Facets

2018 CE

#13129

Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)

"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large numbe…

1930 CE

#1064

Maintenance nutrition in the adult pigeon and its relation to torulin (vitamin B1).

Discovery of vitamin B5, probably identical with nicotinic acid. With H. W. Kinnersley and R. A. Peters.

2004 CE

#7944

Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.

2012 CE

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

1981 CE

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

1864 CE

#145.59

Man and nature; or, physical geography as modified by human action.

“The fountainhead of the conservation movement” (Mumford). This is a comprehensive scientific account of humanity's enormous and often destructive impact on the physical world. Marsh warned of the dangers …

1894 CE

#187

Man and woman.

A study of the constitutional differences between man and woman.

1999 CE

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1977 CE

#13376

Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings

The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."

1918 CE

#7099

Married love. A new contribution to the solution of sex difficulties.

One of the first books to discuss the differences between male and female sexual desires, and the first book to note that increased sexual desire in women coincides with ovulation and the period right before menstruat…

2013 CE

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

1972 CE

#13806

Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).

1930 CE

#7308

Mathematische Klimalehre und astronomische Theorie der Klimaschwankungen. Handbuch der Klimatologie, Bd. 1, Teil A.

Milankovitch cycles, first exposition (176 pages). Milankovitch theorized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit determined climatic patterns on Earth through orbital forcing,…

1793 CE

#9059

Medcinische Fastenpredigten, oder Vorlesungen über Körper und Seelendiätetik zur Verbesserung der Gesundheit und Sitten. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1801 CE

#13750

Médecine du voyageur; ou avis sur les moyens de conserver la santé, et de remédier aux accidens et aux maladies auxquels on est exposé dans les voyages, tant par terre que par mer. Suivie d'un essai de médecine pratique sur les voyages, considérés comme remèdes. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1918 CE

#8604

Medical diseases of the war. Second edition

Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…

1883 CE

#1648

Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.

1883 CE

#8133

Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1945 CE

#1782.1

Medical geographies.

A historical survey of the classical works.

2000 CE

#8181

Medical geography in historical perspective. (Medical History, Supplement No. 20). Edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke.

1936 CE

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1930 CE

#10301

Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.

1843 CE

#10737

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.

McWilliam included a history of yellow fever, pathology, description of symptoms, sequences, causes, treatment. He also described the state of medicine among the Africans. He specifically described the ventilation of …

2002 CE

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2015 CE

#8770

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.

1746 CE

#8869

Medicina Britannica; or, a treatise on such physical plants as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens of Great-Britain: Containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned. To which are added, three indexes: The first containing the England and Latin names of the plants treated of: The second of the diseases, and their remedies: The third to the notes.

Short focused his book on the medical uses of plants readily available in England. Many of the plants recommended in the traditional herbal literature were difficult to find in England. Digital facsimile from the Biod…

2010 CE

#7834

Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.

1973 CE

#10223

Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2010 CE

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

2014 CE

#10911

Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.

1968 CE

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

2015 CE

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

1977 CE

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

2011 CE

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

1998 CE

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

2009 CE

#12666

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.

"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and…

1854 CE

#2124

Mémoire sur les effets de la compression de l’air.

An early paper on “caisson sickness”.

1849 CE

#2123.2

Mémoire sur les modifications physiques et chimiques que détermine dans certaines parties du corps l’exercice des diverse professions, pour servir à la recherche médico-légale de l’identité.

In this comprehensive work on occupational marks, Tardieu states that Corvisart, Dupuytren, and Trousseau would take pride in identifying the professions of their patients at first sight, using knowledge of occupation…

1858 CE

#10278

Mémoire sur les vers intestinaux.

Beneden's treatise on the development, transformation, and life-histories of parasitic worms won the Grand prix des sciences physiques of the Institut de France. It was published in the "International Scientific Serie…

1837 CE

#110

Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire anatomique et physiologique des végétaux et des animaux. 2 vols. and atlas.

Dutrochet asserted that respiration follows the same pattern in both animals and plants, showing that the minute openings on the surface of leaves (the stomata) communicate with lacunae in deeper tissue. He also demon…

1999 CE

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

1939 CE

#3708

Methods for assessing the level of nutrition of the human subject: estimation of vitamin B1 in urine by the thiochrome test.

Wang’s test for avitaminosis.

1866 CE–1869 CE

#1615

Metropolitan Board of Works Report on experiments with respect to the ventilation of sewers. 3 parts.

Bazalgette planned the sewers of London.

1992 CE

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

2013 CE

#10878

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.

Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…

1892 CE

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…