Facets

1984 CE

#10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

1973 CE

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1906 CE

#1044

The analyst and the medical man.

Hopkins predicted the existence of vitamins as early as 1906. He fed animals a diet of zein which failed to maintain growth; however, the animals grew at once when casein was substituted. He concluded that “in t…

1926 CE

#1058.1

The anti-rachitic properties of irradiated sterols.

Proof that the irradiation of ergosterol formed vitamin D.

1986 CE

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific …

1985 CE

#145.91

The background of ecology: concept and theory.

1908 CE

#9307

The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.

"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…

2007 CE

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

1950 CE

#8779

The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.

"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…

2006 CE

#9265

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

1997 CE

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

1988 CE

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1859 CE

#7720

The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married: on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth.

Possibly the most enlightened, and detailed book on sex, reproduction, and contraception published during this period; illustrated in color. In addition to outlining the era's five most reliable methods of contracepti…

1547 CE

#1591

The breviary of helthe, for all manner of syckenesses and diseases the whiche may be in man, or woman doth folowe.

This, probably the earliest “modern” work on hygiene, throws some light on the condition of that subject in the 16th century.

1950 CE

#11571

The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).

In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…

2013 CE

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …

2000 CE

#7425

The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.

An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.

1993 CE

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

1534 CE

#12223

The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued.

A few copies are dated 1534, but by internal evidence they cannot be dated before 1536. The next printing was in 1539. Digital text from Old English Books Online at this link.

1912 CE

#12589

The causes and prevention of miners' nystagmus.

Abstract "Miners' nystagmus is an occupational neurosis which is confined to workers in coal mines. The chief symptom and physical sign is a rotatory oscillation of the eyeballs, which prevents the miner from accurate…

2010 CE

#9953

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library

https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1937 CE

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1807 CE

#1602.1

The code of health and longevity; or, a concise view of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. 4 vols.

One of the most comprehensive works on gerontology ever written, with a bibliography of 1800 references, supplemented by abstracts, translated excerpts from ancient authors, national data, etc.

1946 CE

#11819

The common sense book of baby and child care.

One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…

1943 CE

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

Reprinted 1980.

1940 CE

#1082

The constitution of vitamin K2.

Structural formula of vitamin K2.

2015 CE

#11807

The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.

2017 CE

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

1951 CE

#9266

The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7.

Digital facsimile from WHO.int at this link.

1955 CE

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

2016 CE

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

1598 CE

#2262

The cures of the diseased, in remote regions. Preventing mortalitie, incident in forraine attempts, of the English nation.

This book is the earliest work in English devoted to tropical medicine. It discusses sunstroke, tabardilla (possibly typhus or yellow fever), prickly heat, dysentery, erysipelas and scurvy. Facsimile reproduction, wit…

1948 CE

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

1980 CE

#7970

The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.

Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.

1997 CE

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

2011 CE

#13319

The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.

1940 CE

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1955 CE

#2137.01

The diseases of occupations.

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raf…

1935 CE

#8619

The doctor's bill. With an introduction by A. Lawrence Powell.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1994 CE

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1927 CE

#3724

The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.

Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.

1873 CE

#10482

The effects of high atmospheric pressure, including the caisson disease.

Classic study of caisson disease. Smith was "Late Surgeon to the New York Bridge Co. (Caisson Work)", treating workmen who built the Brooklyn Bridge. The Eads Bridge (St. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City)…

1831 CE

#2123

The effects of the principal arts, trades and professions, and of civic states and habits of living on health and longevity.

The first systematic publication in Great Britain on industrial disease and its prevention. For comprehensiveness, first-hand clinical experience and constructive proposals for improvements, Thackrah’s monograph…

1906 CE

#1045

The elements of the science of nutrition.

A classic exposition of respiratory and intermediary metabolism. Fourth edition, 1928. Reprint of Lusk’s personal annotated copy of the fourth edition, with biography and bibliography of his writings, New York, …

1961 CE

#7200

The encyclopedia of sexual behavior.

1939 CE

#1092.51

The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.

Revised edition, 1958.

1998 CE

#13807

The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.

This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.

1979 CE

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

2002 CE

#9565

The evolution of the conservation movement, 1850-1920.

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government…