United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1923
#7407
The elephant man and other reminiscences.
The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…
1923
#8552
"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).
Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923
#12588
The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.
1923
#12756
Chronologia medica: A handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine.
An illustrated outline of people and events the authors considered significant in 1923. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1924
#1570
The mechanism of the cochlea. A restatement of the resonance theory of hearing.
1924
#1787
The Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.
A study of Assyrian material medical reproduced by cyclostyle, in the author's handwriting.
1924
#1758
The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.
The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…
1924
#2854
Rheumatic heart disease.
The first systematic textbook on rheumatic heart disease.
1924 –1933
#3405
Atlas of otology illustrating the normal and pathological anatomy of the temporal bone. 2 vols.
1924
#13374
Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.
Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.
1924
#14287
The morphology and evolution of the apes and man. With a foreward by Professor G. Elliot Smith.
As far as I able to determine in 2024, Sonntag's book was the first attempt to write a general treatise on what eventually came to be called "human evolutionary anatomy," in the sense of studying the relationship betw…
1925
#454
The evolution of anatomy. A short history of anatomical and physiological discovery to Harvey.
This invaluable reference book was reprinted under the title A short history of anatomy and physiology from the Greeks to Harvey, Dover, 1957.
1925
#1912
The action and uses in medicine of digitalis and its allies.
1925
#5394
Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.
Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.
1925
#5432
Studies of the viruses of vaccinia and variola.
Medical Research Council Special Report No. 98; a summary of the more important additions to the knowledge of the subject.
1925
#9587
Practical chiropody.
"The book reached its eighth edition in 1952, and there were seven reprints; a revised, ninth edition was published in 1956, after Runting's death, and there were several American editions as well as one in Spanish. T…
1925
#10763
Neurological fragments, with ‘Biographical Memoir’ and ‘List of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Published Writings’ by James Taylor.
1925
#11006
The life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols.
Cushing received the Pulitzer Prize for this masterful biography, which remains the essential account of Osler's life, work, and selections from his correspondence. Cushing donated his very extensive research material…
1925
#12908
Operative dentistry for children: A text book dealing with prophylactic and curative treatment of the teeth of the child, based upon experience gained during more than twenty-five years devoted to the care of children exclusively.
The first book in English exclusively on pedodontics. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1925
#12935
The anatomy of the root-canals of the teeth of the permanent dentition. By Walter Hess. [with] The anatomy of the root-canals of the teeth of the deciduous dentition and of the first permanent molars
1926
#4633
Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech. 2 vols.
Head’s theory of aphasia conceived the condition as being “a disorder of symbolic formulation and expression”.
1926
#2462
Protozoology. 2 vols.
Wenyon was one of the world’s foremost authorities on medical protozoology.
1926
#5395
The Weil-Felix reaction in sporadic tropical typhus.
Bull. Inst. Med. Res., F. M. S., 1926, No. 1. Demonstration that scrub-typhus patients developed agglutinins against the OX-K strain of B. proteus but not the OX-19 strain.
1926
#6470
Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.
1926
#6509
Arabian medicine and its influence on the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
A survey of the Arabian medical writings of the Eastern and Western Caliphates. The first volume includes a survey early Arabic medical manuscripts then known, and a survey of the Arab medical writers of the Eastern a…
1926
#6771
A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640.
This has been completely superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged. Begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson; completed by K. F. Pantzer. Vol. 1. A-H.; Vol. 2. I-Z. London, Bibliographical Society, 1972-…
1926
#6415
An introduction to the history of medicine from the time of the Pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century … With an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine by F.G. Crookshank.
1926
#10467
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.
Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.
1926
#10468
Population problems of the age of Malthus.
Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…
1926
#14313
Studies in intracranial physiology & surgery. The third circulation. The hypophysis. The gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925.
This series of three lectures was an analytical review by Cushing of the three main categories of scientific work that he had accomplished during the previous 25 years. Remarkably, Cushing completed this review and de…
1927
#797
The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses.
1927
#1656
Evolution of preventive medicine.
1927
#145.65
Animal ecology.
Elton integrated the concepts of food chains, pyramids of numbers, and the “niche” into a useful framework for ecology.
1927
#1529
An introduction to the theory of perception.
1927
#1530
The nature of the intra-ocular fluids.
1927
#5142
The plague in Shakespeare’s London.
1927
#4406
Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.
1927
#4203.9
Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON
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The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.
1927
#6459
The infancy of medicine. An enquiry into the influence of folk-lore upon the evolution of scientific medicine.
1927
#6299
History of British midwifery from 1650-1800.
1927
#10150
A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1928
#799
The pressure pulses in the cardiovascular system.
Wiggers, professor of physiology at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, contributed much to the knowledge of the circulation and devised several instruments to promote the study of this subject.
1928
#1308
The basis of sensation. The action of the sense organs.
In 1932 Adrian shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Charles Scott Sherrington "for their discoveries about the function of neurons." See also Nos. 1307, 1528, and 1303.
1928
#3156
Cardio-vascular diseases since Harvey’s discovery.
Harveian Oration, 1928.
1928
#4395
Dissociation of bone growth. (Exostoses and enchondromata, of Ollier’s dyschondroplasia and associated phenomena.) In The Robert Jones Birthday Volume
Jansen’s theory of dissociation of bone growth.
1928
#6643
The quacks of old London.
1928
#6421
A short history of medicine.
A highly readable outline history. Second edition revised by E.A. Underwood (1962).
1928
#6583
Four centuries of medical history in Canada. 2 vols.
1928
#7392
The development of the human eye.
The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.
1928
#8532