An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

BRIERRE DE BOISMONT, Alexandre-Jacques-François (Brière de Boismont)

3 entries
  • 10457

Relation historique et médicale du choléra-morbus de Pologne, comprenant l'apparition de la maladie, sa march, ses progrès, ses symptômes, son mode de traitement et les moyens préservatifs. Avec une carte.

Paris: Germer Baillière, 1832.

In his study of the spread of cholera in Poland in 1831 Brière de Boismont used a map to show the progression of the disease from a central point through the country along a red line through principal towns and the date in which the disease appeared in each town. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Poland, Cartography, Medical & Biological, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Cholera
  • 10459

Des hallucinations, ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme.

Paris: Germer Baillière, 1845.

This study underwent at least three editions in French and also appeared in several English translations, the first of which appears to have been translated anonymously and publlished in Philadelphia in 1853 from the second "enlarged and improved Paris edition". Digital facsimile of the 1845 edition from the Internet Archive at this link, of the English translation at this link



Subjects: Mesmerism, PSYCHIATRY
  • 10458

Du suicide et de la folie suicide, considérés dans leur rapports avec la statistique, la médecine et la philosophie.

Paris: Germer Baillière, 1856.

Pioneering monograph on this subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: DEATH & DYING › Suicide, PSYCHIATRY