Facets

1861 CE–1867 CE

#14159

Atlas des peripherischen Nervensystems des menschlichen Körpers / Atlas du système nerveux périphérique du corps humain. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Th. W. L. Bischoff, nach der Natur photographirt von Joseph Alb. 10 parts.

Issued in 10 parts in folio (510 x 360 mm). Includes 46 large-format original photographs mounted on sheets of cardboard.

2012 CE

#9458

Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.

2012 CE

#9418

Atlas of human brain connections.

The authors combined the science of diffusion tensor imaging with the art of tractography: Spectacular color images.

1896 CE

#9639

Atlas of nerve cells. With the cooperation of Oliver S. Strong and Edward Leaming.

Photomicrographs by Leaming. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2006 CE

#12732

Atlas of regional anatomy of the brain using MRI with functional correlations

Though this book is intended for clinical and neurosurgical applications, the authors take an historical approach. Chapter 1 is "Historical review of cross-sectional anatomy of the brain."

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…

1895 CE

#3335

Autoskopie des Larynx und der Trachea. (Laryngoscopia directa, Euthyskopie, Besichtigung ohne Spiegel.)

First direct-vision laryngoscope.

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…

2013 CE

#8513

BabMed - Babylonian medicine: Corpora

http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html "On the following pages, there are several draft versions: Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 1, Tf. 1-50 Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 2, Tf. 51-107 …

2017 CE

#8517

Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…

1932 CE

#269.3

Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik.

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

1877 CE

#2487

Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Anilinfärbungen und ihrer Verwendung in der mikroskopischen Technik.

Ehrlich’s first paper on the staining of specific granulation in white blood corpuscles by means of aniline dyes. His work immensely affected subsequent technical methods of staining.

1862 CE

#3269

Beiträge zur Laryngoscopie.

Lewin was probably the first to extirpate a laryngeal growth with the aid of the laryngoscope. Bruns claimed this distinction, but may not have heard of Lewin.

1928 CE

#2856.1

Beiträge zur Lehre von den angeborenen Herzfehlern.

Roesler described the most important roentgenologic sign of aortic coarctation.

1913 CE

#13264

Beiträge zur Pathologie und Klinik der Mammacarcinome.

In a study of 3,000 mastectomies, Salomon compared X-rays of the beasts (mammograms) to the actual removed tissue, paying close attention to microcalcifications. In doing so he was able to establish the difference in …

1872 CE

#2173

Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Schusswunden.

Klebs filtered the discharges from gunshot wounds, found the filtrate to be non-infectious, and from that reasoned that traumatic septicemia is of bacterial origin. He was the first to filter bacteria and to experimen…

1851 CE

#5866

Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge.

Invention of the ophthalmoscope, one of the greatest events in the history of ophthalmology. English translation by T. H. Shastid, Chicago, Cleveland Press, 1916.

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.

2010 CE

#13016

Bibliography on medieval women, gender, and medicine 1980-2009. (Latest update: February 2, 2010).

"This bibliography comprises all the entries that appeared in the bibliography on “Women and Medicine” that I published periodically in the Medieval Feminist Forum (formerly, Medieval Feminist Newsletter) …

2010 CE

#9619

Biblioteca digitale di testi latin tardoantichi.

http://digiliblt.lett.unipmn.it/index.php "The Digital library of late-antique Latin texts – digilibLT – publishes prose texts written in Latin in the late antiquity (from the 2nd to the 7th century AD). T…

2011 CE

#9840

Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Paris: Université Paris Descartes. Guy Cobolet, Curator General.

http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/index.php One of the most comprehensive portals and digital libraries for the history of medicine and dentistry. History of health Digital libraries Medic @ Digital Libra…

2002 CE

#10238

BioDigital.

https://www.biodigital.com/ "The Word's First Human Visualization Platform: Anatomy, Disease & Treatments— all in interactive 3D. Web, Mobile and Augmented Reality "the virtual body as the health equivalent of G…

2005 CE

#8858

Biodiversity Heritage Library

BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ "The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their co…

1955 CE

#9037

Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society.

http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year/royobits "November 1955 "Obituaries of Royal Society Fellows first appeared in 1830, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Initially obituaries were read…

1877 CE–2021 CE

#12940

Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal and scholarly views of America's most distinguished scientists.

http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/ "Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagu…

2006 CE

#8801

Biotech: The countercultural foundations of an industry.

1904 CE

#2561

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

1914 CE

#13877

Book of monsters.

The first book of macro photographs (extreme close-up photography) of insects.

2011 CE

#10549

Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…

2009 CE

#9956

Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine.

http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife 'Brought to Life', is a website provided by the Science Museum, London. It offers access to images of thousands of fascinating objects from the Museum’s gr…

2015 CE

#10556

Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.

https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/

1939 CE

#6654

BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 7-

Vol. 1-6, 1933-38 entitled Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine. Recent issues may be viewed from Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24 .

2021 CE

#13677

C'rona pandemic comics.

https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/crona-comix/

1896 CE

#3636

Calculs du rein. Calculs de la vésicule biliaire.

Chappuis and Chauvel were the first to study biliary concretions by means of Roentgen rays.

1997 CE

#9596

California Digital Library.

http://www.cdlib.org "The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being pu…

2019 CE

#12407

Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.

"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…

2014 CE

#13738

Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.

https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive Open access (OA) electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on t…

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 …

2017 CE

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

1902 CE

#2625.1

Cancroid des rechten Handrückens.

Frieben reported the carcinogenic effect of x-rays in man.

c. 1990 CE

#13586

Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …

1877 CE–1879 CE

#11147

Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, publié sous les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. 5 vols. text plus 4 vols. atlas.

Detailed catalogue, illustrated by photography, of the Musée Dupuytren, a museum of gross pathology. When this catalogue was published the museum contained about 6000 items.

1953 CE

#2924.2

Catheter replacement of the needle in percutaneous angiography. A new technique.

Percutaneous arterial catheterization.

2009 CE

#9837

Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Blog

https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?page_id=2 Of all the blogs produced by history of medicine departments at university libraries that I had seen in February 2018 this appeared to be one of the most active.

1994 CE

#10499

CERL. Consortium of European Research Libraries

https://www.cerl.org/resources/main "The Consortium was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. CERL seeks to share resources and exp…

1977 CE

#11208

Charles Darwin: An annotated bibliographical handlist

This bibliography has been extensively supplemented by the Freeman Bibliographical Database at Darwin Online edited by John van Wyhe. "The database has been supplemented by the entries from unpublished manuscript corr…

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 …

1962 CE

#2924.3

Cine-coronary arteriography.

Coronary arteriography. Sones first performed this technique in 1958, and first published a more detailed account of it in a 1960 book chapter: "Cinecardioangiography," pp. 130-144 in B. L. Gordon (ed.) Clinical cardi…

1955 CE

#2700.2

Cineradiography with an image amplifier: a practical technique.

Electron optical image intensifier, 1953.

2013 CE

#9960

Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine. Elizabeth A. Mullen, Managing Editor.

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/ "Free things like air, Vital things like blood, Living things like ideas… Circulate. "For over 175 years the National Library of Medicine’s historical collections have …