United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1937
#11441
Toxicity of industrial organic solvents.
1938
#1078
Vitamins and vitamin deficiencies. Vol. 1.
1938
#94
The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Arranged, rendered into English and introduced by Edward MacCurdy. 2 vols.
2nd edition, 1956 (reprinted London, Cape, 1977).
1938
#1248
Physiology of the nervous system.
Includes excellent bibliography.
1938
#2059
Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.
1938
#2446
Through the leper-squint. A study of leprosy from pre-Christian times to the present day.
1938
#2682.51
The history of the forceps: An investigation on the occurrence, evolution, and use of the forceps from prehistoric times to the present (with a summary in Danish). Translated by William Ernest Calvert.
Not limited to the obstetric forceps.
1938
#2580
The history of bacteriology.
This pioneering and classic history includes brief biographical notes of the more important workers (arranged in a separate section), and an extensive bibliography.
1938
#5045.1
The preparation of anti-typhoid serum in the horse for therapeutic use in man.
Typhoid antiserum.
1938
#13886
Hieronymus Münzer und seine Bibliothek
1939
#1092.51
The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
Revised edition, 1958.
1939
#1714
The natural history of population.
1939
#2268
A history of tropical medicine. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history of the subject to the time of writing.
1939
#3240
Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pathology, diagnosis, management and prevention.
Third edition, 1953, by W. Pagel, F. A. H. Simmonds, and N. Macdonald.
1939
#3212
Pneumonia. With special reference to pneumococcus lobar pneumonia.
1939
#6304
The evolution of obstetric analgesia.
1939
#7158
Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibers of cephalopods.
Young discovered the squid giant synapse, a chemical synapse found in squid, and the largest chemical junction in nature.
1939
#8120
The social function of science.
This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…
1939
#11670
Heparin: Its chemistry, physiology and application in medicine.
In the early 1930s Jorpes began work on the isolation and structure of heparin. In 1936 he successfully purified heparin and subsequently demonstrated that it was localized in the mast cells of tissues. In the same ye…
1940
#2431
Syphilis in earlier days.
1940
#4614
Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.
Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.
1940
#7719
Adaptive coloration in animals. With an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.
Published during WWII, Cott's book was the first major work on camouflage in zoology, appreciated by zoologists for its scientific information and carried by many allied soldiers during the war for survival purposes. …
1940
#11654
Fractures and other bone and joint injuries.
Watson-Jones's textbook became known as "the bible." It was reprinted 15 times during the author's lifetime and translated into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. "Throughout its publication, Watson-Jones…
1940
#13090
Field surgery in total war.
This book " became required reading in the US Army Medical Service during the Second World War. According to one US authority, C.E. Welch, Jolly’s methods ‘undoubtedly contributed more to the saving of lives of patien…
1941
#3042
Surgery of the heart.
Includes valuable information regarding the history of the subject.
1942
#255
Evolution: The modern synthesis.
The work which defined the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology of the early 20th century.
1942
#12108
Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.
1942
#13615
Social insurance and allied services.
Beveridge's "... report to Parliament on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published in November 1942. It proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution. In return, …
1943
#1665
Cleanliness and godliness.
A history of sewage disposal, the privy, and related matters.
1943
#6437
British medicine and the Vienna School: contacts and parallels.
1943
#9379
Shipwreck-survivors: A medical study.
Probably one of the first books on the medical aspects of this particular subject. "In this lecture it will be our purpose, first to describe the various ordeals which befall men after their ship has been lost, the cl…
1943 –1955
#11332
Catalogue of the Ferguson collection of books mainly relating to alchemy, chemistry, witchcraft and gypsies in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 2 vols. including Supplement (1955).
Due to wartime paper rationing only 40 copies of the first printing of the catalogue were published when it was issued in 1943; it was reprinted in the 21st century. Ferguson is best known as the author of the extensi…
1944
#356
A history of comparative anatomy: From Aristotle to the eighteenth century.
Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1978.
1944
#2189
Galen on medical experience. First edition of the Arabic version with English translation and notes, by R. Walzer.
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1944
#6737
Notable names in medicine and surgery.
Biographical notes and portraits of men and women whose names are perpetuated in well-known medical eponyms. 3rd. edition 1959.
1944
#6307
Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.
1944
#6897
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell.
This work about the physical basis of natural phenomena influenced the young James D. Watson and others. The book was a popularization of ideas developed by Max Delbrück in his paper with Timofeeff-Ressovsky in 1935. …
1944
#11548
The foetal circulation and cardiovascular system, and the changes that they undergo at birth.
The authors describe the first direct recording of the blood flow in an intact fetus, a fetal lamb. The authors performed this experiment cooperation with Sir Joseph Bancroft and Dr. D. H. Barron.
1945
#6439
A history of medicine.
1945
#10893
Lewis's 1844-1944: A brief account of a century's work.
1946
#1667
The story of water supply.
1946
#3709
The vitamins in medicine.
4th edition, 2 vols, 1980.
1946
#7641
The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…
1946
#8634
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
1946
#10996
Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.
1946
#11231
John Hunter: A list of his books. Compiled by W. R. LeFanu.
Unlike Lefanu's other bibliographical writings, this is a basic 31 page booklist.
1946
#12623
Penicillin: Its practical application. Edited by Sir Alexander Fleming.
This was the only book that Fleming ever published on penicillin. American issue, Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1946.
1946
#13085
Self: A study in ethics and endocrinology.
An early work on transexualism. Dillon was the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. Between 1946 and 1949 Dillon underent at least 13 surgeries performed by Harold Gillies for sex-reassignment surgery.
1946
#13638
The Huxley papers: A descriptive catalogue of the correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley ... preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
1947
#356.1
