United States

1952 CE

#6500

Jewish medicine.

1952 CE

#6449

Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.

Contains extensive bibliographies.

1952 CE

#7175

Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.

Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…

1952 CE

#7469

The planets: Their origin and development.

Urey coined the term cosmochemistry. He speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his graduate students, Stanley Miller, showed in the Miller&ndas…

1952 CE–1961 CE

#9033

World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.

In English and German.

1952 CE

#9357

A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits.

1952 CE

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

1952 CE–1959 CE

#11439

Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.

This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…

1952 CE

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1952 CE

#13441

The superb library of Bernhard W. Weinberger, D.D.S., on the history and folklore of dentistry. With a preface by Curt Proskaur.

1952 CE

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1953 CE

#567.1

A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.

1953 CE

#4158

Classics in clinical dermatology. With biographical sketches.

Contains 143 classic descriptions of cutaneous diseases by 93 writers. Many portraits are also included.

1953 CE

#6357.59

The surgery of infancy and childhood.

Gross developed the specialty of pediatric surgery, inventing numerous operations. This was the first modern comprehensive textbook on the subject.

1953 CE–1959 CE

#6450

A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)

1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.

1953 CE

#7037

Sexual behavior in the human female

1953 CE

#9505

A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.

1953 CE–1990 CE

#10203

Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.

"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…

1953 CE

#11200

Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works

1953 CE

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1954 CE

#4914.2

Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.

This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.

1954 CE

#6785.1

The development of medical bibliography.

A historical study; includes a list of 255 medical bibliographies published since 1500. Reprinted 1981.

1954 CE

#6451.2

A history of medicine. 1 vol. [in 2]

1954 CE

#7351

The human brain in sagittal section.

A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in …

1954 CE

#11159

Neurosurgery of infancy and childhood.

The first complete textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. Ingraham, a protegé of Harvey Cushing, established the first pediatric neurosurgery unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1929.

1954 CE

#11268

The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.

1954 CE

#11714

Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.

"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).

1955 CE

#2360

Historical chronology of tuberculosis. 2nd ed.

1955 CE–1960 CE

#5551.1

The surgery of Theodoric ca. 1267. Translated from the Latin by Eldridge Campbell and James Colton. 2 vols.

Theodoric, a Dominican friar, was a pupil of Hugh of Lucca (circa 1160-1257), whose teachings are reflected in his writings. Allbutt considered Theodoric to be one of the most original surgeons of all time. Borgognoni…

1955 CE

#8329

Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1955 CE

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1955 CE

#9103

A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.

1955 CE–1969 CE

#9221

Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive medicine in World War II. Editor in chief John Boyd Coates, Jr. Editor for Preventive medicine Ebbe Curtis Hoff. 9 vols.

Digital facsimile of vols. 2-9 from the Hathi Trust at this link. (When I created this entry in March 2017 it was unclear whether vol. 1 was ever published.)

1955 CE

#9222

Medical Department, United States Army. United States Army Dental Service in World War II.

Digital text from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1955 CE

#9420

A short history of medicine.

Revised and expanded edition with a Foreward and Concluding Essay by Charles Rosenberg (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).

1955 CE

#10249

Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1955 CE

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1955 CE

#11547

Surgery of the heart.

This 1062-page volume was the first textbook of modern cardiovascular surgery.

1955 CE

#11577

Cardiovascular surgery: Studies in physiology, diagnosis and techniques. Proceedings of the symposium held at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, March, 1955. Edited by Conrad R. Lam.

This symposium was a foundational work in the history of cardiovascular surgery. It included contributions by most of the pioneers of the closed and open-heart procedures that revolutionaized the care of children and …

1955 CE

#12458

The lung: Clinical physiology and pulmonary function tests.

Comroe and associates at the University of Pennsylvania introduced pulmonary function tests developed by physiologists into clinical practice. Comroe invented several of the tests described in the book.

1955 CE

#13140

Airborne contagion and air hygiene: An ecological study of droplet infections.

"In 1954, Wells began a long-term experiment to demonstrate that tuberculosis could be transmitted through air. At the VA Hospital in Baltimore, collaborating with Riley, John Barnwell, and Cretyl C. Mills, he built a…

1955 CE

#14343

The Negro in science.

In the forward Martin D. Jenkins pointed out that while African Americans made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists was rather low. In the first chapter…

1956 CE

#3160.1

Classics in arterial hypertension.

1956 CE

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1956 CE

#7238

Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.

Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.

1956 CE

#7418

Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.

1956 CE

#8020

The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1956 CE

#9367

Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

1956 CE

#10326

The history of medical education in Indiana

1957 CE

#1092.52

A history of nutrition.