Liverpool
17 entries published in this place. (Liverpool, GB)
1797
#1988
Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and febrile diseases.
Currie was among the first in Britain to use cold water packs in the treatment of fever. He made some original observations on the clinical use of the thermometer. It was Currie who first edited Robert Burns’s Collect…
1808
#11955
A catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, at Liverpool.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1815
#765.2
An inquiry into the causes of the motion of the blood; with an appendix, in which the process of respiration and its connexion with the circulation of the blood are attempted to be elucidated.
Carson recognized the vital effect on venous return played by the negative pressure in the pleural cavity.
1822
#3220
Essays, physiological and practical.
Carson proposed the induction of open pneumothorax for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (p. 64). Later he attempted it on a patient (see his An inquiry into the cause of respiration, etc. 2nd ed., London, 1833,…
1857
#9165
The seaman's medical friend, a companion to the government medicine chest, intended for use in ships not carrying surgeons. Containing directions for the preservation of health and the cure of diseases, wounds, fractures, dislocations, and other accidents likely to occur at sea. Comprising also the Admiralty scale of medicines. Second edition.
"The present edition of The Seaman's Medical Friend is a new book rather than a mere revision of an old one; since the whole of that portion which relates to the Preservation of health, and the symptoms and treatment …
1865
#11562
Organization of nursing: An account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing by a member of the Committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale.
The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was established in 1865, from which a district nursing system was implemented in Liverpool through the 1860s. This system eventually spread throughout England. Digital…
1875
#4340
Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method.
Thomas splint. Enlarged second edition, 1876. See No. 4348.
c. 1877
#11886
Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29, Paradise Street. This superb collection with all the latest additions, comprising upwards of 1000 models and diagrams, procured at the anatomical galleries of Paris, Florence, and Munich. Now forms the largest collection of anatomical preparations in England, with one exception only, namely of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Museum....
The dating and contents of this pamphlet are discussed in Hoolihan, An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American popular medicine & health reform S-741.1.
1937
#5264.1
Blackwater fever, a historical survey and summary of observations made over a century.
1955
#14036
Old English silver and its medical interest. Presidential Address, Liverpool Medical Institution, 14th October 1954.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1968
#8691
A catalogue of books in the Liverpool Medical Institution Library to the end of the nineteenth century.
1991
#10011
Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.
1991
#12795
The Crimean doctors: A history of British Medical Services in the Crimean War. 2 vols.
1991
#14225
Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.
1996
#7827
From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.
2017
#10661
Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.
2021
#13794