North America

1983 CE

#12852

The dentist and the empress: The adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in gas-lit Paris.

"Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a Philadelphia dentist of pioneering skill and great charm, moved in the highest circles of France's Second Empire. His expertise gave American dentistry a special distinction, while his discreti…

1983 CE–1984 CE

#13716

Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.

1984 CE

#461.4

Early history of human anatomy, from antiquity to the beginning of the modern era.

1984 CE

#1588.20

Science and medicine in France. The emergence of experimental physiology, 1790-1855.

1984 CE

#2068.21

Electricity and medicine: A history of their interaction.

1984 CE

#2663

Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.

Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.

1984 CE

#3415.21

The hearing aid: its operations and development. Third edition.

Includes a comprehensive listing of manufacturers and the models each produced.

1984 CE

#6501.3

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

1984 CE

#6742.1

Dictionary of American medical biography. Edited by Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, and Todd L. Savitt. 2 vols.

1984 CE

#6584.2

Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.

1984 CE

#258.13

Evolution: The history of an idea.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.

1984 CE

#7272

The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence.

An historical and analytical review of the literature up to 1984, with detailed bibliographies, by several outstanding authorities, edited by Smith and Spencer. Includes, pp. 411-483, Milford H. Wolpott, Wu Xin Zhi, a…

1984 CE

#8411

The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.

For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.

1984 CE

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

1984 CE

#8622

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.

1984 CE

#8624

Understanding the liver: A history.

1984 CE

#8636

The history of the health care sciences and health care, 1700-1980: A selective annotated bibliography.

1984 CE

#8789

Modern Chinese medicine: Vol. 1: Chinese surgery: A comprehensive review of surgery in the People's Republic of China Vol. 2: Chinese medicine: A comprehensive review of medicine in the People's Republic of China. Vol. 3: Chinese health care: A comprehensive review of health services in the People's Republic of China. Edited by He-Guang Wu and Rui-Tu Ran.

1984 CE

#9098

The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.

Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…

1984 CE

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

1984 CE

#10243

Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.

"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…

1984 CE

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

1984 CE

#10302

Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,

1984 CE

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

1984 CE

#10330

Stapling in surgery.

Ravitch and Steichen refined primitive surgical stapling systems that were developed in Russia, and made them viable in a wide range of procedures.

1984 CE

#11325

Highlights in the development of medical history in the United States (Materials from an exhibit).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1984 CE

#11363

Readings in medical artificial intelligence: The first decade. Edited by William Clancey and Edward H. Shortliffe.

1984 CE

#11658

Lipoplasty: The theory and practice of blunt suction lipectomy. Edited by G. P. Hetter.

The first comprehensive review in English of the development of liposuction, theory, and technique, including the techniques of Illouz and Fournier. Includes several chapters by Pierre Fournier, including "A history a…

1984 CE

#11692

Giambattista Morgagni, Clinical consultations, the edition of Enrico Benassi (1935) translated and revised by Saul Jarcho.

Italian text and English translation of 100 clinical consultation lettes written by Morgagni, discussing patients that in most cases he had not seen, a practice that was considered acceptable at the time. Morgagni gav…

1984 CE

#12281

Physicians, law and ethics.

1984 CE

#12333

Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.

1985 CE

#1588.21

The brain machine: The development of neurophysiological thought.

Translation of Le cerveau-machine: physiologie de la volonté, Paris, 1983.

1985 CE

#1931.8

The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 7th ed.

Includes useful historical information.

1985 CE

#1757.2

Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.

1985 CE

#3161.7

Hematology, the blossoming of a science: a story of inspiration and effort.

1985 CE

#2581.11

Immunology to 1980. An illustrated bibliography of titles in the Middleton Health Sciences Library, including the Julius M. Cruse collection.

Citations, with paginations, of 3480 items. Author and subject indices

1985 CE

#3705.4

Dentistry: An illustrated history.

1985 CE

#5019.20

Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.

Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliogr…

1985 CE

#5768.7

The creation of aesthetic plastic surgery.

Reprints useful papers from Aesthetic plast. Surg., 1976-85. No index.

1985 CE

#6610.18

Ars medica: Art, medicine, and the human condition.

Fully annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, book illustrations, and photographs. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1985 CE

#6639.11

Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.

The most elaborately illustrated history available.

1985 CE

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1985 CE

#6524.5

Medieval medical miniatures.

1985 CE

#6786.28

American medical imprints, 1820-1910. 2 vols.

The work of over 40 years, this catalogue describes over 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides, arranged by decade, from 1820-1910, with a comprehensive index. Included is an essay: 19th century American medical lit…

1985 CE

#6986

Symposium on Byzantine medicine. Edited by John Scarborough.

Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 38, 1984.

1985 CE

#7713

Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.

Second edition by Ortner as sole author (2003).

1985 CE

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1985 CE

#8297

Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.

1985 CE

#8374

Learning to heal: The development of American medical education.

1985 CE

#8567

Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.