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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1874
#9592
La médecine en France, hommes et doctrines depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours; avec introduction, notes et supplément par A[uguste] Le Pileur. Ouvrage publié sur la dernière édition de l'Histoire des français des divers états, couronnée deux fois par l'Académie française.
One of the pioneer histories of medicine in France. "He [Monteil] boasted of having been the first to write really 'national' history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled L'Influence de l'histoire …
1875
#2
Papyros Ebers: Das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift, herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers, mit Hieroglyphisch-Lateinischem Glossar von Ludwig [Christian] Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 vols.
The Ebers Papyrus dates from about 1552 BCE. It measures 20.23 m. in length and 30 cm. in height, and is, along with the Edwin Smith Papyrus, one of the two most important surviving medical papyri. It was written in h…
1875
#1646
Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.
Viollet-Le-Duc traced the history of domestic architecture among the different "races" of mankind. Translated into English by Benjamin Bucknall as Habitations of man in all ages (1876). Digital facsimile of the French…
1875
#2226
Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers.
1875
#10829
Experimentation on animals, as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1876 –1878
#2227
The collected works. 2 vols.
Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical educati…
1876
#6389
Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.
Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation, by H.E. Han…
1876
#10839
Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: With minutes and evidence and appendix.
This commission, or others with a similar name, seems to have continued intermittently in England for several decades, with the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection issued as late as 1908. Digital facs…
1876
#11574
Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.
"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…
1877
#6485.91
[Charaka Samhita. Edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.]
Sanskrit text. Authorities vary as to the date of Charaka. He is said to have lived at times varying between 800 BCE and 78 CE. The Samhita, or Sanhita, is one of the most ancient and complete systems of Hindu medicin…
1879
#443
Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest medical…
1879
#9028
The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1880
#444
Onomatologia anatomica. Geschichte und Kritik der anatomischen Sprache der Gegenwart, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Barbarismen, Widersinnigkeiten, Tropen und grammatikalischen Fehler.
A classic work on anatomical terminology. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1881
#1647
Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.
1881
#5002
Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.
A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.
1882
#1571
The experimental method in medical science.
Dalton, Professor of Physiology at the universities of Buffalo and Vermont, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, was the first American to devote his time exclusively to that subject. He was present a…
1882
#11683
Manuel de vivisections.
Extensively illustrated study of methods of conducting experiments involving vivisection.
1883
#1648
Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.
1883
#6390
Medical essays: 1842-1882.
“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at the dedicati…
1884
#1623
London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.
1884
#11682
The vivisectors' directory; being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom; together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories. Compiled from authentic sources. Edited by Benjamin Bryan, with a preface by Frances Power Cobbe.
A remarkably detailed listing of scientific and medical researchers conducting research involving vivisection with address information and details of their research. This information was published in order to supply d…
1886
#2230
The principles and practice of medicine. 2 vols.
Fagge was physician to Guy’s hospital and editor of Guy’s Hospital Reports. His important textbook was published posthumously.
1889 –1900
#5226
Die Litteratur über die venerischen Krankheiten von der ersten Schriften über Syphilis aus dem Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahre 1889. (Supplement Band I. Enthält die Litteratur von 1889-99 und Nachträge aus früherer Zeit.) 5 vols.
Reprinted Nieuwkoop, De Graaf 1966.
1889
#12348
Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.
Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…
1890
#1650
Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
1890
#1650
English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…
1890
#6392
Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik.
Reprinted Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966.
1891
#11124
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.
Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.
1891
#11633
Notes on the practice of medicine.
This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…
1892
#2231
The principles and practice of medicine.
Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine literary st…
1894 –1902
#15
Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.
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This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…
1894
#6395
Medical history from the earliest times.
A classic brief history up to the early 19th century. Reprinted 1964.
1895
#5227
Die Geschichte der venerischen Krankheiten. 2 vols.
Vol. 1. Alterthum und Mittelalter. Vol. 2. Neuzeit.
1896
#444.1
The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…
1896
#5088
Der Keuchhusten.
An important history of whooping cough.
1896
#10836
Biological experimentation: Its function and limits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1897
#8881
Fundamentos racionales y condiciones téchnicas de la Investigación biológica.
For the second edition (Madrid: Fortanet, 1899) Ramón y Cajal changed the title to Reglas y consejos sobre investigación cientifica. He added Los tónicos de la voluntad to the fourth ediition (Madrid: Fortanet, 1916).…
1897
#12198
Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1898
#446
Histoire d’anatomie plastique: Les maitres, les livres et les écorchés.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1898
#447
Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.
1898
#6396
Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.
A collection of lectures. The bibliography of the revised edition of 1922, for which Sudhoff was responsible, is significantly improved over the first edition.
1898
#6397
Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie.
English translation in Disease, life and man. Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow. Selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by L. J. Rather, Stanford, 1958.
1901
#10833
The vivisection question.
Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…
1902
#2129
Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.
A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1902 –1905
#6398
Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Begründet von Theodore Puschmann. Herausgegeben von Max Neuburger und Julius Pagel. 3 vols.
Puschmann died before the completion of this work, and it was then edited by Pagel and Neuburger. It ranks with the work of Haeser; many authorities collaborated in the writing of the histories of the various subjects…
1902
#10830
Animal experimentation: A series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science.
Contributors included Charles Elliot, G. Stanley Hall, William T. Sedgwick, James J. Putnam, Henry P. Bowditch, William T. Porter, William T. Councilman, Theobald Smith, and members of the religious community. Digital…
1903
#448
Geschichte der Anatomie.
1903
#2313
Geschichte der pathologischen Anatomie des Menschen. In: Puschmann, T.: Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 2, 473-559
1903
#5005.1
Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.
An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).
1903
#12535
Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.
Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…