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12 entries published in this place. (Pittsburgh, US)

1939 CE

#14053

A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.

The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…

1957 CE

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958 CE–1961 CE

#8744

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

1982 CE

#6623.4

Literature and medicine: an annotated bibliography. Revised edition.

Annotated bibliography of medical references in Western literature from the ancient world to time of writing. Emphasis is on summaries of the medical content. Editions cited are usually modern and always in English,

1984 CE

#8411

The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.

For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.

1990 CE

#7025

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.

The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…

2010 CE

#7834

Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.

2012 CE

#8777

A history of organ transplantation: Ancient legends to modern practice.

2016 CE

#11614

The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.

2017 CE

#10664

Rise of the modern hospital: An architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940.

2019 CE

#11611

Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.

2021 CE

#14328

The gray zones of medicine: Healers & history in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez.