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2017 CE
#9690
Miracle cure: The creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine.
1976 CE
#9689
Plagues and peoples.
2007 CE
#9688
Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.
2007 CE
#9687
Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.
2001 CE
#9686
Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
2002 CE
#9685
Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.
1994 CE
#9684
Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.
2008 CE
#9683
Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.
1998 CE
#9682
Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.
1995 CE
#9681
Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.
1832 CE
#9680
Medical zoology, and mineralogy; or, illustrations and descriptions of the animals and minerals employed in medicine and of the preparations derived from them: Including also an account of animal and mineral poisons: With figures coloured from nature.
Includes 42 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1831 CE
#9679
Medical botany: Or, illustrations of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain. 4 vols.
Includes 185 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1862 CE
#9678
Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.
Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…
2009 CE
#9677
De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).
A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.
1673 CE
#9676
Miscellanea anatomica, hominis, brutorumque variorum, fabricam diversam magna parte exhibentia.
The "first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist. Blasius's observation on human anatomy are followed by eighty five pages devoted to the anat…
1734 CE
#9675
Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country.
The first medical hand-book for lay persons written and published in America. It is probable that this book was first published in 1734, though the earliest recorded copy or copies appear to be the "second edition" wi…
1981 CE
#9674
Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.
1991 CE
#9673
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
2005 CE
#9672
The elements of murder: A history of poison.
1661 CE
#9671
Thanasima, kai dēlētēria: Tractatus de venenis. Or, a treatise of poysons. Their sundry sorts, names, natures and virtues, with their severall symptomes, signes diagnosticks, prognosticks, and antidotes. Wherein, are divers necessary questions discussed; the truth by the most learned, confirmed, by many instances, examples & stories illustrated; and, both philosophically and medically handled.
2010 CE
#9670
A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.
2003 CE
#9669
Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.
http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…
1833 CE
#9668
Ueber das Gift der Fische: mit vergleichender Berücksichtigung des Giftes von Muscheln, Käse, Gehirn, Fleisch, Fett und Würsten, so wie der sogenannten mechanischen Gifte.
Discusses all then known posionsous and venomous fishes, including freshwater and marine species, and includes a "thorough review of practically all the early literature on poisonous and venomous fishes, a list of all…
1856 CE
#9667
Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1889 CE
#9666
Les poissons venimeux. Contribution à l'hygiène navale.
The first systematic work on the venom organs of fishes.
1886 CE
#9665
Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.
The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.
1568 CE
#9664
Deux livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, thériaques, poisons & contre-poisons, par Jacques Grévin,... Ensemble les oeuvres de Nicandre,... traduictes en vers françois.
Grévin's work "marks the beginning of a new era in biotoxinological studies. With Grévin we see a crude attempt being made to compile systematically and evaluate the total knowledge of toxic organisms wh…
1965 CE–1970 CE
#9663
Poisonous and venomous marine animals of the world
Volume 1: Invertebrates; Vols. 2 & 3: Vertebrates. An unusually elaborate and finely printed, illustrated and bound set funded by the Department of Defense. Over 2000 pages. The first 155pp of Vol. 1 are a "History of…
2010 CE
#9662
Obesity: The biography.
2010 CE
#9661
Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.
Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
1869 CE
#9660
Leçons cliniques sur les maladies chirurgicales des enfants, professées par M. J. Giraldès. Recueillies et publiées par MM. Bourneville et E. Bourgeois; revues par le professeur.
1884 CE
#9659
Chirurgie des enfants. Leçons cliniques professées à l'Hôpital des Enfants-Malades... Recueillies et publiées par Pierre-J. Mercier.
1913 CE
#9658
Vitalfärbung am Zentralnervensystem. Beitrag zur Physio-pathologie des Plexus choroideus und der Hirnhäute.
Goldmann was the first to demonstrate the blood-brain barrier. "By the intravenous and intrathecal administration of trypan blue he found that the barrier was impermeable to its large molecules, and he concluded that …
1803 CE
#9657
Histoire médicale de l'Armée Française, a Saint-Domingue, en l'an dix; ou mémoire sur la fièvre jaune, avec un apperçu de la topographie médicale de cette colonie.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1926 CE
#9656
The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.
French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.
1871 CE
#9655
Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China for the use of medical missionaries & native medical students.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1584 CE
#9654
Discorsi intorno al sanguinar i corpi humani, il modo di ataccare le sanguisuche e ventose e far frittioni e vescicatorii con buoni et utili avertimenti.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2008 CE
#9653
Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.
2004 CE
#9652
Anthrax: A history.
1837 CE
#9651
A descriptive and statistical account of the British Empire, exhibiting its extent, physical capacities, population, industry and civil and religious institutions. 2 vols.
McCulloch indicated on the title page that he was "assisted by numerous contributors." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Fourth edition, revised with an appendix of tables (2 vols., 1854). Digital f…
1998 CE
#9650
Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.
2001 CE
#9649
The breast cancer wars: Hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America.
1961 CE
#9648
Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.
Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…
1963 CE
#9647
Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.
Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …
1915 CE
#9646
X rays and crystal structure.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#9645
Concerning the relationship between the strength of acids and their capacity to preserve neutrality.
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation for the determination of pH concentration in the blood. See Hasselbalch's paper. Digital facsimile of Henderson's paper from the American Journal of Physiology at this link. Henderson's …
1667 CE
#9644
De vi percussionis liber.
Building on the theory of mechanics as formulated by Aristotle and Galileo, and countering objections expressed by Stephani degli Angeli among others, Borelli presented a completely mechanical account of the action of…
1874 CE
#9643
Shadows from the walls of death: Facts and inferences prefacing a book of specimens of arsenical wall papers.
To drive home the dangers of arsenic in wallpaper Kedzie took the step of publishing one of the most unusual books ever issued: Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Ar…
1998 CE
#9642
"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
1814 CE
#9641
Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.
Henry wrote that he had been a captive of the Indians during the Creek War and that he incorporated what he learned during his captivity. His work was one of the first illlustrated herbals published in the United Stat…