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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

United States

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

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1957

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

TRAIN, Percy ARCHER, William Andrew (1894 – 1973) HEINRICHS, James R.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1957

#10322

A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

1957

#10993

A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.

ROGERS, Fred Blackburn (1889 – 1974) DUVALL, Marius (1818 – 1891)

1957

#11282

Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A study in the history of the booktrade.

KASER, David (1924 – 2017)

1957

#11362

The principles and art of plastic surgery. 2 vols.

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

1957

#11653

A history of luminescence: From the earliest times until 1900.

HARVEY, Edmund Newton (1887 – 1959)

A history of bioluminescence, the production and emission of light by living organisms.

1958

#2188.1

Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.

CUNNINGHAM, Horace Herndon (1913 – 1969)

1958

#1671.3

A history of public health.

ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)

1958

#2581.1

A guide to the history of bacteriology.

GRAINGER, Thomas Hutchinson (1913 – )

A selective annotated bibliography.

1958

#5546.6

A bibliography of internal medicine. Communicable diseases.

BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Leonard (1888 – 1962)

An extensive bibliography, and substantial excerpts from practically every important reference made to each of 30 communicable diseases, from 1800 onwards.

1958

#5813.1

Milestones in modern surgery.

HURWITZ, Alfred (1909 – 1994) DEGENSHEIN, George A. (1918 – 1979)

Each chapter contains prefatory comments, a short biography of each main builder of the particular milestone (with portrait), and his surgical contribution reprinted or translated in full.

1958

#6311.2

Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.

SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)

79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.

1958

#6610.2

Rembrandt’s Anatomy of Dr. Nicholas Tulp. An iconological study.

HECKSCHER, William S. (1904 – 1999)

An important supplement to and revision of this work is W. Schupbach, The paradox of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy of Dr. Tulp’. Med. Hist. Suppl. 2, 1982.

1958

#7538

Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.

ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)

1958

#8657

Young endeavour: Contributions to science by medical students of the past four centuries.

GIBSON, William Carleton (1913 – 2009)

1958 –1961

#8744

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960) QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965) STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970) HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

1958

#8993

Darwin's century: Evolution and the men who discovered it.

EISELEY, Loren (1907 – 1977)

An elegantly written and profound book that was a powerful influence to my own intellectual development when I read it in 1958; it also a great inspiration for me to study the history of evolution and biology. "Eisele…

1958

#9110

Late ancient and medieval population.

RUSSELL, J. C.

Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.

1958

#9297

Negroes and medicine.

REITZES, Dietrich C. (1917 – 1998)

1958

#11543

Cardiovascular sound in health and disease. Being a comprehensive treatise, introduced by a historical survey, illustrated mainly by sound spectrograms (spectral phonocardiograms) and supplemented by an extensive bibliography. With a section on respiratory sound.

MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958

#12151

History of the San Francisco Medical Society. Vol. I, 1850 to 1900.

READ, Jay Marion (1889 – 1963) MATHES, Mary E.

1958

#12561

Cold injury, ground type.

DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008)
DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008) WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – )

Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1958

#13499

Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1958

#14170

Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex.

SAVITSCH, Eugene de (1902 – 1959)

Probably the first publication to illustrate the stages of surgical transition from male to female, and to discuss the risks then involved in the operations. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958

#14190

History of dental laboratories and their contributions to dentistry.

ROTHSTEIN, Robert J.

1959

#1586.1

The historical development of physiological thought.

BROOKS, Chandler McCuskey (1905 – 1989) CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)

1959

#144

A history of biology to about the year 1900. A general introduction to the study of living things. 3rd ed.

SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)

1959

#145.1

A history of cytology.

HUGHES, Arthur Frederick William (1908 – 1975)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1959

#2578.31

The clonal selection theory of acquired immunity. The Abraham Flexner Lectures of Vanderbilt University 1958.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)

Burnet's clonal selection theory extended the idea that each antibody-producing cell makes antibodies of only one specificity, predicting these cells proliferate in response to the detection of antigens, cloning and t…

1959

#5019.1

A history of neurology.

RIESE, Walther (1890 – 1976)

1959

#6638

The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.

SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)

1959

#6357.01

Catalogue of the Clifford G. Grulee collection on pediatrics.

HENKLE, Hermann Henry (1900 – 1987)

4404 entries. The rare books formerly in the John Crerar Library are now in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.

1959

#258.2

Classic papers in genetics.

PETERS, James Arthur (1922 – 1972)
PETERS, James Arthur (1922 – 1972)

1959

#8135

Jewish medical ethics: A comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice.

JAKOBOVITS, Immanuel (1921 – 1999)
JAKOBOVITS, Immanuel (1921 – 1999)

1959

#8757

Dictionary of medical slang and related esoteric expressions.

SCHMIDT, Jacob Edward

This book by the physician chairman of the National Association on Standard Medical Vocabulary includes many terms and phrases that were found in any other dictionary with the word medical in the title. Digital facsim…

1959

#10281

The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering.

BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)

1959

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

BONNER, Campbell (1876 – 1974)

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…

1959

#13146

Metabolic care of the surgical patient. Edited by Francis D. Moore.

MOORE, Francis Daniels (1913 – 2001)

"...This book, by authorities in the field, is up to date and well organized. A wide range of subjects, including surgical endocrinology and metabolism, is covered. Important subjects such as normal and abnormal conva…

1959

#13156

Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)

1959

#13242

Speech and brain mechanisms.

PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976)
PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976) ROBERTS, Lamar (1919 – 1978)

1959

#13256

The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.

WILSON, Mitchell DEWITT, Cornelius Hugh (1905 – 1995) SELIGMANN, Arthur W.

A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.

1959

#13534

The health seekers of Southern California 1870-1900.

BAUR, John E.

1959

#13591

Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.

KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943) DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006)

Davis was a personal friend of Kelly for twenty years. She based this biography partly on Kelly's notebooks and journals that Kelly left her upon his death.

1959

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

BLAKE, John Ballard (1922 – 2006)

1959

#14191

A history of the American Dental Association 1859-1959.

MCCLUGGAGE, R. W.

1959

#14227

Einführung in die stereotaktischen Operationen mit einem Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns. Introduction to stereotaxis with an atlas of the human brain. Large folio text plus 2 large folio binders of plates with captions.

BAILEY, Percival (1892 – 1973) SCHALTENBRAND, Georges (1897 – 1979)

One of the most elaborately produced medical books of the 20th century, with numerous very large plates folding out to the size of four folio sheets, and numerous photographs with plastic overlays.

1959

#14358

Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.

STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966) RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)

Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.

1960

#2243

The history of internal medicine. Selected diseases.

BETT, Walter Reginald (1903 – 1968)

Attempts to list and annotate every reference of fundamental importance in the development of 21 selected diseases.

1960

#2581.2

Microbiology. Historical contributions from 1776-1908.

DOETSCH, Raymond Nicholas (1920 – 2017)

1960

#3415.1

The conquest of deafness: a history of the long struggle to make possible normal living to those handicapped by lack of normal hearing.

BENDER, Ruth Elaine

Education for the deaf.