United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1978
#2268.1
Tropical medicine and parasitology: Classic investigations. 2 vols.
About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes.
1978
#2682.52
Medicine and the reign of technology.
1978
#2581.9
An introduction to the history of virology.
1978
#9248
Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].
1978
#13020
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
1978
#13414
The library of Sir Isaac Newton
1979
#2682.53
Antique medical instruments
Well-illustrated work coving the history of medical and surgical instruments from the Middle Ages to 1870, with emphasis on pre-19th century material. Includes useful information on instrument makers.
1979
#8353
The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).
1979
#9769
Health, medicine and mortality in the sixteenth century. Edited by Charles Webster.
Chapter 11 is an analysis of the life and work of librarian and key early pioneer in medical informatics, Sanford V. Larkey by Margaret Pelling. Another chapter, by Paul Slack, “Mirrors of health and treasures of poor…
1979
#11028
Dickens's doctors.
1980
#2312.8
Mummies, disease, and ancient cultures.
1980
#6551.1
Wales and medicine. A source-list for printed books showing the history of medicine in relation to Wales and Welshmen.
1980
#6374.9
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
1980
#8503
Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.
1980 –1990
#9495
Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.
Banks' Florilegium has been called the largest fine art printing project of the 20th century. It is the first complete publication in color of the 734 folio size copperplate engravings of newly discovered plants colle…
1980
#11209
British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.
A partially annotated listing of all principal natural history books published in the UK from 1495 to 1900.
1980
#11220
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC).
https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) , an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library, seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists book…
1980
#11736
Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
A biographical introduction proceeds Dewhurst's edition of John Locke's transcripts of Willis's lectures from 1663-64 (Bodleian MS Locke f19) and Richard Lower's notes from the 1661-62 lectures in the Robert Boyle pap…
1980
#13206
From DNA to Protein: The transfer of genetic information.
1980
#14186
Speech disorder in nineteenth century Britain. The history of stuttering.
1981
#5019.18
The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.
Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.
1981
#197.1
A history of the study of human growth.
1981
#6551.2
The healers: a history of medicine in Scotland.
1981
#6786.24
Catalogue of the Pybus collection of medical books, letters and engravings, 15th-20th centuries.
Describes the collection of 2305 classics in the history of medicine formed by Frederick C. Pybus (1883-1975), giving pagination and plate counts. Also included are annotated descriptions of 158 autograph letters by p…
1981
#8335
Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.
1981
#10690
Books on the horse and horsemanship: Riding, hunting, breeding & racing 1400-1941. The Paul Mellon Collection. Compiled by John B. Podeschi.
Includes annotated descriptions of numerous classics on veterinary medicine for horses.
1981
#11735
Willis's Oxford casebook (1650-52) edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
1981
#11909
Theories of fever from antiquity to the enlightenment. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Vivian Nutton. Medical History, Supplement No. 1.
1981
#11959
The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.
1981
#11965
History of botanical science: An account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day.
1981
#13554
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.
"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …
1982
#5733.4
Under the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia.
The most comprehensive work on the subject. Articles reprinted primarily from Brit. J. Anaesth., with new introduction and index.
1982
#5768.5
The progress of plastic surgery: An introductory history.
1982
#6786.26
A catalogue of sixteenth-century medical books in Edinburgh libraries.
Describes 2509 books with paginations and collations. Reproduces 89 illustrations.
1982
#7676
The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
1982
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1982
#10572
Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.
The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…
1982
#11294
The gates of memory.
The autobiography of the great surgeon, bibliographer, scholar and book collector.
1982
#12595
The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.
The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description,…
1983
#6786.27
An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927. 540 items, usually with detailed notes.
1983
#7653
Medical book illustration: A short history.
1983
#8745
"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.
1983
#9095
Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.
1983
#9997
A study of the English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, with special reference to the provinces.
Medical History Supplement No. 3. Digital facsimile from discovery.ucl.ac.uk at this link.
1983
#12061
Differential equations and mathematical biology.
"This textbook shows how first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to model the growth of a population, the administration of drugs, and the mechanism by which living cells divide. The authors presen…
1983
#12658
Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.
The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…
1983
#13021
The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.
1984
#2068.20
The history of lithium therapy.
1984
#7008
Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.
1984
#7053