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1990–1999

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1998 CE

#7717

Historical perspectives on climate change.

1998 CE

#12336

History of cardiovascular surgery. Edited by L. A. Bockeria.

An international conference on the history of cardiovascular surgery. Dedicated to the memory of V.I. Burakovsky (Moscow, September 24-25, 1996). Attendees and contributors included many Western and Russian pioneers.

1998 CE

#6827

La biblioteca di un medico del quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Bibliotheca Malatestiana. A cura di Anna Manfron ; saggi di Pier Giovanni Fabbri ... [et al.] ; fotografie di Ivano Giovannimi.

On his death in 1474 Giovanni di Marco da Rimini, physician to Malatesta Novello, bequeathed his library of medical manuscripts to the recently established Biblioteca Malatestiana in Cesena, Italy. Giovanni's library,…

1998 CE

#8283

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

1998 CE

#8227

La médicine médiévale dans le cadre Parisien XIVe-XVe siècle.

1998 CE

#8183

Les maladies dans l'art antique.

1998 CE

#9843

Library of Congress Digital Collections.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/ In February 2018 the Library of Congress offered 316 different digital collections: Subject American History98 Performing Arts77 Government, Law & Politics72 World Cultures & History65…

1998 CE

#8880

Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.

Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…

1998 CE

#8265

Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1998 CE

#8558

Medicine and religion c. 1300: The case of Arnau de Vilanova

1998 CE

#10806

Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.

1998 CE

#8560

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.

1998 CE

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

1998 CE

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1998 CE

#8950

Medizin im römischen Österreich.

1998 CE

#7974

MEDLINE for health professionals; How to search PubMed on the internet.

1998 CE

#8114

MedlinePlus.

https://medlineplus.gov/ "MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical librar…

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998 CE

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1998 CE

#10685

Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.

Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …

1998 CE

#11079

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …

1998 CE

#13957

Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans.

The authors reported that tiny snippets of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) effectively shut down specific genes, driving the destruction of messenger RNA (mRNA) with sequences matching the dsRNA. As a result, the mRNA can…

1998 CE

#9717

Profiles in science: U. S. National Library of Medicine.

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanc…

1998 CE

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

1998 CE

#10434

Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds

1998 CE

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1998 CE

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

1998 CE

#11253

Stephanus the philosopher and physician: Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon

"An edition of the Commentary by Stephanus of Athens, the seventh-century physician and philosopher, on Book One of Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon. It comprises introduction, Greek text with critical apparatus and in…

1998 CE

#8139

Telesurgical laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

First teleoperated (robotic) surgery on a patient. "On March 3, 1997, I successfully performed the first “robotic” laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a 52-year old female patient who suffered from symptomatic…

1998 CE

#8302

Text and tradition: Studies in ancient medicine and its transmission: Presented to Jutta Kollesch. Edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, and Paul Potter.

1998 CE

#7152

The art of medicine: Medical teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400.

1998 CE

#9141

The Articella in the early press c. 1476-1534.

Digital facsimile from digital.csic.es at this link.

1998 CE

#7986

The birth of bioethics.

1998 CE

#7701

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.

Includes a significant historical introduction.

1998 CE

#7350

The central nervous system of vertebrates. 3 vols.

A massive contribution to comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy, the life-work of the authors. Includes a comprehensive account of the structural organisation of all vertebrate groups, ranging from amphioxus and lamprey…

1998 CE

#7642

The complete visible human: The complete high-resolution male and female anatomical datasets from the Visible Human Project.

The first anatomically exact and complete, three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of actual human bodies. Includes 2 CD-ROMs. See https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.

1998 CE

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

1998 CE

#11892

The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications.

Describes the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, preparation, and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. The encyclopedia also offers information on ritual and medicinal use. Also includes 168…

1998 CE

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1998 CE

#13807

The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.

This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.

1998 CE

#10558

The Fool's Tower: The Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum at the Old General Hospital in Vienna.

1998 CE

#9774

The genesis of surgical anesthesia.

Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).

1998 CE

#7394

The history of modern cataract surgery.

1998 CE

#10099

The Huxley File. Created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/ "Those merely interested in Huxley and scholars engaged in research on him, on Darwinism, on Victorian culture, on the history of science, and on topics such as those noted will find …

1998 CE

#13325

The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.

1998 CE

#10182

The land of prehistory: A critical history of American anthropology.

1998 CE

#8018

The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.

1998 CE

#8889

The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.

Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc. 12th century. "A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, "Saturnalia" and Part 4 i…

1998 CE

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1998 CE

#13599

The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec

"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …