Switzerland
140 entries published in Switzerland. 6 publication places.
1615 CE
#2142
New Feldt Arztny Buch von Kranckheiten und Schäden, so in Kriegen den Wundartzten gemeinlich fürfallen.
Fabry’s book includes an early description of a field drug chest for army use. He was one of the most eminent surgeons of his time, although not prepared to adopt all the teachings of Paré. He had conside…
1623 CE
#9868
Pinax theatri botanici.
The Pinax theatri botanici (English, Illustrated exposition of plants) described and classified about 6,000 species. "The classification system was not particularly innovative, using traditional groups such as "trees"…
1665 CE
#2246
De siriasi.
A treatise on sunstroke.
1676 CE–1680 CE
#62
Opera omnia. 2 vols.
Willis was remarkable for his careful clinical observation. He was second only to Sydenham in his day. To him we owe the original descriptions of several conditions. Digital facsimile of the Lyon, 1681 edition from th…
1679 CE
#974.1
Cicutae aquaticae historia et noxae.
This is primarily a work on the poisonous water hemlock, its dangerous effects, its medicinal uses, and antidotes to counter the poison. However, it also contains the first description of the tiny glands in the mucosa…
1679 CE
#2274
Sepulchretum, sive anatomia practica ex cadaveribus morbo denatis. 2 vols.
This is the first collection of systematized pathological anatomy. It contains clinical and pathological descriptions of nearly 3,000 cases selected from the literature from the time of Hippocrates, but mainly from th…
1682 CE
#10017
Mercurius compitalitius, sive, Index medico-practicus.per decisiones, cautiones, animadversiones, castigationes & observationes in sugulis affectibus praeter naturam et praesidiis medicis, deaeteticis, cheirurgicis & pharmaceuticis... Accessit appendix de medici munere.
Discusses 63 topics on medical ethics and decorum, patient behavior, medical diagnosis, prognosis, and practice guidelines, including how to relate to the patient in all matters, including extreme old age and death. "…
1685 CE
#11174
Bibliotheca anatomica sive recens in anatomia inventorum thesaurus locupletissimus, in quo integra qtque absolutissima totius corporis humani descriptio, eiusdémque oeconomia è praestantissimorum quorumque anatomicorum tractatibus singularibus, tum facenus in lucem edis, tum etiam indeditis, concinnata exhiibetur....2 vols.
With reproductions of the original engraved plates, Bibliotheca anatomica was the most extensive compilation of anatomical treatises published in the 17th century. It was an extensive anatomical library in 2 thick vol…
1694 CE
#10492
Dissertatio inauguralis physico-anatomica de motu musculorum.
Digital facsimile from e-rara.ch at this link. Facsimile edition translated into English, with a related thesis by Bernouilli, by Paul Macquet, assisted by August Zigellar, with an introduction by Troels Kardel as Dis…
1702 CE
#11175
Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu rerum ad alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus; quo non tantum artis auriferae, ac scriptorum in ea nobiliorum historia traditur; Lapidis veritas argumentis & experimentis innumeris. 2 vols.
A library of chemical and alchemical works, including various alchemical works (some illustrated) that were already rare by Manget's time. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1718 CE
#71
Jo. Mariae Lancisii archiatri pontificii. Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia; dissertationibus nonnullis adhuc dum ineditis locupletata, & ab ipso auctore, recognita atque emendata. Collegit, ac in ordinem digessit Petrus Assaltus. 2 vols.
Lancisi's collected works edited by Pietro Assalti. Lancisi was the first to describe cardiac syphilis; he was also notable as an epidemiologist, with a clear insight into the theory of contagion. He was physician to …
1721 CE
#11173
Bibliotheca chirurgica sive rerum ad artem Machoanicam quoquô spectantium thesaurus absolutissimus quo omnes prorsus humani corporis affectiones chiurgi manum, aut aliam aliquam eiusdem operam exposcentes, ordine alphabetico explicantur. 4 vols.
A compilation of mostly complete surgical treatises, representing what Manget considered an essential surgical library of then-modern as well as classical texts-- a surgical library in 4 large volumes. Digital facsimi…
1731 CE
#11172
Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum, veterum et recentiorum ... sicque historia medica vere universalis... 4 vols.
Though the title might be translated as a library of medical writings, the set is an extensive bio-bibliographical dictionary of medical writers. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1740 CE–1753 CE
#72
Opera omnia physico-medica. (Supplementum, etc) 9 vols.
Hoffmann of Halle was the most important of the Iatromechanists. He believed an ether-like “vital fluid” to be present in the nervous system and to act upon the muscles, giving them “tonus”.
1748 CE
#1987.3
Experiences sur l’électricité …
Discovery of stimulation of muscles by electricity, and the first proof that paralysis could be successfully treated by electricity.
1752 CE
#6357.51
Der Arzney Doctor, Helvetisch-Vernünftige Wehe-Mutter, oder Gründlicher Unterricht, wie mit den Schwangern, Gebährenden, Kindbetterinnen und neugebohrnen Kindern umzugehen, selbige gebührend zu verpflegen, und in allerhand ihnen zustossenden Kranckheiten zu begegnen seye: Samt einer ausführlichen Beschreibung von Fortpflanzung des menschlichen Geschlechts, und aller weiblichen Leibes-Theilen, auch der Empfängniß, Formir- und Bildung der Frucht im Mutterleibe. Nebst des Verfassers curiösen Anmerckungen, selbst-bewährten Handgriffen, Curen und dazu dienlichen Arzney-Mitteln. Dem löblichen Frauenzimmer, geschwohrnen Weibern, und andern ehrbaren Frauen zu Nutz, mit besonderm Fleisse in fünf Abschnitte eingetheilt. Mit vielen Kupfern und dreyen Registern.
Fatio was probably the first surgeon to study and treat surgical conditions of children in a systematic fashion. His book, first published over 60 years after his death, is divided into five parts: 1) the anatomy of w…
1757 CE
#2095
De colica pictonum.
Tronchin, sometime physician to Voltaire, showed that the so-called “Poitou colic” was caused by drinking water which had passed through lead gutters. Tronchin introduced inoculation into Holland, France, …
1774 CE–1775 CE
#5789
Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols
Reprinted, Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1971.
1776 CE–1788 CE
#6747
Bibliotheca medicinae practicae. 4 vols.
Haller compiled four great bibliographies dealing respectively with botany, anatomy, surgery, and medicine. They formed the most complete reference work of the time, consisting of a classified analysis of over 52,000 …
1779 CE
#4992.1
Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.
Mesmer promoted his system of treatment, based on his confused doctrine of a universal magnetic fluid influencing tides and men alike, with books and great personal showmanship. His treatment became such a popular hea…
1803 CE
#11709
Mémoires sur la respiration par Lazare Spallanzani, traduits en français, d'après son manuscrit inédit, par Jean Senebier.
Spallanzani's experimental data laid the groundwork for modern conceptions of respiratory physiology. In concluding that the blood transported carbon dioxide as a product of tissue oxidation, Spallanzani discovered pa…
1859 CE
#13606
Le chirurgien à l'ambulance ou quelques études pratiques sur les plaies par armes à feu suivies de lettres à un collègue sur les blessés de Palestro, Magenta, Marignan et Solferino.
Appia became one of the original five founders of what was later named the International Committee of the Red Cross. English translation as The ambulance surgeon or practical observations on gunshot wounds, edited by …
1862 CE
#2166
Un souvenir de Solferino.
Dunant’s account of the great sufferings endured by the wounded at Solferino inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863, and resulted in the Geneva Convention of 1864. I…
1864 CE
#203.1
Crania Helvetica: Sammlung schweizerischer Schädelformen.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1865 CE
#490
Die Häute und Höhlen des Körpers.
A new classification of tissues based on histogenesis.
1883 CE
#14211
De l'Atténuation des virus, avec la collaboration de MM. Chamberland, Roux et Thuillier. Quatrième Congrès international d'hygiène et de démographie. Séance du 5 Septembre 1882.
In his seminal 1880 paper, Sur les maladies virulentes, et en particulier sur la maladie appelée vulgairement choléra des poules, GM-2537, Pasteur developed the idea of a protective inoculation by attenu…
1906 CE
#6580
La médecine à Genève jusqu’à la fin du dix-huitième siècle.
1926 CE
#5130
A treatise on pneumonic plague.
Publication of the League of Nations, III. Health III, 13.
1935 CE
#2429.1
Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv.
A very thorough history of the discovery of the Wasserman reaction, and its acceptance by the scientific community. English translation: Genesis and development of a scientific fact, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1…
1939 CE
#459
Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.
1943 CE
#12123
Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
1945 CE
#6581.1
Schweizer Aerzte als Forscher, Entdecker und Erfinder.
1948 CE
#1451.1
Die funktionelle Organisation des vegetativen Nervensystems.
In 1949 Hess shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Egas Moniz in 1949 “for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs…
1948 CE–2017 CE
#10356
WMA Declaration of Geneva.
Modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath, promulgated in response to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/ "Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Me…
1951 CE
#9266
The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7.
Digital facsimile from WHO.int at this link.
1954 CE
#5131
Plague.
Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.
1957 CE
#752.5
The nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955. In: Festschrift Arthur Stoll, pp. 35-47.
In 1955 Theorell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries relating to the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes."
1958 CE
#9022
The first ten years of the World Health Organization.
Digital facsimile from who.int at this link.
1959 CE
#5111.4
Cholera.
Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.
1959 CE–1967 CE
#3666.6
Die historischen Grundlagen der Leberforschung. 2 vols.
1960 CE
#5352.4
Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.
Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1
1961 CE
#6007
Geschichte der Tonometrie.
Revised and enlarged English translation with deceptive title: Tonometry: physical fundamentals, development of methods and clinical application, New York, Hafner, 1966.
1963 CE
#5308.3
Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62.
Over 1,700 items.
1964 CE
#9440
Les commentaires de Martin de Saint-Gille sur les aphorisms Ypocras. Edited by Germaine Lafeuille.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
1965 CE
#5369.1
Bibliography of hookworm disease (ancylostomiasis) 1920-62.
1965 CE–1969 CE
#58
Theophrastus Paracelsus Werke. Besorgt von W.E. Peuckert. Bd. 1-5.
Osler said that Paracelsus was “the Luther of medicine, for when authority was paramount he stood out for independent study”.
1966 CE
#8072
Médecine humaine et vétérinaire à la fin du Moyen Âge.
1967 CE
#461.1
Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung.
Full descriptions and illustrations of 355 of the most important paintings, prints, sculpture, and book illustrations concerning anatomy in its widest sense.
1968 CE
#9129
Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
1970 CE
#9128