North America

1938 CE

#14110

Artificial fever produced by physical means; its development and application.

Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the application of pyrotherapy in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including syphilis. For syphilis in particular the treatment was replaced by penicillin, developed…

1939 CE

#4671.2

Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.

Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to the cotton rat and then to the mouse, greatly facilitating experimental work on the disease.

1939 CE

#534

The rise of embryology.

Includes a fine bibliography.

1939 CE

#2137.10

Principles and practice of aviation medicine.

Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.

1939 CE

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1939 CE

#2581

Bacteriology.

A much briefer history than Bulloch’s but with a thorough and accurate bibliography.

1939 CE

#2722

Circulatory diseases of the extremities.

1939 CE

#3802

The endocrine glands

Goldzieher dealt very fully with the history, theory, and practice of endocrinology.

1939 CE

#4250.2

Architecture of the kidney in chronic Bright’s disease.

A description of the morphological changes in the nephrons of diseased kidneys. Hypertrophic, atrophic and aglomerular units are described.

1939 CE

#4403.2

Operative orthopedics.

First edition of the most influential American textbook of orthopedics in the twentieth century.

1939 CE

#5721.1

The art of anesthesia. 6th ed.

Flagg had an important influence on American anesthesia. The Flagg can is described on p. 148 of his book.

1939 CE

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1939 CE

#6654

BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 7-

Vol. 1-6, 1933-38 entitled Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine. Recent issues may be viewed from Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24 .

1939 CE

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1939 CE

#6914

The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry.

This book set forth in detail Pauling's valence-bond theory based on the quantum-mechanical concept of resonance between two energy states, which led to his highly innovative idea that the hybridization of orbitals (e…

1939 CE

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

1939 CE

#10226

Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.

"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…

1939 CE

#10688

Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.

"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…

1939 CE

#11189

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

1939 CE

#11787

The measurement of adult intelligence.

Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…

1939 CE

#12448

Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.

Discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.

1939 CE–2015 CE

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.

1939 CE

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

1939 CE–1941 CE

#13432

The Dr. Howard A. Kelly library catalogue

Parts 1-6.

1939 CE

#14053

A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.

The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…

1940 CE

#1811.1

The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.

The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…

1940 CE

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1940 CE

#6649

Faiths that healed.

1940 CE

#6495

The Chinese way in medicine.

1940 CE

#6435

Progress in medicine: a critical review of the last hundred years.

1940 CE

#7063

Obesity and leanness.

The first American book specifically devoted to obesity research.

1940 CE

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

1940 CE

#10324

Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

1940 CE

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

1940 CE

#12933

Root canal therapy.

1940 CE

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1940 CE

#13352

The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.

Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.

1941 CE

#2187

A short history of nautical medicine.

1941 CE

#1684

War and disease.

1941 CE

#1533.1

The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.

A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.

1941 CE

#3243

The story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis.

1941 CE

#3158

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

1941 CE

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1941 CE

#5013

A history of medical psychology.

1941 CE

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1941 CE

#6483

Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.

1941 CE

#6357.57

Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.

Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.

1941 CE–1959 CE

#6777

Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.

Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…

1941 CE

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1941 CE

#11000

The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.

Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."