Facets

1986 CE

#6786.32

The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.

1786 CE

#11534

The first American edition, An abridgement of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables.

An abridgement of Smellie's obstetrical writings, with plates engraved by the editor and publisher, John Norman, was the first medical book with engraved illustrations published in North America, and also the first bo…

1989 CE

#13311

The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.

1942 CE

#5811

The history and evolution of surgical instruments.

1938 CE

#2682.51

The history of the forceps: An investigation on the occurrence, evolution, and use of the forceps from prehistoric times to the present (with a summary in Danish). Translated by William Ernest Calvert.

Not limited to the obstetric forceps.

1996 CE

#8602

The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.

2000 CE

#7995

The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.

1955 CE

#14312

The maser - new type of microwave amplifier, frequency standard, and spectrometer.

In 1964 Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Alexandr Mihailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of osci…

1899 CE

#2680.01

The mechanics of surgery.

An encyclopedic work that described illustrated and analysed the entire range of instrumentation employed in medical and surgical practice at the end of the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmons…

2013 CE

#10527

The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.

1994 CE

#8140

The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.

The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …

2000 CE

#6904

The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.

1996 CE–1997 CE

#10850

The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.

1941 CE

#5723

The Oxford vaporiser No. 1.

With R. R. Macintosh and K. Mendelssohn. The Oxford vaporiser No. 2 is described in the same journal, pp. 64-66 by S. L. Cowan, R. D. Scott, and S. F. Suffolk.

1707 CE–1710 CE

#2670

The physician’s pulse-watch. 2 vols.

Before watches had hands to record the seconds, Floyer invented a pulse-watch which divided the minute. He was the first to count the pulse with the aid of a watch and to make regular observations on the pulse-rate. T…

1928 CE

#799

The pressure pulses in the cardiovascular system.

Wiggers, professor of physiology at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, contributed much to the knowledge of the circulation and devised several instruments to promote the study of this subject.

1864 CE

#6185

The principles and practice of obstetrics.

Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completi…

1920 CE

#12489

The prophylactic forceps operation.

DeLee's advocacy of prophylactic forceps delivery made forceps deliveries more common. It remains probably his most controversial contribution to obstetrics. "At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920…

1947 CE

#6311

The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.

Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.

1998 CE

#13599

The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec

"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …

1880 CE

#13109

The spectroscope in medicine.

1908 CE

#1435.1

The structure and functions of the cerebellum examined by a new method.

Stereotactic apparatus for the accurate location of electrodes in the brain. The apparatus devised by Horsley and Clarke opened the way to stereotactic surgery of the brain.

1902 CE

#2812

The study of the pulse.

In his classic monograph Mackenzie included (p. 10) a description and illustration of his polygraph, with which he made simultaneous tracings of the pulse, apex beat, etc.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#6488

The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 consists of plates.

2001 CE

#10417

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

2014 CE

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

1958 CE

#3047.11

The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and artificial pacemaker.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weirich, Gott, Lillehei. Attachment of a wire to the ventricular epicardium, and bringing it out percutaneously to an external pacemaker. This was a key development lea…

1959 CE

#3047.10

The use of intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block.

First use of pacemaker for Stokes–Adams syndrome, using dogs as subjects. External power source. See also Furman and Scawadel, John B., "An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes–Adams seizures ," New Engl. J. …

1865 CE

#3334

The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat; with an appendix on rhinoscopy.

1846 CE

#8587

The young stethoscopist; or, the student's aid to auscultation.

Through this book Bowditch established the stethoscope as a diagnostic tool in America. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1907 CE

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1828 CE

#3679.6

Traité complet de l’art du dentiste, d'après l'état actuel des connaissances. Par F. Maury. 2 vols.

Maury probably invented the dental probe. His book also shows one of the earliest illustrations of a dental mouth mirror. According to Quérard, F. Maury is the pseudonym of Auguste Tillet: "Table alphabé…

1826 CE

#14323

Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

Second edition, hugely revised, expanded, and improved. The pagination of the first edition (1819) was 456 pp. in vol. 1 and 472 pp. in vol. 2. The second edition was expanded to 728pp. in vol. 1 and 790 pp. in vol. 2…

1805 CE

#12855

Traité des maladies de la bouche d'après l'état actuel des connoissances en medécine et en chirurgie, qui comprend la structure et les fonctions de la bouche, l'histoire de ses maladies, les moyens d'en conserver la santé et la beauté et les operations particulières à l'art du dentiste.

Gariot promoted himself as "Dentist to King of Spain." "The invention of articulators for holding the casts of artifical teeth is attributed to ...J. B. Gariot. Gariot designed his first model in 1805 from impressions…

2001 CE

#7959

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…

1929 CE

#1446

Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.

First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity…

1868 CE

#819.1

Über den zeitlichen Verlauf der negativen Schwankung des Nervenstroms.

Bernstein introduced the differential rheotome, and the first electrocardiograms were obtained with it by Marchand in 1877 (No. 823.1).

1854 CE–1855 CE

#1509

Ueber die Accommodation des Auges.

Helmholtz determined the optical constants and explained the mechanism of accommodation, with the help of the ophthalmometer which he had invented in 1852.

1916 CE

#6219

Ueber die Anlegung der Zange am nicht rotierten Kopf mit Beschreibung eines neuen Zangenmodelles und einer neuen Anlegungsmethode.

Kielland forceps. English translation and historical background in E.P. Jones, Kielland’s forceps, London, 1952.

1910 CE

#3189

Ueber die Möglichkeit die Zystoscopie bei Untersuchungen seröser Höhlungen anzuwenden.

Jacobaeus adapted the cystoscope for the study of the interior of the body; this led to the introduction of the thoracoscope.

1878 CE

#3387.2

Ueber eine neue Methode der Hörprüfung mit Hülfe elektrischer Ströme.

First audiometer.

1867 CE

#3378.2

Ueber eine neue Methode zur Untersuchung des Gehörorgans zu physiologischen und diagnostischen Zwecken mit Hülfe des Interferenz Otoscopes.

Lucae described an interference otoscope, precursor of auditory impedance devices.

1877 CE

#3387.1

Ueber einen einheitlichen Hörmesser.

Politzer described an acumeter.

1899 CE

#2810

Ueber einen neuen Blutdruckmesser (Tonometer).

Gaertner, an Austrian physician, invented an instrument for measuring blood-pressure by means of a compressing ring applied to the finger.

1881 CE

#3475

Ueber Gastroskopie und Oesophagoskopie.

Mikulicz was the first to use the electric oesophagoscope invented by Leiter in 1880. He was among the most distinguished of Billroth’s pupils and contributed much to cancer surgery.

1896 CE

#3516.1

Ueber Gastroskopie.

Rosenheim’s gastroscope.

1900 CE–1901 CE

#3521

Ueber Magenspiegelung.

Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.

1952 CE

#2680.1

Ultrasonic visualization of soft-tissue structures of the body.

First tomogram of soft tissue.

1908 CE

#5693.1

Un appareil pour l’anesthésie par l’éther.

Ombrédanne ether inhaler.

1827 CE

#4165.1

Un moyen d’éclairer l’urètre et la vessie de manière à voir dans l’intérieur de ces organes.

Urethro-cystic speculum (endoscope).