Facets

1803 CE

#8025

Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies

Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …

1816 CE–1817 CE

#1041.1

Précis élémentaire de physiologie. 2 vols.

The first modern physiology textbook, in which doctrine gave way to simple, precise descriptions of experimental facts. Vol. 2 contains Magendie’s classic demonstration of the importance of nitrogenous food, or …

1948 CE

#1092

Presence of cobalt in the anti-pernicious anaemia factor.

Independently of Rickes et al., Lester Smith isolated vitamin B12 in Britain. See also Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 638.

2021 CE

#13401

Preventable: The inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. coronavirus response.

1913 CE

#1641

Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.

Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.

1747 CE

#9149

Primitive physick; or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases.

Wesley, an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist, was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. Digital facsimile of the 14th American edition, Philadelphia, 1770, from the I…

1902 CE

#12263

Principles of sanitary science and the public health, with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases.

Digital facsimile of the 1902 first edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1988 CE

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

1847 CE

#10063

Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.

The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…

1974 CE

#11371

Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.

A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…

1852 CE

#1610.1

Procès-verbaux de la Conférence Sanitaire Internationale ouverte a Paris le 27 juillet 1851. 2 vols.

Reports of the first international public health conference, in which the representatives of 12 European states conferred from July 27, 1851 to January 19, 1852. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2006 CE

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2002 CE

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

2016 CE

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

1977 CE

#13749

Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.

Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…

1934 CE

#7245

Prolonging the life span.

McCay proved that caloric restriction increases the life span of rats, a discovery that triggered extensive further research and experiments in the field of nutrition and longevity.

1884 CE

#12161

Prophylaxie et géographie médicale: Des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène.

Includes several colored world maps of diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1962 CE–1968 CE

#1671.5

Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.

1919 CE

#11016

Prostitution in Europe. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene". Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#11033

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2003 CE

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

1994 CE

#12207

Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.

1646 CE

#10032

Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths.

In this widely read work of popular science that underwent six editions in Browne's lifetime Browne debunked numerous quack cures, etc. Full text from quod.lib.umich.edu at this link. Digital facsimile of the 4th edit…

1930 CE

#4398

Pseudofractures (hunger osteopathy, late rickets, osteomalacia): report of a case.

“Milkman’s syndrome”.

1886 CE

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1844 CE

#10132

Psychopathia sexualis.

The first medical text exclusively devoted to sexuality, though Kaan's views reflected religious, and other prejudices of the time. Digital facsimile of the 1844 edition from staatsbibliothek-berlin.de at this link. T…

2009 CE

#10770

Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.

2003 CE

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

1972 CE

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

1994 CE

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1989 CE

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

2004 CE

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qa…

1959 CE

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

1887 CE

#1626

Public health reports by John Simon. Edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Edward Seaton. 2 vols.

Simon was the first medical officer for the City of London. Together with his English sanitary institutions, the above work played a great part in paving the way for modern reforms in the sphere of hygiene and public …

2008 CE–2011 CE

#9537

Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.

Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.

1877 CE

#9160

Public hygiene in America: Being the centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 by Henry I. Bowditch. With extracts from correspondence from the various states. Together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

2016 CE

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

1872 CE

#13380

Question médico-légale de l’identité dans ses rapport avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels contenant les souvenirs et impressions d’un individu dont le sexe avait été méconnu.

Includes the first printing of the memoirs of "Alexina B" a French intersex person whose actual name was Herculine Barbin. Digital facsimile of the revised second edition (1874) from Google Books at this link. Transla…

1981 CE

#7760

Radiation and human health.

The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.

1935 CE

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

1804 CE

#145.54

Recherches chimiques sur la végétation.

In this foundation work on phytochemistry, Saussure analysed the chief active components of plants, their synthesis and decomposition. He specified the relationships between vegetation and the environment. He showed t…

1791 CE

#10469

Recherches diététiques du médecin patriote sur la santé et sur les maladies observées dans les séminaires, dans les pensionnats, et chez les ouvrières en dentelle. Suivies de réflexions sur le traitement de la petite vérole, et d’un mémoire sur le régime des convalescens et des valètudinaires.

Includes a study of the diseases of women lace workers. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1827 CE

#2028.55

Recherches sur l’asphyxie.

“Leroy invented a two-bladed instrument to aid in the insertion of a laryngeal tube by the ability to control the direction of its tip. He also invented a limiting mechanism for the bellows, to enable given amou…

1905 CE–1908 CE

#1634

Recherches sur l’épuration biologique et chimique des eaux d’égout. 8 vols.

1483 CE

#6812

Regimen contra pestilentiam [English] Treatise on the Pestilence.

The earliest medical work printed in English. It was published without printer's name or date, but has been attributed to the press of William Machlinia, in London, and estimated to have been published in 1483."Althou…

c. 1477 CE–c. 1483 CE

#1959.3

Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (With commentary by [Pseudo-Arnoldus de Villa Nova]). Add: Arnoldus de Villa Nova: Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum.

Probably originating about 1160, the Regimen sanitatis from the medical school at Salerno (where medicine was first treated as a separate science) had greater popular influence than virtually any other medieval medica…

1802 CE

#13898

Relazione, riflessioni e giudizio sul sesso di un individuo umano vivente chiamato e conosciuto sotto il nome di Giacoma Foroni. Prefazione di Giorgio Celli.

The text and accompanying plates reported the observations and conclusions of a deputation of the medico-surgical class of the Accademia Virgiliana, sent to determine on anatomical grounds the sex of twenty-two-year-o…