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3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.

1900 CE

#11289

Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.

This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…

1900 CE

#13204

As nature shows them. Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. 2 vols.

Includes 56 nature-printed and handcolored plates produced from impressions of the wings of the actual insects pressed onto the paper. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1901 CE

#2040.1

Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.

The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.

1901 CE

#2687.3

The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery.

Because of rapid developments in this field Williams put this book through three editions, in 1901, 1902, and 1903. Digital facsimile of the 1901 first edition from the Wellcome Collection at this link, of the 1902 se…

1901 CE

#2711

On a family form of recurring epistaxis, associated with multiple telangiectases of the skin and mucous membranes.

“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.” Multiple hereditary telangiectasis was first described by Legg (No. 2707) in 1876 and later by Rendu (No. 2710) and Weber (No. 2714). Reprinted in Medical Classics,…

1901 CE

#5624

An experimental and clinical research into certain problems relating to surgical operations.

Crile made important contributions to knowledge regarding shock. He originated the theory that it is due to exhaustion of the vasomotor center. (See also No. 5629.) Chapter V: On the physiologic action of cocain and e…

1901 CE

#8540

The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1901 CE

#9207

The theory and practice of military hygiene.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1901 CE

#10833

The vivisection question.

Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…

1901 CE

#11180

An atlas of the medulla and midbrain: A laboratory manual.

1902 CE

#9404

The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902 CE

#10830

Animal experimentation: A series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science.

Contributors included Charles Elliot, G. Stanley Hall, William T. Sedgwick, James J. Putnam, Henry P. Bowditch, William T. Porter, William T. Councilman, Theobald Smith, and members of the religious community. Digital…

1902 CE

#12263

Principles of sanitary science and the public health, with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases.

Digital facsimile of the 1902 first edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1902 CE

#12393

Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1902 CE

#12755

The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.

Digital facsimile of the 33rd impression (1922) from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#3641

Disease of the pancreas; its cause and nature.

1903 CE–1907 CE

#3793

The internal secretions and the principles of medicine. 2 vols.

Sajous, pioneer American endocrinologist, wrote the first treatise on the subject. In this work he regarded the adrenal, pituitary, and thyroid glands as controlling the immunizing mechanism of the body.

1903 CE

#5627

Blood-pressure in surgery.

1903 CE

#6210.1

Obstetrics.

The most famous American textbook of obstetrics.

c. 1903 CE

#10827

The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benefactors and alumni: A history. Edited by John Shrady. 2 vols.

A massive history of nearly 1200 pages issued by the publisher of the similarly huge history of the Rush Medical College (No. 10826). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1903 CE

#11020

The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#12166

Collected essays and articles on physiology and medicine. 2 vols.

Flint was one of the founders of laboratory research on physiology in America. Besides the regular trade edition Flint issued a deluxe version of this set limited to 25 copies. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heri…

1904 CE

#1043

Physiological economy in nutrition.

Chittenden, founder of the first laboratory of physiological chemistry in the U.S.A., made many important experiments in nutrition, especially in connexion with the low protein diet advocated by him.

1904 CE

#2459

Researches in helminthology and parasitology. With a bibliography of his contributions to science.

In vol. 46 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Leidy was called the greatest descriptive naturalist in mid-19th century America.

1904 CE

#1

The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.

The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième s&eacut…

1904 CE

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

1904 CE

#9530

Obstetrics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904 CE

#10714

One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.

1904 CE

#10738

The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#10826

The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.

A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#11572

The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.

The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#12904

Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face. With seven hundred and sixty original illustrations.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904 CE

#13170

A group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago. A collection of biographical sketches of many of the eminent representatives, past and present, of the medical profession of Chicago.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1905 CE–1914 CE

#2518

Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. 3 vols.

One of the most careful investigations of the bacterial diseases in plants was made by Smith, who conclusively demonstrated the existence of such diseases and proposed a scheme of classification for the bacteria conce…

1905 CE

#3571

The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.

The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905 CE

#3399

The story of my life.

Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months, as the result of an illness. Her education was a triumph of patience and skill on the part of her teacher, Anne M. Sullivan, and a demonstration of the great…

1905 CE

#6868

History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America: Their founders, benefactors, faculties, officers, hospitals, alumni, etc., with a record of achievement of its representatives in the world of medicine .... 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905 CE

#6968

History of osteopathy, and twentieth-century medical practice.

Revised & enlarged second edition Cincinnati: Printed for the Author, the Caxton Press, 1924. Digital facsimile of the first edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Digital facsimile of the second edition from…

1905 CE

#8689

History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905 CE

#8713

How to succeed in the practice of medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#654

The dynamics of living matter.

1906 CE

#1045

The elements of the science of nutrition.

A classic exposition of respiratory and intermediary metabolism. Fourth edition, 1928. Reprint of Lusk’s personal annotated copy of the fourth edition, with biography and bibliography of his writings, New York, …

1906 CE

#1637

Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.

1906 CE

#1432

The integrative action of the nervous system.

Sherrington insisted that the essential function of the nervous system was the co-ordination of activities of the various parts of the organism. His work on the nervous system, especially his experimental studies of r…

1906 CE

#2595

A study of the cause of sudden death following the injection of horse serum.

Forms Bulletin No. 29 of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Rosenau and Anderson drew attention to the fact that animals receiving an injection of a foreign protein became sensitive to a second do…

1906 CE

#2564

Infection, immunity and serum therapy.

1906 CE

#5805

The evolution of American surgery. IN: American practice of surgery, Edited by J.D. Bryant and A.H. Buck, 2, 1-67.

1906 CE

#6989

The science of chiropractic. Its principles and adjustments by Dr. D. D. Palmer, discoverer and developer of chiropractic, and B. J. Palmer, D. C.

D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic; his son B. J. developed the practice. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#7051

The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.

Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#9220

Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.