North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1925
#6354
Pediatrics of the past: an anthology.
Contains sketches of the lives of the more important pediatricians of the past, with a comprehensive selection of their works, translated where necessary into English. Ruhräh has thrown much light on the important con…
1925
#9445
The Medical Services: Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War: 1914-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1925
#10197
Arrowsmith.
"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…
1925
#10405
The scalpel under three flags in California.
1925
#10610
The mental growth of the pre-school child: A psychological outline of normal development from birth to the sixth year, including a system of development diagnosis.
"The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925[1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate…
1925
#10615
Bryan and Darrow at Dayton. The Record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial." Edited and compiled by Leslie H. Allen.
Key documents from the Scopes Trial. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1925
#11264
The scientific man and the bible: A personal testimony.
1925
#11426
A list of old medical books, books on the history of medicine, and medical bibliography, and a list of medical portraits, in the posession [sic] of Le Roy Crummer. Together with some bibliographical notes
1925
#12908
Operative dentistry for children: A text book dealing with prophylactic and curative treatment of the teeth of the child, based upon experience gained during more than twenty-five years devoted to the care of children exclusively.
The first book in English exclusively on pedodontics. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1925
#13849
The medical follies: An analysis of the foibles of some healing cults: Including osteopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic, and the electronic reactions of Abrams, with Essays on the antivivisectionists, health legislation, physical culture, birth control, and rejuvenation.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1926
#663
Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement.
A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography.
1926
#4608
A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis.
From 1922 to 1925 Bailey undertook extensive pathological and histological studies of brain tumors, and based on cellular configuration, he created a classification system of thirteen categories. In 1927 he reduced th…
1926
#1912.1
Biological relations of optically isomeric substances.
Cushny made important contributions concerning the pharmacological action of optical isomers over a period of nearly twenty years. He summarized this work and that of others in his Charles E. Dohme Lectures, 1925.
1926
#2137.6
Aviation medicine.
Bauer established the first school for flight surgeons in the United States. His book discusses the question of oxygen supply and its essential partial pressure, and discusses the effect of hight degrees of accelerati…
1926
#3758
A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventatives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.
Anti-pellagra vitamin. With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.
1926
#3699
Orthodontics; an historical review of its origin and evolution, including an extensive bibliography of orthodontic literature up to the time of specialization. 2 vols.
1926
#251
The theory of the gene.
1926
#7105
Happiness in marriage.
Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.
1926
#7307
Human origins: A manual of prehistory. 2 vols.
A detailed and extensively illustrated summary, with detailed bibliographical references, of the state of knowledge of prehistory in Europe as of 1926. Appendix 1: "Stratigraphic Study of Paleolithic Sites" is a very …
1926
#8909
Catalogue of an exhibition of early and later medical Americana.
1926
#9513
Ayurvedic medicine in ancient and medieval Ceylon.
1926
#9656
The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.
French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.
1926
#12574
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
1926
#12907
The dental assistant.
The first textbook for dental assistants.
1926
#14363
A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.
Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…
1927
#456
Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1927
#2052
Four thousand years of pharmacy; an outline history of pharmacy.
First history of pharmacy by an American. Reprinted as The curious lore of drugs and medicines, New York, Garden City Publ. Co., 1936.
1927
#2856
Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.
1927 –1948
#6419
Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.
An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.
1927
#6947
A catalogue of manuscripts and medical books printed before 1640 in the library of Le Roy Crummer
The collection was mostly bequeathed to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. See also A Doctor's Odyssey: A Sentimental Record of Le Roy Crummer: Physician, Author, Bibliophile, Artist in Living, 1872-1934, by Alex …
1927
#7842
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
1927
#8711
South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.
Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.
1927
#10304
History of medicine in Iowa.
1927
#11595
How to make the periodic health examination: A manual of procedure. Foreward by Major General Merritte W. Ireland, Surgeon General, United States Army.
Fisk was medical director, Life Extension Institute; Crawford was Assistant Medical Director, Life Extension Institute. "This pioneering monograph on the value of periodic health examination includes numbers of photog…
1927
#12383
Muscular movement in man: The factors governing speed and recovery from fatique.
1927
#13850
The new medical follies: An encyclopedia of cultism and quackery in these United States, with essays on the cult of beauty, the craze for reduction, rejuvenation, eclecticism, bread and dietary fads, physical therapy, and a forecast as to the physician of the future.
1928
#350
The brain from ape to man: A contribution to the study of the evolution and development of the human brain by Frederick Tilney. With chapters on the reconstruction of the gray matter in the primate brain stem by Henry Alsop Riley. 2 vols.
Classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1928 –1941
#1445
Lectures on conditioned reflexes. 2 vols.
Besides his work on digestion, Pavlov is remembered for his investigations upon conditioned reflexes. An English translation of another work by Pavlov, entitled Conditioned reflexes, appeared in 1927.
1928
#142
The history of biology: A survey. Translated by L. B. Eyre.
Previously published in Swedish and German editions. Many reprints were published.
1928
#2317
A history of pathology.
The first systematic history of the subject in the English language. Revised edition, New York, Dover Publications, 1965.
1928
#4958
Mongolism. A study of the physical and mental characteristics of mongolian imbeciles. Revised by H. G. Brainerd.
Down syndrome.
1928
#6728
Dictionary of American medical biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times.
This is the revised and expanded third and final edition of Kelly's A cyclopedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. S…
1928
#9271
Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1928
#9289
Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.
1928
#9943
The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
1928
#10118
Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.
Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…
1928
#10287
History of medicine in Nebraska. Albert F. Tyler, Editor. Ella F. Auerbach, Compiler.
This work was edited by Tyler from the writings of 24 collaborators. Reprinted and augmented, with an index, by Bernice M. Hetzner. Omaha, NE: University fo Nebraska Medical Center, 1977. Digital facsimile of the 1977…
1928
#10639
Folklore of the teeth.
1928
#12909
Partial denture construction: A text book describing the technics of impression taking and the construction of that type of removable partial dentures which are supported and retained by external attachments.
First book form exposition of the Kennedy Classification for partially edentulous arches or partial removable dentures. The Kennedy Classification system was originally introduced by Dr. Edward Kennedy in New York in …
1928
#13778