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1885 CE
#10192
Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…
1886 CE
#10191
The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1685 CE
#10190
Verdadera albeyteria. Divido en quatro libros....Lleva diferentes estampas, donde vàn delineadas las enfermedades que sobrevienen en el cuerpo, braços, y piernas del cavallo....
Includes both anatomical engravings and engraving that relate to astrological influences. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2009 CE
#10189
The imperial laboratory: Experimental physiology and clinical medicine in Post-Crimean Russia.
2018 CE
#10188
A platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health: Strategic plan 2017-2027. Report of the NLM Board of Regents.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/plan/lrp17/NLM_StrategicReport2017_2027.html "The strategic plan focuses on three essential, interdependent goals that will help guide the Library’s priorities over the next 10 years…
2008 CE
#10187
Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.
2018 CE
#10186
Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.
2016 CE
#10185
A biographical history of endocrinology.
1824 CE
#10184
Recherches pour server à l'histoire des maladies du système lymphatique.
First description of lymphangitis carcinomatosa. See L. Doyle, "Gabriel Andral (1797-1876) and the first reports of lymphangitis carcinomatosa," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 82 (1989) 491-93.
2003 CE
#10183
A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.
1998 CE
#10182
The land of prehistory: A critical history of American anthropology.
1964 CE
#10181
Early anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1868 CE
#10180
Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī's Kosmographie. Nach der Wüstenfeldschen Textausgabe, mit Benutzung und Beifügung der reichhaltigen Anmerkungen und Verbesserungen des Herrn Prof. Dr. Fleischer in Leipzig, aus dem Arabischen zum ersten Male vollständig übersetzt von Dr. Hermann Ethé. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. 1. Halbband
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1999 CE
#10179
Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.
The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.
1964 CE
#10178
The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.
1833 CE–1866 CE
#10177
The naturalist's library. Edited by Sir William Jardine. 40 vols.
"1833, Natural History of Humming Birds, Part I, (Ornithology Vol. VI) by William Jardine, with memoir of Carl Linnaeus. (online) 1833, Monkeys, (Mammalia Vol. I) by William Jardine, with a memoir of Comte de Buffon (…
1848 CE
#10176
The dodo and its kindred; Or, the history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon.
The first separate monograph on the dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. "The closest genetic relative to the dodo was the also extinct …
2002 CE
#10175
Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.
"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…
1996 CE
#10174
Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.
1990 CE
#10173
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
1989 CE
#10172
A history of vascular surgery.
Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
2014 CE
#10171
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.
1729 CE
#10170
Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita.
Micheli provided descriptions of 1900 plants, including first published descriptions of about 1400. Among those were 900 fungi and lichens, accompanied by 73 plates. He included information on "the planting, origin an…
1997 CE
#10169
Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.
1978 CE
#10168
The road to Eleusis: Unveiling the secret of the mysteries.
Argues that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus Claviceps purpurea. Furthermore the book introduced the term "entheoge…
1821 CE–1832 CE
#10167
Systema mycologicum: Sistens fungorum ordines, genera et species, huc usque cognitas, quas ad normam methodi naturalis determinavit. 3 vols.
Fries's work represents the beginning of mycological nomenclature. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2005 CE
#10166
Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.
Focuses on the period of the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939.
1539 CE
#10165
Epistola docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam: & melancholium succum ex venae portae ramis ad sedem pertinentibus, purgari.
In this early study, written in the form of a letter to his friend and mentor Imperial Physician, Nicolaus Florenas, who had encouraged him to study medicine, Vesalius reported his study of the venous system of the hu…
2006 CE
#10164
J-B Baillière et fils, éditeurs de médecine: Actes du colloque international de Paris (29 janvier 2005). Ed. Danielle Gourevitch et Jean-François Vincent.
1991 CE
#10163
Index biographique des membres, des associés et des correspondants de l’Académie de médecine: 1820-1990. 4th edition.
1995 CE
#10162
The medical mandarins: The French Academy of Medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
2005 CE
#10161
Les animaux malades en Europe occidentale, vi-xix siècle. Ed. M. Mousnier.
1704 CE
#10160
De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana, et morbis inde oriundis.
Mead formulated the position that periodic atmospheric tides arising from planetary forces produced alterations of gravity, elasticity, and air pressure; these changes, he argued, affected the human body in health and…
1973 CE
#10159
Bibliografia hispanica de veterinaria y equitacion anterior a 1901. Ordenada, comentada en algunos epigrafes y dividida en tres partes. I: Repertorio cronologico: Tratados. II: Repertorio cronologico: Textos legales. III: Indices.
1678 CE
#10158
Georgii Simonis Winteri Hippiater Expertus, Seu Medicina Equorum Absolutissima : Tribus Libris comprehensa: Quorum I. Agit de Equorum Temperamentis; Aetate cognoscenda; Morbis omnibus internis Capitis; Oculorum; Aurium; Narium; Linguae; Dentium; Oris; aliisque his similibus; II. De Affectibus internis Thoracis & Abdominis ... ; III. De omnis generis Unguentis; Oleis; Balsamis & Emplastris in genere; item de quibuscunque Morbis ac Symptomatibus externis; ut: Tumoribus, Ulceribus & Vulneribus cujuscunque generis ...
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1777 CE
#10157
Règlemens pour les Écoles Royales Vétérinaires de France, divisés en deux parties; la première, contenant la police & la discipline générale: la seconde, concernant l'enseignement en général, l'enseignement en particulier & la police des études.
Bourgelat founded the first veterinary school in Lyon, 1761. He later developed the French system of veterinary schools. Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
1750 CE–1753 CE
#10156
Éléments d'hippiatrique, ou nouveau principes sur la connoissance et sur la médecine des chevaux. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
1805 CE
#10155
Notice historique et raisonnée sur C. Bourgelat, fondateur des ecoles vétérinaires; où l’on trouve un aperçu statistique sur cet établissement. Par L. F. Grognier.
Bourgelat, a French lawyer, observed that certain diseases were devastating French herds, and forsaking his law practice, devoted his time to seeking out a remedy for the epizootic (rinderpest). In the process Bourgel…
2003 CE
#10154
Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Vétérinaires.
http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/ http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/en/
1955 CE
#10153
Histoire illustrée de la médecine vétérinaire. 2 vols.
1891 CE
#10152
A manual of saddles and collars, sore backs and sore shoulders.
"The subject of saddles and sore backs [of horses] is such an important one that I have considered the lectures delivered by me on the subject, in this school, might be of more permanent value if printed. "Every offic…
1912 CE–1914 CE
#10151
A veterinary history of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. Supplement to: Veterinary record May 25, 1912-Sept. 26, 1914.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1927 CE
#10150
A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919 CE–1933 CE
#10149
The early history of veterinary literature and its British development
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and limited (search only) of vol. 2-4 from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2006 CE
#10148
A century of adventure in northern health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978.
2015 CE
#10147
Pioneers in plastic surgery.
1655 CE
#10146
Prae-Adamitae, sive exercitatio super versibus duodecimo, decimotertio, & decimoquarto, capitis quinti Epistolae D. Pauli ad Romanos: Quibus inducuntur primi homines ante Adamum conditi.
"In his Prae-Adamitae, published in Latin in 1655 and in English as Men Before Adam in 1656, La Peyrère argued that Paul's words in Chapter 5, verses 12-14 of his Epistle to the Romans should be interpreted suc…
2018 CE
#10145
Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.
2006 CE
#10144
A perfectly striking departure: Surgeons and surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912—1980.
2003 CE
#10143