United States

1936 CE

#11821

Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.

Includes information on asbestosis.

1936 CE

#13044

Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.

1936 CE

#13588

Snakes of Maryland.

1936 CE

#14229

The comparative anatomy of the nervous system of vertebrates, including man. 2 vols.

This edition and translation was so extensively reworked and expanded by Kappers, Huber and Crosby that it should be considered a new work. See No. 1247 for the original edition in German. Order of authorship as publi…

1937 CE

#1354

Autonomic neuro-effector systems.

The authors hypothesized the existence of two sympathins, one excitatory and the other inhibitory, now known as epinephrine and norepinephrine. See Nos. 1144 & 1350.

1937 CE

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

1937 CE

#2319

Pathology.

Krumbhaar edited the Clio Medica series of volumes on the history of medicine, and contributed a history of pathology to it.

1937 CE

#2866

Clinical roentgenology of the cardiovascular system.

1937 CE

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

1937 CE

#6524

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

1937 CE

#6567

Russian medicine.

1937 CE

#254.2

Genetics and the origin of species.

Dobzhansky, an emigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with…

1937 CE

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

1937 CE

#9242

Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1937 CE–1946 CE

#9358

Fragments of entomological history including some personal recollections of men and events. 2 vols.

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1937 CE

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1937 CE

#11215

A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré: Premier chirugien & conseiller du Roy

1937 CE–1969 CE

#11629

Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.

1937 CE

#11797

A sex starved world.

A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …

1938 CE

#4612

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, H…

1938 CE

#1451

The primate thalamus.

1938 CE

#3707

Riboflavin deficiency in man; a preliminary note.

Ariboflavinosis

1938 CE

#5808

The romance of proctology, which is the story of the history and development of this much neglected branch of surgery.

1938 CE

#6650

A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.

1938 CE

#7103

The ape in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1938 CE

#8224

A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927: With supplement embracing the Years 1928-1935. Second edition, completely revised and greatly augmented.

Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edit…

1938 CE

#10408

The horse and buggy doctor.

The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1938 CE

#11775

Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.

1938 CE

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1938 CE

#12621

Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism

1938 CE

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1938 CE

#13328

Bound feet.

The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…

1938 CE

#14110

Artificial fever produced by physical means; its development and application.

Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the application of pyrotherapy in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including syphilis. For syphilis in particular the treatment was replaced by penicillin, developed…

1939 CE

#4671.2

Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.

Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to the cotton rat and then to the mouse, greatly facilitating experimental work on the disease.

1939 CE

#534

The rise of embryology.

Includes a fine bibliography.

1939 CE

#2137.10

Principles and practice of aviation medicine.

Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.

1939 CE

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1939 CE

#2581

Bacteriology.

A much briefer history than Bulloch’s but with a thorough and accurate bibliography.

1939 CE

#2722

Circulatory diseases of the extremities.

1939 CE

#3802

The endocrine glands

Goldzieher dealt very fully with the history, theory, and practice of endocrinology.

1939 CE

#4250.2

Architecture of the kidney in chronic Bright’s disease.

A description of the morphological changes in the nephrons of diseased kidneys. Hypertrophic, atrophic and aglomerular units are described.

1939 CE

#4403.2

Operative orthopedics.

First edition of the most influential American textbook of orthopedics in the twentieth century.

1939 CE

#5721.1

The art of anesthesia. 6th ed.

Flagg had an important influence on American anesthesia. The Flagg can is described on p. 148 of his book.

1939 CE

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1939 CE

#6654

BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 7-

Vol. 1-6, 1933-38 entitled Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine. Recent issues may be viewed from Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24 .

1939 CE

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1939 CE

#6914

The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry.

This book set forth in detail Pauling's valence-bond theory based on the quantum-mechanical concept of resonance between two energy states, which led to his highly innovative idea that the hybridization of orbitals (e…