1724 SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); ANONYMOUS
An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie.
Authorship of this early English account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy has never been determined, according to Geoffrey Sill, "The authorship of An impartial history of Michael Servetus," Papers of the Bibl…
GMN 12698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14943
1727 SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); MOSHEIM, Johann Lorenz von (1693 – 1755); ALLWOERDEN, Heinrich von (1703 – )
Historia Michaelis Serveti Quam praeside Io. Laur. Mosheimio...auctor Henricus ab Allwoerden.
An early biographical account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy, prepared under the direction of Johann Lorenz von Mosheim whose Kaisergeschichte (2 vols, 1746-48) initiated the modern, objective historiography…
GMN 12697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14942
1831 HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
Die Lehre vom Kreislauf vom Harvey. Eine historische Abhandlungen.
Perhaps the earliest essay by a professional historian on the pre-Harveian history of the circulation. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14570
1834 COXE, John Redman (1773 – 1864)
An inquiry into the claims of Doctor William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood; with a more equitable retrospect of that event. To which is added an introductory lecture delivered on the third of November, 18929, in vindication of Hippocrates from sundry charges of ignorance preferred against him by the late professor Rush.
Perhaps the earliest American monograph on the history of circulation. Keynes characterized this volume as "an elaborate and very learned attempt to belittle Harvey's achievement" Keynes, Life of William Harvey, p. 42…
GMN 12395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14623
1854 FLOURENS, Marie Jean Pierre (1794 – 1867)
Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Revised edition, 1857, of which a digital facsimile is also available from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by J. C. Reeve as A history of the …
GMN 12342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14566
1865 LEE, Robert (1793 – 1867)
History of the discoveries of the circulation of the blood, of the ganglia and nerves, and of the action of the heart.
Lee, an obstetrician, published one of the earliest studies of the history of the circulation of the blood in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14581
1866 MARTÍNEZ DE ANGUIANO, Pedro (1827 – 1903)
Recopilación histórico-bibliográfica de la circulación de la sangre en el hombre y los animales.
Digital facsimile from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link.
GMN 12358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14582
1884 DALTON, John Call (1825 – 1889)
Doctrines of the circulation.
GMN 1572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1302
1928 ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)
Cardio-vascular diseases since Harvey’s discovery.
Harveian Oration, 1928.
GMN 3156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4092
1930 PIANKOFF, Alexandre (1897 – 1966)
Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.
GMN 12366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14590
1935 IBN-AL-NAFIS (ALA-AL-DIN ABU AL-HASSAN ALI IBN ABI-HAZM AL-QARSHI AL-DIMASHQI; علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي ) (1210 – 1288); MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945)
Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.
Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…
GMN 753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1873
1936 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.
GMN 2865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4156
1937 ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)
The history of angina pectoris.
GMN 3157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4093
1937 HEINRICH, Hahne
Die Geschichte der angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.
A history of congenital heart disease covering cyanosis, foetal endocarditis and various malformations. Bedford 850.
GMN 12352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14576
1941 WILLIUS, Frederick Arthur (1888 – 1972); KEYS, Thomas Edward (1908 – 1995)
Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.
Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…
GMN 3158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4094
1942 HERRICK, James Bryan (1861 – 1954)
A short history of cardiology.
GMN 3159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4095
1948 WILLIUS, Frederick Arthur (1888 – 1972); DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – )
A history of the heart and circulation.
GMN 3160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4096
1951 BEDFORD, Brigadier Davis Evan (1898 – 1978)
The ancient art of feeling the pulse.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14632
1956 RUSKIN, Arthur
Classics in arterial hypertension.
GMN 3160.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4097
1957 EAST, Charles Frederick Terence (1894 – 1967)
The story of heart disease.
GMN 3161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4098
1958 MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
Cardiovascular sound in health and disease. Being a comprehensive treatise, introduced by a historical survey, illustrated mainly by sound spectrograms (spectral phonocardiograms) and supplemented by an extensive bibliography. With a section on respiratory sound.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11543 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13742
1964 FISHMAN, Alfred Paul (1918 – 2010); RICHARDS, Dickinson Woodruff (1895 – 1973)
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
GMN 1588.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1429
1964 BURCH, George Edward (1910 – 1986); DEPASQUALE, Nicholas P. (1927 – 2018)
The history of electrocardiography.
Reprinted with new introduction by Joel D. Howell, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
GMN 3161.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4100
1966 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The life of William Harvey.
GMN 14342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16671
1970 LEIBOWITZ, Joshua O. (1895 – 1993)
The history of coronary heart disease.
A scholarly work with extensive bibliographies.
GMN 3161.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4102
1971 RAVIN, Abe (1908 – 1978); FRAME, Florence K.
International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.
Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.
GMN 12370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14595
1973 HARRIS, Charles Reginald Schiller (1896 – 1979)
The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.
GMN 1588.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1523
1975 COURNAND, André Frédéric (1895 – 1988)
Cardiac catheterization: Development of the technique, its contributions to experimental medicine, and its initial applications in man.
GMN 12232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14446
1976 DOBY, T.
Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.
GMN 11569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13768
1977 COMROE, Julius H. Jr. (1911 – 1984); DRIPPS, Robert D. (1911 – 1973)
The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.
GMN 3161.41 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4104
1977 BEDFORD, Brigadier Davis Evan (1898 – 1978)
The Evan Bedford library of cardiology. Catalogue of books, pamphlets and journals.
Descriptions of 1112 items, many with very informative annotations by Bedford, who donated his collection to the Royal College of Physicians. In addition to his clinical and research work in cardiology Bedford was an …
GMN 3161.42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4105
1980 FRANK, Robert G.
Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.
GMN 1588.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1593
1980 JARCHO, Saul Wallenstein (1906 – 2000)
The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.
Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.
GMN 3161.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4109
1980 MAREY, Étienne Jules (1830 – 1904); SNELLEN, Hermann A.
Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).
GMN 11689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13890
1983 COMRIE, Julius H.
Exploring the heart: Discoveries in heart disease and high blood pressure.
GMN 11531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13730
1985 WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799); ARONSON, Jeffrey Kenneth (1947 – )
An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.
This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…
GMN 9233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11415
1988 SEGALL, Harold Nathan (1897 – 1990)
Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.
GMN 11507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13706
1989 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); WHITTERIDGE, Gweneth (1910 – 1993)
A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.
This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …
GMN 11198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13395
1992 FUCHS, Thomas (1958 – )
Mechanisierung des Herzen: Harvey und Descartes- Der Vitale und der mechanische Aspekt des Kreislaufs.
Translated into English by Marjorie Grene as The mechanization of the heart: Harvey and Descartes. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
GMN 11555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13754
1994 ACIERNO, Louis J. (1920 – 2007)
The history of cardiology.
GMN 8597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10774
1995 NEILL, Catherine Annie (1921 – 2006); CLARK, Edward B.
The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.
A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.
GMN 12364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14588
1996 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.
GMN 7856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10028
1997 POSTEL-VINAY, Nicholas
A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.
GMN 12367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14591
1999 BING, Richard John (1909 – 2010)
Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.
GMN 8608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10785
2000 FURMAN, Seymour (1931 – 2006); GREATBATCH, Wilson (1919 – 2011)
The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
GMN 7995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10171
2001 JEFFREY, Kirk
Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.
GMN 7191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9358
2001 MICHAELS, Leon
The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.
GMN 12361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14585
2002 LÜDERITZ, Berndt (1940 – )
History of the disorders of cardiac rhythm. Third edition.
GMN 7196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9363
2002 WOOLEY, Charles F.
The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).
GMN 12378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14603
2003 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – ); HURST, John Willis (1920 – 2011); CONTI, C. Richard
Profiles in cardiology: A collection of profiles featuring individuals who have made significant contributions to the study of cardiovascular disease.
GMN 8674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10851
