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1939

#13462

Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).

SEYFARTH, Paul Carly (1890 – 1950)

1940

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)

1942

#8946

Catálogo das obras da colecção portuguesa anteriores a fundação das Regias Escolas de Cirurgia (1825). 2 vols.

ATHIAS, Mark

(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)

1942

#12392

Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.

BARKER, Lewellys Franklin (1867 – 1943)

Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…

1944

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

BALLARD, James Francis (1878 – 1955)

1946

#7641

The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
TURNER, George Grey (1877 – 1951)
TURNER, George Grey (1877 – 1951)

Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)

1947

#11066

Nos hôpitaux Parisiens. Un siècle d'histoire hospitalière. Deux siècles d'histoire hôpitalière de Henri IV à Louis-Philippe (1602-1836). 2 vols.

VALLERY-RADOT, Pierre (1889 – 1975)

1948 –1963

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

CHESNEY, Alan Mason (1888 – 1964)

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

1949

#12019

Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]

ALLEN, Max Scott

"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…

1950

#6783

A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.

SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989) SOMMER, Francis Erich (1890 – )

For supplement see No. 6786.18.

1950 –1966

#6784

UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.

U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library”. See als…

1954

#6786

A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)

Gives full bibliographical description of 632 incunabula.

1957

#8736

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.

PACKARD, Francis Randolph (1870 – 1950) GREIM, Florence M.

1957

#10322

A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

1958 –1961

#8744

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960) QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965) STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970) HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

1959

#6548.1

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.

COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)

1960

#8682

The library of the Medical Institution of Yale College and its catalogue of 1865.

KILGOUR, Frederick Gridley (1914 – 2006)

1961

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

DAINTON, Courtney

1961

#7991

The first catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Washington, 1840. Facsimile copy of the original manuscript published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine.

U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1961

#10992

Every man our neighbor: A brief history of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

GARLAND, Joseph Everett (1922 – 2011)

1961

#11211

The first catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, Washington, 1840.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE DIVISION, US NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Facsimile copy and first publication in print of the original manuscript catalogue published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine, Washington, 1961. The first (manuscript) …

1962 –2006

#6786.5

A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 5 vols.

WELLCOME LIBRARY

Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641; Vol. 2-3: Books printed from 1641-1850, A-E, F-L; Vol. 4: Books printed from 1641-1850, M-R; Vol. 5 Books printed from 1642 to 1850, S-Z.

1962 –1999

#6786.6

A catalogue of western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 3 vols. plus Supplement.

MOORAT, Samuel Arthur Joseph (1892 – 1974)

I: MSS written before ad 1650. II-III: MSS written after ad 1650. Addenda in 1. Anzeiger dtsch. Altertum dtsch. Lit., 1970, 81, 49-55. Supplementary catalogue (1999).

1962

#7589

Catalogue of the pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter, Sir William Macewen, Prof. John H. Teacher and Prof. J.A.G. Burton in the museum of the Pathology Dept., Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

MARSHALL, Alice J. BURTON, John Adam Gib (1888 – 1962)

1963

#2883.6

Preliminary studies of an acute coronary care area.

DAY, Hughes Winfield (1915 – 1990)

Hughes is credited with inventing the coronary care unit, and the "crash cart"

1963

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

BOISSIER, Pierre (1920 – 1974)

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

1964 –2005

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.

CLARK, Sir George Norman (1890 – 1978) COOKE, A. M. BRIGGS, Asa (1921 – 2016)

1964

#6550.2

The evolution of hospitals in Britain. Edited by F. N. L. Poynter

POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)

14 papers delivered at the 3rd British Congress on the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1962, and a classified bibliography of British hospital history by E. Gaskell (pp. 225-79).

1964

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

WOLSTENHOLME, Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward (1913 – 2004)

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1964

#8455

Etude du Livre de vie active de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris de Jehan Henry (XVe siècle).

CANDILLE, Marcel

1964

#10178

The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.

ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)

The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.

1964

#10453

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.

HENRY, Robert S.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1966 –1993

#6786.9

National Library of Medicine current catalog.

U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Subject and author sections. Published quarterly, with annual and quinquennial (one sexennial-1965-70) cumulations. Discontinued after 1993 issues. Digital facsimile of the complete run from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1966

#7120

Medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences. 2nd. edition, revised and enlarged.

THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)

This contains useful information not included in the third edition (1990). See No. 6786.34.

1966 –1972

#7500

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: A selection of surviving specimens illustrating [John] Hunter's opinions on the nature of diseases, experiments and observations on cases in surgery. 2 vols.

HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793) DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)

1967

#1671.62

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.

LEISTIKOW, Dankwart (1926 – 2010)

1967

#6786.12

A catalogue of sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

DURLING, Richard Jasper (1932 – 1999)

Describes with pagination and some collations, approximately 4,800 items printed between 1501 and 1600. There are geographical and alphabetical indices of printers and publishers. For supplement, see No. 6786.18.

1967

#6786.13

A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

ISKANDAR, Albert Z.

1968

#8691

A catalogue of books in the Liverpool Medical Institution Library to the end of the nineteenth century.

LEE, W. A.

1968

#8776

Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.

THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)

1969

#13715

Index of manuscripts on medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences in the Zahiriyah Library

HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)

1970 –1971

#7550

Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.

HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793) DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)

Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…

1970

#7661

Catalogue of the anatomical preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Museum of the Anatomy Department. From the original catalogue (1898-1900) prepared by Professor John Teacher.

HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783) MARSHALL, Alice J.

1970

#8605

New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.

BEAMISH, Robert Earl (1916 – 2001)

Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."

1971

#6786.18

A catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine. First supplement.

KRIVATSY, Peter (1922 – )

Supplements Nos. 6783 and 6786.12. Records 27 15th century imprints and 272 16th century imprints acquired by the library since publication of those two catalogues.

1971

#8327

Health maintenance strategy.

ELWOOD, Paul M. Jr. (1926 – ) & et al.

Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…

1972

#6786.19

Catalogue of medical books in Manchester University Library 1480-1700.

PARKINSON, Ethel M.

Describes 2685 items with full title transcriptions, paginations, and some annotations.

1972

#11970

Early gardening catalogues, with complete reprints of lists and accounts of the 16th-19th centuries.

HARVEY, John Hooper (1911 – 1997)

1972

#13714

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.