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715 entries match Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090]

1792 CE

#13765

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de effectibus musicae in hominem.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2011 CE

#10493

Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.

"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…

1933 CE

#6622

Doctors in Elizabethan drama.

2014 CE

#11195

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.

"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …

2006 CE

#6839

Dream Anatomy... Anatomy and the artistic imagination.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of Medicine from October 9, 2002 to July 21, 2003. In May 2015 the website built for the exhibition was available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/.

1976 CE

#9731

Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.

2005 CE

#9453

Drugs and theater in early modern England.

2010 CE

#7248

Early Medicine, from the body to the stars.

Extensively annotated, magnificently printed catalogue (590pp. in 4to) entirely illustrated in color, of an exhibition of 250 early medical manuscripts, printed books, and related objects from the ancient world to the…

1908 CE

#452

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

1554 CE

#463

Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle von den Empfengknussen und Geburten der Menschen…

An improved version of Rösslin’s Swangern frawen. This contains the first true anatomical pictures in an obstetrics book. Rueff described smooth-edged forceps for delivery of a live baby, preceding Chamberl…

1910 CE

#6608.1

Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.

The first psychoanalytic investigation in art.

1985 CE

#12147

El amor en los tiempos de cólera.

"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…

2015 CE

#9870

Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.

2005 CE

#10232

Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.

2006 CE

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

2006 CE

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

2000 CE

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

1794 CE

#9833

Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles and joints.

Bell’s atlas of the bones, muscles and joints was issued as a separate work a year after his text, The Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints. Bell’s illustrations are some of the most striking in the e…

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1925 CE

#2316

Entwicklung und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung.

Traces the development of pathological anatomical illustration, and includes a chronological bibliography of all important publications known to Goldschmid containing illustrations of pathological conditions, and an i…

1909 CE–1915 CE

#6620

Épigraphie médicale. Corpus inscriptionum ad medicinam biologiamque spectantium. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1928 CE

#6610.1

Esculape chez les artistes.

Chapters and illustrations on deformities, infirmities, medicine, surgery, etc.

1745 CE

#398

Essai d’anatomie en tableaux imprimés, qui represent au naturel tous les muscles de la face, du col, de la tête, de la langue & du larinx. d'après les parties disséquées & préparées par Monsieur Duverney....comprenant hit grandes planches.

Remarkable for its striking mezzotints printed in color. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1833 CE

#6604.93

Essai sur l’iconologie médicale, ou sur les rapports d’utilité qui existent entre l’art du dessin et l’étude de la médecine.

Pioneering study of art and medicine based on collections at Montpellier.

1830 CE

#12104

Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.

In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…

1830 CE

#13201

Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.

Newnham argued that argued that apparitional experiences, dreams and spiritual visions had a physiological rather than a supernatural basis. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1806 CE

#6604.92

Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting.

Bell’s artistic and literary skills combined with his knowledge of anatomy and physiology to make this work a tour de force of art history and the anatomical and physiological basis of facial expression.

1851 CE

#9577

Études historiques et critiques sur les médecins numismatistes: Contenant leur biographie et l'analyse de leurs écrits.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1858 CE

#6614

Etudes médicales sur les poètes latins.

2007 CE

#12351

Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.

1575 CE

#4964

Examen de ingenios para las ciencias.

Huarte was a distinguished Spanish physician and psychologist. His Examen, which gained for him a European reputation, was the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology. English translatio…

1940 CE

#6649

Faiths that healed.

2011 CE

#7823

Famous personalities honored on stamps: Links to medicine.

1493 CE–1494 CE

#363.1

Fascicolo di medicina. Tr: Sebastianus Manilius. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda. Mundinus: Anatomia (Ed: Petrus Andreas Morsianus).

This Italian translation contains an entirely new and more extensive series of woodcuts and additional text. The dramatically improved and more realistic illustrations, which were reproduced in the numerous later edit…

1491 CE

#363

Fasciculus medicinae. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda.

A collection of short medical treatises which circulated widely in manuscript, some as early as the 13th century, and was perhaps attributed by the printers to its former owner, Johannes von Kirchheim, a professor of …

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

1999 CE

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

2001 CE

#7654

Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

2022 CE

#13917

Flesh and bones: The art of anatomy. By Monique Kornell. With contributions by Thisbe Gensler, Naoko Takahatake, Erin Travers.

Chapters by Monique Kornell are: 1. The Illustration of Anatomy, 2. The Living Dead: Animated Anatomy, 3. Arts and Anatomy Books, 4. Anatomy and the Antique, 5. "As Large as Nature": Life Size Anatomical Illustration,…

2011 CE

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

1818 CE

#9692

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. 3 vols.

The full digitized text of the 1818 is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#9693

Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds

1978 CE

#6623.3

Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.

The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.

2009 CE

#7650

Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.

Text and captions in English and German.

2013 CE

#7651

Fritz Kahn.

Text and captions in English, French and German.

1996 CE

#7827

From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.

2005 CE

#8295

From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in Late Antiquity.

1825 CE–1829 CE

#10580

Galerie médicale dessinée et lithographiée par Vigneron avec des notices biographiques et littéraires par G. T. Doin.

32 finely lithographed portraits in small folio format with biographies of notable figures in the history of medicine. The original intention was to publish 100 portraits but only 32 were issued.

1951 CE

#8202

Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

2022 CE

#14107

Genetics of atavism.

Abstract: "Atavisms have attracted people’s attention for a long time. First, atavisms excited their imagination and created fertile ground for myths and superstitions. With the development of science, atavisms …