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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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1967

#258.6

The origins of genetics: A Mendel source book.

STERN, Curt (1902 – 1981) SHERWOOD, Eva R.

1967

#7048

The history of the Negro in medicine.

MORAIS, Herbert Montfort (1905 – 1970)

International Library of Negro Life and History. Revised edition, 1968.

1967

#7414

The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.

LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970) AL-KHALEDY, Noury AL-SAMARQANDĪ, Najīb al-Dīn Abū Hāmid Muhammad b. Alī b. 'Umar ( – 1222)

1967

#7466

The origin of life.

BERNAL, John Desmond (1901 – 1971)

An outstanding illustrated synthesis of the topics as they stood in 1967, including Chapter 2: "Notions of the origins of life in the past," summarizing prior theories. Appendix 1 publishes the English translation of …

1967

#8155

The theory of island biogeography.

WILSON, Edward Osborne (1929 – 2021) MACARTHUR, Robert Helmer (1930 – 1972)

MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.

1967

#8761

Medical licensing in America, 1650-1965.

SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)

1967

#8865

Foundations of physiological psychology.

THOMPSON, Richard Frederick (1930 – 2014)

1967

#9741

The doctor on the stage: Medicine and medical men in seventeenth-century England.

SILVETTE, Herbert (1906 – 2002)

1967

#10280

Doctors of the old west: A pictorial history of medicine on the frontier.

KAROLEVITZ, Robert Francis (1922 – 2011)

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

HODGKINSON, Ruth G.

1967

#11270

Osler's textbook revisited: Reprint of selected sections with commentaries. Edited by A. McGehee Harvey and Victor A. McKusick.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)

Reprint with modern commentary of selected sections of the 7th edition of Osler's Principles and practice of medicine (New York, 1909), which was the last edition that Osler prepared without the help of Thomas McCrae.…

1967

#12581

Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.

NATHAN, Carl F.

"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …

1967

#12677

The role of the Nestorians and Muslims in the history of medicine.

WHIPPLE, Allen Oldfather (1881 – 1963)

1967

#12845

Diaria de bello Carolino (Diary of the Caroline war). Edited and translated by Dorothy M. Schullian.

SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989) BENEDETTI, Alessandro (Alexander Benedictus) (1450 – 1512)

Latin text with parallel English translation.

1967

#13258

The great American water-cure craze: A history of hydropathy in the United States.

WEISS, Harry Bischoff (1883 – 1972)

1967

#14166

Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography.

JORGENSEN, Christine (1926 – 1989)

1968

#2581.7

Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.

HAHON, Nicholas (1924 – 2016)

"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 –1994

#6786.14

Rare books and collections of the Reynolds Historical Library. A bibliography. 2 vols. First volume by Martha Lou Thomas.

THOMAS, Martha Lou REYNOLDS, Lawrence (1889 – 1961)

Vol. 1 describes 5119 rare books, manuscripts, and medieval anatomical mannequins donated by Lawrence Reynolds; includes some fine color plates. Vol. 2 contains material collected for the Reynolds Library after Reynol…

1968

#6807

Familiar medical quotations.

STRAUSS, Maurice Benjamin (1904 – )

Over 7,000 quotations, arranged under broad subject headings; author and subject indexes.

1968

#6661

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY. 1-

The most recent issue may be viewed at this link.

1968

#273.2

Early history of the electron microscope.

MARTON, Ladislaus Laslo (1901 – 1979)

1968

#7139

The double helix. A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA.

WATSON, James Dewey (1928 – )
WATSON, James Dewey (1928 – )

Vivid first hand account of the discovery, renowned for its candor. See also the Norton Critical Edition of The double helix with supporting material, edited by Gunther Stent (1980), and The annotated and illustrated …

1968 –1982

#7349

1: The brain stem of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates. 2: The thalamus and basal telencephalon of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates.

BERMAN, Alvin L. JONES, Edward G. (1938 – 2011)

Large folio. Images reproduced from contact prints recorded on 14 x 17 inch Kodak high-contrast metallographic plates. The first volume was by Alvin L. Berman; the second volume was by Berman and Edward G. Jones.

1968

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

SCHENDEL, Gordon

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

1968

#7884

The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.

BAYNE-JONES, Brig. Gen. Stanhope (1866 – 1970)

Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.

1968

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )

1968

#7948

Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service.

LANCASTER, F. W.

The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requ…

1968

#8172

The computer and medical care.

LINDBERG, Donald A. B. (1933 – )
LINDBERG, Donald A. B. (1933 – )

1968

#9097

Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) MAY, Margaret Tallmadge (1896 – 1990)

1968

#9134

An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.

ANDERSON, Odin Waldemar (1914 – 2003)

The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…

1968

#9157

The formation of the American medical profession: The role of institutions, 1780-1860.

KETT, Joseph F. (1938 – )

1968

#9200

The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture.

HARRIS, Marvin (1927 – 2001)
HARRIS, Marvin (1927 – 2001)

1968

#10213

The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.

KANNEL, William B. (1923 – 2011)

"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…

1968

#10802

Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.

STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)

1968

#10804

Medical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.

STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)

1968 –1977

#11331

Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.

MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014) MULTHAUF, Robert P. (1919 – 2004) JAFFÉ, Aniela (1903 – 1991) MCGUIRE, William (1917 – 2009)

1968

#11551

Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.

BERNOULLI, Johann (1667 – 1740)
BERNOULLI, Johann (1667 – 1740)
BERNOULLI, Daniel (1700 – 1782)
BERNOULLI, Daniel (1700 – 1782)

Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli’s Hydraul…

1968

#12038

Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883)
THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883) FRANK, Robert M. WROTNOWSKA, Denise

Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…

1969

#1588.6

Ideas of life and matter; studies in the history of general physiology 600 B.C. to A.D. 1900. 2 vols.

HALL, Thomas Steele (1909 – )

1969

#2662.2

Bibliographic control of the literature of oncology 1800-1960.

VAILLANCOURT, Pauline M. (1925 – 2014)

Includes a short, well-documented history.

1969

#2702.4

The rays: a history of radiology in the United States and Canada.

BRECHER, Ruth BRECHER, Edward

1969

#4914.5

Transphenoidal microsurgery of the normal and pathological pituitary. In: Clinical neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…1968, 185-217.

HARDY, Jules (1932 – )
HARDY, Jules (1932 – )

Confirmation of Cushing’s idea that a micro-tumor causes Cushing’s syndrome. See No. 3904.

1969

#5019.8

Garrison’s History of neurology. Revised and enlarged with a bibliography of classical, original and standard works in neurology.

MCHENRY, Lawrence C. (1929 – 1985)

A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject, considerably enlarging Garrison’s work previously published in C. L. Dana’s Textbook of nervous diseases, 1925, pp. xv-lvi.

1969

#6808

Illustrated dictionary of eponymic syndromes and diseases and their synonyms.

JABLONSKI, Stanley (1916 – 2004)

Second edition as Jablonski’s Dictionary of syndromes and eponymic diseases, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1989.

1969 –1972

#6841

Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.

BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011)
BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011) MILLMAN, Irving (1923 – 2012)

First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…

1969

#7487

Exploring the ocean world: A history of oceanography.

IDYLL, Clarence Purvis (1916 – 2007)

1969

#7540

Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.

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

1969

#8415

A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;

KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ) WALTERS, Russell S. DOUGHTY, Richard M.

Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.

1969

#10041

On death and dying.

KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth (1926 – 2004)

"The Kübler-Ross model - otherwise known as the five stages of grief - postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis and by loved-ones after a death. The five…

1969

#10211

Anatomy of the newborn: An atlas.

CRELIN, Edmund Slocum Jr. (1923 – 2004)

Self-illustrated by Crelin, this was the first atlas of human infant anatomy. Crelin followed this with a synopsis of the atlas, Functional anatomy of the newborn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).