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117 entries published in this place. (Cambridge, US)
1667
#6823
Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. The latter in the year 1666
This edition of a plague tract by English puritan minister Thomas Vincent was the first medical or biological publication in North America. It was issued by printer Samuel Green, using a press in Cambridge, Massachuse…
1800 –1802
#5424
A prospect of exterminating the small-pox, being the history of the variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox; as it has appeared in England: With an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox in Massachusetts. [Part II:] A prospect of exterminating the small pox part II, being a continuation of a narrative of facts concerning the progress of the new inoculation in America; together with practical observations on the local appearance, symptoms, and mode of treating the variola vaccina, or kine pock; including some letters to the author, from distinguished characters, on the subject of this benign remedy, now passing with a rapid step through all ranks of society in Europe and America.
Waterhouse introduced Jennerian vaccination into the U.S.A. He vaccinated his own child as his first case. See J. B. Blake, Benjamin Waterhouse and the introduction of vaccination. A reappraisal. Philadelphia, 1957. D…
1820
#13168
Sailor's physician, exhibiting the symptoms, causes and treatment of diseases incident to seamen and passengers in merchant vessels: With directions for preserving their health in sickly climates; intended to afford medical advice to such persons while at sea, where a physician cannot be consulted.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. This work underwent at least four editions, the last of which was published in 1851 under the title of Physician for ships....That edition include…
1826
#11728
A letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, chief justice of the Supreme court of the state of Massachusetts, containing remarks on the dislocation of the hip joint, occasioned by the publication of a trial which took place at Machias, in the state of Maine, June, 1824. By John C. Warren. With an appendix of documents from the trial necessary to illustrate the history of the case.
This work, illustrated with 5 plates, contains several clear and minute descriptions of dislocation of the hip joint. In the course of the monograph Warrenproved the possibility of a type of dislocation that was denie…
1832 –1834
#7773
A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Vol. 1: The land birds. Vol. 2: The water birds.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1853
#7747
A materia medica animalia, containing the scientific analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties and uses of the substances that are the products of beasts, birds, fishes or insects ...
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1872
#13212
Autumnal catarrh (Hay fever) with three maps.
Wyman conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of hay fever. He then collected data from correspondents and published the first pollen maps of the U.S. so that sufferers could plan vacations i…
1881
#10809
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
1891
#13172
Suggestions to the medical witness.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911 –1918
#11470
The Bradley Bibliography: A guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder. 5 vols.
An attempt at a truly comprehensive bibliography of the world literature in western languages on these subjects to 1900, including more than 100,000 entries. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at…
1914 –1917
#11457
Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Compiled under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Ethelyn Maria Tucker. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1915
#12573
Report of first expedition to South America 1913.
Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1918
#11014
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
1919
#11011
The story of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5
An account of the Base Hospital in which Cushing served in World War I, based upon his wartime diaries. Limited to 250 copies, some of which were issued in cloth-backed printed boards, and others in printed wrappers. …
1922
#5393
The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland.
The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach, Todd, and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1923 –2012
#16
Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.
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Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.
1926
#12574
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
1930
#12459
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
1932
#6574
Lappische Heilkunde.
Folk medicine of the Sami people.
1934
#12575
Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV
In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.
1936
#258
The great chain of being: A study of the history of an idea.
1940
#9278
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
1941
#6466
Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
1951
#8202
Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).
1953 –1959
#6450
A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)
1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
1955
#13140
Airborne contagion and air hygiene: An ecological study of droplet infections.
"In 1954, Wells began a long-term experiment to demonstrate that tuberculosis could be transmitted through air. At the VA Hospital in Baltimore, collaborating with Riley, John Barnwell, and Cretyl C. Mills, he built a…
1958
#9297
Negroes and medicine.
1959
#13800
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
1963
#8349
A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. Revised and augmented edition.
1963
#13033
Animal species and evolution.
Condensed and extensively revised as Populations, species and evolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.
1965 –1991
#9075
History of animals. Vol. 1, Books 1-3; Vol. 2, Books 4-6; Vol. 3, Books 7-10. Vols. 1 & 2 edited with an introduction and translated by A. L. Peck; Vol. 3 edited and translated by D. M. Balme.
Loeb Classic Library.
1967
#534.3
Essays in the history of embryology and biology.
1968
#2581.7
Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.
"The selected papers ... range from the sixteenth century to the modern era. A number of the papers are classics in the field and several of the selections appear in English translation for the first time. The editor …
1968
#6661
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY. 1-
The most recent issue may be viewed at this link.
1969
#11322
Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.
Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of demog…
1970
#8496
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
1971
#7353
Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.
"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…
1971
#14298
Marijuana reconsidered.
A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…
1972
#12490
Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
1973
#5352.6
Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.
Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.
1973
#10898
Drugs and foods from little-known plants: Notes in Harvard University herbaria.
5178 field notes of health and medical interest from specimens in Harvard University herbaria.
1974
#6495.2
The theoretical foundations of Chinese medicine. Systems of correspondence.
1974
#7009
Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.
Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…
1975
#1588.15
The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.
Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.
1975
#5813.10
The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.
Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.
1975
#257.6
Sociobiology: The new synthesis.
Integration of biological and evolutionary theory with the study of social behavior and social organization of animal populations.
1975
#9135
Blue Cross since 1929: Accountability and the public trust.
1976
#7486
The wild boy of Aveyron.
1976 –1990
#9616
Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.
1977
#258.10