North America
3,302 entries published in North America.
1948 CE
#3160
A history of the heart and circulation.
1948 CE
#3702
A history of dentistry. 2nd edition.
1948 CE
#3703
An introduction to the history of dentistry. 2 vols.
The first volume covers the history to 1800; the second deals solely with the history of dentistry in America.
1948 CE
#6631.1
Music and medicine.
1948 CE–1949 CE
#6740
Lives of master surgeons.
One volume and supplement.
1948 CE
#6491
Hindu medicine.
1948 CE
#6782
Encyclopedia of medical sources.
A valuable list of medical eponyms and original sources, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names.
1948 CE
#7038
Sexual behavior in the human male.
1948 CE
#7786
No place to hide.
Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …
1948 CE
#9024
The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.
1948 CE
#10204
The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.
This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.
1948 CE–1963 CE
#10981
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.
1948 CE
#11620
Urological oddities.
1948 CE
#11766
Congenital anaomies of the heart and great vessels. Clinicopathologic study of 132 ases.
An extensively illustrated pathological-anatomical and physiological presentation with an historical approach.
1948 CE–1966 CE
#12191
A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.
Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1949 CE
#4483
On the contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of Liverpool, Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool and London, John Ridlon, M.D., of New York and Chicago, to modern orthopedic surgery.
1949 CE
#5015.1
The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
1949 CE
#6310
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
1949 CE
#6596
Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.
1949 CE
#6878
Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.
First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…
1949 CE
#7084
A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.
This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …
1949 CE
#7316
Histopathology of the skin.
1949 CE
#8084
The Negro in the medical profession.
Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.
1949 CE
#8763
The origin of medical terms.
Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1949 CE
#8885
Group medicine & health insurance in action.
"The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York was established in March, 1947 for the specific purpose of accumulating the required experience under carefully controlled conditions. In order to assemble measurable dat…
1949 CE
#9384
Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.
Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
1949 CE
#11102
Mushrooms in their natural habitats.
A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.
1949 CE
#11428
The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.
Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.
1949 CE
#11726
The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1949 CE
#12019
Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]
"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…
1949 CE
#12613
Antibiotics: A survey of penicillin, streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 vols.
Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.
1949 CE
#12634
The chemistry of penicillin.
The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…
1949 CE
#12635
X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.
Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was…
1949 CE
#12735
The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory.
Hebb connected the biological function of the brain as an organ together with the higher function of the mind. He studied how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. In this wo…
1950 CE
#2238
The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.
In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.
1950 CE
#5352.2
Bibliography of onchocerciasis.
Publication No. 242.
1950 CE
#6783
A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.
For supplement see No. 6786.18.
1950 CE–1966 CE
#6784
UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.
Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library&rdq…
1950 CE
#7173
German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.
Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…
1950 CE
#7537
Childhood and society.
1950 CE
#9185
Variation and evolution in plants.
The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …
1950 CE
#11571
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
1950 CE
#12199
On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.
The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …
1950 CE
#12323
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
1950 CE
#12821
The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.
The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.
1950 CE
#13808
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
1951 CE
#4672.4
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
1951 CE
#1246
The kidney: structure and function in health and disease.
An encyclopaedic presentation of kidney physiology, including the many contributions of the author.
1951 CE
#143.1
A source book in animal biology.
1951 CE
#1671