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3,302 entries published in North America.

1922 CE

#1035

The mechanics of the digestive tract.

Includes (p. 111) his smooth diet for duodenal ulcer. Fourth edition entitled Introduction to gastro-enterology, 1950.

1922 CE

#2185

Notes on the history of military medicine.

1922 CE

#137

The biology of death.

Raymond Pearl did important work on the subject of vital statistics.

1922 CE–1924 CE

#3798

Endocrinology and metabolism presented in their scientific and practical clinical aspects by ninety-eight contributors. 5 vols.

1922 CE

#3690.1

A textbook of clinical periodontia. A study of the causes and pathology of periodontal disease and a consideration of Its treatment.

“The first authoritative book in the field” (Ring). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1922 CE

#3691.1

The origin and evolution of the human dentition.

Reprinted with revisions and new index from J. dent. Res., 1920, 2, 89-175, 215-426, 604-717; 1921, 3, 87-228.

1922 CE

#5369

Bibliography of hookworm disease.

Contains 5,680 references to all aspects of hookworm disease, prefaced by a short history. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1922 CE

#5393

The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland.

The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach, Todd, and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1922 CE

#6348.1

Premature and congenitally diseased infants.

“The first book ever written dealing solely with premature and congenitally diseased infants” (Cone). Hess founded the first premature infant center in the United States at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

1922 CE

#8712

South America from a surgeon's point of view.

Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…

1922 CE

#9933

History of American Red Cross nursing.

By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1922 CE

#11722

All about coffee.

Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. Second edition, 1935. Digital facsimile of the 1922 edition from Google Books at this link.

1922 CE

#12406

History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago. Endorsed and published under the supervision of the council of the Chicago Medical Society.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1922 CE

#12506

Bibliographiae stomatologicae.

An extensively annotated historical bibliography of dental bibliographies. Also published in Arthur D. Black, ed., Index of the periodical dental literature.... for 1916-1920 (Chicago, 1922) pp. xiv-liii. Digital facs…

1922 CE

#12842

Regional anesthesia: Its technic and clinical application. With a foreward by William J. Mayo.

First work in English on regional anesthesia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1923 CE–2012 CE

#16

Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.

Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.

1923 CE

#138

The chemical basis of growth and senescence.

1923 CE

#2312.3

Paleopathology; an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease.

Surveys the ancient evidence of disease in plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, including man.

1923 CE

#2522

Manual of determinative bacteriology.

The Society of American Bacteriologists appointed in 1920 a Committee on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. Their reports were incorporated in the above Manual issued under the names of Bergey and…

1923 CE

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#6353

History of pediatrics. In I. Abt, System of pediatrics, 1, 1-170.

Re-issued separately with an appendix on the history of pediatrics in recent times by A. F. Abt, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1965.

1923 CE–1958 CE

#6422

A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.

Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.

1923 CE

#7709

The antiquity of disease.

An account intended for general audiences, as compared to Moodie's Palaeopathology published the same year. Digital facsimile of The Antiquity of Disease from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#9077

American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.

Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…

1923 CE

#11008

A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#11567

Traumatic shock.

"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…

1923 CE

#11695

The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld.

Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography.

1924 CE

#1036

Basal metabolism in health and disease.

1924 CE

#86.3

Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.

In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…

1924 CE

#748

Chemical dynamics of life phenomena.

1924 CE

#139

Regeneration from a physico-chemical viewpoint.

1924 CE

#1766.603

The medical sciences in the German Universities: a study in the history of civilization. Translated by William H. Welch.

German edition first published in 1876.

1924 CE–1929 CE

#7097

A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1924 CE

#10828

Humane society leaders in America. With a sketch of the early history of the humane movement in England.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1924 CE

#11226

Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.

The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…

1925 CE

#4480

The evolution of orthopaedic surgery.

1925 CE

#145.63

Elements of physical biology.

In this landmark of theoretical population ecology Lotka attempted to provide for parts of biology a basis comparable to that given by theoretical physics to experimental physics. This was the first great exposition a…

1925 CE

#2134

Industrial poisons in the United States.

1925 CE

#2461

Key-catalogue of the protozoa reported for man.

1925 CE

#2603

Allergic diseases; diagnosis and treatment of bronchial asthma, hay fever, and other allergic diseases.

In his important studies of asthma, Storm van Leeuwen demonstrated that in the great majority of patients allergens are the cause of the condition and also that patients are sensitive to mold spores. He experimented w…

1925 CE

#2354

Development of our knowledge of tuberculosis.

1925 CE

#1766.504

Medical education: A comparative study.

1925 CE

#2575

The chemical aspects of immunity.

1925 CE

#4393

Bone sarcoma, an interpretation of the nomenclature used by the Committee on the Registry of Bone Sarcoma of the American College of Surgeons.

1925 CE

#5103

Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.

Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …

1925 CE

#6458

The healing gods of ancient civilizations.

1925 CE

#6354

Pediatrics of the past: an anthology.

Contains sketches of the lives of the more important pediatricians of the past, with a comprehensive selection of their works, translated where necessary into English. Ruhräh has thrown much light on the importan…

1925 CE

#10197

Arrowsmith.

"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…

1925 CE

#10405

The scalpel under three flags in California.

1925 CE

#10610

The mental growth of the pre-school child: A psychological outline of normal development from birth to the sixth year, including a system of development diagnosis.

"The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925[1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate…