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3,694 entries published in North America.

1943

#9352

The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…

1943

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1943

#11284

One hundred years, 1843-1943.

A relatively brief anonymous account of the first century of activity the medical publisher, Blakiston.

1943

#12192

Barometric pressure: Researches in experimental physiology. Translated from the French by Mary Alice Hitchcock and Fred A. Hitchcock. [Foreward by John F. Fulton].

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943

#13597

Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.

"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …

1944

#2432

Notable contributors to the knowledge of syphilis.

1944

#2349.1

The pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

Classic work on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and its immunology and hypersensitivity.

1944

#1766.605

Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.

Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.

1944

#4404.02

Surgery of the hand.

Bunnell originated hand surgery as a specialty.

1944

#6306

History of gynecology.

1944

#6600

Aesculapius in Latin America.

1944

#255.2

Tempo and mode in evolution.

Simpson's seminal contribution to the modern evolutionary synthesis integrated the facts of paleontology with those of genetics and natural selection. "Simpson argued that the microevolution of population genetics was…

1944

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1944

#9032

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

1944

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1944

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

1944

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1944 –1960

#11603

Medical physics. Edited by Otto Glasser. 3 vols.

This nearly 4000 page work in three unusually thick volumes, written by hundreds of authors, was an encyclopedia of medical physics for its time.

1944

#12606

A century of service to dentistry 1844 -1944. Published by S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. in commemoration of its one hundredth anniversary. Edited by Harry C. Keane.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1945

#2061

Cinchona in Java: The story of quinine.

1945

#5732

The history of surgical anesthesia.

Reprinted with corrections and additions, 1963. Reprint, 1978.

1945

#5015

The falling sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. Second edition.

Revised second edition. Baltimore, 1971.

1945

#6623

Poet physicians: An anthology of medical poetry written by physicians.

1945

#6476

Asclepius: A collection and interpretation of the testimonies. 2 vols.

1945

#6309

One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.

1945 –1951

#6780

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. 3 vols.

Supplements the Short title catalogue (No. 6771). This was superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols., New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1972-88. In addition to countless works of …

1945

#9177

Anatomy for artists.

By the famous American social realist artist.

1945

#11353

Surgery of the brain.

Volume XII in Lewis' Practice of Surgery.

1945

#12618

The herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.

First printed edition of an herbal written circa 1287 by Rufinus, a medieval monk / physician unknown before this edition. Rufinus was titular abbot in absentia of the monastery of Tyre, and plenipotentiary to the arc…

1945

#13061

Plantas medicinale aromaticas o venenosas de Cuba. 2 vols.

1945

#13801

The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.

1946

#2237.01

The face in health and disease.

1946

#5732.1

The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.

1946

#6631.02

Musical sons of Aesculapius.

1946

#6662

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES. 1-

The latest issue may be viewed at http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org .

1946

#6652

ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-10; New series, 1-10; 3rd series, 1-4, 1917-42. Index (1917-42),

1946

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1946

#8899

White caps: The story of nursing.

1946

#8901

Victory over pain: A history of anesthesia.

1946

#9504

The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.

1946

#11018

Harvey Cushing: A biography.

Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.

1946

#11725

Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.

1946

#11819

The common sense book of baby and child care.

One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…

1947

#1668

A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947

#2090

Curare, its history, nature, and clinical use.

1947

#2878

Congenital malformations of the heart.

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

1947

#6569

Medicine and health in the Soviet Union.

1947

#6440

History of medicine. A correlative text arranged according to subjects by Cecilia Mettler. Edited by Fred A Mettler.

Posthumously published after the author died three days after childbirth.

1947

#6595

American medical research, past and present.

1947

#6601.1

Bosquejo histórico de la farmacia y la medicina en Honduras.