Entry Nos. 13700–13799

1847 CE–1887 CE

#13751

Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of the genera of shells. 5 vols. text, each with an accompanying volume of plates.

Completed by G. B. Sowerby III after the death of G.B.S. II. Since "III" was color blind, his daughter did most of the coloring of his engravings. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1681 CE

#13752

Recreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osservation ' delle chiocciole, proposta a curiosi delle opere dell natura.

The first treatise devoted entirely to molluscs, and the first practical guide for shell collectors. "Bonanni's work is significant for his careful attempts to precisely describe shell morphology. Unfortunately, due t…

2000 CE

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

1863 CE

#13754

Hospital transports: A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862.

During the U.S. Civil War Olmsted, a landscape architect, journalist, social critic and public administrator, was Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commision. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Med…

1811 CE

#13755

Travels in the island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX.

Only Mackenzie is credited with authorship on the title page. Holland and Bright accompanied Mackenzie on this voyage and exploration. On p. xi of the Preface Mackenzie indicates that he benefitted from Hooker's notes…

1810 CE

#13756

Ueber die Verkrümmungen des menschlichen Körpers und eine rationelle und sichere Heilart derselben.

Valentin considered this work on the correction of deformities of the spine, neck, rickets, clubfoot, etc. one of the first "scientific" treatises on orthopedics. Digital facsimile from digitale-bibliothek-mv.de at th…

1978 CE

#13757

The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.

A history of contraception in the United States.

2003 CE

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

2012 CE

#13759

Obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States American sexual histories.

Includes a study of the trials of American sex educator Frederick Hollick for obscenity.

1850 CE

#13760

The marriage guide, or natural history of generation; a private instructor for married persons and those about to marry, both male and female, in every thing concerning the physiology and relations of the sexual system and production or prevention of offspring; including all the new discoveries, never before given in the English language.

Digital facsimile of the 196th edition, much enlarged and improved from Google Books at this link. Sappol (2002) estimated that Hollick's works on sexuality and reproduction underwent at least 500 editions of between …

1845 CE

#13761

The origin of life: A popular treatise on the philosophy and physiology of reproduction, in plants and animals, including the details of human generation with a full description of the male and female organs. Illustrated by fine colored engravings on stone.

Digital facsimile of the 20th edition from Google Books at this link.

1811 CE

#13762

Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.

"In 1809 he went to Iceland to make a botanical survey for [Sir Joseph] Banks; his collections were lost in a fire at sea on the way home but with the aid of Banks’s notes from his own journey there in 1772 Hook…

1789 CE

#13763

A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.

Trained in horticulture at Syon House, London, Paterson was sent in 1777 to the Cape of Good Hope to collect plants for the estate of the Countess of Strathmore, undertaking four journeys into the South African interi…

1777 CE

#13764

Bref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

Von Troil’s compilation is the only contemporary printed book steming from Sir Joseph Banks’s pioneering scientfic expedition to Iceland, Banks's first and only expedition as indisputable leader. Having re…

1792 CE

#13765

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de effectibus musicae in hominem.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

#13766

Profiles in science.

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "Explore digitized archival collections to learn about prominent scientists, physicians, and other 20th-century leaders in biomedical research and public health."

#13767

FDA Notices of Judgment Collection, 1908-1966.

https://fdanj.nlm.nih.gov/ "The FDA Notices of Judgment Collection is a digital archive of the published federal notices of judgment (a summary of the final outcome of a court case) for manufacturers and products pros…

2002 CE

#13768

Healing earths: The third leg of medicine. A history of minerals in medicine.

2005 CE

#13769

Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.

"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…

1894 CE

#13770

La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.

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

2006 CE

#13771

Freud's library: A comprehensive catalogue / Freuds Bibliothek: Vollständiger Katalog compiled and edited by J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner. Introductory volume and CD-ROM.

In January 2022 when I wrote this entry the English language text of this catalogue (dated 2004) was available as a PDF at this link.

1847 CE

#13772

Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.

2021 CE

#13773

Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2011 CE

#13775

The history and future of bioethics.

2020 CE

#13776

The human gene editing debate.

"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…

1748 CE

#13777

Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, à M. de Joyeuse, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Montpellier ....

The first account of cataract extraction. Daviel also published this in the Mercure de France in September 1748, pp. 198-218. The separate edition, a 24-page pamphlet, was printed from a different setting of type.

1928 CE

#13778

Tumors arising from the blood-vessels of the brain. Angiomatous malformations and hemangioblastomas.

1802 CE

#13779

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1617 CE

#13780

Discursus medico-philosophicus de casu adolescentis [...]: qui [...] mortuus in quodam paternarum aedium loco, adjacente ipsi serpente, à domesticis inventus fuit.

An extensively illustrated work on death from snake bites and species of venomous snakes instigated by the sudden death from snake bite of an otherwise healthy young man. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…

1877 CE

#13781

Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.

2016 CE

#13782

Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.

1754 CE

#13783

Poissons, écrevisses et crabes, de diverse couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des Terres Australes....

"This extraordinary work purports to show marine life from the seas around Indonesia at a time when the natural wildlife of that area was virtually unknown in Europe. Renard, both a publisher and a spy for the British…

1986 CE

#13784

Of birds and Texas.

Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…

2021 CE

#13785

Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.

"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written…

1986 CE

#13786

Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

1971 CE

#13787

Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.

Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.

1979 CE

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

2010 CE

#13789

The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.

1838 CE

#13790

Des maladies les plus fréquentes à bord des navires baleiniers, et de leur traitement.

On injuries and diseases of the crews of whaling voyages in particular. This was Santy's medical dissertation; dissertation and commercially published issues appeared from the same publisher the same year. Digital fac…

1795 CE

#13791

Tratado de las enfermedades de la boca sobre todas las partes del arte del dentista.

The first significant book on dentistry by a Spanish dentist. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1565 CE

#13792

De vini natura, artificio et usu deque re omni potabili.

On the medical sues of wine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2002 CE

#13793

Pox Americana: The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82.

2021 CE

#13794

A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.

1909 CE

#13795

Smallpox and vaccination in British India.

Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1979 CE

#13796

The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.

2019 CE

#13797

Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.

1987 CE

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

1815 CE

#13799

The history of the small pox.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.