Facets

1912 CE

#8407

On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.

Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…

1866 CE

#4538.1

On railway and other injuries of the nervous system.

The first book to discuss the injuries now widely known as whiplash, which first appeared as the by-product of the increased speed of railway travel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1861 CE

#13465

On the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours, and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption and conduction.

Demonstration that gases including carbon dioxide and water can absorb heat, aand could change climate. Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link.

1846 CE

#930

On the capacity of the lungs, and on the respiratory functions, with a view of establishing a precise and easy method of detecting disease by the spirometer.

Invention of the spirometer, making possible the determination of the vital capacity of the lungs. Hutchinson used the spirometer while evaluating candidates for life insurance as a physician for Brittania Life. Parti…

1885 CE

#3740

On the cause and prevention of kakke.

Takaki was the first conclusively to show the dietary origin of beriberi. Measures introduced by him resulted in its eradication from the Japanese Navy, where it had previously been a serious problem.

1911 CE–1912 CE

#1047

On the chemical nature of the substance which cures polyneuritis in birds induced by a diet of polished rice.

One of the earliest attempts to isolate what later became known as vitamin B1.See No. 1051. Funk determined the chemical nature of the substance in rice polishings which could cure beriberi.

1870 CE

#1619

On the effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital.

1922 CE

#1055

On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction.

Discovery of vitamin E. See also their later paper in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1923, 81, 889-92.

1835 CE

#10108

On the influence of atmosphere and locality; change of air and climate; seasons; food; clothing; bathing; exercise; sleep; corporeal and intellectual pursuits, &c. &c. on human health; constituting elements of hygiéne.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1832 CE

#12197

On the influence of physical agents on life, by W. F. Edwards. Translated from the French by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher. To which are added, in the appendix, some observations on electricity by Dr. Edwards, M. Pouillet, and Luke Howard; on absorption, and the uses of the spleen, by Dr. Hodgkin; on the microscopic characters of the animal tissues and fluids, by J. J. Lister and Dr. Hodgkin, and some notes to the work of Dr. Edwards.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1836 CE–1837 CE

#2123.1

On the influence of trades, professions, and occupations, in the United States in the production of disease.

The first American work devoted entirely to occupational diseases. Reprinted with introduction, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.

1930 CE

#1063

On the nature and rôle of the fatty acids essential in nutrition.

Demonstration of the need of the body for certain unsaturated fatty acids (vitamin F).

2003 CE

#10758

On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.

1945 CE

#9891

On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics.

"... the Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology.... The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well known ways to des…

1882 CE

#9506

Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.

The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital …

1597 CE

#802

Opusculum physiologum & anatomicum in duos libellos distinctum: In quibus primùm, de integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis, deinde, de grauiditate & partu naturali mulierum in quo ossa pubis & ilium distrahi, dilucidè tractatur ....

In 1595 Pineau demonstrated the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart, settling the question of the perviousness of the septum of the heart. His work was first published in 1597. He published this study in a fran…

2003 CE

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

1901 CE

#3742

Over polyneuritis gallinarum

Grijns succeeded Eijkman as director of the Research Laboratory for Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology in Batavia. He was the first to adopt the view that beriberi was simply a “deficiency disease”, sin…

1941 CE

#1084

p-Aminobenzoic acid, a vitamin.

Recognition of β-amenobenzoic acid as a member of the vitamin-B complex.

2020 CE

#13466

Paleoclimatology: From snowball earth to the anthropocene.

1922 CE–1933 CE

#57

Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke…Herausg. von K. Sudhoff und W. Mathiessen. 14 vols.

Paracelsus, a much-travelled man, was one of the most remarkable figures in medicine. He was first to write on miners’ diseases, to establish the relationship between cretinism and endemic goitre and to note the…

1876 CE

#2127.1

Paraffin epithelioma of the scrotum.

Shale oil shown to be a cause of skin cancer. A teacher of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bell was the model for the character of Sherlock Holmes.

2019 CE

#11398

Pathogen genomics in public health.

"An important transformation is under way in public health. Next-generation sequencing (also called “high-throughput sequencing”) is reshaping communicable disease surveillance, allowing for earlier detect…

1919 CE

#3756

Pellagra.

1963 CE

#11598

Periodic health examinations: Abstracts from the literature. Public Health Service Publication No. 1010.

An annotated bibliography of the literature to June 1962. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2000 CE

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

1898 CE

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…

1989 CE

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…

1689 CE

#3216

Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de phthisi.

The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis. Morton showed that the formation of tubercles is a necessary part of the development of this lung disease, and pointed out t…

1849 CE

#7693

Physical Atlas. A series of maps & illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural phenomena. Embracing I. Geology. II Hydrography. III Meterology. IV. Natural History.

30 double-page maps, 15 of which are after the physical atlas of Berghaus. Contributors included Edward Forbes, George Waterhouse, Abbe Boué, etc. Various concern disease.

1871 CE

#10483

Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.

Study of caisson disease and its treatement resulting from experience in treating workmen constructing the Eads Bridge, which opened in 1874. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE

#7545

Physical, sexual and natural religion: by a student of medicine.

Drysdale emphasized that sexual intercourse should be pleasurable for both sexes, but believed that the ever-present possibility of pregnancy prevented it from being so. He also believed that overpopulation itself was…

1903 CE

#11627

Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904 CE

#1043

Physiological economy in nutrition.

Chittenden, founder of the first laboratory of physiological chemistry in the U.S.A., made many important experiments in nutrition, especially in connexion with the low protein diet advocated by him.

1933 CE

#7829

Pigs born without eyeballs.

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmo…

2015 CE

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

1967 CE

#12581

Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.

"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manc…

2012 CE

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2012 CE

#8492

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.

An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.

2006 CE

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

1954 CE

#5131

Plague.

Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1916 CE

#8154

Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.

A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…

1930 CE

#6730

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Sec…

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1890 CE

#3741

Polyneuritis bij hoenders.

Eijkman produced beriberi experimentally in fowls; from this he was led to conclude that a diet of over-milled rice was the chief cause, both in fowls and humans. Thus his work was of great importance in determining t…

1926 CE

#10468

Population problems of the age of Malthus.

Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…

1989 CE

#11475

Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.

1995 CE

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.