United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
1911 CE
#8598
Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
1911 CE
#9373
Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.
A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911 CE
#10318
A medical history of the state of Indiana.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911 CE–1918 CE
#11470
The Bradley Bibliography: A guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder. 5 vols.
An attempt at a truly comprehensive bibliography of the world literature in western languages on these subjects to 1900, including more than 100,000 entries. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at…
c. 1911 CE–c. 1916 CE
#11552
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War.
"The chapters comprising the volume appeared originally as separate articles in the 'Military surgeon.' Upon their compilation a limited number of copies of reprints were obtained by this office and bound together for…
1911 CE
#11837
Health on the farm: A manual of rural sanitation and hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911 CE–1936 CE
#12412
Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.
Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …
1912 CE
#4670.4
Experimental and pathological investigation. In: Investigations on epidemic infantile paralysis, report from the State Medical Institute of Sweden to the XVth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.
Kling, A. Pettersson, and W. Wernstedt recovered the poliomyelitis virus from the intestinal wall and contents, disproving the contention of Flexner that it was exclusively neurotropic.
1912 CE
#135
The mechanistic conception of life.
This work established Loeb's reputation as a researcher who treated organisms as machines. He stated that biologists explain organic phenomena only when they could control those phenomena. Loeb first published the tit…
1912 CE
#1766.503
Medical education in Europe.
Flexner wrote the first systematic and thorough comparisons of the major systems of medical education.
1912 CE
#3192
Primary malignant growths of the lungs and bronchi.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1912 CE
#3896
The pituitary body and its disorders.
The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the early 20th century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a descr…
1912 CE
#4386.01
Infections of the hand: A guide to the surgical treatment of acute and chronic suppurative processes in the fingers, hand, and forearm.
The first comprehensive treatise on hand surgery, and the classic work on tendon and bursal hand spaces relevant to management of hand infections. Kanavel developed the method of forcible injection of radio-opaque mat…
1912 CE
#5756.7
Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws.
First comprehensive work on maxillofacial surgery. After World War I Blair established the first separate Plastic Surgery Service in the United States at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis.
1912 CE
#7050
The Negro in medicine.
An early publication on the medical problems of blacks written by a black physician. Kenney served as school physician at Tuskegee University, was the first director of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee…
1912 CE
#8407
On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.
Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…
1912 CE
#10413
Modern methods in nursing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1912 CE
#11181
The development of the nervous system. Keibel & Mall (eds.) Manual of human embryology, vol. 2, pp. 1-156.
1912 CE
#11252
Texts illustrating the history of medicine in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. Arranged in chronological order. Reprint from volume xvii, second series, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.
In 1912 Garrison was Assistant Librarian of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. At the suggestion of Sir William Osler, Garrison prepared this classified listing of medical classics across the full range of the h…
1912 CE
#11288
A review of the primates. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1912 CE
#11535
The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness.
When this book was published Goddard was Director of the Research Laboratory of the Training School at Vineland, New Jersey, for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys. Though this work drew wide attention to the problems of pe…
1912 CE
#13522
The influence of caffeine on mental and motor efficiency. Columbia Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. XX, No. 4.
"The Coca-Cola Company, facing a lawsuit from the federal government under the Pure Food and Drug Act, approached Hollingworth (after James McKeen Cattell and several other psychologists turned them down)[4] about inv…
1912 CE
#13924
The cinematograph as an aid to medical education and research: A lecture illustrated by moving pictures of ultramicroscopic life in the blood and tissues, and of surgical operations.
1913 CE
#657
Muscular work. A metabolic study.
1913 CE
#1113
The origin and development of the lymphatic system.
1913 CE
#1641
Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.
Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.
1913 CE
#3745
Beriberi
Important studies of beri-beri are recorded in this book. After its publication the author made many additional contributions to the literature on the subject.
1913 CE
#6408
An introduction to the history of medicine.
One of the best single-volume histories of medicine from the bibliographical point of view, mainly for 19th century and earlier material. A rather compressed work with much detail, this is really more of a reference w…
1913 CE
#6659
ISIS. 1-
Official publication of the History of Science Society. The latest issue may be viewed at www.ljournals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/current.
1913 CE
#7075
Animal communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chicago region. A study in animal ecology.
This book represents the beginning of organized theoretical principles for animal ecology, including Shelford's "law of toleration" or "law of tolerance." "Analogous to the physiologists' law of the minimum [developed…
1913 CE
#7436
Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.
One of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals. Hornaday revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings, and is credited with discovering the American crocodile, savi…
1913 CE
#10791
Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.
Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…
1913 CE
#11550
Surgery of the vascular system.
Bernheim was a pupil of William Halsted. His work includes 53 illustrations by James Didusch, a protegé of Max Broedel. "The depict the innovative vascular procedures developed by Carrel, halsted, Matas, and Be…
1913 CE
#12488
The principles and practice of obstetrics.
Digital facsimile of the 1914 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
1913 CE
#12905
Exodontia: A practical treatise on the technic of extraction of teeth with a chapter on anesthesia. A complete guide for the exodontist, general dental practitioner, and dental student.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1914 CE
#1641.1
Geriatrics: The diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations.
The first modern treatise on the subject. Nascher coined the term “geriatrics” in a paper of that name in N.Y. med. J., 1909, 90, 358-59.
1914 CE
#1664.1
A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.
Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems s…
1914 CE
#2568
Infection and resistance.
1914 CE
#3341
A history of laryngology and rhinology. 2nd ed.
1914 CE
#5699.1
Anesthesia.
Gwathmey was one of the first physicians in the United States to specialize exclusively in anesthesiology. This work includes (p. 334) a description of his nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether apparatus.
1914 CE
#6990
The chiropractor.
Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link.
1914 CE
#8121
Graphic methods for presenting facts.
The first book on information graphics published in America. Digital facsimile of the 1919 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
1914 CE
#8548
Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1914 CE
#9585
The text book of chiropody: A treatise bearing upon all the elements of medicine, of surgery and of the kindred sciences having for its purpose the thorough education of those who wish to learn and to practise the scientific care of the human foot in health and in diseases. Comp
" ... the first modern chiropodial book. This voluminous work attempted to combine all chiropodial knowledge up to that date, with outline of the basic sciences and the teachings of other medical disciplines. It is an…
1914 CE
#10520
Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.
In 1912 the U.S. Public Health Service assigned Dr. Emil Krulish to supervise health care in the Territory of Alaska. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1914 CE–1917 CE
#11457
Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Compiled under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Ethelyn Maria Tucker. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1914 CE
#13877
Book of monsters.
The first book of macro photographs (extreme close-up photography) of insects.
1915 CE
#4599
Diseases of the nervous system.
Sixth edition, 1935.
1915 CE
#1124
Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage. An account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement.
Observation of the effect of strong emotions on gastrointestinal motility (No. 1029) led Cannon to examination of the sympathetic nervous system and its emergency function. Cannon showed the close connexion between th…
1915 CE
#2641
