United States

1906 CE

#11559

Case teaching in medicine: A series of graduated exercises in the differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of actual cases of disease.

"The first comprehensive description of the 'Cabot case' style of medical teaching that evolved into the classic clinicopathological case (CPC) mode. Cabot had a special interest in heart disease and was a pioneer of …

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1906 CE

#12820

Walter Reed and yellow fever.

Digital facsimile of the revised edition published in 1907 from Google Books at this link.

1907 CE

#1027

The influence of inanition on metabolism.

1907 CE

#2564.1

Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.

Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.

1907 CE

#3608.1

The technic of modern operations for hernia.

Includes description of the Ferguson operation.

1907 CE

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1907 CE

#5756.1

The correction of featural imperfections.

The first book on cosmetic surgery. Miller “was both a quack and surgical visionary, years ahead of his more academic colleagues” (Rogers).

1907 CE–1912 CE

#6635

A history of nursing. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.

1907 CE

#7226

The dancing mouse: A study in animal behavior.

The first work to examine the characteristics of deaf mice, which became the most important model for the study of genetic deafness. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this l…

1907 CE–1910 CE

#11290

Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.

Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…

1907 CE

#14162

The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 CE

#132

The problem of age, growth and death.

Minot’s theory of aging, based on cytomorphosis and the rate of growth. This work first appeared as a paper in vol. 7 of the Popular Science Monthly, 1907.

1908 CE–1909 CE

#2309

The principles of pathology. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 written with A. G. Nicholls.

1908 CE

#3528

On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.

“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).

1908 CE

#3689.2

A work on operative dentistry. 2 vols.

Black established a system of cavity preparation from which modern techniques have been derived. He constructed a “gnathodynamometer” with which the pressure exerted on the human tooth and therefore on the…

1908 CE

#4880.1

Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.

Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harve…

1908 CE

#6002

The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870.

Of limited value, but the only available history of early American ophthalmology.

1908 CE

#6455.1

Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 CE

#9307

The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.

"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…

1909 CE

#2114

Snake venoms.

1909 CE

#3695

A history of dentistry from the most ancient times until the end of the eighteenth century.

1909 CE

#5628

Hemorrhage and transfusion.

1909 CE

#6845

The differentiation and specificity of corresponding proteins and other vital substances in relation to biological classification and organic evolution: The crystallography of hemoglobins.

This massive work with 100 plates including 600 images, was the first large-scale investigation of species differences at the molecular level. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909 CE–1910 CE

#6870

History of dental surgery. Contributions by various authors. Edited by Charles R.E. Koch. 3 vols.

1909 CE

#9208

The elements of military hygiene especially arranged for officers and men of the line.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Revised edition, 1915, of which a digital facsimile is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909 CE

#9209

Manual of military hygiene.

Digital facsimile of the third, revised edition (1917) from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909 CE

#10406

Eradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909 CE

#12081

Medical sociology: A series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society.

The first American book specifically on the topic of medical sociology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1909 CE

#12455

An experimental study of sleep. (From the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis' Laboratory).

Sidis emphasized his physiological approach in the wording of the title of this book. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1909 CE

#13476

The great white plague: Tuberculosis.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1909 CE

#13826

Epoch-making contributions to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world together with biographical sketches of the observers. Collected by C. N. B. Camac.

1910 CE

#739

The oxidases and other oxygen-catalysts concerned in biological oxidations.

Hygienic Laboratory.- Bulletin No. 59. December, 1909. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1910 CE–1912 CE

#526

Manual of human embryology. Written by Charles R. Bardeen, Madison, Wis.; Herbert M. Evans, Baltimore, Md.; Walter Felix, Zurich; Otto Grosser, Prague; Franz Keibel, Freiburg i. Br.; Frederic T. Lewis, Boston, Mass.; Warren H. Lewis, Baltimore, Md.; J. Playfair McMurrich, Toronto; Franklin P. Mall, Baltimore, Md.; Charles S. Minot, Boston, Mass.; Felix Pinkus, Berlin; Florence R. Sabin, Baltimore, Md; George L. Streeter, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Julius Tandler, Vienna; Emil Zuckerkandl, Vienna. Edited by Franz Keibel and Franklin P. Mall. 2 vols.

The important studies on human embryos, originated by His, were carried on by his pupils, Keibel and Mall. This classic work written by American and German experts “has not yet been superseded” (D.S.B., la…

1910 CE

#1766.502

Medical education in the United States and Canada.

This report caused massive reforms in North American medical education, including the closure or merging with stronger institutions, of 76 medical schools between 1910 and 1920. Part 1 is a history and analysis of med…

1910 CE

#3535

Duodenal ulcer.

Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence, pain-food-ease, and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he establ…

1910 CE

#6869

Biographies of pioneer American dentists and their successors. Edited by Charles R. E. Koch.

Forms Vol. 3 of History of Dental Surgery, edited by Charles R. E. Koch. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1910 CE

#6991

The chiropractor's adjuster: A textbook of the science, art, and philosophy of chiropractic for students and practitioners.

1910 CE

#8710

What you ought to know about your baby by Leonard Keene Hirshberg. A text book for mothers on the care and feeding of babies, with questions and answers especially prepared by the editor.

Ghost-written by American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English H. L. Mencken except for the "questions and answers." In a copy that sold at auction at Christies in 1995, Mencken inscri…

1910 CE

#9402

Osteopathy: Research and practice.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1910 CE

#10399

A history of the medical profession of Southern California with an historical sketch. Second edition. First edition destroyed in Times catastrophe.

Probably the first book on the history of medicine in the State of California. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1910 CE

#10523

History of the Mississippi State Medical Association; with biographies of its presidents, complete roster of its officers, programmes of its meetings, and the past and present laws relating to the practice of medicine in Mississippi.

1910 CE

#10835

The humane movement: A descriptive survey.

Concerns the origins and evolution of the humane movement that played a significant role in the emergence and growth of the antivivisection movement in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1910 CE

#11446

The health index of children.

Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…

1910 CE

#11616

Hookworm disease; Etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment

When the authors published this book hookworm disease was endemic in the American south, partly because so many people walked in the soil without wearing shoes, so the hookworms entered their body through the soles of…

1910 CE

#11752

Diseases of the heart and aorta.

The first comprehensive monograph on cardiology written and published in the United States. Hirschfelder interned under William Osler at Johns Hopkins, and became Hopkins's first full-time cardiologist. Digital facsim…

1910 CE

#13159

The sources and modes of infection.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1911 CE

#5756.5

Plastic and cosmetic surgery.

First comprehensive work on cosmetic surgery.

1911 CE

#6520

Old time makers of medicine. The story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the Middle Ages.

1911 CE

#7644

A cross-section anatomy, by Albert C. Eycleshymer and Daniel M. Schoemaker. Average position of organs from eleven reconstructions, by Peter Potter. Sections of the female pelvis, by Carroll Smith. Drawings by Tom Jones.

The historical introduction includes a bibliographical history of cross-sectional anatomies from frozen sections. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.