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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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90 entries published in Canada. 15 publication places.

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1815

#12914

The summum bonum.

PARMLY, Levi Spear (1790 – 1859)

The first book on dentistry published in Canada. Facsimile edition, Montreal, 1969.

1885

#10192

Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.

MATHEWS, Percy W.

Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…

1886

#10191

The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.

BELL, Robert (1847 – 1917)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1886

#12269

Outlines of lectures on physiology, with an introductory chapter on general biology, and an appendix containing laboratory exercises in practical physiology.

MILLS, Thomas Wesley (1847 – 1915)

Mills, a student of Osler, became the first professional physiologist in Canada. This outline of his lectures is probably the first Canadian physiology textbook. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1891

#11633

Notes on the practice of medicine.

HOWARD, Robert Palmer (1823 – 1889)

This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…

1894

#6582

The medical profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850.

CANNIFF, William (1830 – 1910)
CANNIFF, William (1830 – 1910)

Rescues from oblivion many historical facts and discusses the pioneer medical men of Canada. Biographies of many famous physicians of Canada are included. Reprinted Toronto, 1980.

1914

#5536

Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.

MAGROU, Joseph Émile (1883 – 1951)

Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.

1920 –1924

#13463

McGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) OSLER LIBRARY OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

https://osler-letters.library.mcgill.ca/about "About the William Osler Letter Collection "Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is one of the most renowned and respected physicians in medical history. Born in Bond Head, Ontar…

1925

#9445

The Medical Services: Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War: 1914-1919.

MACPHAIL, Andrew John (1864 – 1938)
MACPHAIL, Andrew John (1864 – 1938)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1931

#11026

History of medicine in the province of Quebec.

ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)

Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#13603

History of the Canadian Medical Association.

MACDERMOT, Hugh Ernest (1888 – 1983)

1940

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

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

#2238

The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.

SELYE, Hans (1907 – 1982)
SELYE, Hans (1907 – 1982)

In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.

1953 –1956

#9446

Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.

FEASBY, W. R.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1957

#11362

The principles and art of plastic surgery. 2 vols.

GILLIES, Sir Harold Delf (1882 – 1960) MILLARD, David Ralph Jr. (1919 – 2011)

1958

#8603

Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.

BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)

1958

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)

1967

#13602

One hundred years of medicine in Canada, 1867-1967.

MACDERMOT, Hugh Ernest (1888 – 1983)

1970

#8605

New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.

BEAMISH, Robert Earl (1916 – 2001)

Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."

1971

#3705.03

A history of dentistry in Canada.

GULLETT, Donald W.

1972

#9917

Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.

MCKECHNIE, Robert E. (1861 – 1944)
MCKECHNIE, Robert E. (1861 – 1944)

1974

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

HELLSON, John C.

1975

#11649

The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.

COSBIE, Waring Gerald (1894 – )

1979

#8595

Uses of plants for the past 500 years.

ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte

Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).

1979

#14345

An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.

ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009) POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ) CRAWFORD, David Sullivan

In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.

1982

#9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) MALONEY, Gilles SAVOIE, Raymond

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…

1983

#9244

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) SADEK, Mahmoud M.

1983

#11091

Disease in ancient man: A report of an international symposium on disease in ancient man. Edited by Gerald D. Hart.

HART, Gerald David (1927 – )

1984

#6668

CANADIAN BULLETIN OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

1984 –2000

#6584.1

Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.

ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)

Vol. 2 was co-edited with Jacques Bernier.

1984

#6584.2

Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.

ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)

1984

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ) MALONEY, Gilles FROHN, Willie

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1984

#12333

Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.

BIGELOW, Wilfred Gordon (1913 – 2005)

1988

#11507

Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.

SEGALL, Harold Nathan (1897 – 1990)

1989

#12337

Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.

DELARUE, Norman Charles (1915 – )

1990

#12334

Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.

BIGELOW, Wilfred Gordon (1913 – 2005)

c. 1990

#13586

Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.

WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …

1992

#13605

Trois siècles d'histoire médicale au Québec: Chronologie des institutions et des pratiques, 1639-1939.

GOULET, Denis PARADIS, André

1994

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

SPAULDING, Mary WELCH, Penny DRAKE, Theodore George Harwood (1891 – 1959)

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1994

#8864

Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.

CRELLIN, John K.

"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …

1995

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

YOUNG, T. Kue WALDRAM, James B. HERRING, D. Anne

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1996

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

ROBERTS, Kenneth Bryson (1923 – 2013) CAZORT, Mimi (1930 – 2014) KORNELL, Monique

1996 –2006

#11012

McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.

HANAWAY, Joseph (1933 – ) CREUSS, Richard Leigh (1929 – )

The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.

1996

#13601

History of the Canadian Medical Association, 1954-94.

BENNETT, John Sutton (1920 – 2011)

1997

#8734

Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.

OLDFIELD, Philip DRAKE, Theodore George Harwood (1891 – 1959)

1997

#13604

Histoire du Collège des médecins du Québec, 1847-1997.

GOULET, Denis

1998

#14153

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor

ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)
ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)

"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…

1999

#11029

William Osler: A life in medicine.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)

The most significant biography of Sir William Osler since Harvey Cushing's work published in 1925.

1999

#11278

The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD, Sir William Osler's alter ego. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard L. Golden.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) GOLDEN, Richard L. ( – 2007)