Entry Nos. 11600–11699
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1776 CE
#11600
Case of an angina pectoris, with remarks. Farther account of the angina pectoris.
Fothergill was "the first physician to suspect on clinical grounds that the heart might be affected in this condition [angina pectoris] and he was the first to record abnormalities of the myocardium and coronary arter…
1781 CE
#11601
A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works of John Fothergill. With an account of his life; and occasional notes, by John Elliot.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1962 CE
#11602
Heart-lung bypass: Principles and techniques of extracorporeal circulation.
1944 CE–1960 CE
#11603
Medical physics. Edited by Otto Glasser. 3 vols.
This nearly 4000 page work in three unusually thick volumes, written by hundreds of authors, was an encyclopedia of medical physics for its time.
1830 CE
#11604
On the diseases and injuries of arteries, with the operations required for their cure.
"Guthrie's experiences during the Peinsular War enabled him to make considerable improvements in practical surgery. These included introducing the practice of ligaturing both ends of a divided artery.... Guthrie made …
1830 CE
#11605
Researches principally relative to the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood.
Hall's experiments on the physiological effects of therapeutic bleeding provided compelling evidence that bleeding could cause significant harm and even death. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1887 CE
#11606
Catalogue of books in the medical and biological libraries at University College, London. With an appendix.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1756 CE
#11607
Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang, et sur les effets de la saignée, fondés sur des experiences faites sur des animaux.
In these memoirs Haller described the results of 235 vivisections. Haller has been called "the founder of modern haemodynamics." "The myogenic theory of the heartbeat can be traced to Haller, who concluded on the basi…
1935 CE
#11608
Failure of the circulation.
1648 CE
#11609
Encheiridium anatomicum, et pathologicum, in quo naturali constitutione partium, recessus a naturali statu demonstatur.
In book III, chapter 8 Riolan discusses the heart and presents his views on the circulation of the blood. "Riolan's opinion of the blood movement seems to have arisen from his attempt to reconcile strict Galenic belie…
2018 CE
#11610
The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.
2019 CE
#11611
Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.
2014 CE
#11612
Medical monopoly: Intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry.
1739 CE
#11613
Pharmacopoeia Matritensis, Regii, ac Supremi Hispaniarum protomedicatus auctoritate, jussu atque auspiciis nunc primum elaborata.
The first national pharmacopoeia issued in Spain, also controlling drug preparation and use for the Spanish empire. It included botanical, mineral and animal substances, and substances obtained from the Spanish empire…
2016 CE
#11614
The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.
1771 CE
#11615
A catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.
Largely based on specimens he had access to from the British collections of Thomas Pennant and Anna Blackburne, this was Forster's attempt to systemize on the Linnean model the fragmented field of natural history stud…
1910 CE
#11616
Hookworm disease; Etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment
When the authors published this book hookworm disease was endemic in the American south, partly because so many people walked in the soil without wearing shoes, so the hookworms entered their body through the soles of…
1864 CE
#11617
Acupressure: A new method of arresting surgical haemorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds.
In 1858 Simpson described a new method of controlling blood loss during surgical operations – acupressure, not to be confused with the traditional Chinese medical technique similarly named. Simpson's technique, …
1784 CE–1787 CE
#11618
Arctic zoology. 3 vols.
Pennant had "intended to write a "Zoology of North America" but as he explained in the "Advertisement", since he felt mortified by the loss of British control over America, this was changed to Arctic Zoology.[22] The …
1874 CE–1878 CE
#11619
Atlas der pathologischen Topographie des Auges. 3 vols.
1948 CE
#11620
Urological oddities.
2018 CE
#11621
The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.
Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor!
1851 CE
#11622
Notices of ancient Roman medicine-stamps, &c., found in Great Britain.
Digital facsimile of the first part from PubMedCentral at this link, and of the second part at this link. Concluded with Simpson's "General observations on the Roman medicine-stamps found in Great Britain," Mon. J. Me…
1870 CE
#11623
A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2008 CE
#11624
Liber bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel and translation by Richard Barber. 2 vols.
Full color facsimile of the illuminated manuscript with translation and commentary in an accompanying volume. The two volumes boxed. The translation was originally published by the Folio Society in 1992, and the Boyde…
1862 CE
#11625
An inquiry into the medicinal value of the excreta of reptiles, in phthisis and some other diseases.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#11626
Traité des corps étrangers en chirurgie. Voies naturelles pharynx et oesophage - estomac - intestin - rectum - voies respiratoire - organes génito-urinaires de l'homme et de la femme conduit auditif - fosses nasales - conduits glandulaires. Avec figures dans le texte, desinées par H. Dauphin.
A comprehensive treatise on an astounding variety of foreign bodies that surgeons had recorded removing from various and sometimes amazing parts of the body. Digital facsimile of the 1879 edition from Google Books at …
1903 CE
#11627
Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1710 CE
#11628
Index plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur.
Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Boerhaave became head of the botanical garden, a laboratory for materia medica. He published his first catalogue of plants in the …
1937 CE–1969 CE
#11629
Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.
1806 CE
#11630
Dissertation sur le café; son historique, ses propriétés, et le procédé pour en obtenir la boisson la plus agréable, la plus salutaire et la plus économique; Par Ant.-Alexis Cadet-de-Vaux...Suivie de son analyse; par Charles-Louis Cadet.
Cadet de Vaux discussed the history of coffee, including the origins of the coffee bean and plant, the proper climate for growing coffee, coffee drinking culture and its introduction to Europe. He also described the b…
1498 CE
#11631
Nuovo ricettario composto dal Collegio dei Dottori di Firenze. Ed: Hieronymus dal Pozzo Toscanelli.
The pharmacopeia of Florence was probably the second pharmacopeia published in print. It included a list of approved drugs and described various methods of preparing them for use, together with proper weights and meas…
1999 CE
#11632
Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.
1891 CE
#11633
Notes on the practice of medicine.
This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…
1892 CE
#11634
Gynaecological technique: A brief summary of the principles involved, as well as the technique involved in the gynæcological operations performed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The significance of the operation and its technical surroundings to gynaecological practice.
Includes 14 photographic illustrations showing Kelly's gynecological operating room, antiseptic and aseptic apparatus, and his assistants preparing for surgery. The text includes descriptions of the apparatus and tech…
1986 CE
#11635
The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.
Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.
1885 CE–1886 CE
#11636
A system of medicine. Edited by William Pepper. 5 vols.
"The most comprehensive 19th century American work on medicine. Pepper assembled virtually all of the leading American physicians of the day, including D. Hayes Agnew, Roberts Bartholow, John Shaw Billings, William By…
1936 CE
#11637
Bibliography of the writings of Dr. William S. Thayer by Efie Smither Hunley.
1940 CE
#11638
Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.
1959 CE
#11639
Bibliotheca Boerhaaviana by G. A. Lindeboom.
1672 CE
#11640
The anatomy of vegetables begun. With an a general account of vegetation founded thereon.
"Grew was a conscious pioneer in a hitherto neglected area... His work was primarily marked by his brilliant observation and description of plants and their component parts; having begun by making observations using o…
1867 CE
#11641
Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.
“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the prope…
1832 CE
#11642
Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants; belonging to the division of vasculares or cotyledones.
“Watson's major botanical endeavour was producing several versions of a work first entitled Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of British Plants (1832); it reached its most extensive form as Cybele Britan…
1987 CE
#11643
Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.
2019 CE
#11644
Mind fixers: Psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness.
1836 CE
#11645
What is the use of the double brain?
1844 CE
#11646
A new view of insanity: The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions and diseases of the brain and by the phenomena of mental derangement and shown to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix: 1. On the influence of religion on insanity. 2. Conjectures on the nature of the mental operations. 3. On the management of lunatic asylums.
"From the seventeenth century there were shifts in some of the basic assumptions about how the brain and mind functioned, and there are some useful markers along the way to an era of more systematic studies. Descartes…
1638 CE
#11647
De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.
The first medical book to contain an endorsement of Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood (originally published ten years earlier in 1628). Beverwijck began his work with a treatise on urinary and renal calc…
1884 CE
#11648
Traité inédit sur l'anatomie pathologique, ou Exposition des altérations visibles qu'éprouve le corps humain dans l'état de maladie par R.-T.-H. Laënnec. Introduction et premier chapitre, précédés d'une préface par V. Cornil.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1975 CE
#11649