Facets

2014 CE

#10097

Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.

The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…

2001 CE

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

1933 CE

#6621

Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.

1932 CE

#12160

Brave new world.

"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…

1987 CE

#461

British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.

Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.

1925 CE

#10615

Bryan and Darrow at Dayton. The Record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial." Edited and compiled by Leslie H. Allen.

Key documents from the Scopes Trial. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2021 CE

#13677

C'rona pandemic comics.

https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/crona-comix/

1986 CE

#7432

Caring and curing: Health and medicine in the Western religious tradition. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen.

1989 CE

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1613 CE

#11237

Catoptri micorcosmici absolutam admirandae partium hominis creaturarum divinarum praestantissimi fabricae eximio artificio sculptam structuram revidendam exhibentis. Engraved by Stephan Michelspacher.

Three large anatomical plates with numerous flaps, in the tradition of fugitive sheets, but larger and more complex. The first edition was issued anonymously without identifying the place of publication or the publish…

1864 CE

#7258

Cavernes du Périgord. Objets gravés et sculptés des temps pré-historiques dans l’Europe occidentale.

In 1863 Lartet and Christy began systematically examining the caves in the Périgord (Dordogne) region of France. This study of mobiliary or portable art, such as carved stones, carved ivory, carved bones, or ca…

1664 CE

#1378

Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus.

The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term, “neurology". In its preparation Willis was helped by his students Richard Lower and Th…

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…

2013 CE

#10712

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .

1971 CE

#9439

Chaucer's physician: Medicine and literature in fourteenth-century England.

2003 CE

#10818

Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…

1854 CE

#13388

Chemical atlas; or, the chemistry of familiar objects: Exhibiting the general principles of the science in a series of beautifully colored diagrams, and accompanied by explanatory essays, embracing the latest views of the subjects illustrated. Designed for the use of students and pupils in all schools where chemistry is taught.

The diagrams in this pioneering work in information graphics were printed in red and black; a variety of other colors were applied by hand. Digital facsimile from digital.sciencehistory.org at this link.

1544 CE

#4406.1

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa.

This elegantly printed and illustrated small folio included 210 text woodcuts, most probably after drawings by the school of Francesco Salviati (Francesco de'Rossi). It was issued from the press operated by Pierre Gau…

1910 CE

#2045

Chronicles of pharmacy. 2 vols.

From antiquity to time of writing, with chapters on pharmacy in mythology, in Shakespeare, in the Bible, and in popularmedicine.

1953 CE–1990 CE

#10203

Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.

"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…

1943 CE

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

1826 CE

#10529

Clinique de la maladie syphilitique. Enrichie d’observations communiquées par messieurs Cullerier oncle, Cullerier neveu, Bard, Gama, Desruelles et autre médecins. Text and atlas.

Includes 126 hand-colored engraved plates from drawings by Dupont the elder, assisted by Delestre the younger and Verollot, engraved by Johann Theodor Susemihl, a German engraver working in Paris, known for his zoolog…

1521 CE

#367

Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia Mundini una cum textu ejusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto.

Giacomo Berengario da Carpi (Jacobus Berengarius Carpensis, Jacopo Barigazzi, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi or simply Carpus) introduced iconography and independent anatomical observation into the teaching of anatomy. H…

1545 CE

#376.1

Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, aere exarata.

Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio by Belgian engraver, mathematical and surgical instrument maker, Thomas Geminus (Thomas Lambert or Lambrit) was a slightly abridged version of Vesalius's Epitome illustrated with…

1992 CE

#8750

Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.

1822 CE

#8904

Confessions of an opium eater.

First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, 4, No. xxi, 293-312, and No. xxii, 353-79, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and, after various reprints, again in 185…

2006 CE

#9926

Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.

1986 CE

#8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

1651 CE

#382

Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica.

Highmore is remembered for his description of the maxillary sinus, known eponymically as the “antrum of Highmore” (already noticed by Casserius and figured by Leonardo da Vinci), the seminal ducts and the …

1980 CE

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus …

2020 CE

#12186

COVID-19 COMPILER. MAP

https://covid19.topos.com/ "COVID-19 Compiler aims to display relevant data about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. "Our goal is to provide a multidimensional view of covid-19’s impact in coun…

1974 CE

#7777

Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

2000 CE

#9061

Creativity and disease: How illness affects literature, art and music. 4th edition.

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…

2000 CE

#8314

Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.

1992 CE

#8447

Das ‚Lorscher Arzneibuch‘. Ein medizinisches Kompendium des 8. Jahrhunderts (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1). Text, Übersetzung und Fachglossar. (Philosophische Dissertation Würzburg 1989) (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 28).

Digital facsimile of the original manuscript with the transcription and translation by Ulrich Stoll from Staatsbibliothek Bamberg at this link.

1939 CE

#459

Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.

1973 CE

#6610.9

Das Antonius-Feuer in Kunst und Medizin.

Superbly designed and illustrated with color plates. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Supplement zum Jahrgang 1973.

1969 CE

#6610.8

Das Bild des Kranken. Die Darstellung äusserer Veränderungen Durch innere Leiden und ihrer Heilmassnahmen von der Renaissance bis in unsere Zeit.

1881 CE–1884 CE

#1566

Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere. 2 vols.

The most magnificent of all comparative anatomical studies of the ear, and the most beautiful studies of the ear after those of Casseri (No.1540). Retzius described the “Retzius bodies” in the labyrinth.

1917 CE

#9988

Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1497 CE

#5559

Das ist das buch der Cirurgia

The first important printed surgical treatise in German. It combines a compilation of the ancient and medieval authorities with Brunschwig’s own extensive experience. It contains the first detailed account of gu…

1922 CE–1931 CE

#7649

Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.

By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…

1989 CE

#8446

Das Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.

The Lorschner Arzneibuch (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1; Lorsch Leechbook), a Carolingian codex from the time of Charlemagne, was written in Latin around 800 in Lorsch Abbey. It is the oldest surviving book of mona…

1915 CE

#13031

Das Martyrium der heiligen Apollonia und seine Darstellung in der bildenden Kunst.

Illustrates with 100 plates various early depictions of the martyrdom of St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry. Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria, Egypt during a local …

1884 CE–1889 CE

#784

Das Venensystem des menschlichen Körpers. 2 pts. and atlas.

Like Braune’s other anatomical works, this is notable for its excellent illustrations.

2011 CE

#10008

Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950.

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php? "Welcome to the Database of Illustrators! Courtesy of the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart ! Our online database, fully function…

1611 CE

#380

De anatome corporis humani libri vii.

Guidi, professor of philosophy and medicine at Pisa, discovered the Vidian nerve, the Vidian canal, and the Vidian artery. The above was edited by his nephew.

1925 CE

#6610

De arts in de caricatuur.

German edition, Berlin, 1927.

1545 CE

#378

De dissectione partium corporis humani.

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres by French physician, writer, and translator, Charles Estienne, of the Estienne printing dynasty, is one of the most interesting woodcut books of the French Renaissance…