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1928

#8796

Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.

CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997) KLÜVER, Heinrich (1897 – 1979)

The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.

1928

#10820

Medical and allied topics in Latin poetry.

OPPENHEIMER, Heinrich (1870 – 1933)

1928

#10950

De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.

WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292) LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)

New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.

1928

#11005

A medical review of Soviet Russia.

GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)

Gantt went to Russia in the 1920s with the American Relief Administration, and became a student of Pavlov. Moving to Johns Hopkins in 1929, he founded the Pavlovian Laboratory, and devoted his career to understanding …

1928

#12605

With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.

HUTTON, Lady Isabel Galloway Emslie (1887 – 1960)

Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in France…

1928

#12678

The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.

BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)

A semi-popular account useful for its surveys of the earliest herbal literature: Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Greece, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopian (Abyssinian). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at thi…

1929

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

MCCURRICH, Hugh James (1890 – 1955)

1929

#2054

The mystery and art of the apothecary.

THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)

1929

#3547

Gastric and duodenal ulcer.

HURST, Sir Arthur Frederick (1879 – 1944) STEWART, Matthew John (1885 – 1956)

1929

#3657

Diseases of the liver, gall-bladder, and bile ducts. 3rd edition.

ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)
MCNEE, Sir John William (1887 – 1984)
MCNEE, Sir John William (1887 – 1984)

1929

#6772

Bibliotheca Osleriana. A catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science, collected, arranged and annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt. and bequeathed to McGill University. [Edited by . W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch.]

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) MALLOCH, Archibald (1887 – 1953) FRANCIS, William Willoughby (1878 – 1959) HILL, Reginald Harrison (1894 – 1976) MACKALL, Leonard (1879 – 1937)

This bibliography of over 7,500 titles, edited by W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch, is the catalogue of Osler’s magnificent library. For it Osler wrote an unfinished Introduction entit…

1929

#7634

The medical museum: Modern developments, organisation and technical methods based on a new system of visual teaching.

DAUKES, Sidney Herbert (1879 – 1947)

1929

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945)
BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945) YOUNG, Ruth (1884 – 1993)

1929 –1931

#12146

Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.

PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960) EVANS, Alwen Myfanwy (1895 – 1937)

Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.

1930

#532.9

Early theories of sexual generation.

COLE, Francis Joseph (1872 – 1959)

1930

#3326

Cancer of the larynx.

THOMSON, Sir St Clair (1859 – 1943)
THOMSON, Sir St Clair (1859 – 1943) COLLEDGE, Lionel (1883 – 1948)

Thomson’s technique in the laryngofissure procedure for intrinsic cancer of the larynx was published in his Diseases of the nose and throat, London, 1911, pp. 732-37.

1930

#6627.1

Amulets and superstitions: the original texts with translations and descriptions.

BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)

Reprinted, 1961.

1930

#6729

Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930.

CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)

Appendix and Errata, 1933. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1930

#6730

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)
PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…

1930

#6772.1

The printed books in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. A catalogue by Mungo Ferguson.

HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783) FERGUSON, Mungo (1875 – 1924)

Catalogue of the printed books in the celebrated library formed by William Hunter (1718-83), now called the Hunterian Collection, at the University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue was actually printed in 1916, well …

1930

#253

The genetical theory of natural selection.

FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)

The first coherent general algebraic analysis of Mendelian population behavior. The work contains Fisher’s rigorous development of his “fundamental theorem of natural selection”–”the rate of increase in fitness of any…

1930

#45

A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)

This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…

1930

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

MEYER, Johann Jakob (1870 – 1939)

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1930

#11686

Bibliography with synopsis of the original papers of the writings of Sir James Mackenzie. Edited by William Black Rankin Monteith.

MACKENZIE, Sir James (1853 – 1925)
MACKENZIE, Sir James (1853 – 1925) MONTEITH, William Black Rankin (1898 – 1974)

1930

#13255

Human speech. Some observations, experiments, and conclusions as to the nature, origin, purpose and possible improvement of human speech.

PAGET, Sir Richard Arthur Surtees (1869 – 1955)

Paget believed that speech originated in the "pantomimic action" of the lips and tongue related to the speaker's senses and emotions. This led to his central thesis that hand signs and gestures were the original form …

1930

#13387

What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.

CARDOZO, Benjamin Nathan (1870 – 1938)
CARDOZO, Benjamin Nathan (1870 – 1938)

When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1931

#354

An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology. Based chiefly on the titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana and other libraries of McGill University, Montreal.

WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)

A comprehensive summary and bibliography of the literature on vertebrate zoology. The first 170 pages are a narrative divided into 19 chapters, plus an index. The remainder is a "partially annotated catalogue" arrange…

1931

#4478.107

Injuries and sport. A general guide for the practitioner.

HEALD, Charles Brehmer (1882 – 1974)

The first English treatise on sports medicine.

1931

#1065

The quantitative estimation of vitamin D by radiography.

BOURDILLON, Robert Benedict (1889 – 1971) & et al.

Medical Research Council Special Report No. 158. R. B. Bourdillon, H. M. Bruce, C. Fischmann, R. G. C. Jenkins, and T. A. Webster isolated from irradiated ergosterol a crystalline compound, calciferol, which, weight f…

1931

#1066

The vitamins.

BROWNING, Ethel (1891 – 1969)

1931

#531

Chemical embryology. 3 vols.

NEEDHAM, Joseph Terence Montgomery (1900 – 1995)

1931

#5784

Tumours of the breast. Their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

CHEATLE, Sir George Lenthal (1865 – 1951) CUTLER, Max (1899 – 1984)

1931

#6356

The history of paediatrics. The progress of the study of diseases of children up to the end of the XVIIIth century.

STILL, Sir George Frederic (1868 – 1941)
STILL, Sir George Frederic (1868 – 1941)

This work covers the whole field of pediatrics to the end of the 18th century. It is a very readable, interesting and accurate history of the subject. Reprinted Folkstone, 1965. See No. 4503.

1931

#253.2

The inborn factors in disease.

GARROD, Sir Archibald Edward (1857 – 1936)
GARROD, Sir Archibald Edward (1857 – 1936)

Garrod argued that chemical individuality could result in individuals having a predisposition to certain diseases. This view has become particularly significant in light of the establishment of recombinant DNA methods…

1931

#7062

A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.

GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)

Online version at Botanical.com at this link.

1931

#7880

The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.

THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)

Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1931

#8887

International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)

NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)

Contains almost no references to prior literature.

1931 –1932

#10764

Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, edited by James Taylor, with the advice and assistance of Gordon Holmes and F. M. R. Walshe. 2 vols.

JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911)
JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911)
HOLMES, Sir Gordon Morgan (1876 – 1965)
HOLMES, Sir Gordon Morgan (1876 – 1965) TAYLOR, James (1859 – 1946) WALSH, Sir Francis Martin Rouse (1885 – 1973)

1932

#351

The social life of monkeys and apes.

ZUCKERMAN, Solly, Baron Zuckerman (1904 – 1993)
ZUCKERMAN, Solly, Baron Zuckerman (1904 – 1993)

A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.

1932

#1657.1

The rise of preventive medicine.

NEWMAN, Sir George (1870 – 1948)
NEWMAN, Sir George (1870 – 1948)

1932

#1658

A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.

WILLIAMS, John Hargreaves Harley (1901 – 1974)

1932

#1715

Contributions to the history of statistics.

WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)
WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)

1932

#1531

Text-book of ophthalmology. Vol. 1. The development, form, and function of the visual apparatus.

DUKE-ELDER, Sir William Stewart (1898 – 1978)

1932

#3204

The common cold, with special reference to the part played by streptococci, pneumococci, and other organisms.

THOMSON, David (1884 – 1969) THOMSON, Robert (1888 – )

Annals of the Pickett-Thomson Research Lab., Vol. 8.

1932

#3852

Diseases of the thyroid gland, with special reference to thyrotoxicosis.

JOLL, Cecil Augustus (1885 – 1945)

Second edition, 1951. Joll was a pioneer in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis by means of subtotal thyroidectomy.

1932

#3903

Acromegaly.

ATKINSON, Frederick Richard Breeks (1867 – 1939)

An extensive analytical tabulation of acromegaly; 1,319 cases are reported.

1932

#5159.2

Melioidosis.

STANTON, Sir Ambrose Thomas (1875 – 1938) FLETCHER, William ( – 1938)

Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, F.M.S., No. 21. Stanton gave melioidosis its present name and, with Fletcher, wrote the authoritative work on the subject.

1932 –1954

#6734

Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 1-9.

ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )

Continued as Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 1- 1955- See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/11216

1932

#6541

History of Scottish medicine. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.

COMRIE, John Dixon (1875 – 1939)
COMRIE, John Dixon (1875 – 1939)

1932

#254

The causes of evolution.

HALDANE, John Burdon Sanderson (1892 – 1964)

Haldane’s summary of his mathematical theory of natural selection. The detailed mathematical theory appeared as Mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection, first published (Pt. I) in Trans. Camb. philos. …