Entry Nos. 8700–8799

1992 CE

#8750

Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.

1937 CE

#8751

The history of the acute exanthemata.

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

1999 CE

#8752

Four centuries of clinical chemistry.

The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.

1989 CE

#8753

The library of Robert Hooke: The scientific book trade of Restoration England.

Reprints the auction catalogue of Hooke's library: Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703).

1990 CE

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1983 CE

#8755

Exploring the origins of electrical cardiac stimulation.

2010 CE

#8756

The origins of organ transplantation: Surgery and laboratory science 1880-1930.

1959 CE

#8757

Dictionary of medical slang and related esoteric expressions.

This book by the physician chairman of the National Association on Standard Medical Vocabulary includes many terms and phrases that were found in any other dictionary with the word medical in the title. Digital facsim…

1974 CE

#8758

The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.

Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…

1990 CE

#8759

Expectations of life: A study in the demography, statistics, and history of world mortality.

2013 CE

#8760

A perfect vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer rare book collection

1967 CE

#8761

Medical licensing in America, 1650-1965.

1943 CE

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

1949 CE

#8763

The origin of medical terms.

Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1961 CE

#8764

Doctors, patients, and health insurance: The organization and financing of medical care.

1994 CE

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1996 CE

#8766

Fritz Spiegl's sick notes: An alphabetical browsing book of medical derivations, abbreviations mnemonics and slang for amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.

Both serious and humorous; illustrated with cartoons.

1999 CE

#8767

Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.

1989 CE

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

2015 CE

#8770

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.

2008 CE

#8771

Pioneers of cardiac surgery.

Oral histories in narrative form without interposed questions of more than three dozen first and second generation cardiac surgeons.

1979 CE

#8772

The Monro collection in the Medical Library of the University of Otago: A descriptive catalogue with annotations and introduction

Scottish army surgeon John Monro (1670-1740) initiated a series of events that lead to the establishment of a dynasty which, beginning with his son Alexander Monro, changed the course of medical teaching and learning.…

1992 CE

#8773

A documentary history of biochemistry, 1770-1940. By Mikuláš Teich with Dorothy M. Needham.

1991 CE

#8774

History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.

1978 CE

#8775

Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.

1968 CE

#8776

Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.

2012 CE

#8777

A history of organ transplantation: Ancient legends to modern practice.

1976 CE

#8778

A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.

1950 CE

#8779

The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.

"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…

2006 CE

#8780

The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.

1977 CE

#8781

Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after.

1977 CE

#8782

"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.

1964 CE–1971 CE

#8783

A history of medicine in South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1670-1825. Vol. 2: 1825-1900. Vol. 3: 1900-1970.

1993 CE

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1998 CE

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

2004 CE

#8786

Nature cures: The history of alternative medicine in America.

2005 CE

#8787

Religion and healing in America. Edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered.

1988 CE

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1984 CE

#8789

Modern Chinese medicine: Vol. 1: Chinese surgery: A comprehensive review of surgery in the People's Republic of China Vol. 2: Chinese medicine: A comprehensive review of medicine in the People's Republic of China. Vol. 3: Chinese health care: A comprehensive review of health services in the People's Republic of China. Edited by He-Guang Wu and Rui-Tu Ran.

2015 CE

#8790

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1998 CE

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1962 CE

#8793

The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.

1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.

1980 CE

#8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

1919 CE

#8795

Über die Anhalonium-Alkaloide I. Anhalin und Mezcalin

Synthesis of mescaline.

1928 CE

#8796

Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.

The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.

1909 CE

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1823 CE

#8798

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…

2012 CE

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.