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741 entries match United States [Z01.058]
1848 CE
#10056
Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Adopted May 1847.
Heavily influenced by Percival's work, the AMA's code of ethics was written by Isaac Hayes. The first leaf of this 30-page pamphlet indicates that it was "Printed for Private Distribution by the Philadelphia Delegatio…
1798 CE
#9309
Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798.
Digital facsimile of the 1798 edition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. Digital facsimile of the much-expanded third edition (1810) from Google Books at this link.
1950 CE
#5546.1
Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.
Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.
1999 CE
#10429
Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.
"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …
1996 CE
#10288
Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
1864 CE–1865 CE
#7740
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal.
Confederate States of America, Surgeon-General's Office
Issued monthly from January 1864 to February 1865. (Ordinarily this bibliography does not cite complete runs of periodicals; however, because the Confederate States of America issued so few medical publications, and t…
1850 CE
#11306
Constitution, by-laws and fee bill of the San Francisco Medical Society: Organized June 22, 1850.
This 8-page pamphlet is one of the earliest separate publications relating to medicine printed in the State of California. The "Society" disbanded shortly after this was published, perhaps over disputes concerning the…
2001 CE
#10534
Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.
1761 CE
#7430
Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.
Written in Franklin's absence, this continuation was printed in the same style and format as Franklin's 1761 work. Rhoads was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia.
1994 CE
#10299
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
1867 CE
#11596
Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, GA. Edited by Austin Flint.
Includes contributions by Roberts Bartholow, Jacob Mendez DaCosta, Paul Eve, Frank Hamilton, Joseph Jones, S. Wier Mitchell, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1874 CE
#6585
Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1857 CE–1877 CE
#333
Contributions to the natural history of the United States. 5 vols.
Vols. 1-4 by Louis Agassiz were published from 1857-1862; Vol. 5, North American starfishes by Alexander Agassiz, appeared in 1877. Louis Agassiz was, for his time, the leading comparative anatomist in America and a v…
1839 CE
#201
Crania Americana; or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America. To which is prefixed an essay on the varieties of the human species.
In his day Morton was the most eminent craniologist in the United States. He had a collection of nearly 1,000 skulls. In this work, which described both modern and fossil skulls, Morton described fractures and anthrop…
2008 CE
#12097
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
1982 CE
#9775
Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.
Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).
2006 CE
#9749
Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.
1881 CE
#10809
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
1969 CE
#11322
Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.
Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of…
1991 CE
#10983
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.
1857 CE
#10427
Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.
Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…
1751 CE
#1832
Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease.
Bartram founded one of the first botanical gardens in America (at Kingsessing). Linnaeus referred to him as the “greatest natural botanist in the world”. A few copies of this 7-page work printed by Benjami…
1850 CE
#10426
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
1928 CE
#6728
Dictionary of American medical biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times.
This is the revised and expanded third and final edition of Kelly's A cyclopedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. S…
1858 CE
#12152
Diphtheritis: A concise historical and critical essay on the late epidemic pseudo-membranous sore throat of California (1856-7), with a few remarks illustrating the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of the disease.
For publishing this 46-page pamphlet Fourgeaud has been called "California's first medical historian." Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1778 CE
#2157
Directions for preserving the health of soldiers: recommended to the consideration of the officers of the Army of the United States. Published by order of the Board of War.
A reprint from the Philadelphia Packet, No. 284. The pamphlet was reprinted by the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance in Boston, 1865, for distribution to the Union soldiers.
1836 CE
#11430
Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.
The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision…
1987 CE
#11009
Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.
1988 CE
#10015
Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.
1972 CE
#9189
Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.
Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. av…
1968 CE
#10802
Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.
2020 CE
#13124
Diseases in the district of Maine 1772-1820. The unpublished work of Jeremiah Barker, a rural physician in New England, by Richard J. Kahn.
1867 CE
#10603
Diseases of the heart: Their diagnosis and treatment.
The first medical book, as distinct from a pamphlet, that was written and published in California. See Shapiro, "California's 'first' medical book. David Wooster's Diseases of the heart (1867)," Calif. Med., 108 (1968…
2009 CE
#7567
Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.
2012 CE
#10586
Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.
2004 CE
#10999
Doctoring the South: Southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century.
1993 CE
#8000
Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.
1952 CE
#2187.1
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
1958 CE
#2188.1
Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.
1967 CE
#10280
Doctors of the old west: A pictorial history of medicine on the frontier.
1951 CE
#10293
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1937 CE
#8594
Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.
Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.
2006 CE
#8596
Dr. Franklin's medicine
The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.
2002 CE
#8903
Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.
2001 CE
#10335
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…
1961 CE
#6786.3
Early American medical imprints. A guide to works printed in the United States 1668-1820.
Describes 2105 items with paginations. Reprinted 1977.
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…
1906 CE
#9220
Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1983 CE
#8082
Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
2010 CE
#10973
Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.
"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…