United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1881 –1899
#6803
New Sydenham Society’s lexicon of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences. 5 vols.
1881
#8913
The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.
Darwin's last book, published only 6 months before his death, but reporting on a subject that he had studied for more than 50 years. "He showed the services performed by earthworms in eating leaves and grinding earth …
1881
#13045
Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....
The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881
#13050
The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
1881
#13425
Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
1881
#13705
Guide to the literature of botany; being a classified selection of botanical works, including nearly 6000 titles not given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus."
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1882
#4565
The diseases of the spinal cord.
1882
#5003
Chapters in the history of the insane in the British Isles.
1882
#5316
Spirillum fever.
Asiatic relapsing fever; original work on this disease by Carter is remembered by the eponym “Carter’s fever” and the name Borrelia carteri. He reproduced the disease in the monkey.
1882
#6283
The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.
1882 –1895
#13006
Botanicon sinicum: Notes on Chinese botany from native and western sources. 3 parts.
Part 1 was first published in the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVI (1881). Part 2 was published in the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1890-91, XXV (1893…
1882
#14028
Experimental physiology: Its benefits to mankind, with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone 6th August 1881.
A little-known historical work on the history of physiology and the history of medicine by Owen, who, even though he was trained in medicine, most often wrote on topics in comparative anatomy, zoology, paleontology an…
1883
#1874
The extra pharmacopoeia of unofficial drugs … With references to their use abstracted from the medical journals by W. Wynn Westcott.
29th edition, 1989.
1883
#2455
The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new form of parasitic disease in India, China and warm countries.
A collection of several papers written by Manson.
1883 –1890
#4348
Contributions to surgery and medicine. 8 pts.
Thomas was the veritable founder of modern orthopedics in the British Isles. The conservative methods introduced by him were developed by Sir Robert Jones. Thomas is remembered eponymically by the “Thomas splint”.
1883
#6452
Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.
Folk-Lore Society Publication No. 12. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883
#230
Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, founded the science of Eugenics. In his important Inquiries he showed mathematically “the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of abstr…
1883
#7945
Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.
Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a …
1883 –1886
#8378
Handbook of geographical and historical pathology. Translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Vol. 1.-Acute infective diseases. Vol. 2.-Chronic infective, toxic, parasitic, septic and constitutional diseases. Vol. 3.-Diseases of organs and parts.
This is the best edition of Hirsch's Handbuch. Digital facsimiles of all 3 vols. from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883
#10739
Hospital construction and management.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1883
#12050
Notes from sick rooms.
The author "was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of…
1883
#13111
Hints in sickness: Where to go and what to do.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884
#426
Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp.
Reid’s base line – the anthropometric base line on the skull.
1884
#1623
London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.
1884
#1415.1
A treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain.
Thudichum, a German emigré, discovered cephalins and myelins in brain tissue. An enlarged German edition of his book was published at Tübingen, 1901. See biography by D. L. Drabkin, 1958, which includes an annotated b…
1884
#4847
On visceral neuroses.
Gulstonian Lectures.
1884
#3482
Intestinal obstruction
Jacksonian Prize essay.
1884
#4180
On tumours of the bladder.
Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.
1884
#6081
General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.
Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.
1884
#9422
An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…
1884
#11682
The vivisectors' directory; being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom; together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories. Compiled from authentic sources. Edited by Benjamin Bryan, with a preface by Frances Power Cobbe.
A remarkably detailed listing of scientific and medical researchers conducting research involving vivisection with address information and details of their research. This information was published in order to supply d…
1884
#13051
The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province; observations on their habits, &c; tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Belochistan, and Afghanistan; Punjab, North-west provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations.
1885
#4568
Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain.
1885
#1704
Vital statistics. A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr.
Farr applied statistical methods to epidemiology and was the first mathematically to express the rise and fall of epidemic diseases, thus making possible the more accurate prediction of the occurrence of epidemics.
1885
#1881
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work concerning …
1885
#5003.1
The insane in the United States and Canada.
The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.
1885
#6717
Eminent doctors; their lives and their work. Second edition. 2 vols.
Deals with British doctors only.
1885
#10575
Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.
The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…
1885
#12122
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1885 –1901
#13866
Alphabetical catalogue of the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow preceded by an index of subjects. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1886 –1888
#4569
A manual of diseases of the nervous system. 2 vols.
Gowers was physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, London. He especially distinguished himself in the field of neurology, and the above set is his greatest work.Page 365 of vol. 1 includes …
1886
#4570
Paralyses, cerebral, bulbar and spinal.
Bastian was one of the founders of English neurology. He is remembered for “Bastian’s law” (see No. 4577).
1886
#4750
The peroneal type of progressive muscular atrophy. Thesis for the degree of M.D. in the University of Cambridge.
Tooth described peroneal muscular atrophym a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system, independently of, and in the same year as, Charcot and Marie. Known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) d…
1886
#758
Praelectiones anatomiae universalis.
Facsimile reproduction with transliteration of Harvey’s manuscript notes for a Lumleian Lecture, 1616. These show that at that date Harvey had already completed his demonstration of the circulation of the blood. Engli…
1886
#707
A text-book of human physiology, including histology and microscopical anatomy....by L. Landois. Translated from the fifth German edition. With additions by William Stirling. 2 vols.
Second edition in English. Matthew Hay devised a test for the determination of bile acids in the urine, published in vol. 1, p. 381. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1886
#2504
An introduction to practical bacteriology based upon the methods of Koch.
Crookshank studied under Koch, and later became Professor of Bacteriology at King’s College, London.
1886
#2230
The principles and practice of medicine. 2 vols.
Fagge was physician to Guy’s hospital and editor of Guy’s Hospital Reports. His important textbook was published posthumously.
1886
#5797
Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.
South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Digital facsimi…
1886
#12417
A system of hygienic medicine, or the only rational way of treating disease.
"In place of orthodox medicine, he [Allinson] promoted health through diet, exercise, fresh air and bathing. He advocated a vegetarian diet and the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. He especially promoted…
1886
#13052
The reptiles of Sind: A systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Bloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, Northwest Provinces, and the Peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and colored illustrations.
A re-issue with additions to date, of "Reptilian fauna" in the author's Vertebrate zoology of Sind. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.