United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
1893 CE
#10717
Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.
1893 CE
#11292
An account of Bellevue Hospital with a catalogue of the medical and surgical staff from 1736 to 1894. Edited by Robert J. Carlisle.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1893 CE
#11425
A select bibliography of chemistry 1492-1892.
Bolton, a chemist, was the earliest American bibliographer of chemistry. His first edition, which atempted to list "the principal books on chemistry published in Europe and America from the rise of the literature to t…
1894 CE
#6342.1
The care and feeding of children: A catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses.
A commonsense work written for parents and caretakers of children rather than for physicians. This brief book achieved a popular success unrivalled by any previous American medical publication. It was the forerunner o…
1894 CE
#11267
Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.
Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…
1894 CE
#11273
On chorea and choreiform affections.
"One year after Charcot's death, Osler published On Chorea and Choreiform Affectations (1894), and in this pithy monograph, Osler offered a particularly useful evaluation of Charcot's neurological contributions. Where…
1894 CE
#11652
Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal.
This 165-page "monograph, based on lectures delivered to the postgraduate class at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1893, includes 67 case reports and 43 illustrations, some of which are photographs that depict patients …
1895 CE
#5799
The history and literature of surgery. IN: System of surgery, edited by Frederic S. Dennis, assisted by John S. Billings. 1, 17-144.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895 CE
#6649.92
Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women; autobiographical sketches.
Blackwell led the movement in America to open the medical profession to women.
1895 CE
#9001
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895 CE
#9320
The mental development of the child and the race.
A central text in the development of social psychology in North America; now also considered a pioneering study of adaptive learning, and in this sense a precursor to research in artificial intelligence. Digital facsi…
1895 CE
#11890
Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A treatise on structural botany, designed especially for pharmaceutical and medical students, pharmacists and physicians. Part 1. The gross structure of plants by Henry H. Rusby. Part 2. The minute structure of plants by Smith Ely Jelliffe.
A detailed guide to the way that botanic drugs were identified and produced in America at the end of the 19th century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1896 CE
#6719
Physicians and surgeons of America. (Illustrated.) A collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896 CE
#238
The cell in development and inheritance.
Wilson emphasized the function of cytology in the study of embryology, heredity, evolution and general physiology. The above work has been called the single most influential treatise on cytology of the 20th century. T…
1896 CE
#10793
Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived form an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.
Digital facsimile of the 1900 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896 CE
#10825
Medical and dental colleges of the west: Historical and biographical.
Covers institutions in Chicago and environs: Augustana Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Northwestern University Medical …
1896 CE
#11823
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.
Hoffman was statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work, "Hoffman's first, characterized African Americans as exceptionally disease-prone. The work was motivated by a concern about issues o…
1897 CE
#514
The development of the frog's egg; an introduction to experimental embryology.
First work in English on experimental embryology.
1897 CE–1899 CE
#127
Experimental morphology. 2 pts.
1897 CE
#6719.1
The pioneers of homoeopathy.
Brief biographies of about 500 homepathic physicians from all countries who were practitioners prior to 1835. In the first part Bradford docmented the lives of those who assisted Hahnemann. Digital facsimile from the …
1897 CE
#6342.2
The diseases of infancy and childhood.
The first really complete and authoritative American text on the subject.
1897 CE
#6867
Repertory of the homoeopathic materia medica.
1349 pp. In his Divided Legacy: the Bacteriological Era (1994) Harris Coulter commented, “The most remarkable contribution to Homoeopathic practice since the death of Constantine Hering (1880) was the Repertory …
1897 CE
#6954
Autobiography of Andrew T. Still, with a history of the discovery and development of the science of osteopathy. Together with an account of the founding of the . . . . . American School of Osteopathy; and lectures delivered before that institution from time to time during the progress of the discovery.
Still founded osteopathy, and opened the first school of osteopathy, now A.T. Still University, in 1892. He was also an early promoter of preventive medicine and the philosophy that physicians should focus on treating…
1897 CE
#8725
The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897 CE
#9567
Photographic atlas of diseases of the skin. A series of eighty plates comprising one hundred illustrations photographed from life and colored by hand.
Large folio, issued in 16 parts, each image hand-colored and signed by Fox. This was physically the largest work and presumably the most expensive work issued by Fox.
1897 CE
#10296
A catalogue of scientific and technical periodicals, 1665-1895. Together with chronological tables and a library checklist. 2nd edition.
Includes one of the most comprehensive listings of scientific periodicals, including medical, up to the time of publication. The chronological tables show the runs of the various journals within a time frame. There ar…
1897 CE
#10597
Skin diseases of children. With twelve photogravure and chromographic plates, and sixty illustrations in the text.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897 CE
#11651
Lectures on angina pectoris and allied states.
"This monograph, based on seven lectures Osler delivered at Johns Hopkins, is his longest publication dealing with heart disease. He discusses the history of the recognition of angina, the pathophysiology of coronary …
1897 CE
#11875
The origin of disease, especially of disease resulting from intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic causes. With chapters on diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. With one hundred and thirty-seven original illustrations.
The most valuable features of this work are the exceptionally fine and delicate histologic illustrations engraved on steel and printed on thick paper to eliminate show-through. Each image is faced with detailed explan…
1897 CE
#12608
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia. Edited by Frederick P. Henry, with the collaboration of James M. Anders....
"The materials of the first five chapters were collected by an experienced historian in the employ of the publishers"--Pref. 2nd ed; 1977, identifies as Burton Alva Konkle. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at th…
1897 CE
#12800
Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
A biographical study by his grand-daughter, based on previously unpublished letters and journals of John James Audubon. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1898 CE
#4586.1
The nervous system and its diseases.
“The foremost American neurology book of the Nineteenth Century” (McHenry), and the only text of the period to contain a section on the chemistry of the nervous system.
1898 CE
#648
A digest of metabolism experiments in which the balance of income and outgo was determined.
1898 CE
#6108
Operative gynecology. 2 vols.
Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most fa…
1898 CE
#7058
The Red Cross in peace and war.
Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…
1898 CE
#13222
History of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania; The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Now Drexel University College of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1899 CE
#1707
Statistical methods, with special reference to biological variation.
Davenport introduced statistical methods into American evolutionary studies.
1899 CE
#1428
Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.
1899 CE
#2680.01
The mechanics of surgery.
An encyclopedic work that described illustrated and analysed the entire range of instrumentation employed in medical and surgical practice at the end of the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmons…
1899 CE
#5622
An experimental research into surgical shock.
Crile saw and recorded elevations in systemic and portal venous pressures under experimental shock.
1899 CE
#7336
The nervous system and its constituent neurones, Designed for the use of practitioners of medicine and of students of medicine and psychology.
Considered a masterpiece of compilation of the new scientific evidence for the neuron theory. "Also contains Gertrude Stein’s first publication, which consists of a quote and further description of her developme…
1899 CE
#9403
Philosophy of osteopathy.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#2687.2
The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).
The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …
1900 CE–1928 CE
#4981
Studies in the psychology of sex. 7 vols.
Ellis's Studies represent a lifetime of research devoted to the subject, at first in the face of bitter opposition.
1900 CE
#6110
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a…
1900 CE
#5456
A note on the interval between infecting and secondary cases of yellow fever from the records of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Mississippi, in 1898.
Carter's determination of the incubation period yellow fever influenced the direction of Reed’s researches, and was instrumental in the discovery of the mode of transmission of the yellow fever virus.
1900 CE
#6881
The logic of figures, or comparative results of homoeopathic and other treatments.
A comparison of mortality rates in institutions and private practice between homeopathic and other modes of treatment. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#9475
The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
"The ʔívil̃uqaletem (or Ivilyuqaletem) are Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.[2] Their original territory included an area of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2). The traditional Cahu…
1900 CE
#10314
One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri: Historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions. Edited by Max A. Goldstein.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#10588
Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.
The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.