United States

1969 CE

#11992

Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.

Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…

1969 CE

#13035

Medicine on stamps.

1969 CE

#13809

Pain and the neurosurgeon.

This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…

1970 CE

#4483.4

The early orthopaedic surgeons of America.

1970 CE

#1766.608

The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.

1970 CE

#3161.2

The history of cardiac surgery.

1970 CE

#3611.4

Hernia repair without disability.

First monograph on ambulatory hernia surgery. Second edition published by Ishiyaku Euroamerica in 1986 was retitled: Hernia repair without disability: A surgical atlas illustrating the anatomy, technique, and physiolo…

1970 CE

#5019.9

The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.

Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…

1970 CE

#5019.10

Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.

Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.

1970 CE

#6467.1

American Indian medicine.

Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.

1970 CE

#6786.16

The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. An annotated checklist of first editions viewed from the angle of their subject content. Astronomy. Mathematics. Medicine. Natural science. Physics. Technology.

1970 CE

#6604.2

Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.

Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.

1970 CE

#7010

Discoveries in biological psychiatry.

Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…

1970 CE

#7822

Medicine and stamps.

1970 CE–1990 CE

#8192

Dictionary of scientific biography. Vols. 1-16 (1-15, Supplement 1) edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie. Vols. 17-18 (Supplement 2) edited by Frederick L. Holmes.

Over 5,000 biographies, each with detailed bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Medical biographies tend to be of physiologists and other researchers rather than clinicians. Includes an exhaustive index an…

1970 CE

#8380

George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.

"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…

1970 CE

#8496

A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.

Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.

1970 CE

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1970 CE

#10059

The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.

Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

1970 CE

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…

1970 CE

#11527

A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.

1970 CE

#11564

Clinical electrocardiography and computers.

"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).

1970 CE

#12341

Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.

The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.

1970 CE

#14216

Hammond's wall atlas of human anatomy.

With pages measuring 731 x 536 mm., this is the largest anatomical atlas ever published with plastic overlays. The covers include metal grommets so that the book could be hung on the wall. The work was undated, but is…

1971 CE

#534.71

Congenital malformations. Notes and comments.

Warkany's contributions span all aspects of teratology, both clinical and experimental. This has been called his magnum opus. It includes 124 chapters, each with detailed bibliography, on a total of 1271 pages.

1971 CE

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1971 CE

#4297.2

The history of urology.

A scholarly, detailed work. Part 1 is an adapted translation of E. Desnos: Histoire de l’urologie, in Encyclopédie française d’urologie, eds. A. Pousson & E. Desnos, 1914, 1, 1-294.

1971 CE

#5019.11

The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.

1971 CE

#6007.1

A history of the ophthalmoscope.

1971 CE

#6467.2

Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.

See also No. 6448

1971 CE

#6501.2

Through the Bible with a physician.

1971 CE

#6786.17

Medicine: A bibliography of bibliographies.

Extracted from A world bibliography of bibliographies (4th ed., 1965-66)

1971 CE

#6786.18

A catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine. First supplement.

Supplements Nos. 6783 and 6786.12. Records 27 15th century imprints and 272 16th century imprints acquired by the library since publication of those two catalogues.

1971 CE

#6809

Dictionary of medical syndromes.

Second edition with E. Scrasia, 1981.

1971 CE

#258.7

The origins of theoretical population genetics.

1971 CE

#6880

Homeopathy in America: The rise and fall of the medical heresy.

A history of homeopathy in America, including its demise during the early to mid-20th century.

1971 CE

#7353

Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.

"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…

1971 CE

#7405

Histology of the human eye.

Hogan and Alvarado's work was the first book on histology of the eye to include electron microscopy. It also reproduced spectacular three-dimensional representations of ocular ultrastructures by Joan Esperson Weddell.

1971 CE

#9439

Chaucer's physician: Medicine and literature in fourteenth-century England.

1971 CE

#9469

Outcasts from evolution: Scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859 - 1900.

1971 CE

#10449

Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail.

1971 CE

#10765

Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.

1971 CE

#10857

Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…

1971 CE

#10871

Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios

1971 CE

#11665

Blacks, medical schools and society.

A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.

1971 CE

#12090

Humboldtian physicians in California.

Concerns the influence of Alexander von Humboldt on early California physicians. Library Associates of the University Library, Davis, Keepsake No. 4.

1971 CE

#12370

International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.

Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.

1971 CE

#14193

The American Association of Orthodontists: The biography of a specialty organization.

1971 CE

#14298

Marijuana reconsidered.

A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…

1972 CE

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…