North America
3,302 entries published in North America.
1899 CE
#5622
An experimental research into surgical shock.
Crile saw and recorded elevations in systemic and portal venous pressures under experimental shock.
1899 CE
#7336
The nervous system and its constituent neurones, Designed for the use of practitioners of medicine and of students of medicine and psychology.
Considered a masterpiece of compilation of the new scientific evidence for the neuron theory. "Also contains Gertrude Stein’s first publication, which consists of a quote and further description of her developme…
1899 CE
#9403
Philosophy of osteopathy.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#2687.2
The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).
The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …
1900 CE–1928 CE
#4981
Studies in the psychology of sex. 7 vols.
Ellis's Studies represent a lifetime of research devoted to the subject, at first in the face of bitter opposition.
1900 CE
#6110
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a…
1900 CE
#5456
A note on the interval between infecting and secondary cases of yellow fever from the records of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Mississippi, in 1898.
Carter's determination of the incubation period yellow fever influenced the direction of Reed’s researches, and was instrumental in the discovery of the mode of transmission of the yellow fever virus.
1900 CE
#6881
The logic of figures, or comparative results of homoeopathic and other treatments.
A comparison of mortality rates in institutions and private practice between homeopathic and other modes of treatment. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#9475
The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
"The ʔívil̃uqaletem (or Ivilyuqaletem) are Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.[2] Their original territory included an area of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2). The traditional Cahu…
1900 CE
#10314
One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri: Historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions. Edited by Max A. Goldstein.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#10588
Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.
The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.
1900 CE
#11289
Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.
This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…
1900 CE
#13204
As nature shows them. Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. 2 vols.
Includes 56 nature-printed and handcolored plates produced from impressions of the wings of the actual insects pressed onto the paper. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1901 CE
#2040.1
Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.
The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.
1901 CE
#2687.3
The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery.
Because of rapid developments in this field Williams put this book through three editions, in 1901, 1902, and 1903. Digital facsimile of the 1901 first edition from the Wellcome Collection at this link, of the 1902 se…
1901 CE
#2711
On a family form of recurring epistaxis, associated with multiple telangiectases of the skin and mucous membranes.
“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.” Multiple hereditary telangiectasis was first described by Legg (No. 2707) in 1876 and later by Rendu (No. 2710) and Weber (No. 2714). Reprinted in Medical Classics,…
1901 CE
#5624
An experimental and clinical research into certain problems relating to surgical operations.
Crile made important contributions to knowledge regarding shock. He originated the theory that it is due to exhaustion of the vasomotor center. (See also No. 5629.) Chapter V: On the physiologic action of cocain and e…
1901 CE
#8540
The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#9207
The theory and practice of military hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#10833
The vivisection question.
Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…
1901 CE
#11180
An atlas of the medulla and midbrain: A laboratory manual.
1902 CE
#9404
The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1902 CE
#10830
Animal experimentation: A series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science.
Contributors included Charles Elliot, G. Stanley Hall, William T. Sedgwick, James J. Putnam, Henry P. Bowditch, William T. Porter, William T. Councilman, Theobald Smith, and members of the religious community. Digital…
1902 CE
#12263
Principles of sanitary science and the public health, with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases.
Digital facsimile of the 1902 first edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1902 CE
#12393
Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1902 CE
#12755
The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.
Digital facsimile of the 33rd impression (1922) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903 CE
#3641
Disease of the pancreas; its cause and nature.
1903 CE–1907 CE
#3793
The internal secretions and the principles of medicine. 2 vols.
Sajous, pioneer American endocrinologist, wrote the first treatise on the subject. In this work he regarded the adrenal, pituitary, and thyroid glands as controlling the immunizing mechanism of the body.
1903 CE
#5627
Blood-pressure in surgery.
1903 CE
#6210.1
Obstetrics.
The most famous American textbook of obstetrics.
c. 1903 CE
#10827
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benefactors and alumni: A history. Edited by John Shrady. 2 vols.
A massive history of nearly 1200 pages issued by the publisher of the similarly huge history of the Rush Medical College (No. 10826). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1903 CE
#11020
The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903 CE
#12166
Collected essays and articles on physiology and medicine. 2 vols.
Flint was one of the founders of laboratory research on physiology in America. Besides the regular trade edition Flint issued a deluxe version of this set limited to 25 copies. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heri…
1904 CE
#1043
Physiological economy in nutrition.
Chittenden, founder of the first laboratory of physiological chemistry in the U.S.A., made many important experiments in nutrition, especially in connexion with the low protein diet advocated by him.
1904 CE
#2459
Researches in helminthology and parasitology. With a bibliography of his contributions to science.
In vol. 46 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Leidy was called the greatest descriptive naturalist in mid-19th century America.
1904 CE
#1
The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.
The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième s&eacut…
1904 CE
#7206
Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.
A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…
1904 CE
#9530
Obstetrics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1904 CE
#10714
One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.
1904 CE
#10738
The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1904 CE
#10826
The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.
A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1904 CE
#11572
The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.
The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1904 CE
#12904
Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face. With seven hundred and sixty original illustrations.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1904 CE
#13170
A group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago. A collection of biographical sketches of many of the eminent representatives, past and present, of the medical profession of Chicago.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1904 CE
#13362
Pathologie intertropicale. Doctrines et clinique.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallaica at this link.
1905 CE–1914 CE
#2518
Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. 3 vols.
One of the most careful investigations of the bacterial diseases in plants was made by Smith, who conclusively demonstrated the existence of such diseases and proposed a scheme of classification for the bacteria conce…
1905 CE
#3571
The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.
The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905 CE
#3399
The story of my life.
Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months, as the result of an illness. Her education was a triumph of patience and skill on the part of her teacher, Anne M. Sullivan, and a demonstration of the great…
1905 CE
#6868
History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America: Their founders, benefactors, faculties, officers, hospitals, alumni, etc., with a record of achievement of its representatives in the world of medicine .... 4 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905 CE
#6968
History of osteopathy, and twentieth-century medical practice.
Revised & enlarged second edition Cincinnati: Printed for the Author, the Caxton Press, 1924. Digital facsimile of the first edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Digital facsimile of the second edition from…