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160 entries published in this place.
1649 CE
#10658
Exercitatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis.
In this work Harvey first described the circulation of blood through the coronary arteries. Harvey also described experiments that he made to provide further support to his theory of the circulation since the publicat…
1660 CE
#11878
Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium: In qua exhibentur quotquot hactenus inventae sunt, qua vel sponte proveniunt, vel in agris seruntur; un cum synomyis selectioribus, locis natalibus & observationibus quibusdam oppido raris. Adjiciuntur in gratiam tyronum, index Anglo-latinus, Index locorum, etymologia nominum, & explicatio quorundam terminorum.
This study of the plants around Cambridge includes some of the classification work of Joachim Jungius, whose classification system did not begin to be published until 1662. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this …
1676 CE
#1481.2
Ophthalmo-graphia; sive, oculi eiusque partium descriptio anatomica.
First English treatise on the anatomy of the eye. Briggs described the papilla of the optic disc and hypothesized that vibrations caused by rays of light striking fibers of the retina were conveyed to the papilla, and…
1796 CE
#11958
Hortus cantabrigiensis, or a catalogue of plants, indigenous and foreign, cultivated in the Walkerian Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
The Walkerian Botanic Garden was the first botanical garden founded in Cambridge. It is the ancestor of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1835 CE
#8920
For private distribution. The following pages contain extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq.
Darwin's teacher, John Stevens Henslow, had some of Darwin's letters to him published for private distribution as a pamphlet while Darwin was on the Beagle circumnavigation. Estimates of the number of copies printed v…
1858 CE
#419
A treatise on the human skeleton, including the joints.
Humphry was professor of anatomy at Cambridge and became the first professor of surgery there. He founded the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology in 1867. “Humphry’s ligament” of the knee-joint is desc…
1862 CE
#7621
Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#10618
Old age: The results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years, including seventy-four centenarians.
Analysis, illustrated with Woodburytype photographs, of data collected by the "Collective Investigation Committee" of the British Medical Association. Note that in the 1880s attaining the age of 80 was considered wort…
1891 CE–1894 CE
#1680
A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.
A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
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.
1901 CE
#1575
Lectures on the history of physiology.
Reprinted 1924 and (Dover Pubs.), 1970.
1902 CE
#241
Mendel’s principles of heredity: A defence.
The first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics. It contains a reprint of the first English translation of Mendel’s “Versuch über Pflanzen-Hybriden” from the J…
1903 CE
#9029
The geography of disease.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903 CE
#9100
Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1904 CE
#2561
Blood immunity and blood relationship, a demonstration of certain blood relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood.
1904 CE
#347
Morphology and anthropology. A handbook for students.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1905 CE
#1430
Histological studies on the localisation of cerebral function.
The precentral area of the cerebral cortex is known as “Campbell’s area”. Campbell and Brodmann were pioneers in the study of the architectonics of the cerebral cortex, or cerebral cytoarchitecture. …
1908 CE
#7094
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.
See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…
1910 CE
#134
Plant animals: A study in symbiosis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911 CE
#7762
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
1913 CE
#6537
The physician in English history.
Linacre Lecture, 1913.
1914 CE
#964
The respiratory function of the blood.
Barcroft’s studies of the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood are recorded in the above monograph. He particularly concentrated on elucidation of the oxygen dissociation curve. The second edition, 2 vols., Cam…
1915 CE
#9182
The north-west Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes.
"This 1915 volume recounts Captain Thomas Whiffen’s travels in Brazil and Colombia in the region between the rivers Issa (or Içá) and Apaporis, and the Putumayo District. The study looks at the way…
1917 CE
#6972
On growth and form.
Thompson's description of the mathematical beauty of nature eventually inspired others, such as Alan Turing, to develop the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants a…
1921 CE
#6507
Arabian medicine. Being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920.
Browne, an eminent authority on oriental languages, became professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1921 CE
#1332
The autonomic nervous system.
Langley divided the autonomic nervous system into (1) the orthosympathetic, and (2) the parasympathetic; he defined it as an efferent system.
1924 CE
#1758
The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.
The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…
1926 CE
#4633
Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech. 2 vols.
Head’s theory of aphasia conceived the condition as being “a disorder of symbolic formulation and expression”.
1926 CE
#10468
Population problems of the age of Malthus.
Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…
1927 CE
#1529
An introduction to the theory of perception.
1928 CE
#3156
Cardio-vascular diseases since Harvey’s discovery.
Harveian Oration, 1928.
1928 CE
#7392
The development of the human eye.
The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.
1931 CE
#531
Chemical embryology. 3 vols.
1933 CE
#6004
Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England prior to the year 1800.
1934 CE
#533
A history of embryology.
An exhaustive history of the subject. Deals with embryology from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century and includes a valuable bibliography and many illustrations. Second edition, with the assistance…
1936 CE
#8456
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
1936 CE
#8726
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
1937 CE
#5987
Developmental abnormalities of the eye.
1938 CE
#2059
Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.
1938 CE
#5045.1
The preparation of anti-typhoid serum in the horse for therapeutic use in man.
Typhoid antiserum.
1944 CE
#6897
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell.
This work about the physical basis of natural phenomena influenced the young James D. Watson and others. The book was a popularization of ideas developed by Max Delbrück in his paper with Timofeeff-Ressovsky in 1…
1947 CE
#356.1
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
1947 CE
#9080
The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.
The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.
1948 CE
#1716
Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.
1951 CE
#6515
A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.
A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amst…
1959 CE
#2578.31
The clonal selection theory of acquired immunity. The Abraham Flexner Lectures of Vanderbilt University 1958.
Burnet's clonal selection theory extended the idea that each antibody-producing cell makes antibodies of only one specificity, predicting these cells proliferate in response to the detection of antigens, cloning and t…
1960 CE
#9390
Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.
1966 CE
#1588.3
The history of cell respiration and cytochrome
See No. 968.
1970 CE
#5145
A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.
1970 CE
#11112
The human placenta.
An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.