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

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1944

#356

A history of comparative anatomy: From Aristotle to the eighteenth century.

COLE, Francis Joseph (1872 – 1959)

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1978.

1945

#6439

A history of medicine.

GUTHRIE, Douglas James (1885 – 1975)

1946

#1667

The story of water supply.

ROBINS, Frederick William

1946

#2237.01

The face in health and disease.

THOREK, Max (1880 – 1960)
THOREK, Max (1880 – 1960)

1947

#1668

A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.

LEONARD, Fred Eugene (1866 – 1922)
AFFLECK, George Baird (1874 – 1958)
AFFLECK, George Baird (1874 – 1958)

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947

#6440

History of medicine. A correlative text arranged according to subjects by Cecilia Mettler. Edited by Fred A Mettler.

METTLER, Cecilia Charlotte Asper (1909 – 1943) METTLER, Fred A.

Posthumously published after the author died three days after childbirth.

1947

#6441

Storia della medicina. 2 vols.

PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)

1948

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

FERGUSON, Thomas (1900 – 1977)

1948

#2137

History of factory and mine hygiene.

TELEKY, Ludwig (1872 – 1957)

1948

#2237.1

Presentation of two bone marrow elements: The “Tart” cell and the “L. E”. cell.

HARGRAVES, Malcolm McCallum (1903 – ) & et al.

The Hargraves “L. E”. cell, a diagnostic aid in acute disseminated lupus erythematosus. With H. Richmond and R. J. Morton. First reported by Morton in A study of the bone marrow in cases of disseminated lupus erythema…

1948

#6443

Einführung in die Geschichte der Medizin in Einzeldarstellungen.

CREUTZ, Rudolph STEUDEL, Johannes (1901 – 1973)

1948

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

ROUGHEAD, William (1870 – 1952) BURKE, William (1792 – 1829) HARE, William

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1948

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)

1949

#10

The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.

CHARAKA (-600 – -200)

Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…

1949

#6444

Einführung in die Medizinhistorik. Ihr Wesen, ihre Arbeitsweise und ihre Hilfsmittel.

ARTELT, Walter (1906 – 1976)

1949 –1955

#6445

Geschichte der Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. 2 vols. [in 3].

DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)

1949

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

POWELL, John Harvey (1914 – 1971)

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1950

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) CHADWICK, John (1920 – 1988) MANN, William Neville (1911 – 2001)

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1950

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

FRAZER, William Mowll (1888 – 1958)

1950

#2238

The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.

SELYE, Hans (1907 – 1982)
SELYE, Hans (1907 – 1982)

In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.

1950

#6447

Medicinens historie.

GOTFREDSEN, Edvard (1899 – 1963)

2nd edition, 1964.

1950

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.

PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.

1951

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

WILLIAMS, Ralph Chester (1888 – 1984)

1951

#6785

The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.

FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)

1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject Indice…

1952

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

SAND, René (1877 – 1953)
SAND, René (1877 – 1953)

Originally published in French, 1948.

1952

#6449

Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.

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

Contains extensive bibliographies.

1952

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE AND STATISTICS, AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1953

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…

1953 –1966

#6451

Index zur Geschichte der Medizin. Vols. 1-2.

STEUDEL, Johannes (1901 – 1973) ARTELT, Walter (1906 – 1976)

Vol. 1 contains over 10,000 and vol. 2 over 7,000 references to books and papers. Vol. 1 edited by W. Artelt, vol. 2 edited by J. Steudel. Covers the years 1945-48 and 1949-52.

1953

#6603

Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

1954

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)

1954

#6785.1

The development of medical bibliography.

BRODMAN, Estelle (1914 – 2007)
BRODMAN, Estelle (1914 – 2007)

A historical study; includes a list of 255 medical bibliographies published since 1500. Reprinted 1981.

1954

#6451.1

Current work in the history of medicine. An international bibliography. No. 1-.

WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

A quarterly subject index to periodical literature on the history of medicine. Also lists new books alphabetically by author. Discontinued. See No. 6451.11

1954

#6451.2

A history of medicine. 1 vol. [in 2]

MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)

1954

#9031

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.

1954

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1955

#2137.01

The diseases of occupations.

HUNTER, Donald (1898 – 1978)

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raffle, W…

1955

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

BUSTAMENTE VASCONCELOS, Miguel E. (1898 – 1986)

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1955

#9420

A short history of medicine.

ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)

Revised and expanded edition with a Foreward and Concluding Essay by Charles Rosenberg (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).

1956

#1671.2

A short history of public health.

BROCKINGTON, Colin Fraser (1903 – 2004)

2nd edition, 1966.

1956

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

COHN-HAFT, Louis (1920 – 2012)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1957

#1092.52

A history of nutrition.

MCCOLLUM, Elmer Verner (1879 – 1967)
MCCOLLUM, Elmer Verner (1879 – 1967)

1957

#436

Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).

WOERDEMANN, Martinus Willem (1892 – 1990)

Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.

1957

#6603.2

Historia y medicina; figuras y hechos de la historiografia médica mexicana.

SOMOLINOS D’ARDOIS, Germán (1911 – 1973)

1957

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967) HUMMEL, William W

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958

#1671.3

A history of public health.

ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)

1958

#5546.6

A bibliography of internal medicine. Communicable diseases.

BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Leonard (1888 – 1962)

An extensive bibliography, and substantial excerpts from practically every important reference made to each of 30 communicable diseases, from 1800 onwards.

1959

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

BLAKE, John Ballard (1922 – 2006)

1961

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

DAINTON, Courtney

1961

#2319.1

A short history of clinical pathology.

FOSTER, William Derek (1925 – 1981)