Entry Nos. 11200–11299

1931 CE

#11250

Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings

1903 CE–1940 CE

#11251

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History). 5 vols. (1903-1915) + 3 vols. Supplement (1922-1940).

The first 5 vols. of the main author catalogue were written by Bernard B. Woodward; the Supplement was written by various members of the library staff. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1912 CE

#11252

Texts illustrating the history of medicine in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. Arranged in chronological order. Reprint from volume xvii, second series, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.

In 1912 Garrison was Assistant Librarian of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. At the suggestion of Sir William Osler, Garrison prepared this classified listing of medical classics across the full range of the h…

1998 CE

#11253

Stephanus the philosopher and physician: Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon

"An edition of the Commentary by Stephanus of Athens, the seventh-century physician and philosopher, on Book One of Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon. It comprises introduction, Greek text with critical apparatus and in…

1912 CE

#11254

Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands. Archäologischer Teil, von R. R. Schmidt; II. Geologischer Teil, von Ernest Koken, Die Geologie und Tierweld der paläolithischen Kulturstätten Deutschlands; III. Anthropologischer Teil von A. Schliz, Die diluvialen Menschenreste Deutschlands.

This splendidly produced and illustrated large folio volume was the first major book on paleolithic research published in Germany. Schmidt described systematic investigations of the caves in the Swabian Alps, and was …

1988 CE

#11255

Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.

Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.

1979 CE

#11256

Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Brenner, Steigerwalt, McDade. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1980 CE

#11257

Preliminary report on the pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for freshwater and soil amoebae.

Discovery of the pathogenic relationship between amoebas and Legionella bacteria--a key step in understanding how this bacteria infects mankind. Legionella bacteria, along with amoeba, live in the organic contaminatio…

2009 CE

#11258

Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.

1943 CE

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1842 CE

#11260

Homoeópathy, and its kindred delusions; Two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1876 CE

#11261

Specimen fasciculus of a catalogue of the National Medical Library, under the direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army at Washington, D. C.

This analystical subject-author catalogue was a 96-page preview of what became known four years later as the Index-Catalogue of the Library of Surgeon General's Office. Reflecting Billings' long term view of the insti…

1994 CE

#11262

Order out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.

1965 CE

#11263

Selected papers of John Shaw Billings. Edited by Frank Rogers.

Reprints 24 articles by Billings in addition to a biographical sketch and his complete bibliography.

1925 CE

#11264

The scientific man and the bible: A personal testimony.

1990 CE

#11265

Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: Origins and legacy.

1917 CE

#11266

Bibliography of William Henry Welch.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1894 CE

#11267

Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.

Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…

1954 CE

#11268

The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.

1981 CE

#11269

The house of Appleton: The history of a publishing house and its relationship to the cultural, social, and political events that helped shape the destiny of New York City.

1967 CE

#11270

Osler's textbook revisited: Reprint of selected sections with commentaries. Edited by A. McGehee Harvey and Victor A. McKusick.

Reprint with modern commentary of selected sections of the 7th edition of Osler's Principles and practice of medicine (New York, 1909), which was the last edition that Osler prepared without the help of Thomas McCrae.…

1888 CE

#11271

Hereditary angio-neurotic oedema.

Osler was the first in the English-speaking world to describe what is now called hereditary angioedema. In this paper he presented "an interesting study of the heredity of a case, with a genealogical table" (Golden & …

1897 CE

#11272

Sporadic cretinism in America.

In 1893 Osler was among the first American physicians to use thyroid extract to treat myxedema or cretinism. He made a special study of the disease, corresponding with physicians across America to try to determine its…

1894 CE

#11273

On chorea and choreiform affections.

"One year after Charcot's death, Osler published On Chorea and Choreiform Affectations (1894), and in this pithy monograph, Osler offered a particularly useful evaluation of Charcot's neurological contributions. Where…

2019 CE

#11274

Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain

2010 CE

#11275

History of neurology (Vol. 95). Handbook of Clinical Neurology series). Edited by Stanley Finger, François Boller, and Kenneth L. Tyler.

1889 CE

#11276

The cerebral palsies of children.

Osler's monograph on cerebral palsy helped define this condition. "Osler emphasized the diverse causes of childhood hemiplegia. Osler classified his patients with nonprogressive upper motor neuron dysfunction accordin…

1917 CE

#11277

Illustrations of the bookworm.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1999 CE

#11278

The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD, Sir William Osler's alter ego. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard L. Golden.

1985 CE

#11279

Two hundred years of publishing: A history of the oldest publishing company in the United States - Lea & Febiger, 1785-1985.

1979 CE

#11280

F. A. Davis Company 1879-1979: A very personal account.

1988 CE

#11281

An informal history of W. B. Saunders Company.

1957 CE

#11282

Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A study in the history of the booktrade.

1992 CE

#11283

Toward a third century of excellence. An informal history of the J.B. Lippincott Company on the occasion of its two-hundredth anniversary.

1943 CE

#11284

One hundred years, 1843-1943.

A relatively brief anonymous account of the first century of activity the medical publisher, Blakiston.

1994 CE

#11285

Epilogue: The death of an imprint: A supplement to two hundred years of publishing.

Retrospective on Lea & Febiger after its closure.

2004 CE

#11286

A history of William Osler's The principles and practice of medicine by Richard L. Golden. (Osler Library Studies in the History of medicine No. 8).

This 267-page work is a definitive bibliographical history of Osler's classic textbook.

1471 CE

#11287

Liber servitoris de praeparatione medicinarum simplicium. Translated by Abraham Tortuosiensis. Edited by Simon a Cordo.

Book 28 on drugs from the Al-Tasrif, a 30-volume Arabic encyclopaedia on medicine and surgery, written ca. 1000 CE by Abulcasis. ISTC No. ia00014000. Digital facsimile from the Württembergische Landesbibliothek S…

1912 CE

#11288

A review of the primates. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1900 CE

#11289

Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.

This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…

1907 CE–1910 CE

#11290

Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.

Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…

1880 CE

#11291

Catalogue of the "Wood" Museum of Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Comprising a descriptive and classified list of anatomical and pathological specimens.

Described 224 specimens in 26 categories. The museum was colected by James Rushmore Wood.

1893 CE

#11292

An account of Bellevue Hospital with a catalogue of the medical and surgical staff from 1736 to 1894. Edited by Robert J. Carlisle.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#11293

Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.

Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …

1982 CE

#11294

The gates of memory.

The autobiography of the great surgeon, bibliographer, scholar and book collector.

1920 CE

#11295

A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.

Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…

2017 CE

#11296

Object lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.

1907 CE–1951 CE

#11297

Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1725 CE

#11298

Index supellectilis anatomicae quam Academia Batavae quae Leidae est legativ vir clarissimus Johannes Jacobus Rau...confectus a Bernhardo Seigried Albino.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1771 CE

#11299

Index supellectilis anatomicae: Rerum anatomicarum; tum phialis onctentarum In liquore limpido, Tum exsiccatarum. Quam suos In usus summa cum peritia atque dexteritate confecit...Bernard Siegfried Albinus

An listing of 431 medical museum specimens, including those preserved in liquid as well as dried specimens, prepared for their sale. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.