North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1921
#12069
Mortality statistics 1919. Twentieth annual report.
From "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms)" p. 28: "In the later part of 1918 a pandemic of influenza swept over the country and did not fully spend its force until well into 1919.... "In the registration area (exclusi…
1921
#12446
Origin and history of all the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations with bibliography... Prepared under the auspices of and published by the American Drug Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1 Vegetable drugs
Lloyd comprehensively collected and studied the historical literature, citing it throughout the text and in the numerous bibliographies of specific drugs in this work. The book includes a bibliography of historical so…
1922
#793
The anatomy and physiology of the capillaries.
Silliman Lectures. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. In 1920 Krogh received the N…
1922
#961
Respiration.
An account of the work of the Oxford School of Physiology, in particular the Pike’s Peak expedition (No. 957). Second edition, 1935, with J. G. Priestley.
1922
#1035
The mechanics of the digestive tract.
Includes (p. 111) his smooth diet for duodenal ulcer. Fourth edition entitled Introduction to gastro-enterology, 1950.
1922
#2185
Notes on the history of military medicine.
1922
#137
The biology of death.
Raymond Pearl did important work on the subject of vital statistics.
1922 –1924
#3798
Endocrinology and metabolism presented in their scientific and practical clinical aspects by ninety-eight contributors. 5 vols.
1922
#3690.1
A textbook of clinical periodontia. A study of the causes and pathology of periodontal disease and a consideration of Its treatment.
“The first authoritative book in the field” (Ring). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1922
#3691.1
The origin and evolution of the human dentition.
Reprinted with revisions and new index from J. dent. Res., 1920, 2, 89-175, 215-426, 604-717; 1921, 3, 87-228.
1922
#5369
Bibliography of hookworm disease.
Contains 5,680 references to all aspects of hookworm disease, prefaced by a short history. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1922
#5393
The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland.
The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach, Todd, and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1922
#6348.1
Premature and congenitally diseased infants.
“The first book ever written dealing solely with premature and congenitally diseased infants” (Cone). Hess founded the first premature infant center in the United States at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.
1922
#8712
South America from a surgeon's point of view.
Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…
1922
#9933
History of American Red Cross nursing.
By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1922
#11722
All about coffee.
Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. Second edition, 1935. Digital facsimile of the 1922 edition from Google Books at this link.
1922
#12406
History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago. Endorsed and published under the supervision of the council of the Chicago Medical Society.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1922
#12506
Bibliographiae stomatologicae.
An extensively annotated historical bibliography of dental bibliographies. Also published in Arthur D. Black, ed., Index of the periodical dental literature.... for 1916-1920 (Chicago, 1922) pp. xiv-liii. Digital facs…
1922
#12842
Regional anesthesia: Its technic and clinical application. With a foreward by William J. Mayo.
First work in English on regional anesthesia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1923 –2012
#16
Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.
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Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.
1923
#138
The chemical basis of growth and senescence.
1923
#2312.3
Paleopathology; an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease.
Surveys the ancient evidence of disease in plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, including man.
1923
#2522
Manual of determinative bacteriology.
The Society of American Bacteriologists appointed in 1920 a Committee on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. Their reports were incorporated in the above Manual issued under the names of Bergey and…
1923
#6456
The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923
#6353
History of pediatrics. In I. Abt, System of pediatrics, 1, 1-170.
Re-issued separately with an appendix on the history of pediatrics in recent times by A. F. Abt, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1965.
1923 –1958
#6422
A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.
Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.
1923
#7709
The antiquity of disease.
An account intended for general audiences, as compared to Moodie's Palaeopathology published the same year. Digital facsimile of The Antiquity of Disease from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923
#9077
American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.
Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…
1923
#11008
A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923
#11567
Traumatic shock.
"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…
1923
#11695
The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld.
Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography.
1924
#1036
Basal metabolism in health and disease.
1924
#86.3
Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.
In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…
1924
#748
Chemical dynamics of life phenomena.
1924
#139
Regeneration from a physico-chemical viewpoint.
1924
#1766.603
The medical sciences in the German Universities: a study in the history of civilization. Translated by William H. Welch.
German edition first published in 1876.
1924 –1929
#7097
A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1924
#10828
Humane society leaders in America. With a sketch of the early history of the humane movement in England.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1924
#11226
Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.
The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…
1925
#4480
The evolution of orthopaedic surgery.
1925
#145.63
Elements of physical biology.
In this landmark of theoretical population ecology Lotka attempted to provide for parts of biology a basis comparable to that given by theoretical physics to experimental physics. This was the first great exposition a…
1925
#2134
Industrial poisons in the United States.
1925
#2461
Key-catalogue of the protozoa reported for man.
1925
#2603
Allergic diseases; diagnosis and treatment of bronchial asthma, hay fever, and other allergic diseases.
In his important studies of asthma, Storm van Leeuwen demonstrated that in the great majority of patients allergens are the cause of the condition and also that patients are sensitive to mold spores. He experimented w…
1925
#2354
Development of our knowledge of tuberculosis.
1925
#1766.504
Medical education: A comparative study.
1925
#2575
The chemical aspects of immunity.
1925
#4393
Bone sarcoma, an interpretation of the nomenclature used by the Committee on the Registry of Bone Sarcoma of the American College of Surgeons.
1925
#5103
Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.
Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …
1925
#6458