Norway

1778 CE

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Kort Underviisning om De paa Landet, I Bergens Stift, meest grasserende Sygdomme, og derimod tienende Hjelpe-Midler. Paa Det Nyttige Sælskabs Bekostning.

Strøm's work, which may be translated as "A short instruction about common sicknesses in the area around Bergen and their most common remedies" was "More a report than a doctor book, it describes the living con…

1847 CE

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Om spedalskhed. Udgivet efter Foranstaltning af den Kongelige Norske Regjerings Department for det Indre. 1 vol. and atlas.

First modern description of leprosy (“Danielssen-Boeck disease’’). Danielssen, physician to the leprosy hospital at Bergen, was the founder of scientific leprology. The extremely rare Atlas consists …

1911 CE

#6573

Norsk medicin i hundrede aar.

1911 CE–1916 CE

#365

Leonardo da Vinci: Quaderni d’anatomia I-VI. Fogli della Royal Library di Windsor, pubblicati da Ove C.L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock. 6 vols.

Leonardo, “the greatest artist and scientist of the Italian Renaissance, was the founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy” (Garrison). He made over 750 sketches of all the principal organs of the bo…

1931 CE

#6522

An old Icelandic medical miscellany. MS. Royal Irish Academy 23 D 43, with supplement from MS. Trinity College (Dublin) L.2.27. Edited by Henning Larsen.

1932 CE

#6574

Lappische Heilkunde.

Folk medicine of the Sami people.

1936 CE

#6574.1

Medisinens historic i Norge.

1999 CE

#14233

Médecins Sans Frontières. Nobel Lecture.

In 1999 Orbinsky accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Médecins Sans Frontières “in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." He delivered the organization…