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311 entries match Instruments & Devices [E07]
1979
#2682.53
Antique medical instruments
Well-illustrated work coving the history of medical and surgical instruments from the Middle Ages to 1870, with emphasis on pre-19th century material. Includes useful information on instrument makers.
1980
#12270
Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.
First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.
1981
#2682.55
Medicine and its technology: an introduction to the history of medical instrumentation.
1981
#6007.2
Ophthalmologisch-optische Untersuchungsgeräte.
English translation by F.C. Blodi as The history of optical instruments for the examination of the eye, Bonn: J. P. Wayenborgh, 1986.
1982
#11055
Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques
Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.
1983
#6485.63
Medizinische Instrumente aus Sepulkralfunden der römischen Kaiserzeit.
1984
#12333
Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.
1985
#11533
Medical thermometry--a short history.
Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1986
#3705.5
Antique dental instruments.
1986
#6786.32
The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.
1986
#13185
Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.
1987
#7136
Correction of astigmatism with the excimer laser.
In 1985 Seiler performed the first large area ablation in a human eye to remove a corneal scar, having previously performed T-incisions with an excimer laser to correct for astigmatism.
1988
#2682.56
Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols
Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.
1988
#7952
A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.
With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.
1988
#8949
Instrumental medico-quirurgico en la hispania romana.
1989
#12354
Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.
1989
#13245
Führer durch die Schausammlung Phonetisches Institut
1989
#13311
The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.
1990
#7135
Laser in situ keratomileusis.
Though several researchers developed the procedures for using an excimer laser to perform in situ karatomileusis (LASIK), "Pallikaris also independently conceived of a hinged flap using a microkeratome he had specific…
1994
#8140
The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.
The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …
1994
#11834
Roman surgical instruments and other minor objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the "Antiquarium" at Pompeii by Ralph Jackson.
Definitive analysis of the most extensive extant collection of Roman instruments.
1994
#12924
Antique hearing devices.
1994
#13823
A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.
1995
#10967
Technology in the hospital: Transforming patient care in the early twentieth century.
1996
#6907
Spectacles and other vision aids: A history and guide to collecting.
The most comprehensive history of the development of spectacles and other vision aids in Europe, America, Japan, and China. With over 780 photographs, of which 310 are in color.
1996
#7024
Eye and instruments: Nineteenth-century ophthalmological instruments in the Netherlands.
Extremely high quality color images throughout compliment the expert text.
1996
#8602
The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.
1996 –1997
#10850
The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.
1997
#6906
American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.
1998
#11591
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
1998
#13599
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise on Med…
2000
#6904
The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.
2000
#7995
The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
2000
#8718
A brief history of endoscopy.
2001
#7191
Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.
2001
#7959
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…
2001
#10417
The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.
2002
#7953
Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.
2002
#9432
An ear to the chest: An illustrated history of the evolution of the stethoscope.
2004
#7958
Robotic surgery: A current perspective.
A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link.
2004
#8137
Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.
2005
#9945
Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.
Translated into English by Ann M. Hentschel as Brainwaves: A cultural history of electroencephalography. Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018.
2006
#6905
The evolution of surgical instruments: An illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century.
2006
#7167
Science and technology in medicine. An illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries.
Forewards by Leslie A. Geddes and Paul U. Unschuld. Introduction by Jeremy M. Norman. Unusually well designed and produced.
2006
#7951
Robotics in surgery: History, Current and future applications. Edited by Russel A. Faust.
2008
#10187
Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.
2009
#11512
Technological medicine: The changing world of doctors and patients.
2011
#7390
Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.
2012
#8402
La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.
2012
#13244