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1947

#6940

Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494 by Max H. Fisch. With a critical text of his guaiac tract, edited with a translation by Dorothy M. Schullian.

SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989) POL, Nicolaus (1467 – 1532) FISCH, Max Harold (1900 – 1995)

The 1494 in the title comes from the year in which Pol became a physician, and his habit of writing his name and that date in his books. The volume includes a study of books from Nicolaus Pol's library in Cleveland an…

1947

#7396

A treatise on gonioscopy.

URIBE Y TRONCOSO, Manuel (1867 – 1959)

The first comprehensive book on gonioscopy.

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)

1947

#9343

Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande.

CURTIN, Leonora Scott Muse (1879 – 1972)
CURTIN, Leonora Scott Muse (1879 – 1972) MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)

Revised and edited by Michael Moore as Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande: Traditional medicine of the Southwest (Sante Fe: Western Edge Press, 1997).

1947

#10216

The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America

ASHBURN, Percy Moreau (1872 – 1940)
ASHBURN, Percy Moreau (1872 – 1940)

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947

#10284

The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.

LARSELL, Olof (1886 – 1964)

1947

#10692

A study of nerve physiology. 2 vols.

LORENTE DE NÓ, Rafael (1902 – 1990)

See, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd, "Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later," Frontiers in neuoranatomy, 8 (2014) 147.

1947

#11392

Research and writings on training, conditioning, treatment of athletic injuries, and corrective work. 2 vols.

BOHM, Wilber (1890 – 1971)

Bohm was probably the first full-time professional physician in professional sports.

1947

#12814

Medical care and the plight of the Negro.

COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)

1947

#13043

Physicians' desk reference to pharmaceutical specialties and biologicals.

1947

#13043

Physicians' desk reference to pharmaceutical specialties and biologicals. Richard R. Maehler, Editor of Compilation and Arrangement.

MAEHLER, Richard R.

This work underwent its 71st edition in 2017.

1947

#13113

The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division.

UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY, MEDICAL DIVISION

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1947

#13575

Clinical neuro-ophthalmology.

WALSH, Frank Burton (1895 – 1978)

Considered first textbook on neuro-ophthalmology.

1948

#4482

Source book of orthopaedics.

BICK, Edgar Milton (1902 – 1978)

A concise, thematic history of orthopedic surgery from the earliest times. Includes a useful bibliography. Reprinted 1968.

1948

#2135.1

Occupational marks and other physical signs. A guide to personal identification.

RONCHESE, Francesco (1892 – 1976)

Calluses, other dermatological and physical signs of professions and occupations illustrated and described, with an annotated bibliography that includes some historical references.

1948

#2137

History of factory and mine hygiene.

TELEKY, Ludwig (1872 – 1957)

1948

#2662.1

Index to the literature of experimental cancer research 1900-1935.

DONNER FOUNDATION

Divided into author and subject sections.

1948

#3160

A history of the heart and circulation.

WILLIUS, Frederick Arthur (1888 – 1972) DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – )

1948

#3702

A history of dentistry. 2nd edition.

LUFKIN, Arthur Ward (1889 – 1959)

1948

#3703

An introduction to the history of dentistry. 2 vols.

WEINBERGER, Bernhard Wolf (1885 – 1960)

The first volume covers the history to 1800; the second deals solely with the history of dentistry in America.

1948

#6631.1

Music and medicine.

SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989)
SCHOEN, Max (1888 – 1959)
SCHOEN, Max (1888 – 1959)

1948 –1949

#6740

Lives of master surgeons.

LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )

One volume and supplement.

1948

#6491

Hindu medicine.

EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965)
ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert (1890 – 1943)
ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert (1890 – 1943)

1948

#6782

Encyclopedia of medical sources.

KELLY, Emerson Crosby (1899 – 1977)

A valuable list of medical eponyms and original sources, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names.

1948

#7038

Sexual behavior in the human male.

KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956)
KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956) POMEROY, Wardell Baxter (1913 – 2001)
MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014)
MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014)

1948

#7786

No place to hide.

BRADLEY, David John (1915 – 2008)

Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …

1948

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)

1948

#10204

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.

NETTER, Frank Henry (1906 – 1991)

This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.

1948 –1963

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

CHESNEY, Alan Mason (1888 – 1964)

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

1948

#11620

Urological oddities.

DAKIN, Wirt Bradley (1883 – 1975)

1948

#11766

Congenital anaomies of the heart and great vessels. Clinicopathologic study of 132 ases.

BULBULIAN, Arthur H. (1900 – 1996) DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – ) EDWARDS, Jesse Efrem (1911 – 2008) PARKER, Robert L. BURCHELL, Howard Bertram (1908 – 2009) ROGERS, H. Milton

An extensively illustrated pathological-anatomical and physiological presentation with an historical approach.

1948 –1966

#12191

A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.

HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985)
HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985) GREENBAUM, Leon Jack Jr.

Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1949

#4483

On the contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of Liverpool, Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool and London, John Ridlon, M.D., of New York and Chicago, to modern orthopedic surgery.

ORR, Hiram Winnett (1877 – 1956)

1949

#5015.1

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)

1949

#6310

The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.

RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )

Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.

1949

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

GORDON, Maurice Bear (1916 – 2006)

1949

#6878

Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.

VEITH, Ilza (1915 – 2013)

First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…

1949

#7084

A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.

LEOPOLD, Aldo (1887 – 1948)
LEOPOLD, Aldo (1887 – 1948)

This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …

1949

#7316

Histopathology of the skin.

LEVER, Walter F. (1909 – 1992)

1949

#8084

The Negro in the medical profession.

WALKER, Helen Edith

Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.

1949

#8763

The origin of medical terms.

SKINNER, Henry Alan (1899 – )

Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1949

#8885

Group medicine & health insurance in action.

ROTHENBERG, Robert Edward (1909 – 2002) PICKARD, Karl

"The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York was established in March, 1947 for the specific purpose of accumulating the required experience under carefully controlled conditions. In order to assemble measurable dat…

1949

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

POWELL, John Harvey (1914 – 1971)

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1949

#11102

Mushrooms in their natural habitats.

SMITH, Alexander Hanchett (1904 – 1986)

A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.

1949

#11428

The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.

BROWN, Alfred Jerome (1878 – 1960)

Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.

1949

#11726

The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.

WAITE, Frederick Clayton (1870 – 1956)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1949

#12019

Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]

ALLEN, Max Scott

"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…

1949

#12613

Antibiotics: A survey of penicillin, streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 vols.

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)
CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)
CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)
FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968)
FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968) HEATLEY, Norman George (1911 – 2004) SANDERS, A. G. JENNINGS, Margaret Augusta (1904 – 1994) FLOREY, Lady Mary Ethel (1900 – 1966)

Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.

1949

#12634

The chemistry of penicillin.

ROBINSON, Sir Robert (1886 – 1975)
ROBINSON, Sir Robert (1886 – 1975) CLARKE, Hans Thacher (1887 – 1972) JOHNSON, John Raven (1900 – 1983)

The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…

1949

#12635

X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.

HODGKIN, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910 – 1994) ROGERS-LOW, Barbara Wharton (1920 – 2019)

Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was orig…