Facets

2008 CE

#8234

Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…

2006 CE

#8090

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

1998 CE

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

2010 CE

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

1989 CE

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1990 CE

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1971 CE

#11665

Blacks, medical schools and society.

A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.

2011 CE

#9625

Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.

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…

2018 CE

#11664

Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.

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…

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.

1946 CE

#7236

Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.

A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…

1812 CE

#12196

Collection d'opuscules de médecine pratique, avec un mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire.

Frank was with Napoleon in Egypt; this volume contains numerous reports on aspects of medicine during that campaign. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2001 CE

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2017 CE

#12587

Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.

"It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. Howeve…

1814 CE

#8219

Coup-d'oeil sur Saint-Domingue; observations sur le caractère des négres et sur la fièvre jaune; moyens de recouvrer cette colonie, et de se préserver des maladies qui y règnent.

Digital facsimile from patrimoines-martinique.org at this link.

1997 CE

#9936

Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

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…

1989 CE–1990 CE

#9043

Cuerpo humano e ideologia. Las concepciones de los antiguos nahauas. Third edition. 2 vols.

1551 CE

#12945

Curationum medicinalium centuria prima, multiplici variaque rerum cognitione referta. Praexfixa est eiusdem auctoris commentatio, in qua docetur, quomodo se medicus habere debeat in introitu ad aegrotantem, simulque de crisi, & diebus decretoriis, in qui artem medicam exercent, & quotidie pro salute aegrotorum in collegium descendunt longe utilissima.

Lusitano has been credited with early recognition of the circulation of the blood. How much he might have understood the circulation remains in doubt; however, through dissections of the Azygos vein, he was the first …

1556 CE

#3049

Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor.

Contains (Cent. iii, curat. 70, p. 286) first recorded case of purpura as a separate entity, not associated with fever. English translation of this section in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd. ed., 1945, p.…

1879 CE

#443

Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.

Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest …

1588 CE

#13546

De medico hebraeo: Enarratio apologica ... Apposita sunt praeterea, non paucorum amplissimorum principum, quam multa decreta, in hebraeorum fauorem constituta. Annectuntur, quinetiam, in tractatus calce, nonnulla aurea dicta; ex priscorum hebraeorum monumentis excerpta; nunc primum, latinitate donata, & ad studiosorum vtilitatem, in lucem edita. Dauid de Pomis, medico physico hebraeo, auctore.

De Pomis was a rabbi and physician. "... on account of the edict of Pius IV forbidding Jewish physicians to attend Christians (1555), he moved from town to town in Italy before he settled in 1569 in Venice, where he p…

1603 CE

#11873

De universa mulierum medicina, novo et antehac a nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum. Et studiosis omnibus utile, medicis vero pernecessarium. Pars prima theorica. Quatuor comprehensa libris, in quibus cuncta, quae ad mulieribus naturam, anatomen, semen, menstruum,… Pars secunda, sive praxis …. 2 parts in 1.

The first treatise on gynecology written by a Portuguese author, the work was written in two parts: Part one, about theory, was titled De natura mulierum (On female nature) and was divided into four books: (1) Anatomy…

1995 CE

#9630

Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.

2009 CE

#13029

Dermatology for skin of color.

"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…

1786 CE

#11099

Des moyens de conserver la santé des blancs et des négres, aux Antilles ou climats chauds et humides de l'Amerique. Contenant un exposé des causes des malades propres....

Bertin practiced medicine in the West Indies, and wrote about the physical effects of the voyage there, the causes of diseases and their cures, and the effects of the Caribbean climate and humidity on health. The impr…

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…

1893 CE

#6765

Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.

Reprinted, 1956.

1901 CE

#6497

Die Medizin im Alten Testament.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1983 CE

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1985 CE

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

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…

1999 CE

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

1877 CE

#8980

Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.

Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…

1983 CE

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1951 CE

#8479

El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.

2007 CE

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

2000 CE

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

1996 CE

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

2007 CE

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

1974 CE

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

1933 CE

#9348

Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1939 CE

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

1923 CE

#9294

Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.

Digital facsimile from spiritoftherivers.wikispaces.com at this link.

1928 CE

#9289

Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.

1944 CE

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.