Netherlands
377 entries published in Netherlands. 19 publication places.
1852
#4328
Nieuwe wijze van aanwending van het gips-verband bij beenbreuken. Eene bijdrage tot de militaire chirurgie.
Introduction of the modern plaster of Paris bandage. Two different French translations of the above work were published in journals in 1852-53. In 1854 Mathijsen published two separate expanded French versions, of whi…
1853
#5869.1
Dissertatio ophthalmologica inauguralis de speculo oculi.
Trigt's thesis contains the first printed illustrations of the fundus of the eye. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. The following year Trigt's thesis was translated into German by C. H. Schauenberg as …
1859 –1864
#12710
Hippocrates et aliorum medicorum veterum reliquiae...edidit Franciscus Zacharias Ermerins. 3 vols.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Greek text of the Hippocratic corpus with facing Latin translations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1860
#11434
Catalogue de la bibliothèque d’histoire naturelle, de médecine et d’ autres sciences de feu M. G. Vrolik.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1862
#5889
Astigmatisme en cilindrische glazen.
Includes statement of “Donders’s law” – the rotation of the eye around the line of sight is not voluntary. French and German translations, 1862.
1862
#5890
Probebuchstaben zur Bestimmung der Sehschärfe.
Snellen’s test-types (“Optotypi”) which soon gained acceptance in all civilized countries. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1865
#6938
Catalogue de la superbe bibliothèque d'ethnographie, de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée, etc....
The auction catalogue of Vrolik's library, sold two years after his death, organized by subject. Prefaced by an essay about Vrolik's life and work by J. van der Hoeven, and a chronological list of Vrolik's publication…
1865
#11300
Musée Vrolik. Catalogue de la collection d'anatomie humaine, comparée et pathologique de M.M. Ger. et W. Vrolik. par J. L. Dusseau.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1869
#13430
Catalogue de la bibliotheque delaissé par Mr. J. van der Hoeven.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1870
#1467
De physiologie der spraakklanken.
Donders’s most important work was performed in the field of ophthalmology, but he wrote a classic treatise on the physiology of speech. Also published in Onderzoekingen gedaan in het Physiologisch Laboratoriumder Utre…
1881
#11416
Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .
Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…
1888
#9328
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungsorgane. 2 vols.
Fürbringer specialized in avian morphology and classification; he undertook the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study of skeletal, morphological and anatomical characteristics. …
1890
#8287
Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…
1896
#6660
JANUS. Archives Internationales pour l’Histoire de la Médecine, 1-
Subtitle changed to Revue Internationale de l’Histoire des Sciences, de la Médicine, de la Pharmacie, et de la Technique.
1897
#14308
De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.
Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …
1902
#842
Galvanometrische registratie van het menschelijk electrocardiogram IN: Herinneringsbundel Prof. S.S. Rosenstein, pp.101-106.
First description of Einthoven's string galvanometer that recorded electrical changes occurring in the human heart. Includes the first illustration of an EKG (ECG) recording. Modern electrocardiography became a realit…
1903
#8363
Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.
![AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)](/media/portraits/9572)
Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1906
#7341
Cerebellum der Säugetiere. Eine Vergleichend Anatomische Untersuchung.
Bolk studied some 69 species of mammals, both in the adult and during development, and elaborated a basic plan for the cerebellum that remains influential today. "Lodewijk Bolk and the comparative anatomy of the cereb…
1911
#13832
Curiosités sur la médecine et la vie privée aux XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Bibliothèque de feu M. le Dr. Van den Corput de Bruxelles.
Bibliotheca Osleriana 6989.
1913
#12624
Ḥunain ibn Isḥāḳ und seine Schule: Sprach- und literargeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den arabischen Hippokrates- und Galen-Übersetzungen.
1920 –1921
#1247
Die vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen. 2 vols.
Ariëns Kappers was Professor of Neuroanatomy at Amsterdam. See also No. 14229.
1922
#9249
Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.
1925
#6610
De arts in de caricatuur.
German edition, Berlin, 1927.
1926
#7031
Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.
English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…
1929
#9560
Microscopical atlas of the human brain. Edited by the Royal Academy of Sciences Amsterdam. Plates IV, IV B, VI A , VI B, VII, and VIII.
Very large format. This was a continuation of the Fuse and Monakow atlas begun in 1916 (No. 9559), and interupted by World War I. It appears that only that part, and this continuation were published.
1936
#11502
Hominidae fossiles. Edited by W. Quenstedt.
Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia (ed. W. Quenstedt), part 74. “This volume has been prepared under the critical editorship of Dr. Werner Quenstedt, as a work in cooperation with the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the…
1939 –2015
#12964
The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.
1940
#7727
Esser inlay (Epithethelial inlay).
Though he developed the "skin graft inlay technique" or epithelial inlay during World War I, Esser did not fully publish it until this very extensively illustrated monograph, with about 1500 images, issued in 1940.
1941
#10581
Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā: Ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche Übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Indices von Luise Hilgenberg und Willibald Kirfel.
"The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive …
1946
#11510
Die kunstmatige Nier.
Kolff's first book on the artificial kidney. This was his doctoral dissertation. There were two versions published. The first was designated Proefschrift and credited Kolff as Willem Johan Kolff on the title page. It …
1951
#6533
Uit drie eeuwen Nederlands geneeskunde.
1955
#9593
Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Stedelijke Pharmacopeeën.
1957
#436
Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).
Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.
1958
#16.3
The fragments of Praxagoras of Cos and his school. Collected, edited, and translated by Fritz Steckerl.
1958
#8500
A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century.
1958
#8941
Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.
Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.
1959
#11639
Bibliotheca Boerhaaviana by G. A. Lindeboom.
1963
#7413
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
1964 –1972
#6742.2
Nobel lectures. Physiology or medicine. 4 vols.
Prize lectures 1901-70, with biographies of prize-winners. See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/10396
1965
#6656
CLIO MEDICA. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae. 1-
1966
#3155.4
Man’s haemoglobins: including the haemoglobinopathies and their investigation.
Explains the current distribution of sickling throughout the world.
1967
#6610.5
The rod and serpent of Asklepios: Symbol of medicine.
1967
#12581
Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.
"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …
1968
#9848
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
1970
#6510.01
Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].
1971
#6510.2
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.
1971
#7389
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.
1971
#11963
Linnaeus and the Linneans: The spreading of their ideas in systematic botany, 1735-1789.
1972
#1588.10
A history of biochemistry. 5 vols.
Forms vols. 30-34 of Comprehensive biochemistry, edited by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz.
1972
#12526
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.