United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1918
#8604
Medical diseases of the war. Second edition
Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…
1918
#8720
The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#10998
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#12079
Medical contributions to the study of evolution.
"Part I: Adaptation and disease". The Croonian Lectures delivered in June 1917. Includes "Adaptation in the bacteria and the evolution of the infectious diseases" and "Adaptation to disease-producing agencies in the h…
1918 –1922
#12228
A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Grön…
1919
#4479
Menders of the maimed.
Gives details of the work of John Hunter, John Hilton, Hugh Owen Thomas, Little, Stromeyer, Marshall Hall, Arbuthnot Lane, Syme, Julius Wolff, etc., in the development of modern orthopaedics. Second edition, 1925. Fac…
1919
#1653
The story of English public health.
1919
#2137.5
The medical and surgical aspects of aviation by H. Graeme Anderson. With chapters on applied physiology of aviation by Martin Flack, and the aero-neuroses of war pilots by Oliver H. Gotch.
The first textbook on aviation medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919
#3403.1
Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 vols.
Finely illustrated, and beautifully produced, with several historical chapters. Includes a history of the development of temporal bone surgery.
1919
#6538
Medicine in England during the reign of George III.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1917-18.
1919 –1933
#10149
The early history of veterinary literature and its British development
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and limited (search only) of vol. 2-4 from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1919
#10741
The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.
Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…
1919
#11486
The amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph.
"I have attempted in this monograph to give an accurate and concise account of all the amoebae which live in human beings." Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1919
#12507
The microscopic anatomy of the teeth.
Digital facsimile of the 1919 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Mummery substantially expanded and retitled the second edition of this work as The microscopic & general anatomy of the teeth huma…
1919
#13372
The old humanities and the new science. An address before the Classical Association, Oxford, May 16th, 1919.
"Osler became a 'despairing optimist' after World War I, in which he lost his son. He closed his last public address, given in May 1919 on “The Old Humanities and the New Science,” with the hope that through the Hippo…
1920
#1304
Studies in neurology. By Henry Head in conjunction with W.H.R. Rivers, James Sherren, Gordon Holmes, Theodore Thompson, George Riddoch. 2 vols.
Reprint, with modifications and additions, of seven papers published in the journal Brain between 1905 and 1918. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1920
#5492
Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19.
Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No. 4. The most widespread and serious pandemic of influenza occurred in 1918-19. It spread throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, S. America, New Zealand, Australia, Africa,…
1920
#5758
Plastic surgery of the face.
Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.
1920
#6521
Medieval medicine.
1920
#6539
Early English magic and medicine.
Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.
1920
#7000
The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.
The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …
1920
#7157
Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919
Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…
1920
#11295
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
1920
#12592
The medical problems of flying. Including Reports Nos. I-VII of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. Privy Council Medical Research Council.
1921 –1929
#2178
History of the Great War Medical Services. Edited by William Grant MacPherson. 12 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
1921
#1332
The autonomic nervous system.
Langley divided the autonomic nervous system into (1) the orthosympathetic, and (2) the parasympathetic; he defined it as an efferent system.
1921
#2133
Industrial fatigue and efficiency.
1921
#6479
Greek medicine in Rome.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1909-10. Allbutt was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge and a great literary stylist. Underwood described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.
1921
#6507
Arabian medicine. Being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920.
Browne, an eminent authority on oriental languages, became professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1921
#10823
Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.
The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.
1921
#12923
A century of dental art. A centenary memoir 1820-1921.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1922
#2047
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis.
1922
#2048
The old English herbals.
Reprinted London, Minerva Press, 1972.
1922
#1713
The population problem: A study in human evolution.
1922
#5008
A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain.
Thomas Vicary Lecture. First published in Lancet, 1922, 1, 111-16, 165-72.
1922
#5782
Cancer of the breast and its treatment. 2nd ed.
Sampson Handley advanced the theory that in mammary cancer metastasis is due to extension along lymphatic vessels – “lymphatic permeation” – and not to dissemination byway of the blood stream. The book was first publi…
1922
#6508
Arab medicine and surgery. A study of the healing art in Algeria.
Medicine, surgery and pharmacology as practiced among the nomadic Arabs in Algeria at time of writing.
1922
#10819
Montaigne and medicine; being the essayist's comments on contemporary physic and physicians; his thoughts on many material matters relating to life and death; an account of his bodily ailments and peculiarities and of his travels in search of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1922
#12001
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others
Most of this book concerns John Goodyer, his life, his garden, a detailed 40-page catalogue of Goodyer's library, Goodyer's list of plants, lists of plants grown in English gardens, etc. Digital facsimile from Google …
1923
#1641.2
Contraception (birth control). Its theory, history and practice. A manual for the medical and legal professions.
The first formal handbook on birth control.
1923
#1767
On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See No. 39.1. The stand…
1923
#2897
Angina pectoris.
A classic description of angina by “the beloved physician”, one of the greatest of all cardiologists. Mackenzie considered the disease to be due to cardiac failure.
1923
#4391
Orthopaedic surgery.
Jones was a pupil of Hugh Owen Thomas and a pioneer of active surgical intervention in orthopedics. He advocated tendon transplantation, bone grafting, and other reconstructive and restorative procedures. He did much …
1923
#6647
Hippocrates and his successors in relation to the philosophy of their time.
1923
#5228
Epidemics I and III. In [Works] with English translation by W.H.S. Jones, 1, 139-287
Hippocrates may be regarded as the first malariologist; he clearly and fully described the intermittent fevers; he was acquainted with seasonal and topographical variations in the distribution of malaria; and he recog…
1923
#6471.92
Assyrian medical texts. From the originals in the British Museum.
Facsimiles of the texts of 660 cuneiform medical tablets, many of which were hitherto unpublished, from the library of Ashurbanipal. The tablets date back to the seventh century B.C. No translations are included, but …
1923
#6267
Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.
The earliest known description of puerperal fever.
1923
#6769
Incunabula medica. A study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480.
Bibliographical Society Publication. Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, with minor editing for posthumous publication by Archibald Malloch and W. W. Francis. Introduction by …
1923
#1672
Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.
Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.
1923
#4807
The sacred disease. In [Works]…edited with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones. 2, 127-83
This includes the first mention of epilepsy in children. Hippocrates grouped all convulsive attacks together as ερα νο̂σος, the sacred disease. He did not employ the word έπίληψις, (which seems first to have been used…