Facets

1877 CE

#10722

Leprosy in India. A report.

The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…

1948 CE

#2442.1

Leprosy treated with sulphetrone in 1943.

Clinical use of solapsone (sulphetrone).

1895 CE

#9528

Leprosy: In its clinical & pathological aspects. Translated by Norman Walker.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1861 CE

#935.2

Les altitudes de l’Amérique tropicale comparées au niveau des mers au point de vue de la constitution médicale.

Jourdanet discovered the anoxemia theory of high altitude sickness. See No. 943.1. Digital facsimile of the 1861 edition from bibliotecavirtual.ranm.es at this link.

1897 CE

#2395

Les chancres extra-génitaux.

1788 CE

#13366

Les eaux minérales et thermales de Saint-Dominique. Tome 1 (All Published).

One of the earliest medical publications printed in Haiti. Duvivier, Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti, 2, p. 206.

1976 CE

#9236

Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste. 2 vols.

1906 CE

#5129

Les inoculations antipesteuses.

Haffkine developed an anti-bubonic plague vaccine (killed bouillon cultures), for use in man.

1900 CE

#2336

Les maladies qu’on soigne à Berck.

An account of the work of the Rothschild Hospital at Berck-sur-Mer, where Calot specialized in the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in children.

1575 CE

#5565

Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.

Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cauter…

1497 CE

#2363

Libellus de Epidemia, quam uulgo morbum Gallicum uocant,

One of the earliest treatises on syphilis, and one of the few medical books printed by Aldus Manutius in the 15th century. Leoniceno included a good description of syphilitic hemiplegia. He believed that syphilis was …

1527 CE

#2365

Liber de morbo gallico.

Includes a description of the neurological manifestations of syphilis. Though this work bears the date 1507, Peter Krivatsy, provided evidence that this edition was printed in 1527. See Krivatsy, "Nicola Massa's Liber…

2016 CE

#10944

Local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus - Miami - Dade and Broward counties, Florida, June-August 2016.

First report on Zika virus infections in the U.S., tracing the area of infection to a specific square mile, creating a buffer zone around the area, targeting it for spraying and mosquito collection, intervention, mass…

1894 CE

#5120

Loimographia. An account of the great plague of London in the year 1665

This work was written in 1666 and first published as above. Boghurst, an apothecary, did good work during the great plague; in his book he differentiated plague from typhus. Payne’s introduction to the book cont…

1665 CE

#13275

Loimologia: A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest.

Thomson was one of the few physicians who remained in London to treat patients during the plague of 1665. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1666 CE

#13276

Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars, Viz. 1. The material cause of the pest, 2. The efficient cause of the pest, 3. The subject part of the pest, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author, and the consequences thereof, 6. Reflections and observations on the fore-said dissection, 7. Directions preservative and curative against the pest: Together with the authors apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae.

One of the earliest books that illustrated human dissection for a contagious disease. Digital text available from Early English Books Online at this link.

1665 CE

#5119

London’s dreadful visitation, or, a collection of all the Bills of Mortality for the present year: beginning the 27th of December 1664, and ending the 19th of December following…By the Company of Parish Clerks of London.

BILLS OF MORTALITY

This is a valuable statistical record of the great plague of 1665. (No. 6052 in the Bibliotheca Osleriana.)

2009 CE

#10775

Long-term control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 stem-cell transplantation.

Gero Hütter and co-authors reported the first long-term remission or "cure" of HIV/AIDS in a human. The patient, Timothy Ray Brown also known as "The Berlin Patient" also suffered from myeloid leukemia and underw…

1872 CE

#2325

Lungenentzündung, Tuberkulose und Schwindsucht.

Buhl stated that disseminated miliary tuberculosis is always associated with the presence of a caseous focus in some part of the body, which is the centre from which infection starts (Buhl-Dittrich law). English trans…

1982 CE

#10782

Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?

Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered…

1913 CE

#5217

Lymphogranulomatose inguinale subaiguë d’origine génitale probable, peut-être vénérienne.

First important description. Sometimes called “Nicolas–Favre disease” and “Nicolas–Durand–Favre disease”.

2005 CE

#11193

Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…

1912 CE

#2425

Mal Franzoso in Italien in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts.

Forms Heft 5 of K. Sudhoff & G. Sticker: Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger.

1909 CE

#5263

Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.

The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2001 CE

#10799

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

1891 CE

#5241

Malariaparasiten in den Vögeln.

Confirmation of the work of Laveran.

1955 CE

#5264.3

Man’s mastery of malaria.

Heath Clark Lectures, 1953.

1910 CE

#2267

Manual of tropical medicine.

Castellani made several discoveries of great importance in tropical medicine. The above work is a standard text on tropical medicine in English. Third edition, 1919.

1935 CE

#2416

Mapharsen in the treatment of syphilis. A preliminary report.

Clinical use of mapharsen. With R. L. McIntosh, L. M. Wieder, H. R. Foerster, and G. A. Cooper.

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…

1879 CE

#5315

Materialien zur Pathologie und Therapie des Rückfallstyphus.

By inoculating healthy subjects with blood of patients suffering from replapsing fever, and producing the fever in the former, Mochutkovski demonstrated not only the communicability of the disease but also the specifi…

1996 CE

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1977 CE

#9211

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

1759 CE

#5442

Medical facts and experiments.

Experimental human transmission of measles (pp. 266-88). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1825 CE

#10518

Medical facts and inquiries, respecting the causes, nature, prevention and cure of fever: more expressly in relation to the endemic fevers of summer and autumn in the southern states: Together with a history of the bilious remitting fever of Alabama, as it appeared in Cahawba and its vicinity in the summers and autumns of 1821 and 1822.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine 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 …

1846 CE

#13739

Medical notes on China.

Wilson served as Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets from 1841 to 1843 onboard the Minden, a British hospital ship deployed in China at Chusan and Hong Kong at the end of 1841 to treat casualties in the First Opium War …

1820 CE

#13239

Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland; comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the South of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries.

Pages 153-59 contain an account of Clark's visit to the Hopital Necker in Paris, with a detailed discussion of the use of the stethoscope introduced by Laennec, one year earlier, in 1819. This was possibly the first a…

1926 CE

#12574

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925

"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…

1554 CE

#2271

Medicina. 3 pts.

The first systematic treatise on pathology, which also introduced the names for the sciences of pathology and physiology. In the second part, entitled “Pathologia”, Fernel provided the first systematic ess…

2010 CE

#8822

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

1849 CE

#5216

Mémoire sur l’esthioméne, ou dartre rongeante de la région vulvo-anale.

Huguier gave the name esthiomène to the characteristic induration and discoloration of the affected parts in lymphogranuloma venereum.

1800 CE–1801 CE

#5837

Mémoire sur l’ophtalmie régnante en Egypte.

The great military surgeon Larrey served during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, where he was the first to observe the contagiousness of trachoma shortly after the successful invasion in 1798. The disease spread to E…

1805 CE

#4674

Mémoire sur la maladie qui a régné à Genève au printemps de 1805.

First definite description of cerebrospinal meningitis. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1833 CE

#5054

Mémoire sur un cas de trachéotomie pratiquée dans la période extréme de croup.

Trousseau popularized tracheotomy.

1822 CE

#9071

Memoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.

On the use of a root medicine to treat tapeworms, roundworms and similar parasites. The author refers to cases from Portuguese Africa, India and Brazil, and gives clinical observations based on his own case studies, s…

1930 CE

#5220

Meningo-enzephalitische Veränderungen bei Affen nach intra-cerebraler Impfung mit Lymphogranuloma inquinale.

The authors transmitted lymphogranuloma venereum to animals and attributed it to a virus. See also C. R. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 1931, 106, 802-03.

1992 CE

#8804

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

1855 CE

#5164

Mikroskopische und mikrochemische Untersuchung des Milzbrandblutes sowie über Wesen und Kurdes Milzbrandes.

Pollender discovered the B. anthracis in 1849, but did not record this fact until 1855. He gave a more exact account of the organism than did Rayer (No. 5163).

2011 CE

#10360

Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.