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1945 CE
#9891
On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics.
"... the Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology.... The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well known ways to des…
1994 CE
#9890
The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.
1985 CE
#9889
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
1891 CE
#9888
Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.
Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht u…
1962 CE
#9887
The human skeleton in forensic medicine.
2012 CE
#9886
An historical overview of natural products in drug discovery.
Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
2003 CE
#9885
The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.
"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…
2010 CE
#9884
Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.
"This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them" (publisher).
1987 CE
#9883
The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.
2017 CE
#9882
Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
1995 CE
#9881
Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600–1860.
"... the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocra…
2008 CE
#9880
The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.
"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…
1954 CE
#9879
"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.
Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.
2008 CE
#9878
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
2004 CE
#9877
Medicine transformed: Health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930.
2004 CE
#9876
Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930: A source book. Edited by Deborah Brunton.
2004 CE
#9875
The healing arts: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Peter Elmer
2003 CE
#9874
Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.
2006 CE
#9873
Miracles in Enlightenment England.
Chapter 3: Miracle workers dn healers. Chapter 4: Valentine Greatrakes and the New Philosophy, etc.
2016 CE
#9872
Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.
1817 CE
#9871
De nova infusionis methodo. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica....
Eduard von Graefe’s medical thesis described the method devised by his brother, Carl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840), for transfusing blood or other liquids into the blood vessels. The work includes an illustra…
2015 CE
#9870
Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
1867 CE
#9869
Prize essay. Ancient transfusion and infusion compared with modern transfusion, infusion, and hypodermic or subcutaneous injections. Translated by Charles F. Wittig.
A comprehensive review, for the time, of the historical literature on these subjects. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1623 CE
#9868
Pinax theatri botanici.
The Pinax theatri botanici (English, Illustrated exposition of plants) described and classified about 6,000 species. "The classification system was not particularly innovative, using traditional groups such as "trees"…
c. 1695 CE
#9867
Order of the hospitalls: The order of the hospitalls of K. Henry the viiith and K. Edward the vith, viz; St. Batholomew's. Christ's. Bridewell. St. Thomas's
First printing of the sixteenth-century statues of the London hospitals. Tradition has it that it was published at the instigation of Samuel Pepys. Hospitals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were of more gen…
1778 CE
#9866
Kort Underviisning om De paa Landet, I Bergens Stift, meest grasserende Sygdomme, og derimod tienende Hjelpe-Midler. Paa Det Nyttige Sælskabs Bekostning.
Strøm's work, which may be translated as "A short instruction about common sicknesses in the area around Bergen and their most common remedies" was "More a report than a doctor book, it describes the living con…
1546 CE
#9865
Skøn lystig ny Urtegaard.
Smid was one of the first writers on medicine in Scandinavia who was trained in medicine, but according to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111 "had trouble succeeding …
1534 CE
#9864
Om UrteVand.
Petersen issued a second book, "On herbal extracts" in 1534. According to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111, Pedersen's two works together contained "250 medical her…
1533 CE
#9863
En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.
Pedersen, a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher, wrote and published the earliest medical book issued in Scandanavia by a Scandanavian writer. Translated as "A useful doctor book for poor and…
2017 CE
#9862
Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
2004 CE
#9861
Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
1994 CE
#9860
The case books of Dr. John Snow. Edited by Richard H. Ellis.
2015 CE
#9859
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
2002 CE
#9858
A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis.
2013 CE
#9857
Landmark papers in nephrology. Edited by John Freehally, Christopher McIntyre and J. Stewart Cameron.
2007 CE
#9856
Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.
2003 CE
#9855
The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925.
Available online at http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/44/8/1362.long.
1985 CE
#9854
Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
2013 CE
#9853
Medical visions: Producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies.
"Kirsten Ostherr focuses on moving images produced in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of images she considers are diverse and range from sober education films to televi…
2008 CE
#9852
Literature and medicine, future tense: Making it graphic.
A relatively early discussion of the principles of graphic medicine. Available from obermann.uiowa.edu at this link.
1991 CE
#9851
A history of experimental virology. Translated by Elvira Reckendorf.
2012 CE
#9850
Dialysis: History, development and promise. Edited by Todd S. Ing, Mohamed Rahman, and Carl M. Kjellstrand.
2017 CE
#9849
Visualizing disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.
1968 CE
#9848
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
1519 CE
#9847
De guaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.
The German scholar, poet, satirist and reformer von Hutten issued a remarkably widely published and influential account of his suffering from syphilis and his treatment with gum from Guaiacum wood. This is considered …
1930 CE
#9846
Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz.
Bälz was personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan. "Bälz taught more than 800 students in Western medicine during his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial …
2014 CE
#9845
Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.
"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was …
2010 CE
#9844
The Royal Society: The Repository.
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science "INCIPIT "Hello and welcome to the Centre for History of Science. We look after the Royal Society’s amazing collections of archives, rare books, pictures and art…
1998 CE
#9843
Library of Congress Digital Collections.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/ In February 2018 the Library of Congress offered 316 different digital collections: Subject American History98 Performing Arts77 Government, Law & Politics72 World Cultures & History65…
2008 CE
#9842
Archives and manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/ "The collections held in the Western Manuscripts section of the Bodleian Libraries are a vast treasure house of historical records and literary papers from all pe…