North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1874
#7848
The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.
Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…
1874
#9643
Shadows from the walls of death: Facts and inferences prefacing a book of specimens of arsenical wall papers.
To drive home the dangers of arsenic in wallpaper Kedzie took the step of publishing one of the most unusual books ever issued: Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Ar…
1874
#10260
The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated together with an account of the American whale-fishery.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1874
#11789
Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.
This work incorporated Coues' A check list of North American birds (1873). Coues had the check list portion of this work printed with the versos blank so that users could enter in their own information. Digital facsim…
1875
#4553
On rest in the treatment of nervous disease.
First account of the “Weir Mitchell treatment”.
1875
#6643.9
Science and health.
Includes an exposition of the system of faith healing that holds a significant place in Christian Science.
1875
#7818
Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion, of over a million recruits.... 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1875
#10652
Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.
Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …
1875
#10829
Experimentation on animals, as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1875
#11307
Something about California: Being a description of its climate, health, wealth and resources, compressed into small compass: Marin County: Its industries, roads, appearance, health and population, also, a series of carefully written and well considered articles and paragraphs describing the sanatarium of San Rafael in which the mildness and equability of its climate are explained.
This 32-page pamphlet was probably the first separate publication concerning health matters in Marin County, California, my county of residence during the years in which I wrote this online bibliography-- J.M.N. Digit…
1876
#4342.1
Lectures on orthopaedic surgery and diseases of the joints.
See Nos. 4344 & 4344.1.
1876
#5754.1
Contributions to reparative surgery; showing its application to the treatment of deformities produced by destructive disease or injury; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development; and cicatrical contractions from burns.
First American work exclusively on reconstructive surgery.
1876
#6191
Extra-uterine pregnancy.
Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so.
1876
#6761
History of American medical literature from 1776 to the present time.
1876
#6586
A century of American medicine 1776-1876
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876
#10412
The people's medical advisor.
A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…
1876
#10494
Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.
White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…
1876
#10795
The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…
1876
#11261
Specimen fasciculus of a catalogue of the National Medical Library, under the direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army at Washington, D. C.
This analystical subject-author catalogue was a 96-page preview of what became known four years later as the Index-Catalogue of the Library of Surgeon General's Office. Reflecting Billings' long term view of the insti…
1876
#12089
Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.
This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …
1876
#12891
A history of dental and oral science in America. Prepared under the direction of the American Academy of Dental Science.
The first history of dentistry in America written by James E. Dexter for the American Academy of Dental Science. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1876
#13160
International Exhibition of 1876. Medical Department, U.S. Army. Photographs illustrating rare books in the National Medical Library. Philadelphia, 1876. 2 vols.
These two volumes include a series of original photographs of primarily the title pages of rare medical books in the National Medical Library pasted onto specially printed sheets with manuscript entries indicating the…
1876
#14060
Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee.
The first major discussion of human skeletal pathology in American archeological samples. Jones introduced histopathological techniques in analysis of paleopathological material. Digital facsimile from Google Books at…
1877
#4554
Fat and blood and how to make them.
Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.
1877
#8980
Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.
Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…
1877
#9160
Public hygiene in America: Being the centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 by Henry I. Bowditch. With extracts from correspondence from the various states. Together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877
#9532
The mortality of surgical operations in the upper lake states, compared with that of other regions.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1877
#11096
Art anatomy.
Perhaps the first great American anatomy for artists by an American painter and sculptor. Rimmer not only drew the 900 drawings on the 81 heliotype plates, but he also wrote in the explanatory text on the sheets along…
1877
#11912
The question of rest for women during menstruation.The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876.
"Jacobi's paper was a response to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's earlier publication, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1875), a book claiming that any physical or mental exertion during menstruation could le…
1877
#12318
Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.
1877
#12324
Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1877 –2021
#12940
Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal and scholarly views of America's most distinguished scientists.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/ "Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagu…
1878
#6715.1
The physicians and surgeons of the United States.
The second edition was entitled, A biographical dictionary of contemporary American physicians and surgeons. Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton, 1880. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1878
#7745
The life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl.
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-89, the first deaf-blind person ever to read, write, and converse in the finger alphabet. The book includes a signed holograph facsimile of Bridgman's widely circulated religious poem…
1878
#11536
A manual of nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. [Compiled and edited by Dr. Victoria White.]
The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United States run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. Among other things, these principles called fo…
1878
#11538
A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…
1878
#11696
The action of medicines.
Ott founded experimental pharmacology in America; his book was the first written by an American on the action of medicines.
1878 –1880
#11788
American ornithological bibliography. 4 parts. (Also called "Ornithological bibliography").
This is an exhaustive work up to time of publications, including scientific references to American birds in publications, the titles of which do not indicate any ornithological material. [Pt. 1.] Geological and Geogra…
1879 –1899
#6762
Index Medicus. A monthly classified record of the current medical literature of the world. Vols. 1-21.
"Functionally, however, the greatest difference between the two publications [Index Medicus and the Index-Catalogue] was that the Index-Catalogue was a government publication and Index Medicus was not. For its entire …
1879 –1891
#6866
The guiding symptoms of the materia medica. 10 vols.
Hering was called the “father of American homeopathy.” His 10-volume work is a record of confirmed symptoms that Hering and his colleagues observed over 50 years of practice.
1879
#8852
Gold as a remedy in disease, notably in some forms of organic heart disease, angina pectoris, melancholy, tedium vitae, scrofula, syphilis, skin disease, & as an antidote to the ill effects of mercury.
Burnett, a homeopath, provided an excellent summary of the history of gold as it was used in medicine, with extensive references to the historical literature. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1879
#10524
The epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi: Report of the yellow fever relief work.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1879
#13078
Naval hygiene. Human health and the means of preventing disease. With illustrative incidents principally derived from naval experience.
Includes chromolithographed plates. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1879) from Google Books at this link. WorldCat cites only this second edition with this title and Wilson's work of 1870 (No. 13077). Therefo…
1879
#13855
Bibliotheca dermatologica. Catalogue of cutaneous literature in the library of Henry G. Piffard.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1879
#13869
History of medicine in New Jersey, and of Its medical men, from the settlement of the province to A.D. 1800.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1879
#14295
Fasting girls: their physiology and pathology.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1880
#4846
A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia).
1880
#3996
Photographic illustrations of skin diseases.
Fox, who was Professor of Dermatology in New York, produced a valuable atlas of skin diseases.
1880
#3685.1
A treatise on oral deformities.
First "scientific" treatment of irregularities of the teeth. Kingsley made the first attempt at systematizing the treatment of occlusal abnormalities
1880 –1961
#6763
Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.
In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to develop the librar…