United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
1949 CE
#6310
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
1949 CE
#6596
Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.
1949 CE
#6878
Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.
First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…
1949 CE
#7084
A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.
This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …
1949 CE
#7316
Histopathology of the skin.
1949 CE
#8084
The Negro in the medical profession.
Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.
1949 CE
#8763
The origin of medical terms.
Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1949 CE
#8885
Group medicine & health insurance in action.
"The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York was established in March, 1947 for the specific purpose of accumulating the required experience under carefully controlled conditions. In order to assemble measurable dat…
1949 CE
#9384
Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.
Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
1949 CE
#11102
Mushrooms in their natural habitats.
A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.
1949 CE
#11428
The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.
Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.
1949 CE
#11726
The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1949 CE
#12019
Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]
"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…
1949 CE
#12634
The chemistry of penicillin.
The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…
1949 CE
#12635
X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.
Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was…
1949 CE
#12735
The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory.
Hebb connected the biological function of the brain as an organ together with the higher function of the mind. He studied how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. In this wo…
1950 CE
#5352.2
Bibliography of onchocerciasis.
Publication No. 242.
1950 CE
#6783
A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.
For supplement see No. 6786.18.
1950 CE–1966 CE
#6784
UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.
Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library&rdq…
1950 CE
#7173
German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.
Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…
1950 CE
#7537
Childhood and society.
1950 CE
#9185
Variation and evolution in plants.
The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …
1950 CE
#11571
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
1950 CE
#12199
On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.
The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …
1950 CE
#12323
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
1950 CE
#12821
The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.
The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.
1950 CE
#13808
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
1951 CE
#4672.4
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
1951 CE
#1246
The kidney: structure and function in health and disease.
An encyclopaedic presentation of kidney physiology, including the many contributions of the author.
1951 CE
#143.1
A source book in animal biology.
1951 CE
#1671
The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.
1951 CE
#1671.11
A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.
1951 CE
#5017
A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.
Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.
1951 CE
#6785
The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.
1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject…
1951 CE–1961 CE
#6448
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
1951 CE
#6596.1
The health of slaves on southern plantations.
Chiefly from contemporary MS records.
1951 CE
#8202
Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).
1951 CE
#9093
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
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First translation into a modern language.
1951 CE
#9732
Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.
1951 CE
#10293
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1951 CE
#10616
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
1951 CE
#11699
Tobacco and the cardiovascular system: The effects of smoking and of nicotine on normal persons.
1951 CE
#13175
The social system.
The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.
1951 CE
#13558
Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.
Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.
1952 CE
#366
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
1952 CE–1968 CE
#2180.1
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.
UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE
Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department
1952 CE
#2187.1
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
1952 CE
#2068
Plants of the Bible.
The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.
1952 CE
#1685
Man and epidemics.
1952 CE
#5018
