North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1880
#9306
The home hand-book of domestic hygiene and rational medicine.
"Kellogg was not only a physician, surgeon, author, and administrator, but also an inventor. Although less discussed in comparison to his food creations, he designed and improved upon a number of medical devices that …
1880
#11291
Catalogue of the "Wood" Museum of Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Comprising a descriptive and classified list of anatomical and pathological specimens.
Described 224 specimens in 26 categories. The museum was colected by James Rushmore Wood.
1880
#13169
The physiology of woman, embracing girlhood, maternity, and mature age, with essays on the "Coeducation of the sexes in medicine," "The physiological basis of education," "Temperance from a physician's point of view, and "A plea for moderation."
Stevenson was the first woman member of the American Medical Association (AMA), the first woman appointed on the Illinois State Board of Health, and the first woman to be on staff at the Cook County Hospital in Chicag…
1880
#13854
What do do first, in accidents or poisoning.
Expanded as What to do first in accidents and emergencies. A manual explaining the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of the physician (1883). Digital facsimile of the 1880 edition from the Hathi …
1881 –1882
#5455
El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de transmisión de la fiebre amarilla.
Finlay was the first to suggest that the Aedes aegypti mosquito was the vector of yellow fever. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation by Rudolph Matas as "The mosquito hypothetically co…
1881
#7645
Frozen sections of a child by Thomas Dwight. Fifteen drawings from nature by H. P. Quincy.
The first atlas of cross-sectional anatomy published in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
1881
#10334
History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1881
#10809
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
1881
#11022
The college story: Valedictory address to the twenty-ninth graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
"Bodley sought to survey all the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from its founding 1850 through 1880. Of the total 276 graduates, 244 were alive. Her survey is based on the 186 graduates who r…
1882
#1571
The experimental method in medical science.
Dalton, Professor of Physiology at the universities of Buffalo and Vermont, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, was the first American to devote his time exclusively to that subject. He was present a…
1882
#6284
Labor among primitive peoples.
Third edition, revised, 1884.
1882
#9506
Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.
The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital facsimile fr…
1882
#11351
Studies in pathological anatomy. Vol. 1. Plates I. - XCIII. (All Published).
Delafield's work includes striking microscopic illustrations as well as explanatory text. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1883
#1648
Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.
1883
#6390
Medical essays: 1842-1882.
“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at the dedicati…
1883
#7816
An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion: with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865. Compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.SA. by J. W. Wells and N. A. Strait, Revised by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, giving the number killed, wounded and missing in each of the important battles, Union troops engaged, names of the Generals killed and wounded in both armies; also the total number of enlistments, number discharged, number wounded, number missing, number of deaths, number killed in battle....And a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons of the late war and hospital service.
This was the most complete edition; prior editions were issued in 1875 and 1882. In 1990 Norman Publishing of San Francisco reprinted the 1883 edition with a new index to surgeons and an introduction by Ira M. Rutkow.…
1883
#8133
Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883
#12752
Sexual impotence in the male.
One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…
1883
#14145
A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.
Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.
1884
#1572
Doctrines of the circulation.
1884
#3482.1
A theoretical and practical treatise on the hemorrhoidal disease, givings its history, nature, cases, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.
An encyclopedic work containing considerable history and a comprehensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884
#10114
Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.
Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…
1884
#13063
Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race.
Bell determined that deafness was an inheritable trait and that deaf individuals had a tendency to marry other deaf individuals. As a eugenicist Bell considered this a problem because he thought it risked the developm…
1885
#3694
Dental bibliography: A standard reference list of books on dentistry published throughout the world from 1536 to 1885.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1885
#7332
Topographical anatomy of the brain. 3 vols.
The most outstanding American neurological atlas of the nineteenth century and one of the best American photographically illustrated medical books of the period. The atlas reproduces the specimens, which Dalton prepar…
1885
#9159
Women, plumbers, and doctors: or, household sanitation
Dedicated "To Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, whose early, persistent, and enthusiastic labors make him the apostle of sanitation in America." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1885
#10192
Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…
1885
#11537
A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.
This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.
1885 –1886
#11636
A system of medicine. Edited by William Pepper. 5 vols.
"The most comprehensive 19th century American work on medicine. Pepper assembled virtually all of the leading American physicians of the day, including D. Hayes Agnew, Roberts Bartholow, John Shaw Billings, William By…
1885
#12075
The field and limitation of the operative surgery of the human brain.
The first American monograph on surgery on the human brain, also published in 1885 the Transactions of the American Surgical Association. Roberts was "one of the few American surgeons to advocate an aggressive explora…
1886
#2106
Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.
Mitchell (see also No. 2104) and Reichert showed that snake venom is protein, and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate snake venoms.
1886
#5680.1
Local anesthesia in general medicine and surgery.
The first textbook on local anesthesia.
1886 –1888
#6597
Historia de la medicina en México desde la epoca de los Indios hasta la presente. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#7070
Physical training in American colleges and universities. Circulars of information of the Bureau of Education. No. 5-1885.
Concerns training methods and equipment, primarily for men (3 pages devoted to women) in the United States, with a chapter on training in Germany. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1886
#7387
Index to the periodical literature of dental science and art, as presented in the English language.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1886
#8848
Apuntes para la historia de la medicina en Michoacán desde los tiempos Pre-Colombianos hasta el año 1875.
1886
#9566
A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.
Ridgway proposed a simple classification system, doing away with many subjective and evocative names that were currently popular. The work illustrated 186 colors. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Libra…
1886
#10191
The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#10207
Catalogue of anatomical models, charts and osteological preparations. Auzoux's papier mache anatomical models, Bocksteger models painted in natural colors, human skeletons.
One of the better illustrated American trade catalogues of the period describing available anatomical models, charts, skeletons for use in teaching. Reprinted, along with several other catalogues relating to instrumen…
1886
#10350
The relation of hospitals to medical education.
Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#10521
Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
1886
#12269
Outlines of lectures on physiology, with an introductory chapter on general biology, and an appendix containing laboratory exercises in practical physiology.
Mills, a student of Osler, became the first professional physiologist in Canada. This outline of his lectures is probably the first Canadian physiology textbook. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#145.62
The lake as a microcosm.
Forbes was the first to apply ecological principles to limnology. He emphasized population regulation and the dynamic nature of the community.
1887
#4093
Dermatitis venenata: An account of the action of external irritants upon the skin.
White, a pupil of Hebra, was an outstanding personality in American dermatology; he held the first chair in that subject in the U.S.A. The eponym “White’s disease” refers to his description of keratosis follicularis i…
1887
#6086
Hysterorrhaphy.
1887
#6342
The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood.
Jacobi was the first in the United States to specialize in the practice of pediatrics. In 1862 he founded the first pediatric clinic in the U.S., in New York. He wrote extensively on pediatrics.
1887
#8716
American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies: Their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects. Illustrated by the author.
Plates printed by chromolithography. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#8849
Apuntes par la historia de la medicina, cirurgía y obstetricia, en Michoacán desde los tiempos pre-Colombianos, hasta et año 1875.
1887
#9121
Ten days in a mad-house.
By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…
1887
#9551
The student's manual and handbook for the dental laboratory. To which is appended Dr. E.H. Angle's system of appliances for correcting irregularities.
Angle's chapter, "The Angle system of regulation and retention of teeth," represented the first edition of what was later separately published as Angle's textbook on orthodontics with the same title. This chapter reap…