Facets

1941 CE

#1533

Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.

Electroretinography

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1916 CE

#6370

Contribution à l’étude d’une épidémie de dysenterie dans la Somme (juillet–octobre 1916).

Includes several references to the condition later known as “Reiter’s syndrome” (No. 6371).

1860 CE

#2249

Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.

Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.

1871 CE

#9655

Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China for the use of medical missionaries & native medical students.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1980 CE

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus …

1976 CE

#14222

Correlation of glucose regulation and hemoglobin AIc in diabetes mellitus.

The authors studied 5 diabetic patients and first realized that A1c was an ideal index to reveal the overall control of a patient’s blood sugar over the past several months before a doctor’s visit. They we…

1844 CE–1845 CE

#267.1

Cours de microscopie. 1 vol. and atlas.

Donne's and Foucault's work was the first biomedical textbook to be illustrated with images made from photomicrographs, in this case daguerreotypes of blood cells. Among its noteworthy images are the first microphotog…

2020 CE

#12186

COVID-19 COMPILER. MAP

https://covid19.topos.com/ "COVID-19 Compiler aims to display relevant data about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. "Our goal is to provide a multidimensional view of covid-19’s impact in coun…

1988 CE

#8640

Critical care nursing: A history

1984 CE

#14184

Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses.

Dubochet and colleagues introduced "Dubochet's vitrification method" to vitrify water by cooling it so rapidly that it solidified to form a glass instead of crystals. Using this method, the authors published the first…

1969 CE

#6610.8

Das Bild des Kranken. Die Darstellung äusserer Veränderungen Durch innere Leiden und ihrer Heilmassnahmen von der Renaissance bis in unsere Zeit.

1911 CE

#269.2

Das Fluoreszenzmikroskop.

Fluorescence microscopy

1935 CE

#269.5

Das Phasenkontrastverfahren b.d. mikroskopischen Beobachtung.

Zernicke invented phase contrast microscopy. In 1953 Zernike was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope."

1545 CE

#378

De dissectione partium corporis humani.

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres by French physician, writer, and translator, Charles Estienne, of the Estienne printing dynasty, is one of the most interesting woodcut books of the French Renaissance…

1472 CE

#6315

De infantium aegritudinibus et remediis.

The first printed book dealing exclusively with pediatrics. This was also the first medical treatise, and probably also the first scientific treatise, to make its original appearance in printed form rather than having…

1736 CE

#5195

De morbis venereis libri sex.

A comprehensive book on the subject, including a careful review of the existing literature. Astruc stated that syphilis first appeared in Europe in 1493. The book was translated into English in 1737. Digital facsimile…

1717 CE

#5232

De noxiis paludum effluviis, eorumque remediis.

Lancisi suggested that since malaria disappears after drainage it was due to some sort of poison emanating from marshes and possibly transmitted by mosquitoes. He planned a drainage scheme for marshy regions. His work…

1563 CE

#4916

De praestigiis daemonum.

Weyer was the first European physician to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of the witchcraft delusion he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved hum…

1467 CE

#2190

De sermonum proprietate sive Opus de universo.

Also known as De rerum naturis. This dictionary or encyclopedia is the earliest known printed book to include a section dealing with medicine, and this brief section, Book 18, Chap. V concerning medicine and diseases,…

1665 CE

#2246

De siriasi.

A treatise on sunstroke.

1655 CE

#261

De vero telescopii inventore.

Borel collected evidence to show that Zacharias (sometimes called Zacharias Janssen) invented the compound microscope about 1590. Zacharias was a spectacle-maker of Middelburg, Holland.

1866 CE

#5792

De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.

Trendelenburg’s graduation thesis on the ancient Hindu systems of medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1820 CE

#266

De' microscopj catadiottrici memoria.

Amici constructed the first microscope with achromatic lenses and suggested water-immersion for improved achromatic lenses of the compound microscope. The 1820 publication of his paper indicates that it was "Approvata…

1919 CE

#6363

Defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos, and diabetes insipidus; an unusual syndrome of dyspituitarism; a clinical study. IN: Contributions to medical and biological research, dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 390-401.

“Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome”.

1564 CE

#6792

Definitionum medicarum libri xxiii.

This dictionary arranges all Greek medical terms in order of the Greek alphabet, and carefully explains them in Latin. It was widely used, and exerted much influence on modern medical terminology.

1639 CE

#6796

Definitionum medicinarum liber.

A glossary of Hippocratic terms.

1907 CE

#2338

Der diagnostische Wert der kutanen Tuberkulinreaktion bei der Tuberkulose des Kindesalters auf Grund von 100 Sektionen.

Introduction of Pirquet’s test – a cutaneous reaction employed in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

1863 CE

#14165

Der Gebrauch des Spektroskopes zu physiologischen und ärztlichen Zwecken.

The first monograph on medical spectroscopy. After Hoppe-Seyler published the first paper on the application of spectroscopy to blood chemistry in 1862 (No. 870), Valentin decided to publish his own contributions to t…

2013 CE

#10564

Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.

Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples.

1945 CE

#3104

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 25…

2000 CE

#12373

Devices and desires: Gender, technology, and American nursing.

"Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurs…

1753 CE

#7800

Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliothèque anatomique et physiologique.

An anatomical dictionary with most of the entries cross referenced to related structures, followed by a very extensive bibliography of anatomical and physiological works. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1564 CE

#6791

Dictionarium medicum.

This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exercised considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology. It was an important aid…

1988 CE

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1959 CE

#8757

Dictionary of medical slang and related esoteric expressions.

This book by the physician chairman of the National Association on Standard Medical Vocabulary includes many terms and phrases that were found in any other dictionary with the word medical in the title. Digital facsim…

1971 CE

#6809

Dictionary of medical syndromes.

Second edition with E. Scrasia, 1981.

2016 CE

#9795

Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.

Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…

1990 CE

#12453

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.

1990 CE

#9802

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.

1854 CE

#8892

Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique et de salubrité ou répertoire de toutes les questions relatives à la santé publique, considérées dans leurs rapports avec les subsistances, les épidémies, les professions, les établissements et institutions d'hygiène et de salubrité, complété par le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachen. 3 vols.

For the second edition (1862) Tardieu expanded the work to 4 volumes. Tardieu described the terrible working conditions of children in factories and mines. He also reported the ill consequences of theses conditions on…

1895 CE–1928 CE

#646

Dictionnaire de physiologie. Vols. 1 - 10, pt. 1. (All published).

By Richet, Langlois, Lapique and numerous co-authors. Covers "A" - Moelle épinière only. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1812 CE–1822 CE

#2208

Dictionnaire des sciences médicales par un Société de médecins et de chirurgiens. 60 vols.

1865 CE–1889 CE

#8071

Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales. Directeur: A. Dechambre. 100 vols.

A massive encyclopedia based on historical principles, written by the leading authorities, and with detailed bibliographical references. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1828 CE–1839 CE

#6709.1

Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne, ou précis de l'histoire générale, technologique et littéraire de la médecine, suivie de la bibliographie médicale du dix-neuvième siècle, et d'un répertoire bibliographique par ordre de matières. 4 vols.

Biographical essays with annotated bibliographies of the authors cited. The title pages of vols. 2-4 indicate that they were written by Dezeimeris alone. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet A…

1775 CE

#10137

Dictionnaire raisonné d'hippiatrique, cavalerie, manège et maréchallerie. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1746 CE–1748 CE

#12628

Dictionnaire universel de médecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, d'anatomie, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, &c. Précédé d'un discours historique sur l'origine et les progrès de la médecine. Traduit de l'anglois de M. James. Revue, corrigé & augmenté par M. Julien Busson. 6 vols.

James, it may be assumed, had little or nothing to do with this translation, because copyright between England and France was essentially non-existent at the time. In the process of supervising this large publication,…

1929 CE

#12741

Die chinesische Medizin zu Beginn des XX. Jahrhunderts und ihr historischer Entwicklungsgang.

1913 CE

#5066

Die Diphtherietoxin – Hautreaktion des Menschen als Vorprobe der prophylaktischen Diphtherieheilseruminjektion.

Schick developed his test for use as an indication as to whether or not prophylactic injections of antitoxin are necessary in children already exposed to diphtheria. English translation in J. Mt. Sinai Hosp., 1938, 5,…

1931 CE

#6804

Die Eigennamen in der Krankheitsterminologie.

This dictionary of medical eponyms gives references to the original publications involved and records wherever possible the first use of the eponym.