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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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1966

#12570

Safavid surgery.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

The history of surgery during the Safavid dynasty that ruled Persia from 1502 to 1736, and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.

1966

#12912

Catalogue of the Menzies Campbell collection of dental instruments, pictures, appliances, ornaments, etc.

CAMPBELL, John Menzies (1887 – 1974)

1966

#14342

The life of William Harvey.

HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657)
HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)

1967

#5813.9

The development of modern surgery.

CARTWRIGHT, Frederick Fox

1967

#6311.5

Milestones in midwifery.

RADCLIFFE, Walter

Reprinted with No. 6311, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.

1967

#6742.5

Nobel prize winners in medicine and physiology, 1910-1965.

SOURKES, Theodore Lionel (1919 – 2015)

Gives for each laureate a biographical sketch, description of work and its consequences, theoretical and practical.

1967

#6550.3

Medicine in medieval England.

TALBOT, Charles Holwell (1906 – 1993)

1967

#6786.13

A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

ISKANDAR, Albert Z.

1967

#273.1

The evolution of the microscope.

BRADBURY, Savile (1931 – 2001)

1967

#7466

The origin of life.

BERNAL, John Desmond (1901 – 1971)

An outstanding illustrated synthesis of the topics as they stood in 1967, including Chapter 2: "Notions of the origins of life in the past," summarizing prior theories. Appendix 1 publishes the English translation of …

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

HODGKINSON, Ruth G.

1968

#5019.7

A history of the treatment of speech disorders.

ELDRIDGE, Margaret

1968

#6639.1

A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.

THOMPSON, Alice Mary Charlotte (1907 – 1981)

Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.

1968

#8691

A catalogue of books in the Liverpool Medical Institution Library to the end of the nineteenth century.

LEE, W. A.

1968

#8776

Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.

THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)

1968

#11204

A bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne

KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)

Second edition, revised and augmented.

1968

#11230

John Evelyn: A study in bibliopphily with a bibliography of his writings

KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
EVELYN, John (1620 – 1706)
EVELYN, John (1620 – 1706)

Second edition, revised. First published in 1937 by The Grolier Club and Cambridge University Press.

1968

#11751

Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)

WALKER, Nigel (1917 – 2014)

1968

#13997

Los Médicos y las Enfermedades de Monterrey [1881]. Memorias de Gonzalitos que se publican con una introducción sobre su vida y su obra por Francisco Guerra.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011) ELEUTERIO GONZÁLEZ MENDOZA, José (1813 – 1875)

Edition by Francisco Guerra and first publication of a manuscript by Eleuterio in the Wellcome Library. According to the catalogue of the Wellcome archives the contents are as follows: "Los médicos y las enfermedades …

1969

#2068.11

Medical ceramics: A catalogue of the English and Dutch collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

CRELLIN, John K.

1969 –1975

#6786.15

The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.

COLE, Francis Joseph (1872 – 1959) EALES, Nellie Barbara (1889 – 1989)

The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.

1969

#9112

Roman medicine.

SCARBOROUGH, John

1969

#10637

George III and the mad business.

HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981) MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)

1969

#11917

Neonatal surgery.

RICKHAM, Peter Paul (1917 – 2003) JOHNSTON, J. H.

Rickham founded the first neonatal surgical unit in the world, at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. This unit became the benchmark for similar units around the world. It brought about an improvement in the s…

1970

#1588.7

Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.

YOUNG, Robert Maxwell (1935 – )

1970

#2068.15

The birth of penicillin.

HARE, Ronald (1899 – 1986)

“Disposes of many myths deeply embedded in the literature” (Macfarlane, see No. 1934).

1970

#3161.3

The history of coronary heart disease.

LEIBOWITZ, Joshua O. (1895 – 1993)

A scholarly work with extensive bibliographies.

1970

#2581.8

A history of medical bacteriology and immunology.

FOSTER, William Derek (1925 – 1981)

1970

#4297.1

A history of bladder stone.

ELLIS, Harold (1926 – )
ELLIS, Harold (1926 – )

1970

#5145

A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.

SHREWSBURY, John Findlay Drew (1898 – 1971)

From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.

1970

#5289.3

Chagas’s disease (South American trypanosomiasis). A bibliography compiled from Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletin 1908-1912, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 1912-1970.

MILES, M. A.

Supplement to Trop. Dis. Bull., vol. 67.

1970

#7161

Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

1970 –1971

#7550

Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.

HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793) DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)

Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…

1970

#7661

Catalogue of the anatomical preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Museum of the Anatomy Department. From the original catalogue (1898-1900) prepared by Professor John Teacher.

HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783) MARSHALL, Alice J.

1970

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)

Revised edition, 1990.

1970

#11112

The human placenta.

HAMILTON, William James (1903 – 1975) BOYD, J. B.

An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.

1970

#12066

Dickens and medicine: An exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.

WELLCOME LIBRARY
DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (1812 – 1870)
DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (1812 – 1870)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1971

#1588.8

Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.

MEYER, Alfred

A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.

1971

#1671.7

International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.

GOODMAN, Neville Marriot (1898 – 1980)

A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.

1971

#6510.1

Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.

EBIED, Rifaat Y.

1971

#6550.4

British contributions to medical science. The Woodward – Wellcome symposium, University of British Columbia, 1970

GIBSON, William Carleton (1913 – 2009)

1971

#7159

The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.

YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)

1971

#8364

The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.

GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368) OGDEN, Margaret Sinclair (1909 – 1988)

Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.

1971

#8467

Persian literature: A Bio-bibliographical survey. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine.

STOREY, Charles Ambroise (1888 – 1968)

1971

#10673

Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.

MACLEAN, Una

1971

#10678

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

FORD, John (1910 – )

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

1971

#11818

A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S

GRAUNT, John (1620 – 1674)
PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687)
PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)

1971

#12758

The Liber de diversis medicinis in the Thornton Manuscript (MS Lincoln Cathedral A.5.2). Edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden. Revised reprint of 1938 edition.

OGDEN, Margaret Sinclair (1909 – 1988)

Edition of a mid-15th century Middle English compilation of medicinal recipes, a manuscript that records how such recipes were passed on through several centuries.

1971

#13395

Love between women.

WOLFF, Charlotte (1897 – 1986)