Facets

1857 CE

#6634

Geschichte christlicher Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften.

Reprinted, Bad Reichenhall, Kleinert, 1966.

1908 CE

#6293

Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.

From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1967 CE–1972 CE

#461.2

Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.

A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…

1852 CE

#440

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…

1929 CE

#14096

Gestaltungsanalyse am Amphibienkeim mit Örtlicher Vitalfärbung: II. Teil. Gastrulation und Mesodermbildung bei Urodelen und Anuren.

Modern fate mapping began in 1929 when Walter Vogt marked the groups of cells using a dyed agar chip and tracked them through gastrulation.

1834 CE

#14017

Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.

Concerns miscarriage and aberrant gestation rather than removal or expulsion of embryo or fetus. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

2007 CE

#9819

Graphic Medicine. www.graphicmedicine.org

1914 CE

#8121

Graphic methods for presenting facts.

The first book on information graphics published in America. Digital facsimile of the 1919 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.

1978 CE

#8122

Graphic presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section: Session of Graphical Methods for Presenting Statistical Data: Boston, Massachusetts, August 23-26, 1976, Vol. 3.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1478 CE

#7086

Halieutica, sive de piscatu. [Translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with recipes for cooking added by Lippi.]

The didactic poem on fish and fishing by Oppian of Anazarbus, a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet, survived the Middle Ages essentially in its entirety, consisting of 3500 lines in Greek. The poem was dedicated to the empe…

2012 CE

#8358

Handbook of religion and health. 2nd edition.

1998 CE

#12779

Healers and healing in early modern Europe.

"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…

2014 CE

#12722

Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.

"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…

2012 CE

#8065

Health and illness: Images of difference.

1982 CE

#13614

Health/medicine and the faith traditions: An inquiry into religion and medicine. Edited by Martin E. Marty and Kenneth L. Vaux.

1892 CE

#13199

Helen Brent, M. D. A social study.

A short, memorable novel about a woman who faces the agonizing choice between career and marriage, and chooses medicine. Among her achievements, Meyer was a founder of Barnard College. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…

2012 CE

#7751

Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.

A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …

1991 CE

#8125

Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.

1898 CE

#446

Histoire d’anatomie plastique: Les maitres, les livres et les écorchés.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1556 CE

#378.02

Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano…

Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano Spanish physician Juan Valverde de Amusco was issued in Rome at the press of Antonio Salamanca. This was the first great original medical book in Spanish and the most origi…

1727 CE

#12697

Historia Michaelis Serveti Quam praeside Io. Laur. Mosheimio...auctor Henricus ab Allwoerden.

An early biographical account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy, prepared under the direction of Johann Lorenz von Mosheim whose Kaisergeschichte (2 vols, 1746-48) initiated the modern, objective historiography…

1734 CE

#7552

Historia musculorum hominis.

Very detailed descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with illustrations drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar depicting the muscles of the hand, life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones.…

1623 CE

#10491

Historia vitae & mortis. Sive, titulus secundus in historia naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: Quae est instaurationis magnae pars tertia.

This was Bacon's direct contribution to medicine or medical philosophy, with natural and experimental observations on the prolongation of life. Translated into English as The History naturall And experimentall, of lif…

1891 CE

#11124

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.

Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.

2017 CE

#9591

History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal.

http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/ "The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Web Portal is designed to gather resources in medical humanities for students, scholars, physicians, and the general public fo…

2015 CE

#8800

History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.

2010 CE

#11926

Holistic healing in Byzantium. Edited by John T. Chirban.

1858 CE–1882 CE

#11660

Horae subsecivae. Locke and Sydenham with other occasional papers. [Vol. 2:] Rab and his friends and other papers.

William Osler promoted the value of the writings of the popular medical essayist John Brown to the medical community. He wrote: "To the medical student the writings of Dr. John Brown have this special value - they imp…

1863 CE

#7419

Hospital sketches.

Digital facsimile of the 1863 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Alcott expanded the work for the edition of 1869. Edited, with an extensive introduction by Bessie Z. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University …

2014 CE

#8705

Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).

Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.

2006 CE

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

1898 CE–1901 CE

#364

I manoscritti de Leonardo da Vinci della Reale Biblioteca di Windsor. Pubblicata da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcritti e annotati da Giovanni Piumati. 2 vols.

Includes folios A & B of his anatomical MSS. Text in French and Italian.

1743 CE–1756 CE

#397

Icones anatomicae. 8 pts.

Accurate and beautiful engravings of the diaphragm, uterus, ovaries, vagina, arteries, with explanatory observations. About fifty years after they were originally published the most visually spectacular versions of Ha…

1801 CE

#3580

Icones herniarum. Editae a S. T. Soemmerring.

Camper illustrated his own work, and was an outstanding anatomical artist. His illustrations of hernias are of great value.

1973 CE

#6311.6

Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.

French translation, 1976.

1608 CE

#8002

Il vero modo et ordine per dissegnar tutte le parti et membra del corpo humano.

An entirely etched book of 40 leaves, drawn and etched by Fialetti, this was probably the first printed manual on drawing the human body, as distinct from earlier manuals on anatomy for artists. For further informatio…

1875 CE–1888 CE

#4067

Illustrations of clinical surgery. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 pp. 49-52: Hutchinson’s classic description of cheiropompholyx, dysidrosis (“Hutchinson’s disease”). The first description and illustration of sarcoidosis is on p. 42.

1834 CE

#3222

Illustrations of pulmonary consumption.

Morton published an important collection of illustrations delineating pulmonary tuberculosis which epitomized the knowledge of his time. It was also the first book on the subject published in the United States. Digita…

1838 CE

#2291

Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease.

Carswell was Professor of Morbid Anatomy at University College, London, and one of the leading English pathologists of his day. A fine artist, he personally painted 2,000 water-colours of pathological specimens. His g…

1820 CE–1821 CE

#5588

Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.

One of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery. Hand-colored copies show more blood than is usual for surgical treatises of this period. From publication in fascicul…

1919 CE

#11739

In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.

McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…

1825 CE

#13841

Index numismatum in virorum de rebus medicis vel physicis meritorum memoriam percussorum.

At head of title: Ioanni Fr. Blumenbach ... viro illustri Germaniae decori diem semisecularem physiophili germanici laete gratulantur. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1951 CE

#10616

Inherit the wind.

This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

2004 CE

#8068

Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.

See No. 4558.1

1522 CE

#368

Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam.

One year after publishing his Commentary on Mondino, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi issued an abbreviated version or Isagoge, with most of the same woodcuts. This was the book by which Berengario's contributions to anato…

1978 CE

#9248

Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].

1982 CE

#6510.4

Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.

2000 CE

#8272

Jewish bioethics, edited by J. David Bleich and Fred Rosner.

1939 CE

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

1959 CE

#8135

Jewish medical ethics: A comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice.