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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

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1927

#6418

Storia della medicina.

CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)
CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)

This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…

1927 –1948

#6419

Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.

SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)
SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)

An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.

1928

#2317

A history of pathology.

LONG, Esmond Ray (1890 – 1979)

The first systematic history of the subject in the English language. Revised edition, New York, Dover Publications, 1965.

1928

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

1928

#6421

A short history of medicine.

SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)

A highly readable outline history. Second edition revised by E.A. Underwood (1962).

1929

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

MCCURRICH, Hugh James (1890 – 1955)

1929

#2318

Selected readings in pathology.

LONG, Esmond Ray (1890 – 1979)

This work makes it possible to read many of the classical writings on the subject which previously, through language difficulties, were beyond the reach of many. The book forms a valuable companion to Long’s history o…

1930

#2239

Nosography, the evolution of clinical medicine in modern times. 2nd ed.

FABER, Knud Helge (1862 – 1956)

A well-illustrated and reliable account.

1930

#45

A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)

This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…

1930

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

MEYER, Johann Jakob (1870 – 1939)

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1931

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).

KHALIL, Mohamed

1931

#5227.1

Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.

STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)
JADASSOHN, Josef (1863 – 1936)
JADASSOHN, Josef (1863 – 1936)

1931

#6423

Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of medical history. Forward by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

CAMAC, Charles Nicoll Bancker (1868 – 1940)

1931

#6424

Einführing in die Medizin.

SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)

Traces the evolution of medicine from the stage of superstition and magic to the present time, and shows how our knowledge of the subject has developed through the study of anatomy and physiology. Translated in Englis…

1931

#5468

Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.

CARTER, Henry Rose (1852 – 1925)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932

#1092.5

Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.

SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971)

1932

#1657.1

The rise of preventive medicine.

NEWMAN, Sir George (1870 – 1948)
NEWMAN, Sir George (1870 – 1948)

1932

#1658

A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.

WILLIAMS, John Hargreaves Harley (1901 – 1974)

1933

#5221

A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.

STANNUS, Hugh Stannus (1877 – 1957)

In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …

1934

#1659

A history of food adulteration and analysis.

FILBY, Frederick A.

1934

#6425

Historia contemporánea de la medicina.

GARCIA DEL REAL Y ÁLVAREZ DE MIJARES, Eduardo (1870 – 1947)

1935

#1660

Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.

NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)

1935

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)
ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)

1935 –1937

#6429

Kulturgeschichte der Heilkunde.

FÜLÖP-MILLER, René (1891 – 1963)

1935

#8403

Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.

GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)

1935

#10831

1000 Ärzte gegen die Vivisektion (wissenschaftliche Tierfolter) wegen ihrer Grausamkeit und Nutzlosigkeit.

FLIEGEL, Ludwig (1865 – 1947)

Considered a classic of the anti-vivisection movement.

1936

#1661

The last thirty years in public health.

NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)

1936

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

HIMES, Norman Edwin (1899 – 1949)

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1936 –1949

#6430

Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.

LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953)

This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.

1936

#6431

A hundred years of medicine.

LLOYD, Wyndham Edward Buckley

New edition 1968.

1936

#6432

Disease and destiny.

MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)

1936

#6433

The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.

SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)

Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.

1937

#2319

Pathology.

KRUMBHAAR, Edward Bell (1882 – 1966)

Krumbhaar edited the Clio Medica series of volumes on the history of medicine, and contributed a history of pathology to it.

1937

#6648

I santi nella storia della medicina.

PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)

1937

#8751

The history of the acute exanthemata.

ROLLESTON, John Davy (1873 – 1946)

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

1938

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)

1939

#1092.51

The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.

DRUMMOND, Sir Jack Cecil (1891 – 1952) WILBRAHAM, Anne

Revised edition, 1958.

1939

#459

Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.

WEGNER, Richard Nikolaus (1884 – 1967)

1939

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)
BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)

1940

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1940

#6435

Progress in medicine: a critical review of the last hundred years.

GALDSTON, Iago (1895 – 1989)

1942

#2261

The treatment of burns.

HARKINS, Henry Nelson (1905 – 1967)

Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.

1942

#2237

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

KLEMPERER, Paul (1887 – 1964) & et al.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

1942

#6436

Source book of medical history.

CLENDENING, Logan (1884 – 1945)
CLENDENING, Logan (1884 – 1945)

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.

1943

#1665

Cleanliness and godliness.

REYNOLDS, Reginald (1905 – )
REYNOLDS, Reginald (1905 – )

A history of sewage disposal, the privy, and related matters.

1943

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)
WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)

Reprinted 1980.

1943

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)

1943

#6437

British medicine and the Vienna School: contacts and parallels.

NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955)

1943

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1943

#8180

Kaiser wakes the doctors.

KRUIF, Paul Henry de (1890 – 1971)

The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.