher.
1938
#11771
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
1948 –1949
#11770
Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.
1982
#11769
The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
2006
#11768
Inside the space race: A space surgeon's diary.
1960
#11767
The first Internation Symposium on Cardiology in Aviation. Conducted at the School of Aviation Medicine 12-13 November 1959. USAF Aerospace Medical Center (ATC). Edited by Lawrence E. Lamb.
1948
#11766
Congenital anaomies of the heart and great vessels. Clinicopathologic study of 132 ases.
An extensively illustrated pathological-anatomical and physiological presentation with an historical approach.