Facets

1932 CE

#1657.1

The rise of preventive medicine.

2015 CE

#9039

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

1971 CE

#10678

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

1950 CE

#13609

The role of urethra in female orgasm.

"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful…

1861 CE–2005 CE

#6715

The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.

“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this se…

2013 CE

#10552

The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.

1964 CE

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1959 CE

#6548.1

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.

1990 CE

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

2000 CE

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

1845 CE

#9556

The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2008 CE

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

1975 CE

#1671.8

The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.

First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.

1857 CE

#9165

The seaman's medical friend, a companion to the government medicine chest, intended for use in ships not carrying surgeons. Containing directions for the preservation of health and the cure of diseases, wounds, fractures, dislocations, and other accidents likely to occur at sea. Comprising also the Admiralty scale of medicines. Second edition.

"The present edition of The Seaman's Medical Friend is a new book rather than a mere revision of an old one; since the whole of that portion which relates to the Preservation of health, and the symptoms and treatment …

1774 CE

#9519

The seaman's medical instructor, in a course of lectures on accidents and diseases incident to seamen, in the various climates of the world. Calculated for ships that carry no surgeon. The whole delivered in a plain language and founded upon a long and successful experience.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1955 CE

#7757

The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…

1932 CE

#12753

The sexual side of marriage.

A very good advice book for its time by a physician. Initially published by a small publisher, this book was rapidly reprinted, many times by W.W. Norton. The cover reprinted an endorsement by Havelock Ellis: "An admi…

1967 CE

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

2016 CE

#8106

The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1996 CE

#10435

The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.

1910 CE

#13159

The sources and modes of infection.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1777 CE

#1598

The state of the prisons in England and Wales.

Howard devoted much of his life to the improvement of the conditions then prevailing in prisons. The publication of his book led to legislation abolishing abuses in prisons and providing for their proper cleaning. The…

1961 CE

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1919 CE

#1653

The story of English public health.

1946 CE

#1667

The story of water supply.

1842 CE

#8916

The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N. During the years 1832 to 1836.

With slight modification, Darwin's work remains the accepted explanation for these phenomena. "Even if he had done nothing else, the theory of the coral islands alone would have placed Darwin in the very front of inve…

1934 CE

#145.66

The struggle for existence.

Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.

1974 CE

#11369

The surgical construction of male genitalia for the female-to-male transsexual.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Noe, Birdsell, Laub.

1617 CE

#2144

The surgions mate, or, A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest: the uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of the medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at sea: namely, wounds, apostumes, vlcers, fistulaes, fractures, dislocations, with the true maner of amputation, the cure of the scuruie, the fluxes of the belly, of the collica and illiaca passio, tenasmus, and exitus ani, the callenture; with a briefe explanation of sal, sulphur, and mercury; with certaine characters, and tearmes of arte.

Woodall was the surgeon-general to the East India Company. This was the first textbook for naval surgeons. Woodall, surgeon to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, was an early advocate of limes and lemons as a preventive me…

2001 CE

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

1967 CE

#8155

The theory of island biogeography.

MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.

1788 CE

#13593

The theory of rain.

In this paper on the operation of the water-cycle in meteorology Hutton hypothesized that rain was caused by a mixture of air currents of differing temperatures, either saturated or nearly saturated with moisture. "Hi…

2022 CE

#13903

The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.

1966 CE

#11373

The transsexual phenomenon.

"A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female."

1914 CE

#3755

The treatment and prevention of pellagra.

With C. H. Waring and D. G. Willets. A collection of Goldberger’s most important papers with a list of his publications appeared in 1964.

1929 CE

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

1928 CE

#1060

The tripartite nature of vitamin B.

Vitamin B3.

1942 CE

#145.67

The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology.

“The birth of ecosystem ecology” (McIntosh). Lindeman described energy flow in ecosystems in a form amenable to productive abstract analysis. This paper introduced what came to be known as the "Ten percent…

1986 CE

#6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

2012 CE

#14331

The vitamin A story: Lifting the shadow of death.

(Thanks to Malcolm Kottler for this reference.)

1946 CE

#3709

The vitamins in medicine.

4th edition, 2 vols, 1980.

1931 CE

#1066

The vitamins.

1683 CE

#9308

The way to health, long life and happiness, or, a discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit for the life of man as all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise, &c. with special directions how to use each of them to be the best advantage of the body and mind. Shewing from the true ground of nature whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the like never before published / communicated to the world for a general good, by Philotheos Physiologus.

Tryon, an English merchant, was the author of popular self-help books and an early advocate of vegetarianism. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1911 CE

#9180

The world of life: A manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose.

"Wallace's comments on environment grew more strident later in his career. In The World of Life (1913) he wrote: "These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as inve…

1973 CE

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1492 CE

#1960

Thesaurus pauperum. [Italian:] Tesoro de poveri. Tr: Zucchero Bencivenni.

One of the most popular medical books of the Middle Ages; first written about 1260. After its first printing about 1492 it was reprinted many times in the next 100 years. "Petrus Hispanus was the only practicing physi…

1878 CE

#3719

Three cases of scurvy supervening on rickets in young children.

Infantile scurvy was confused with rickets until Cheadle differentiated between the two conditions.