Facets

1951 CE

#1671.11

A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.

Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.

1787 CE

#7214

A Discourse before the Humane Society, ... Delivered on the Second Tuesday of June, 1787.

The first separate work on resuscitation published in the United States. A list of “Methods of Treatment to be used with Persons apparently dead from drowning, &c.” appears on p. iv; these methods included…

2005 CE

#10276

A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948-2004.

Concerns experience in Britain.

2003 CE

#7244

A history of ideas about the prolongation of life: The evolution of prolongevity hypotheses to 1800.

1861 CE

#7815

A manual of military surgery: or, hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice.

Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Hathi Trust at this link. Notably in 1862 this small work written for Union surgeons was reprinted in Richmond, Virginia for the use of Confederate surgeons. The…

1963 CE

#9381

A method of staffing a community hospital emergency department.

Mills headed the first 24/7 year-round emergency care center in the U.S. established at Alexandria Hospital, Virginia, in 1961. This method of staffing a 24/7 emergency medical facility became known as the "Alexandria…

1961 CE

#11671

A new approach to cardiac resuscitation.

"The pioneers of modern cardiopulmonary resucitation describe their breakthrough technique of combining mouth-to-mouth ventilation, closed chest compressions, and transthoracic defibrillation to treat cardiac arrest" …

1858 CE

#2028.57

A new method of resuscitating still-born children, and of restoring persons apparently drowned or dead.

Silvester’s method of artificial respiration.

1851 CE

#2757

A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart, including the principles of physical diagnosis.

Walshe, physician to University College Hospital, London, was one of the first to recognize the presystolic character of the direct mitral murmur in mitral stenosis.

1849 CE

#13167

A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis.

Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.

1773 CE

#2028.52

A short account of a society at Amsterdam instituted in the year 1767 for the recovery of drowned persons…

An English summary of No. 2028.51, and the first detailed report on the society’s work published in England. Johnson proposed the formation of a similar society in England. The Royal Humane Society was formed by…

1978 CE

#8387

A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.

In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.

1839 CE

#2676

Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation.

Skoda classified the various sounds obtained on percussion according to their musical pitch and tone. “Skoda’s resonance” is an important diagnostic sign in pneumonia and pericardial effusion. Follow…

1868 CE

#9470

Accidents et maladies: Premier soins a donner avant l'arrivée du médecin.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1845 CE

#11698

Accidents: Popular directions for their immediate treatment; with observations on poisons and their antidotes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1979 CE

#1671.9

Aging: Its history and literature.

Includes bibliographies of classic works, of the history of geriatrics, and of periodicals devoted to the subject.

2004 CE

#10498

Alter und Krankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit. Der ärztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase.

Translated into English by Patrick Baker as Old age and disease in early modern medicine (London & New York: Routledge, 1911).

1817 CE

#1604.1

An essay on the disorders of old age, and on the means of prolonging life.

Carlisle, a distinguished surgeon and anatomist, advised young people to adopt a sound regimen early in life in order to secure longevity. Addressing himself directly to old people he described diseases common to the …

1788 CE

#2028.54

An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead.

Kite recommended the use of artificial respiration and was probably the first to recommend electric shock for resuscitation.

1904 CE

#11700

An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned. Report of a committee appointed by the Society, drawn up by Professor Schäfer, chairman of the committee.

The Schäfer method of artificial respiration. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1825 CE

#2674

An introduction to the use of the stethoscope.

Stokes, famous member of the Irish school of medicine, published the first systematic treatise on the use of the stethoscope – and this before his qualification at Edinburgh. His name is perpetuated in medical l…

1742 CE

#11407

An mortis incertae signa minus incerta a chirurgicis quam ab aliis experimenti?

Between the mid-1700s and the early 1900s many physicians lost confidence in their ability to declare legal death. This phenomenon was in part sparked by Winslow, whose dissertation claimed the existence of a death-li…

2005 CE

#8143

Anyone, anything, anytime: A history of emergency medicine.

1786 CE

#11711

Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis febribus.

Stoll was one of the few physicians of the Viennese school who supported Auenbrugger's views on percussion. In this treatise on fevers Stoll referred favorably to the practice, and it is thought that Corvisart became …

1740 CE

#2028.5

Avis pour donner du secours à ceux qui l’on croit noyez.

In this unsigned 4-page pamphlet the author argued that those who had been drowned for several hours could be resuscitated. His ideas inspired the formation of the Amsterdam Society (No. 2028.51). This anonymous work …

1932 CE

#2241

Classic descriptions of disease.

A collection of classic descriptions of disease by 179 different writers, from ancient times to the present. Foreign papers are translated into English. A second edition of this most interesting and useful book appear…

1960 CE

#2883.4

Closed-chest cardiac massage.

Kouwenhoeven and colleagues developed closed-chest cardiac massage without thoracotomy. Kouwenhoeven has been called "the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation."

1995 CE

#7021

Crossing frontiers: Gerontology emerges as a science.

1868 CE

#2677

Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten.

This work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Wunderlich reportedly took over a million measurements from 25,000 people. Temperatures ranged from 97.2 to 9…

1595 CE

#2667

De iis qui morborum simulant deprehendendis liber.

The first treatise on feigned diseases.

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…

1819 CE

#2673

De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplif…

1828 CE

#2675

De la percussion médiate.

Piorry, pioneer of mediate percussion, introduced the percussor and the pleximeter in 1826. He also developed refinements to Laennec’s stethoscope.

1522 CE

#2665

De morborum symptomatis.

This volume of Galen’s selected works includes Thomas Linacre’s Latin translation of De symptomatum differentiis.

1469 CE

#9635

De officiis. Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute.

Of the 71 editions of Cicero's classical work on aging and death printed in the 15th century, Cato major de senectute, the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue cites 71, indicating the extreme popularity of Cicero's works…

1928 CE

#10950

De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.

New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.

1780 CE

#11874

Della morte apparente degli annegati.

The first Italian work on resusciation. Testa’s work is also one of the earliest on the subject published after the foundation in 1767 of Amsterdam’s pioneering Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen, t…

1817 CE

#11154

Des effets et des propriétés du froid, avec un aperçu historique et médical sur la campagne de Russie.

Relative to the suffering of Napoleon's soldiers during the bitter cold of Russian winters, includes methodology of resucitation of victims of freezing. Digital facsimile of thesis issue of the 1817 edition from the I…

1904 CE

#2028.59

Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration on the human subject especially in cases of drowning. To which is appended instruction for the treatment of the apparently drowned.

1838 CE

#6175

Die geburtshülfiche Auscultation

Pioneering work on obstetric auscultation, including the sounds of the foetal heart. English translation by C. West, London, 1839.

1839 CE

#1605.1

Die Krankheiten des höhren Alters und ihre Heilung. 2 vols.

Canstatt’s book is one of the most important in the history of gerontology, summarizing all previous work on the subject. Suffering from tuberculosis, Canstatt himself only lived to the age of 43. Digital facsim…

1921 CE

#10823

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

1906 CE

#9220

Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1882 CE

#4677

Ein Krankheitssymptom der acuten Meningitis.

Kernig drew attention to a flexor contracture of the leg on attempting to extend it on the thigh (“Kernig’s sign”), almost always present in cerebrospinal meningitis and an important diagnostic sign.…

1871 CE

#12899

Emergencies and how to treat them: The etiology, pathology, and treatment of the accidents, diseases, and cases of poisoning, which demand prompt action.

A “guide in the treatment of cases of emergency occurring in medical, surgical, or obstetrical practice” (p. 3), covering such topics as hemorrhage, burns, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, sunstroke, poiso…

1932 CE

#2028.6

En oplivingsmethode.

Holger Nielsen (“arm-lift”) method of artificial respiration.

1806 CE

#2737

Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux.

Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. He was first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dyspnoea of effort.…

1984 CE

#2663

Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.

Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.

1514 CE

#2664

Galen: De differentiis morborum libri ii…

First Renaissance Latin translation by Niccolò Leoniceno of Vicenza of Galen's work on physical diagnosis.

1970 CE

#8380

George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.

"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…