United States

1942 CE–1943 CE

#12088

A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.

"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…

1942 CE

#12392

Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.

Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…

1943 CE

#1041

Human gastric function. An experimental study of a man and his stomach.

Important experiments on gastric function, made on “Tom”, a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9. Second edition in 1947.

1943 CE

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

Reprinted 1980.

1943 CE

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

1943 CE

#5768.1

Reconstructive surgery of the eyelids.

Most of this work is a very carefully documented history of the subject. Bibliography of 451 references.

1943 CE

#5812

History of surgery

1943 CE

#6636

History of nursing.

Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.

1943 CE

#6305

The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.

Second edition, 1950.

1943 CE

#6357

Pioneers of pediatrics. 2nd ed.

1943 CE

#6779

The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts.

Catalogue, without annotations, of the books and manuscripts bequeathed by Cushing to the Historical Library in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. Much like Osler, Cushing colle…

1943 CE

#7347

An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.

"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …

1943 CE

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1943 CE

#8180

Kaiser wakes the doctors.

The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.

1943 CE

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1943 CE

#8590

Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943 CE

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

1943 CE

#9216

Victories of army medicine: Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1943 CE

#9352

The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…

1943 CE

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1943 CE

#11284

One hundred years, 1843-1943.

A relatively brief anonymous account of the first century of activity the medical publisher, Blakiston.

1943 CE

#12192

Barometric pressure: Researches in experimental physiology. Translated from the French by Mary Alice Hitchcock and Fred A. Hitchcock. [Foreward by John F. Fulton].

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943 CE

#13597

Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.

"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …

1944 CE

#2432

Notable contributors to the knowledge of syphilis.

1944 CE

#2349.1

The pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

Classic work on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and its immunology and hypersensitivity.

1944 CE

#1766.605

Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.

Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.

1944 CE

#4404.02

Surgery of the hand.

Bunnell originated hand surgery as a specialty.

1944 CE

#6306

History of gynecology.

1944 CE

#6600

Aesculapius in Latin America.

1944 CE

#255.2

Tempo and mode in evolution.

Simpson's seminal contribution to the modern evolutionary synthesis integrated the facts of paleontology with those of genetics and natural selection. "Simpson argued that the microevolution of population genetics was…

1944 CE

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1944 CE

#9032

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

1944 CE

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1944 CE

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

1944 CE

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1944 CE–1960 CE

#11603

Medical physics. Edited by Otto Glasser. 3 vols.

This nearly 4000 page work in three unusually thick volumes, written by hundreds of authors, was an encyclopedia of medical physics for its time.

1944 CE

#12606

A century of service to dentistry 1844 -1944. Published by S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. in commemoration of its one hundredth anniversary. Edited by Harry C. Keane.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1945 CE

#2061

Cinchona in Java: The story of quinine.

1945 CE

#5732

The history of surgical anesthesia.

Reprinted with corrections and additions, 1963. Reprint, 1978.

1945 CE

#5015

The falling sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. Second edition.

Revised second edition. Baltimore, 1971.

1945 CE

#6623

Poet physicians: An anthology of medical poetry written by physicians.

1945 CE

#6476

Asclepius: A collection and interpretation of the testimonies. 2 vols.

1945 CE

#6309

One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.

1945 CE–1951 CE

#6780

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. 3 vols.

Supplements the Short title catalogue (No. 6771). This was superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols., New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1972-88. In addition to countless works of …

1945 CE

#9177

Anatomy for artists.

By the famous American social realist artist.

1945 CE

#11353

Surgery of the brain.

Volume XII in Lewis' Practice of Surgery.

1945 CE

#12618

The herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.

First printed edition of an herbal written circa 1287 by Rufinus, a medieval monk / physician unknown before this edition. Rufinus was titular abbot in absentia of the monastery of Tyre, and plenipotentiary to the arc…

1945 CE

#13801

The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.

1946 CE

#2237.01

The face in health and disease.

1946 CE

#5732.1

The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.