Entry Nos. 13100–13199

1689 CE

#13100

Catalogus plantarum Horti Medici Amstelodamensis. Pars prior.

First published catalogue of plants of the Hortus Medicus, precursor of the Hortus Botanicus. The Hortus Medicus, founded in 1682 under Commelin's guidance, was ranked among the most comprehensive in Europe, including…

1837 CE

#13101

An examination of phrenology; in two lectures.

This may be the earliest work incorporating anatomical images that was written in opposition to phrenology. Sewall, a physician from New England, was a founding member of the medical department at Columbian College (n…

1758 CE

#13102

Mémoire instructif sur la manière de rassembler, de preparer, de conserver, et d’envoyer les diverses curiosités d’histoire naturelle; auquel ... Avis pour le transport par mer, des arbres, des plantes vivaces, des semences, & diverse autres curiosités d'histoire naturelle.

An illustrated guide to taxidermy and the preparation of natural history specimens, probably the first taxidermy manual published in French. The twenty-five folding engravings, the majority by amateur engraver and pas…

1876 CE

#13103

Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales. Suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés.

The first psychiatric textbook to utilize photographic illustrations of patients. This was the second edition of Dagonet's Traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales (1862). The second e…

1959 CE

#13104

Napoleon immortal: The medical history and private life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

2018 CE

#13105

Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: Art, anatomy and printing in the Italian renaissance. Edited by R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella.

2020 CE

#13106

Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Senior, Evans, Jumper. ABSTRACT: "Protein structure prediction can be used to determine the three-dimensional shape of a protein from its amino acid sequence. This problem is…

1976 CE

#13107

Natural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.

Entomological sales by J.M. Chalmers-Hunt. Zoological Sales other than those of birds Insects and shells by Alwyne Wheeler Botanical Sales by William T. Stern Ornithology and Oology by Clive Simson Fossil Sales by W. …

1886 CE

#13108

Researches on Myohaematin and the Histohaematins.

First description of the respiratory pigment in blood, known today as Cytochrome1. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.

1880 CE

#13109

The spectroscope in medicine.

1877 CE

#13110

The cottage hospital: Its origin, progress, management and work. With an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened, and a chapter on hospitalism in cottage hospital practice.

Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Much expanded second edition: Cottage hospitals general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work with an alphabetical list …

1883 CE

#13111

Hints in sickness: Where to go and what to do.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1840 CE–1844 CE

#13112

The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories. 7 vols.

Audubon created 65 new images for the octavo edition, supplementing the original 435 in the double-elephant folio edition of 1827-1838. The resulting series of 500 chromolithographed plates constituted the most extens…

1947 CE

#13113

The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division.

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

1915 CE

#13114

Mimicry in butterflies.

1821 CE

#13115

Notice sur le premier ouvrage d'anatomie et de médecine, imprimé en Turc, à Constantinople, en 1820, intitulé Miroir des corps dans l'anatomie de l'homme envoyé et offert par S. Exc. L'Ambassadeur de France près la sublime porte a la Bibliothèque du Roi; Suivie du Catalogue des livres turcs, arabes et persans, imprimés à Contantinople, depuis l'introduction de l'Imprimerie, en 12726-27, jusqu'en 1820.

Bianchi characterized himself on the title page as Adj. Secretarty-Interpreter of the King for Oriental Languages. In this pamphlet he translated parts of the text of Chani-Zadeh and also translated the Table of Conte…

1820 CE

#13116

Mirât ul-abd fi techrīhh azâ il-insân.

The first book on anatomy and medicine printed in Turkish. The title may be translated as Miroir des corps dans l'anatomie des membres de l''homme. The work was primarily derived from European sources and included 56 …

1569 CE

#13117

Chirurgie françoise, avec plusieurs figures des instrumens nécessaires pour l'opération manuelle.

Daléchamp, a pupil of Guillaume Rondelet, received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1547; he settled in Lyons in 1552, where he remained for the rest of his life. His Chirurgie fr…

1586 CE–1587 CE

#13118

Historia generalis plantarum. In libros XVIII. per certas classes artificiose digesta, Haec, plusquam mille imaginibus plantarum locupletior superioribus, omnes propemodum quae ab antiquis scriptoribus Graecis, Latinis, Arabibus, nominantur : necnon eas quae in Orientis atque Occidentis partibus, ante seculum nostrum incognitis, repertae fuerunt, tibi exhibec. Habes etiam earundem plantarum peculiaria diuersis nationibus nomina: habes amplas descriptiones, è quibus singularum genus, formam, vbi crescant & quo tempore vigeant, natiuum temperamentum, vires denique in medicina proprias cognosces. Adiecti sunt Indices, non solùm Graeci et Latini, sed aliarum quoque linguarum, locupletissimi. 2 vols.

The "most complete botanical compilation of its time and the first to descrbie much of the flora peculiar to the region around Lyons" (DSB). Digital facsimile from Bibloteca digital, Real Jardín Botanico at thi…

1554 CE

#13119

Aquatilium animalium historiae. Liber primus cum eorumdem formis aere excusis.

Salviani taught at the University of Rome until 1568, after which he was chief physician to the House of Farnese and three successive popes, Pope Julius III, Pope Marcellus II and Pope Paul IV. "Salviani’s work …

1882 CE

#13120

Hygiène professionnelle. Le compositeur typographe.

A 21-page pamphlet of the diseases and hygiene of typographers; chiefly diseases related to their exposure to lead through their hands and breathing in of of lead particles in the air as a result of poor ventilation. …

1842 CE

#13121

On the different forms of insanity in relation to jurisprudence, designed for the use of persons concerned in legal questions regarding unsoundness of mind.

In this book Prichard presented his arguments for introducing the concept of diminished responsibility and irresistable impulse into the legal precedents. Hunter & McAlpine, 836-42. Digital facsimile from the Wellcome…

1615 CE

#13123

Microcosmographia [In Greek]. A description of the body of man. Together with the controversies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius.

As the title page states, the work was a compilation. There were reissues in 1616 and 1618. The second edition (1631) included an engraved title page with the first illustration of a brain dissection. That edition als…

2020 CE

#13124

Diseases in the district of Maine 1772-1820. The unpublished work of Jeremiah Barker, a rural physician in New England, by Richard J. Kahn.

1555 CE

#13125

Acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griege, en la vulgar castellana, & illustrado con claras y substantiales annotationes, y con las figuras de innumeras plantas exquisitas y raras, por el Doctor Andres de Laguna....

Laguna' translation of Dioscorides into Spanish included commentaries and additions that double the original text. It included very beautiful botanical woodcuts of plants and animals, and is considered one of the best…

2005 CE

#13126

Arabic medical manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: A descriptive catalogue of the Haddād collection.

2002 CE

#13127

Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.

2020 CE

#13128

Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)

"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should…

2018 CE

#13129

Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)

"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large numbe…

2019 CE

#13130

Maimonides, On the elucidation of some symptoms and the response to them. (Formerly known as On the causes of symptoms). A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vol. 13).

"The present consilium, commonly known as De causis accidentium, after the Latin translation by John de Capua, was, like the earlier consilium On the Regimen of Health, composed by Maimonides at the request of al-Mali…

2019 CE

#13131

Maimonides, On the regimen of health. A new parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 12).

"Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health was composed at an unknown date at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son who complained of constipation, indigestion, and depression. T…

2020 CE

#13132

Maimonides, Medical aphorisms, Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Me'ati. Edited by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vol. 15.)

"The original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the boo…

1903 CE

#13133

The zoological gardens of Europe: Their history and chief features.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1789 CE

#13134

Tratado de las heridas de armas de fuego, dispuesto para uso de los alumnos del Real Colegio de Chirugia de Cadiz.

Probably the first significant work on military medicine by a Spanish physician. Canivell’s work, prepared for the use of students at Cadiz’s Royal College of Surgery, deals with contusions, wounds and fra…

1829 CE–1837 CE

#13135

Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, the zoology of the northern parts of British America: Containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. 4 vols.

Richardson, surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer, was physician and naturalist on Sir John Franklin’s first two Arctic expeditions, and collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the Canadian…

1910 CE

#13136

Zur Quellenkunde persischen Medizin.

A descriptive analytical bibliography of classics of Persian medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#13137

La pharmacie en Egypte.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#13138

Le livre de l’art du traitement de Najm ad-Dyn Mahmoud: Texte, traduction, glossaires, précédés d’un essai sur la pharmacopée arabe par Pierre Paul Emile Guigues.

Arabic text, with a French translation, of parts 4-5 of “Al-Kitab al-hawi fi ‘ilm al-tadawi” by Najm al-Din Mahmud. Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from Shiraz. His ma…

1681 CE

#13139

Pharmacopoea persica ex idiomate persico in latinum conversa. Tafsir-i murakkabat-i qarabadin-i parsi [-i Muzaffar b. Muhammad as-Sifa`i] ba-dast-i Angelus Karmelit.

The editor, Joseph Labrosse, "was born in Toulouse in 1636 and entered a Carmelite order, taking the name of Fr. Angelus of St Joseph. In 1662 he went to Rome and studied Arabic for two years before travelling to Isfa…

1955 CE

#13140

Airborne contagion and air hygiene: An ecological study of droplet infections.

"In 1954, Wells began a long-term experiment to demonstrate that tuberculosis could be transmitted through air. At the VA Hospital in Baltimore, collaborating with Riley, John Barnwell, and Cretyl C. Mills, he built a…

1555 CE

#13141

De raris et admirandis herbis, qvae sive qvod noctv luceant, siue alias ob causas, Lvnariae nominantur, Commentariolus : & obiter de alijs etiam rebus quae in tenebris lucent. Inseruntur & Icones quaedam herbarum nouae. Eivsdem descriptio Montis Fracti, siue Montis Pilati, iuxta Lucernam in Helvetia. His accedunt Io. Dv Chovl G. F. Lugdunensis, Pilati Montis in Gallia Descriptio. Io. Rhellicani Stockhornias, qua Stockhornus mons altissimus in Bernensium Helvetiorum agro, versibus Heroicis describitur.

Contains Gesner's second work on mountaineering, his description of the Riven Mountain, commonly called Mount Pilatus, Eivsdem descriptio Montis Fracti, siue Montis Pilati, iuxta Lucernam in Helvetia. Digital facsimil…

1541 CE

#13142

Libellus de lacte, et operibus lactariis, philologus pariter ac medicus; cum Epistola ad Iacobum Avienum de montium admiratione.

The first book on Alpinism and mountaineering. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. English translation by H. B. D. Soulé as Conrad Gesner: On the admiration of mountains; the prefatory letter a…

1760 CE

#13143

Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés: a laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms quils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires. 6 vols.

Title pages in both French and Latin. One of the earliest systematic treatises on birds by a contemporary of Linnaeus. The work treats 1336 species of which Brisson claimed to recognize more than 800 by sight. The pla…

1917 CE

#13144

Dr. Evans' How to keep well: A health book for the home.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2003 CE

#13145

The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.

1959 CE

#13146

Metabolic care of the surgical patient. Edited by Francis D. Moore.

"...This book, by authorities in the field, is up to date and well organized. A wide range of subjects, including surgical endocrinology and metabolism, is covered. Important subjects such as normal and abnormal conva…

1619 CE

#13147

Procestria anatomica in quibus propununtur plaeraque ad generalem anatomia & partium contemplationeum attinent; quaedam etiam infimi ventris mebra explicantur; et Andreae Laurenti Historia anatomica multis locis castigatur & corrigitur.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Peter Lauremberg edited the first edition of this anonymous Byzantine text on anatomy. The first illustrated edition was edited by Johann Stephan Bernard and Daniel Wi…

1528 CE

#13148

Claudii Galeni ... Liber de plenitudine. Polybus De salubri victus ratione privatorum. Guinterio Ioanne Andernaco interprete. Apuleius Platonicus De herbarum virtutibus. Antonii Benivenii Libellus de abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morboru & sanitationum causis.

First separate edition of Galen's Liber de plenitudine and Polybus's De salubri victus ratione privatorum, edited by Johan Guinter von Andernach. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1833 CE

#13149

Hunterian reminiscences; being the substance of a course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery, delivered by the late John Hunter, in the year 1785: Taken in short-hand, and afterwards fairly transcribed by the late James Parkinson ... Edited by his son, J.W.K. Parkinson ..., by whom are appended illustrative notes.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1838 CE

#13150

Clinique des maladies des enfants nouveau-nes.

The first work on the diseases of newborns and the first work on child neurology and pediatric neurosurgery.