1904 KÜCHLER, Friedrich
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der assyrisch-babylonischen Medizin. Texte mit Umschrift, Uebersetzung und Kommentar von Friedrich Küchler.
Cuneiform medical texts from the library of Ashurbanipal, together with German translations. A valuable paper on this subject is M. Jastrow’s "The medicine of the Babylonians and Assyrians," Proceedings Royal Society …
GMN 6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7929
1904 MURRAY, David (1842 – 1928)
Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.
Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…
GMN 7686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9858
1904 –1905 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.
GMN 8347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10523
1904 WOOD, William Congdon (1866 – )
One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.
GMN 10714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12908
1904 –1924 CORDIER, Henri (1849 – 1925)
Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'empire Chinois. Deuxième édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols. (1904-1908), plus Supplement (1923-1945).
The "standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921, including the full titles, tables of contents, and annotations regarding many books. Cordier was able to achieve this despite having only mi…
GMN 12952 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15199
1905 –1908 DIELS, Hermann Alexander (1848 – 1922)
Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .
A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…
GMN 6767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8243
1906 YOUNG, James (1811 – 1883); FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)
Bibliotheca chemica: A catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris....by John Ferguson. 2 vols.
One of the great landmarks of descriptive scientific bibliography. With bibliographical details of each work, biographical notices of each writer, and exhaustive lists of references in chronological order, its scope a…
GMN 8473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10650
1907 CRAINICIANU, Gheorghe (1853 – )
Literatura medicală românească; biografii si bibliografie.
Covers the period 1700-1900. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15762
1908 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Deutsch medizinische Inkunabeln.
GMN 6768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8244
1908 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); YOUNG, John (1835 – 1902); AITKEN, Patrick Henderson
A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. Planned and begun by the late John Young...Continued and completed under the direction of the Young Memorial Committee by P. Henderson Aitken.
Catalogue of the manuscripts collected and bequeathed to the University of Glasgow by William Hunter (1718-83), now in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue provides full descriptions …
GMN 6768.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8247
1908 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.
See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…
GMN 7094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9261
1909 THIMM, C. A.
Bibliography of trypanosomiasis.
Subject index…with additional references and corrections, 1910.
GMN 5289.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6376
1909 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
Remarks on the medical library in post-graduate work.
In this speech given by Osler as President of the Medical Library Association Osler spoke first about the essential value for practicing physicians of institutional medical libraries run by professional librarians, an…
GMN 11224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13421
1910 PIRES DE LIMA, Joaquim Alberto (1877 – 1951)
Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)
GMN 8947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11126
1910 FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940)
Zur Quellenkunde persischen Medizin.
A descriptive analytical bibliography of classics of Persian medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15394
1911 –1912 GOCHT, Hermann (1869 – 1938)
Die Röntgen-Literatur. 2 vols.
GMN 2701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4345
1911 HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan (1828 – 1913); HEWITT, Charles Richard (1870 – 1931)
The New Sydenham Society: Retrospective memoranda by Jonathan Hutchinson. Subject index and index of names compiled by Charles R. Hewitt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12990
1911 –1918 SARGENT, Charles Sprague (1841 – 1927); REHDER, Alfred (1863 – 1949)
The Bradley Bibliography: A guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder. 5 vols.
An attempt at a truly comprehensive bibliography of the world literature in western languages on these subjects to 1900, including more than 100,000 entries. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at…
GMN 11470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13669
1911 CORPUT, Édouard van den (1821 – 1908)
Curiosités sur la médecine et la vie privée aux XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Bibliothèque de feu M. le Dr. Van den Corput de Bruxelles.
Bibliotheca Osleriana 6989.
GMN 13832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16122
1912 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)
Texts illustrating the history of medicine in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. Arranged in chronological order. Reprint from volume xvii, second series, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.
In 1912 Garrison was Assistant Librarian of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. At the suggestion of Sir William Osler, Garrison prepared this classified listing of medical classics across the full range of the h…
GMN 11252 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13449
1913 HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)
Ḥunain ibn Isḥāḳ und seine Schule: Sprach- und literargeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den arabischen Hippokrates- und Galen-Übersetzungen.
GMN 12624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14864
1914 CARBONELLI, Giovanni (1859 – )
Bibliographia medica typographica pedemontana saeculorum XV et XVI. A Iohanne Carboneli medico doctore collecta in qua non tantum auctorum nomina sed etiam fere omnium operum inscriptiones eadem forma mensuraque relatae inveniuntur. Cum appendicibus et explanationibus atque indicibus copiosissimis.
GMN 11429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13628
1914 –1917 SARGENT, Charles Sprague (1841 – 1927); TUCKER, Ethelyn Maria (1871 – )
Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Compiled under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Ethelyn Maria Tucker. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13656
1914 HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)
Pseudogaleni in Hippocratis de septimanis commentarium ab Hunaino q. f. Arabice versum, ex codice monacensi primum edidit et Germanice vertit.
GMN 12670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14914
1915 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935); BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
John Shaw Billings: A memoir.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11943
1915 –1921 MENNESSIER DE LA LANCE, Gabriel René (1835 – 1924)
Essai de bibliographie hippique donnant la description détaillée des ouvrages publiés ou traduits en Latin et en Français sur le cheval et la cavalerie avec de nombreuses biographies d’auteurs hippiques.... 2 vols. & supplement.
General Mennessier de la Lance was former commander of the 3rd division of cavalry in France. His comprehensive bio-bibliography on all things equestrian includes veterinary medicine. William Osler published a very co…
GMN 10135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12324
1915 ARTIGAS Y CUERVA, Manuel (1866 – 1925)
Bibliografía médico-farmacéutica de Filipinas. Con biografías de los profesionales extranjeros de nota que han estado en el país, y con especialidad las de los filipinos.
GMN 13858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16148
1916 –1923 DEAN, Bashford (1867 – 1928); EASTMAN, Charles Rochester (1868 – 1918); GUDGER, Eugene Willis (1866 – 1956); HENN, Arthur Wilbur (1890 – 1959)
A Bibliography of fishes by Bashford Dean, enlarged and edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. 3 vols. Vol. 3 extended and edited by Eugene Willis Gudger with the cooperation of Arthur Wilbur Henn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9258
1917 GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716 – 1785); SINGER, Hans Wolfgang (1867 – 1957); LADMIRAL, Jan [l'Admiral] (1698 – 1773)
Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios
GMN 7494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9666
1917 WELCH, William Henry (1850 – 1934); BURKET, Walter Cleveland (1888 – 1974)
Bibliography of William Henry Welch.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13463
1917 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
Illustrations of the bookworm.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 11277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13474
1918 PILCHER, Lewis Stephen (1845 – 1934)
A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher with biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10920
1918 FARLOW, John Woodward (1853 – )
The history of the Boston Medical Library.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13003
1919 –1933 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929); BULLOCK, Fred (1878 – 1937)
The early history of veterinary literature and its British development
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and limited (search only) of vol. 2-4 from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12338
1921 –1969 BLACK, Arthur Davenport (1870 – 1937)
Index of the periodical dental literature in the English language.
Retrospective from 1839; discontinued in 1969. Later known as Index to dental literature. Digital facsimile of the early volumes from the Hathi Trust at this link. Black spearheaded the project and supervised the comp…
GMN 3698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5761
1922 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH BOARD
Bibliography of hookworm disease.
Contains 5,680 references to all aspects of hookworm disease, prefaced by a short history. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6998
1922 GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664); GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940); TRADESCANT, John The Elder (1575 – 1638)
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others
Most of this book concerns John Goodyer, his life, his garden, a detailed 40-page catalogue of Goodyer's library, Goodyer's list of plants, lists of plants grown in English gardens, etc. Digital facsimile from Google …
GMN 12001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14209
1922 WEBER, Andrés G.
Bibliographiae stomatologicae.
An extensively annotated historical bibliography of dental bibliographies. Also published in Arthur D. Black, ed., Index of the periodical dental literature.... for 1916-1920 (Chicago, 1922) pp. xiv-liii. Digital facs…
GMN 12506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14740
1923 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
Assyrian medical texts. From the originals in the British Museum.
Facsimiles of the texts of 660 cuneiform medical tablets, many of which were hitherto unpublished, from the library of Ashurbanipal. The tablets date back to the seventh century B.C. No translations are included, but …
GMN 6471.92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7931
1923 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); SCHOLDERER, Victor (1880 – 1971)
Incunabula medica. A study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480.
Bibliographical Society Publication. Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, with minor editing for posthumous publication by Archibald Malloch and W. W. Francis. Introduction by …
GMN 6769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8257
1923 –2005 KÜKENTHAL, Willy Georg (1861 – 1922)
Handbuch der Zoologie / Handbook of Zoology. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreichs / A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Gegründet von / Founded by Willy Kükenthal. 8 vols., each expanded into many parts.
The Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology was founded by Willi Kükenthal in Berlin, and treated the complete animal kingdom from single cell organisms to mammals in eight thematic volumes: Volume I: Protozoa, Pori…
GMN 9321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11503
1924 –1929 MEISEL, Max
A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9264
1924 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); KRIEGER, Louis Charles Christopher (1873 – 1940)
Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.
The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…
GMN 11226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13423
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Catalogue of early herbals.
GMN 2050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2262
1925 GOLDSCHMID, Edgar (1881 – 1957)
Entwicklung und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung.
Traces the development of pathological anatomical illustration, and includes a chronological bibliography of all important publications known to Goldschmid containing illustrations of pathological conditions, and an i…
GMN 2316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2995
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943); DROZ, Eugénie (1893 – 1976)
Remèdes contre la peste. Facsimilés, notes et liste bibliographique des incunables sur la peste.
Includes facsimile reproduction of “La régime de l’epidémie et remède contre icelle” of Jean Jacme (Johannes Jacobi), [5115], together with the “Remède très utile contre fièvre pestilencieuse” by the same writer. See …
GMN 5140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6153
1925 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)
Hunain ibn Ishaq über die syrischen und arabischen Galen-Übersetzungen zum ersten mal Herausgegeben und Überzetzt von G. Bergsträsser.
Various writings of Galen survived through Arabic and Syriac translations rather than the original Greek. In the ninth century the Assyrian Christian physician and translator into Arabic and Syriac Hunain ibn Ishaq (A…
GMN 6831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8995
1925 JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911); TAYLOR, James (1859 – 1946)
Neurological fragments, with ‘Biographical Memoir’ and ‘List of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Published Writings’ by James Taylor.
GMN 10763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12959
1925 CRUMMER, Le Roy (1872 – 1934); CRUMMER, Myrtle A. Kelly
A list of old medical books, books on the history of medicine, and medical bibliography, and a list of medical portraits, in the posession [sic] of Le Roy Crummer. Together with some bibliographical notes
GMN 11426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13625
1926 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften.
Includes descriptions of 130 incunabula.
GMN 5141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6155
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