1939 PLATEARIUS, Matthaeus (1130 – 1180); WÖLFEL, Hans

Das Arzneidrogenbuch Circa Instans in einer Fassung des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Text und Kommentar als Beitrag zur Pflanzen- und Drogenkunde des Mittelalters by Hans Wölfel.

GMN 8449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10626

1939 DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908); RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945)

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

GMN 8527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10704

1939 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); THE HARVEY CUSHING SOCIETY; LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994)

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

GMN 11189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13386

1939 HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790); BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

GMN 11239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13436

1939 –1941 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); LANTZ, Walter Dewey (1906 – )

The Dr. Howard A. Kelly library catalogue

Parts 1-6.

GMN 13432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15704

1940 –1993 SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.

http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever …

GMN 10743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12939

1941 –1959 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.

Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…

GMN 6777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8303

1941 REDI, Francesco (1626 – 1697); PRANDI, Dino

Bibliografia delle opere di Francesco Redi; segue la riproduzione della Lettera intorno all'invenzione degli occhiali scritta a Paolo Falconieri. Dall'edizione delle "Lettere" 1779-1795

GMN 13183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15444

1941 DUVIVIER, Ulrick

Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti. 2 vols.

Vol. 2, pp. 169-208 contains a comprehensive chronological account of medical publications printed in Haiti, or about medicine in Haiti, from the earliest imprints to 1941. Digital facsimile from ufdc.ufl.edu at this …

GMN 13361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15632

1941 MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)

Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell author of Hugh Wynne. Books autographs, prints, and historical relics. To be sold at unrestricted public sale on Monday, May 19th, 1941.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 13889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16179

1941

Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.

GMN 14330 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16655

1942 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985)

A bibliography of aviation medicine.

GMN 2137.30 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2700

1942 ATHIAS, Mark

Catálogo das obras da colecção portuguesa anteriores a fundação das Regias Escolas de Cirurgia (1825). 2 vols.

(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)

GMN 8946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11125

1942 HASKELL, Daniel Carl (1883 – 1968)

The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography

Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.

GMN 9824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12012

1943 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts.

Catalogue, without annotations, of the books and manuscripts bequeathed by Cushing to the Historical Library in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. Much like Osler, Cushing colle…

GMN 6779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8305

1943 PUTTI, Vittorio (1880 – 1940); MARINIS, Tamarro de (1878 – 1969)

La raccolta Vittorio Putti; antiche opere di medicina manoscritte e stampate lasciate all'Istituto Rizzoli di Bologna, compiled by Tamarro de Marinis.

Description of the 1158 manuscripts and printed volumes, particularly concerning medieval and renaissance medicine and surgery, donated by Putti to the Rizzoli Institute, followed by a listing of the collection of med…

GMN 6937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9102

1943 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

GMN 8096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10272

1943 ANONYMOUS

One hundred years, 1843-1943.

A relatively brief anonymous account of the first century of activity the medical publisher, Blakiston.

GMN 11284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13481

1943 –1955 FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)

Catalogue of the Ferguson collection of books mainly relating to alchemy, chemistry, witchcraft and gypsies in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 2 vols. including Supplement (1955).

Due to wartime paper rationing only 40 copies of the first printing of the catalogue were published when it was issued in 1943; it was reprinted in the 21st century. Ferguson is best known as the author of the extensi…

GMN 11332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13530

1944 –1948 KEFFER, Luiza

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

GMN 2447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2944

1944 BALLARD, James Francis (1878 – 1955)

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

GMN 10810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13006

1944 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); BAUER, Donald deF.; ASTBURY, Eppie C.

Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.

Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.

GMN 11859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14063

1945 –1951 WING, Donald Goddard (1904 – 1972)

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. 3 vols.

Supplements the Short title catalogue (No. 6771). This was superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols., New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1972-88. In addition to countless works of …

GMN 6780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8307

1945 LEAGUE OF NATIONS, Health Organization of (1920 – 1946)

Bibliography of the technical work of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, 1920-1945.

GMN 8057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10233

1945 H. K. LEWIS (PUBLISHER)

Lewis's 1844-1944: A brief account of a century's work.

GMN 10893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13089

1946 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)

The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.

GMN 5732.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6493

1946 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)

John Hunter: A list of his books. Compiled by W. R. LeFanu.

Unlike Lefanu's other bibliographical writings, this is a basic 31 page booklist.

GMN 11231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13428

1946 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865); MURPHY, Frank P.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), an annotated bibliography

GMN 12822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15068

1947 RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987)

A check-list of medical books published in English before 1600.

GMN 6781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8310

1947 SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989); POL, Nicolaus (1467 – 1532); FISCH, Max Harold (1900 – 1995)

Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494 by Max H. Fisch. With a critical text of his guaiac tract, edited with a translation by Dorothy M. Schullian.

The 1494 in the title comes from the year in which Pol became a physician, and his habit of writing his name and that date in his books. The volume includes a study of books from Nicolaus Pol's library in Cleveland an…

GMN 6940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9105

1948 DONNER FOUNDATION

Index to the literature of experimental cancer research 1900-1935.

Divided into author and subject sections.

GMN 2662.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3451

1948 KELLY, Emerson Crosby (1899 – 1977)

Encyclopedia of medical sources.

A valuable list of medical eponyms and original sources, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names.

GMN 6782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8314

1948 –1949 RONSIL, René (1908 – 1956)

Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.

GMN 11770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13971

1948 –1966 HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985); GREENBAUM, Leon Jack Jr.

A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.

Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

GMN 12191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14401

1949 CAMPBELL, John Menzies (1887 – 1974)

A dental bibliography: British and American, 1692-1880.

GMN 3704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5795

1949 BOUILLON, Albert

Bibliographie des schistosome et des schistosomiases (bilharzioses) humaines et animales de 1931 á 1948.

Continues and supplements No. 5352.

GMN 5352.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6912

1949 DUVEEN, Denis Ian (1910 – 1992); KLICKSTEIN, Herbert S.

Bibliotheca chemica et alchemica. An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry and cognate subjects.

Though he was not credited on the title page, most of this catalogue was written by Herbert S. Klickstein, working for the collector, Denis Duveen.

GMN 11228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13425

1949 BROWN, Alfred Jerome (1878 – 1960)

The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.

Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.

GMN 11428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13627

1950 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)

Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1

Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.

GMN 5016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6603

1950 PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of onchocerciasis.

Publication No. 242.

GMN 5352.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6918

1950 SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989); SOMMER, Francis Erich (1890 – )

A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.

For supplement see No. 6786.18.

GMN 6783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8315

1950 –1966 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.

Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library”. See als…

GMN 6784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8320

1951 SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971); FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976); HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)

A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.

An exhaustive list of books and papers.

GMN 4672.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/900

1951 SHOCK, Nathan Wetherill (1906 – 1989)

A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.

Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.

GMN 1671.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2284

1951 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)

The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.

1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject Indice…

GMN 6785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8322

1951 –1952 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)

Die botanische Buchillustration: Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. 2 vols.

GMN 7113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9280

1951 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)

Schöne Fischbücher: kurze Geschichte der ichthyologischen Illustrationen; Bibliographie fischkundlicher Abbildungswerke.

GMN 7114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9281

1951 SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799); PRANDI, Dino

Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui

GMN 13182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15443

1952 ROTHSCHUH, Karl Eduard (1908 – 1984)

Entwicklungsgeschichte physiologischer Probleme in Tabellenform.

GMN 6882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9046

1952 –1959 SOWERBY, Emily Millicent (1883 – 1977); JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743 – 1826)

Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.

This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…

GMN 11439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13638