North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1929
#2186
A history of the Medical Department of the United States Army.
1929
#1446.1
Brain mechanisms and intelligence: a quantitative study of injuries to the brain.
Lashley related nervous function and behavior with well-defined areas of the brain, particularly in connection with cerebral lesions.
1929
#2318
Selected readings in pathology.
This work makes it possible to read many of the classical writings on the subject which previously, through language difficulties, were beyond the reach of many. The book forms a valuable companion to Long’s history o…
1929
#3735
Rickets, including osteomalacia and tetany.
Hess made numerous clinical observations on rickets and scurvy and discovered that antirachitic properties could be imparted to certain oils and to food by exposing them to ultra-violet rays. His book includes an impo…
1929 –1932
#3699.1
Dental bibliography. 2 vols.,
Catalogue, without annotations, of the dental collections of the New York Academy of Medicine.
1929
#4433.1
Osteomyelitis and compound fractures and other infected wounds: Treatment by the method of drainage and rest.
Orr developed a treatment for open fractures “consisting of thorough debridement, reduction of the fracture, and usually, maintenance of the reduction by the technique of pins transfixing the fragments and incorporate…
1929
#4991
Gestalt psychology.
1929
#6299.1
Obstetric forceps, its history and evolution.
1929
#7186
The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.
The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1929
#9629
Benevenutus Grassus of Jerusalem De oculis eorumque egritudinibus et curis: Translated with notes and illustrations from the first printed edition, Ferrara, 1474 A.D
1929
#11003
The history of hemostasis.
Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of Medical History, N. S. Vol. I, No. 2, March, 1929.
1929
#11004
Stretchers: The story of a hospital unit on the western front.
History of the U.S. Army American Expeditionary Forces Evacuation Hospital no. 8, World War 1, 1914-1918, in which Pottle served. Pottle was the greatest Boswell and Samuel Johnson scholar. Digital facsimile from the …
1929
#13079
Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1929
#13404
History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.
1930
#1577
Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.
Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.
1930
#1918
Ephedrine and related substances.
A digest of the literature, together with an excellent bibliography. By their earlier work (J. Pharmacol., 1924, 24, 339-57) Chen and Schmidt aroused worldwide interest in ephedrine.
1930
#2256
Burns. Types, pathology and management.
1930
#2239
Nosography, the evolution of clinical medicine in modern times. 2nd ed.
A well-illustrated and reliable account.
1930
#4850
The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.
At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…
1930
#6471
The beginnings. Egypt and Assyria.
Clio Medica series.
1930
#6540
Medicine in the British Isles
Clio Medica series.
1930 –1933
#6588
Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.
1930
#6596.9
History of Haitian medicine.
1930
#7797
Historic artificial limbs.
1930
#10301
Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.
1930
#10316
The centennial history of the Tennessee State Medical Association, 1830-1930.
1930
#10333
A brief history of medicine in Massachusetts.
1930
#11324
The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.
1930
#12150
A history of the California Medical Society.
1930
#12158
Seed, a novel of birth control.
1930
#12459
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
1930
#13387
What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.
When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1931
#139.2
Pinocytosis.
Discovery of pinocytosis.
1931
#4274
Surgical pathology of prostatic obstructions.
1931
#4400
Tumors of bone.
1931
#5142.1
The black death and men of learning.
1931
#6633
Medicina in nummis. A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences.
This consists mainly of a catalogue of 6,000 medals collected by Horatio Storer, an eminent Boston gynecologist. The collection is now in the Boston Medical Library at Harvard Medical School, and the very thick book, …
1931
#6423
Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of medical history. Forward by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
1931
#6590
History of medicine in the United States. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.
An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States. The first edition appeared in 1901. Dr. Packard edited the Annals of Medical History from its commencement in 1917 until its decease in 194…
1931
#5468
Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1931
#4478.108
Training, conditioning, and the care of injuries.
The first American book on sports medicine, co-authored by the legendary football coach, Knute Rockne.
1931
#7788
American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.
1931
#8887
International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)
Contains almost no references to prior literature.
1931
#9213
Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.
Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
1931
#9449
The physician of the Dance of Death: A historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.
"Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of medical history (n. s., vol. II, nos. 4, 5, 6, 1930, and vol. III, nos. 1, 2, 1931)."
1931
#11026
History of medicine in the province of Quebec.
Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1931
#11250
Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings
1931
#11570
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
1932
#664
The wisdom of the body.
A discussion of the regulation of body fluids, hunger, thirst, temperature, oxygen supply, water, sugar, and proteins of the body, and the role of the sympathetic-adrenal mechanism.
1932
#1092.5