Entry Nos. 10700–10799

1852 CE–1860 CE

#10700

Le Nâċérî. La perfection des deux arts ou traité complet d'hippologie et d'hippiatrie arabes. Traduit de l'arabe d'Abū Bakr Ibn Bedr par M. [Nicolas] Perron. 3 vols.

The author was Chief Veterinarian of the Sultan Mamluk of Egypt Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn. (reigned three times between 1293 and 1341). His work focuses on the treatment of horses and falcons. It is divided in…

2013 CE

#10701

Medicina per animalia.

2011 CE

#10702

Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

1722 CE

#10703

A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions.

Probably the first psychiatric self-help book. Hunter and Macalpine call Mandeville's work "the first book on minor mental maladies `writ by way of Information to Patients' rather than `to teach other Practitioners' .…

1936 CE

#10704

Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.

"The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2018 CE

#10705

It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.

"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same…

1940 CE

#10706

On the occurrence of a factor in human serum activating the specific agglutination of sheep blood corpuscles.

Discovery of the Rheumatoid factor.

2001 CE

#10707

Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.

2012 CE

#10708

Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.

2003 CE

#10709

Conjoined twins: An historical, biological and ethical issues encyclopedia.

2003 CE

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

1667 CE

#10711

Hieronimi Barbati ... Dissertatio elegantissima De sanguine et eius sero, in qua praeter varia lectu dignissima, Conringj. Lindeni & Barthol. circa sanguificationem opiniones, Stenoniana sanguinisdealbatio, VVillisii succi neruorum vis, Regij transitus chyli ad liene, liceti nutitio embryonis, VVarthoni & Charletonis lactis expositio, Haruei masculini seminis retentio rejecta, Moebij spirituum animalium materia, & alia clarissimorum neotericorum prolata, doctè & politè exponuntur.

Barbato discovered the blood serum. Another version of these texts was published in Paris by Robert de Ninville in 1667. Priority of these editions is unknown. Digital facsimile of the Frankfurt version from Google Bo…

2013 CE

#10712

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .

1990 CE

#10713

Medical publishing in 19th century America: Lea of Philadelphia, William Wood & Company of New York City, and F.E. Boericke of Philadelphia: Including a checklist of Wood's Library of standard medical authors & specimen Lea, Wood, and Boericke catalogues.

1904 CE

#10714

One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.

1781 CE

#10715

Instrumentarium chirurgicum Viennense oder, Wiennerische chirurgische Instrumenten-Sammlung.

Brambilla was a personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and the first director of the Vienna hospital and the Josefinum school for military surgeons (now a medical museum). Brambilla provided a history of s…

1829 CE

#10716

Des caractères physiologiques des races humaines considérés dans leurs rapports avec l’histoire; lettre à M. Amédée Thierry . . .

A physiologist and anthropologist, Edwards established the subject of ethnology in France and pioneered the concept of “race” as determined by the shape of the face and head. He has been called the first a…

1893 CE

#10717

Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.

1867 CE

#10718

Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1911 CE

#10719

The control of bleeding in operations for brain tumors. With the description of silver "clips" for the occlusion of vessels inaccessible to the ligature.

Cushing introduced the use of silver clips in neurosurgery to control bleeding.

1909 CE

#10720

Observations on choked disc, with especial reference to decompressive cranial operations.

The diagnostic value for neurosurgery of changes in the optic nerve caused by increased intracranial pressure.

1878 CE

#10721

Elephants and their treatment in health and disease.

Expanded from a "small" edition issued in 1873 at the request of the Conservator of Forests, British Burma to "answer the purpose of a guide for the management of those animals, in a more direct and complete form; and…

1877 CE

#10722

Leprosy in India. A report.

The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…

1841 CE

#10723

The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.

The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2015 CE

#10724

Sleep medicine: A comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard.

1477 CE

#10725

Liber phsionomiae [and other works].

"Composed between 1209 and 1226, the first of the two primary texts discusses human generation — anatomy, physiology, astrology, sexual behavior, conception and the health of the fetus. The second part, the Phys…

1557 CE

#10726

Raiss Büchlein…mit güten Mitteln der Artzney Begegnen Soll.

The first pocket reference for travelers by land or sea, dealing with topics such as infected genitalia, frostbite, fouled drinking water, shipboard stench, the best boots and shoes. The recipes in this work comprised…

1598 CE

#10727

Discvrsos del amparo de los legitimos pobres.

A plan for a state-funded public health system and poor relief program. An emblem introduces each of the ten essays, which treat hospital sanitation and kitchen gardens, care of disabled veterans, prisoners and the in…

1560 CE

#10728

Baderbüchlin: Gantz kurtzer Bericht von allerhand Einfachten, und 38. Componierten mineralischen Teütsches Lands wild Bädern ... ; Mit angehenckter Beschreybung, was nutz Schrepffen Bringe.

In this short treatise on balneotherapy physician, humanist , and prolific writer Georg Pictorius described 38 different bathing facilities. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link

1848 CE

#10729

Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine.

Taylor was the leading English toxicologist and medical witness of his time, and his works were revised, edited, and translated into other languages. He "performed an invaluable service in codifying legal precedents a…

2017 CE

#10730

Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.

1914 CE

#10731

The occupational diseases: Their causation, symptoms, treatment and prevention.

The first general treatise on occupational medicine published in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2008 CE

#10732

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

1475 CE

#10733

De honesta voluptate et valetudine.

The first two editions of De honesta voluptate et valetudine, the first printed work on cookery, diet, and health, by Italian humanist and papal librarian Bartholomeo Platina (Sacchi) appeared at roughly the same time…

1545 CE

#10734

New Kochbüch für die Krancken.

A cookbook with recipes to restore the health of convalescents.

1973 CE

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1980 CE

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1843 CE

#10737

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.

McWilliam included a history of yellow fever, pathology, description of symptoms, sequences, causes, treatment. He also described the state of medicine among the Africans. He specifically described the ventilation of …

1904 CE

#10738

The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1883 CE

#10739

Hospital construction and management.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#10740

The organization, construction, and management of hospitals, with numerous plans and details.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1919 CE

#10741

The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.

Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…

1989 CE

#10742

A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.

1940 CE–1993 CE

#10743

Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.

http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever …

1825 CE

#10744

Outlines of lectures on mental diseases.

Of particular note for the greatly expanded second edition published in 1826. That edition contained 150 pages compared to 72 pages in the first edition. The second edition also contained 13 plates derived from images…

1806 CE

#10745

Traité de la première dentition et des maladies souvent très-graves qui en depéndent.

The first book on pediatric odontology, later called pedodontics. English translation, New York, 1841.

1849 CE

#10746

An inquiry concerning the diseases and functions of the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves.

The first American book on neurology, with a lengthy discussion of neuropathology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1817 CE

#10747

Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Entwicklung des kindlichen Alters. Psychologische Untersuchungen.

Perhaps the oldest separate work on the psychological development of children, written five years after Grohmann published a work on the education of children. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1851 CE

#10748

Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele der Kindes.

Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1844 CE

#10749

Die Krankheit des Gehirn’s und Rückenmark’s bei Kindern, durch Krankheitsfälle aus dem ersten Kinderspitale erläutert.

The first book on child neurology. Unusual for a medical book of this type, it includes a lithographed frontispiece, a lithographed title page, and four hand-colored plates.