North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1867
#2080
Micro-chemistry of poisons.
The first American book entirely devoted to toxicology and an important contribution to the identification of poisons.
1867
#4423
Treatment of fractures of the lower extremity, by use of the anterior suspensory apparatus.
1867
#6862
The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
1867
#7748
Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.
Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…
1867
#10369
Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1867
#10603
Diseases of the heart: Their diagnosis and treatment.
The first medical book, as distinct from a pamphlet, that was written and published in California. See Shapiro, "California's 'first' medical book. David Wooster's Diseases of the heart (1867)," Calif. Med., 108 (1968…
1867
#10718
Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1867
#11596
Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, GA. Edited by Austin Flint.
Includes contributions by Roberts Bartholow, Jacob Mendez DaCosta, Paul Eve, Frank Hamilton, Joseph Jones, S. Wier Mitchell, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1867
#13345
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1868
#6058
Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.
A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.
1868
#6060
A practical treatise on diseases of women.
The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.
1868
#8998
Hospital days.
Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…
1868
#12404
Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.
An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1868
#12887
Dental materia medica. Compiled by James W. White.
The first American treatise on materia medica written specifically for dentists. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1869
#2028.58
Plain rules for the restoration of persons apparently dead from drowning.
Howard’s method of artificial respiration is taught for resuscitation from drowning.
1869
#3684.1
A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, and associated parts.
The first modern textbook of oral surgery. Garretson received the first official hospital appointment as “oral surgeon”. He helped to establish oral surgery as a specialty.
1869
#4424
The mechanism of dislocation and fracture of the hip. With the reduction of the dislocations by the flexion method.
Bigelow was the first to describe in detail the mechanism of the iliofemoral (Bigelow’s) ligament, and to show its importance in the reduction of dislocation by the flexion method.
1869
#11305
Medical history of the year 1868, in California. A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869. And published by order of the society.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1869
#11703
Woman: Her rights, wrongs, privileges, and responsibilities . . . Her relations to man, physiological, social, moral, and intellectual: Her ability to fill the enlarged sphere of duties and privileges claimed for her: Her true position in education, professional life, employments, and wages considered. Woman suffrage, its folly and inexpediency, and the injury and deterioration which it would cause in her character shown . . .
Also published in Cincinnati, Ohio by Howe's Subscription Book Concern, 1869. The author, a physician and semi-popular writer, appears mainly to be writing in opposition to woman suffrage or to granting to women any f…
1870
#442
A sketch of the early history of practical anatomy. The introductory address to the course of lectures on anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.
Reprinted in 1874 by Lippincott as a separate pamphlet, and in Keen’s Addresses and other papers, Philadelphia, 1905.
1870 –1888
#2171
The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. 6 vols.
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General
Written by Woodward, Smart, Otis, and Huntington under the direction of Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General of the Army. This massive, graphically illustrated set has been called the “first comprehensive American medica…
1870
#7601
A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1870
#10448
Report on barracks and hospitals, with descriptions of military posts.
Describes military posts in all regions of the U.S., including the Western territories, with details of their hospitals, barracks, etc. In a 1928 talk at Mayo Clinic historian Fielding Garrison wrote about this work, …
1870
#13032
The boys in white: The experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington.
An account of the author's experiences as a nurse working in Washington, D.C. hospitals during the U.S. Civil War. Wheelock became known as the "Florence Nightingale of Michigan." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trus…
1870
#13077
Naval hygiene, by Joseph Wilson, Surgeon United States Navy: With an Appendix: Moving wounded men on shipboards by Albert C. Gorgas, Surgeon United States Navy.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1871
#4542
Treatise on diseases of the nervous system.
The first American treatise on neurology. The original description of athetosis, sometimes called “Hammond’s disease”, appears on pp. 654-62. During his tenure as Surgeon General of the Army during the U.S. Civil War,…
1871
#1996.4
A practical treatise on the medical and surgical uses of electricity, including localized and general electrization.
Beard and Rockwell were the leading American electrotherapists of the 19th century. This is the most influential American treatise ever published on electrotherapy. It is of especial value today for its comprehensive …
1871
#10483
Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.
Study of caisson disease and its treatement resulting from experience in treating workmen constructing the Eads Bridge, which opened in 1874. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1871 –1872
#10585
Photographic review of medicine and surgery. A bi-monthly illustration of interesting cases, accompanied by notes. Edited by F.F. Maury [and] L.A. Duhring. Vols. 1 & 2 (All published).
The leading 19th century American publication of artistic medical photography. Each of the two volumes includes 24 mounted photographs. The photographs ilustrate cases of unusual and extreme disease, such as gross def…
1871
#11545
On the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the nervous system and of the kidneys; also in certain other general disorders.
One of the earliest works on the wider appications of the ophthalmoscope. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1871
#12899
Emergencies and how to treat them: The etiology, pathology, and treatment of the accidents, diseases, and cases of poisoning, which demand prompt action.
A “guide in the treatment of cases of emergency occurring in medical, surgical, or obstetrical practice” (p. 3), covering such topics as hemorrhage, burns, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, sunstroke, poisoning and com…
1871
#13211
HIT.
An enigmatically titled book of essays on women's rights by the American surgeon, abolitionist, prohibitionist, and prisoner of war, who remains the only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Medical cont…
1872
#2250
Thermic fever, or sunstroke.
A study of the pathology of sunstroke. Wood held the chairs of botany, therapeutics, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.
1872
#3280
Diseases of the throat: A guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, oesophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares.
First American textbook on oto-rhino-laryngology.
1872
#8613
A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1872
#9699
Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.
Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…
1872
#11326
History of medicine from the earliest ages to the commencement of the nineteenth century
In 1824 Dunglison was recuited to join the Medical Faculty of the new University of Virginia. There he became Thomas Jefferson's personal physician for two years until Jefferson's death. Dunglison was hired to teach m…
1872
#11790
Key to North American birds containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary.
Coues continued to revise and expand this work, putting it through four editions during his lifetime. Digital facsimile of the 1872 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. The Hathi Trust also makes available digit…
1872
#11803
Corals and coral islands.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1872
#13171
The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1872
#13212
Autumnal catarrh (Hay fever) with three maps.
Wyman conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of hay fever. He then collected data from correspondents and published the first pollen maps of the U.S. so that sufferers could plan vacations i…
1873
#10482
The effects of high atmospheric pressure, including the caisson disease.
Classic study of caisson disease. Smith was "Late Surgeon to the New York Bridge Co. (Caisson Work)", treating workmen who built the Brooklyn Bridge. The Eads Bridge (St. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City)…
1873
#10796
The medical department of the United States army from 1775 to 1873. Compiled under the direction of the Surgeon General by Harvey E. Brown.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1873
#11212
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army. 3 vols.
The first formal published catalogue of the ancestor of the US National Library of Medicine, prepared under the supervision of John Shaw Billings. Vols. 1-2 represented an author catalogue A-Z. Vol. 3: Supplement: Ano…
1873
#11388
Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".
The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…
1873
#11444
Cleave's Biographical cyclopaedia of homoeopathic physicians and surgeons.
The first biographical encyclopedia of American homeopathic physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1874
#1972
A treatise on therapeutics.
Wood was a professor of botany (1866-76), therapeutics (1875-1907) and nervous diseases (1875-1901) in the University of Pennsylvania. In his book the effects of various drugs in small doses was first discussed; it al…
1874
#6585
Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1874 –1879
#6854
The encyclopedia of pure materia medica. A record of the positive of effects of drugs upon the healthy human organism. 10 vols.
With contributions by Richard Hughes of England; Constantine Hering of Philadelphia; Carroll Dunham of New York; Adolph Lippe of Philadelphia and others. This massive work is almost a complete record of all provings a…
1874
#7479
Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government.
This oversized compendium of maps, graphs, statistical tables, and essays was the first comprehensive thematic atlas produced by any nation. It was hailed both at home and abroad for its innovative use of graphic elem…