Facets

2004 CE

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

1478 CE–1482 CE

#5115

Tractatus de pestilentia.

The most widely disseminated of all plague tracts from the time of the Black Death, of which 33 printed editions appeared in the 15th century. A French rhymed version appeared in 1476, but this version is very differe…

1886 CE

#11163

Traité d'hygiène industrielle, à l'usage des médecins et des membres des conseils d'hygiène.

Poincaré reviewed 105 industries. He was the father of mathematician Henri Poincaré. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1934 CE

#2010

Traité de climatologie biologique et médicale. Publié sous la direction de M. Piéry. 3 vols.

1877 CE–1880 CE

#1779

Traité de climatologie médicale, 4 vols. and 1 atlas.

1857 CE

#8190

Traité de géographie et de statistique médicales et des maladies endémiques comprenant la météorologie et la géologie médicales, les lois stastisuqes de la population et de la mortalité, la distribution géographique des malades et la pathologie comparée des races humaines. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Google Books at this link; of vol. 2 from BnF Gallica at this link.

1866 CE

#3753

Traité de la pellagre et des pseudo-pellagres.

Roussel was awarded a prize of 5,000 francs for this work.

1612 CE

#9518

Traité des hermaphrodits parties génitales accouchements des femmes et traitement qui est requis pour les relever en santé, et bien élever leurs enfants. Où sont expliquez la figure des laboureur, et verger du genre humain, signes de pucelage, defloration, conception, et la belle industrie dont use nature en la promotion du concept et plante prolifique.

In 1601 the Rouen physician Duval was summoned by the Rouen parlement to examine Marie Le Marcis, who at the age of 20 had discovered she was a man and had determined to marry, only to be imprisoned for lesbianism and…

1839 CE

#2098

Traité des maladies de plomb ou saturnines. 2 vols.

Classical description of the diseases found among lead workers. Reporting on 1200 cases of lead poisoning, Tanquerel’s studies were so complete that later studies added little to knowledge of the symptoms and si…

1822 CE

#9326

Traité des maladies des artisans, et de celles qui résultent des diverse professions, d'après Ramazzini; Ouvrage dans lequel on indique les précautions que doivent prendre, sous le rapport de la salubrité publique et particulière, les fabricans, les manufacturiers, les chefs d'ateliers, les artistes, et toutes les personnes qui exercent des professions insalubres.

This second French edition of Ramazzini's De morbis artificum diabriba by Philibert Patissier provides so much new material on the diseases of workers in France as to virtually double the length of Ramazzini’s t…

1685 CE

#11128

Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux, et dans la route, et de leurs Remèdes. Par M.C.D.D.E.M.

At the age of 17, Dellon, who is sometimes referred to as Gabriel Dellon, embarked as second surgeon aboard the ship La Force. He arrived at Darman, in the Portuguese Indies, in 1673, where he was doctor to Luis de Me…

1877 CE–1883 CE

#8528

Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.

Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar&r…

1819 CE

#13610

Traité historique et pratique du scorbut, chez l'homme et les animaux, dans lequel se trouvent des observations intéressantes sur le traitement de quelques maladies, comme de la vénérienne, de la scrophuleuse, etc., et qui est suivi de plusieurs considérations sur les qualités, les devoirs et les prérogative du vrai médecin, et sur ses relations avec ses collégues et les différents membres de la société.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2014 CE

#11359

Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.

1979 CE

#6667

TRANSACTIONS AND STUDIES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. MEDICINE AND HISTORY. Series V, 1-

1969 CE

#11413

Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.

Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …

2007 CE

#11370

Transsexual and other disorders of gender identity: A practical guide to management. Edited by James Barrett.

1623 CE

#2262.1

Tratado de las siete enfermedades, de la inflammacion universal del higado, zirbo, pyloron, y riñones, y de la obstrucion, de la satiriasi, de la terciana y febre maligna, y passion hipocondriaca. Lleva otros tres tratados, del mal de Loanda, del guzano, y de las fuentes y sedales.

The first important work on tropical diseases. Only six copies of the original edition of this book are known. It includes full accounts of malaria, typhoid, and scurvy, and the first accurate descriptions of yellow f…

1558 CE

#1592

Trattato de la vita sobria.

Garrison considered this “the best treatise on personal hygiene and the simple life in existence”. Cornaro was called the Apostle of Senescence. "When he was about 40, Cornaro found himself exhausted and i…

2001 CE

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

1803 CE

#7367

Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission.To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal.

Wittman described the plague and other epidemics that afflicted both the Ottoman and British armies. In the Appendix he provided medical suggestions for treatment, together with a history of the plague. Digital facsim…

1878 CE

#9174

Tropical nature and other essays.

"Wallace's extensive work in biogeography made him aware of the impact of human activities on the natural world. In Tropical Nature and Other Essays (1878), he warned about the dangers of deforestation and soil erosio…

1999 CE

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

1936 CE

#1071.1

Über das Bios-Problem. Darstellung von krystallisiertem Biotin aus Eigelb.

Isolation of biotin (vitamin H).

1803 CE

#13856

Über die Krankheiten der Künstler und Handwerker, nach den Tabellen des Instituts für Kranke Gesellen der Künstler und Handwerker in Würzburg von den Jahren 1786 bis 1802 .

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1901 CE

#12789

Über oligonitrophile Mikroben.

Discovery of nitrogen fixation, the process by which diatomic nitrogen gas is converted to ammonium ions and becomes available to plants. Bacteria perform nitrogen fixation, dwelling inside root nodules of certain pla…

1859 CE

#3718

Ueber akute Rachitis.

Möller was the first to describe the acute form of rickets combined with scurvy now associated with the name of Barlow (No. 3720).

1820 CE

#13385

Ueber angeborne menschliche Missbildungen im Allgemeinen und Hermaphroditen insbesondere. Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie, pathologischen Anatomie, und gerichtlichen Arzneiwissenschaft.

Includes an account of the Prussian intersex man, Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835). With two hand-colored plates of hermaphroditic genitalia. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1896 CE

#13046

Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche.

Arrhenius used basic principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth's increasing surface temperature, the "greenhouse effect."

1868 CE

#5376

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.

Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin …

1881 CE

#1042

Ueber die Bedeutung der anorganischen Salze für die Ernährung des Thiers.

Working in Bunge’s laboratory, Lunin prepared synthetic milk diets and showed that they lacked an unknown factor necessary for animal growth, and that animals cannot live on a chemically pure (i.e. vitamin-free)…

1868 CE

#1616

Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.

Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.

1916 CE

#2643

Ueber die künstliche Erzeugung von Karzinom.

First experimental production of tar cancer in rabbits by painting with tar products. This was the first proof of chemical carcinogenesis.

1897 CE

#5128

Ueber die Pestepidemie in Formosa.

Ogata considered the flea (principally Xenopsylla cheopis) to be the principal, if not the sole, vector of bubonic plague infection.

1862 CE

#1613

Ueber eine Methode die Kohlensäure in der atmosphärischen Luft zu bestimmen.

Pettenkofer was the founder of experimental hygiene; he was the first to institute a laboratory for hygienic investigation.

1913 CE

#2915

Ueber experimentelle Cholesterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse.

Anichkov and Chalatov of St. Petersburg, Russia, discovered that atherosclerosis of large arteries is critically dependent on cholesterol. (Translated in Arteriosclerosis, 1983, 3, 178-182). The inflammatory nature of…

1869 CE

#1617

Ueber gewisse, die Gesundheit benachtheiligende Einflüsse der Schulen.

Improvements in school hygiene and the regular inspection of school children were brought about by the efforts of Virchow. English translation, New York, 1871. Virchow’s papers on public health were collected, a…

1867 CE

#2125.1

Ueber Staubinhalationskrankheiten der Lungen.

Zenker described siderosis and suggested the term “pneumonokoniosis” as a suitable general title for diseases due to inhaled dust.

1926 CE

#2345

Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen.

Gerson introduced a salt-restricted diet in the treatment of tuberculosis; this was subsequently modified by Sauerbruch and Herrmannsdorfer, becoming known as the “Gerson–Sauerbruch–Hermannsdorfer di…

1891 CE

#2506.1

Ueber Wasserfiltration durch Filter aus gebrannter Infusorienerde.

Berkefeld kieselguhr filter.

1862 CE

#2166

Un souvenir de Solferino.

Dunant’s account of the great sufferings endured by the wounded at Solferino inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863, and resulted in the Geneva Convention of 1864. I…

2009 CE

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

2007 CE

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

1947 CE

#1090

Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.

Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.

1885 CE

#3731

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis.

Hess considered this the foremost contribution to the subject during the 19th century.

1885 CE

#10383

Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.

On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1995 CE

#13317

Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. Edited by Frank A. Sloan.

2016 CE

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

1926 CE

#145.64

Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d’individui in specie animali conviventi.

The mathematician Volterra created the basic equations for two species interactions. Abridged English translation as appendix to R. Chapman, Animal ecology, New York, 1931.