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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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

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1955

#2137.01

The diseases of occupations.

HUNTER, Donald (1898 – 1978)

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raffle, W…

1955

#6548

The Royal Society of Medicine: The realization of an ideal (1805-1955).

DAVIDSON, Maurice (1883 – 1967)

1955

#5264.3

Man’s mastery of malaria.

RUSSELL, Paul Farr (1894 – 1983)

Heath Clark Lectures, 1953.

1955

#8391

The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.

GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)

A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…

1955

#9037

Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society.

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

http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year/royobits "November 1955 "Obituaries of Royal Society Fellows first appeared in 1830, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Initially obituaries were read…

1955

#10994

Diseases of the liver and biliary system.

SHERLOCK, Sheila Patricia Violet Dame (1918 – 2001)

13th edition, 2018. "In 1959 she [Sherlock] became the United Kingdom's first ever female Professor of Medicine when she was appointed at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. She founded the liver uni…

1955

#14036

Old English silver and its medical interest. Presidential Address, Liverpool Medical Institution, 14th October 1954.

COHEN, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead (1900 – 1977)
COHEN, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead (1900 – 1977)

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1956 –1960

#86.4

Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.

EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915)
EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915) HIMMELWEIT, Fred (1902 – 1977)

Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…

1956

#1671.2

A short history of public health.

BROCKINGTON, Colin Fraser (1903 – 2004)

2nd edition, 1966.

1957 –1963

#2188

Medicine and the navy, 1200-1900. 4 vols.

KEEVIL, John Joyce (1901 – 1957) COULTER, Jack Leonard Sagar (1907 – 1969) LLOYD, Charles Christopher (1906 – 1986)

Vols. 3-4 by C. Lloyd and J. L. S. Coulter.

1957

#1766.606

The evolution of medical education in the nineteenth century.

NEWMAN, Charles Edward (1900 – 1989)

Covers medical education in England.

1957

#3161

The story of heart disease.

EAST, Charles Frederick Terence (1894 – 1967)

1957

#6663

MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

The latest issue may be viewed at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/latest-issue. Vols. 1-60 (1957-2016) are archived at PubMedCentral at this link.

1958

#1586

The history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions: an Anglo-American symposium.

POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)

1958

#145

The history of biology.

BODENHEIMER, Frederick Simon (1897 – 1959)

1958

#7778

John Wesley among the physicians: A study of eighteenth-century medicine.

HILL, A. Wesley

1958

#9232

Bibliography of international congresses of medical sciences. Prepared by W. J. Bishop under the auspices of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences with the financial assistance of Unesco.

BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961)

1958

#10683

The Banks letters: A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.

DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)

1959

#2578.31

The clonal selection theory of acquired immunity. The Abraham Flexner Lectures of Vanderbilt University 1958.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)

Burnet's clonal selection theory extended the idea that each antibody-producing cell makes antibodies of only one specificity, predicting these cells proliferate in response to the detection of antigens, cloning and t…

1959

#6623.1

Shakespeare and medicine.

SIMPSON, Robert Ritchie

1959

#6637

The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.

PAVEY, Agnes Elizabeth (1889 – )

1959

#6548.1

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.

COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)

1959

#12603

The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem

KAUFFMANN, Claus Michael (1931 – ) PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220)

1959

#12655

Programs with Common Sense. IN: Mechanisation of thought processes, Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Physics Laboratory, pages 77-84.

MCCARTHY, John (1927 – 2011)
MCCARTHY, John (1927 – 2011)

"Programs with Common Sense was probably the first paper on logical AI, i.e. AI in which logic is the method of representing information in computer memory and not just the subject matter of the program. The paper was…

1959

#13104

Napoleon immortal: The medical history and private life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

KEMBLE, James

1959

#13156

Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.

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)

1960

#1587

The discovery of the reflexes.

LIDDELL, Edward George Tandy (1895 – 1981)

1960

#6639

A history of the nursing profession.

ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)

Covers England and Wales only.

1960

#6548.2

Doctors and disease in Tudor times.

COPEMAN, William Sydney Charles (1900 – 1970)
COPEMAN, William Sydney Charles (1900 – 1970)

1960

#9390

Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.

CHRISTOPHERS, Samuel Rickard (1873 – 1978)

1960

#10569

A bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799.

LISNEY, Arthur A.

Bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.

1960

#11202

A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.

HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703)
HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)

1960

#11590

An implantable pacemaker in the heart. IN: Medical electronics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Electronics, Paris 24-27 June 1959. Edited by C. N. Smyth.

ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996)
ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996)
SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000)
SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000)

"This is the original report of the first fully implantable pacemaker that was designed by Elmqvist and surgically inserted under the skin of a patient in October 1958. It is an abstract of their presentation that sig…

1960

#11708

The growth of scientific physiology: Physiological method and the mechanist-vitalist controversy, illustrated by the problems of respiration and animal heat.

GOODFIELD, June (1927 – )

1961

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

DAINTON, Courtney

1961

#2319.1

A short history of clinical pathology.

FOSTER, William Derek (1925 – 1981)

1961

#5019.2

The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)

LEIGH, Archibald Denis (1915 – 1998)

1961

#6643.1

The natural history of quackery.

JAMESON, Eric

1961 –1970

#8472

A history of chemistry. Vol. 1, pt 1, Vols. 2-4.

PARTINGTON, James Riddick (1886 – 1965)

The most comprehensive history of chemistry, with many bibliographical references. Vol. 1, pt. 2 never published.

1961

#10311

Northern Rhodesia in the days of the charter: A medical and social study, 1878-1924.

GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)

1961

#11201

A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. Second edition

FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)
BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)

1962

#460

Anatomical eponyms: being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described. 2nd ed.

DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)

1962 –1968

#1671.5

Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.

HENRIQUES, Louis Fernando (1916 – 1976)

Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.

1962

#2068.2

History of pharmacy in Britain.

MATTHEWS, Leslie Gerald (1897 – 1997)

1962

#3978.5

The story of insulin: Forty years of success against diabetes.

WRENSHALL, Gerald Alfred

With G. Hetenyi and W. R. Feasby.

1962

#6742.1

Disease and destiny. A bibliography of medical references to the famous. With additions and an Introduction by Gordon E. Mestler.

GILBERT, Judson Bennett (1895 – 1950) MESTLER, Gordon E.

1962 –2006

#6786.5

A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 5 vols.

WELLCOME LIBRARY

Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641; Vol. 2-3: Books printed from 1641-1850, A-E, F-L; Vol. 4: Books printed from 1641-1850, M-R; Vol. 5 Books printed from 1642 to 1850, S-Z.

1962 –1999

#6786.6

A catalogue of western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 3 vols. plus Supplement.

MOORAT, Samuel Arthur Joseph (1892 – 1974)

I: MSS written before ad 1650. II-III: MSS written after ad 1650. Addenda in 1. Anzeiger dtsch. Altertum dtsch. Lit., 1970, 81, 49-55. Supplementary catalogue (1999).

1962

#7589

Catalogue of the pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter, Sir William Macewen, Prof. John H. Teacher and Prof. J.A.G. Burton in the museum of the Pathology Dept., Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

MARSHALL, Alice J. BURTON, John Adam Gib (1888 – 1962)

1962

#8484

Data acquisition and processing in biology and medicine. Proceedings of the 1961 Rochester conference. Edited by Kurt Enslein.

ENSLEIN, Kurt (1924 – 2015)

Records of the first conference on "biomedical data processing" held in a medical school in the United States.