Entry Nos. 12500–12599

1985 CE

#12550

Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons

2006 CE

#12551

Samoan medical belief and practice.

"...the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western …

1989 CE

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

1998 CE

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1977 CE

#12554

Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.

2008 CE

#12555

At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.

",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…

2005 CE

#12556

The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.

Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…

1919 CE

#12557

History of medicine in New York: Three centuries of medical progress. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1920 CE

#12558

Religion and health.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2005 CE

#12559

Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.

2018 CE

#12560

Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.

Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story…

1958 CE

#12561

Cold injury, ground type.

Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

2019 CE

#12562

Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.

"This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a disci…

2018 CE

#12563

Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.

"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…

1999 CE

#12564

Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.

2018 CE

#12565

Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.

Open source from link.springer.com at this link.

2018 CE

#12566

Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.

The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.

2018 CE

#12567

Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.

A report from the British Defence Medical Services.

2013 CE

#12568

Wars, pestilence and the surgeon's blade: The evolution of British Military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century.

1965 CE

#12569

Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.

First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…

1966 CE

#12570

Safavid surgery.

The history of surgery during the Safavid dynasty that ruled Persia from 1502 to 1736, and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.

2017 CE

#12571

A Syriac medical Kunnāšā of Īšōʿ bar ʿAlī (9th c.): First soundings

Abstract: "A little-known thirteenth-century manuscript preserved in Damascus contains by far the largest Syriac medical work that has survived till today. Despite the missing beginning, a preliminary study of the tex…

1998 CE

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

1915 CE

#12573

Report of first expedition to South America 1913.

Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1926 CE

#12574

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925

"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…

1934 CE

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

2002 CE

#12576

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, cancer and history.

"Olson, who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book, provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted…

1920 CE

#12577

Goulstonian Lectures on the principles of science as applied to military aviation. Lecture I; Lecture II: War flying at high altitudes; Lecture III: War flying and high altitudes, cont.

"Fatigue was the most universal complaint of pilots. Major Birley attributed its occurrence to the bombardment of the senses by the constant stream of stimuli in the air, many of which were of a peculiar character.75 …

1984 CE

#12578

Into thin air: A history of aviation medicine in the RAF.

2006 CE

#12579

Shell shock to PTSD: Military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War.

2013 CE

#12580

Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.

1967 CE

#12581

Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.

"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manc…

1912 CE

#12582

Report of the International Plague Conference held at Mukden [Shenyang], April, 1911.

Report on the epidemic of pneumonic plague that raged in Manchuria and north China during the winter months of 1910-11, causing the death of nearly 50,000 people. This was the first outbreak of epidemic pneumonic plag…

1871 CE–1880 CE

#12583

Dermatología general y clínica iconográfica de enfermedades de la piel ó dermatósis.

This very large format publication was issued in four parts from 1871 to 1880. It included 168 large plates in the style of Alibert, and was the first major illustrated work on dermatology published in Spain. Digital …

2007 CE

#12584

The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…

1990 CE

#12585

"Heal the sick" was their motto: The Protestant medical missionaries in China.

1932 CE

#12586

A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.

Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…

2017 CE

#12587

Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.

"It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. Howeve…

1923 CE

#12588

The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.

1912 CE

#12589

The causes and prevention of miners' nystagmus.

Abstract "Miners' nystagmus is an occupational neurosis which is confined to workers in coal mines. The chief symptom and physical sign is a rotatory oscillation of the eyeballs, which prevents the miner from accurate…

2020 CE

#12590

Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.

1533 CE

#12591

De pulsuum scientia libellus utilis & necessarius. Theophili ... de exacta retrimentorum vesicae cognitione, commentariolus, Albano Torino interprete.

First separate, and perhaps the first complete printed edition of the Byzantine physician's De pulsibus, edited by Alban Thorer. This text, in the Galenic tradition "largely mediated through the pseudo-Galenic tract "…

1920 CE

#12592

The medical problems of flying. Including Reports Nos. I-VII of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. Privy Council Medical Research Council.

1938 CE

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1923 CE

#12594

Die Extrapyramidalen Erkrankungen: Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie und der Pathophysiologie der Bewegungsstörungen.

Pages 218-245 represent Jakob's full clinical-pathologic description of the fifth patient that he first described in this work.The symptoms of this patient and the histopathopathologic illustrations correspond fully w…

1982 CE

#12595

The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.

The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description,…

2020 CE

#12596

A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids.

Researching how the malarial mosquito A. gambiae developed resistance to common pyrethroid insecticides, the authors discovered how natural selection had enabled this insect population to develop resistance. They anal…

2006 CE

#12597

CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile infection.

The authors showed that the absence of the CCR5 receptor, which provides immunoresistance to HIV increases susceptability to West Nile virus. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Glass, McDermott, Lim et …

1944 CE

#12598

Micro-methods of estimating penicillin blood serum and other bodily fluids.

Fleming was the first to measure blood levels of penicillin after intramuscular, intradermal, inravenous and continuous drip administration in order to determine the correct dosage. He described his micro-measurement …

1944 CE

#12599

Penicillin content of blood serum after various doses of penicillin by various routes.

In this paper Fleming and colleagues explained how to choose routes of administration of penicillin as well as dosage, and reproduced the graphs/figures that showed blood levels achieved with different doses and route…