United States

1939 CE

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

1939 CE

#10226

Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.

"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…

1939 CE

#10688

Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.

"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…

1939 CE

#11189

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

1939 CE

#11787

The measurement of adult intelligence.

Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…

1939 CE

#12448

Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.

Discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.

1939 CE–2015 CE

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.

1939 CE

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

1939 CE–1941 CE

#13432

The Dr. Howard A. Kelly library catalogue

Parts 1-6.

1939 CE

#14053

A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.

The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…

1940 CE

#1811.1

The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.

The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…

1940 CE

#6649

Faiths that healed.

1940 CE

#6495

The Chinese way in medicine.

1940 CE

#6435

Progress in medicine: a critical review of the last hundred years.

1940 CE

#7063

Obesity and leanness.

The first American book specifically devoted to obesity research.

1940 CE

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

1940 CE

#10324

Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

1940 CE

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

1940 CE

#12933

Root canal therapy.

1940 CE

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1940 CE

#13352

The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.

Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.

1941 CE

#2187

A short history of nautical medicine.

1941 CE

#1684

War and disease.

1941 CE

#1533.1

The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.

A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.

1941 CE

#3243

The story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis.

1941 CE

#3158

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

1941 CE

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1941 CE

#5013

A history of medical psychology.

1941 CE

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1941 CE

#6483

Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.

1941 CE

#6357.57

Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.

Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.

1941 CE–1959 CE

#6777

Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.

Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…

1941 CE

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1941 CE

#11000

The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.

Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."

1941 CE

#12379

Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.

1941 CE

#12823

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

1941 CE

#13881

Focus on Africa.

Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…

1941 CE

#13889

Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell author of Hugh Wynne. Books autographs, prints, and historical relics. To be sold at unrestricted public sale on Monday, May 19th, 1941.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1941 CE

#14330

Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.

1942 CE

#2137.30

A bibliography of aviation medicine.

1942 CE

#2261

The treatment of burns.

Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.

1942 CE

#3159

A short history of cardiology.

1942 CE

#5766

Plastic surgery of the breast and abdominal wall.

1942 CE

#5811

The history and evolution of surgical instruments.

1942 CE

#6436

Source book of medical history.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.

1942 CE

#255.1

Systematics and the origin of species.

One of the canonical publications of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Mayr discussed the different ways different investigators identify species, and he characterized these different approaches as different species …

1942 CE

#7400

Contact lenses.

The first book on contact lenses, recording attempts over the previous hundred years to fit a lens in direct contact with the eye. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1942 CE

#9217

Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.

1942 CE

#9284

A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.

In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…

1942 CE

#9824

The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography

Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.