Entry Nos. 11500–11599

2007 CE

#11500

Early modern zoology: The construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.

2014 CE

#11501

Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.

1936 CE

#11502

Hominidae fossiles. Edited by W. Quenstedt.

Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia (ed. W. Quenstedt), part 74. “This volume has been prepared under the critical editorship of Dr. Werner Quenstedt, as a work in cooperation with the Cenozoic Research Laboratory …

2004 CE

#11503

Jean Fernel's On the hidden causes of things: Forms, souls and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine.

1752 CE

#11504

Lettres sur la certitude des signes de la mort où l'on rassure les citoyens de la crainte d'être enterrés vivans ; avec des observations et des expériences sur les noyés.

In this work in the pathophysiology of drowning, resuscitation and the legal diagnosis of death Louis sought to reassure the public that the risk of being buried alive was very low. He rejected a proposal for late bur…

1609 CE

#11505

Le iardin, et cabinet poetique de Paul Contant, apoticaire de Poictiers.

Written in verse, this is the first catalogue of a private botanical garden published in France, and the first book that could be called a French catalogue of a natural history museum. Digital facsimile from the Inter…

1994 CE

#11506

English manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1): from Anatomia hepatis (The anatomy of the liver), 1654. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 3. Edited by Andrew Cunningham.

Publishes for the first time the surviving partial English text of Glisson's book on the liver, and of the work's postscript on the lymphatic system. Glisson wrote in English, but his text was translated into Latin fo…

1988 CE

#11507

Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.

1825 CE

#11508

The last days of the Emperor Napoleon by Doctor F. Antommarchi, his physician. 2 vols.

An account of Napoleon's final illness and the medical care that Napoleon received while emprisoned on the island of Saint Helena, by his physician. English and French language versions of this work were published in …

1985 CE

#11509

William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.

Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.

1946 CE

#11510

Die kunstmatige Nier.

Kolff's first book on the artificial kidney. This was his doctoral dissertation. There were two versions published. The first was designated Proefschrift and credited Kolff as Willem Johan Kolff on the title page. It …

1947 CE

#11511

Development of an artificial kidney: Experimental and clinical experiences.

".... a significant contribution to renal therapies was made by Canadian surgeon Gordon Murray with the assistance of two doctors, an undergraduate chemistry student, and research staff. Murray's work was conducted si…

2009 CE

#11512

Technological medicine: The changing world of doctors and patients.

2014 CE

#11513

Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.

1717 CE

#11515

Metallotheca opus posthumum, auctoritate, & munificentia Clementis undecimi pontificis maximi e tenebris in lucem eductum; opera autem, & studio Ioannis Mariae Lancisii archiatri pontificii illustratum.

In 1717 papal physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi published the catalogue of the Vatican "armaria" series housing the natural history museum collected by one of his predecessors at the Vatican, the 16th century papal phy…

1935 CE

#11516

A bibliography of two Oxford physiologists: Richard Lower 1631-1691, John Mayow 1643-1679

1962 CE

#11517

Bibliography of John Farquhar Fulton.

An augmented version of this bibliography is available from library.medicine.yale.edu at this link.

1986 CE

#11518

The library of Dr. John Webster: The making of a seventeenth century radical. Medical History supplement no. 6. Edited by Peter Elmer.

2013 CE

#11519

The miraculous conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the body politic, and the politics of healing in restoration Britain.

1815 CE

#11520

Natural and statistical view, or picture of Cincinnati and the Miami country, illustrated by maps: With an appendix, containing observations on the late earthquakes, the aurora borealis, and south-west wind.

Modeled on Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, this work covered the geography, antiquities, topography, medical conditions and goverment of Ohio. Digital facsimile from digital.cincinnatilibrary.org at…

1844 CE

#11521

Recherches sur la composition du sang dans l’état de santé et dans l’état de maladie.

Becquerel and Rodier analyzed the blood components present in various diseases including typhoid fever, tuberculosis, Bright’s disease, anemia, heart disease and syphilis, as well as in pregnancy and childbirth.…

1855 CE

#11522

Topografía médica de la isla de Cuba.

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

1762 CE

#11523

The medical works of Richard Mead.

1990 CE

#11524

A bibliography of Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) by Geoffrey Guy Meynell.

1757 CE

#11525

Histoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53.

Adanson's voyage and explorations in Senegal, including the Island of Goree and the River Senegal. The second part is a general survey of the living mollusks he found in Senegal. His classification of mollusks was ori…

1844 CE

#11526

Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto

Forster was the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, during which he was accompanied by his son Georg. His Descriptiones animalium was completed within a month of returning to England with Cook, but remai…

1970 CE

#11527

A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.

2019 CE

#11528

Johann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775

2019 CE

#11529

An equal burden: The men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War.

2004 CE

#11530

A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. Edited by Alfredo Morabia.

1983 CE

#11531

Exploring the heart: Discoveries in heart disease and high blood pressure.

1992 CE

#11532

A history of medicine.

Third edition with Oliver J. Kim, Baton Rouge, FL: CRC Press, 2018.

1985 CE

#11533

Medical thermometry--a short history.

Available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1786 CE

#11534

The first American edition, An abridgement of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables.

An abridgement of Smellie's obstetrical writings, with plates engraved by the editor and publisher, John Norman, was the first medical book with engraved illustrations published in North America, and also the first bo…

1912 CE

#11535

The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness.

When this book was published Goddard was Director of the Research Laboratory of the Training School at Vineland, New Jersey, for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys. Though this work drew wide attention to the problems of pe…

1878 CE

#11536

A manual of nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. [Compiled and edited by Dr. Victoria White.]

The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United States run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. Among other things, these principles called fo…

1885 CE

#11537

A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.

This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.

1878 CE

#11538

A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.

The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…

1992 CE

#11539

The laboratory revolution in medicine. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams.

Laboratory medicine developed in the nineteenth century, principally in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. While a number of scholars have studied various aspects of laboratory medicine in the nineteenth…

1817 CE–1818 CE

#11540

Histoire médicale générale et particulière des maladies épidémiques, contagieuses et épizootiques qui ont régné en Europe depuis les temps les plus reculés, et notamment depuis le XIVe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. 2 vols.

The history of epidemics and epizootics in Europe since the 14th century. Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Greatly revised, corrected and augmented second edition, Paris & Lyon, 1…

1889 CE

#11541

Traité des maladies des pays chauds: Région prétropicale.

1988 CE

#11542

La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.

1958 CE

#11543

Cardiovascular sound in health and disease. Being a comprehensive treatise, introduced by a historical survey, illustrated mainly by sound spectrograms (spectral phonocardiograms) and supplemented by an extensive bibliography. With a section on respiratory sound.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2008 CE

#11544

History of cognitive neuroscience.

1871 CE

#11545

On the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the nervous system and of the kidneys; also in certain other general disorders.

One of the earliest works on the wider appications of the ophthalmoscope. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1839 CE

#11546

Recherches sur l'introduction accidentelle de l'air dans les veines, et particulièrement sur cette question: L'air en s'Introduisant spontanément par une veine blessée pendant une opération chirurgicale, peut-il causer subitement la mort?

Amussat was one of the first to draw attention to the risks of the introduction of venous air embolism in surgery. Before the introduction of anesthesia surgery was particularly rapid by necessity, and veins were ofte…

1955 CE

#11547

Surgery of the heart.

This 1062-page volume was the first textbook of modern cardiovascular surgery.

1944 CE

#11548

The foetal circulation and cardiovascular system, and the changes that they undergo at birth.

The authors describe the first direct recording of the blood flow in an intact fetus, a fetal lamb. The authors performed this experiment cooperation with Sir Joseph Bancroft and Dr. D. H. Barron.

1854 CE

#11549

Notes of M. Bernard's lectures on the blood; with an appendix by Walter F. Atlee.

This record of Bernard's actual lectures contains the first published description of Bernard's technique of right and left heart cathererization, a technique that Bernard invented. The appendix includes notes of lectu…

1913 CE

#11550

Surgery of the vascular system.

Bernheim was a pupil of William Halsted. His work includes 53 illustrations by James Didusch, a protegé of Max Broedel. "The depict the innovative vascular procedures developed by Carrel, halsted, Matas, and Be…