Facets

2001 CE

#12129

The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.

1961 CE

#12413

The toadstool millionaires.

Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.

1985 CE

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1976 CE

#7519

The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.

1980 CE

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1843 CE–1856 CE

#9256

The Zoist: A journal of cerebral physiology & mesmerism, and their applications to human welfare. Edited by John Elliotson. 13 vols.

The most comprehensive source about British mesmerism of the period, and an invaluable reference for contemporary ideas and developments not only in mesmerism (hypnosis) but also in phrenology, neurology and psychiatr…

2019 CE

#13741

Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.

Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link.

1973 CE

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1930 CE

#2009

Therapeutische Versuche im elektrischen Kurzwellenfeld.

Introduction of short-wave diathermy.

1846 CE

#6856

Therapeutisches Taschenbuch für Homöopathische Aerzte.

Frequently reprinted. "Bönninghausen's Therapeutic Pocketbook of 1846 was the first homeopathic repertory to grade individual remedies by their strength of relationship with each symptom, and each other. This so-…

1993 CE

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1826 CE

#6829

Traité de acupuncture, d'après les observations de M. Jules Cloquet. Édité par Dantu de Vannes.

As adjunct chief surgeon at the Hôpital St. Louis, Cloquet had an ample number of patients at his disposal, and he was able to test acupuncture on upwards of 300 cases with mostly beneficial results. Cloquet did…

1879 CE

#11626

Traité des corps étrangers en chirurgie. Voies naturelles pharynx et oesophage - estomac - intestin - rectum - voies respiratoire - organes génito-urinaires de l'homme et de la femme conduit auditif - fosses nasales - conduits glandulaires. Avec figures dans le texte, desinées par H. Dauphin.

A comprehensive treatise on an astounding variety of foreign bodies that surgeons had recorded removing from various and sometimes amazing parts of the body. Digital facsimile of the 1879 edition from Google Books at …

1841 CE–1843 CE

#1994

Ueber den Galvanismus als chemisches Heilmittel gegen örtliche Krankheiten.

Crusell began to use electrolysis as a cauterizing agent in 1839. See No. 5604.

1909 CE

#2007

Ueber Diathermie. (Transthermie, Thermopenetration.)

Nagelschmidt employed high frequency currents in treatment after the suggestions of Tesla and the work of Nernst, claiming priority over the latter in the use of this method. Nagelschmidt named this form of treatment …

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…

1938 CE

#4962

Un nuovo metodo di shockterapia: “L’elettroshock”. (Riassunto.)

Introduction of electric convulsion therapy.

1948 CE

#11620

Urological oddities.

2015 CE

#12441

Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.

2012 CE

#12350

Vaccine: The debate in modern America.

1685 CE

#10190

Verdadera albeyteria. Divido en quatro libros....Lleva diferentes estampas, donde vàn delineadas las enfermedades que sobrevienen en el cuerpo, braços, y piernas del cavallo....

Includes both anatomical engravings and engraving that relate to astrological influences. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1607 CE

#8844

Verdadera medicina, cirugía y astrologia en tres libros dividida.

Concerns medicine of the Aztecs, etc. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1908 CE–1909 CE

#6455

Vergleichende Volksmedizin. Eine Darstellung volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1796 CE

#6849

Versuch über ein neues Prinzip zur Auffindung der Heilkräfte der Arzneisubstanzen, nebst einigen Blicken auf die bishberigan.

Hahnemann's first presentation of his new system of medicine. English translation in The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, Collected and Translated by R. E. Dudgeon, London: W. Headland, 1851, 195-357.

1801 CE

#1988.1

Versuche des Galvanismus zur Heilung einiger Krankheiten.

Grapengiesser was the first physician to use Volta’s “pile”, the first battery, which Volta first described in print in 1800. Grapengiesser “noted that in paralyzed muscle excitability could be…

1992 CE

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

1772 CE

#154

Von der Physiognomik.

Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists. He expanded the above work into Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, 1775-78. This was translated into English …

1998 CE

#9296

Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.

1837 CE

#6865

Wirkungen des Schlangengiftes, zum aerztichen Gebrauche vergleichend zusammengestellt. Mit einer Einleigung über das Studium der homöopathischen Arzneimittellehr.

An early American homeopathic title on The Effects of Snake Poison Comparatively Arranged for Therapeutic Use. Hering assumed an analogy between snake venom and bacterial toxins. He drew his work from provings and tes…

1971 CE

#10871

Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios

2007 CE

#13645

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.

1909 CE

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1744 CE

#1987.2

Zuschrifft an seine Zuhörer worinnen er ihnen seine Gedancken von der Electricität mittheilet und ihnen zugleich seine künftige Lectionen bekant macht.

Along with Kratzenstein, is the one of the first two works to discuss the possible therapeutic uses of electricity. Krüger predicted that the best results would be with paralyzed limbs. See No. 1987.1. Second edi…