Entry Nos. 10600–10699

2004 CE

#10650

Laws of men and laws of nature: The history of scientific expert testimony in England and America.

Includes some references to early expert testimony and related in France.

1721 CE

#10651

Relation des différentes espèces de peste qui reconnaissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remèdes qu'ils prennent pour empêcher la communication & le progrès; et ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guérir.

Gaudereau worked as a missionary in Turkey, Armenia, Persia, and India, facing plague outbreaks several times. In Turkey he almost succumbed to the plague, himself, but was cured using local remedies. These remedies a…

1875 CE

#10652

Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.

Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …

1945 CE

#10653

Atrial septal defect: Study of hemodynamics by the technique of right heart catheterization.

The first description of the use of a cardiac catheter as a diagnostic tool, in this case a congenital heart defect. The authors worked in the laboratory of Eugene Stead, Jr. at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.

1949 CE

#10654

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis (mitral commissurotomy).

Pioneering work in mitral valve surgery.

1968 CE

#10655

Successful internal mammary-coronary arterial anastomosis using a "minivascular" suturing technic.

Bailey was the first to graft the internal mammary artery, now typically called the internal thoracic artery.

1950 CE

#10656

Oxygen transport and utilization in dogs at low body temperatures.

This research by Bigelow and collegues first made possible the use of hypothermia in cardiac surgery.

1698 CE

#10657

De motu cordis adversaria analytica.

In this pioneering experimental study of coronary function, describing the first experimental tying of a coronary vessel, Chirac demonstrated that cardiac arrest occurs in response to coronary ligation. “A speci…

1649 CE

#10658

Exercitatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis.

In this work Harvey first described the circulation of blood through the coronary arteries. Harvey also described experiments that he made to provide further support to his theory of the circulation since the publicat…

1982 CE

#10659

Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.

First successful heart-lung transplant, performed on March 9, 1981, after nearly four years of testing on primates. Abstract "We report our initial experience with three patients who received heart-lung transplants. T…

1587 CE

#10660

De virtutibus et viciis cordis libri tres. Primus agit de virtutibus & functionibus cordis. Secundus de palpitatione cordis. Tertius de syncope.

The earliest separate treatise on cardiac physiology and pathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2017 CE

#10661

Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.

2016 CE

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

2017 CE

#10663

Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.

2017 CE

#10664

Rise of the modern hospital: An architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940.

2017 CE

#10665

The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.

"Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experienti…

2017 CE

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2016 CE

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.

2012 CE

#10668

Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.

"New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communi…

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

2000 CE

#10670

The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. By Michael A. Salmon with additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.

1992 CE

#10671

A history of gastric secretion and digestion: Experimental studies to 1975.

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1971 CE

#10673

Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1969 CE

#10675

Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.

1959 CE

#10676

Parasites and parasitic infections in early medicine and science.

1971 CE

#10677

A history of the Nigerian Health Services.

1971 CE

#10678

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

1967 CE

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1965 CE

#10680

Epidemic disease in Ghana 1901-1960.

1876 CE

#10681

Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1953 CE

#10682

Dentistry in ancient India.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1958 CE

#10683

The Banks letters: A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.

1972 CE

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1998 CE

#10685

Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.

Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …

1983 CE

#10687

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome X, 2e partie: Maladies II. Texte établi et traduit by Jacques Jouanna.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On diseases II from the Hippocratic Collection, possibly from the second half of the fifth century BCE.

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…

1970 CE

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1981 CE

#10690

Books on the horse and horsemanship: Riding, hunting, breeding & racing 1400-1941. The Paul Mellon Collection. Compiled by John B. Podeschi.

Includes annotated descriptions of numerous classics on veterinary medicine for horses.

1978 CE

#10691

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…

1947 CE

#10692

A study of nerve physiology. 2 vols.

See, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd, "Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later," Frontiers in neuoranatomy, 8 (2014) 147.

1933 CE–1934 CE

#10693

Studies on the structure of the cerebral cortex. I. Area entorhinalis. II. Continuation of the study of the Ammonic system.

Lorente de Nó "demonstrated structural evidence that the cortical areas of mammals are organized in a columnar manner rather than in horizontal layers, thus articulating for the first time the basic features of…

2017 CE

#10694

The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2001 CE

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

2018 CE

#10696

In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.

Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.

2011 CE

#10697

Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.

2018 CE

#10698

Between hope and fear: A history of vaccines and human immunity.

Both a history of vaccines and immunology and of the anti-vaccination movement.

2014 CE

#10699

Animalia: Men and animal care in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.