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3,302 entries published in North America.

1929 CE

#4991

Gestalt psychology.

1929 CE

#6299.1

Obstetric forceps, its history and evolution.

1929 CE

#7186

The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.

The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1929 CE

#9629

Benevenutus Grassus of Jerusalem De oculis eorumque egritudinibus et curis: Translated with notes and illustrations from the first printed edition, Ferrara, 1474 A.D

1929 CE

#11003

The history of hemostasis.

Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of Medical History, N. S. Vol. I, No. 2, March, 1929.

1929 CE

#11004

Stretchers: The story of a hospital unit on the western front.

History of the U.S. Army American Expeditionary Forces Evacuation Hospital no. 8, World War 1, 1914-1918, in which Pottle served. Pottle was the greatest Boswell and Samuel Johnson scholar. Digital facsimile from the …

1929 CE

#13079

Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1929 CE

#13404

History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.

1930 CE

#1577

Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.

1930 CE

#1918

Ephedrine and related substances.

A digest of the literature, together with an excellent bibliography. By their earlier work (J. Pharmacol., 1924, 24, 339-57) Chen and Schmidt aroused worldwide interest in ephedrine.

1930 CE

#2256

Burns. Types, pathology and management.

1930 CE

#2239

Nosography, the evolution of clinical medicine in modern times. 2nd ed.

A well-illustrated and reliable account.

1930 CE

#4850

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.

At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…

1930 CE

#6471

The beginnings. Egypt and Assyria.

Clio Medica series.

1930 CE

#6540

Medicine in the British Isles

Clio Medica series.

1930 CE–1933 CE

#6588

Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.

1930 CE

#6596.9

History of Haitian medicine.

1930 CE

#7797

Historic artificial limbs.

1930 CE

#10316

The centennial history of the Tennessee State Medical Association, 1830-1930.

1930 CE

#11324

The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.

1930 CE

#12158

Seed, a novel of birth control.

1930 CE

#12459

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.

"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…

1931 CE

#139.2

Pinocytosis.

Discovery of pinocytosis.

1931 CE

#4274

Surgical pathology of prostatic obstructions.

1931 CE

#4400

Tumors of bone.

1931 CE

#5142.1

The black death and men of learning.

1931 CE

#6633

Medicina in nummis. A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences.

This consists mainly of a catalogue of 6,000 medals collected by Horatio Storer, an eminent Boston gynecologist. The collection is now in the Boston Medical Library at Harvard Medical School, and the very thick book, …

1931 CE

#6423

Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of medical history. Forward by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

1931 CE

#6590

History of medicine in the United States. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.

An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States. The first edition appeared in 1901. Dr. Packard edited the Annals of Medical History from its commencement in 1917 until its decease in 194…

1931 CE

#5468

Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1931 CE

#4478.108

Training, conditioning, and the care of injuries.

The first American book on sports medicine, co-authored by the legendary football coach, Knute Rockne.

1931 CE

#7788

American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.

1931 CE

#8887

International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)

Contains almost no references to prior literature.

1931 CE

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

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

1931 CE

#9449

The physician of the Dance of Death: A historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.

"Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of medical history (n. s., vol. II, nos. 4, 5, 6, 1930, and vol. III, nos. 1, 2, 1931)."

1931 CE

#11026

History of medicine in the province of Quebec.

Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1931 CE

#11570

The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.

Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.

1932 CE

#664

The wisdom of the body.

A discussion of the regulation of body fluids, hunger, thirst, temperature, oxygen supply, water, sugar, and proteins of the body, and the role of the sympathetic-adrenal mechanism.

1932 CE

#1092.5

Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.

1932 CE

#1197

Sex and internal secretions; a survey of recent research.

Second edition, 1939, with C. H. Danforth and E. A. Doisy.

1932 CE

#2056

Physical therapy.

“Clio medica” series.

1932 CE

#1683

Epidemiology, historical and experimental.

1932 CE

#2347

The chemistry of tuberculosis. Second edition.

1932 CE

#2241

Classic descriptions of disease.

A collection of classic descriptions of disease by 179 different writers, from ancient times to the present. Foreign papers are translated into English. A second edition of this most interesting and useful book appear…

1932 CE

#3552

Papers relating to the pituitary body, hypothalamus, and para-sympathetic nervous system.

Cushing advanced the theory that the hypothalamus is responsible for the development of peptic ulcer (see p. 175 et seq.). This work contains his four principal contributions to pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationshi…

1932 CE

#2861

The cardiac output of man in health and disease.

1932 CE

#4900

Intracranial tumours.

Cushing’s operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of his operations on brain tumors-- essentially a summ…

1932 CE

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

1932 CE

#6563

Italian medicine. Translated by E.B. Krumbhaar.

Clio Medica series.

1932 CE

#6574

Lappische Heilkunde.

Folk medicine of the Sami people.