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1869 CE–1880 CE
#10292
Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles, comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux, ainsi que des documents relatifs à leur histoire naturelle. Folio atlas + 3 vols. text.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1889 CE
#10291
Histoire naturelle des cétacés des mers d'Europe. Extrait des tomes XXXVIII, XL, XLV, XLIII des Mémoires couronnés et autres Mémoires publiés par l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1889.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2012 CE
#10290
Lincoln and medicine.
2008 CE
#10289
The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.
1996 CE
#10288
Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
1928 CE
#10287
History of medicine in Nebraska. Albert F. Tyler, Editor. Ella F. Auerbach, Compiler.
This work was edited by Tyler from the writings of 24 collaborators. Reprinted and augmented, with an index, by Bernice M. Hetzner. Omaha, NE: University fo Nebraska Medical Center, 1977. Digital facsimile of the 1977…
1966 CE
#10286
Medicine in territorial Arizona.
1962 CE
#10285
Medicine in the making of Montana. Written by Paul C. Phillips from his own researches and the pioneer manuscripts of Llewellyn L. Callaway. Additional researches and notes by contributors.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1947 CE
#10284
The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.
1992 CE
#10283
To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.
1957 CE
#10282
Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
1959 CE
#10281
The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering.
1967 CE
#10280
Doctors of the old west: A pictorial history of medicine on the frontier.
1932 CE
#10279
California's medical story.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1858 CE
#10278
Mémoire sur les vers intestinaux.
Beneden's treatise on the development, transformation, and life-histories of parasitic worms won the Grand prix des sciences physiques of the Institut de France. It was published in the "International Scientific Serie…
1925 CE
#10277
The beginnings of California's medical history.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
2005 CE
#10276
A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948-2004.
Concerns experience in Britain.
2015 CE
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
1962 CE
#10274
The casualty officer's handbook.
The first handbook published in England on what later came to be called emergency medicine. Ellis, appointed to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1952, was the first "Casualty" consultant in England, and remained so unti…
1865 CE
#10273
Wandtafeln zur Schwangerschafts- und Geburtskunde. Text volume in quarto format plus atlas in double elephant folio format (915 x 650mm.)
This huge atlas of obstetric wall charts contains 20 chromolithographed plates measuring over 3 feet by 2 feet, illustrating the female reproductive anatomy, stages of pregnancy, normal and breech presentations of the…
2017 CE
#10272
Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962.
1561 CE
#10271
Pharmacopoeia, medicamentorum omnium quae hodie ad publica medentium munia officinis extant, tractationem & usum ex antiquorum medicorum praescripto continens, pharmacopoeis omnibus, atque etiam iis qui opus factitant medicum, valde utilis & necessaria.
Foes is credited with coining the word pharmacopeia in the title of this work. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2005 CE
#10270
Theophrast und Galen – Celsus und Paracelsus. Medizin, Naturphilosophie und Kirchenreform im Basler Buchdruck bis zum Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Publikationen der Universitätsbibliothek, Nr. 36. 4 vols. plus index vol.
"The project began as a exhibition in the Basle University Library to commemorate the major anniversaries of the birth and death of Paracelsus (1493–1541). Not only did he work and teach in Basle, but many of hi…
1898 CE
#10269
Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.
The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…
1818 CE
#10268
Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a Facultate Medica Parisiensi anno 1818.
The first French national pharmacopeia. The French pharmacopeia became the model for later national attempts to publish national pharmacopeias. Notably the first U.S. pharmacopeia was issued in 1820. After a legal not…
1809 CE
#10267
Recueil général des lois, réglemens, décisions et circulaires sur le service des hôpitaux militaires. 2 vols.
On the organization and administration of French military hospitals during the Napoleonic era, and probably the most comprehensive account published up to this time on the administration of military hospitals in gener…
1786 CE
#10266
Idées sur les secours à donner aux pauvres malades dans une grande ville.
Dupont proposed replacing large city hospitals with smaller institutions similar to those then being tried in England. Du Pont studied medicine before devoting himself to political economy. Digital facsimile from BnF …
1991 CE
#10265
Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.
Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.
1987 CE
#10264
Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.
1975 CE
#10263
Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.
2018 CE
#10262
Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories.
A pioneering effort to draw the connections between the development of veterinary medicine and the development of medicine in general. With an extensive annotated bibliography.
1856 CE
#10261
The camel: His organization habits and uses considered with reference to his introduction into the United States.
Marsh, who is remembered today for his contributions to ecology in his book, Man and nature, was appointed by president Zachary Taylor United States minister resident in the Ottoman Empire from 1849-1854. There he und…
1874 CE
#10260
The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated together with an account of the American whale-fishery.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1834 CE
#10259
The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.
Characterizing himself "Surgeon-Accoucheur" on the title page, Dewhurst lectured in 1827-8 on anatomy and physiology, and served as a ship's surgeon, making voyage to Greenland and its surrounding seas in 1824. During…
1989 CE
#10258
Histoire de la médecine tibetaine. Vie de Yutok Yonten Gonpo l'Ancien, traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Paul R. Claudon et Sylvaine Jean avec la collaboration de Martine Pageon-Tarin.
1958 CE
#10257
Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.
2001 CE
#10256
Spacefaring: The human dimension.
1993 CE–2009 CE
#10255
Space biology and medicine. 5 vols. Vol. 1: Space and its exploration, edited by J. D. Rummel, V.A. Kotelnikov, and M. V. Ivanov. Vol. 2: Life support and habitability, edited by F. M. Sulzman and A. M. Genin. Vol. 3, Books 1 & 2: Humans in spaceflight, edited by Carolyn S. Leach Huntoon, Vesevolod V. Antipov, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 4: Health, performance, and safety of space crews, edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Stanley R. Mohler, Oleg G. Gazenko, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 5: U.S. and Russian cooperation in space biology and medicine, edited by Charles F. Sawin, Svetlana I. Hanson, Nancy G. House, and Igor D. Pestov.
"The five-volume Space Biology and Medicine is a joint work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first volume contributors describe the current status of the…
1982 CE
#10254
Space physiology and medicine. Edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and James F. Parker, Jr.
1977 CE
#10253
Biomedical results from Skylab. Edited by Richard S. Johnston and Lawrence F. Dietlein.
"Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar…
1975 CE
#10252
Biomedical results of Apollo.
Full text available from history.nasa.gov at this link.
1965 CE
#10251
Space medicine in Project Mercury.
"Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, id…
2007 CE
#10250
United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.
Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.
1955 CE
#10249
Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2006 CE
#10248
Frozen in memory: U.S. Navy medicine in the Korean War.
1997 CE
#10247
Battle station sick bay: Navy medicine in World War II.
2008 CE
#10246
Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.
2003 CE–2013 CE
#10245
Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes.
http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mjw65/jmc/ Twenty-four issues were published. Table of Contents for all issues is available on the website.
2003 CE
#10244
ArtandMedicine.com.
http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.
1984 CE
#10243
Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.
"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…