Facets

1832 CE

#10463

A treatise on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in India; together with the reports of the medical officers, made to the medical boards of the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, for the purpose of ascertaining a successful mode of treating that destructive disease; And a critical examination of all the works that have hitherto appeared on the subject.

Corbyn mapped the history of cholera in India within British regimental stations. He included the date of each reported outbreak in a table of British regimental locations to describe the temporal progression of the d…

1475 CE

#6789

Aggregator, sive de medicinis simplicibus.

First printed edition of an encyclopedic dictionary of medicine, containing a large number of medical recipes based upon Greek and Arabic sources. Dondi completed the work in 1355. Manuscripts of his text are preserve…

1924 CE

#6372

Aleukämische Reticulose. (Ein Beitrag zu den proliferativen Erkrankungen des Retikuloendothelialapparates.)

“Letterer–Siwe disease”; see also No. 6373.

2007 CE

#8557

Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.

Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…

1988 CE–2000 CE

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

2010 CE

#9931

American nursing: A history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work.

1767 CE

#12397

An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.

Holwell's account of smallpox variolation in India prior to Jenner has been disputed by historians. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1849 CE

#13868

An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body, with descriptive letter-press in English and Hindustani.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1951 CE

#269.8

An electrostatic focusing system and its application to a fine focus x-ray tube.

X-ray microscopy.

1884 CE

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1837 CE

#8209

An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1748 CE

#6322

An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age.

Cadogan’s famous essay laid down rules on the nursing, feeding, and clothing of infants, and filled a great need at a time when infant welfare was much neglected through the ignorance of those concerned. As a re…

1950 CE

#7568

An inferometer microscope.

Dyson designed one of the first usable interference microscopes This optical system achieved interference imaging without requiring polarizing elements in the beam path.

1797 CE

#7687

An inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.

Includes four early plot maps; Seaman was one of the first to create maps that attempted to show the spread of contagious disease.

1838 CE–1857 CE

#11117

Anatomie microscopique. Tome premier: Histologie. Atlas de cinquante-deux planches. Tome second: Histogénèse. Atlas de quarante planches. 2 vols.

This work was issued in parts over nearly 20 years. Parts concerned specific subjects and were sold separately. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link, and at this link.

1964 CE

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1918 CE

#2894.1

Angina pectoris: changes in electrocardiogram during paroxysm.

First electrocardiogram recorded (1917) from a patient with angina pectoris.

2008 CE

#9004

Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1966 CE

#11105

Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method.

The disk diffusion test, or agar diffusion test, or Kirby–Bauer test (disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test, KB test), for the antibiotic sensitivity of bacter…

2005 CE

#9983

Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.

1989 CE

#9730

Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.

1976 CE

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1921 CE

#1527

Atlas der Spaltlampenmikroskopie des lebenden Auges.

An important work on the biomicroscopy of the eye. Second ed. greatly revised and enlarged, vol. 1-2, Springer, 1930-31; vol. 3, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1942; vol. 3 (English translation) Zurich, 1947. Second ed. reprinte…

2012 CE

#9458

Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.

1962 CE

#10506

Atlas of the British flora.

A pioneering large-scale project in plant distribution cartography, containing 10-km square distribution maps for all non-critical native and frequently occurring alien vascular plant species found in Britain and Irel…

1997 CE

#13678

Attorney's illustrated medical dictionary.

1872 CE

#13212

Autumnal catarrh (Hay fever) with three maps.

Wyman conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of hay fever. He then collected data from correspondents and published the first pollen maps of the U.S. so that sufferers could plan vacations i…

1987 CE

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

1932 CE

#269.3

Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik.

Electron microscope. See also their later paper in Z. Physik. 1932, 78, 318.

1913 CE

#12743

Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.

Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870 CE

#268

Beschreibung eines Mikrotoms.

His was, more than any other person, responsible for the introduction of the microtome, although Ranvier and other French people had earlier employed microtomes of simpler types.

1989 CE

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1904 CE

#2561

Blood immunity and blood relationship, a demonstration of certain blood relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood.

1991 CE

#10265

Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.

Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.

1989 CE

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1980 CE

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1980 CE

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

1927 CE

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1827 CE

#10507

Charte über die geographische Ausbreitung der Krankheiten.

The first world map of the distribution of human disease. For Schnurrer's work in epidemiology and his map, which was published separately from his books, see Brömer, "The first global map of the distribution of …

2004 CE

#9382

Chinese medical herbology and pharmacology.

This book, which extends to nearly 1200 pages, and represents the work of numerous experts, is the most comprehensive modern treatise on the subject of which I am aware.

2014 CE

#14329

Chinese medicinal identification: An illustrated approach.

"For centuries, pharmacists and clinicians have relied on the traditional method of macroscopic identification to assess the quality and authenticity of medicinal materials. Macroscopic identification uses the naked s…

2013 CE

#7034

Chinese medicine and healing. An illustrated history.

Contributions from 53 scholars, edited by Hinrichs and Barnes.

1980 CE

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

1832 CE

#8806

Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1856 CE

#10112

Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.

One of the most comprehensive studies of disease in India during the mid-19th century; includes 556 case reports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1845 CE

#7169

Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.

Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1981 CE

#14183

Computer averaging of electron micrographs of the 405 ribosomal subunit.

Frank and colleagues developed a method that allows sorting of particle images into classes based on their orientation, as well as their structural features. Specifically Frank developed mathematical tools used for im…

1969 CE

#10611

Computerized mapping of disease and environmental data. A report of the Mapping of Disease (MOD) Project.

This appears to be the earliest monograph on computerized disease mapping. At the time the research was conducted both computer graphics processing and data output in mainframe computers were inadequate for drawing al…

1945 CE

#3105

Conglutination test for Rh sensitization.

Conglutination test.