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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1904
#449
Die Anfänge der Anatomie bei den alten Kulturvölkern.
Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin, Breslau, Heft 9.
1904
#7206
Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.
A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…
1905
#450
Anatomy in America.
1905
#1651
Zur Vorgeschichte der modernen Hygiene.
1905
#5803
The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.
1905
#8689
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1906
#1652
L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.
1906 –1911
#6401
Geschichte der Medizin. Vol. 1-2, pt. 1.
An English translation was published in London, 2 vols., 1909-25.
1906
#12739
The jungle.
Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …
1907
#451
Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.
1907
#2233
Die asthenische Konstitutionskrankheit.
“Stiller’s disease” – habitus asthenicus.
1907 –1910
#11290
Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.
Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…
1908
#452
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.
Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.
1908
#6403
Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin.
1909
#4
Der grosse medizinische Papyrus des Berliner Museums (Pap. Berl. 3038) in Facsimile und Umschrift mit Uebersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar. Herausg. von Walter Wreszinski.
BRUGSCH PAPYRUS
The Greater German Papyrus (Brugsch Papyrus) dates from about 1300 BCE. The above facsimile reproduction and translation forms vol. 1 of the Medizin der alten Aegypter series. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National …
1909
#6404
Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin.
1909
#13826
Epoch-making contributions to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world together with biographical sketches of the observers. Collected by C. N. B. Camac.
1910
#2234
Vagotonie: klinische Studie.
English translation, 1915.
1910
#6406
Medizinisches aus der Geschichte. 3te. Aufl.
1910
#10835
The humane movement: A descriptive survey.
Concerns the origins and evolution of the humane movement that played a significant role in the emergence and growth of the antivivisection movement in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1911
#2235
Vicious circles in disease.
1911
#7644
A cross-section anatomy, by Albert C. Eycleshymer and Daniel M. Schoemaker. Average position of organs from eleven reconstructions, by Peter Potter. Sections of the female pelvis, by Carroll Smith. Drawings by Tom Jones.
The historical introduction includes a bibliographical history of cross-sectional anatomies from frozen sections. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#9373
Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.
A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1912
#8407
On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.
Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…
1912
#10792
An index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by various writers. Edited by Herbert French.
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.
1913
#6408
An introduction to the history of medicine.
One of the best single-volume histories of medicine from the bibliographical point of view, mainly for 19th century and earlier material. A rather compressed work with much detail, this is really more of a reference w…
1914
#10832
Animal experimentation and medical progress.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1916
#6409
Medizin-geschichtliches Hilfsbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entdeckungsgeschichte und der Biographie.
1917 –1921
#6411
Studies in the history and method of science. 2 vols. Edited by Charles Singer.
A collection of essays by several authorities, unusually well produced and illustrated for the time. Introduction to vol. 1 by Sir William Osler. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1917
#8639
Anatomical names, especially the Basle Nomina Anatomica ("BNA"). By Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, assisted by Daniel Martin Schoemaker. With biographical sketches by Roy Lee Moodie.
Includes 800 biographical sketches and a massive index covering nearly 400 pages. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1917 –1922
#10532
Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.
A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…
1919
#1653
The story of English public health.
1920
#3723
Scurvy, past and present.
Includes a history and bibliography.
1921
#1654
A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.
1921
#6413
Geschichte der Medizin im Überblick.
5th edition, 1965, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin.
1921
#6414
The evolution of modern medicine. A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.
The final text of these lectures, which Osler characterized as "an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages," remained unfinished at Osler’s death, and Osler requested in his will that this and …
1923 –2012
#16
Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.
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Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.
1923
#12756
Chronologia medica: A handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine.
An illustrated outline of people and events the authors considered significant in 1923. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1924
#10828
Humane society leaders in America. With a sketch of the early history of the humane movement in England.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1925
#454
The evolution of anatomy. A short history of anatomical and physiological discovery to Harvey.
This invaluable reference book was reprinted under the title A short history of anatomy and physiology from the Greeks to Harvey, Dover, 1957.
1925
#2316
Entwicklung und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung.
Traces the development of pathological anatomical illustration, and includes a chronological bibliography of all important publications known to Goldschmid containing illustrations of pathological conditions, and an i…
1926
#6415
An introduction to the history of medicine from the time of the Pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century … With an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine by F.G. Crookshank.
1926
#6417
Die Lehre von der heilkraft der Natur im Wandel der Zeiten.
The standard work on the history of the doctrine of “the healing power of Nature”. English translation, New York, 1932.
1926
#8362
Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.
Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Condé at …
1926
#10467
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.
Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.
1926
#10468
Population problems of the age of Malthus.
Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…
1927
#456
Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1927
#1655
The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.
1927
#1656
Evolution of preventive medicine.
1927
#6559