1533 PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.
Pedersen, a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher, wrote and published the earliest medical book issued in Scandanavia by a Scandanavian writer. Translated as "A useful doctor book for poor and…
GMN 9863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12051
1534 PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
Om UrteVand.
Petersen issued a second book, "On herbal extracts" in 1534. According to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111, Pedersen's two works together contained "250 medical her…
GMN 9864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12052
1546 SMID, Henrik (Smyth, Smith) (1495 – 1563)
Skøn lystig ny Urtegaard.
Smid was one of the first writers on medicine in Scandinavia who was trained in medicine, but according to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111 "had trouble succeeding …
GMN 9865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12053
1776 SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm (1742 – 1786)
Undersökning om blasestenen.
Discovery of uric acid. English translation in his Chemical Essays, London, 1786.
GMN 668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/595
1799 ASSUR, Joel (1753 – 1837)
Korrt underrattelse om de mast vanliga tand-sjukdomar.
The first dental monograph published in Swedish. "Joel Assur was born in Bernburg, Germany as the son of the Jewish merchant Anschel Levin Joel Assur and Zipora Joel. He emigrated from Mecklenburg in 1791, and establi…
GMN 12854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15101
1802 ACERBI, Giuseppe (1773 – 1846)
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16066
1811 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
Lachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus; by James Edward Smith. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9491
1822 –1935 SACKLÉN, Johan Fredric (1763 – 1851); ET AL
Sveriges läkare-historia ifran Konung Gustaf den I:s till närvarande tid. 5 vols.
GMN 6731 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7851
1908 LENNMALM, Karl Gustav Frithiof (1858 – 1924)
Svenska Läkaresällskapets historia 1808-1908.
Continued (1908-38) by Gunnar Nilson, Stockholm, General-Statens litograf. Anstalt, 1947.
GMN 6572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8276
1932 QVIGSTAD, Just Knud (1853 – 1957); WIKLUND, Karl Bernhard (1868 – 1934)
Lappische Heilkunde.
Folk medicine of the Sami people.
GMN 6574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8279
1941 MORCH, Ernst Trier (1908 – 1996)
Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy.
Morch established the fact that chondrodystrophy may be inherited.
GMN 4404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6063
1995 HAGELIN, Ove
Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.
GMN 7211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9378
2012 EKLOFF, Bo; LINDSTRÖM, Kjell; PERSSON, Stig
Ultrasound in clinical diagnosis: From pioneering developments in Lund to global application in medicine. Edited by Bo Ekloff, Kjell Lindström and Stig Persson.
Concerns applications in echocardiography, echoencephalography, in obsterics and gynecology, Doppler ultrasound in vascular disease, ultrasound in radiology, and development of ultrasound in ophthalmology.
GMN 12339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14563
2015 HAGELIN, Ove; COLTHAM, Deborah
Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions, with beautiful color illustrations, of some of the greatest classics in the history of dentistry in the library of the Svenska Tandläkare-Sällskapet (Swedish Dental Society).
GMN 7209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9376
2015 MILLER, Barbara Helen (1932 – 2019)
Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.
"The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the e…
GMN 12548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14785
