United States
3,553 entries published in United States. 279 publication places.
1917
#4986
The Stanford revision and extension of the Binet–Simon scale for measuring intelligence.
1917 –1940
#7106
The Birth Control Review.
Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…
1917
#7116
The fundus oculi of birds especially as viewed by the ophthalmoscope. A study in comparative anatomy and physiology. Illustrated by 143 drawings... also by sixty-one colored paintings prepared for this work by Arthur W. Head.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1917
#7615
Hygiene of the printing trades.
Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series: No. 12. Probably the earliest specific study of the hygiene and diseases of workers in the U.S. printing industry. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1917
#8639
Anatomical names, especially the Basle Nomina Anatomica ("BNA"). By Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, assisted by Daniel Martin Schoemaker. With biographical sketches by Roy Lee Moodie.
Includes 800 biographical sketches and a massive index covering nearly 400 pages. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1917
#9210
Sanitation for medical officers. Medical War Manual No. 1. Authorized by the Secretary of War and under the Supervision of the Surgeon-General and the Council of National Defense.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1917
#11266
Bibliography of William Henry Welch.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1917
#13069
Cruise of the U.S. brig Argus in 1813. Journal of surgeon James Inderwick, edited from the original manuscript in the New York Public Library with an introduction and notes by Victor Hugo Paltsits.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1917
#13144
Dr. Evans' How to keep well: A health book for the home.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#1052
The newer knowledge of nutrition.
1918
#8107
Air service medical manual.
The first U. S. work dedicated to the medical aspects of military pilot selection. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this manual was written by William Holland Wilmer, then director of the Medic…
1918
#8742
A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher with biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#8821
American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
Incudes information on health and medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#9597
Manual of medical research laboratory.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1918
#10807
The history of the Boston Medical Library.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive 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…
1918
#11922
"Spanish influenza," "Three-day fever," "The flu".
Public health advice from the U.S. Public Health Service published during the pandemic.
1918
#12076
War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1918
#13030
The American hospital of the twentieth century: A treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century.
An architect, Stevens wrote from the hospital designer's point of view. Digital facsimile of the 1921 edition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1919
#528
The elementary nervous system.
Important studies on the survival of primitive types of neuromuscular mechanism in some of the higher vertebrates.
1919
#2132
Industrial medicine and surgery.
1919
#2644
Neoplastic diseases.
Fourth edition, 1940.
1919
#3756
Pellagra.
1919
#4987
Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.
Watson was the principal exponent of behaviorist psychology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919
#5757.4
Plastic surgery: Its principles and practice.
Davis was the first surgeon to limit his work exclusively to plastic surgery. This was the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.
1919
#6363
Defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos, and diabetes insipidus; an unusual syndrome of dyspituitarism; a clinical study. IN: Contributions to medical and biological research, dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 390-401.
“Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome”.
1919
#8600
Training school methods for institutional nurses.
Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1919
#8900
Pioneers of birth control in England and America.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1919
#9287
Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…
1919
#9436
The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919 –1922
#10206
American Frohse anatomical charts. Edited, revised and augmented by Max Brödel. With: A key to the Frohse anatomical charts.
10 wall charts, each 42 x 64 inches, comprising a total of 76 colored illustrations life size or larger. Chart 1: Human Skeleton Chart 2: Muscles, front and back Chart 3: Nervous and Circulatory Systems Chart 4: a Sch…
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. …
1919
#11016
Prostitution in Europe. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene". Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919
#11031
“Album de la guerre”: Five hundred photographs, seventy drawings and thirteen articles by members of Base Hospital no. 4, U.S.A. . . . and Mobile Hospital no. 5, U.S.A. . . . covering a period of twenty-three months from May 8th, 1917 to April 8th, 1919.
1919
#11739
In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.
McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…
1919
#11983
With the American Ambulance in France.
Born in 1876 Honolulu, James Judd, the grandson of missionaries, was a private practice physician and graduate of Oahu College, Yale and Columbia Universities. He served in three wars: the Spanish-American and World W…
1919
#12006
The use of blood agar for the study of streptococci.
In this monograph with numerous charts and 34 full-page plates Brown classified streptococci into α, β, A prime and γ based on the type and degree of hemolysis produced by the bacteria on a blood agar plate. He also d…
1919
#12557
History of medicine in New York: Three centuries of medical progress. 4 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1919 –1968
#12828
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
1919
#13915
The physical basis of heredity.
In this book Morgan first used the word gene. Previously he had used the term "Mendelian unit" or "factor." On the basis of genetic analysis Morgan presented a number of characteristics of genes: 1. A gene could have …
1920
#51
The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1920
#86.2
Papers and addresses by William Henry Welch. [Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Pathology and preventive medicine. Vol. 2: Bacteriology. Vol. 3: Medical education, history, miscellaneous subjects, and Welch's bibliography. Introduction by Simon Flexner. Digital facsimile from the Internet…
1920
#3723
Scurvy, past and present.
Includes a history and bibliography.
1920 –1938
#8898
Medical life. Edited by Victor Robinson. (214 issues were published, beginning with vol. 27 and ending with vol. 45 because Robinson considered this a merger of five earlier medical periodicals.)
"the first monthly journal in English to be devoted to the history of medicine. Robinson opened the pages of Medical Life to eminent historians and beginners. A number of outstanding European medical historians contri…
1920
#11295
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
1920
#11483
American medical biographies.
This is the extensively revised second edition of Kelly's A cyclopaedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, …
1920
#11921
Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, Pa., September 1 to December 31, 1918.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920
#12067
The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920
#12068
Mortality Statistics 1918. Nineteenth Annual Report.
From Causes of Death, p. 27: "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms). "In 1918 the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) 477,467 deaths wee assigned to influenza and pneumonia (all forms). In the latter part of that ye…
1920
#12162
Aviation medicine in the A. E. F.
"This publication contains an account written by Col.William H. Wilmer, Medical Corps, who was in charge of the Air Service Medical Research Laboratories in Issoudon, France, from September, 1918, until the armistice.…