Facets

1994 CE

#10500

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.

1980 CE

#9163

Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.

1906 CE

#1637

Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.

1893 CE

#5529

Investigations into the nature, causation and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever.

U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Bulletin No. 1. Discovery of the parasite of Texas cattle fever, Pyrosoma bigeminum, and proof that its transmission is due to the cattle tick, Boöphilus bovis. This was the first …

1997 CE

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1970 CE

#13559

Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?

Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…

1999 CE

#10954

Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.

First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …

1934 CE

#8677

Jewish contributions to medicine in America from colonial times to the present.

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

2014 CE

#10087

Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.

" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…

1997 CE

#9407

Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.

"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …

2011 CE

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

1888 CE

#13173

L'Enseignement et l'organisation de l'art dentaire aux États-Unis. Rapport adresse à Monsieur le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.

The first study of the American dental profession, and the system of teaching dentistry in the United States.

1865 CE

#11384

La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis, son origine, son organisation et ses résultats avec une notice sur les hôpitaux militaires aux États-Unis et sur la réforme sanitaire dans les armées Europénnes.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1851 CE

#10416

Ladies' indispensable assistant: Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife ... Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen ... ; also, safe directions for the management of children ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine ... : to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published ....

In spite of the verbose title, the Table of Contents of this work indicates that roughly the first half of the book concerns home remedies for the widest range of complaints and illnesses, and medical properties of pl…

2012 CE

#10932

Leading the way: A history of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

2014 CE

#10125

Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.

How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended.

1886 CE

#10521

Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.

1873 CE

#11388

Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".

The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…

2013 CE

#8001

Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.

History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.

1919 CE–1968 CE

#12828

Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.

One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…

2012 CE

#10290

Lincoln and medicine.

1956 CE

#7418

Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.

2016 CE

#10944

Local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus - Miami - Dade and Broward counties, Florida, June-August 2016.

First report on Zika virus infections in the U.S., tracing the area of infection to a specific square mile, creating a buffer zone around the area, targeting it for spraying and mosquito collection, intervention, mass…

1981 CE

#9674

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

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2006 CE

#7176

Man, medicine, and the state: The human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century, edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart.

Chapters on controversial government experimental programs in Senegal, in Germany under the Nazi regime, including in concentration camps and in aerospace research, and also the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Tuskege…

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

#7692

Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.

Includes medical, statistical cartography.

2013 CE

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

1787 CE

#1837

Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.

Schoepff came to America in 1777 as a surgeon with the Hessian troops employed by the British Forces. He returned to Germany in 1784 and compiled the first full American materia medica, describing about 400 plants, in…

1896 CE

#10825

Medical and dental colleges of the west: Historical and biographical.

Covers institutions in Chicago and environs: Augustana Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Northwestern University Medical …

1847 CE

#8545

Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.

The author intended to update and correct the earlier works on American materia medica by Barton, Bigelow and Rafinesque, and to make this information available at a reasonable price. Digital facsimile from the Biodiv…

1932 CE

#8074

Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.

See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, R…

1864 CE

#11578

Medical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.

During the Civil War Da Costa was an acting surgeon in Philadelphia where he supervised a ward for patients with heart disease. In this book he presented the first description of a condition that he called "irritable …

1884 CE

#10114

Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.

Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…

1984 CE

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

1910 CE

#1766.502

Medical education in the United States and Canada.

This report caused massive reforms in North American medical education, including the closure or merging with stronger institutions, of 76 medical schools between 1910 and 1920. Part 1 is a history and analysis of med…

1944 CE

#1766.605

Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.

Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.

1825 CE

#10518

Medical facts and inquiries, respecting the causes, nature, prevention and cure of fever: more expressly in relation to the endemic fevers of summer and autumn in the southern states: Together with a history of the bilious remitting fever of Alabama, as it appeared in Cahawba and its vicinity in the summers and autumns of 1821 and 1822.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1828 CE–1830 CE

#1849

Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.

Rafinesque was a great botanist, conchologist, archaeologist, and economist. Born in a suburb of Istanbul, he was also a world citizen and a prolific writer with 939 works to his credit. He died in extreme poverty in …

1977 CE

#10803

Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.

1930 CE

#10301

Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.

1869 CE

#11305

Medical history of the year 1868, in California. A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869. And published by order of the society.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1812 CE

#4924

Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind.

The first American textbook on psychiatry, and, considering the state of that science in Rush’s time, one of the most noteworthy. It underwent four editions.

1789 CE–1793 CE

#80

Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.

Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…

1946 CE

#10996

Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.

1994 CE

#11785

Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1973 CE

#8621

Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.

1931 CE

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.