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1892 CE

#2682.5

The early history of instrumental precision in medicine.

1901 CE

#10833

The vivisection question.

Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…

1920 CE

#12067

The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1921 CE

#6414

The evolution of modern medicine. A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.

The final text of these lectures, which Osler characterized as "an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages," remained unfinished at Osler’s death, and Osler requested in his will that thi…

1922 CE

#961

Respiration.

An account of the work of the Oxford School of Physiology, in particular the Pike’s Peak expedition (No. 957). Second edition, 1935, with J. G. Priestley.

1922 CE

#793

The anatomy and physiology of the capillaries.

Silliman Lectures. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. In 1920 Krogh received the N…

1925 CE

#6458

The healing gods of ancient civilizations.

1926 CE

#251

The theory of the gene.

1929 CE

#11004

Stretchers: The story of a hospital unit on the western front.

History of the U.S. Army American Expeditionary Forces Evacuation Hospital no. 8, World War 1, 1914-1918, in which Pottle served. Pottle was the greatest Boswell and Samuel Johnson scholar. Digital facsimile from the …

1934 CE

#10609

An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)

Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…

1938 CE

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1946 CE

#6662

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES. 1-

The latest issue may be viewed at http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org .

1955 CE

#8329

Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958 CE

#13499

Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1960 CE

#8682

The library of the Medical Institution of Yale College and its catalogue of 1865.

1966 CE

#2312.5

Human palaeopathology. Edited by S. Jarcho.

Includes material on the history of paleopathology in the United States.

1967 CE

#2068.10

History of electrotherapy. In: Therapeutic electricity and ultraviolet radiation.

1968 CE

#9134

An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.

The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…

1968 CE

#9157

The formation of the American medical profession: The role of institutions, 1780-1860.

1968 CE–1977 CE

#11331

Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.

1970 CE

#10059

The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.

Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

1971 CE

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1975 CE

#13639

The hospital: A social and architectural history.

"This book is about the hospital ward, also called the nursing unit or inpatient unit. Part 1 gives a history of nursing unit floor plans since roman times. Part 2 reviews contemporary planning problems. Part 3 contai…

1977 CE

#8782

"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.

1978 CE

#145.9

An introduction to population ecology.

This elegantly written textbook by a pioneering authority is based on a carefully documented historical approach to the subject.

1981 CE

#11966

The garden of eden: The botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise.

In the 15th century people still hoped that the original garden of Eden might be rediscovered, but in the 16th and 17th centuries efforts turned to collecting plants and attempting to re-create the wonder of the garde…

1985 CE

#1757.2

Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.

1990 CE

#9924

Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.

1991 CE

#10036

Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.

1992 CE

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1993 CE

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1995 CE

#13096

The English hospital 1070-1570.

"The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of society—from the gentry and clergy to pilgrims, travelers, beg…

1995 CE

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1995 CE

#7107

Witnessing insanity. Madness and mad-doctors in the English court.

1996 CE

#14050

The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.

1996 CE

#9327

The origin and evolution of birds.

On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…

1999 CE

#9761

Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.

1999 CE

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

1999 CE

#9193

The birth of the cell.

2000 CE

#8718

A brief history of endoscopy.

2001 CE

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2002 CE

#10955

A history of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing torches to others.

2002 CE

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

2003 CE

#10143

Transplant: From myth to reality.

2003 CE

#12241

Transplant: From myth to reality.

"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…

2006 CE

#9873

Miracles in Enlightenment England.

Chapter 3: Miracle workers dn healers. Chapter 4: Valentine Greatrakes and the New Philosophy, etc.

2006 CE

#8323

The Renaissance hospital: Healing the body and healing the soul.

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2009 CE

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

2011 CE

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.