Entry Nos. 12900–12999
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1793 CE
#12950
A sketch of a tour on the Continent, in the years 1786 and 1787. 3 vols.
Includes an index to the natural history aspects that Smith recorded. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1793 CE–1795 CE
#12951
A specimen of the botany of New Holland
The first published book on the flora of Australia, issued by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It included 16 hand-colored plates reproducing paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, a…
1904 CE–1924 CE
#12952
Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'empire Chinois. Deuxième édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols. (1904-1908), plus Supplement (1923-1945).
The "standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921, including the full titles, tables of contents, and annotations regarding many books. Cordier was able to achieve this despite having only mi…
2001 CE
#12953
The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.
The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…
1847 CE
#12954
On the inhalation of the vapour of ether.
Appearing in March, 1847, this was Snow's first publication on anesthesia. It contains the first description and illustration of his regulating inhaler, the first such device to control the amount of ether vapor recei…
2010 CE
#12955
Tipologia de la literatura médica latina. Antigüedad, edad media, renacimiento.
1983 CE
#12956
Constantini Liber de coitu: El tratado de andrología de Constantino el Africano. Edited by Enrique Montero Cartelle.
1987 CE
#12957
Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.
1726 CE
#12958
Danubius pannonico-mysicus, observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus et in sex tomos digestus. 6 vols.
An extensive illustrated work, with 283 copperplate engravings, on the natural history of the Danube river, the longest river in central Europe, which runs from southern Germany into Austria, through Slovakia, Hungary…
1917 CE
#12959
The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....
Prefaced by an extensive historical introduction; the remainder of the text being of historical significance in the 21st century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1913 CE–1922 CE
#12960
Pratyaksa-śārira: pratyaksha-shariram: A textbook of human anatomy in Sanskrit with English & Sanskrit introductions, containing a short history of Ayurvedic literature. 3 vols.
1980 CE
#12961
Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.
1980 CE
#12962
Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis
1986 CE
#12963
Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany
1939 CE–2015 CE
#12964
The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.
2007 CE
#12965
The diploid genome sequence of an individual human.
The first genome sequence of a single human (Craig Venter), including analysis and comments on his genetic markers, and their possible medical and prognosticating implications. (Order of authorship in the original pub…
1857 CE
#12966
Berceau incubateur pour les enfants nés avant terme.
This brief notice, about 400 words long, citing no references, was the first published account of an incubator for premature infants. Denucé built a double-walled zinc tub in which the space between the walls w…
1883 CE
#12967
De la couveuse pour enfants. Part 5: Description d'une nouvelle couveuse.
Auvert described a new and improved closed incubator inspired by a bird/poultry incubator that Tarnier saw at a Paris zoo, and had adapted for human babies by the bird incubator's inventor, Dr. Martin. Tarnier used th…
1954 CE
#12968
The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.
Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…
1959 CE
#12969
Standards for height and weight of British children from birth to maturity.
Tanner established "normal" parameters for ranking the height and weight of children by percentile during growth. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
2019 CE
#12970
Whole-animal connectomes of both Caenorhabditis elegans sexes.
The first whole-animal connectomes for both adult sexes of a single species. "As none of the EM series cover an entire single animal, to generate whole animal connectomes, data from different reconstruction series wer…
1958 CE
#12971
Influence of light on the hyperbilirubinaemia of infants.
In 1956 Sister Jean Ward of the Premature Unit of the Rochford General Hospital in Essex, England noted the benefit of phototherapy when she took infants outside because she assumed that fresh air had healing benefits…
1673 CE
#12972
Nova medicina spirituum: Curiosa scientia & doctrina, unanimiter hucusque neglecta, & à nemine meritò exculta, medicis tamen & physicis utilissima. In quâ Primo Spirituum naturalis constitutio, vita, sanitas temperamenta, ingenia, calidum innatum, phantasiae vires, ideae, astrorum influentiae, μετεμψύχωσις, rerum magnetissimi, sympatiae & antipatiae, qualitates hactenus occultae, aliaq; caeteroquin abstrusa & paradoxa; Dehinc spirituum praeternaturalis seu morbosa Dispositio, causae, curationes per naturam, per diaetam, per arcana majora, palingenesiam, magnetissimum seu sympatheismum, transplantationes, amuleta, ingenuè & dilucidè demonstrantur.
”A very curious work, attributing the causes of many diseases to spirits and basing their cure on this theory. There is a great deal on insanity. The methods of treatment are partly chemical, partly magnetical, …
1857 CE
#12973
Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique de MM. de Jussieu, dont la vente aur lieu le lundi 14 janvier 1858 et jours suivants, à sept heurs du soir....
Auction catalogue of the library of the de Jussieu dynasty of botanists. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1936 CE
#12974
Catalogue de livres et autographes provenant en majeur partie des bibliothèques d'Antoine, Bernard, Antoine-Laurent et Adrien de Jussieu, démonstrateurs et professeurs au Jardin du Roi, Membres de l'Institut 1686-1853. Voyages - Médecine - Sciences - Litérature - Sciences naturelles et principalement botanique....
Remarkably, many of the treasures of the Jussieu dynastic library, formed starting in the 18th century, remained in the family, and were sold at auction in Paris by Edouard Giard and Georges Andrieux on 10 February 19…
2001 CE
#12975
The medical library of Dr. Meyer Friedman.
Friedman's library, containing copies of many great medical classics, was sold at auction by Sotheby's in New York, on November 16, 2001.
1787 CE
#12976
Museum Geversianum, sive, index rerum naturalium: Continens instructissimam copiam pretiosissimorum omnis generis ex tribus regnis naturae objectorum: Quam dum in vivis erat magna diligentia multaque cura comparavit Abrahamus Gevers.
Posthumously published classified listing of the immense museum of natural history specimens collected by Gevers, member of the town council, may of Rotterdam, and director of the Dutch East-Indian Company (VOC). Digi…
1778 CE
#12977
Museum Gronovianum sive index rerum naturalium tam mammalium amphibiorum piscium insectorum conchyliorum zoophytorum plantarum et mineralium exquisitissimorum quam arte factarum nonnullarum.Inter quae eminet herbarius siccus plantarum a Tournefortio Claintonio Lannaeo aliisque botanic collectarum.
Catalogue of Gronovius's museum which was sold at auction starting on October 7, 1778 and on succeeding days. Digital facsimile from docnum.unistra.fr at this link.
2017 CE
#12978
Das System der Natur. Die kollaborative Wissenskultur der Botanik im 18. Jahrhundert.
1754 CE
#12979
Museum ichthyologicum sistens piscium indigenorum et quorundam exoticorum, qui in museo Laurentii Theodori Gronovii adservantur: Descriptiones ordine systematico; accedunt nonnullorum exoticorum piscium icones aeri incisae.
Gronovius described over 200 species of fish. He is also credited with developing a technique for preservation of fish skins. Today, a number of his fish skins are preserved in the Natural History Museum, London. Digi…
2015 CE
#12980
The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
2020 CE
#12981
The dome of uryne: A reading edition of nine Middle English uroscopies.
"This volume contains nine of the most widely disseminated Middle English uroscopies, each of them short enough to be consulted quickly by practitioners and all of them commonly found in English medical miscellanies. …
1692 CE
#12982
Le cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les antiquitez de la religion des Chrétiens, des Egyptiens, & des Romains, des tombeaux, des poids & des medailles; des monnoyes, des pierres antiques gravées, & des minéraux; des talismans, des lampes antiques, des animaux les plus rares et les plus singuliers, des coquilles les plus considérables, des fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises.
Father Du Molinet's "cabinet" incorporated the major part of Fabri de Peiresc's collection. The first part of this work, extensively illustrated with engravings, described antiquities: Christian, Egyptian and Roman; f…
1861 CE
#12983
Nouvelles recherches sur la coexistence de l’homme et des grands mammifères fossiles réputés caractéristiques de la dernière période géologique.
In this lengthy paper of nearly 80 pages Lartet proposed the first chronological framework into which both human skeletal and cultural remains could be fitted, based on fossil animal bones recovered from French cave s…
1480 CE
#12984
Chirurgia. Edited by Matthaeus Moretus.
Argelata was a pupil of Guy de Chauliac, and professor at Bologna. He is supposed to have done the autopsy on Pope Alexander V, who died suddenly on May 3, 1410. ISTC No. ia00951000. Digital facsimile from U.S. Nation…
1931 CE
#12985
Das Problem der dentalen Fokalinfektion und ihre Bekämpfung durch die konservierende Zahnheilkunde.
With physicist Fritz Giesel, Walkhoff on December 28, 1895 Walkhoff did the first dental radiograph on his own teeth. Later, Walkhoff was "responsible for the shift to an everyday use of camphorated chlorophenol to st…
1894 CE
#12986
Microphotographischer Atlas der normalen Histologie menschliecher Zähne.
Walkhoff was one of the first to employ microphotography to illustrate dental histology.
2006 CE
#12987
Manuscrits médicaux Latins de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Un index des oeuvres et des auteurs.
"Abstract "This index of medical medieval texts is the first result of a collective work started in the 60s. It is deliberately limited to medical works (to the exclusion of veterinary art, alchemy, and natural philos…
2007 CE
#12988
Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.
2020 CE
#12989
The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.
"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses…
1934 CE
#12990
Meharry Medical College: A history.
The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…
1709 CE
#12991
Musaeum Kircherianum sive musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu iam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum descriptum, & iconibus illustratum....a Philippo Bonanni.
Extensively illustrated catalogue by Bonanni of the Musaeum Kircherianum, formed in the mid-17th century by the Jesuit polymath, Athanasius Kircher, and housed in the Jesuit Collegio Romano. Reflective of Kircher's po…
1999 CE
#12992
Anglo-Norman literature: A guide to texts and manuscripts.
This standard work catalogued nearly 1000 manuscripts, including medical texts.
1805 CE
#12993
Essai historique et littéraire sur la médecine des Arabes.
The first European history of Arab or Islamic medicine. Amoreux was professor in the faculty of medicine in Montpellier (an Arabist medical center in the Renaissance), and also the librarian. He stated in the introduc…
1923 CE
#12994
Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sexualkunde des Menschen heraugegeben von Max Marcuse.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. New edition with an introduction by Robert Jütte, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.
1876 CE
#12995
Gerichtlich-medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland nebst historischen Notizen.
Pelikan, professor of forensic medicine in St. Petersburg, published this German version of his treatise on the fanatical Russian Christian sect Skoptsy, known for its practice of castration, clitoridectomies, and mas…
1960 CE
#12996
Acute pulmonary edema of high altitude.
Houston described four individuals who developed "edema of the lungs" as a result of high elevation activities. "He described chest X-rays with edema and non-specific changes on EKG. Even though these cases had been t…
1987 CE
#12997
Operation Everest II: Man at extreme altitude.
In 1985 Houston, Sutton and Cymerman and colleagues in Canada used a decompression chamber to simulate a seven week ascent of Mt. Everest. This appears to be their first paper summarizing the overall results. Many pub…
1675 CE
#12998
Theatrum fungorum oft het tooneel der Campernoelien. Waer inne vertoont wort de gedaente, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught; mitsgaders het voorsichtigh schoonmaken ende bereyden van alderhande Fungien....
The first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1986 CE
#12999
Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.
Digital facsimile from dwc.knaw.nl at this link. Originally published in Bijdragen tot de dierkunde, v. 27, 1939.