Facets

1995 CE

#10766

The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985.

1962 CE

#13580

The Rudolph Matas history of medicine in Louisiana. Edited by John Duffy. 2 vols.

2000 CE

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

1845 CE

#9556

The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925 CE

#10405

The scalpel under three flags in California.

1992 CE

#10077

The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1876 CE

#10795

The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.

Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…

1995 CE

#9767

The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.

1844 CE

#10446

The theory and treatment of fevers. Revised and corrected by Ferdinando Stith.

The first medical treatise published in Missouri and the first medical treatise published west of the Mississippi River. "John Sappington provided medical services, was a financial lender, and imported and exported go…

1986 CE

#9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

1906 CE

#5378

The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).

Ricketts (who himself died of typhus) demonstrated that the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

1968 CE

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1988 CE

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1845 CE–1854 CE

#7769

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.

The largest and most significant color plate book produced in America during the 19th century.

2010 CE

#9002

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

2008 CE

#7929

This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

1867 CE

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1930 CE

#5538.3

Tick-borne infections in Colorado. I. The diagnosis and management of infections transmitted by the wood tick.

Becker first clearly described Colorado tick fever as a separate entity and suggested that the causal organism was transmitted by the tick, Dermacentor andersoni.

2018 CE

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.

2013 CE

#10062

Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.

"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…

1791 CE

#7770

Travels through North & South Carolina, George, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws [sic]...

Digital facsimile of London, 1794 second edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1771 CE

#12472

Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana by Mr. Bossu, ... Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. Illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history to which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North America, or a Flora Americae Septentrionalis together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's travels through Spain and Cumana in South America referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition. 2 vols.

This work is a series of 21 letters that Bossu wrote to the Marquis de L’Estrade describing his life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. His ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in presen…

1976 CE

#6596.3

Two centuries of American medicine 1776-1976.

A valuable supplement to Packard (No. 6590), besides covering the main events in American medicine.

1965 CE

#10991

Two centuries of medicine. A History of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

1928 CE

#9271

Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919 CE

#9287

Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.

Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…

2016 CE

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

1817 CE–1819 CE

#1841

Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.

Barton served as a naval surgeon and, in 1815, became Professor of Botany at Philadelphia. Along with Bigelow (No. 1842) Barton’s work is one of the first two botanical works with colored plates issued in the Un…

1790 CE

#11229

Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787. 2 vols.

Castiglioni was one of very few Italians to make the journey to America and to produce a detailed day-to-day account of his observations in the young country. His "Viaggio" is a systematic compendium of information dr…

1854 CE

#10404

Voyage médical en Californie.

Translated into English by L. Jay Oliva, introduced and annotated by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. as A medical journey in California (Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1967).

1825 CE

#2074

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.

Waterton traveled to the Guyana region of South America to obtain curare. He provided a detailed description of its paralyzing effects, its preparation by distillation, and the blowpipe and darts used to deliver it. O…

1946 CE

#11725

Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.

1867 CE

#7748

Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…

2007 CE

#9003

Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.

"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…

2022 CE

#13904

Women healers: Gender, authority, and medicine in early Philadelphia.

1982 CE

#11414

Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.

2002 CE

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.

2015 CE

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

1855 CE

#5454.2

Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.

The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, …