Facets

2017 CE

#10627

Avicenne et la médecine en Italie. Le Canon dans les universités (1200-1350).

1761 CE

#1597

Avis au peuple sur la santé.

A tract on medicine written for the lay public; it ran through many editions and was translated into all European languages. It has been called "the greatest medical best-seller of the eighteenth century" (Singy, "The…

2017 CE

#10272

Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962.

1995 CE

#8611

Becoming a physician: Medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945.

2011 CE

#9708

Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.

1925 CE

#11007

Beginnings of medical education in and near Chicago: The institutions and the men.

Digital facsimile of separately paginated 144pp. illustrated offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.

2006 CE

#8480

Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ethik der Zahnheilkunde.

1877 CE

#176

Beiträge zur physischen Anthropologie der Deutschen. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Friesen.

Virchow made an important survey of the physical characters of the German people. Outside pathology of which he was the Master, Virchow’s greatest scientific interest was anthropology.

1992 CE

#8083

Beyond Flexner: Medical education in the twentieth century. Edited by Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz.

2015 CE

#10341

Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.

This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the…

2007 CE

#14128

Beyond the White House, waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.

President Carter devoted half of this book to Guinea worm disease, nature of the illness, its epidemiology, its cause and the current importance from a public health and human suffering standpoint. Carter's leadership…

1790 CE–1811 CE

#157

Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte. 2 pts.

English translation, London, 1865.

1954 CE

#3705.01

Bibliografia odontologica Mexicana.

1922 CE

#12506

Bibliographiae stomatologicae.

An extensively annotated historical bibliography of dental bibliographies. Also published in Arthur D. Black, ed., Index of the periodical dental literature.... for 1916-1920 (Chicago, 1922) pp. xiv-liii. Digital facs…

1927 CE

#7698

Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.

Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…

1889 CE

#3694.1

Bibliographie français de l’art dentaire.

Concerns the French literature of dentistry.

1972 CE

#257.3

Biochemical method for inserting new genetic information into DNA of simian virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA molecules containing Lambda phage genes and the galactose operon of Escherichia coli.

First recombinant DNA molecules generated. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. In 1980 Berg was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic a…

1910 CE

#6869

Biographies of pioneer American dentists and their successors. Edited by Charles R. E. Koch.

Forms Vol. 3 of History of Dental Surgery, edited by Charles R. E. Koch. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1938 CE

#12621

Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism

1989 CE

#8087

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

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.

1925 CE

#3139

Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…

1977 CE

#7921

Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.

1977 CE

#8781

Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after.

1938 CE

#13328

Bound feet.

The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…

1933 CE

#6621

Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.

1991 CE

#10011

Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.

1991 CE

#14225

Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.

2010 CE

#13650

Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.

Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.

2014 CE

#13738

Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.

https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive Open access (OA) electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on t…

2017 CE

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

1889 CE

#12267

Cardiac failure and sudden death.

"Physiologists and physicians had proposed various theories to explain transient and fatal cardiac standstill in animals and humans who were apparently healthy. MacWilliam defined two distinct mechanisms depending on …

1952 CE

#10042

Care of the dying.

2015 CE

#7855

Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.

The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…

2018 CE

#11051

Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.

1867 CE

#7704

Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.

Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.

1950 CE

#13912

Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.

1876 CE

#10494

Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.

White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…

1857 CE

#8829

Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.

"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…

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…

1966 CE

#12912

Catalogue of the Menzies Campbell collection of dental instruments, pictures, appliances, ornaments, etc.

1879 CE–1891 CE

#7591

Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 3 vols.: Part 1. Man: Homo sapiens.... Part II: Class Mammalia, other than man... Part III: Class Aves.

Parts 1 and 2 by Flower; part 3 by Sharpe. Digital facsimile of Part 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link, of Part 2 at this link, and Part 3 at this link.

1995 CE

#11023

Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.

Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…

1941 CE

#2871

Catheterization of the right auricle in man.

First investigations with the cardiac catheter as a clinical method of investigation. In 1956 Cournand in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Forssmann (No. 2858) and Richards (No. 2883.2) "for …

2000 CE

#14293

Cell surface engineering by a modified Staudinger reaction.

In 2022 Carolyn Bertozzi shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal for discovery of click chemistry. Bertozzi invented a biorthogonal variation of Sharpless and Meldal reactions. In th…

1896 CE

#14309

Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1961 CE

#9648

Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.

Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…

1465 CE

#6819

Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)

In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…

1927 CE

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1983 CE

#10407

Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.

"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…