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1958 CE

#9740

Herbals of five centuries. A contribution to medical history and bibliography.

1977 CE

#9739

Conrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.

1952 CE

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

2007 CE

#9737

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

1990 CE

#9736

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.

1939 CE

#9735

La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.

1987 CE

#9734

A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.

1989 CE

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1951 CE

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.

1976 CE

#9731

Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.

1989 CE

#9730

Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.

1965 CE

#9729

Molecular biology of the gene.

Watson's first book on molecular biology, and the first textbook on what was then a new academic subject. Seventh revised edition, with five co-authors, 2013.

1981 CE

#9728

The DNA story: A documentary history of gene cloning.

1959 CE

#9727

Moderne problem der humangenetik.

In this paper Vogel coined the term pharmacogenetics, as the study of the role of genetics in drug response.

1957 CE

#9726

Drug reactions, enzymes and biochemical genetics.

Motulsky clearly stated that inheritance might explain many individual differences in the efficacy of drugs and in the occurence of adverse drug reactions.

1892 CE

#9725

The yellow wall-paper.

This 6,000-word short story by is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating and critiquing 19th century attitudes toward women's health, both physical and mental. Digital facsim…

1908 CE

#9724

A mind that found itself.

In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…

2012 CE

#9723

Computer medical databases: The first six decades (1950–2010).

2006 CE

#9722

The genetics revolution: History, fears and future of a life-altering science.

1988 CE

#9721

Domestication of plants in the old world: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin.

Revised 4th edition, 2012.

1978 CE

#9720

Recombinant DNA: The untold story.

1952 CE

#9719

Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants.

Demonstration of the mutational basis of antibiotic resistance. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1994 CE

#9718

Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.

1998 CE

#9717

Profiles in science: U. S. National Library of Medicine.

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanc…

2015 CE

#9716

The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.

"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a…

2002 CE

#9715

Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).

2017 CE

#9714

Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.

1830 CE

#9713

Sketches of the medical topography of the Mediterranean; comprising an account of Gibraltar, the Ionian Islands, and Malta. To which is prefixed a sketch of a plan for memoirs on medical topography

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2017 CE

#9712

Normality. A critical genealogy.

Perhaps the first study of the history of the "normal" in medicine. Traces the concept of normal to French anatomical and physiological discourse in the 1820s and 1830s, and its dissemination in modern culture through…

2018 CE

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

2004 CE

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

2011 CE

#9708

Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.

1988 CE

#9707

Histoire de la médecine chinoise.

2015 CE

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

2015 CE

#9705

Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.

2007 CE

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

2014 CE

#9703

Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.

2017 CE

#9702

Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.

1817 CE

#9701

On transfusion of blood in extreme cases of haemorrhage.

In 1816 Leacock, from Barbados, reported systematic experiments in Edinburgh on dogs and cats that established that donor and recipient must be of the same species, and recommended inter-human transfusion; he then ret…

1821 CE

#9700

Icones cerebri simiarum et quorundam mammalium rariorum.

"Although a few more reports were published furing the next hundred years [after Tyson] it was Tiedemann alone who gave a more detailed account, on monkeys, in his... Icones Simiarum.... In monkeys he found the brain …

1872 CE

#9699

Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.

Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…

1680 CE

#9698

Praxis catholica: or the countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing. Written by Robert Couch, sometime practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. Now published with divers useful additions (for public benefit) by Chr. Pack, operator in chymistry.

The first medical book written in the British colonies of North America. The introduction, "To all ingenious students and practitioners in physick and chyrurgery", is signed Robert Couch, but the extent of additions i…

2009 CE

#9697

Burke & Hare.

This account of the resurrection men, Burke and Hare, is the first comic book version of a history of medicine story of which I am aware.

1820 CE

#9696

Hamse-i Şanizade. Miratü'l Ebdan fi Teşrih-i Azaü'l-İnsan [About anatomy]; Usulü't Tabia [Book of physiology]; Miyaru'l-Etibba [Practice of medicine].

This illustrated compendium of anatomy, physiology, and internal medicine was first medical work in Turkish printed by letterpress in the Ottoman Empire. It was also one of the first medical works in Turkish to draw t…

1962 CE

#9695

Byzantine medicine: Tradition and empiricism.

2016 CE

#9694

The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.

2017 CE

#9693

Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds

1818 CE

#9692

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. 3 vols.

The full digitized text of the 1818 is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#9691

Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.