United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1932
#271
The history of the microscope.
A classic history of microscopes up to 1800.
1932 –1957
#7023
British Optical Association Library and Museum catalogue. 3 vols.
Vol. 1 primarlily by Sutcliffe; vol.3 by Mitchell. The 3 volumes describe more than 1000 items; every entry is annotated. The first volume is extensively illustrated.
1932 –1934
#8738
The history of St. Thomas's Hospital. Vol. 1: From the earliest times until A.D. 1600. Vol. 2: From 1600 to 1800.
1932
#11025
English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leiden.
Based upon an examination of the Album of Students at Leiden from 1575 to 1875. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932
#12160
Brave new world.
"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…
1932
#12311
Manuscripta medica: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Medical Society of London.
This manuscript collection was acquired by the Wellcome Trustees in 1984, and is now in the Wellcome Library. It included a number of Byzantine medical manuscripts.
1933
#1924
The mode of action of drugs on cells.
1933
#2702
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays.
The standard biography of Röntgen with a detailed history of the discovery of X-rays and the early period of roentgenology. Includes a bibliography of 1044 items on the subject published during the first year after Rö…
1933
#3875
The adrenal cortex; a surgical and pathological study.
Includes the demonstration, by Vines, of virilism with the aid of a new stain; cortical cells of the adrenals removed at operation stained an abnormal (red) color – the so-called Ponceau fuchsin stain.
1933
#4008
Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages.
1933 –1934
#5495
Influenza. 2 vols.
Annals of the Pickett Thomson Research Lab., Monograph 16. "In two massive volumes Thomson and Thomson reviewed the literature on influenza up to 1934" (Spink).
1933
#6004
Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England prior to the year 1800.
1933
#6225
Natural childbirth.
In this work Dick-Read coined the term "natural childbirth." He advocated natural childbirth for many years; he demonstrated that prenatal education in methods of relaxation in many cases makes labor almost painless.
1933
#6622
Doctors in Elizabethan drama.
1933
#5221
A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.
In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …
1933
#5264
The history of malaria in the Roman Campagna from ancient times. Edited and enlarged by Anna Celli-Fraentzel.
Reprinted New York, 1977.
1933
#11233
A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
Includes a vast number of works theses and orations, of works edited by or supervised by Linnaeus or written with his cooperation. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1933
#13200
Sex efficiency through exercises. Special physical culture for women, with 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations.
Includes a series of 12 "cinematographic" films on 480 flicker cards. In all the photographs frontal nudity of the female model is covered by clothing, though her buttocks are exposed in some views. Having previously …
1934
#533
A history of embryology.
An exhaustive history of the subject. Deals with embryology from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century and includes a valuable bibliography and many illustrations. Second edition, with the assistance…
1934
#1659
A history of food adulteration and analysis.
1934
#6622.1
John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.
Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…
1934
#6628
Medicine and mysticism.
1934
#8564
The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.
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Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.
1934
#8876
A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.
1934
#10391
Industrial maladies.
Legge was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom, appointed in 1898.
1934
#13637
The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith
1934
#14203
The anemias.
1935
#1660
Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.
1935
#1683.1
Epidemics and crowd diseases: An introduction to the history of epidemiology.
1935 –1938
#21
De medicina. With an English translation by W.G. Spencer. 3 vols.
Loeb Classical Library. Text in Latin and English. This edition is based on the scholarly text of F. Marx published as Corpus Medicorum Latinorum I, Leipzig, 1915.
1935
#6462
Healing ritual: studies of the technique and tradition of the southern Slavs.
1935
#7449
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.
1935
#7476
Noise: A comprehensive survey from every point of view.
Chapter 1: General considerations: behaviour of the ear. Chapter 10: Physiological and psychological effects of noise.
1935
#8318
Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.
Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.
1935
#11516
A bibliography of two Oxford physiologists: Richard Lower 1631-1691, John Mayow 1643-1679
1935
#12227
Your body and its health.
Cullis was the first woman professor in a British medical school, appointed in 1919 as professor physiology at the University of London. By the time this book was published Cullis was the Sophia Jex-Blake Professor of…
1936
#1661
The last thirty years in public health.
1936
#2356
A short history of tuberculosis.
1936
#3909
The endocrine organs in health and disease. With an historical review.
"As a history of the subject, this work is unsurpassed in detail and accuracy" (L.T. Morton).
1936
#6431
A hundred years of medicine.
New edition 1968.
1936
#8456
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
1936
#8726
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
1936
#10704
Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.
"The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1937
#2058
A history of pharmacy.
1937
#2358
The control of tuberculosis in England, past and present.
1937
#5987
Developmental abnormalities of the eye.
1937
#5264.1
Blackwater fever, a historical survey and summary of observations made over a century.
1937 –1939
#7259
The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.
Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …
1937
#8751
The history of the acute exanthemata.
Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.
1937
#10198
The Citadel.
This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…