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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1802
#2207
Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione.
Samuel Johnson called Heberden “the last of our learned physicians”. The above work included all his important papers, which had earned him his great reputation, and which are dealt with elsewhere in this database (se…
1804
#13621
Coup d'oeil sur les révolutions et sur la réforme de la médecine.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1812 –1822
#2208
Dictionnaire des sciences médicales par un Société de médecins et de chirurgiens. 60 vols.
1813
#6751
An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology. Intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners.
The remarkable Thomas Young compiled this bibliography of works which he considered necessary to a complete medical library. Second edition, 1823.
1822 –1829
#6383
Geschichte der Heilkunde. 2 vols.
1824
#2531
Origines contagii.
History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1827
#5589
Observations upon traumatic haemorrhage, illustrated by experiments upon living animals.
Jameson was surgeon to Baltimore Hospital for 20 years. This essay described some of the earliest multiple animal experiments used in American medical research.
1829 –1833
#2288
Traité d’anatomie pathologique. 2 vols. and atlas.
Includes a historical review of the subject from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to Corvisart, and a summary of the advances in pathology during the preceding 50 years. Vol. 2, pp. 553-600 deals with diseases of the…
1835
#439
Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.
Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…
1835
#2212
A discourse on self-limited diseases.
Bigelow was attached to the Massachusetts General Hospital. The above “did more than any other work or essay in our own language to rescue the practice of medicine from the slavery of the drugging system which was par…
1835
#6755
A manual of select medical bibliography, in which the books are arranged chronologically according to the subjects, and the derivations of the terms and the nosological and vernacular synonyms of the diseases are given. With an appendix, containing lists of the collected works of authors, systematic treatises on medicine, transactions of societies, journals, &c. &c &c.
“First serious attempt by anyone in the English-speaking world to give a subject classification for medical literature” (Fulton). This was first published in volume 4 of Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, edited by Fo…
1836 –1838
#2217
Leçons sur les phénomènes physiques de la vie. 4 vols.
Magendie, pioneer experimental physiologist, regarded pathology as only a modification of physiology, “medicine the physiology of the sick man”. By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on physiological lines.
1837
#2213
A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest.
Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described b…
1838
#10402
Botica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.
The first medical book printed in California, a small 23-page pamphlet of folk or popular medicine. It was printed by Agustín V. Zamorano, the first printer in Alta California under Mexican rule before the region beca…
1839
#2215
Elements of the practice of medicine. Vol. 1. (All Published.)
Originally issued in three parts from 1836 to 1839 when the authors were joint lecturers on medicine at Guy’s Hospital.
1839 –1861
#13
Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.
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The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…
1840
#7137
Précis de l'histoire de l'anatomie, comprenant l'examen comparatif des ouvrages des principaux anatomistes anciens et modernes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1841
#12685
Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1843
#2218
A system of clinical medicine.
Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine and one of the most important figures in Irish medicine at the middle of the 19th century. Second edition of the book (as Clinical lectures on the practic…
1843
#2219
Lectures on the principles and practice of physic. 2 vols.
First published in the Medical Times & Gazette, 1840-42, Watson’s famous lectures appeared in book form and formed the most important treatise of medicine for a quarter-century. Watson wrote in a fine style, and his b…
1844 –1850
#11
Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.
First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…
1845
#2421
Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.
French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…
1845
#6384
Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.
As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.
1845
#10479
Entstehung, Berlauf und Behandlung der Krankheiten der Künstler und Gewerbetreibenden. Nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Medizin, Chemie, Mechanik und Technologie, so wie nach den Mittheilungen berühmter Gewertsärzte des In-und Auslandes und eigenen Forschungen bearbeitet.
See Karbe, "The significance of A.C.L. Halfort's work on The development, course and treatment of diseases in artists and tradesmen (Berlin 1845)," Z. Gesamte Hyg. 21 (1975) 74-8. Digital facsimile from Google Books a…
1847
#2265
Die Krankheiten des Orient’s: vom Standpunkte der vergleichenden Nosologie betrachtet.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1849
#14
The genuine works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams. 2 vols.
Francis Adams, surgeon of Banchory, Scotland, prepared this partial translation to acquaint his contemporaries with “the opinions of an author, whom I verily believe to be the highest exemplar of professional excellen…
1850 –1866
#6385
Storia della medicina. 3 vols. in 4.
Vol. 2 was in 2 parts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1851 –1853
#1654.1
Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'a nos jours, par Paul Dufour. 6 vols.
Dufour was a pseudonym of the writer Paul Lacroix. Translated into English by Samuel Putnam as History of prostitution among all the peoples of the world, from the most remote antiquity to the present day, 3 vols., Ch…
1851 –1876
#31
Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.
Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …
1852
#440
Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.
In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…
1855
#5454.2
Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.
The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, and pr…
1856
#22
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
1857
#8854
Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1859 –1864
#70
Oeuvres médico-philosophiques et pratiques. 6 vols.
Stahl was responsible for the re-introduction of the idea of a “sensitive soul”, propounded by van Helmont. The Stahlian “animism” considered the body to be composed of passive or “dead” substance, which became animat…
1859
#6386
Geschichte der Medicin.
1861
#2221
Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel Dieu de Paris. 2 vols.
Trousseau, clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu, made important advances in the treatment of diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever and other conditions. In his book he emphasized the value of bedside observation. He supported the…
1862
#2220
A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.
Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1865
#1766.501
Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale.
Probably the greatest classic on the principles of physiological investigation and of the scientific method as applied to the life sciences. English translation, New York, 1927. See P.F. Cranefield, Claude Bernard’s r…
1866
#7378
Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.
Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.
1866
#11487
Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1866
#13196
A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine.
Digital facsimile of the 1868 third edition from Google Books at this link.
1868
#2223
A collection of the published writings.
Addison was a contemporary of Bright at Guy’s Hospital and a fine lecturer.
1869
#12126
The nomenclature of diseases drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. (Subject to decennial revision).
"The first authoritative source of disease terminology, with the names in English, Latin, French, German and Italian. Standardization of disease terminology was necessary for accurate recording and study of mortality,…
1870
#442
A sketch of the early history of practical anatomy. The introductory address to the course of lectures on anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.
Reprinted in 1874 by Lippincott as a separate pamphlet, and in Keen’s Addresses and other papers, Philadelphia, 1905.
1870
#6387
Histoire des sciences médicales. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1871 –1878
#2224
Zur Fieberlehre. In his: Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologie und Physiologie, 2 (1871) pt. 1, 624-56, 679-83; 3 (1878) 503-05, 582-87.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 2, pt. 1 from the Internet Archive at this link, of Vol. 3 at this link.
1872
#6388
Médecine et médecins.
1872
#11326
History of medicine from the earliest ages to the commencement of the nineteenth century
In 1824 Dunglison was recuited to join the Medical Faculty of the new University of Virginia. There he became Thomas Jefferson's personal physician for two years until Jefferson's death. Dunglison was hired to teach m…
1873
#2225
Untersuchungen über den fieberhaften Process und seine Behandlung.
Senator was a director of the Charité Hospital in Berlin and later at the university polyclinic. His study of fever represents his best work.
1873
#6393