North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1949
#12735
The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory.
Hebb connected the biological function of the brain as an organ together with the higher function of the mind. He studied how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. In this wo…
1950
#2238
The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.
In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.
1950
#5352.2
Bibliography of onchocerciasis.
Publication No. 242.
1950
#6783
A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.
For supplement see No. 6786.18.
1950 –1966
#6784
UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.
Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library”. See als…
1950
#7173
German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.
Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…
1950
#7537
Childhood and society.
1950
#8779
The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.
"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…
1950
#9185
Variation and evolution in plants.
The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …
1950
#11571
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
1950
#12199
On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.
The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …
1950
#12323
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
1950
#12821
The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.
The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.
1950
#13808
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
1951
#4672.4
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
1951
#1246
The kidney: structure and function in health and disease.
An encyclopaedic presentation of kidney physiology, including the many contributions of the author.
1951
#143.1
A source book in animal biology.
1951
#1671
The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.
1951
#1671.11
A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.
1951
#5017
A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.
Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.
1951
#6785
The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.
1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject Indice…
1951 –1961
#6448
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
1951
#6596.1
The health of slaves on southern plantations.
Chiefly from contemporary MS records.
1951
#8202
Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).
1951
#8479
El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.
1951
#9093
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
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First translation into a modern language.
1951
#9732
Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.
1951
#10293
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1951
#10616
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
1951
#11699
Tobacco and the cardiovascular system: The effects of smoking and of nicotine on normal persons.
1951
#13175
The social system.
The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.
1951
#13558
Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.
Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.
1951
#14367
Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.
The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…
1952
#366
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
1952 –1968
#2180.1
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.
UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE
Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department
1952
#2187.1
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
1952
#2068
Plants of the Bible.
The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.
1952
#1685
Man and epidemics.
1952
#5018
The history and development of neurological surgery.
1952
#6471.1
The old Egyptian medical papyri.
A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.
1952
#6500
Jewish medicine.
1952
#6449
Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.
Contains extensive bibliographies.
1952
#7175
Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.
Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…
1952
#7469
The planets: Their origin and development.
Urey coined the term cosmochemistry. He speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his graduate students, Stanley Miller, showed in the Miller–Urey…
1952
#7898
CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-
Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.
1952 –1961
#9033
World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.
In English and German.
1952
#9357
A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits.
1952
#9738
Psychoanalytic explorations in art.
Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.
1952 –1959
#11439
Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.
This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…
1952
#12615
The clinical application of antibiotics. Penicillin.
Printed on the title page: "This volume, although a separate publication, is a continuation of the work described in Antibiotics Volumes I and II, and may be read in conjunction with it." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for thi…