Entry Nos. 8700–8799

2005 CE

#8700

The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia.

2010 CE

#8701

Addiction: A reference encyclopedia. Edited by Howard Padwa and Jacob Cunningham.

An encyclopedia with the addition of the texts of numerous primary source documents.

2012 CE

#8702

Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.

1995 CE

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

2010 CE

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2014 CE

#8705

Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).

Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.

2002 CE

#8706

Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.

http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…

2012 CE

#8707

Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.

http://wallace-online.org/ "Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe,…

2009 CE

#8708

Cost containment and efficiency in national health systems: A global comparison. Edited by John Rapoport, Philip Jacobs, and Egon Jonsson.

Comparison of systems in Canada, England, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden.

2011 CE

#8709

An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.

1910 CE

#8710

What you ought to know about your baby by Leonard Keene Hirshberg. A text book for mothers on the care and feeding of babies, with questions and answers especially prepared by the editor.

Ghost-written by American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English H. L. Mencken except for the "questions and answers." In a copy that sold at auction at Christies in 1995, Mencken inscri…

1927 CE

#8711

South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.

Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.

1922 CE

#8712

South America from a surgeon's point of view.

Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…

1905 CE

#8713

How to succeed in the practice of medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1995 CE

#8714

Quantification and the quest for medical certainty.

1995 CE

#8715

Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.

1887 CE

#8716

American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies: Their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects. Illustrated by the author.

Plates printed by chromolithography. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#8717

The botanical garden of Padua 1545-1995. Translated by Gus Barker.

2000 CE

#8718

A brief history of endoscopy.

1964 CE

#8719

Give and take: The development of tissue transplantation.

1918 CE

#8720

The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1999 CE

#8721

Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.

1999 CE

#8722

The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.

Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.

2004 CE

#8723

Catalog of the Robert L. Sadoff Library of Forensic Psychiatry and Legal Medicine.

Sadoff donated this library of about 4,000 items to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 2004.

2015 CE

#8724

The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.

1897 CE

#8725

The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1936 CE

#8726

Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.

Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1996 CE

#8728

Medicina in nummis: Die Heilkunde im Spiegel der Medaillen.

2005 CE

#8729

Multiple sclerosis: The history of a disease.

1973 CE

#8730

International bibliography of the history of legal medicine.

1992 CE

#8731

The creationists: From scientific creationism to intelligent design. Expanded edition.

1988 CE

#8732

Founders of British physiology: A biographical dictionary, 1820-1885.

1994 CE

#8733

The history of obstetrics and gynecology.

1997 CE

#8734

Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.

1989 CE

#8735

The history of cancer: An annotated bibliography.

1957 CE

#8736

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.

1982 CE

#8737

Health science books, 1876-1982. 4 vols.

One of the last very large printed works of this type: "Over 132,000 English-language titles classified by some 28,000 Library of Congress subject headings. 'A unique feature ... is that, where possible, equivalent Na…

1932 CE–1934 CE

#8738

The history of St. Thomas's Hospital. Vol. 1: From the earliest times until A.D. 1600. Vol. 2: From 1600 to 1800.

2016 CE

#8739

Medical ethics: Accounts of ground-breaking cases. 8th edition

1900 CE

#8740

Der Arzt und die Heilkunst in der deutschen Vergangenheit.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1946 CE

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1918 CE

#8742

A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher with biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1986 CE

#8743

Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.

Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

1958 CE–1961 CE

#8744

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

1983 CE

#8745

"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.

1888 CE

#8746

The medical profession in the United Kingdom.

(1200pp.) This is the greatly expanded edition of the book first published with the same title nine years earlier. "His most important and voluminous writings were the two Carmichael Prize essays of the Royal College …

2012 CE

#8747

Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s -1920s.

2001 CE

#8748

Mechanisms of synaptic transmission: Bridging the gaps (1890-1990).

"Synaptic transmission plays a central role in the nervous system as the mechanism that allows for chemical and electrical communication between cells and thus connects discrete elements into the functioning whole. Th…

1997 CE

#8749

Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.

"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …