Entry Nos. 6900–6999

1760 CE

#6951

Sur les mouvements du cerveau et de la dure-mere. Premier mémoire, sur le mouvement des parties contenues dans le crâne, considérées dans leur état naturel. Second mémoire. Sur les mouvements contre nature de ce viscère, & sur les organes qui sont le principe de son action.

Probably the first example in the literature of a definite localization of function in the brain. In the first memoir Lorry examined the normal movements of the brain; in the second memoir he set out specifically, sys…

1830 CE

#6952

A demonstration of the nerves of the human body.

The largest and most splendidly produced atlas of neuroanatomy originally published in English, with plates that remain unsurpassed as works of art. Later editions were in reduced format.

1992 CE

#6953

The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration.

An essential reinterpretation of the classics in the history of anatomical illustration, with many fine plates.

1897 CE

#6954

Autobiography of Andrew T. Still, with a history of the discovery and development of the science of osteopathy. Together with an account of the founding of the . . . . . American School of Osteopathy; and lectures delivered before that institution from time to time during the progress of the discovery.

Still founded osteopathy, and opened the first school of osteopathy, now A.T. Still University, in 1892. He was also an early promoter of preventive medicine and the philosophy that physicians should focus on treating…

2004 CE

#6955

The D.O.s: Osteopathic medicine in America. 2nd ed.

1988 CE

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

1995 CE

#6957

One hundred books famous in medicine. Edited by Haskell F. Norman and Hope Mayo.

Conceived, organized and with an introduction by Haskell Norman, who borrowed the most interesting copies (presentation, association, dedication, author's copies) of each work for the exhibition. Catalogue edited by H…

1981 CE

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

1540 CE

#6959

Eyn new Wund Artznei M. Johans von Parisijs. Wie mann alle wunden, sie seien gestochen, gehawen, geschossen mit pfeil oder lot gequetzt vnd gestossen [et]c. mit salben, pflastern vnnd wundttranck, durch den gantzen leip dess menschens, vom Kopff an biss auff die füss, heylen solein kurtzer, ordenlicher Bericht M. Johan von Parisiis jtzunt am newsten auss gangen.

Johannes von Beris (or Paris) lived in the mid-15th century near Metz, and is thus the earliest identifiable German surgeon, and the first to write about gunshot wounds and wound surgery. His work, which was first pub…

1530 CE

#6960

Catalogus illustrium medicorum sive de primis medicinae scriptoribus.

The first separately published medical bibliography, containing 750 entries listing over 300 authors and their works in chronological order. Opens with an alphabetical index of authors, and ends with a subject index. …

2004 CE

#6961

Ancient medicine.

Nutton used archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to Late Antiquity.

1993 CE

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

1611 CE

#6964

Anatomicae institutiones corporis humani.

The elder Caspar Bartholin was the first to describe the workings of the olfactory nerve, and introduced the terms nervus olfactorius and nervus vagus. This was a standard textbook for many years, undergoing numerous …

1851 CE

#6965

Traité pratique des maladies cancéreuses et des affections curables confondues avec le cancer.

Lebert studied cancer cells under high magnification to discover the specific elements distinguishing them from normal cells. He classified tumors as either homeomorphous (composed of elements analogous to those of th…

1997 CE

#6966

American surgery: An illustrated history.

1993 CE

#6967

Surgery: An illustrated history.

Text written by Ira Rutkow; captions to illustrations written by Jeremy Norman.

1905 CE

#6968

History of osteopathy, and twentieth-century medical practice.

Revised & enlarged second edition Cincinnati: Printed for the Author, the Caxton Press, 1924. Digital facsimile of the first edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Digital facsimile of the second edition from…

1538 CE

#6969

Simeonis Sethi, magistri Antiochiae, Syntagma per literarum ordinem de cibariorum facultate, Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo,... interprete.

First printed edition of Seth's Byzantine encyclopedia of foods, nutrition, and diatetics from plants and animals, with Greek text and Latin translation by scholar and poet Giglio Gregorio Giraldi. Simeon Seth was an …

1763 CE

#6970

An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.

Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, discovered that the bark of the willow tree (active ingredient: salicylic acid) was effective in reducing a fever. This was the first report in the scientific literatu…

1853 CE

#6971

Untersuchungen über die wasserfreien organischen Säuren.

In 1853 French chemist Gerhardt was the first to prepare acetylsalicylic acid (marketed by Bayer as asprin in 1899). Gerhardt called the compound he obtained "salicylic-acetic anhydride" (wasserfreie Salicylsäure…

1917 CE

#6972

On growth and form.

Thompson's description of the mathematical beauty of nature eventually inspired others, such as Alan Turing, to develop the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants a…

2000 CE–2001 CE

#6973

Diocles of Carystus: A collection of the fragments with translation and commentary. Volume one: Text and translation. Volume two: Commentary

Diocles of Carystus, also known as "the younger Hippocrates", was one of the most prominent medical authorities in late antiquity. He wrote extensively on a wide range of areas such as anatomy, physiology, pathology, …

1533 CE–1534 CE

#6974

Aetii Amideni quem alii Antiochenum vocant medici clarissimi libri XVI. tomos divisi : quorum primus & ultimus Ioan. Baptista Montano Veronensi medico, secundus Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi, & ipso medicinae professore, interpretibus latinitate donati sunt. In quo opere cuncta quae ad curandi artem pertinent congesta sunt, ex omnibus qui usq[ue] ad eius tempora scripserant, diligentissime excerpta. Additus est index in omneis tomos copiosissimus. 3 vols.

J. B. Montanus and Janus Cornarius prepared the first edition of Aetius's collected works in Latin translation. That edition was the first to include Aetius's writings on obstetrics, which epitomized all previous know…

1813 CE

#6975

Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.

The first book in English on the materia medica of India, and a pioneering work in the field of Indian medical history. Ainslie joined the British East India Company as an assistant surgeon in 1788 and spent the next …

1552 CE

#6976

Libri septem, nunc primum e tenebris eruti a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino accuratissime in Latinum sermonem versi. Ruffi Ephesii medici clarissimi, De corporis humani partium appelationibus libri tres.

Aretaeus, a Greek physician who lived during the reign of Nero or Vespasian, wrote a general treatise on diseases which displays great accuracy in the detail of symptoms, and is of great value in the diagnosis of dise…

2007 CE

#6977

Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.

Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…

1997 CE

#6978

History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.

1986 CE

#6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

1994 CE

#6980

Pour une histoire de la préhistoire. Le paléolithique.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.

1981 CE

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

1996 CE

#6983

Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.

1962 CE

#6984

Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.

Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…

1996 CE

#6985

Views of the cell. A pictorial history.

Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.

1985 CE

#6986

Symposium on Byzantine medicine. Edited by John Scarborough.

Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 38, 1984.

1822 CE

#6988

New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.

The "Bible" of Thomsonism or "Thomsonian medicine", which employed botanical remedies, often based on native American medicines. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1906 CE

#6989

The science of chiropractic. Its principles and adjustments by Dr. D. D. Palmer, discoverer and developer of chiropractic, and B. J. Palmer, D. C.

D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic; his son B. J. developed the practice. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1914 CE

#6990

The chiropractor.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link.

1910 CE

#6991

The chiropractor's adjuster: A textbook of the science, art, and philosophy of chiropractic for students and practitioners.

1948 CE

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1992 CE

#6993

Chiropractic: History and evolution of a new profession.

1990 CE

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1983 CE

#6996

Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The …

1984 CE

#6997

Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.

Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …

1987 CE

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what wa…

1890 CE

#6999

La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.

The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.