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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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3,553 entries published in United States. 279 publication places.

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1934

#11001

Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.

JARCHO, Julius (1882 – 1963)

1934

#11350

Benign, encapsulated tumors in the lateral ventricles of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

1934

#11358

Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.

EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)
EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)

Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…

1934

#11663

The negro professional man and the community with special emphasis on the physician and lawyer.

WOODSON, Carter Godwin (1875 – 1950)
WOODSON, Carter Godwin (1875 – 1950)

An in-depth social statistical and geographical analysis of America's black doctors including their distribution, economic links, and social activism that varied throughout the South, as well as the North and West.

1934

#12509

Exhibit for dentistry at a Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934: A portrayal of problems of dental health and the prevention of dental disease with which is interwoven something of the development of the profession and the history of dental practice. Booklet prepared by Arthur D. Black. Exhibit operated under auspices of American Dental Association [and] Chicago Dental Society, by the Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, Chicago.

BLACK, Arthur Davenport (1870 – 1937)

Illustrated 64-page brochure recording in detail an exhibition that was seen supposedly by 8,000,000 people. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1934

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982) SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987) OCHOA, Miguel Muños

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.

1934

#12990

Meharry Medical College: A history.

ROMAN, Charles Victor (1864 – 1934)

The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…

1935

#1780

A geography of disease.

MCKINLEY, Earl Baldwin (1894 – 1938)

Published as supplement to Amer. J. trop. Med., 1935, 15, No. 5.

1935

#4904

The clinical aspects of visceral neurology with special reference to the surgery of the sympathetic nervous system.

LIVINGSTON, William Kenneth (1892 – 1966)

1935

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)
ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)

1935

#6461

The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.

CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#6301

Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology.

THOMS, Herbert (1885 – 1972)

1935

#6523

The story of medicine in the Middle Ages

RIESMAN, David (1867 – 1940)

1935

#8619

The doctor's bill. With an introduction by A. Lawrence Powell.

CABOT, Hugh (1872 – 1945)
CABOT, Hugh (1872 – 1945)

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#8894

Child psychiatry.

KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)

Leo Kanner, an Austrian émigré and medical graduate of the University of Berlin, founded the first academic department of child psychiatry under the direction of Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kanner was t…

1935

#10057

The care of the aged, the dying and the dead.

WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)

Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition (1940) from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#10205

Atlas of human anatomy, with explanatory text by Jesse Feiring Williams...colored illustrations by Franz Frohse, Max Brödel and Leon Schlossberg.

BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941) FROHSE, Franz WILLIAMS, Jesse Feiring (1886 – 1966) SCHLOSSBERG, Leon (1912 – 1999)

Reproduced Frohse's anatomical charts in much reduced form with supplementary charts added by Brödel and Schlossberg of Johns Hopkins.

1935

#11608

Failure of the circulation.

HARRISON, Tinsley Randolph (1900 – 1978)

1935

#13845

All about tea. 2 vols.

UKERS, William Harrison (1873 – 1945)

Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of tea. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1936 –1939

#1172

The physiology and pharmacology of the pituitary body. 2 vols.

VAN DYKE, Harry Benjamin (1895 – 1971)

Includes an extensive bibliography.

1936

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

HIMES, Norman Edwin (1899 – 1949)

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1936

#2357

Tuberculosis.

WEBB, Gerald Bertram (1871 – 1948)

Clio Medica series.

1936

#1766.604

The American medical profession, 1783 to 1850.

SHAFER, Henry Burnell (1906 – )

1936

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

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

1936

#3338.1

Diseases of the air and food passages of foreign-body origin.

JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)
JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958) JACKSON, Chevalier Lawrence (1900 – 1961)

One of the most comprehensive treatises on the subject ever published, with a 636-page appendix describing, and in most cases illustrating, 3266 foreign bodies and how they were removed.

1936

#5815

Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.

WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942) IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – )

The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…

1936

#6499

Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.

BRIM, Charles Jacob (1891 – )

References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.

1936

#6432

Disease and destiny.

MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)

1936

#6433

The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.

SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)

Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.

1936 –1941

#6662.1

MEDICAL CLASSICS. 1-5

KELLY, Emerson Crosby (1899 – 1977)

Reprints of classic texts, with English translations where necessary. Includes biographical notes and full bibliographies.

1936

#258

The great chain of being: A study of the history of an idea.

LOVEJOY, Arthur Oncken (1873 – 1962)

1936

#7035

Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.

ROBINSON, Victor (1866 – 1947)

One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.

1936

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978) OPLER, Morris Edward (1907 – 1996)

1936

#10640

Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.

KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)

The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.

1936

#11821

Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.

DRINKER, Philip (1894 – 1972)
DRINKER, Philip (1894 – 1972) HATCH, Theodore

Includes information on asbestosis.

1936

#13044

Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.

FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959)
FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959) HESS, Alfred Fabian (1875 – 1933)

1936

#13588

Snakes of Maryland.

KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)

1936

#14229

The comparative anatomy of the nervous system of vertebrates, including man. 2 vols.

ARIENS KAPPERS, Cornelius Ubbo (1877 – 1946) HUBER, Gotthelf Carl (1874 – 1943)
CROSBY, Elizabeth Caroline (1888 – 1983)
CROSBY, Elizabeth Caroline (1888 – 1983)

This edition and translation was so extensively reworked and expanded by Kappers, Huber and Crosby that it should be considered a new work. See No. 1247 for the original edition in German. Order of authorship as publi…

1937

#1354

Autonomic neuro-effector systems.

CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
ROSENBLUETH, Arturo Stearns (1900 – 1970)
ROSENBLUETH, Arturo Stearns (1900 – 1970)

The authors hypothesized the existence of two sympathins, one excitatory and the other inhibitory, now known as epinephrine and norepinephrine. See Nos. 1144 & 1350.

1937

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

HOLCOMBE, Richmond Cranston (1874 – 1945)

1937

#2319

Pathology.

KRUMBHAAR, Edward Bell (1882 – 1966)

Krumbhaar edited the Clio Medica series of volumes on the history of medicine, and contributed a history of pathology to it.

1937

#2866

Clinical roentgenology of the cardiovascular system.

ROESLER, Hugo (1899 – 1961)

1937

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)

1937

#6524

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

MACKINNEY, Loren Cary (1891 – 1963)

1937

#6567

Russian medicine.

GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)

1937

#254.2

Genetics and the origin of species.

DOBZHANSKY, Theodosius Grygorovych (1900 – 1975)

Dobzhansky, an emigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with…

1937

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

GIBSON, James Edgar OTTO, Bodo (1711 – 1787)

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

1937

#9242

Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.

HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947)
FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1937 –1946

#9358

Fragments of entomological history including some personal recollections of men and events. 2 vols.

OSBORN, Herbert (1856 – 1954)

1937

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…