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1914 CE

#9438

Medicina de quadrupedibus: An early English version with introduction, translation, notes, and glossary.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1964 CE

#9437

Galen's Institutio logica. English translation, introduction and commentary by John Spangler Kieffer.

1919 CE

#9436

The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#9435

Medicine, society and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.

1978 CE

#9434

Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.

1989 CE

#9433

Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.

2002 CE

#9432

An ear to the chest: An illustrated history of the evolution of the stethoscope.

2005 CE

#9431

Historical atlas of immunology.

1975 CE

#9430

Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.

2015 CE

#9429

Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.

1996 CE

#9428

Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.

1996 CE

#9427

Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.

1996 CE

#9426

Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.

2007 CE

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

1994 CE

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1965 CE–1971 CE

#9423

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

1884 CE

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1900 CE

#9421

The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.

Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1955 CE

#9420

A short history of medicine.

Revised and expanded edition with a Foreward and Concluding Essay by Charles Rosenberg (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).

1986 CE

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

2012 CE

#9418

Atlas of human brain connections.

The authors combined the science of diffusion tensor imaging with the art of tractography: Spectacular color images.

1641 CE

#9417

Syntagma anatomicum, publicis dissectionibus, in auditorum usum, diligenter aptatum.

Vesling provided an early discussion of the human lymphatic system. He was one of the first physicians to describe the brain's circle of Willis. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1735 CE

#9416

Historiae Aegypti naturalis qua continentur rerum Aegyptiarum libri quatuor. Opus posthumum nunc primum ex auctoris autographo, diligentissime recognito, editum; atque ex eodem tabellis aeneis XXV illustratum et uberimmo indice auctem. (2 vols.) Vol. 2: Pars secunda, sive, de Plantis Aegypti liber auctus & emendatus. Accedunt tabella aenae LXXVII plantis summo artificio incisis; ut & dissertatio eiusdem de laserpitio, & lotoaegyptia. Cum observationibus & notis Joannis Veslingii, equitis, In Patavino Gymnasio Anatomiae & Pharmaciae professoris primarii. Accedunt Eiusdem Joannis Veslingii paraeneses ad rem herbariam & vindiciae opobalsami cum indicibus necessariis.

Posthumously published works of Alpini on the natural history and botany of Egypt, and Vesling on the botany of Egypt. The second volume, on botany by Alpini was edited by Johannes Vesling, with the addition of his ow…

1542 CE

#9415

Joannis Mesuae Damasceni De re medica libri tres Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.

Dubois, better known as Sylvius, produced a new translation of the complete works of Mesue, which became the standard text, and was reprinted 21 times. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1961 CE

#9414

The nocebo reaction.

Kennedy coined the term nocebo in this paper.

1922 CE

#9413

La maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente.

English translation as Self-mastery through conscious autosuggestion, New York: Markan Publishing Co., 1922. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.

2014 CE

#9412

Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.

1974 CE

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1992 CE

#9410

Farmcarts to Fords: A history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925.

1994 CE

#9409

Medical protestants: The Eclectics in American medicine, 1825-1939.

The first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. "The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medici…

2001 CE

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …

1997 CE

#9407

Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.

"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …

2005 CE

#9406

The history of American homeopathy: The academic years, 1820-1935.

2013 CE

#9405

The history of American homeopathy: From rational medicine to holistic health care.

1902 CE

#9404

The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#9403

Philosophy of osteopathy.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1910 CE

#9402

Osteopathy: Research and practice.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2016 CE

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

1472 CE

#9400

Aristotle's De anima with the commentary of Averroes.

"Each paragraph of the text of Aristotle is printed in a new and an old translation, and is followed by the commentary of Averroes on the latter (BMC)" (ISTC No. IDia00969000). Because of the supreme position of Arist…

1483 CE

#9399

Opera. With the commentary of Averroes. Edited by Nicoletus Vernia. 8 parts.

First edition of the collected works of Aristotle with the commentaries of Averroes, by which Aristotle was mainly studied during the Middle Ages. The purpose of Vernia's edition was to provide an accurate edition of …

1488 CE

#9398

Compendium aromatariorum.

ISTC No. is00020000. Also issued in Bologna: [Henricus de Harlem and Johannes Walbeck, for] Benedictus Hectoris, 12 Mar. 1488. ISTC No. is00019000. Digital facsimile of the Bologna edition from BnF Gallica at this link.

2010 CE

#9397

The illustrated Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Edited with an introduction and essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason.

Reprints selected portions of the 1913 A. A. Brill translation together essays by Masson and excerpts from Jung, Lacan, and Horney. Includes many full page or double-page color reproductions of works by modernist and …

1964 CE

#9396

The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 4 vols.

Revised and slightly expanded from Keynes's first edition (6 vols., London: Faber & Faber, 1928-31).

1686 CE

#9395

Works. Containing I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici: With annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, urn-burial: Together with the garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellaneous tracts. With alphabetical tables.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1677 CE

#9394

An account of several travels through a great part of Germany: In four journeys I. From Norwich to Colen. II. From Colen to Vienna, with a particular description of that imperial city. III. From Vienna to Hamburg. IV. From Colen to London. Wherein the mines, baths, and other curiosities of those parts are treated of. Illustrated with sculptures.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE–1954 CE

#9393

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: A systematic description of the known Macrolepidoptera. 16 vols. plus 4 supplements. Written and edited by Adalbert Seitz.

Published in French, German and English. The first 4 vols. describe the Palaearctic fauna and vols. 5–16 describe the exotic fauna (Volums 1–4, Palaearctic fauna, with 4 supplements; Vols. 5–8, Ameri…

2000 CE

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

2009 CE

#9391

War and Disease: Biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century.

1960 CE

#9390

Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.

2010 CE

#9389

Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.

"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…