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32 entries published in this place. (Toronto, CA)

1894 CE

#6582

The medical profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850.

Rescues from oblivion many historical facts and discusses the pioneer medical men of Canada. Biographies of many famous physicians of Canada are included. Reprinted Toronto, 1980.

1935 CE

#13603

History of the Canadian Medical Association.

1940 CE

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1949 CE

#12613

Antibiotics: A survey of penicillin, streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 vols.

Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.

1967 CE

#13602

One hundred years of medicine in Canada, 1867-1967.

1971 CE

#3705.03

A history of dentistry in Canada.

1975 CE

#11649

The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.

1979 CE

#14345

An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.

In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.

1983 CE

#11091

Disease in ancient man: A report of an international symposium on disease in ancient man. Edited by Gerald D. Hart.

1984 CE

#12333

Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.

1984 CE

#6584.2

Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.

1989 CE

#12337

Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.

1990 CE

#12334

Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.

1994 CE

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1995 CE

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1997 CE

#8734

Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.

1998 CE

#14153

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor

"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…

1999 CE

#11029

William Osler: A life in medicine.

The most significant biography of Sir William Osler since Harvey Cushing's work published in 1925.

2000 CE

#7193

Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.

A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2003 CE

#9491

Anatomia 1522-1867. Anatomical plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

https://resource.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm "This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah …

2007 CE

#9944

Advances in the History of Psychology: A current look at the history of psychology, with news, notes, and additional resources. Edited (in 2018) by Jacy L. Young and Shayna Fox Lee. Faculty Consultant: Christopher D. Green.

https://ahp.apps01.yorku.ca/ "Advances in the History of Psychology is a news and notes aggregator pertaining to the history of the discipline. "AHP notifies readers of resources, publications, conferences, and other …

2007 CE

#12505

The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.

2008 CE

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

2010 CE

#7850

Medieval medicine: A reader. Edited by Faith Wallis.

2012 CE

#7140

Anglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.

Written in Latin verse, the Anglicus ortus describes in considerable detail the medicinal uses of 160 plants. Edition based on collation of the five extant manuscripts of the text, plus parallel Latin text and English…

2012 CE

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2012 CE

#7409

The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett

ALPHABET OF GALEN

An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…

2013 CE

#12219

Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.

A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.

2014 CE

#12296

Doctors of empire: Medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

2016 CE

#8826

A history of anthropological theory. 5th edition.

2017 CE

#12796

The birth of homeopathy out of the spirit of romanticism.

".... Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and sel…