Facets

1920 CE

#3757

The experimental production of pellagra in human subjects by means of diet.

Goldberger was born in Central Europe in poor circumstances. He migrated to America, and following attendance at a lecture by Austin Flint, decided to study medicine. He entered the U. S. Public Health Service in 1899…

1927 CE–1928 CE

#4296

The experimental production of stone-in-the-bladder.

McCarrison’s experiments showed that urinary calculi could follow a diet probably deficient in vitamin A.

1995 CE

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1793 CE

#13897

The family adviser, or, a plain and modern practice of physic; calculated for the use of private families, and accommodated to the diseases of America

Wilkins' book intended for Methodists was issued with the 23rd edition of Wesley's work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1981 CE

#13902

The family book about sexuality.

1837 CE

#10411

The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…

1676 CE

#9511

The family physician, and the house apothecary: Containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of, II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians, III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries, IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's not onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries.

The text of the second edition (1678) is available from Early English Books Online at this link.

2017 CE

#10694

The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2018 CE

#10626

The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2007 CE

#11361

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…

1939 CE

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1958 CE

#9022

The first ten years of the World Health Organization.

Digital facsimile from who.int at this link.

1924 CE

#6350

The food requirements of malnourished infants with a note on the use of insulin.

Marriott introduced the insulin-fattening method of treatment of malnutrition in infants.

1881 CE

#8913

The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.

Darwin's last book, published only 6 months before his death, but reporting on a subject that he had studied for more than 50 years. "He showed the services performed by earthworms in eating leaves and grinding earth …

2000 CE

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

1903 CE

#9029

The geography of disease.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1980 CE

#5434.2

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a s…

2009 CE

#13038

The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.

"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…

1999 CE

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

2007 CE

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2006 CE

#8780

The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.

2006 CE

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

1909 CE

#13476

The great white plague: Tuberculosis.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1996 CE

#10120

The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.

"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…

1910 CE

#11446

The health index of children.

Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…

1887 CE

#1625

The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.

Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…

1995 CE

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

1982 CE

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1994 CE

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

1927 CE

#1655

The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.

1943 CE

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

2021 CE

#13486

The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.

1994 CE

#13654

The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.

1986 CE

#3726

The history of scurvy and vitamin C.

2003 CE

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

1880 CE

#9306

The home hand-book of domestic hygiene and rational medicine.

"Kellogg was not only a physician, surgeon, author, and administrator, but also an inventor. Although less discussed in comparison to his food creations, he designed and improved upon a number of medical devices that …

1959 CE

#13256

The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.

A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.

2005 CE

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

2006 CE

#7962

The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.

1892 CE

#7614

The hygiene, diseases, and mortality of occupations.

Remarkably comprehensive discussion, with an innovative classification, of a very wide range of occupations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1986 CE

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

2013 CE

#8185

The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.

1813 CE

#8211

The influence of tropical climates, more especially the climate of India, on European constitutions; the principal effects and diseases thereby induced, their prevention or removal, and the means of preserving health in hot climates, rendered obvious to to Europeans in every capacity: An essay .

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Enlarged and retitled second edition: The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions: to which is added tropical hygiene, or the preservation of …

1978 CE

#10980

The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.

"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging …

1938 CE

#1077

The isolation and identification of the anti-black tongue factor.

Isolation of nicotinic acid, the pellagra-preventing factor (Vitamin B3). With R. J. Madden, F. N. Strong, and D. W. Woolley.

1936 CE

#1071

The isolation from wheat-germ oil of an alcohol, α-tocopherol, having the properties of vitamin E.

Isolation of vitamin E, named by Herbert M. Evans.

1942 CE

#1087

The isolation of a new oxidation-reduction enzyme from lemon peel (vitamin P).

Isolation of vitamin P (hespendin chalcone).

1939 CE

#1081

The isolation of vitamin K1.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy. In 1943 Doisy received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."…

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …