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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works)

Exhibiting 284 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1996 CEMasters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.
SCULL, Andrew T. (1947 – ) MACKENZIE, Charlotte
HERVEY, Nicholas
HERVEY, Nicholas
1991 CEMax Brödel, The man who put art into medicine
BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941) CROSBY, Ranice W. (1915 – 2007) CODY, John (1925 – 2016)
1920 CE​–1924 CEMcGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) OSLER LIBRARY OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
1875 CEMedical hints to the people of India. Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who had advanced medical science; Compiled for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India.
BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
1981 CEMedical obituaries. American physicians’ biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907.
HOLLOWAY, Lisabeth M.
1838 CE​–1840 CEMedical portrait gallery. Biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians, surgeons, etc. etc. who have contributed to the advancement of medical science. 4 vols.
PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
2005 CEMedicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician
FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611)
FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611) KASSELL, Lauren
1967 CEMédicos españoles.
GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
1835 CEMemoir of James Jackson, Jr., M. D. with extracts from his letters to his father: and medical cases, collected by him.
JACKSON, James (1777 – 1867)
JACKSON, James (1777 – 1867)
1868 CEMemoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.
MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
1791 CEMémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
1783 CEMemoirs of Albert de Haller, M.D. Member of the Sovereign Council of Berne; President of the University, and of the Royal Society of Gottingen; Fellow of the Royal Society of London, &c. Compiled, chiefly, from the elogium spoken before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and from the tributes paid to his memory by other foreign societies
HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)
HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)
HENRY, Thomas (1734 – 1816)
HENRY, Thomas (1734 – 1816)
1817 CEMemoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom..., with a selection from his correspondence
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
1804 CEMemoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin, chiefly during his residence in Lichfield: With anecdotes of his friends, and criticisms on his writing.
DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
SEWARD, Anna
SEWARD, Anna
1822 CEMemoirs of the military and political life of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his origin, to his death on the rock of St. Helena. Comprising a just outline of his splendid and unexampled military career, from his first entering the regiment La Fere as lieutenant, to its tremendous termination at the battle of Waterloo; a detailed view of his extraordinary return to France from Elba, and the events of his ensuing reign of 100 days. Embracing also an authentic narrative of the conduct of Napoleon during his voyage to St. Helena, and while in exile, and of the events attending his confinement, sickness, and death, with numerous private documents, now first published in this country, and collected chiefly from the writings of Dr. B.E. O'Meara, Surgeon to Napoleon at St. Helena.
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
1858 CEMemorias biographicas dos medicos e cirurgiões Portuguezes, que no presente seculo se teem feito conhecidos por sous escriptos.
RODRIGUES DE GUSMÃO, Francisco Antonio
1993 CEMen of vision: Lives of notable figures in ophthalmology.
ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – )
ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – ) HENKIND, Paul (1933 – 1986)
2003 CEMountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world
FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022)
FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022) KIDDER, John Tracy (1945 – )
1905 CEMy life: A record of events and opinions. 2 vols.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1959 CENapoleon immortal: The medical history and private life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
KEMBLE, James
1925 CENeurological fragments, with ‘Biographical Memoir’ and ‘List of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Published Writings’ by James Taylor.
JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911)
JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911) TAYLOR, James (1859 – 1946)
1985 CENeurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.
BUCY, Paul Clancy (1904 – 1992)
1961 CENicolás Bautista Monardes: Su vida y su obra, ca. 1493-1588.
MONARDES, Nicolás Bautista (1493 – 1588) GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
1964 CE​–1972 CENobel lectures. Physiology or medicine. 4 vols.
NOBEL FOUNDATION
1967 CENobel prize winners in medicine and physiology, 1910-1965.
SOURKES, Theodore Lionel (1919 – 2015)
1944 CENotable names in medicine and surgery.
BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961) BAILEY, Henry Hamilton (1894 – 1961)
1996 CENotable women in the life sciences: A biographical dictionary.
SHEARER, Benjamin F. (1949 – ) SHEARER, Barbara S.
1778 CENotices des hommes les plus célebres de la Faculté de Médecine en l'Université de Paris, depuis 1110, jusqu'en 1750 (inclusivement), extraite- (en plus grande partie) du manuscrit de feu M. Thomas-Bernard Bertrand, communiqué par M. son fils, rédigée par M. Jacques-Albert Hazon.
HAZON, Jacques-Albert (1708 – 1779) BERTRAND, Thomas-Bernard (1682 – 1751)
1857 CENoticia da vida e trabalhos scientificos do medico Bernardino Antonio Gomés.
GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
1932 CE​–1954 CEObituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 1-9.
ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
1840 CE​–1841 CEOeuvres complètes d’Ambroise Paré revues et collationnées sur toutes les éditions, avec les variantes; ornées de 217 planches et du portrait de l'auteur; accompagnées de notes historiques et critiques et précédées d'une introduction sur l'origine et les progrès de la chirurgie en occident du sixième au seizième siècle, et sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Ambroise Paré. Par J.-F. Malgaigne. 3 vols.
PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
MALGAIGNE, Joseph François (1806 – 1865)
MALGAIGNE, Joseph François (1806 – 1865)
1942 CEOf time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.
BARKER, Lewellys Franklin (1867 – 1943)
2009 CEOliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – )
BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – ) PODOLSKY, Scott Harris (1970 – )
2015 CEOn the move: A life.
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
1990 CEOne doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993)
1994 CEOrder out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.
BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913) CHAPMAN, Carelton B. (1915 – 2000)
2003 CEPharmaceutical achievers: The human face of Pharmaceutical research.
BOWDEN, Mary Ellen CROW, Amy Beth SULLIVAN, Tracy
2019 CEPharmaciens au Muséum: Chimistes et naturalistes.
JAUSSAUD, Philippe
c. 2000 CEPhilosophical Transactions - the world's first science journal.
ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
1976 CEPhysician signers of the Declaration of Independence.
GIFFORD, George E. Jr.
1896 CEPhysicians and surgeons of America. (Illustrated.) A collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession.
WATSON, Irving Allison (1849 – 1918)
1900 CEPhysicians and surgeons of the West. Illinois edition.
CUTLER, Harry Gardner (1856 – )
1961 CEPhysicians to the Presidents, and their patients: A Biobibliography.
ROOS, Charles A.
1924 CEPierre Curie par Marie Curie.
CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906)
CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906)
CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
1895 CEPioneer work in opening the medical profession to women; autobiographical sketches.
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1821 – 1910)
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1821 – 1910)
2019 CEPioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.
RAYNER-CANHAM, Geoffrey W. RAYNER-CANHAM, Marelene F.
1986 CEPioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
THOMAS, Vivien Theodore (1910 – 1985)
1930 CEPlarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.
PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)
PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)
1984 CEProfessori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: Repertorio bio-bibliografico.
PESENTI, Tiziana
2005 CEProfiles in cardiac pacing and electrophysiology.
LÜDERITZ, Berndt (1940 – )