North America
3,302 entries published in North America.
1951 CE
#1671.11
A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.
1951 CE
#5017
A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.
Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.
1951 CE
#6785
The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.
1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject…
1951 CE–1961 CE
#6448
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
1951 CE
#6596.1
The health of slaves on southern plantations.
Chiefly from contemporary MS records.
1951 CE
#8202
Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).
1951 CE
#9093
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
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First translation into a modern language.
1951 CE
#9732
Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.
1951 CE
#10293
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1951 CE
#10616
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
1951 CE
#11699
Tobacco and the cardiovascular system: The effects of smoking and of nicotine on normal persons.
1951 CE
#13175
The social system.
The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.
1951 CE
#13558
Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.
Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.
1952 CE
#366
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
1952 CE–1968 CE
#2180.1
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.
UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE
Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department
1952 CE
#2187.1
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
1952 CE
#2068
Plants of the Bible.
The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.
1952 CE
#1685
Man and epidemics.
1952 CE
#5018
The history and development of neurological surgery.
1952 CE
#6500
Jewish medicine.
1952 CE
#6449
Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.
Contains extensive bibliographies.
1952 CE
#7175
Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.
Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…
1952 CE
#7469
The planets: Their origin and development.
Urey coined the term cosmochemistry. He speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his graduate students, Stanley Miller, showed in the Miller&ndas…
1952 CE–1961 CE
#9033
World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.
In English and German.
1952 CE
#9357
A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits.
1952 CE
#9738
Psychoanalytic explorations in art.
Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.
1952 CE–1959 CE
#11439
Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.
This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…
1952 CE
#13047
Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.
The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.
1952 CE
#13441
The superb library of Bernhard W. Weinberger, D.D.S., on the history and folklore of dentistry. With a preface by Curt Proskaur.
1952 CE
#13527
Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.
"Accepted by the American Dental Association."
1953 CE
#567.1
A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.
1953 CE
#4158
Classics in clinical dermatology. With biographical sketches.
Contains 143 classic descriptions of cutaneous diseases by 93 writers. Many portraits are also included.
1953 CE
#6357.59
The surgery of infancy and childhood.
Gross developed the specialty of pediatric surgery, inventing numerous operations. This was the first modern comprehensive textbook on the subject.
1953 CE–1959 CE
#6450
A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)
1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
1953 CE
#7037
Sexual behavior in the human female
1953 CE
#9505
A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.
1953 CE–1990 CE
#10203
Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.
"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…
1953 CE
#11200
Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works
1953 CE
#11203
A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes
1954 CE
#4914.2
Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.
This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.
1954 CE
#6785.1
The development of medical bibliography.
A historical study; includes a list of 255 medical bibliographies published since 1500. Reprinted 1981.
1954 CE
#6451.2
A history of medicine. 1 vol. [in 2]
1954 CE
#7351
The human brain in sagittal section.
A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in …
1954 CE
#11159
Neurosurgery of infancy and childhood.
The first complete textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. Ingraham, a protegé of Harvey Cushing, established the first pediatric neurosurgery unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1929.
1954 CE
#11268
The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.
1954 CE
#11714
Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.
"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).
1955 CE
#2360
Historical chronology of tuberculosis. 2nd ed.
1955 CE–1960 CE
#5551.1
The surgery of Theodoric ca. 1267. Translated from the Latin by Eldridge Campbell and James Colton. 2 vols.
Theodoric, a Dominican friar, was a pupil of Hugh of Lucca (circa 1160-1257), whose teachings are reflected in his writings. Allbutt considered Theodoric to be one of the most original surgeons of all time. Borgognoni…
1955 CE
#8329
Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1955 CE
#9027
The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.
Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.