Entry Nos. 7600–7699

1873 CE

#425

Die Corrosions-Anatomie und ihre Ergebnisse: mit 18 chromolithographirten Tafeln.

Hyrtl significantly enhanced the techniques of corrosion anatomy, a technique of preparing anatomical specimens invented by Frederik Ruysch. He built up a collection unsurpassed in Europe. In this work Hyrtl described…

1846 CE

#7600

A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870 CE

#7601

A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1847 CE

#7602

A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1825 CE

#7603

Catalogue of the anatomical museum in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1830 CE

#7604

Museum Brookesianum: A descriptive and historical catalogue of the remainder of the anatomical & zootomical museum, of Joshua Brookes, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. &c.: comprising nearly one half of the original collection, and embracing an almost endless assemblage of every species of anatomical, pathological, obstetrical, and zootomical preparations, as well as subjects in natural history, of the choicest and rarest species in every department : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Wheatley & Adlard, at the Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim Street, Great Marlborough Street, on Monday, the 1st of March, 1830, and 22 following evenings, (Saturdays & Sundays excepted,) at half-past six o'clock precisely

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1828 CE

#7605

A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné, of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S. etc. Part the first; and of the anatomical preparations; part the second, which will be sold by auction in various lots about the middle of May, unless the whole be previously purchased by private contract, including the large and interesting department of nature history, etc. & c., the catalogue of which is now preparing, and will be published as speedily as possible. Likewise the extensive premises....2 vols.

Brookes initially tried to sell his collection en bloc before consigning it to auction in 1830. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1830 CE–1860 CE

#7606

Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Parts I-II , Plants and invertebrate animals in the dried state (1860); Part III, The human and comparative osteology (1830); Part IV, Fasiculus I, Comprehending the first division of the preparations of natural history in spirit (1830); Part V, comprehending the preparations of monsters and malformed parts in spirit, and in a dried state (1831); Part VI, Comprehending the vascular and miscellaneous preparations in a dried state (1831).

By numerous authors, many unidentified. All published. From the Preface to part I: "The present Volume... completes the series of Hunterian Catalogues. The specimens included in it consist of Plants and Invertebrate A…

1985 CE

#7607

De wasmodellen van Petrus Koning. Achtergrondinformatie over en beschrijvende catalogus van de wasmodellen door Petrus Konig uit de collecties van het Anatomisch Museum, van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht.

Annotated catalogue of wax models made by Konig; summary in English.

1861 CE

#7608

Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology by John Hunter, F.R.S. Being his posthumous papers on those subjects, arranged and revised, with notes; to which are added the introductory lectures on the Hunterian collection of fossil remains delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 8th, 10th and 12th, 1855 by Richard Owen .... 2 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1872 CE

#7609

Origen, naturaleza y antigüedad del hombre.

The first book on human origins or human evolution published in Spanish. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1809 CE

#7610

Directions for preserving animals and parts of animals for anatomical investigation; and concerning extraneous fossils.

"The following Directions, framed by the late Mr. John Hunter, are intended to facilitate, and render effectual, the Endeavours of such Friends to scientific Inquiries as shall be inclined to futher the designs of the…

1992 CE

#7611

The Hunterian Lectures in comparative anatomy May-June, 1837. Edited, and with an introductory essay and commentary by Phillip Reid Sloan.

1865 CE

#7612

Memoir on the Gorilla (Troglodytes Gorilla, Savage).

This reset monograph version of Owen's paper consists of revised and augmented portions of Owen's "Contributions to the natural history of the Anthropoid Apes," which appeared in the Transactions of the Zoological Soc…

1998 CE

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1892 CE

#7614

The hygiene, diseases, and mortality of occupations.

Remarkably comprehensive discussion, with an innovative classification, of a very wide range of occupations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1917 CE

#7615

Hygiene of the printing trades.

Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series: No. 12. Probably the earliest specific study of the hygiene and diseases of workers in the U.S. printing industry. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1999 CE

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.

2013 CE

#7617

Medical museums: Past, present, future.

A collective work edited by Alberti and Hallam. Includes many fine images in color. An unusual feature of the book is the artistic reconstruction in cross-section of John Hunter's home and his anatomy school and his p…

2013 CE

#7618

An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.

1990 CE

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

1656 CE

#7620

Cortex Peruviae redivivus, profligator febrium, assertus ab impugnationibus Melippi Protimi ...

The first book on Peruvian bark or cinchona (chinchona) in the treatment of malaria.

1862 CE

#7621

Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2007 CE

#7622

A history of limb amputation.

2008 CE

#7623

The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery.

2014 CE

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

1943 CE

#7625

Autistic disturbances of affective contact.

The first description of “early infantile autism” as a disorder marked by extreme detachment, self-isolation, inability to form relationships, frequent failure to acquire communicative abilities, and preoc…

1944 CE

#7626

Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.

Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).

1531 CE

#7627

Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.

A Christian physician of Baghdad, Ibn Butlān traveled widely, eventually settling in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene and dietetics, Taqwām al-sihhah (The Almanac of Health) presented a guide to medical regimen in tab…

2012 CE

#7628

Medicine, sport and the body: A historical perspective.

2006 CE

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

1875 CE

#7631

Neuer Führer durch das anatomische, pathologische und ethnologische Museum.

1820 CE

#7632

Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg sur l'état actuel de son muséum anatomique suivi du catalogue des objects qu'il renferme.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. See also Lobstein's Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médicine de Strasbourg sur les travaux anatomiques exécutés à l'amphith&e…

1837 CE

#7633

Musée d'anatomie de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, ou Catalogue méthodique de son cabinet d'anatomie physiologique, comparée et pathologique.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. See also Ehrmann's Nouveau catalogue du musée d'anatomie normal et pathologique de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg (1843) and his Notice sur l…

1929 CE

#7634

The medical museum: Modern developments, organisation and technical methods based on a new system of visual teaching.

2001 CE

#7635

Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.

1698 CE

#7636

Catalogus van alle de principaalste rariteiten die op de anatomie-kamer binnen de stadt Leyden vertoont werden.

This was the first published catalogue of the anatomical museum of the University of Leiden. Several later editions of this version were published in Dutch; a later edition was compiled by Franciscus Schuyl (No. 11314…

2015 CE

#7637

The fate of anatomical collections.

A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Ri…

1915 CE

#7638

Descriptive catalogue of the medical museum of McGill University: Arranged on a modified decimal system of museum classification. Part IV: Section 1. The Haemopoietic organs.

All published

1785 CE

#7639

Toxicologia seu doctrina de venenis et antidotis.

Plenck provided the first classification of poisons based on origin: 1. Animal poisons. 2. Vegetable poisons. 3. Mineral poisons. 4. Poisonous vapors, gases, and dust. Plenck also issued this work in German from the s…

1999 CE

#7640

Das Anatomische Museum Basel: Museumsführer.

1946 CE

#7641

The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…

1998 CE

#7642

The complete visible human: The complete high-resolution male and female anatomical datasets from the Visible Human Project.

The first anatomically exact and complete, three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of actual human bodies. Includes 2 CD-ROMs. See https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.

2000 CE

#7643

New atlas of human anatomy.

The first printed atlas of color computer images adapted from 3D images developed in the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. Includes CD-ROM with 3D electronic images.

1911 CE

#7644

A cross-section anatomy, by Albert C. Eycleshymer and Daniel M. Schoemaker. Average position of organs from eleven reconstructions, by Peter Potter. Sections of the female pelvis, by Carroll Smith. Drawings by Tom Jones.

The historical introduction includes a bibliographical history of cross-sectional anatomies from frozen sections. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1881 CE

#7645

Frozen sections of a child by Thomas Dwight. Fifteen drawings from nature by H. P. Quincy.

The first atlas of cross-sectional anatomy published in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link

2007 CE

#7646

Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America

The first biography of Jackson, the physician and geologist who discoverered of the anesthetic effects of ether, and also played an important role in the discovery of the American electro-magnetic telegraph. Forms a s…

1994 CE

#7647

I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.

Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.

2004 CE

#7648

Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist

1922 CE–1931 CE

#7649

Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.

By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…