Facets

1900 CE

#13204

As nature shows them. Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. 2 vols.

Includes 56 nature-printed and handcolored plates produced from impressions of the wings of the actual insects pressed onto the paper. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2019 CE

#12715

Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.

The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion tha…

1970 CE

#10887

Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…

1981 CE

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

2017 CE

#8517

Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…

2017 CE

#10272

Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962.

1925 CE

#11007

Beginnings of medical education in and near Chicago: The institutions and the men.

Digital facsimile of separately paginated 144pp. illustrated offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.

2018 CE

#10425

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2015 CE

#10341

Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.

This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the…

1965 CE–1991 CE

#6451.5

Bibliography of the history of medicine. Nos. 1-27.

Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2002 CE

#13127

Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.

2006 CE

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

2010 CE

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

2005 CE

#9750

Bleed, blister, and purge. A history of medicine on the American frontier.

2005 CE

#7416

Bleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.

2014 CE

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

1963 CE

#7868

Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.

Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …

1814 CE

#9641

Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.

Henry wrote that he had been a captive of the Indians during the Creek War and that he incorporated what he learned during his captivity. His work was one of the first illlustrated herbals published in the United Stat…

1956 CE

#7238

Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.

Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.

1838 CE

#10402

Botica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.

The first medical book printed in California, a small 23-page pamphlet of folk or popular medicine. It was printed by Agustín V. Zamorano, the first printer in Alta California under Mexican rule before the regi…

1986 CE

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

1932 CE

#10279

California's medical story.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1788 CE

#3426

Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.

First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published…

1868 CE

#3621

Case of lithotomy of the gall-bladder.

First cholecystotomy for the removal of gallstones.

1823 CE

#4851.1

Case reports: From injuries of the head.

Dudley was for many years the leading surgeon on the western frontier of the United States. This paper reports the first operations on the brain performed in the United States. Three of the five patients were relieved…

1809 CE

#10602

Cases of organic diseases of the heart. With dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases.

The first monograph on heart disease written and published in the United States. Digital text from Project Gutenberg at this link.

1926 CE

#8909

Catalogue of an exhibition of early and later medical Americana.

1857 CE

#8829

Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.

"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…

1877 CE

#12318

Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.

1840 CE

#8828

Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

Numbers 901-929 in Morton's catalogue are "Thirty Skulls of genuine unmixed NEGROES born in Africa. This interesting series series was collected by Don José Rodriguez Cisnerso, M. D. of Havana, in the island of…

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.

1867 CE

#10369

Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#10375

Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1987 CE

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1857 CE

#7470

Catalogue raisoneé of the medical library of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Listing 10,500 items, the library of the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1763, was undoubtedly the largest hospital library in the United States in 1857, and possibly the largest medical library in America. The firs…

2018 CE

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

1983 CE

#10407

Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.

"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…

2015 CE

#7504

Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.

1975 CE

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1977 CE

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1989 CE

#10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

1862 CE

#10440

Chinese immigration and the physiological causes of the decay of a nation.

Medical justification for racism, racial prejudice, and xenophobia in its purest sense. The author, a physician, also published several works of conventional medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…

2013 CE

#12141

Cholera in Detroit: A history.

1831 CE

#10441

Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.

1994 CE

#7421

Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.

2015 CE

#9000

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…

1980 CE

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

2004 CE

#9766

Civil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.

2014 CE

#10930

Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.

Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…

1926 CE

#5396

Clinical observations on endemic typhus (Brill’s disease) in Southern United States.

Maxcy described murine (flea-borne) typhus (“Maxcy’s disease”).