1497 BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus [Brunschwygk, Braunschweig] (1450 – 1512)
Das ist das buch der Cirurgia
The first important printed surgical treatise in German. It combines a compilation of the ancient and medieval authorities with Brunschwig’s own extensive experience. It contains the first detailed account of gunshot …
GMN 5559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6911
1531 IBN BUTLĀN, Abuʾl-Ḥasan Al-Mukhtār Ibn ʿAbdūn Ibn SaʿDūn. ابو الحسن المختار ابن عبدون ابن بطلان (Elluchasem Elimithar) ( – 1068); IBN AL-WAFID, Ali Ibn al-Husain (Abenguefit) (997 – 1074); AL-KINDĪ, Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ ;أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي ( Alkindus) (801 – 873); WEIDITZ, Hans The Younger (1495 – 1537)
Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.
A Christian physician of Baghdad, Ibn Butlān traveled widely, eventually settling in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene and dietetics, Taqwām al-sihhah (The Almanac of Health) presented a guide to medical regimen in tab…
GMN 7627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9799
1786 SMELLIE, William (1697 – 1763); NORMAN, John (1748 – 1817)
The first American edition, An abridgement of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables.
An abridgement of Smellie's obstetrical writings, with plates engraved by the editor and publisher, John Norman, was the first medical book with engraved illustrations published in North America, and also the first bo…
GMN 11534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13733
1820 –1821 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.
One of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery. Hand-colored copies show more blood than is usual for surgical treatises of this period. From publication in fascicul…
GMN 5588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7040
1820 PARISET, Étienne (1770 – 1847); MAZET, André (1793 – 1821)
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 par MM. Pariset et Mazet, docteurs en médecine de la Faculté de Paris, et rédigées par M. Pariset.
Pariset and Mazet distinguished themselves combating an outbreak of yellow fever in Spain. Pariset's colleague was apparently not involved with publication of the book, and died in a yellow fever outbreak in Barcelona…
GMN 8948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11127
1826 DEVERGIE, Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse (1798 – 1879)
Clinique de la maladie syphilitique. Enrichie d’observations communiquées par messieurs Cullerier oncle, Cullerier neveu, Bard, Gama, Desruelles et autre médecins. Text and atlas.
Includes 126 hand-colored engraved plates from drawings by Dupont the elder, assisted by Delestre the younger and Verollot, engraved by Johann Theodor Susemihl, a German engraver working in Paris, known for his zoolog…
GMN 10529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12722
1869 BEANEY, James George (1828 – 1891)
Syphilis: Its nature & diffusion popularly considered.
The first work on dermatology or syphilology written, printed and published in Australia. This work is illustrated with chromolithographed plates printed in Australia. This may be the earliest medical book printed in …
GMN 10890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13086
1898 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
Operative gynecology. 2 vols.
Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most famous …
GMN 6108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7546
1991 BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); CROSBY, Ranice W. (1915 – 2007); CODY, John (1925 – 2016)
Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine
In the late 1890s, Brödel was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. Besides creating a prolific amount of work B…
GMN 10202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12391
