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1988 CE

#9721

Domestication of plants in the old world: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin.

Revised 4th edition, 2012.

1988 CE

#2682.56

Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols

Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.

1988 CE

#3911.2

Endocrinology: people and ideas.

Thematic historical essays written by pioneers in the field, edited by McCann.

1988 CE

#8732

Founders of British physiology: A biographical dictionary, 1820-1885.

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1988 CE

#10643

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome V, 1ère partie: Des vents. De l'art. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On winds and On the art of medicine from the Hippocratic Corpus. Both treatises date to the final decades of the 5th cent. BCE. On winds claim…

1988 CE

#9707

Histoire de la médecine chinoise.

1988 CE

#12314

Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.

1988 CE

#8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…

1988 CE

#8949

Instrumental medico-quirurgico en la hispania romana.

1988 CE

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988 CE

#11542

La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.

1988 CE

#13810

La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.

1988 CE

#9109

La prostitution médiévale.

Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…

1988 CE

#8635

La scuola medica di Bologna: Settecento anni di storia. Edited by Raffaele A. Bernabeo and Giuseppe D'Antuono.

1988 CE

#11255

Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.

Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.

1988 CE

#14075

Les livres anciens de médecine et de pharmacie. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse.

Catalogue of books on the subjects up to 1815 held by this library.

1988 CE

#10029

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

1988 CE

#2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.

1988 CE

#11780

Molecular Koch's postulates applied to microbial pathogenicity.

"Molecular Koch's postulates are a set of experimental criteria that must be satisfied to show that a gene found in a pathogenic microorganism encodes a product that contributes to the disease caused by the pathogen. …

1988 CE

#8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

1988 CE

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

1988 CE

#11774

Outlines of entomology. Seventh edition.

Includes an outstanding analytical bibliography of the primary entomological literature.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1988 CE

#6604.82

Pioneer medicine in Australia. Edited by John Hemsley Pearn.

Twenty illustrated essays by various authors.

1988 CE

#11507

Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.

1988 CE

#2581.13

Portraits of viruses: A history of virology.

Well-documented essays on specific families of viruses by expert researchers, reprinted from Intervirology, 1979, 11-1986, 26.

1988 CE

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

1988 CE

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

1988 CE

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988 CE

#11197

Sir William Osler: An annotated bibliography with illustrations. Edited by Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland.

This was my first effort as a publisher. I was responsible for the illustrations, the captions, and for chosing the appendices - JMN. Richard Golden issued an Addenda to this bibliography in 1997.

1988 CE

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

1988 CE

#7912

SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-

Contents of the recent issue may be viewed at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/current.

1988 CE

#11778

Southern African botanical literature, 1600-1988.

1988 CE

#11170

Studies in the history of alternative medicine. Edited by Roger Cooter.

1988 CE

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988 CE

#7671

The Irish body snatchers: A history of body snatching in Ireland.

1988 CE

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1988 CE

#14054

Tibetan medical thangka of the four medical tantras. Translator and compiler of the original edition: Byams-pa 'Phrin-Las, Wang lei. English translator and annotator Cai Jingfeng.

1988 CE

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

1988 CE

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

1988 CE

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1988 CE–1992 CE

#7859

Historia de la medicina valenciana. Edited by José Maria López Piñero. 3 vols.

1988 CE–1992 CE

#5813.14

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…

1988 CE–2000 CE

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

1988 CE–2006 CE

#8568

Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.

1989 CE

#6832

Hautkrankheiten. 5 Jahrhunderte wissenschaftlicher Illustration / Skin Diseases. 5 Centuries of Scientific Illustration.

Bilingual text, richly illustrated in color, on the great illustrated works in the history of dermatology.

1989 CE

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1989 CE

#6742.12

A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography.

Collective and individual biographies. Confined to books in English published in the 19th-20th centuries. Revised and enlarged version of J.L. Thornton, A select bibliography of medical biography. 2nd ed., London, 1970.

1989 CE

#11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …