Facets

1914 CE

#1664.1

A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.

Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems s…

1635 CE

#8953

Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia.

First description of the Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America, but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the …

1872 CE

#7831

Descriptive catalogue of the teratological series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1814 CE

#10761

Hortus Bengalensis, or, a catalogue of the plants growing in the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1913 CE

#7436

Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.

One of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals. Hornaday revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings, and is credited with discovering the American crocodile, savi…

1924 CE–1929 CE

#7097

A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892 CE

#7496

A biographical history of Guy's Hospital.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1833 CE

#11308

A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1967 CE

#6786.13

A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

1968 CE

#8691

A catalogue of books in the Liverpool Medical Institution Library to the end of the nineteenth century.

1950 CE

#6783

A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.

For supplement see No. 6786.18.

1971 CE

#6786.18

A catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine. First supplement.

Supplements Nos. 6783 and 6786.12. Records 27 15th century imprints and 272 16th century imprints acquired by the library since publication of those two catalogues.

1954 CE

#6786

A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

Gives full bibliographical description of 632 incunabula.

1876 CE

#12004

A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599. Edited with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1808 CE

#11955

A catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, at Liverpool.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1962 CE–2006 CE

#6786.5

A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 5 vols.

Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641; Vol. 2-3: Books printed from 1641-1850, A-E, F-L; Vol. 4: Books printed from 1641-1850, M-R; Vol. 5 Books printed from 1642 to 1850, S-Z.

1989 CE

#6786.33

A catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

Describes, with paginations, approximately 13,300 monographs, dissertations, broadsides, pamphlets and serials printed between 1601 and 1700.

1967 CE

#6786.12

A catalogue of sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

Describes with pagination and some collations, approximately 4,800 items printed between 1501 and 1600. There are geographical and alphabetical indices of printers and publishers. For supplement, see No. 6786.18.

1982 CE

#6786.26

A catalogue of sixteenth-century medical books in Edinburgh libraries.

Describes 2509 books with paginations and collations. Reproduces 89 illustrations.

1808 CE

#7682

A catalogue of the anatomical preparations, casts, drawings, machines, instruments, &c. in White's Museum, Lying-in hospital.

1771 CE

#11615

A catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.

Largely based on specimens he had access to from the British collections of Thomas Pennant and Anna Blackburne, this was Forster's attempt to systemize on the Linnean model the fragmented field of natural history stud…

1816 CE

#12024

A catalogue of the library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. With a supplement.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1831 CE

#13405

A catalogue of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-House, prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers.

First edition, 1824. Founded in 1732/33, this institution became known in the 19th century as "Old Blockley" after it moved to the Blockley Township in West Philadelphia. It was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital i…

1806 CE

#10379

A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.

Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…

1944 CE

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

1829 CE

#7497

A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy’s Hospital arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the Hospital, and of the teachers of the Medical and Surgical School.

Digital facsimile of Part II, Morbid Anatomy, from the Internet Archive at this link.

1976 CE

#8778

A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.

1962 CE–1999 CE

#6786.6

A catalogue of western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 3 vols. plus Supplement.

I: MSS written before ad 1650. II-III: MSS written after ad 1650. Addenda in 1. Anzeiger dtsch. Altertum dtsch. Lit., 1970, 81, 49-55. Supplementary catalogue (1999).

1981 CE

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1809 CE

#10465

A companion to the Liverpool Museum, containing a brief description of upwards of seven thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities and productions of fine arts, collected during several years of arduous research, and at an expense of upwards of twenty thousand pounds. And now open for inspection, in the Great Room, No. 22, Piccadilly, London, which has been fitted up for the purpose in a manner entirely new.

Bullock founded his Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street in Liverpool in 1795. While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801 he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armor, objec…

1790 CE

#7657

A companion to the museum, (Late Sir Ashton Lever's) removed to Albion Street, the Surry end of Black Friar's Bridge.

A room by room, case by case guide to Lever's celebrated museum of natural history and ethnography, authorshop of which is unidentified. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1801 CE

#7683

A concise and descriptive catalogue of all the natural and artificial curiosities in the museum of W. H. Yate, Esq. at Bromesberrow-Place near Glocester: being the extensive and valuable collection of the late Dr. Greene, of Lichfield, with many additions, collected by the present proprietor.

Publication date is estimated. Digital facsimile from the Beinicke Library, Yale University, at this link.

1852 CE

#12047

A curious dance round a curious tree.

Dickens' account of his visit on the day after Christmas, 1851 to the wards at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, founded in 1751 to provide free care to the impoverished and incurable mentally ill. "The inhabitants of…

1986 CE

#6786.30

A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1842 CE

#7599

A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the calculi and other animal concretions contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

The collection formed by John Hunter, to which was added the collection formed by Hans Sloane acquired from the British Museum in 1809, and material from other donors. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…

1782 CE

#7663

A descriptive catalogue (giving a full explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum : consisting of a large and very valuable collection of most curious anatomical figures, and real preparations; also figures resembling life; with a great variety of natural and artificial curiosities to be seen at No. 197, Fleet-Street ... London.

Digital facsimile of the 1792 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.

1815 CE

#7684

A descriptive catalogue of a museum of antiquities and foreign curiosities, natural and artifical, including models illustrative of military and naval affairs, armour and weapons, instruments of torture, polytheism, sepulchres, with the manner of depositing the dea, the costume of different nations, manuscripts, natural history, including anatomy &, &c, &c. Collected by P. Dick, Sloane-Street.

Publication date is estimated.

1904 CE

#7652

A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1846 CE

#7600

A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1847 CE

#7602

A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870 CE

#7601

A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1813 CE

#7586

A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow; including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, & c. in that celebrated collection.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1789 CE

#13686

A historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. M,DCC,LXXXIX.

"This describes the former Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, originally designed in 1664 by John Webb as a palace, and afterwards adapted for use as a Naval Hospital by Sir Christopher Wren, with the assistance of Ni…

2021 CE

#13726

A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the digital era.

Concerns only U.S. medical libraries.

1947 CE

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1872 CE

#8613

A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#11008

A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1982 CE

#7431

A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."

2008 CE

#9117

A history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

1964 CE–2005 CE

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.