1633 BRADWELL, Stephen (1594 – 1636)
Helps for suddain accidents endangering life
The first book on first-aid. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 5569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6964
1845 RIVERS, Henry Wheaton (1814 – 1867)
Accidents: Popular directions for their immediate treatment; with observations on poisons and their antidotes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13899
1847 SOUTH, John Flint (1797 – 1882)
Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.
GMN 13772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16059
1857 FLETCHER, Frederick Dicker
The seaman's medical friend, a companion to the government medicine chest, intended for use in ships not carrying surgeons. Containing directions for the preservation of health and the cure of diseases, wounds, fractures, dislocations, and other accidents likely to occur at sea. Comprising also the Admiralty scale of medicines. Second edition.
"The present edition of The Seaman's Medical Friend is a new book rather than a mere revision of an old one; since the whole of that portion which relates to the Preservation of health, and the symptoms and treatment …
GMN 9165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11344
1860 WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.
At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…
GMN 8818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10996
1861 GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
A manual of military surgery: or, hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice.
Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Hathi Trust at this link. Notably in 1862 this small work written for Union surgeons was reprinted in Richmond, Virginia for the use of Confederate surgeons. The…
GMN 7815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9987
1868 JAMES, Constantin (1813 – 1888)
Accidents et maladies: Premier soins a donner avant l'arrivée du médecin.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11654
1871 HOWE, Joseph William (1843 – 1890)
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…
GMN 12899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15146
1880 DULLES, Charles Winslow (1850 – 1921)
What do do first, in accidents or poisoning.
Expanded as What to do first in accidents and emergencies. A manual explaining the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of the physician (1883). Digital facsimile of the 1880 edition from the Hathi …
GMN 13854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16144
1883 BURDETT, Sir Henry Charles (1847 – 1920)
Hints in sickness: Where to go and what to do.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15364
1894 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927)
Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.
Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…
GMN 11267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13464
1906 GREELY, Adolphus Washington (1844 – 1935)
Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11402
1921 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.
The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.
GMN 10823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13019
1932 HARTMANN, Alexis Frank Sr. (1898 – 1964); SENN, M. J. E.
Studies in the metabolism of sodium r-lactate. 1. Response of normal human subjects to the intravenous injection of sodium r-lactate. 2. Response of human subjects with acidosis to the intravenous injection of sodium r-lactate. 3. Reponse of human subjects with liver damage, disturbed mineral and water balance, and renal insufficiency to the intravenous injection ofsodium r-lactate.
Hartman added sodium lactate to the standard Ringer's solution to form Ringer's lactate solution, also known as Hartmann's solution.
GMN 12278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14497
1949 BLOCKER, Truman Graves Jr. (1809 – 1984); BLOCKER, Virginia Howard Irvine (1913 – 2005)
The Texas City disaster; a survey of 3,000 casualties.
After ships anchored in Texas City exploded in 1947, injuring and burning some 3,000 persons, the Blockers published a survey of the casualties. For this and other research studies involving trauma and burns the Block…
GMN 7128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9295
1954 IBSEN, Bjørn Aage (1915 – 2007)
The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.
Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…
GMN 12968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15216
1960 KOUWENHOVEN, William Bennett (1886 – 1975); JUDE, James R. (1928 – 2015); KNICKERBOCKER, G. Guy (1932 – 2022); ET AL
Closed-chest cardiac massage.
Kouwenhoeven and colleagues developed closed-chest cardiac massage without thoracotomy. Kouwenhoeven has been called "the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation."
GMN 2883.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4266
1962 ELLIS, Maurice (1905 – 1977)
The casualty officer's handbook.
The first handbook published in England on what later came to be called emergency medicine. Ellis, appointed to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1952, was the first "Casualty" consultant in England, and remained so unti…
GMN 10274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12465
1963 MILLS, James DeWitt Jr. (1920 – 1989)
A method of staffing a community hospital emergency department.
Mills headed the first 24/7 year-round emergency care center in the U.S. established at Alexandria Hospital, Virginia, in 1961. This method of staffing a 24/7 emergency medical facility became known as the "Alexandria…
GMN 9381 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11564
1974 HEIMLICH, Henry Judah (1920 – 2016)
Pop goes the café coronary.
Heimlich proposed and described the eponymous “Heimlich maneuver” for what was then called the “café coronary,” a cause of sudden death seen mostly in restaurants, or at the dinner table, most often on those ingesting…
GMN 14057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16367
1997 EISENBERG, Mickey S.
Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.
GMN 10169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12358
1999 ORBINSKI, James Jude (1960 – )
Médecins Sans Frontières. Nobel Lecture.
In 1999 Orbinsky accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Médecins Sans Frontières “in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." He delivered the organization's Nobel Lecture, av…
GMN 14233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16551
2005 ZINK, Brian J.
Anyone, anything, anytime: A history of emergency medicine.
GMN 8143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10319
2005 GULY, Henry R.
A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948-2004.
Concerns experience in Britain.
GMN 10276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12467
2009 BELL, Ryan Corbett
The ambulance: A history.
GMN 8144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10320
