North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1906
#5805
The evolution of American surgery. IN: American practice of surgery, Edited by J.D. Bryant and A.H. Buck, 2, 1-67.
1906
#6989
The science of chiropractic. Its principles and adjustments by Dr. D. D. Palmer, discoverer and developer of chiropractic, and B. J. Palmer, D. C.
D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic; his son B. J. developed the practice. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1906
#7051
The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.
Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1906
#9220
Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1906
#11559
Case teaching in medicine: A series of graduated exercises in the differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of actual cases of disease.
"The first comprehensive description of the 'Cabot case' style of medical teaching that evolved into the classic clinicopathological case (CPC) mode. Cabot had a special interest in heart disease and was a pioneer of …
1906
#12739
The jungle.
Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …
1906
#12820
Walter Reed and yellow fever.
Digital facsimile of the revised edition published in 1907 from Google Books at this link.
1906
#13574
The eye and nervous system: Their diagnostic relations by various authors. Edited by Wm. Campbell Posey and William G. Spiller.
The first comprehensive treatise in English on neuro-ophthalmology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1907
#1027
The influence of inanition on metabolism.
1907
#2564.1
Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.
Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.
1907
#3608.1
The technic of modern operations for hernia.
Includes description of the Ferguson operation.
1907
#3337
Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.
First textbook on endoscopy.
1907
#5756.1
The correction of featural imperfections.
The first book on cosmetic surgery. Miller “was both a quack and surgical visionary, years ahead of his more academic colleagues” (Rogers).
1907 –1912
#6635
A history of nursing. The evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses [and] From the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years. 4 vols.
Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.
1907
#7226
The dancing mouse: A study in animal behavior.
The first work to examine the characteristics of deaf mice, which became the most important model for the study of genetic deafness. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this l…
1907 –1910
#11290
Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.
Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…
1907
#14162
The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#132
The problem of age, growth and death.
Minot’s theory of aging, based on cytomorphosis and the rate of growth. This work first appeared as a paper in vol. 7 of the Popular Science Monthly, 1907.
1908 –1909
#2309
The principles of pathology. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 written with A. G. Nicholls.
1908
#3528
On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.
“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).
1908
#3689.2
A work on operative dentistry. 2 vols.
Black established a system of cavity preparation from which modern techniques have been derived. He constructed a “gnathodynamometer” with which the pressure exerted on the human tooth and therefore on the filling mat…
1908
#4880.1
Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.
Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harvey Cushing [1947] 2…
1908
#6002
The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870.
Of limited value, but the only available history of early American ophthalmology.
1908
#6455.1
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#9307
The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.
"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…
1908
#9724
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
1909
#2114
Snake venoms.
1909
#3695
A history of dentistry from the most ancient times until the end of the eighteenth century.
1909
#5628
Hemorrhage and transfusion.
1909
#6845
The differentiation and specificity of corresponding proteins and other vital substances in relation to biological classification and organic evolution: The crystallography of hemoglobins.
This massive work with 100 plates including 600 images, was the first large-scale investigation of species differences at the molecular level. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 –1910
#6870
History of dental surgery. Contributions by various authors. Edited by Charles R.E. Koch. 3 vols.
1909
#9208
The elements of military hygiene especially arranged for officers and men of the line.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Revised edition, 1915, of which a digital facsimile is available from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#9209
Manual of military hygiene.
Digital facsimile of the third, revised edition (1917) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#10406
Eradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#12081
Medical sociology: A series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society.
The first American book specifically on the topic of medical sociology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1909
#12455
An experimental study of sleep. (From the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis' Laboratory).
Sidis emphasized his physiological approach in the wording of the title of this book. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1909
#13476
The great white plague: Tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1909
#13826
Epoch-making contributions to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world together with biographical sketches of the observers. Collected by C. N. B. Camac.
1910
#739
The oxidases and other oxygen-catalysts concerned in biological oxidations.
Hygienic Laboratory.- Bulletin No. 59. December, 1909. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1910 –1912
#526
Manual of human embryology. Written by Charles R. Bardeen, Madison, Wis.; Herbert M. Evans, Baltimore, Md.; Walter Felix, Zurich; Otto Grosser, Prague; Franz Keibel, Freiburg i. Br.; Frederic T. Lewis, Boston, Mass.; Warren H. Lewis, Baltimore, Md.; J. Playfair McMurrich, Toronto; Franklin P. Mall, Baltimore, Md.; Charles S. Minot, Boston, Mass.; Felix Pinkus, Berlin; Florence R. Sabin, Baltimore, Md; George L. Streeter, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Julius Tandler, Vienna; Emil Zuckerkandl, Vienna. Edited by Franz Keibel and Franklin P. Mall. 2 vols.
The important studies on human embryos, originated by His, were carried on by his pupils, Keibel and Mall. This classic work written by American and German experts “has not yet been superseded” (D.S.B., late 20th cent…
1910
#1766.502
Medical education in the United States and Canada.
This report caused massive reforms in North American medical education, including the closure or merging with stronger institutions, of 76 medical schools between 1910 and 1920. Part 1 is a history and analysis of med…
1910
#3535
Duodenal ulcer.
Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence, pain-food-ease, and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he establ…
1910
#6869
Biographies of pioneer American dentists and their successors. Edited by Charles R. E. Koch.
Forms Vol. 3 of History of Dental Surgery, edited by Charles R. E. Koch. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1910
#6991
The chiropractor's adjuster: A textbook of the science, art, and philosophy of chiropractic for students and practitioners.
1910
#8710
What you ought to know about your baby by Leonard Keene Hirshberg. A text book for mothers on the care and feeding of babies, with questions and answers especially prepared by the editor.
Ghost-written by American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English H. L. Mencken except for the "questions and answers." In a copy that sold at auction at Christies in 1995, Mencken inscri…
1910
#9402
Osteopathy: Research and practice.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1910
#10399
A history of the medical profession of Southern California with an historical sketch. Second edition. First edition destroyed in Times catastrophe.
Probably the first book on the history of medicine in the State of California. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1910
#10523
History of the Mississippi State Medical Association; with biographies of its presidents, complete roster of its officers, programmes of its meetings, and the past and present laws relating to the practice of medicine in Mississippi.
1910
#10835
The humane movement: A descriptive survey.
Concerns the origins and evolution of the humane movement that played a significant role in the emergence and growth of the antivivisection movement in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1910
#11446
The health index of children.
Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…