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History of Biomedical Instrumentation (54)

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1882The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.
AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
1892The early history of instrumental precision in medicine.
MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
1907Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
MILNE, John Stewart ( – 1913)
1913​–1914The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
1929Obstetric forceps, its history and evolution.
DAS, Sir Kedarnath (1867 – 1936)
DAS, Sir Kedarnath (1867 – 1936)
1938The history of the forceps: An investigation on the occurrence, evolution, and use of the forceps from prehistoric times to the present (with a summary in Danish). Translated by William Ernest Calvert.
MØLLER-CHRISTENSEN, Vilhelm (1903 – 1988)
1942The history and evolution of surgical instruments.
THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
1947The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.
RADCLIFFE, Walter
1949The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
1952Old instruments used for extracting teeth.
COLYER, Sir Frank James (1866 – 1954)
1955Old English silver and its medical interest. Presidential Address, Liverpool Medical Institution, 14th October 1954.
COHEN, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead (1900 – 1977)
COHEN, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead (1900 – 1977)
1965Die Geschichte der Hersteller und Verkäufer zahnärztlicher Bedarfsartikel bis um 1900: eine historische Sammlung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ältesten deutschen Dentaldepots.
HEPBURN, Christian
1971A history of the ophthalmoscope.
RUCKER, C. Wilbur (1900 – 1991)
1978Medicine and the reign of technology.
REISER, Stanley Joel
1979Bloodletting instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology.
DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006) APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )
1979Antique medical instruments
BENNION, Elisabeth
1981Medicine and its technology: an introduction to the history of medical instrumentation.
DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006)
1981Ophthalmologisch-optische Untersuchungsgeräte.
HAUGWITZ, Thilo von
1983Medizinische Instrumente aus Sepulkralfunden der römischen Kaiserzeit.
KÜNZEL, Ernst (1939 – )
1985Medical thermometry--a short history.
HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
1986The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.
DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006) DREYFUSS, Mark S.
1986Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.
NIELSEN, Arnold B. W. RØNNE, Paul
1988Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols
WEBSTER, John G.
1988Instrumental medico-quirurgico en la hispania romana.
BOROBIA MELENDO, Enrique Luis
1989Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.
HOWELL, Joel D.
1994Roman surgical instruments and other minor objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the "Antiquarium" at Pompeii by Ralph Jackson.
BLIQUEZ, Lawrence J. JACKSON, Ralph
1995Technology in the hospital: Transforming patient care in the early twentieth century.
HOWELL, Joel D.
1996Spectacles and other vision aids: A history and guide to collecting.
ROSENTHAL, J. William (1922 – 2007)
1996Eye and instruments: Nineteenth-century ophthalmological instruments in the Netherlands.
TONKELAAR, Isolde den HENKES, Harold E. LEERSUM, Gijsbert K. van
1996The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.
BAKER, Jeffrey P.
1996​–1997The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.
SCHETT, Alfred
1997American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.
EDMONSON, James M. (1951 – )
1998Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
BLAUFOX, M. Donald
BLAUFOX, M. Donald NAQVI, Nasir H.
2000The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.
HIBBARD, Brian M.
2000The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
FURMAN, Seymour (1931 – 2006) GREATBATCH, Wilson (1919 – 2011)
2000A brief history of endoscopy.
MODLIN, Irvin M.
2001Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.
JEFFREY, Kirk
2001The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.
MAINES, Rachel P. (1950 – )
2002An ear to the chest: An illustrated history of the evolution of the stethoscope.
BLAUFOX, M. Donald
BLAUFOX, M. Donald
2005Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.
BORCK, Cornelis
2006The evolution of surgical instruments: An illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century.
KIRKUP, John
2006Science and technology in medicine. An illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries.
GEDEON, Andras (1946 – )
2008Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.
MCKELLAR, Shelley (1967 – ) KIRK-MONTGOMERY, Allison (1951 – )
2009Technological medicine: The changing world of doctors and patients.
REISER, Stanley Joel
2011Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.
SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )
2012La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.
RICHARD-ALAIN, Jean
2013Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.
NICHOLSON, Malcolm FLEMING, John Eric Edgcumbe (1934 – )
2013The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.
JONES, Claire L.
2014The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
BLIQUEZ, Lawrence J.
2014Die Erfindung der Ophthalmoskopie dargestellt in den Originalbeschreibungen der Augenspiegel von Helmholtz, Ruete und Giraud-Teulon. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Wolfgang Jaeger.
JAEGER, Wolfgang