Entry Nos. 13700–13799

2004 CE

#13701

When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.

2006 CE

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2020 CE

#13703

Dark archives: A librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin.

1849 CE

#13704

On parthenogenesis, or the successive production of procreating individuals from a single ovum. A discourse introductory to the Hunterian Lectures on Generation and Development for the year 1849, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1881 CE

#13705

Guide to the literature of botany; being a classified selection of botanical works, including nearly 6000 titles not given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus."

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1866 CE

#13706

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.

"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…

1774 CE

#13707

La botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la médecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts. Avec des notices instructives puisées dans les auteurs les plus celebres, contenant la description, le climât, la culture, les proprietes et les vertus propres a chaque plante, precedé d’une introduction a la botanique, ou dictionnaire abregé des principaux termes emploiés dans cette science. 3 vols.

One of the most spectacular works of medical botany ever published, in 3 folio volumes with 472 hand-colored plates and 3 hand-colored engraved title pages. Many of the plates by by Genéviève de Nangis R…

1842 CE

#13708

Les bains de Brousse, en Bithynie (Turquie d'Asie), avec une vue des bains et un plan des environs de Brousse.

The introduction of Western hydrotherapy to the Ottoman world. Focusing upon the hot springs of Bursa, Bernard promoted the healing effects of warm waters to the general Ottoman population. Digital facsimile from Goog…

1943 CE

#13709

A new laryngoscope.

Macintosh larygnoscope.

2001 CE

#13710

Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.

2009 CE

#13711

The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.

1855 CE

#13712

On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species.

This paper is sometimes referred to as the Sarawak Law paper since it was written while Wallace was on a specimen collecting expedition in the province of Sarawak (East Malayasian States) on the great island of Borneo…

1975 CE

#13713

Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the British Library.

1972 CE

#13714

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.

1969 CE

#13715

Index of manuscripts on medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences in the Zahiriyah Library

1983 CE–1984 CE

#13716

Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.

1964 CE

#13717

Bibliography of medicine and pharmacy in medieval Islam. Mit einer Einfuhrung, Arabismus in der Geschichte der Pharmazie, von Rudolf Schmitz.

1998 CE–2005 CE

#13718

Geschichte der Pharmazie. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Von Rudolf Schmitz. Unter Mitarbeit von F.-J. Kuhlen. Band II: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

1824 CE

#13719

Elements of phrenology.

The first book on phrenology written by an American. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1830 CE

#13720

Thoughts on the original unity of the human race.

The first important American presentation of the case for polygenesis in support of slavery. Caldwell presented the first important American critique of the monogenist theories of human ancestry promoted by Samuel Sta…

2017 CE

#13721

History of social media in surgery.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Logghe, McFadden, Tully, Jones. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

2016 CE

#13722

Social media use in healthcare: A systematic review of effects on patients and on their relationship with healthcare professionals.

"Since the emergence of social media in 2004, a growing percentage of patients use this technology for health related reasons. To reflect on the alleged beneficial and potentially harmful effects of social media use b…

1951 CE

#13723

Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent.

The Lowry protein assay, a biochemical assay for determining the total level of protein in a solution. As of 2015 this paper was considered the most highly-cited paper in the scientific literature with over 310,000 ci…

2021 CE

#13724

Bibliotheca Opticoria 1475-1925: A library on the history of our understanding of light and vision.

2020 CE

#13725

To make the wounded whole: The African American struggle against HIV/AIDS.

2021 CE

#13726

A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the digital era.

Concerns only U.S. medical libraries.

1985 CE

#13727

The management of smallpox eradication in India.

2009 CE

#13728

Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.

Abstract "Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new …

2013 CE

#13729

The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143764/ "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a leader in t…

1970 CE

#13730

Dermatologie in der Kunst.

1580 CE

#13731

Les statutz et ordonnances royalles faictes par les roys de France, sur l'estat de barbier-chirurgien part tout le royaume de France, et confirmé par le roy Henry III de ce nom, roy de France et de Pologne [Mai 1575-13 août 1578].

The first regulations for barber surgeons published in France. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb338125216

1857 CE–1889 CE

#13732

Catalogue des sciences médicales. Publié par ordre de l'Empereur. 3 vols.

Catalogue of the medical books in what is now the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but which was called in 1857 the Bibliothèque Impériale. By the second volume published in 1873 the library was …

1855 CE

#13733

Flora indica: Being a systematic account of the plants of British India, together with observations on the structure and affinities of their natural orders and genera. Vol. 1. Ranunculaceae to Fumariaceae, with an Introductory Essay. All published.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. The Introductory Essay was also published separately by W. Pamphlin in 1855 with the following title: Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: includin…

1855 CE

#13734

Food and its adulterations: Comprising the reports of the analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public; and containing the names and addresses of the various merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of whom the analysed articles were purchased.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Significantly expanded as Food: its adulterations and methods for their detection, London: Longmans, Green, 1876. Digital facsimile of the 1876 edition from …

2010 CE

#13735

The double helix and the law of evidence.

"... Kaye weaves together molecular biology, population genetics, the legal rules of evidence, and theories of statistical reasoning as he describes the struggles between prosecutors and defense counsel over the admis…

1985 CE

#13736

Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.

Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.

1985 CE

#13737

Hypervariable 'minisatellite regions in human DNA.

Jeffries and team discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling. This was the first publication of the method.

2014 CE

#13738

Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.

https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive Open access (OA) electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on t…

1846 CE

#13739

Medical notes on China.

Wilson served as Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets from 1841 to 1843 onboard the Minden, a British hospital ship deployed in China at Chusan and Hong Kong at the end of 1841 to treat casualties in the First Opium War …

2013 CE

#13740

The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.

2019 CE

#13741

Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.

Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link.

1651 CE

#13742

Semeiotica uranica, or an astrological judgment of diseases from the decumbiture of the sick; 1. From Aven Ezra by the way of introduction. 2. From Noel Duret by way of direction. Wherein is layd down, the way and manner of finding out the cause, change and end of a disease. Also whether the sick be likely to live or dye, and the time when recovery or death is to be expected. To which is added the signs of life or death by the body of the sick party according to the judgment of Hippocrates.

Digital text from quod.lib.umich.edu at this link

1720 CE

#13743

A natural history of English insects. Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously engraven from the life: And (for those who desire it) exactly coloured by the author.

"Little is known of Albin’s early life, though he was probably born in Germany to a family named Weiss. By 1708 he had changed his surname to Albin and was living in London with his family. His profession of art…

1835 CE

#13744

Observations on the influence of religion upon the health and physical welfare of mankind.

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

2015 CE

#13745

Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.

1914 CE

#13746

Les médecins dans l'ouest de la France au Xième et XIIème siècles.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1842 CE

#13747

A scripture herbal.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1960 CE

#13748

The use of LSD in psychotherapy: Transactions of a conference of D-Lysergic Acid Diethymlamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23 and 24, 1959, Princeton, N. J. Edited by Harold A. Abramson.

1977 CE

#13749

Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.

Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…

1801 CE

#13750

Médecine du voyageur; ou avis sur les moyens de conserver la santé, et de remédier aux accidens et aux maladies auxquels on est exposé dans les voyages, tant par terre que par mer. Suivie d'un essai de médecine pratique sur les voyages, considérés comme remèdes. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.