United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1907
#4879.01
Some points on the surgery of the brain and its membranes.
Ballance recognized and described chronic subdural hematoma with great accuracy, described a successful operation for it and also for subdural hygroma, discussed brain abscess fully and devoted 243pp. to brain tumors.
1907
#5806
Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.
1907
#6487
Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.
All published.
1907
#9181
Is Mars habitable?
"His treatment of Mars in this book [Man's Place in the Universe] was brief, and in 1907, Wallace returned to the subject with a book Is Mars Habitable? to criticise the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were …
1908
#523
Contributions to the study of the early development and imbedding of the human ovum. An early ovum imbedded in the decidua.
The “Bryce-Teacher ovum”, age estimated at 13-14 days.
1908
#2826
Diseases of the heart.
Chapter 30 of the third edition (1914) includes Mackenzie’s classic description of the clinical picture of “nodal rhythm” (auricular fibrillation). Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 769-93.
1908 –1952
#18
The works of Aristotle translated into English. Edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross. 12 vols.
De motu animalium. De incessu animalium. In his Works, edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross, 5, 698a-714b., Oxford, 1912. De Anima. In his Works… translated into English. Edited by J. A. Smith and W. D. Ross. 3, 402a-35…
1908
#6722
An Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
This collection of biographical essays includes most of Osler's famous writings in this category, with the exception of his essay on Michael Servetus. (Copies were also issued with a New York and a Toronto imprint.) D…
1908
#6536
The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1905-06.
1908
#6768.1
A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. Planned and begun by the late John Young...Continued and completed under the direction of the Young Memorial Committee by P. Henderson Aitken.
Catalogue of the manuscripts collected and bequeathed to the University of Glasgow by William Hunter (1718-83), now in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue provides full descriptions …
1908
#7094
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.
See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…
1908
#7444
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908
#9724
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
1908
#10392
Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908
#12276
Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.
"Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, mostly original and from nature." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#85
The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.
Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the antiseptic…
1909
#1236.2
The fluids of the body.
Starling put forward the idea that renal excretion of salt (and water) was conditioned by the volume of body fluids, particularly the blood volume. He suggested that the sum total of body fluids was arranged so that t…
1909
#3531
The operative treatment of chronic constipation.
Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.
1909
#244.1
Inborn errors of metabolism.
Garrod established chemical individuality as a paradigm of Mendelian variation. His study, which he began around the turn of the 20th century, coincided with the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance in 1900. He…
1909
#5289.2
Bibliography of trypanosomiasis.
Subject index…with additional references and corrections, 1910.
1909
#6645
The relation of medicine to philosophy.
1909
#6519.1
The mediaeval hospitals of England.
Reprinted London 1966.
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.
1909
#9444
The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#10368
Catalogue of the specimens in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Vol. 1.- Pathology. Edited by Sir William Turner.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#12411
Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.
This exposé of useless or dangerous drugs was followed in 1912 by More secret remedies. What they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Digital facsimile of the 1909 wor…
1910 –1912
#526
Manual of human embryology. Written by Charles R. Bardeen, Madison, Wis.; Herbert M. Evans, Baltimore, Md.; Walter Felix, Zurich; Otto Grosser, Prague; Franz Keibel, Freiburg i. Br.; Frederic T. Lewis, Boston, Mass.; Warren H. Lewis, Baltimore, Md.; J. Playfair McMurrich, Toronto; Franklin P. Mall, Baltimore, Md.; Charles S. Minot, Boston, Mass.; Felix Pinkus, Berlin; Florence R. Sabin, Baltimore, Md; George L. Streeter, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Julius Tandler, Vienna; Emil Zuckerkandl, Vienna. Edited by Franz Keibel and Franklin P. Mall. 2 vols.
The important studies on human embryos, originated by His, were carried on by his pupils, Keibel and Mall. This classic work written by American and German experts “has not yet been superseded” (D.S.B., late 20th cent…
1910
#134
Plant animals: A study in symbiosis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1910
#2045
Chronicles of pharmacy. 2 vols.
From antiquity to time of writing, with chapters on pharmacy in mythology, in Shakespeare, in the Bible, and in popularmedicine.
1910
#2267
Manual of tropical medicine.
Castellani made several discoveries of great importance in tropical medicine. The above work is a standard text on tropical medicine in English. Third edition, 1919.
1910
#196
History of anthropology. With the help of A. Hingston Quiggin.
Revised edition, 1934.
1910
#6121
The principles of gynaecology.
Blair Bell was an outstanding figure in British gynecology and one of the founders of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
1910
#10364
Illustrated guide to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Vistor's guide to the museum, including the collections formed by John Hunter, when it was intact, before the destruction it suffered in World War II. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1910
#13217
Hygiene and morality: A manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1911
#2851
The mechanism of the heartbeat: With special reference to its clinical pathology.
Sir Thomas Lewis was a pioneer in the application of electrocardiography to clinical medicine. His book was both an exhaustive treatise on the subject for its time, and a valuable bibliographical source. Second editio…
1911
#1029
The mechanical factors of digestion.
Summarized research begun in 1896. See No. 3519.
1911
#3081
Haemophilia.
Bulloch and Fildes, in their detailed account of hemophilia, claimed to have established immunity to the disease in females, and denied the authenticity of published cases of female hemophilia. They confirmed the law …
1911
#2235
Vicious circles in disease.
1911
#6646
The king’s evil.
A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.
1911
#7762
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
1911
#9180
The world of life: A manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose.
"Wallace's comments on environment grew more strident later in his career. In The World of Life (1913) he wrote: "These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as inve…
1911
#10794
The New Sydenham Society: Retrospective memoranda by Jonathan Hutchinson. Subject index and index of names compiled by Charles R. Hewitt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#11114
Regimen sanitatis. The rule of health. A Gaelic medical manuscript of the early sixteenth century or perhaps older from the vade mecum of the famous Macbeaths physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries.
Text reproduced in facsimile (15 leaves), transliteration and English translation. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#11661
The doctor's dilemma, getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.
"Historian John Crellin opens his essay on William Osler and George Bernard Shaw with a quotation about this 1911 book that the compilers of the catalogue of Osler's library wrote: 'With a cynical 'Preface on Doctors'…
1912
#656.1
The growth of bone.
Throughout his life Macewen devoted much time to the study of bone growth. His researches revolutionized ideas concerning osteogenesis.
1912
#741
Oxidations and reductions in the animal body.
1912
#2131
Caisson sickness, and the physiology of work in compressed air.
1912
#3898
Acromegaly: a personal experience.
Mark, a medical practitioner, suffered from acromegaly from the age of 24. The condition was obvious to his friends, but Mark was 50 before he realized the cause of the symptoms of which he had kept a record for many …
1912
#5756.6
Blood-vessel surgery and its applications.
This book describes Guthrie’s pioneer work in tissue and organ transplantation.
1912
#2101
