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2011 CE

#9841

Digital Bodeian. Judith Siefring, Head of Digital Research.

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ "The Bodleian Libraries’ collections are extraordinary and significant—both from a scholarly point of view and as material that has an historic and aesthetic richness tha…

2011 CE

#9840

Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Paris: Université Paris Descartes. Guy Cobolet, Curator General.

http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/index.php One of the most comprehensive portals and digital libraries for the history of medicine and dentistry. History of health Digital libraries Medic @ Digital Libra…

2012 CE

#9839

Digitized Collections: Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

https://library.medicine.yale.edu/digital Yale School of Medicine Collection Medical Instruments & Artifacts Peter Parker Papers Civil War Photographs Postcard Collection Tobacco Advertising Books by & about Harvey Cu…

1990 CE

#9838

History of Psychiatry. 1-

2009 CE

#9837

Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Blog

https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?page_id=2 Of all the blogs produced by history of medicine departments at university libraries that I had seen in February 2018 this appeared to be one of the most active.

2004 CE

#9836

OnView: Curated content from the Center for the History of Medicine's extraordinary collections. The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: An alliance of the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School.

http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/collection-tree Archives for Women in Medicine Avery, Mary Ellen papers, 1929-2002 (inclusive) Baumgartner, Leona papers, 1837-1993 (inclusive) 1930-1970 (bulk) Bibring, …

1985 CE

#9835

Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, Editor-in-Chief.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ "The Perseus Digital Library Project began at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts in 1985. Though the project was ostensibly about Greek and Roman literature and cu…

1998 CE–2014 CE

#9834

Suda On Line: Byzantine lexicography.

http://www.stoa.org/sol/ "In 1998 the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities organized by Ross Scaife sponsored the online collaborative annotated first English translation of the massive Byzanti…

1794 CE

#9833

Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles and joints.

Bell’s atlas of the bones, muscles and joints was issued as a separate work a year after his text, The Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints. Bell’s illustrations are some of the most striking in the e…

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1978 CE

#9831

Multiphasic health testing services.

'In 1968 Morris F. Collen, MD and his team at KP’s Medical Methods Research (MMR) built a medical information system that peers described in the era as the most advanced of its kind. It was an aspiration of medi…

2009 CE

#9830

A history of total health.

https://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/ "A History of Total Health invites you to join in a discussion of today’s health care as we draw links to relevant events in the history of Kaiser Permanente and the industri…

2015 CE

#9829

The great paleolithic war: How science forged an understanding of America's ice age past.

A masterful synthesis of the history of the study of human origins in North America with a comprehensive bibliography.

2017 CE

#9828

Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.

"In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taki…

1966 CE

#9827

Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.

c. 2000 CE

#9826

Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.

https://library.si.edu/digital-library/natural-and-physical-sciences "About Our Collections "The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, …

2002 CE

#9825

Expeditions & discoveries: Sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/index.html "The fourth in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as fiel…

1942 CE

#9824

The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography

Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.

1844 CE

#9823

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 5 vols. plus atlas.

The United States Exploring Expedition was the first United States scientific expedition by sea. Wilkes' six ships ranged from Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and Peru, to Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand,…

1984 CE

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

2017 CE

#9821

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).

Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century.

2006 CE

#9820

Mom's cancer.

This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…

2007 CE

#9819

Graphic Medicine. www.graphicmedicine.org

2015 CE

#9818

The graphic medicine manifesto.

"...establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and M…

2009 CE

#9817

Fatal thirst: Diabetes in Britain until insulin.

2001 CE

#9816

The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…

2002 CE

#9815

Publishing and medicine in early modern England.

"This book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical orthodoxy and the contro…

1849 CE

#9814

The physiognomy of diseases.

Corfe was Resident Medical Officer at London's Middlesex Hospital, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and author of works on various medical subjects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive a…

2001 CE

#9813

Physiognomy and the meaning of expression in nineteenth-century culture.

"...explores the concepts of physiognomy and eugenics and raises questions about what are "legitimate" sciences.[2] She describes how "the appeal of physiognomy lay not so much in any of its scientific pretension but …

2016 CE

#9812

L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.

Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Li&e…

2009 CE

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

1999 CE

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

2009 CE

#9809

An Old French herbal (Ms Princeton U.L. Garrett 131). Edited by Tony Hunt.

First edition of the earliest Old French herbal in verse— "a surprisingly comprehensive work (3188 octosyllables), based on an eleventh-century Latin treatise 'De viribus herbarum' attributed to a certain 'Macer…

2017 CE

#9808

La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.

The most comprehensive study of this subject.

1831 CE

#9807

Beredeneerde beschrijving van het Museum Anatomico-Physiologicum van P. de Riemer.

Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.

2003 CE

#9806

Medical mycology in the United States: A historical analysis (1894–1996).

1989 CE

#9805

Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.

"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatris…

2003 CE

#9804

A history of online information services 1963-1976.

Pages 197-223 concern "Modern bibliographic control of medical literature." Development of MEDLARS, MEDLARS II, MEDLINE.

2003 CE

#9803

A history of nonprescription production regulation.

History of U.S. regulation of patent medicines,cosmetics, pure food and drugs, homeopathy, dietary supplements, etc.

1990 CE

#9802

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.

2005 CE

#9801

Animals and disease: An introduction to the history of comparative medicine.

1996 CE

#9800

Veterinary medicine: An illustrated history.

2004 CE

#9799

American household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.

1986 CE

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

1993 CE

#9797

The face of mercy: A photographic history of medicine at war.

1995 CE

#9796

Chiropractic: An illustrated history.

2016 CE

#9795

Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.

Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…

1988 CE

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1982 CE–1987 CE

#9793

Histoire de la médecine aux armées. Par Pierre Lefebvre, Jean Guillermand et Albert Fabre. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution. Vol. 2: De la révolution française au conflit mondial de 1914. Vol. 3: De 1914 à nos jours.

2018 CE

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.