Facets

2012 CE

#10876

Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.

Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …

2010 CE

#10342

Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.

"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…

2013 CE

#9374

Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.

A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…

1815 CE

#13487

Sketches of epidemic diseases in the state of Vermont; from the first settlement to the year 1815, with a consideration of their causes, phenomena, and treatment. To which is added remarks on pulmonary consumption.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link:

1950 CE

#3215.2

Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.

A study of 1,465 cases of lung cancer and 1,465 matched controls, which confirmed and extended the studies of Wynder and Graham, and others. See also later papers by the same authors in Brit. med. J., 1952, 2,1271-86;…

2011 CE

#9488

Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.

1920 CE

#11921

Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, Pa., September 1 to December 31, 1918.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958 CE

#4661.2

St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.

In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.

1840 CE–1856 CE

#2163.1

Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States. Vol. 1 (1819-1839), Vol. 2 (1839-1855), Vol. 3 (1855-1860).

UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General's Office

Vol.1 by Thomas Lawson; Vols 2 & 3 by Richard H. Coolidge. Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1875 CE

#7818

Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion, of over a million recruits.... 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1875 CE

#1703

Supplement to the thirty-fifth annual report of the Registrar-General of Births and Marriages in England.

Includes statistical calculations of the effect on life expectation if certain preventable diseases were eliminated.

1835 CE

#1698.1

Sur l’homme et le développement des facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. 2 vols.

Quetelet’s statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and an exposition of his concept of the “average man”, which became the by-word of quantitative…

1786 CE

#7806

Tableau des variétés de la vie humaine. 2 vols.

Massive and early study of puberty among Europeans, with comparative data including mortality tables. Daignan was especially interested in the plight of urban youth. He concluded his work with tables of life expectanc…

1780 CE

#5488

Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.

1731 CE

#9461

Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of practising and improving physick. In a letter to a friend.

Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observations, or trusted observations by other physicians, rather than on the correlation …

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1917 CE

#4648

The Australian epidemics of an acute polio-encephalomyelitis (X disease).

Campbell was Australia's first neurologist. This paper described Murray Valley encephalitis (Australian X disease). Cleland and Campbell isolated a virus from the cerebral tissue of three patients.

1886 CE

#2505

The bacterium of swine-plague.

Discovery of Salmonella choleraesuis. The Salmonellae tribe was named after Salmon, even though the discovery was made by Smith. See Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988) 31-32.

1922 CE

#137

The biology of death.

Raymond Pearl did important work on the subject of vital statistics.

1950 CE

#11571

The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).

In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…

1993 CE

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

2017 CE

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

1997 CE

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

2000 CE

#12206

The demography of Victorian England and Wales.

1950 CE

#13804

The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.

1899 CE

#11824

The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.

Full text available from en.wikisource.org at this link.

1965 CE

#10883

The Environment and disease: Association or causation?

"In 1965, the English statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill proposed a set of nine criteria to provide epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect. (For example, he …

1955 CE

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1879 CE

#10524

The epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi: Report of the yellow fever relief work.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1922 CE

#11919

The etiology and epidemiology of influenza.

Digital facsimile from Harvard Library at this link.

1900 CE

#5457

The etiology of yellow fever. A preliminary note.

First definite proof that the organism causing yellow fever is transmitted to man by the mosquito Aëdes aegypti. During the period spent by these workers in the investigation of the disease in Cuba Lazear and Car…

2017 CE

#10694

The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2018 CE

#10626

The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2000 CE

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2014 CE

#10214

The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.

Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1968 CE

#10213

The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.

"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…

1980 CE

#11579

The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.

"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…

2003 CE

#10863

The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.

Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…

1875 CE

#10451

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.

Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…

1991 CE

#12110

The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.

2004 CE

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

1994 CE

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

2022 CE

#14168

The Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Worobey and colleagues showed: 1) The earliest case of an abnormal pneumonia was first reported to the World Health Organization on Dec. 31, 2019. 2) Using basic epidemiology going back to the now iconic plot maps dra…

2015 CE

#11923

The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.

2010 CE

#9459

The introduction of numerical methods to assess the effects of medical interventions during the 18th century: a brief history.

An outstanding bibliographical survey available online from the James Lind Library at this link.

2010 CE

#11393

The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.

This work "offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern…

1879 CE

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1900 CE

#6881

The logic of figures, or comparative results of homoeopathic and other treatments.

A comparison of mortality rates in institutions and private practice between homeopathic and other modes of treatment. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.

2020 CE

#14098

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.

Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…

2007 CE

#13290

The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.