Entry Nos. 6700–6799

1876 CE

#6761

History of American medical literature from 1776 to the present time.

1879 CE–1899 CE

#6762

Index Medicus. A monthly classified record of the current medical literature of the world. Vols. 1-21.

"Functionally, however, the greatest difference between the two publications [Index Medicus and the Index-Catalogue] was that the Index-Catalogue was a government publication and Index Medicus was not. For its entire …

1880 CE–1961 CE

#6763

Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.

In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to …

1893 CE

#6765

Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.

Reprinted, 1956.

1900 CE

#6766

Bibliographia medica Hungariae, 1472-1899,

1905 CE–1908 CE

#6767

Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .

A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…

1908 CE

#6768

Deutsch medizinische Inkunabeln.

1923 CE

#6769

Incunabula medica. A study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480.

Bibliographical Society Publication. Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, with minor editing for posthumous publication by Archibald Malloch and W. W. Francis. Introducti…

1926 CE

#6771

A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640.

This has been completely superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged. Begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson; completed by K. F. Pantzer. Vol. 1. A-H.; Vol. 2. I-Z. London, Bibliographical Society, 1972-…

1929 CE

#6772

Bibliotheca Osleriana. A catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science, collected, arranged and annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt. and bequeathed to McGill University. [Edited by . W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch.]

This bibliography of over 7,500 titles, edited by W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch, is the catalogue of Osler’s magnificent library. For it Osler wrote an unfinished Introduction…

1933 CE

#6773

Revised students’ check-list of texts illustrating the history of medicine, with references for collateral reading.

An expansion of Garrison's original list which appeared in the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, 1912, 2 ser. 17, 89-178. Garrison was inspired to draft the 1912 list by…

1934 CE

#6774

The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with revised catalogue and check-list.

Addenda and corrigenda by D.A. Kronick, Bull. Hist. Med. 1958, 32, 456-74.

1937 CE

#6775

British periodicals of medicine. A chronological list.

Covers British periodicals published in the British Empire. Published in book form, Baltimore, 1938. Supplement, 1938-61, by A. M Shadrake, Bull. med. Libr. Ass., 1963, 51, 181-96, covers Gt Britain and Ireland, but e…

1938 CE

#6776

Incunabula scientifica et medica. Short title list.

3,000 editions of 1,000 incunabula. Reprinted from Osiris, vol.IV. Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1963.

1941 CE–1959 CE

#6777

Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.

Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…

1943 CE

#6779

The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts.

Catalogue, without annotations, of the books and manuscripts bequeathed by Cushing to the Historical Library in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. Much like Osler, Cushing colle…

1945 CE–1951 CE

#6780

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. 3 vols.

Supplements the Short title catalogue (No. 6771). This was superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols., New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1972-88. In addition to countless works of …

1947 CE

#6781

A check-list of medical books published in English before 1600.

1948 CE

#6782

Encyclopedia of medical sources.

A valuable list of medical eponyms and original sources, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names.

1950 CE

#6783

A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.

For supplement see No. 6786.18.

1950 CE–1966 CE

#6784

UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.

Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library&rdq…

1951 CE

#6785

The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.

1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject…

1954 CE

#6786

A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

Gives full bibliographical description of 632 incunabula.

1472 CE

#6787

Etymologiae.

The principal work of Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest educationists of the Middle Ages. The Etymologiae, an encyclopedic work, presented the sum of contemporary knowledge on all branches of science. Book IV af…

1473 CE

#6788

Synonyma medicinae, seu clavis sanationis.

The first printed medical dictionary. It was originally published at Ferrara, 1471-2?, of which the only recorded copy is a fragment of 21 leaves in the Bodleian Library. ISTC No. is00526000. “The great work of …

1475 CE

#6789

Aggregator, sive de medicinis simplicibus.

First printed edition of an encyclopedic dictionary of medicine, containing a large number of medical recipes based upon Greek and Arabic sources. Dondi completed the work in 1355. Manuscripts of his text are preserve…

1519 CE

#6790

Synonima und gerecht vrlegug der Auslegung der Wörter, so man dan in der Artzny, allen Krütern, Wurtzlen, Blümen, Somen, Gesteinen, Safften vnn anderen Digen zu schreiben ist.

Digital facsimile from Universität Wien at this link.

1564 CE

#6791

Dictionarium medicum.

This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exercised considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology. It was an important aid…

1564 CE

#6792

Definitionum medicarum libri xxiii.

This dictionary arranges all Greek medical terms in order of the Greek alphabet, and carefully explains them in Latin. It was widely used, and exerted much influence on modern medical terminology.

1588 CE

#6793

Oeconomia Hippocratis, aphabeti serie distincta. In qua dictionum apud Hippocratem omnium, praesertim obscuriorum, usus explicatur, etc.

A Greek alphabetical dictionary of the vocabulary of the Hippocratic writings, based on an exhaustive investigation of all ancient medical texts.

1598 CE

#6794

Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum…ex Hippocrate et Galeno desumptum.

The earlier lexicon of Gorraeus formed the basis of this work, which was reprinted in several editions, the last in 1792.

1632 CE

#6795

Quaestio iatrophilologica.

Learned bibliophile Gabriel Naudé eventually became Mazarin’s librarian and built up for his master a famous collection of books. He wrote an important medical dictionary. Four further parts of the above,…

1639 CE

#6796

Definitionum medicinarum liber.

A glossary of Hippocratic terms.

1684 CE

#6797

A physical dictionary; in which all the terms relating either to anatomy, chirurgery, pharmacy, or chemistry, are very accurately explain’d.

The English translation of Blankaart’s dictionary was the first medical dictionary to be printed in the British Isles. The original Greek-Latin text was published in Amsterdam, 1679.

1691 CE

#6798

Lexicon medicum etymologicum.

1743 CE–1745 CE

#6799

A medicinal dictionary: Including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs; An account of their various preparations, combinations, and uses; and an introductory preface tracing the progress of physic, and explaining theories which have principally prevail'd in all ages of the world. With copper plates. 3 vols.

The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the early 19th century. Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication and some of the articles. This was Johnson’s first venture…