Facets

1918 CE

#8720

The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932 CE–1934 CE

#8738

The history of St. Thomas's Hospital. Vol. 1: From the earliest times until A.D. 1600. Vol. 2: From 1600 to 1800.

1918 CE

#10807

The history of the Boston Medical Library.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904 CE–1912 CE

#9318

The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]

(Now the Natural History Museum, London). Vol. 1: Libraries; The Department of Botany; The Department of Geology; The Department of Minerals. Vol. 2.: Separate historical accounts of the several collections included i…

1897 CE

#8725

The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1989 CE

#9164

The hospital in history. Edited by Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter.

1975 CE

#13639

The hospital: A social and architectural history.

"This book is about the hospital ward, also called the nursing unit or inpatient unit. Part 1 gives a history of nursing unit floor plans since roman times. Part 2 reviews contemporary planning problems. Part 3 contai…

1964 CE

#10178

The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.

The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.

2005 CE

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

1946 CE

#7641

The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…

2013 CE

#8185

The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.

1916 CE–1917 CE

#5006

The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.

Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1978 CE

#10980

The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.

"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging …

1948 CE–1963 CE

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

1960 CE

#8682

The library of the Medical Institution of Yale College and its catalogue of 1865.

1909 CE

#6519.1

The mediaeval hospitals of England.

Reprinted London 1966.

1903 CE

#11020

The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1929 CE

#7634

The medical museum: Modern developments, organisation and technical methods based on a new system of visual teaching.

2007 CE

#13634

The medieval hospital and medical practice. Edited by Barbara S. Bowers.

2015 CE

#9476

The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.

Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

1982 CE

#7676

The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

2013 CE

#13729

The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143764/ "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a leader in t…

1904 CE

#10740

The organization, construction, and management of hospitals, with numerous plans and details.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2017 CE

#11964

The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy.

Unusually well illustrated in color, with detailed bibliography, surveying the history from its origins in prehistory, the Neolithic revolution, to the present. Digital facsimile rbg.vic.gov.au at this link.

1985 CE

#7558

The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.

A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.

1808 CE

#10067

The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,

The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1886 CE

#10350

The relation of hospitals to medical education.

Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2006 CE

#8323

The Renaissance hospital: Healing the body and healing the soul.

1861 CE–2005 CE

#6715

The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.

“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this se…

1964 CE

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1959 CE

#6548.1

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.

1981 CE

#11959

The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.

1978 CE

#7697

The shows of London.

Characterized on the dust jacket as "a panomaic history of exhibitions, 1600-1862." The first two chapters are a history of museums. Chapter 24, "The waxen and the fleshy", discusses "medica" or anatomical museums.

2010 CE

#10117

The Sloane Letters Project.

http://sloaneletters.com/ "A pilot of this project, Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online, was first launched at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Sir Hans Sloane…

1876 CE

#10795

The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.

Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…

1961 CE

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

2014 CE

#7858

The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.

1975 CE

#11649

The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.

1986 CE

#6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..

1930 CE

#11495

The William H. Welch Medical Library of The Johns Hopkins University. An account of its origin and development together with a description of the building an an account of the exercises held on the occasion of the dedication of the library and the inauguration of the chair of the history of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University.

A separate edition in book form was also issued.

2000 CE

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

1701 CE–1715 CE

#389

Thesaurus anatomicus primus [-decimus]... Het eerste [-tiende] anatomisch cabinet....

Probably the most original artist in the history of anatomical preparations, Ruysch enjoyed making up elaborate three-dimensional emblems of mortality from his specimens. These fantastic, dream-like concoctions constr…

1867 CE

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1979 CE

#6667

TRANSACTIONS AND STUDIES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. MEDICINE AND HISTORY. Series V, 1-

1871 CE

#2172

Ueber Lazarette und Barracken.

On the best way of setting up military hospitals to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. For English translation see No. 1617 (note).

1950 CE–1966 CE

#6784

UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.

Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library&rdq…

1760 CE

#13238

Verzeichnis der Práparaten welche auf dem anatomischen Theater der Akademie zu Greifswald befindlich sich nebst einer Vorrede von dem Einfluß der Zergliederungskunst in die glückseligkeit eines Staats.

First printed catalogue of the anatomical preparations in the Anatomical Theatre and Institute directed by the professor of anatomy, Andreas Westphal.

2018 CE

#11113

William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library.

2007 CE

#7590

William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007.

2015 CE

#7582

William Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.

Authoritative illustrated chapters on aspects of Hunter's collecting, including anatomy, zoology, entomology, fossils, numismatics, paintings, drawings, printed books and manuscripts. A collective work edited by Hanco…