Manchester
35 entries published in this place. (Manchester, GB)
1799
#11592
An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.
"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it…
1803
#1764
Medical ethics; or, a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons. To which is added an appendix; containing a discourse on hospital duties ....
An incomplete version was first printed for private circulation, 1794. Two variants dated 1794 are known: One is dated February 24, 1794 on the "advertisement" at the end, the other is dated April 4, 1794 on a leaf at…
1808
#7682
A catalogue of the anatomical preparations, casts, drawings, machines, instruments, &c. in White's Museum, Lying-in hospital.
1833
#11308
A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1842
#4992.3
Satanic agency and mesmerism reviewed. In a Letter to the Rev. H. Mc. Neile A.M. of Liverpool: In reply to a sermon preached by him in St. Jude's Church, Liverpool, on Sunday, April 10th, 1842.
Braid’s scientific investigations of mesmerism convinced him that its effects did not depend on an outside force, but were natural phenomena arising from the subject’s heightened suggestibility. This 10-page pamphlet …
1854
#6860
Lectures on the theory and practice of homoeopathy.
A series of lectures given at the London Hahnemann Hospital between 1852 and 1853, presenting an early account of Hahnemann’s life and the development of homeopathy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this…
1909
#5263
Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.
The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1972
#6786.19
Catalogue of medical books in Manchester University Library 1480-1700.
Describes 2685 items with full title transcriptions, paginations, and some annotations.
1987
#13165
"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.
Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.
1989
#7668
Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.
1989
#11907
The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.
1994
#8453
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
1998
#12779
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
1999
#13315
Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.
"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…
1999
#13585
Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.
"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…
2002
#10175
Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.
"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…
2003
#9874
Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.
2004
#9875
The healing arts: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Peter Elmer
2004
#9876
Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930: A source book. Edited by Deborah Brunton.
2004
#9877
Medicine transformed: Health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930.
2011
#7541
A history of British sports medicine.
2011
#7675
Model experts: Wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815.
2011
#7949
Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.
2012
#8747
Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s -1920s.
2012
#9778
Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.
2014
#8194
COPAC.
http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search/form/main: "Copac exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of c.90 major UK and Irish libraries (and growing). In a single search you can discover th…
2015
#12408
Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.
2016
#8997
Nurse writers of the great war.
2016
#12644
The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c. 1789-2000.
2017
#12409
Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.
"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…
2017
#13672
Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890.
2018
#13673
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power. Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martinez.
"Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea,…
2019
#13671
Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.
2020
#12590
Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.
2020
#13670