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Le Nâċérî. La perfection des deux arts ou traité complet d'hippologie et d'hippiatrie arabes. Traduit de l'arabe d'Abū Bakr Ibn Bedr par M. [Nicolas] Perron. 3 vols.Paris: Bouchard-Huzard, 1852 – 1860.The author was Chief Veterinarian of the Sultan Mamluk of Egypt Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn. (reigned three times between 1293 and 1341). His work focuses on the treatment of horses and falcons. It is divided into ten “essays,” each of which is divided further into “chapters” discussing many equestrian-related subjects, such as the health of horses, breeding, and sports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, VETERINARY MEDICINE |
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Medicina per animalia.Bologna: CLUEB, 2013.Subjects: VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine |
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Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.Florence: Mandragora, 2011.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions.London: Dryden Leach, 1722.Probably the first psychiatric self-help book. Hunter and Macalpine call Mandeville's work "the first book on minor mental maladies `writ by way of Information to Patients' rather than `to teach other Practitioners' . . . [Mandeville] gave a graphic account of his own attack of melancholy when he developed the delusion that he had syphilis" (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 296). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Hysteria, Self-Help Guides |
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Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1936."The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological , PATHOLOGY |
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It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.London & New York: Routledge, 2018."This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines" (publisher). Subjects: TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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On the occurrence of a factor in human serum activating the specific agglutination of sheep blood corpuscles.Acta Path. microbiol. Scand., 17, 172-188, 1940.Discovery of the Rheumatoid factor. Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY, RHEUMATOLOGY |
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Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.Subjects: ANATOMY › 21st Century, ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological , WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Conjoined twins: An historical, biological and ethical issues encyclopedia.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.Subjects: Encyclopedias, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics, TERATOLOGY › History of Teratology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.London & New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2003.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, SEXUALITY / Sexology › Homosexuality |
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Hieronimi Barbati ... Dissertatio elegantissima De sanguine et eius sero, in qua praeter varia lectu dignissima, Conringj. Lindeni & Barthol. circa sanguificationem opiniones, Stenoniana sanguinisdealbatio, VVillisii succi neruorum vis, Regij transitus chyli ad liene, liceti nutitio embryonis, VVarthoni & Charletonis lactis expositio, Haruei masculini seminis retentio rejecta, Moebij spirituum animalium materia, & alia clarissimorum neotericorum prolata, doctè & politè exponuntur.Frankfurt: Johan David Zeuner , 1667.Barbato discovered the blood serum. Another version of these texts was published in Paris by Robert de Ninville in 1667. Priority of these editions is unknown. Digital facsimile of the Frankfurt version from Google Books at this link. Subjects: HEMATOLOGY |
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Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Fiction, PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Medical publishing in 19th century America: Lea of Philadelphia, William Wood & Company of New York City, and F.E. Boericke of Philadelphia: Including a checklist of Wood's Library of standard medical authors & specimen Lea, Wood, and Boericke catalogues.Fairview, NJ: Julius-Vaughn Press, 1990.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of |
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One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.New York: William Wood & Company, 1904.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of |
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Instrumentarium chirurgicum Viennense oder, Wiennerische chirurgische Instrumenten-Sammlung.Vienna: Matthias Andreas Schmidt, 1781.Brambilla was a personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and the first director of the Vienna hospital and the Josefinum school for military surgeons (now a medical museum). Brambilla provided a history of surgical instruments from antiquity to his own time. His work includes 67 plates illustrating over 600 surgical and dental instruments in their original size. Brambilla commissioned three sets of instruments corresponding to the plates in his book. These instrument sets are preserved at the Museo Gaileo, at Vienna, and at the University of Pavia museum. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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Des caractères physiologiques des races humaines considérés dans leurs rapports avec l’histoire; lettre à M. Amédée Thierry . . .Paris: Compère Jeune, 1829.A physiologist and anthropologist, Edwards established the subject of ethnology in France and pioneered the concept of “race” as determined by the shape of the face and head. He has been called the first anthropologist to discuss race. He founded the Société Ethnologique de Paris in 1839. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY › Ethnology |
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Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1893.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Navy, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1867.Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments, ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Fractures & Dislocations, SURGERY: General |
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The control of bleeding in operations for brain tumors. With the description of silver "clips" for the occlusion of vessels inaccessible to the ligature.Annals of Surgery, 54, 1-19, 1911.Cushing introduced the use of silver clips in neurosurgery to control bleeding. Subjects: NEUROSURGERY › Vascular & Endovascular |
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Observations on choked disc, with especial reference to decompressive cranial operations.J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 52, 353-360., 1909.The diagnostic value for neurosurgery of changes in the optic nerve caused by increased intracranial pressure. Subjects: NEUROSURGERY, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Neuro-ophthalmology |
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Elephants and their treatment in health and disease.Moulmein (Mawlamyine, Myanmar): For the Author, 1878.Expanded from a "small" edition issued in 1873 at the request of the Conservator of Forests, British Burma to "answer the purpose of a guide for the management of those animals, in a more direct and complete form; and also to gather, from the records available, the cause of the high rate of mortality among the Government elephants in Burma" (Preface). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Myanmar, VETERINARY MEDICINE, ZOOLOGY › Mammalogy |
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Leprosy in India. A report.Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1877.The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of the Indian Raj in 1858, the colonial authorities began to assume a more professional and scientific attitude towards public health. The severity and geographic distribution of leprosy in India was unknown until it was surveyed in the British Indian Census of 1872, the statistics of which prominently feature in this report. Includes two chromolithographed disease maps. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy |
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The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.Boston, MA: Daniel L. Hale, 1841.The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: BOTANY › Medical Botany, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Sleep medicine: A comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard.New York: Springer, 2015.Subjects: NEUROLOGY, NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine, PSYCHIATRY |
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Liber phsionomiae [and other works].Venice: Jacobus de Fiviz(z)ano, 1477."Composed between 1209 and 1226, the first of the two primary texts discusses human generation — anatomy, physiology, astrology, sexual behavior, conception and the health of the fetus. The second part, the Physiognomy proper, goes head to toe, to determine a person’s character, vices and virtues by interpreting body parts. It draws on Aristotle and Rhazes and was translated into Spanish, Italian, French, German and Polish. The short tracts are on urology, dreams and the differences between genera and species of animals. This last flows from Michael’s translations of Averroës’ De animalibus, of parallel writings by Aristotle and of the Abbreviatio de animalibus of ibn Sina. This collection of texts influenced, i.a., Thos. Hill’s Contemplation of Mankinde (1571, etc.) and Aristotle’s Masterpiece" (McKittrick Rare Books, Medicine 1477-1755). ISTC No. im00551000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Physiognomy, ANATOMY › Medieval Anatomy (6th to 15th Centuries), EMBRYOLOGY, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , PHYSIOLOGY, SEXUALITY / Sexology, UROLOGY |
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Raiss Büchlein…mit güten Mitteln der Artzney Begegnen Soll.Strassburg, Austria: H. Knobloch, 1557.The first pocket reference for travelers by land or sea, dealing with topics such as infected genitalia, frostbite, fouled drinking water, shipboard stench, the best boots and shoes. The recipes in this work comprised an essential medical kit for soldiers, sailors, merchants, diplomats and pilgrims. Includes an early description of snow blindness and a recommended treatment. It was issued three times in 1557. Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Navy, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists |
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Discvrsos del amparo de los legitimos pobres.Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1598.A plan for a state-funded public health system and poor relief program. An emblem introduces each of the ten essays, which treat hospital sanitation and kitchen gardens, care of disabled veterans, prisoners and the indigent, housing for the working poor and government subsidized textile and tapestry manufacture to employ the homeless. Digital text from cervantesvirtual.com at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, PUBLIC HEALTH |
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Baderbüchlin: Gantz kurtzer Bericht von allerhand Einfachten, und 38. Componierten mineralischen Teütsches Lands wild Bädern ... ; Mit angehenckter Beschreybung, was nutz Schrepffen Bringe.No place identified: [No publisher identified], 1560.In this short treatise on balneotherapy physician, humanist , and prolific writer Georg Pictorius described 38 different bathing facilities. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link Subjects: THERAPEUTICS › Balneotherapy |
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Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine.London, 1848.Taylor was the leading English toxicologist and medical witness of his time, and his works were revised, edited, and translated into other languages. He "performed an invaluable service in codifying legal precedents and rulings and relevant anatomical and chemical data. He was known to a wider public by his appearance as a witness for the prosecution in celebrated murder trials, including those of Drory, and the poisoners Tawell, Palmer (who first exploited the possibilities offered by life insurance policies), Smethurst and Catherine Wilson. He was a commanding figure in the witness box, unbending and relentless" (munksroll.rclondon.uk) Extensively revised second edition 1859, further extensively revised edition 1875. Digital facsimile of the first U.S. edition (1848) from Google Books at this link. Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), TOXICOLOGY |
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Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2017.Subjects: IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The occupational diseases: Their causation, symptoms, treatment and prevention.New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1914.The first general treatise on occupational medicine published in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE |
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La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).Valencia: Universitat de València, 2008.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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De honesta voluptate et valetudine.Venice: Laurentius de Aquila and Sibylinus Umber, 1475.The first two editions of De honesta voluptate et valetudine, the first printed work on cookery, diet, and health, by Italian humanist and papal librarian Bartholomeo Platina (Sacchi) appeared at roughly the same time. One was issued in Venice by Laurentius de Aquila and Sibylinus Umber on June 13, 1475. (ISTC No.: ip00762000). Another edition, which is sometimes called the first, might be slightly earlier or later. Neither the place, nor the printer, nor the date of printing is identified on that edition, but the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue No.: ip00761000 assigns the work to Ultrich Han of Rome between the years 1475 and 1479. Platina credited the origin of most of the recipes in this work to the professional chef Maestro Martino of Como. Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET |
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New Kochbüch für die Krancken.Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff, 1545.A cookbook with recipes to restore the health of convalescents. Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET |
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Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Ethnology, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism |
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The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.New York: Harper & Row, 1980.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Ethnology, ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism |
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Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.London: John Churchill, 1843.McWilliam included a history of yellow fever, pathology, description of symptoms, sequences, causes, treatment. He also described the state of medicine among the Africans. He specifically described the ventilation of the ships, which was carried out on the plan adopted by David Boswell Reid for the houses of parliament, and an abstract of meteorological observations, and a brief account of the geology of the Niger, condensed from the notes of William Stanger. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists, Ventilation, Health Aspects of |
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The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.New York: Grafton Press, 1904.Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY, CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › History of Cardiac Surgery, PULMONOLOGY |
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Hospital construction and management.London: J. & A. Churchill, 1883.Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Subjects: HOSPITALS |
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The organization, construction, and management of hospitals, with numerous plans and details.Cleveland Press, 1904.Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: HOSPITALS |
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The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.London: Chatto & Windus, 1919.Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor before taking the regulation medical prior to enlisting, and his doctor had given him a sealed, confidential letter to present to the medical officer at the recruitment centre.[3] Cummings did not know what was contained in the letter, but in the event it was not needed; the medical officer rejected Cummings as unfit for active duty after the most cursory of medical examinations.[3] Hurt, Cummings decided to open the letter on his way back home to see what had been inside, and was staggered to learn that his doctor had diagnosed him as suffering from the disease now known as multiple sclerosis, and that he almost certainly had less than five years to live.... "The strong early sales and the admiration received by The Journal of a Disappointed Man are largely forgotten by the wider reading public today, but the book has been frequently reprinted in paperback and is regarded as a classic of English literature.[6]It has been likened to the best work of other writers like Franz Kafka[7] and James Joyce.[8] "It is also much admired by many sufferers of multiple sclerosis as a frank and eloquent portrayal of their struggle, and numerous MS societies and charities have recommended or even published copies of the book to encourage greater understanding among sufferers and non-sufferers alike" (Wikipedia article on W.N.P. Barbellion, accessed 3-2019). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders › Multiple Sclerosis |
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A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.New York & Oxford, 1989.Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROLOGY › Neurovascular Disorders › Stroke, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1940 – 1993.http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever be complete, the BFV attempted to include every published scientific work that mentioned vertebrate fossils. In addition, it included works that dealt with closely related subjects such as evolutionary theory, geology, and the history of science, where relevant. Articles from newspapers and popular magazines were not included; nevertheless, the total number of references to books and published articles is in the neighborhood of 200,000. The bibliographies indexed literature by taxonomy, geologic age, geography and subject areas, although the indexing changed over the years. The contents of those bibliographies have been converted to a database that can be searched using subject and taxonomic indexes, covering the literature from 1509-1993. "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates was compiled and published as a series of volumes, beginning with the 1928-1933 Camp, et al., volume published in 1940 (see below). However, this volume continued the work begun by O. P. Hay and his colleagues, who had published two previous retrospective volumes covering the literature of North American vertebrate paleontology, in 1902 and 1929. The Camp volumes were published by the Geological Society of America. In 1962, A. S. Romer, et al. (see below) compiled a massive bibliography to complement the Hay volumes, covering the non-North American published literature up to the point when the BFV series proper was begun. "In the early 1970s, the BFV indexing was done under a cooperative agreement by the SVP, the American Geological Institute (AGI) and the University of California Museum of Paleontology, under the supervision of J. T. Gregory, and the references incorporated into AGI's GeoRef. "Publication of the series resumed in 1983, with a compilation of the AGI references in the 1973-1977, 1978 and 1979 volumes. The 1980-1993 volumes were supported by the SVP and the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The increasing indexing of vertebrate paleontological literature in computerized indexes, and the increasing costs of indexing caused the SVP to cease publication of the BFV in 1996. A demonstration project of the BFV Online, created by John Damuth in 1994, proved successful, and the SVP supported its expansion. A grant from the Dinosaur Society permitted keystroking of the references from the older printed volumes, which have been added to the database." (http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx). Individual volumes were published as follows, after which annual volumes appeared through 1993: Hay, O. P. 1902. Bibliography and Catalogue of Fossil Vertebrata of North America. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 179, 868 pp. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, NATURAL HISTORY, ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology |
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Outlines of lectures on mental diseases.Edinburgh: Printed for Daniel Lizars, 1825.Of particular note for the greatly expanded second edition published in 1826. That edition contained 150 pages compared to 72 pages in the first edition. The second edition also contained 13 plates derived from images collected by Jean Esquirol, but published more than a decade before Esquirol published related images. "In making a collection for this purpose, I have great pleasure in acknowledging my obligations to my friend Dr Esquirol of Paris, for his liberal permission to avail myself of his extensive collection of busts and drawings illustrative of the subjects ; and also to Dr. Sutherland, and to Mr. Wastell to London, for the facility afforded in selecting examples of different varieties, from a very large number of insane" (p.126).
"In March 1818, Morison travelled to Paris to meet Jean Étienne-Dominique Esquirol at the Salpêtrière. They corresponded for many years, Morison visited him on a further five occasions, and Esquirol subsequently sent students over to him. Morison visited a variety of Paris hospitals and was impressed with the French example that work could serve both as occupation and punishment. He noted the use of bath treatment with water to the head. He explored the theory of phrenology: he attended a lecture by Franz Joseph Gall and met with Johann Spurzheim, who told him he did not follow Esquirol’s classification of insanity."
Digital facsimile of the 1825 edition from Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1826 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, PSYCHIATRY |
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Traité de la première dentition et des maladies souvent très-graves qui en depéndent.Paris: Méquignon, 1806.The first book on pediatric odontology, later called pedodontics. English translation, New York, 1841. Subjects: DENTISTRY › Pedodontics |
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An inquiry concerning the diseases and functions of the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves.New York: G. Adlard, 1849.The first American book on neurology, with a lengthy discussion of neuropathology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: NEUROLOGY, NEUROLOGY › Neuropathology |
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Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Entwicklung des kindlichen Alters. Psychologische Untersuchungen.Elberfeld: Heinrich Büschler, 1817.Perhaps the oldest separate work on the psychological development of children, written five years after Grohmann published a work on the education of children. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY › Child |
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Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele der Kindes.Vienna: Carl Haas, 1851.Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link. Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY › Child |
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Die Krankheit des Gehirn’s und Rückenmark’s bei Kindern, durch Krankheitsfälle aus dem ersten Kinderspitale erläutert.Vienna: Witwe & Sommer, 1844.The first book on child neurology. Unusual for a medical book of this type, it includes a lithographed frontispiece, a lithographed title page, and four hand-colored plates. Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Child Neurology |
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Von den Krankheiten der Juden: seinen Brüdern in Deutschland gewidmet.Mannheim: C. F. Schwann, 1777.The earliest book devoted entirely to the health and illness of Jews, written by a Jewish physician. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, Jews and Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.Boston, MA: Printed for the Author by E. G. House, 1822.Thomson issued this introductory work shortly before publication of his New Guide. Three issues appeared in 1822: one with 180 pages, another with 182 pages including testimonials, and a 204 page issue with the introduction to the New Guide included. Digital facsimile of the 1825 second edition from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine, BOTANY › Ethnobotany, Household or Self-Help Medicine, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press & Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2017.Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the Crummer and Pilcher collections in particular was little known. The exhibition catalogue was available online at https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/art-science-healing/index.php.
Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Exhibition Catalogues, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , Renaissance Medicine |
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Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1959.A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Magic & Superstition in Medicine |
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Infertility in early modern England.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), EMBRYOLOGY › Infertility, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Infertility, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2018.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Alabama |
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PTSD: A short history.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY › Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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Historia general de las drogas.Madrid: Alianza, 1989.The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995). English translation by G. W. Robinette with revisions as The general history of drugs, Volume one (Valparaiso, Chile: Graffiti Militante Press, 2010). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, NUTRITION / DIET |
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Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalog of the plants which were cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841; drawn up according to the Jussieuan arrangement, and mostly in conformity with the second edition (1836) of Lindsay 's Natural System of Botany.Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, 1845.Catalogue of the thousands of plants which were cultivated in the East India Company’s Royal Botanical Garden in Shibpur (near Calcutta, founded in 1786) and ‘Dr. William Carey’s’ botanical garden in Serampore, Bengal (established in 1800), which were considered to be by far and away the most important institutions of their kind in all Asia, if not the tropical world. The gardens conducted pioneering studies into rare and exotic plants, as well and important experiments in economic and medical botany. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Gardens, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India |
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Hortus Bengalensis, or, a catalogue of the plants growing in the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta.Serampore, India: Printed at the Mission Press, 1814.Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Gardens, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India |
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Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian plants by the late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, to which are added descriptions of plants recently discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. 2 vols.Serampore, India: Printed at the Mission Press, 1820 – 1824.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: BOTANY, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India |
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Neurological fragments, with ‘Biographical Memoir’ and ‘List of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Published Writings’ by James Taylor.London: Humphrey Milford & Oxford University Press, 1925.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, NEUROLOGY |
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Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, edited by James Taylor, with the advice and assistance of Gordon Holmes and F. M. R. Walshe. 2 vols.London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1931 – 1932.Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, NEUROLOGY |
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Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis |
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The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985.New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis |
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A conceptual history of modern embryology. Edited by Scott F. Gilbert. Developmental biology: A comprehensive synthesis, vol. 7.New York: Plenum Press, 1991.Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY › History of Embryology |
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Jewish medicine and healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared identities and tangled histories. Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross.Berlin & Boston: Springer, 2019.Subjects: Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.Kraków: Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium, 1941.A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author perished at Belzec concentration camp in 1942. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Poland, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Jews and Medicine, PUBLIC HEALTH |
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Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Cholera: A worldwide history.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Cholera, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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Smallpox: A history.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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Women physicians and the cultures of medicine. Edited by Ellen S. Moore, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.Subjects: WOMEN, Publications by, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of population control. Subjects: Contraception › History of Contraception, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Long-term control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 stem-cell transplantation.New Engl. J. Med., 360, 692-698, 2009.Gero Hütter and co-authors reported the first long-term remission or "cure" of HIV/AIDS in a human. The patient, Timothy Ray Brown also known as "The Berlin Patient" also suffered from myeloid leukemia and underwent stem-cell transplanation (bone marrow transplant) as treatment for his leukemia. The stem-cell donor lacked the CCR5 HIV virus receptor on his cells. When these cells were transplanted into the "The Berlin Patient" the donor's cells totally replaced the patient's bone marrow cells with cells that lacked the CCR5 HIV virus receptor and made the recipient "immune" to HIV. Thus "The Berlin Patient" was "cured" of both AIDS and leukemia. Digital edition of this paper from nejm.org at this link. The first replication of cure of HIV/AIDS by this method was accomplished 10 years later in March 2019 by a team lead by Ravindra Gupta: "HIV-1 remission following CCR5Δ32/Δ32 haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation," Nature, 568, 244–248 (2019). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this addition to the bibliography.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, Regenerative Medicine |
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Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2018.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2019.Subjects: ANATOMY › 18th Century, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.Science, 346, 56-61, 2014.Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the area of Kinshasa in Africa. This was about forty years before it was first detected in a stored human blood sample collected in 1959 from a hospitalized patient it in Kinshasa. Order of authorship in the original publication was Faria, Rambaut, Suchard...Lemey. Full text and images from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS |
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1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America.Nature, 539, 98-101., 2016.By genetic analysis of HIV, Worobey, Lemey and colleagues from the social sciences "cleared" Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who previously had been identified by name as Patient Zero--the source of the epidemic. Unfortunately Dugas was cleared of his responsibility only after his death. One lesson that researchers drew from this was not to identify patients by name in contexts like this. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication was Worobey, Watts, McKay...Lemey.... (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS |
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A preliminary note on the susceptibility of goats to Malta fever.Proc. roy. Soc. B., 76, No. B 510, 377, 378., 1905.Zammit discovered that contaminated goat milk was the vector for transmission to humans of the Malta fever bacterium, Brucellosis melitensis. At the time goat milk was a primary source of milk in Malta and other parts of the world. Zammit's campaign to Pasteurize goat milk led to eradication of the disease in Malta and other parts of the world. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Malta, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Brucellosis, PUBLIC HEALTH |
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A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.Arthritis and Rheumatism, 19, 824., 1976.The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydman.... Expanded in Steere, Malawista et al, "Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: The enlarging clinical spectrum," Ann. Int. Med., 86 (1977) 685-698. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Lyme Disease, RHEUMATOLOGY › Arthritis, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Connecticut |
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Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?Science, 216, 1317-1319, 1982.Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered the bacterium. Order of authorship in the original publication was Burgdorfer, Barbour, Hayes.... (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Spirochetes › Borrelia , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Lyme Disease |
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Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: Epidemiologic evidence for a tick vector.Am. J. Epidemiol., 108, 312-321, 1978.The authors showed that a tick was the insect vector for Lyme disease. The tick (the "Deer Tick") is named lxodes dammini. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Broderick, and Malawista. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.) Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Lyme Disease |
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On the specific antibacterial properties of penicillin and potassium tellurite. Incorporating a method of demonstrating some bacterial antagonisms.J. Path. Bact., 35, 831-842, 1932.In this paper Fleming first described the use of penicillin as an antibacterial agent in man, and reported on experiments using it as a wound dressing for septic wounds. He also corrected the species name from Penicillium rubrum (1929) to Penicillium notatum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antibiotics › Penicillin, SURGERY: General › Wound Healing |
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Enzymatic amplication of B-globin genomic sequences and restriction site analysis for diagnosis of sickle cell anemia.Science, 230, 1350-1354, 1985.Polymerase chain reaction first published. With Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona et al. Order of authorship in the original paper was Saiki, Scharf, Faloona, Mullis.... (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Polymerase Chain Reaction, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Blood Disorders › Sickle-Cell Disease, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
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Antibiose et symbiose.Assoc. Française pour l'avancement des sciences. 18e sess., 2nd part., Notes et mems., II, 525-543., 1889.Villemin coined the term antibiosis and advanced the term from an evolutionary viewpoint. Though he presented the concept Villemin did not apply this concept to fight disease. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.) Subjects: BIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, MICROBIOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antibiotics |
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Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.Indian med. Gaz., 12 (9), 248-249, 1877.Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an editor of the Indian Medical Gazette. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Lewis published a formal paper in Lancet: "Filaria sanguinis hominis (mature form), found in a blood clot in Naevoid Elephantiasis of the scrotum," Lancet, II (1877) 453-455. (Thanks for Juan Weiss for these references.)
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › DISEASES DUE TO METAZOAN PARASITES, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis), PARASITOLOGY › Helminths › Parasitic Worms › Filaria |
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Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.Science, 233, 2343-346, 1986.HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See their expanded report: Clavel, F., Mansinho, K. Chamaret, S.,et al with Montagnier, Luc. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 infection associated with AIDS in West Africa," New Eng. J. Med. 316 (1987) 1180-1185. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Senegal, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.Lancet, 326, 1387-1389, 1985.First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S. team. Order of authorship in the original publication was Barin, M'Boup, F. Denis, Kanki.... (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Senegal, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae |
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A practical medico-historical account of the western coast of Africa: Embracing a topographical description of its shores, rivers, and settlements, with their seasons and comparative healthiness: Together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment, of the fevers of western Africa, and a similar account respecting the other diseases which prevail there.London: S. Highley, 1831.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, TROPICAL Medicine , Topography, Medical, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists |
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Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.New York: Survey Associates, 1913.Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely associated with the development of medical social work that combined the skills of the nurse, the social worker, the social investigator, and the psychologist. Cannon began training medical social workers at Mass General in 1912. In Social Work in Hospitals (1913), she claimed that the diagnostic casework of the social worker was as important for treatment as was the clinical diagnosis of the doctor. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: Social Work, Medical, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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An index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by various writers. Edited by Herbert French.Bristol: John Wright & Sons, 1912.The first edition extended to more than 1000 pages. It had reached its 16th edition by 2016. Digital facsimile of the New York 1912 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: Medicine: General Works |
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived form an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1896.Digital facsimile of the 1900 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ODDITIES & Curiosities, Biomedical, PATHOLOGY, TERATOLOGY |
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The New Sydenham Society: Retrospective memoranda by Jonathan Hutchinson. Subject index and index of names compiled by Charles R. Hewitt.London: H. K. Lewis, 1911.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of |
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The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.Baltimore, MD: Turnbull Brothers, 1876.Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1864 to relieve the congestion in the capital and ease the supply problem, soon became the scene of sickness and death of an almost unbelievable scale. The inadequate facilities, the difficulties in procuring supplies and equipment, and the increasing poverty of the Confederacy were the principal factors that go to explain the frightful conditions that existed at Andersonville. Surgeon R. Randolph Stevenson, medical officer in charge, was appraised by one of his colleagues as a 'poor medical man & no surgeon, but an energetic officer in trying to provide for the wants and comforts of the sick under his charge--but without the means afforded him here to accomplish his desires" (Cunningham, Doctors in Gray, 103.) Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE, American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, HOSPITALS |
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The medical department of the United States army from 1775 to 1873. Compiled under the direction of the Surgeon General by Harvey E. Brown.Washington, DC: Surgeon General's Office, 1873.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine |
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Pictorial encyclopedia of Civil War medical instruments and equipment. 3 vols.Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1983 – 1998.Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine |
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Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria › History of Malaria, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |