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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

United Kingdom

2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.

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1947

#1245

Studies of the renal circulation.

TRUETA I RASPALL, Josep (1897 – 1977) & et al.

With A. E. Barclay, P. M. Daniel, K. J. Franklin, and M. M. L. Prichard. In studying the anurias which follow injury, especially crushing injuries and burns, Trueta’s team demonstrated that both the processes of filtr…

1947

#1534

Sensory mechanisms of the retina: with an appendix on electroretinography.

GRANIT, Ragnar Arthur (1900 – 1991)
GRANIT, Ragnar Arthur (1900 – 1991)

An account of twenty years’ work on the electrical responses of the retina, a discussion of visual purple and visual violet, and an exposition of Granit’s hypothesis of colour vision. His researches have done much to …

1947

#5733

The development of inhalation anaesthesia, with special reference to the years 1846-1900.

DUNCUM, Barbara Mary (1910 – 2001)

Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New series, No. 2. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1947

#6629

Magic and healing.

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

1947

#6739

Wayfarers in medicine.

DOOLIN, William (1887 – 1962)

1947

#6311

The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.

RADCLIFFE, Walter

Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.

1947

#9080

The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.

JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963) ANONYMUS LONDINENSIS (75 – )

The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.

1947

#10822

The diagnosis of the acute abdomen in rhyme by Zeta.

COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)

Cope published this humorous version of his Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen under the pseudonym Zeta.

1948

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

FERGUSON, Thomas (1900 – 1977)

1948

#2138

Aviation medicine in its preventive aspects: an historical survey.

FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)

1948

#1716

Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.

GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)
GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.

1948

#6006

A short history of ophthalmology. 2nd ed.

SORSBY, Arnold (1900 – 1980)

1948

#6639.2

Medicine and science in postage stamps.

BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961) MATHESON, Norman Murdoch (1897 – 1977)

1948

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

ROUGHEAD, William (1870 – 1952) BURKE, William (1792 – 1829) HARE, William

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1949

#352

History of the primates.

CLARK, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895 – 1971)

1949

#1583

A short history of physiology. 2nd ed.

FRANKLIN, Kenneth James (1897 – 1966)

1949

#3342

A history of oto-laryngology

STEVENSON, Robert Scott (1889 – 1967) GUTHRIE, Douglas James (1885 – 1975)

From antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

1949

#3704

A dental bibliography: British and American, 1692-1880.

CAMPBELL, John Menzies (1887 – 1974)

1949

#4962.2

The biology of mental defect.

PENROSE, Lionel Sharples (1898 – 1972)

1949

#8514

A dictionary of Assyrian botany.

THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)

1949

#11228

Bibliotheca chemica et alchemica. An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry and cognate subjects.

DUVEEN, Denis Ian (1910 – 1992) KLICKSTEIN, Herbert S.

Though he was not credited on the title page, most of this catalogue was written by Herbert S. Klickstein, working for the collector, Denis Duveen.

1949

#12613

Antibiotics: A survey of penicillin, streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 vols.

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)
CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)
CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)
FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968)
FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968) HEATLEY, Norman George (1911 – 2004) SANDERS, A. G. JENNINGS, Margaret Augusta (1904 – 1994) FLOREY, Lady Mary Ethel (1900 – 1966)

Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.

1950

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) CHADWICK, John (1920 – 1988) MANN, William Neville (1911 – 2001)

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1950

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

FRAZER, William Mowll (1888 – 1958)

1950

#4435.3

The closed treatment of common fractures.

CHARNLEY, Sir John (1911 – 1982)

“A classic exposition of the non-operative approach” (Peltier).

1950

#5264.2

The conquest of malaria.

JARAMILLO-ARANGO, Jaime (1897 – 1962)

1950

#7568

An inferometer microscope.

DYSON, J.

Dyson designed one of the first usable interference microscopes This optical system achieved interference imaging without requiring polarizing elements in the beam path.

1950

#13912

Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.

UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980)

1951

#6742

The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.

MONRO, Thomas Kirkpatrick (1865 – 1958)
MONRO, Thomas Kirkpatrick (1865 – 1958)

1951

#6515

A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amsterdam,…

1951

#7348

The study of instinct.

TINBERGEN, Nikolaas (1909 – 1988)
TINBERGEN, Nikolaas (1909 – 1988)

Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…

1952 –1962

#2180

History of the Second World War. Medical series. 13 vols.

GREAT BRITAIN

1952

#1354.2

Different forms of signalling employed by the nervous system.

KATZ, Sir Bernard (1911 – 2003)
KATZ, Sir Bernard (1911 – 2003)

In 1970 Katz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ulf von Euler and J. Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, re…

1952

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

SAND, René (1877 – 1953)
SAND, René (1877 – 1953)

Originally published in French, 1948.

1952

#3705

Old instruments used for extracting teeth.

COLYER, Sir Frank James (1866 – 1954)

1952

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960) GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)

1952

#10851

Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.

BACHMAN, E. Lewis

1952

#12615

The clinical application of antibiotics. Penicillin.

FLOREY, Lady Mary Ethel (1900 – 1966)

Printed on the title page: "This volume, although a separate publication, is a continuation of the work described in Antibiotics Volumes I and II, and may be read in conjunction with it." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for thi…

1952

#13155

Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition

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) RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)

1952

#13306

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

ZIMMELS, Hirsch Jakob (1900 – 1974)

1953

#4615.3

The parietal lobes.

CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997)

Defines for the first time the various functions of the parietal lobes.

1953

#5143

Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.

HIRST, Leonard Fabian (1882 – 1964)

1953

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…

1953

#6501

The Bible and modern medicine: A survey of health and healing in the Old and New Testaments.

SHORT, Arthur Rendle (1880 – 1953)

1953

#7264

The Piltdown Forgery.

WEINER, Joseph Sidney (1915 – 1982)

Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new introduction and afterward by Chris Stringer (Oxford University Press, 2003).

1954

#6311.1

Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.

KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960) & et al.

Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.

1954

#6786

A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)

Gives full bibliographical description of 632 incunabula.

1954

#6451.1

Current work in the history of medicine. An international bibliography. No. 1-.

WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

A quarterly subject index to periodical literature on the history of medicine. Also lists new books alphabetically by author. Discontinued. See No. 6451.11

1954 –1956

#9199

The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.

COULTER, Jack Leonard Sagar (1907 – 1969)

1954 –1965

#11218

A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794)
LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794) DUVEEN, Denis Ian (1910 – 1992) KLICKSTEIN, Herbert S.

Mostly written by Herbert S. Klickstein for the collector Denis Duveen.