North America

1936 CE–1939 CE

#1172

The physiology and pharmacology of the pituitary body. 2 vols.

Includes an extensive bibliography.

1936 CE

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1936 CE

#2357

Tuberculosis.

Clio Medica series.

1936 CE

#1766.604

The American medical profession, 1783 to 1850.

1936 CE

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

1936 CE

#3338.1

Diseases of the air and food passages of foreign-body origin.

One of the most comprehensive treatises on the subject ever published, with a 636-page appendix describing, and in most cases illustrating, 3266 foreign bodies and how they were removed.

1936 CE

#5815

Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.

The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…

1936 CE

#6499

Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.

References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.

1936 CE

#6432

Disease and destiny.

1936 CE

#6433

The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.

Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.

1936 CE–1941 CE

#6662.1

MEDICAL CLASSICS. 1-5

Reprints of classic texts, with English translations where necessary. Includes biographical notes and full bibliographies.

1936 CE

#258

The great chain of being: A study of the history of an idea.

1936 CE

#7035

Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.

One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.

1936 CE

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

1936 CE

#10640

Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.

The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.

1936 CE

#11821

Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.

Includes information on asbestosis.

1936 CE

#13044

Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.

1936 CE

#13588

Snakes of Maryland.

1936 CE

#14229

The comparative anatomy of the nervous system of vertebrates, including man. 2 vols.

This edition and translation was so extensively reworked and expanded by Kappers, Huber and Crosby that it should be considered a new work. See No. 1247 for the original edition in German. Order of authorship as publi…

1937 CE

#1354

Autonomic neuro-effector systems.

The authors hypothesized the existence of two sympathins, one excitatory and the other inhibitory, now known as epinephrine and norepinephrine. See Nos. 1144 & 1350.

1937 CE

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

1937 CE

#2319

Pathology.

Krumbhaar edited the Clio Medica series of volumes on the history of medicine, and contributed a history of pathology to it.

1937 CE

#2866

Clinical roentgenology of the cardiovascular system.

1937 CE

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

1937 CE

#6524

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

1937 CE

#6567

Russian medicine.

1937 CE

#254.2

Genetics and the origin of species.

Dobzhansky, an emigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with…

1937 CE

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

1937 CE

#9242

Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1937 CE–1946 CE

#9358

Fragments of entomological history including some personal recollections of men and events. 2 vols.

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1937 CE

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1937 CE

#11215

A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré: Premier chirugien & conseiller du Roy

1937 CE–1969 CE

#11629

Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.

1937 CE

#11797

A sex starved world.

A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …

1938 CE

#4612

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, H…

1938 CE

#1451

The primate thalamus.

1938 CE

#3707

Riboflavin deficiency in man; a preliminary note.

Ariboflavinosis

1938 CE

#5808

The romance of proctology, which is the story of the history and development of this much neglected branch of surgery.

1938 CE

#6650

A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.

1938 CE

#7103

The ape in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1938 CE

#8224

A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927: With supplement embracing the Years 1928-1935. Second edition, completely revised and greatly augmented.

Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edit…

1938 CE

#10408

The horse and buggy doctor.

The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1938 CE

#11775

Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.

1938 CE

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1938 CE

#12621

Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism

1938 CE

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1938 CE

#13328

Bound feet.

The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…