Facets

1925 CE

#2134

Industrial poisons in the United States.

2007 CE

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecolo…

1937 CE

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.

2017 CE

#10754

Infertility in early modern England.

2008 CE

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

1940 CE

#1173.1

Interstitial cell stimulating hormone. II. Method of preparation and some physico-chemical studies.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated of the interstitial cell stimulating (luteinizing) hormone.

1988 CE

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

2017 CE

#10661

Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.

2012 CE

#8747

Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s -1920s.

1977 CE

#10923

Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …

1945 CE

#1175.1

Isolation and properties of the anterior hypophyseal growth hormone.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated the anterior pituitary growth hormone.

1926 CE

#12386

Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.

Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.

1986 CE

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

1949 CE

#1175.2

Isolation of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

By Choh Hao Li and colleagues.

2005 CE

#10535

Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.

1979 CE–1984 CE

#11817

Johann Peter Süssmilch. L'Ordre divin aux origines de la démographie. Traduction originale avec des études et commentaires rassemblés par Jacqueline Hecht. Vol. I: Études critiques, biographie, correspondance, bibliographie. Vol. 2: L' Oeuvre de J.P. Süssmilch, L'Ordre divin. Traduction de M. Kriegel. Vol. 3: Index des auteurs, des lieux et des matières. 3 vols.

A three-volume critical edition including the first edition in French.

2019 CE

#10913

Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.

Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Than…

1995 CE

#10914

Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.

Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1940 CE

#5259

Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.

Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.

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.

2018 CE

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

1935 CE

#3759

Kwashiorkor. A nutritional disease of children associated with a maize diet.

First accurate description. “Kwashiorkor” was the local name in Ghana for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet. The first modern account was probably that of L. Normet in Bull. S…

2015 CE

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

1926 CE

#7724

La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.

Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.

1666 CE

#6822

La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames.

A book on practical chemistry, pharmacology and medicine written for the common reader by French autodidact Marie Meurdrac, La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames, was the first treatise on chemistry writ…

2017 CE

#9808

La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.

The most comprehensive study of this subject.

1995 CE

#11838

La practica secundum Trotam: Testo, traduzione, appendici e glossario

2000 CE–2015 CE

#12260

Ladies in the laboratory. 4 vols. 1: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research. 2: West European women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions (2004). 3: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science: Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2010). 4: Imperial Russia's women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research (2015).

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…

1982 CE

#11055

Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques

Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.

1970 CE

#5546.5

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.

Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

1896 CE

#12454

Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.

Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…

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.

1997 CE

#11050

Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

1930 CE

#14322

Les femmes et la progrès des sciences médicales.

2012 CE

#11149

Les origines de la sexologie (1850-1900).

1946 CE

#3106

Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.

Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.

1957 CE

#2578.23

Leukocyte agglutinins in human sera. Correlations between blood transfusions and their development.

Leucocyte typing.

2012 CE

#10290

Lincoln and medicine.

1982 CE

#11328

Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.

"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…

1972 CE

#1588.11

Machina carnis: the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development.

A definitive history of the development of knowledge on muscle biochemistry; valuable bibliography.

2005 CE

#11193

Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…

2017 CE

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

1971 CE

#10673

Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.

2017 CE

#10539

Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.

2008 CE

#7130

Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.

Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.

2001 CE

#10799

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

1996 CE

#11829

Manuale medico / Paolo di Nicea ; testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico, traduzione e note a cura di Anna Maria Ieraci Bio

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.