Facets

1958 CE

#5546.6

A bibliography of internal medicine. Communicable diseases.

An extensive bibliography, and substantial excerpts from practically every important reference made to each of 30 communicable diseases, from 1800 onwards.

1971 CE

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1997 CE

#9385

A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.

1862 CE

#2220

A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.

Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2004 CE

#9652

Anthrax: A history.

2008 CE

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

1786 CE

#11711

Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis febribus.

Stoll was one of the few physicians of the Viennese school who supported Auenbrugger's views on percussion. In this treatise on fevers Stoll referred favorably to the practice, and it is thought that Corvisart became …

1866 CE

#11487

Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1982 CE

#5475.2

Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.

1970 CE

#5546.8

Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.

Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.

1991 CE

#9262

Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.

1949 CE

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

2014 CE

#10771

Cholera: A worldwide history.

2015 CE

#9202

Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.

2018 CE

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2012 CE

#10418

Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.

2017 CE

#13088

Contagionism catches on. Medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800.

"This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionali…

2020 CE

#12013

Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.

1627 CE

#2196

De febribus libri iv. Accessit ad calcem; ejusdem de dysenteria tractatus.

An important monograph on fevers.

1896 CE

#5088

Der Keuchhusten.

An important history of whooping cough.

2003 CE

#7941

Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.

1993 CE

#13187

Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.

1992 CE

#8005

Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.

2016 CE

#10096

Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.

1999 CE

#11925

Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.

1845 CE

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1990 CE

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

2013 CE

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

1978 CE

#5546.9

Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

1977 CE

#5500.2

Influenza: The last great plague.

2015 CE

#13186

Insects, hygiene and history.

1889 CE

#12348

Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.

Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…

1954 CE

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

1988 CE

#11255

Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.

Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.

2006 CE

#7924

Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

2014 CE

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

1996 CE

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1676 CE

#2198

Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiamet curationem.

Sydenham recorded significant observations on dysentery, scarlet fever (p. 387), scarlatina, measles and other conditions. He stressed the clinical study of medicine and kept careful case records. Includes (pp. 272-80…

1824 CE

#2531

Origines contagii.

History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at t…

2017 CE

#9691

Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.

2006 CE

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2014 CE

#12380

Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine

"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…

1935 CE

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

1997 CE

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

1999 CE

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

2015 CE

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

1973 CE

#5352.6

Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.

Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.

1967 CE

#5352.5

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

1991 CE

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.