Facets

1957 CE

#8586

Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.

Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…

1934 CE

#6622.1

John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.

Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, …

1976 CE

#11205

John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

This is the "best" edition. The original edition issued in London by Faber & Faber in 1951 was a far superior example of book production, printed on thick greenish paper.

1958 CE

#7778

John Wesley among the physicians: A study of eighteenth-century medicine.

2014 CE

#7664

Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.

1813 CE

#13214

Kaitai hatsumo [Explanation of Human Anatomy]. 5 vols.

The first Japanese exposition of the whole system of human anatomy, based on original observation. The work includes the records of three dissections performed in Kyoto in 1783, 1798, and 1802. “A Japanese treat…

1937 CE

#6633.1

Katalog der Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer Medicina in Nummis.

5557 items; references to works on numismatics and medical history.

1886 CE–1890 CE

#7744

Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.

Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…

1894 CE

#10595

Klinische Abbildungen: Sammlung von Darstellungen der Veränderung der äusseren Körperform bei inneren Krankheiten.

Includes 57 fine heliogravure reproductions of artistic photographs of disease, including numerous congenital deformities. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1996 CE

#7532

Kunst & Medizin: Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh.

1986 CE

#10009

L'Art dentaire à travers la peinture.

2015 CE

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

1902 CE

#6607

L’art et la médecine.

1949 CE

#12784

La chirurgie discipline de la connaissance.

Three hundred copies on papier vélin contain a lithographed portrait of Leriche drawn and hand-signed and numbered by Henri Matisse.

1982 CE

#6610.16

La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gerard de Lairese, peintre en Hollande – Lairesse, Bidloo, Cowper.

1897 CE

#11127

La foi qui guérit.

As one of his last works Charcot published this 38-page pamphlet on faith healing.

1865 CE

#6474

La médecine dans Homère, our études d'archéologique sur les médecins, l'anatomie, la physiologie, la chirugie et la médecine dans les poèmes Homériques.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1918 CE

#13834

La médecine dans notre théâtre comique, depuis ses origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle...

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1860 CE

#6504

La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.

First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.

1880 CE

#7984

La médecine du Thalmud ou tous le passages concernant la médecine extraits des 21 traités du Thalmud de Babylone.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1948 CE

#11946

La médecine et l'eglise: Contribution à l'histoire de l'exercice médical par les clercs.

1939 CE

#9735

La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.

1878 CE

#7294

La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et particulièrement en physiologie et en médecine.

Marey pioneered the use of graphical recording in the experimental sciences, using instruments (many of his own invention) to capture and display data impossible to observe with the senses alone, and to record the pro…

1873 CE–1892 CE

#7473

La scienza e la pratica della anatomia patologica.

Divided into six parts, as follows: Book I: Delle alterazioni di prima formazione (on teratology) Book II: Delle ipertrofie Book III: Delle atrofie Book IV: Dell’infiammazione e della mortificazione Book V: Dei …

1925 CE

#6612

Le costume du médecin à l’étranger.

1921 CE

#6611

Le costume du médecin en France des origines au XVIIe siècle.

1884 CE–1885 CE

#11120

Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins. Première série: auteurs grecs & Latins. Deuxième série: Auteurs français jusqu'a Molière. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Selections were translated , with annotations by T. C. Minor as The Evil that has been said of doctors: Extracts from early writers. (Cincinnati: Reprint from …

1991 CE

#8895

Le médecin et la médecine dans le théatre comique français du XVIIe siecle. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).

1874 CE

#6616

Le Parnasse médicale français, ou dictionnaire des médecins-poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants.

Dictionary of French medical poets. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1932 CE

#12051

Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.

"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…

1575 CE

#284

Lectiones Gabrielis Falloppi de partibus similaribus humani corporis, ex diversis exemplari eus a Volchero Coiter summa cum diligentia collecta. His accessere diversorum animalium sceletorum explicationes iconibus artificiosis, et genuinis illustratae.

Coiter, a pupil of Fallopius and Eustachius, became town physician of Nuremberg. His book on comparative osteology, contained in his edition of the lectures of Fallopius, extended his studies begun in his work of 1572…

1961 CE

#7033

Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961

"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.

1839 CE

#9305

Lectures on the science of human life. 2 vols.

The Reverend Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer known for his emphasis on vegetarianism, the temperance movement, and eating whole-grain bread. "Around 1829, Graham invented th…

1818 CE

#4926

Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens.

Heinroth drew his psychology from the Bible and maintained that mental health was maintained only by piety and that sin engendered madness; for him treatment was by repentance and a return to the fold. English transla…

1952 CE

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1893 CE

#93

Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.

The scientific study of the mechanics of flight begins with Leonardo’s investigations on birds, undertaken during his attempts to build a flying machine. At the time of publication Sabachnikoff owned the manuscr…

1911 CE–1916 CE

#365

Leonardo da Vinci: Quaderni d’anatomia I-VI. Fogli della Royal Library di Windsor, pubblicati da Ove C.L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock. 6 vols.

Leonardo, “the greatest artist and scientist of the Italian Renaissance, was the founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy” (Garrison). He made over 750 sketches of all the principal organs of the bo…

2011 CE

#10697

Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.

1894 CE

#11121

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2006 CE

#12672

Les chrétiens dans la médecine arabe.

1911 CE

#8692

Les collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris: Inventaire raisonné.

Catalogue raisonné of the collection of paintings, drawings, prints, medals and sculptures belonging to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1887 CE

#6605

Les démoniaques dans l’art.

Charcot was a talented artist; he collaborated with Richer, artist at La Salpêtrière, in the production of interesting books on disease and deformity, and aspects of medicine and art.

1889 CE

#6606

Les difformes et les malades dans l’art.

Reprinted Amsterdam, B.M.Israël, 1972

1998 CE

#8183

Les maladies dans l'art antique.

1903 CE

#11119

Les seins dans l'histoire.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1551 CE

#378.01

Libro de la anathomia del hombre.

The first Spanish anatomy book in the Spanish language, the second anatomy book ever published in Spain, and the work that introduced Vesalian illustrations to Spain. The text is a version of Henri de Mondeville&rsquo…

1844 CE

#12136

Life in the sickroom: Essays by an invalid.

"Life in the Sickroom is one of many first-hand accounts of the experience of being ill written by an invalid. Martineau was ill for six years, but she found taking on the identity of an invalid a reprieve from the st…

1997 CE

#7530

Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.

2017 CE

#9702

Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.

2008 CE

#9852

Literature and medicine, future tense: Making it graphic.

A relatively early discussion of the principles of graphic medicine. Available from obermann.uiowa.edu at this link.