Facets

2013 CE

#7198

"A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse.' Equine medicine in early modern England.

2007 CE

#7155

A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine. The sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica.

2020 CE

#12179

A companion to Byzantine science. Edited by Stavros Lazaris.

Chapters relevant to this bibliography include: Zoology by Arnaud Zucker Botany by Alain Touwaide Medicine and Pharmacy by Alain Touwaide Veterinary Medicine by Stavros Lazaris Byzantine Theories of Vision by Katerina…

1898 CE

#2335

A comparative study of bovine tubercle bacilli and of human bacilli from sputum.

First clear differentiation between the bovine and human types of tubercle bacillus.

1926 CE

#2522.1

A disease of rabbits characterised by a large mononuclear leucocytosis, caused by a hitherto undescribed bacillus acterium monocytogenes (n. sp.).

Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes. With R. A. Webb and M. B. R. Swann.

1917 CE

#5159.1

A form of pseudo-tuberculosis (melioidosis).

Stanton identified the bacillus of melioidosis and reproduced the disease in animals by feeding and inoculation of cultures.

1927 CE

#10150

A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1891 CE

#10152

A manual of saddles and collars, sore backs and sore shoulders.

"The subject of saddles and sore backs [of horses] is such an important one that I have considered the lectures delivered by me on the subject, in this school, might be of more permanent value if printed. "Every offic…

1996 CE

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…

1851 CE

#11754

A practical treatise on the treatment of the diseases of the elephant, camel, and horned cattle, with instructions for preserving their efficiency.

1906 CE

#2595

A study of the cause of sudden death following the injection of horse serum.

Forms Bulletin No. 29 of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Rosenau and Anderson drew attention to the fact that animals receiving an injection of a foreign protein became sensitive to a second do…

1698 CE

#3166

A treatise of the asthma.

Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma. Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above includes (p. 239) an impor…

1912 CE–1914 CE

#10151

A veterinary history of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. Supplement to: Veterinary record May 25, 1912-Sept. 26, 1914.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1902 CE

#5531

Actinobacilosis.

Discovery of the actinobacillus.

1884 CE

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1837 CE

#5850.1

An inquiry into the possibility of transplanting the cornea, with the view of relieving blindness…

Bigger, a Dublin surgeon, successfully grafted a cornea of one gazelle onto that of another. According to this paper, he first performed this operation in 1835 while he was “a prisoner with a Nomadic tribe of Ar…

1681 CE

#296

Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque, structuram naturalem, ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque observationibus proponens, figuris variis illustrata.

“The first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist” (Cole). Blaes anticipated Cowper in finding the Cowper’s glands, which he …

2014 CE

#10699

Animalia: Men and animal care in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

2005 CE

#9801

Animals and disease: An introduction to the history of comparative medicine.

2018 CE

#10262

Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories.

A pioneering effort to draw the connections between the development of veterinary medicine and the development of medicine in general. With an extensive annotated bibliography.

2004 CE

#9652

Anthrax: A history.

1858 CE

#5270

Arsenic as a remedy for the tsetse bite.

Livingstone was probably the first to administer arsenic for the treatment of “nagana”, a disease of horses caused by trypanosomes. This followed a suggestion by James Braid. Digital facsimile from PubMedC…

2010 CE

#12761

Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance: Formes et fonctions de l’image hippiatrique.

1898 CE

#2511

Bericht der Kommission zur Erforschung der Maul-und Klauenseuche bei dem Institut für Infektionskrankheiten.

Loeffler and Frosch proved that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus; this was the first recognition that a virus causes disease.

1973 CE

#10159

Bibliografia hispanica de veterinaria y equitacion anterior a 1901. Ordenada, comentada en algunos epigrafes y dividida en tres partes. I: Repertorio cronologico: Tratados. II: Repertorio cronologico: Textos legales. III: Indices.

1955 CE–1970 CE

#6581.2

Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.

Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.

1810 CE

#10136

Bibliographie agronomique, ou dictionnaire raisonné des ouvrages sur l'économie rurale et domestique et sur l'art vétérinaire ... par un des collaborateurs du Cours complet d'agriculture pratique.

Second edition, Paris: Institut Agronomique, 1991. Digital facsimile of the 1810 edition from BnFGallica at this link.

1823 CE

#9579

Bibliothek de Veterinairkunde.

An early attempt at a bibliography of the literature of veterinary medicine, including historical works. Strangely, the author cited publication dates only by their last 3 digits, thus 1800 is printed as 800, etc. Dig…

1981 CE

#10690

Books on the horse and horsemanship: Riding, hunting, breeding & racing 1400-1941. The Paul Mellon Collection. Compiled by John B. Podeschi.

Includes annotated descriptions of numerous classics on veterinary medicine for horses.

2003 CE

#11755

Cattle plague: A history.

"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…

1901 CE

#10139

Claudii Hermeri. Mulomedicina Chironis editit Eugenius Oder.

Edition of the Mulomedicina in Codex Monacensis Latinus 243 saec. xv, a translation in vulgar Latin (by Claudis Hermeros?) of a Greek treatise. In the subscriptions of books 1 and 2, 9, 10, "Chiron Centaurus", "Chiron…

1889 CE

#5936

Conjonctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.

Parinaud described an infectious tuberculous conjunctivitis transmissible from animals to man. In 1924 Gifford suggested the name “Parinaud’s oculo-glandular syndrome” as a more suitable description.…

1924 CE–1927 CE

#7156

Corpus hippiatricorum Graecorum. 2 vols. 1. Hippiatrica Berolinensia. 2. Hippiatrica Parisina, Cantabrigiensia, Londinensia, Lugdunensia; Appendix.

1968 CE

#12038

Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.

Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this corresponde…

1772 CE

#7767

Cours d'hippiatrique, ou traité complet de la médecine des chevaux.

The leading 18th century French work on these subjects; some copies were issued with hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile of an uncolored copy from BnF Gallica at this link.

1937 CE

#12008

Cultivation of the virus of infectious bronchitis.

The authors were the first to isolate a pathogenic coronavirus in chickens. This was the first pathogenic coronavirus described. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1934 CE

#5336

De leptospiroses bij den hond, en de beteekenis der Leptospira canicola.

First reported cases of human infection with L. canicola. With A. Klarenbeek, W. A. P. Schüffner, and J. Voet.

1600 CE–1601 CE

#1540

De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica. 2 pts.

Casseri, originally a servant to Fabrizio, was personally trained by his employer and eventually succeeded to Fabrizio’s chair of anatomy. Like Fabrizio, who studied the development of the chick for clues to hum…

1598 CE

#285

Dell’anotomia, et dell’infermità del cavallo.

In 1598 Conte Ottavio Ruini edited and had published in Bologna, with a dedication to Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, Dell'anotomia [sic], et dell'infirmita del cavallo [Book ii: Dell'infirmita del cavallo] by il marche…

1780 CE

#5162

Description et traitement du charbon dans les animaux.

First important clinical description of anthrax. For some time after the appearance of Chabert’s short book, the condition was known as “Chabert’s disease”. Chabert was Directeur & Inspecteur g…

1775 CE

#10137

Dictionnaire raisonné d'hippiatrique, cavalerie, manège et maréchallerie. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1876 CE

#5167

Die Aetiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begründet auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus anthracis.

In 1876 Koch first obtained pure cultures of B. anthracis and described its complete life history. With Davaine (Nos. 5165-66) he did much to prove that infectious diseases are caused by living reproductive microorgan…

1886 CE

#5156

Die Aetiologie der Rotzkrankheit.

Discovery of Burkholderia mallei, causative organism of glanders. Preliminary notice in Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1882, 8, 707.

1826 CE

#5481.1

Die Geschichte der Hundswuth und der Wasserscheu und deren Behandlung.

A full account of rabies, summarizing current knowledge, with a bibliography of about 300 items.

1984 CE

#7428

DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…

1750 CE–1753 CE

#10156

Éléments d'hippiatrique, ou nouveau principes sur la connoissance et sur la médecine des chevaux. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1770 CE

#14346

Élements de l'art vétériniare. Essai sur les appareils et sur les bandages propres aux quadrupèdes. A l'usage des élèves des Écoles Royales Vétérinaires.

This work includes 21 folding plates of devices and bandages.

1901 CE

#10138

Elephants and their diseases: A treatise on elephants.

Digital facsimile of the 1910 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1878 CE

#10721

Elephants and their treatment in health and disease.

Expanded from a "small" edition issued in 1873 at the request of the Conservator of Forests, British Burma to "answer the purpose of a guide for the management of those animals, in a more direct and complete form; and…

1931 CE

#5541

Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.

First description.