Facets

2017 CE

#10663

Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.

1538 CE

#6969

Simeonis Sethi, magistri Antiochiae, Syntagma per literarum ordinem de cibariorum facultate, Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo,... interprete.

First printed edition of Seth's Byzantine encyclopedia of foods, nutrition, and diatetics from plants and animals, with Greek text and Latin translation by scholar and poet Giglio Gregorio Giraldi. Simeon Seth was an …

1930 CE

#10847

Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.

Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…

1859 CE

#8212

Sketch of the medical topography, or climate and soils, of Bengal and the N.W. Provinces.

Digital facsimile from the internet Archive at this link.

1988 CE

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

1964 CE

#7385

Smoking and health: report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

Definitive 386-page throughly documented study of the carcinogenic and pulmonologic effects of smoking, and the addictive aspects of nicotine. It was published under the supervision of Surgeon-General Luther Terry. Di…

1942 CE

#13615

Social insurance and allied services.

Beveridge's "... report to Parliament on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published in November 1942. It proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution. In return, …

2012 CE

#8702

Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.

1913 CE

#10791

Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.

Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

2003 CE

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

1901 CE

#1632

Some points in the construction of the continuous sewage filter.

1925 CE

#7785

Some unrecognized dangers in the use and handling of radioactive substances.

From autopsies on several young women who had painted radium dials, and ingested large cumulative doses by licking their brushes, Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey, provided evidence that ingestio…

2000 CE

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

1857 CE

#8981

Soyer's culinary campaign. Being historical reminiscences of the late war. With the plain art of cookery for military and civil institutions, the army, navy, public, etc., etc.

During the Crimean War, Soyer, probably the most famous English celebrity chef of his time, joined the troups at his own expense to advise the army on cooking and diet. "Later he was paid his expenses and wages equiva…

1910 CE

#1638

Stérilisation de grandes quantités d’eau par les rayons ultraviolets.

With A. Helbronner and M. de Recklinghausen.

1995 CE

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

2010 CE

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

1974 CE

#8157

Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone.

Rowland and his post-doctoral student, Molina, suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could reach the stratosphere where they would be dissociated by UV light, releasi…

2021 CE

#13271

Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.

1985 CE

#11060

Structure of the protein subunit in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3 Å resolution.

Discovery of the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, called the photosynthetic reaction center. This was the first elucidation of the 3D crystal structure of any …

1900 CE–1928 CE

#4981

Studies in the psychology of sex. 7 vols.

Ellis's Studies represent a lifetime of research devoted to the subject, at first in the face of bitter opposition.

1922 CE

#1054.1

Studies on experimental rickets. XXI. An experimental demonstration of the existence of a vitamin which promotes calcium deposition.

Discovery of vitamin D. with N. Simmonds, J. E. Becker, and P. G. Shipley.

1950 CE

#3692.1

Studies on mass control of dental caries through fluoridation of the public water supply.

It has not been conclusively demonstrated whether fluoride serves a specific physiological role, but fluoridation of public water supplies was followed by a reduction in the incidence of dental caries. One of the firs…

1937 CE

#1075

Studies on vitamin E. The isolation of β-tocopherol from wheat germ oil.

With F. Bergel and T. S. Work.

1869 CE

#3754

Studii clinici ed esperimentali sulla natura, causa e terapia della pellagra.

Lombroso upheld the maize theory of the origin of pellagra. He believed that the symptoms were caused by a toxin which developed in deteriorated maize. Reprinted from Riv. clin. Bologna, 1869, 8, 289-314, 321-44.

2018 CE

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

1476 CE

#4204

Summa conservationis et curationis. Chirurgia.

Contains (Cap. cxl) his classic account of renal edema: De duritie in renibus, an English translation of which is in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 527. ISTC no. is00032000.

1875 CE

#1703

Supplement to the thirty-fifth annual report of the Registrar-General of Births and Marriages in England.

Includes statistical calculations of the effect on life expectation if certain preventable diseases were eliminated.

1803 CE

#2097

Sur la colique, vulgairement appelée colique des peintres, des plombiers, du plomb, etc.

1890 CE

#12303

Sur les organisms de la nitrification.

In his research on nitrifying bacteria Winogradsky discovered the first known form of chemoautotrophy in which organisms obtain energy by oxidation of electron donors in their environments without the intervention of …

1664 CE

#145.51

Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the preservation of timber in His Majesty’s dominions.

A protest against the careless destruction of England’s forests to fuel the furnaces of the glass and iron industries. The work was influential in establishing a much-needed program of reforestation that had a l…

1933 CE

#1068

Synthese der d- und l-Ascorbinsäure (C-Vitamin).

T. Reichstein, A. Grüssner, and R. Oppenauer synthesized vitamin C.

1933 CE

#14280

Synthesis of ascorbic acid.

Haworth and Hirst successfully synthesized vitamin C in the laboratory. This was the first vitamin to be artificially produced. Their breakthrough made it possible for vitamin C, or ascorbic acid as Haworth called it,…

1936 CE

#1073

Synthesis of vitamin B1.

Synthesis of aneurine.

1939 CE

#1083

Synthesis of vitamin K1.

1943 CE

#1088

Synthetic biotin.

Synthesis of biotin. With D. E. Wolf, R. Mozingo, and K. Folkers.

1779 CE–1827 CE

#1599

System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.

The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and t…

1840 CE

#9555

Tableau de l'état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie, ouvrage entrepris par ordre... de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1531 CE

#7627

Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.

A Christian physician of Baghdad, Ibn Butlān traveled widely, eventually settling in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene and dietetics, Taqwām al-sihhah (The Almanac of Health) presented a guide to medical regimen in tab…

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999 CE

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

2017 CE

#9973

Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.

1967 CE

#1671.62

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.

1887 CE

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

2000 CE

#13318

The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.

According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and…

1929 CE

#1061

The absorption spectrum of vitamin D.

See No. 1065. With C. Fischmann, R. G. C. Jenkins, and T. A. Webster.

1897 CE–1899 CE

#9005

The adult: A journal for the advancement of freedom in sexual relationships. 3 vols.

When I created this entry in February 2017 there was, inexplicably, no digital facsimile of this rare periodical on the web; however, there was an exceptionally excellent and most comprehensive finding aid available f…

1952 CE

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1984 CE

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.