2010–2019

2013 CE

#9960

Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine. Elizabeth A. Mullen, Managing Editor.

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/ "Free things like air, Vital things like blood, Living things like ideas… Circulate. "For over 175 years the National Library of Medicine’s historical collections have …

2013 CE

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

2013 CE

#10908

De materia medica. Il Discoride di Napoli (Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Ms ex-Vindobonense Greco 1, VI-VII sec d. C. 2 vols.

Translation into Italian of the text of the Naples Dioscorides, a 6-7th century illustrated manuscript. With color facsimiles of the original paintings in the manuscript, 243 modern drawings in color. Foreword by Maur…

2013 CE

#10564

Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.

Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples.

2013 CE

#8929

Dispelling the darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.

2013 CE

#11459

Duodenal infusion of donor feces for recurrent Clostridium difficile.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nood, Vrieze, Nieuwdorp....This research provided convincing evidence that fecal donation (faecal microbiota transplantation) is more effective therapy for virulent C. …

2013 CE

#8037

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.

2013 CE

#7651

Fritz Kahn.

Text and captions in English, French and German.

2013 CE

#7691

Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.

In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessa…

2013 CE

#12580

Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.

2013 CE

#10638

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome III, 1re partie: Pronostic. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna, Anargyros Anastasiou, and Caroline Magdelaine.

This treatise on prognostication in acute diseases was possibly written by Hippocrates himself; or if not, by a physician close to him, sometime during the second half of the 5th century, before 410 BCE.

2013 CE

#9065

História da medicina portuguesa durante a expansão.

A history of medicine in Portugal and its colonies during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

2013 CE

#12927

History of orthodontics.

This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc.

2013 CE

#7501

Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.

2013 CE

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

2013 CE

#11582

Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.

2013 CE

#7527

La biblioteca di Avraham ben David Portaleone Secondo L'inventario della sua eredita.

An attempt to reconstruct the library of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) of Mantua, physician to the ducal house of Gonzaga, on the basis of two interesting inventories, including a Hebrew list of 1585 and an inventory…

2013 CE

#12389

Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.

2013 CE

#12391

Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.

2013 CE

#9857

Landmark papers in nephrology. Edited by John Freehally, Christopher McIntyre and J. Stewart Cameron.

2013 CE

#8683

Leech.

Published in the "Animal" series. Seemingly a definitive work on the natural history and medical application of leeches.

2013 CE

#8001

Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.

History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.

2013 CE

#9336

Life atomic: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine.

2013 CE

#12194

Mankind beyond earth: The history, science, and future of human space exploration.

2013 CE

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

2013 CE

#8487

Mathematical demography: Selected papers. Edited by David Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Second, revised edition, edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Hervé Le Bras.

2013 CE

#12299

Medical books in the Byzantine world. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

2013 CE

#13647

Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.

"Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This…

2013 CE

#7617

Medical museums: Past, present, future.

A collective work edited by Alberti and Hallam. Includes many fine images in color. An unusual feature of the book is the artistic reconstruction in cross-section of John Hunter's home and his anatomy school and his p…

2013 CE

#7851

Medical saints: Cosmas and Damian in a postmodern world.

2013 CE

#9853

Medical visions: Producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies.

"Kirsten Ostherr focuses on moving images produced in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of images she considers are diverse and range from sober education films to televi…

2013 CE

#10701

Medicina per animalia.

2013 CE

#8300

Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.

2013 CE

#8250

Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.

2013 CE

#10541

Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.

The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…

2013 CE

#12493

Medicine on screen: Films and essays from NLM.

https://medicineonscreen.nlm.nih.gov/ "Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections. This site showcases unique, rare, and important medical films…

2013 CE

#10878

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.

Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…

2013 CE

#13582

Modern colonization by medical intervention: U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico.

2013 CE

#8266

Moses Maimonides and his practice of medicine.

2013 CE

#11846

Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Cong, Ran, Cox....Zhang. Zhang and colleagues edited the genome of human and mouse cells (mammalian cells). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks t…

2013 CE

#7192

Naturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.

2013 CE

#8286

Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.

2013 CE

#13660

Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.

2013 CE

#10219

Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.

2013 CE

#12219

Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.

A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.

2013 CE

#10372

Pharmacy in World War II.

2013 CE

#7997

Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.

2013 CE

#11366

Reconstructing faces: The art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem.

2013 CE

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

2013 CE

#11847

RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mali, Yang, Esvelt....Church. Church and colleagues reported genome editing in human cells. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…