United States
3,553 entries published in United States. 279 publication places.
1940
#7063
Obesity and leanness.
The first American book specifically devoted to obesity research.
1940
#9278
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
1940
#10324
Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
1940
#11638
Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.
1940
#12933
Root canal therapy.
1940
#13073
Psychiatric nursing technic.
1940
#13352
The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.
Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.
1941
#2187
A short history of nautical medicine.
1941
#1684
War and disease.
1941
#1533.1
The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.
A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.
1941
#3243
The story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis.
1941
#3158
Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.
Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…
1941
#4910.1
Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.
Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.
1941
#5013
A history of medical psychology.
1941
#6466
Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
1941
#6483
Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.
1941
#6357.57
Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.
Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.
1941 –1959
#6777
Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.
Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…
1941
#9281
Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.
1941
#11000
The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.
Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."
1941
#12379
Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.
1941
#12823
Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.
Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…
1941
#13881
Focus on Africa.
Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…
1941
#13889
Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell author of Hugh Wynne. Books autographs, prints, and historical relics. To be sold at unrestricted public sale on Monday, May 19th, 1941.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1941
#14330
Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.
1942
#2137.30
A bibliography of aviation medicine.
1942
#2261
The treatment of burns.
Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.
1942
#3159
A short history of cardiology.
1942
#5766
Plastic surgery of the breast and abdominal wall.
1942
#5811
The history and evolution of surgical instruments.
1942
#6436
Source book of medical history.
Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.
1942
#255.1
Systematics and the origin of species.
One of the canonical publications of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Mayr discussed the different ways different investigators identify species, and he characterized these different approaches as different species …
1942
#7400
Contact lenses.
The first book on contact lenses, recording attempts over the previous hundred years to fit a lens in direct contact with the eye. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1942
#9217
Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.
1942
#9284
A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…
1942
#9824
The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.
1942 –1943
#12088
A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.
"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…
1942
#12392
Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.
Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…
1943
#1041
Human gastric function. An experimental study of a man and his stomach.
Important experiments on gastric function, made on “Tom”, a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9. Second edition in 1947.
1943
#1666
The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
Reprinted 1980.
1943
#2136
The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.
1943
#5768.1
Reconstructive surgery of the eyelids.
Most of this work is a very carefully documented history of the subject. Bibliography of 451 references.
1943
#5812
History of surgery
1943
#6636
History of nursing.
Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.
1943
#6305
The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.
Second edition, 1950.
1943
#6357
Pioneers of pediatrics. 2nd ed.
1943
#6779
The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts.
Catalogue, without annotations, of the books and manuscripts bequeathed by Cushing to the Historical Library in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. Much like Osler, Cushing colle…
1943
#7347
An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.
"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …
1943
#8096
A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.
The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…
1943
#8180
Kaiser wakes the doctors.
The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.