Entry Nos. 9600–9699

1837 CE

#9651

A descriptive and statistical account of the British Empire, exhibiting its extent, physical capacities, population, industry and civil and religious institutions. 2 vols.

McCulloch indicated on the title page that he was "assisted by numerous contributors." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Fourth edition, revised with an appendix of tables (2 vols., 1854). Digital f…

2004 CE

#9652

Anthrax: A history.

2008 CE

#9653

Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.

1584 CE

#9654

Discorsi intorno al sanguinar i corpi humani, il modo di ataccare le sanguisuche e ventose e far frittioni e vescicatorii con buoni et utili avertimenti.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1871 CE

#9655

Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China for the use of medical missionaries & native medical students.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1926 CE

#9656

The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.

French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.

1803 CE

#9657

Histoire médicale de l'Armée Française, a Saint-Domingue, en l'an dix; ou mémoire sur la fièvre jaune, avec un apperçu de la topographie médicale de cette colonie.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1913 CE

#9658

Vitalfärbung am Zentralnervensystem. Beitrag zur Physio-pathologie des Plexus choroideus und der Hirnhäute.

Goldmann was the first to demonstrate the blood-brain barrier. "By the intravenous and intrathecal administration of trypan blue he found that the barrier was impermeable to its large molecules, and he concluded that …

1884 CE

#9659

Chirurgie des enfants. Leçons cliniques professées à l'Hôpital des Enfants-Malades... Recueillies et publiées par Pierre-J. Mercier.

1869 CE

#9660

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies chirurgicales des enfants, professées par M. J. Giraldès. Recueillies et publiées par MM. Bourneville et E. Bourgeois; revues par le professeur.

2010 CE

#9661

Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.

Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

2010 CE

#9662

Obesity: The biography.

1965 CE–1970 CE

#9663

Poisonous and venomous marine animals of the world

Volume 1: Invertebrates; Vols. 2 & 3: Vertebrates. An unusually elaborate and finely printed, illustrated and bound set funded by the Department of Defense. Over 2000 pages. The first 155pp of Vol. 1 are a "History of…

1568 CE

#9664

Deux livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, thériaques, poisons & contre-poisons, par Jacques Grévin,... Ensemble les oeuvres de Nicandre,... traduictes en vers françois.

Grévin's work "marks the beginning of a new era in biotoxinological studies. With Grévin we see a crude attempt being made to compile systematically and evaluate the total knowledge of toxic organisms wh…

1886 CE

#9665

Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.

The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.

1889 CE

#9666

Les poissons venimeux. Contribution à l'hygiène navale.

The first systematic work on the venom organs of fishes.

1856 CE

#9667

Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.

One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1833 CE

#9668

Ueber das Gift der Fische: mit vergleichender Berücksichtigung des Giftes von Muscheln, Käse, Gehirn, Fleisch, Fett und Würsten, so wie der sogenannten mechanischen Gifte.

Discusses all then known posionsous and venomous fishes, including freshwater and marine species, and includes a "thorough review of practically all the early literature on poisonous and venomous fishes, a list of all…

2003 CE

#9669

Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.

http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…

2010 CE

#9670

A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.

1661 CE

#9671

Thanasima, kai dēlētēria: Tractatus de venenis. Or, a treatise of poysons. Their sundry sorts, names, natures and virtues, with their severall symptomes, signes diagnosticks, prognosticks, and antidotes. Wherein, are divers necessary questions discussed; the truth by the most learned, confirmed, by many instances, examples & stories illustrated; and, both philosophically and medically handled.

2005 CE

#9672

The elements of murder: A history of poison.

1991 CE

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1981 CE

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1734 CE

#9675

Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country.

The first medical hand-book for lay persons written and published in America. It is probable that this book was first published in 1734, though the earliest recorded copy or copies appear to be the "second edition" wi…

1673 CE

#9676

Miscellanea anatomica, hominis, brutorumque variorum, fabricam diversam magna parte exhibentia.

The "first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist. Blasius's observation on human anatomy are followed by eighty five pages devoted to the anat…

2009 CE

#9677

De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).

A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.

1862 CE

#9678

Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.

Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…

1831 CE

#9679

Medical botany: Or, illustrations of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain. 4 vols.

Includes 185 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1832 CE

#9680

Medical zoology, and mineralogy; or, illustrations and descriptions of the animals and minerals employed in medicine and of the preparations derived from them: Including also an account of animal and mineral poisons: With figures coloured from nature.

Includes 42 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1995 CE

#9681

Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.

1998 CE

#9682

Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.

2008 CE

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

1994 CE

#9684

Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.

2002 CE

#9685

Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.

2001 CE

#9686

Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.

2007 CE

#9687

Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.

2007 CE

#9688

Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.

1976 CE

#9689

Plagues and peoples.

2017 CE

#9690

Miracle cure: The creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine.

2017 CE

#9691

Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.

1818 CE

#9692

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. 3 vols.

The full digitized text of the 1818 is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#9693

Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds

2016 CE

#9694

The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.

1962 CE

#9695

Byzantine medicine: Tradition and empiricism.

1820 CE

#9696

Hamse-i Şanizade. Miratü'l Ebdan fi Teşrih-i Azaü'l-İnsan [About anatomy]; Usulü't Tabia [Book of physiology]; Miyaru'l-Etibba [Practice of medicine].

This illustrated compendium of anatomy, physiology, and internal medicine was first medical work in Turkish printed by letterpress in the Ottoman Empire. It was also one of the first medical works in Turkish to draw t…

2009 CE

#9697

Burke & Hare.

This account of the resurrection men, Burke and Hare, is the first comic book version of a history of medicine story of which I am aware.

1680 CE

#9698

Praxis catholica: or the countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing. Written by Robert Couch, sometime practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. Now published with divers useful additions (for public benefit) by Chr. Pack, operator in chymistry.

The first medical book written in the British colonies of North America. The introduction, "To all ingenious students and practitioners in physick and chyrurgery", is signed Robert Couch, but the extent of additions i…

1872 CE

#9699

Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.

Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…