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1721Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox by the learned Dr. Emmanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks theron. To which are added, a few queries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method.
BOYLSTON, Zabdiel (1679 – 1766)
1721Some observations on the new method of receiving the smallpox by ingrafting or inoculating.
COLMAN, Benjamin (1673 – 1747)
COLMAN, Benjamin (1673 – 1747)
1722Inoculation of the smallpox as practised in Boston.
DOUGLASS, William (1691 – 1752)
1722The abuses and scandals of some late pamphlets in favour of inoculation of the small-pox.
DOUGLASS, William (1691 – 1752)
1722An account of the method and success of inoculating the small pox in Boston in New England.
MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
1726An historical account of the small-pox inoculated in New-England, upon all sorts of persons, whites, blacks, and of all ages and constitutions: With some account of the nature of the infection in the natural and inoculated way, and their different effects on human bodies; with some short directions to the unexperienced in this method of practice .
BOYLSTON, Zabdiel (1679 – 1766)
1736The practical history of a new epidemical eruptive miliary fever, with an angina ulcusculosa, which prevailed in Boston New England in the years 1735 and 1736.
DOUGLASS, William (1691 – 1752)
1759Some account of the success of inoculation for the small-pox in England and America. Together with plain instructions, by which any person may be enabled to perform the operation.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
1787A Discourse before the Humane Society, ... Delivered on the Second Tuesday of June, 1787.
LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
1790An account of an aneurism in the thigh, perfectly cured by the operation.
KAST, Thomas (1755 – 1820)
1800​–1802A prospect of exterminating the small-pox, being the history of the variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox; as it has appeared in England: With an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox in Massachusetts. [Part II:] A prospect of exterminating the small pox part II, being a continuation of a narrative of facts concerning the progress of the new inoculation in America; together with practical observations on the local appearance, symptoms, and mode of treating the variola vaccina, or kine pock; including some letters to the author, from distinguished characters, on the subject of this benign remedy, now passing with a rapid step through all ranks of society in Europe and America.
WATERHOUSE, Benjamin (1754 – 1846)
WATERHOUSE, Benjamin (1754 – 1846)
1808The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,
JACKSON, James (1777 – 1867)
JACKSON, James (1777 – 1867)
WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)
WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856) MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY
1829Address to the community, on the necessity of legalizing the study of anatomy
WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)
WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856) MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY
1831Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives ... legalizing the study of anatomy.
MASSACHUSETTS. GENERAL COURT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1843Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.
DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)
DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)
1846Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.
BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)
BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)
1847A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.
JACKSON, John Barnard Swett (1806 – 1879)
1850Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health, devised, prepared, and recommended by the commissioners appointed under a resolve of the legislature of Massachusetts relating to a sanitary survey of the State.
SHATTUCK, Lemuel (1793 – 1859)
SHATTUCK, Lemuel (1793 – 1859)
1870A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.
JACKSON, John Barnard Swett (1806 – 1879)
1872A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805 – 1861)
ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
1881History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.
GREEN, Samuel Abbott (1830 – 1919)
GREEN, Samuel Abbott (1830 – 1919)
1881Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892)
BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
CHADWICK, James Read (1844 – 1905)
CHADWICK, James Read (1844 – 1905)
1906Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.
WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)
WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957) PHELPS, Earle Bernard (1876 – 1953)
1918The history of the Boston Medical Library.
FARLOW, John Woodward (1853 – )
1923A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.
BURRAGE, Walter Lincoln (1860 – 1935)
1930A brief history of medicine in Massachusetts.
VIETS, Henry Rouse (1890 – 1969)
1959Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
BLAKE, John Ballard (1922 – 2006)
1961Every man our neighbor: A brief history of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
GARLAND, Joseph Everett (1922 – 2011)
1968The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.
KANNEL, William B. (1923 – 2011)
1970Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.
WESTERN, Karl A.
BENSON, Gordon D.
BENSON, Gordon D. GLEASON, Neva N. & et al.
1972Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.
CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972)
1972Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
ROSENKRANTZ, Barbara Gutman (1923 – 2014)
1973Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.
CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005)
1975The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975.
GARLAND, Joseph Everett (1922 – 2011)
1977Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.
BEECHER, Henry Knowles
BEECHER, Henry Knowles
1979Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)
SPIELMAN, Andrew (1930 – 2006) CLIFFORD, Carlton M. PIESMAN, Joseph & et al.
1980Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005) ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000) CHRISTANSON, Eric H.
1980Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.
VOGEL, Morris J.
2004OnView: Curated content from the Center for the History of Medicine's extraordinary collections. The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: An alliance of the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School.
FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
2010Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
SWEDLUND, Alan C.