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1771
#11615
A catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.
Largely based on specimens he had access to from the British collections of Thomas Pennant and Anna Blackburne, this was Forster's attempt to systemize on the Linnean model the fragmented field of natural history stud…
2016
#11614
The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.
1739
#11613
Pharmacopoeia Matritensis, Regii, ac Supremi Hispaniarum protomedicatus auctoritate, jussu atque auspiciis nunc primum elaborata.
The first national pharmacopoeia issued in Spain, also controlling drug preparation and use for the Spanish empire. It included botanical, mineral and animal substances, and substances obtained from the Spanish empire…
2014
#11612
Medical monopoly: Intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry.
2019
#11611
Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.
2018
#11610
The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.
1648
#11609
Encheiridium anatomicum, et pathologicum, in quo naturali constitutione partium, recessus a naturali statu demonstatur.
In book III, chapter 8 Riolan discusses the heart and presents his views on the circulation of the blood. "Riolan's opinion of the blood movement seems to have arisen from his attempt to reconcile strict Galenic belie…
1935
#11608
Failure of the circulation.
1756
#11607
Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang, et sur les effets de la saignée, fondés sur des experiences faites sur des animaux.
In these memoirs Haller described the results of 235 vivisections. Haller has been called "the founder of modern haemodynamics." "The myogenic theory of the heartbeat can be traced to Haller, who concluded on the basi…
1887
#11606
Catalogue of books in the medical and biological libraries at University College, London. With an appendix.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1830
#11605
Researches principally relative to the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood.
Hall's experiments on the physiological effects of therapeutic bleeding provided compelling evidence that bleeding could cause significant harm and even death. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1830
#11604
On the diseases and injuries of arteries, with the operations required for their cure.
"Guthrie's experiences during the Peinsular War enabled him to make considerable improvements in practical surgery. These included introducing the practice of ligaturing both ends of a divided artery.... Guthrie made …
1944 –1960
#11603
Medical physics. Edited by Otto Glasser. 3 vols.
This nearly 4000 page work in three unusually thick volumes, written by hundreds of authors, was an encyclopedia of medical physics for its time.
1962
#11602
Heart-lung bypass: Principles and techniques of extracorporeal circulation.
1781
#11601
A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works of John Fothergill. With an account of his life; and occasional notes, by John Elliot.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1776
#11600
Case of an angina pectoris, with remarks. Farther account of the angina pectoris.
Fothergill was "the first physician to suspect on clinical grounds that the heart might be affected in this condition [angina pectoris] and he was the first to record abnormalities of the myocardium and coronary arter…
1824
#11599
Original cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest: Also commentaries on the same subjects selected and translated from Auenbrugger, Corvisart, Laennec and others
This is the earliest English work on the stethoscope. It "includes the first English translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion, selected sections from Laennec's book on auscultation, and detailed reports from 39…
1963
#11598
Periodic health examinations: Abstracts from the literature. Public Health Service Publication No. 1010.
An annotated bibliography of the literature to June 1962. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1629 –1631
#11597
Integrum morborum mysterium, sive medicinæ catholicæ tomi primi tractatus secundus. [Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia ... Hoc est, portionis tertiae pars tertia, de pulsuum scientia ... medicorum ... sive tomi primi tractatus secundi, sectio secunda, de morborum signis ... hoc est, divinatio per urinam.] In sectiones distributus duas : quorum ...
Fludd's Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia contain's Fludd's chief medical writings. Dated 1629, but issued in this form, Fludd's Pulsus was the first published endorsement of Harvey's theory of the circulatio…
1867
#11596
Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, GA. Edited by Austin Flint.
Includes contributions by Roberts Bartholow, Jacob Mendez DaCosta, Paul Eve, Frank Hamilton, Joseph Jones, S. Wier Mitchell, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1927
#11595
How to make the periodic health examination: A manual of procedure. Foreward by Major General Merritte W. Ireland, Surgeon General, United States Army.
Fisk was medical director, Life Extension Institute; Crawford was Assistant Medical Director, Life Extension Institute. "This pioneering monograph on the value of periodic health examination includes numbers of photog…
2005
#11594
The eugenics movement: An encyclopedia.
2003
#11593
The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.
1799
#11592
An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.
"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it…
1998
#11591
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
1960
#11590
An implantable pacemaker in the heart. IN: Medical electronics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Electronics, Paris 24-27 June 1959. Edited by C. N. Smyth.
"This is the original report of the first fully implantable pacemaker that was designed by Elmqvist and surgically inserted under the skin of a patient in October 1958. It is an abstract of their presentation that sig…
1906
#11589
Het telecardiogram.
This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.
1639
#11588
De flagrorum usu in re veneria et lumborum renumque officio, epistola.
According to Havelock Ellis, Studies in the psychology of sex (1913) this is the earliest published work on flogging in "medicine" and for sexual gratification, giving accounts of a number of examples. "David Savran d…
1965
#11587
Congenital heart disease: Correlation of pathologic anatomy and angiography. 2 vols.
With Lewis Carey and Richard Lester.
1961
#11586
An atlas of acquired diseases of the heart and great vessels. 3 vols.
1987
#11585
Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century
"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …
1896
#11584
Notes on the coronary arteries.
Dock recorded one of the earliest diagnoses of myocardial infaction in a living patient: "The diagnosis was mymalacia folling coronary sclerosis with secondary pericarditis. This was based on the history of increasing…
1861
#11583
Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations.
Dobell was the first physician to propose periodic health examinations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2013
#11582
Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.
1644
#11581
Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.
"Digby's Two Treatises was intended to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body, a dualistic view shared by many of his contemporaries. the work is noteworthy on several co…
1924
#11580
Herz und Sport: klinische Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des Sportes auf das Herz.
This pioneering study on the effects of exercise on the cardiovascular system was translated into English by Louis M. Warfield as Herz und Sport. Heart and athletics. London: Henry Kimpton, 1927. Digital facsimile of …
1980
#11579
The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.
"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…
1864
#11578
Medical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.
During the Civil War Da Costa was an acting surgeon in Philadelphia where he supervised a ward for patients with heart disease. In this book he presented the first description of a condition that he called "irritable …
1955
#11577
Cardiovascular surgery: Studies in physiology, diagnosis and techniques. Proceedings of the symposium held at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, March, 1955. Edited by Conrad R. Lam.
This symposium was a foundational work in the history of cardiovascular surgery. It included contributions by most of the pioneers of the closed and open-heart procedures that revolutionaized the care of children and …
1793
#11576
Storia di un monocolo con alcune riflessioni.
A rather elegantly produced and illustrated medical monograph on a cyclops, with plates printed in sepia. Engraved headpieces allude to monsters from classical mythology Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2007
#11575
Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.
1876
#11574
Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.
"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…
1902
#11573
Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.
According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…
1904
#11572
The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.
The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1950
#11571
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
1931
#11570
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
1976
#11569
Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.
1937
#11568
La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.
Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.
1923
#11567
Traumatic shock.
"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…
1855
#11566
Self-adjusting stethoscope of Dr. Cammann.
The American physician George P. Cammann invented the binaural flexible stethoscope. By 1852 Cammann "had developed a stethoscope with flexible tubing (spirals of wire covered with silk, later rubber, or as he called …