1598 PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Christóbal (1588 – 1620)
Discursos del amparo de los legitimos pobres y reduccion de los fingidos, y de la fundacion y principio de los albergues destos Reynos, y amparo de la milicia dellos.
In this rather utopian work with emblematic illustrations Pérez presented a plan for a state funded public health system and poor relief program. His ten essays concerned hospital sanitation, kitchen gardens, care of …
GMN 12829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15075
1683 LE JEUNE DE BOULENCOURT
Description générale de l'Hostel Royal des Invalides établi par Louis le Grand dans la Plaine de Prennelle près Paris. Avec les plans, profils & elevations de ses faces, coupes & appartemens.
A deluxe folio work with numerous full-page engravings illustrating the architecture, floor plans etc. of the Hôtel des Invalides by its administrator, who signed the dedication "L.J.D.B." Designed by Libéral Bruant, …
GMN 12045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14253
c. 1695 PEPYS, Samuel (1633 – 1703)
Order of the hospitalls: The order of the hospitalls of K. Henry the viiith and K. Edward the vith, viz; St. Batholomew's. Christ's. Bridewell. St. Thomas's
First printing of the sixteenth-century statues of the London hospitals. Tradition has it that it was published at the instigation of Samuel Pepys. Hospitals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were of more gen…
GMN 9867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12055
1742 MALDONAGO DE PUGA, Juan Manuel
Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del piadoso coripheo patriarcha y padre de pobres S. Iuan Ð Dios en su provincia de S. Raphael de las Islas Philipinas: Compendio substancial de su fundacion progressos y estado presente que en sucinto informatibo estilo...
Maldonado de Puga, a member of the Order of San Juan Hospitalier founded in 1572, reported on the introduction and practice of Western medicine in the Philippines, the foundation of hospitals and the relationship betw…
GMN 13321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15588
1750 PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers.
Pringle was a strong advocate of better ventilation in prisons and hospitals as a means of preventing typhus, which he showed to be identical with “hospital fever”.
GMN 5374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7023
1754 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its first rise, to the beginning of the fifth month, called May 1754.
Franklin was a prime mover in establishing the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first permanent hospital built in the future United States. This publication included the text of most of the founding documents of the hospita…
GMN 7429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9601
1761 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790); RHOADS, Samuel (1711 – 1784)
Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.
Written in Franklin's absence, this continuation was printed in the same style and format as Franklin's 1761 work. Rhoads was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia.
GMN 7430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9602
1764 MONRO, Donald (1727 – 1802)
An account of the diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany, from January 1761 to the return of the troops to England in March 1763. To which is added an essay on the means of preserving the health of soldiers, and conducting military hospitals.
Donald Monro was the second son of Alexander Monro (primus). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11386
1784 RECALDE, Abbé de
Abrégé historique des hopitaux, contenant leur origine, les différentes especes d’hopitaux, d’hospitaliers et hospitalieres, et les suppressions et changemens faits dans les hôpitaux, en France, par les édits et réglemens de nos rois .…
A history of hospitals in France from the earliest times, through charitable care for the poor by monks and nuns, to their evolution through legislation of the 16th and 17yh centuries. Includes a list of charitable in…
GMN 14051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16361
1786 DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel (1739 – 1817)
Idées sur les secours à donner aux pauvres malades dans une grande ville.
Dupont proposed replacing large city hospitals with smaller institutions similar to those then being tried in England. Du Pont studied medicine before devoting himself to political economy. Digital facsimile from BnF …
GMN 10266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12457
1786 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794)
Académie Royale des Sciences. Extrait des registres . . . du 22 novembre 1786. Rapport des commissaires charges par l'Académie, de l'examen du project d'un nouvel Hotel-Dieu.
Lavoisier was a member of the committee appointed by the French Academy of Sciences to report on the state of Parisian hospitals and on the plan to construct a new hospital on the Isle des Cygnes. The committee's repo…
GMN 13176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15436
1788 TENON, Jacques René (1724 – 1816)
Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris.
Reforms quickly followed Tenon’s disclosures of the dreadful conditions prevailing in the hospitals of Paris in the 18th century. He was also instrumental in the foundation of a special hospital for children. English …
GMN 1600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1719
1789 HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
An account of the principle lazarettos in Europe. With various papers relative to the plague: Together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Following on his work for the improvement of the conditions in prisons, Howard travelled extensively in Europe, carrying out an elaborate investigation into the conditions of hospitals. Digital facsimile of the second…
GMN 1601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1721
1789 MAULE, John (1748 – 1825); COOKE, John (1738 – 1823)
A historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. M,DCC,LXXXIX.
"This describes the former Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, originally designed in 1664 by John Webb as a palace, and afterwards adapted for use as a Naval Hospital by Sir Christopher Wren, with the assistance of Ni…
GMN 13686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15968
1792 ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791)
Description de l'Hôpital général du Cap, dans laquelle on donne une idée de l'influence de l'air des marais sur les maladies endémiques qu'on y observe, avec un apperçu des inconvéniens de la situation du cimetière actuel, et ceux qui peuvent encore résulter du trop grand rapprochement du cimetière général que l'on vient d'établir. Ce mémoire a été lu en presence de MM. de Mirbeck et Roume, commissaires nationaux-civils délégués par le Roi à Saint-Domingue, associés nationaux de la Société royale des sciences et Arts du Cap-Français, dans sa séance du 30 janvier 1792.
Date inferred from reference on p. 14. Arthaud was "médecin breveté par le Roi au Cap, associé de la Société philosophique de Philadelphie, correspondant de la Société royale de médecin de Paris, de la Sociét…
GMN 13371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15642
1801 ASSALINI, Paolo (1759 – 1846)
Observations sur la maladies appelée peste, le flux dissentérique, l'ophtalmie d'Égypte, et les moyens de s'en préserver. Avec des notions sur la fièvre jaune de Cadix, et les projet et plan d'un hôpital, pour le traitement maladies épidémiques et contagieuses.
At the time of publication Assalini, a military surgeon with Napoleon, characterized himself on the title page as "Docteur en Médecine et Chirugien de 1re classe de la Garde des Consuls..." Digital facsimile from well…
GMN 12053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14261
1805 CLAVAREAU, N. M.
Mémoire sur les hôpitaux civils de Paris, dans lequel on traite de la situation de chacun d'eux, comparé avec les anciens, des améliorations qui y ont été opérées, de celles dont ils son susceptibles, et de la forme de leur administration. Avec des notes historiques sur leur origine et leur accroissement successif; et sur les moyens de former un seul hôpital capable de recevoir tous les malades indigens d'une ville du premier order.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 12049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14257
1806 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.
Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…
GMN 10379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12571
1809 COURTIN, Charles (1777 – 1855)
Recueil général des lois, réglemens, décisions et circulaires sur le service des hôpitaux militaires. 2 vols.
On the organization and administration of French military hospitals during the Napoleonic era, and probably the most comprehensive account published up to this time on the administration of military hospitals in gener…
GMN 10267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12458
1831 RIVINUS, Edward Florens
A catalogue of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-House, prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers.
First edition, 1824. Founded in 1732/33, this institution became known in the 19th century as "Old Blockley" after it moved to the Blockley Township in West Philadelphia. It was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital i…
GMN 13405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15677
1843 DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)
Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.
Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…
GMN 13612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15892
1852 DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (1812 – 1870)
A curious dance round a curious tree.
Dickens' account of his visit on the day after Christmas, 1851 to the wards at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, founded in 1751 to provide free care to the impoverished and incurable mentally ill. "The inhabitants of…
GMN 12047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14255
1854 KIRKBRIDE, Thomas Story (1809 – 1883)
On the construction, organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11295
1858 DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (1812 – 1870)
Speech of Charles Dickens, Esq., on behalf of The Hospital for Sick Children, 49, Great Ormond Street. Patron, - Her Majesty the Queen. The objects of the institution are - I. The medical and surgical treatment of poor children. II. The attainment and diffusion of knowledge regarding the diseases of children. 3. The training of nurses for children.
Speech of Charles Dickens as Chairman at the Dinner on Behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children, February 9th, 1858. This 10-page pamphlet was first published in 1858 and reprinted in 1864, in 1865, and in 1874 to rai…
GMN 12065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14274
1859 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
Notes on hospitals.
Includes four plans of hospitals. A third edition, completely revised, was published by Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1863.
GMN 1611 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1907
1862 HUSSON, Jean Christophe Armand (1809 – 1874)
Étude sur les hôpitaux considerés sour le rapport de leur construction de la distribution de leurs batiments de l'ameublement, de l'hygiène & du service des salles de malades.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 10619 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12812
1865 EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis, son origine, son organisation et ses résultats avec une notice sur les hôpitaux militaires aux États-Unis et sur la réforme sanitaire dans les armées Europénnes.
Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
GMN 11384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13583
1867 HOLSTEIN, Anna Morris (1824 – 1900)
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15616
1868 WOOLSEY, Jane Stuart (1830 – )
Hospital days.
Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…
GMN 8998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11177
1870 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
Report on barracks and hospitals, with descriptions of military posts.
Describes military posts in all regions of the U.S., including the Western territories, with details of their hospitals, barracks, etc. In a 1928 talk at Mayo Clinic historian Fielding Garrison wrote about this work, …
GMN 10448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12641
1871 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Ueber Lazarette und Barracken.
On the best way of setting up military hospitals to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. For English translation see No. 1617 (note).
GMN 2172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1204
1872 BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805 – 1861); ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10790
1873 HOPKINS, Johns (1795 – 1873)
Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".
The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…
GMN 11388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13587
1875 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); SMITH, Stephen (1823 – 1922); JONES, Joseph (1833 – 1896); MORRIS, Caspar (1805 – 1884); FOLSOM, Norton (1842 – 1903)
Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.
Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …
GMN 10652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12845
1876 STEVENSON, R. Randolph (1834 – 1891)
The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…
GMN 10795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12991
1877 BURDETT, Sir Henry Charles (1847 – 1920)
The cottage hospital: Its origin, progress, management and work. With an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened, and a chapter on hospitalism in cottage hospital practice.
Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Much expanded second edition: Cottage hospitals general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work with an alphabetical list …
GMN 13110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15363
1883 MOUAT, Frederic John (1816 – 1897); SNELL, Henry Saxon (1831 – 1904)
Hospital construction and management.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12934
1883 STEPHEN, Julia Prinsep (1846 – 1895)
Notes from sick rooms.
The author "was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of…
GMN 12050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14258
1886 WITHINGTON, Charles Francis (1852 – 1917)
The relation of hospitals to medical education.
Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12542
1888 CARRIER, Henriette
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15742
1890 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time” (Kelly & Burr…
GMN 1627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1982
1891 –1893 BURDETT, Sir Henry Charles (1847 – 1920)
Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.
This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…
GMN 1628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1989
1892 WILKS, Sir Samuel (1824 – 1911); BETTANY, George Thomas (1850 – 1891)
A biographical history of Guy's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9668
1893 CARLISLE, Robert J. (1859 – )
An account of Bellevue Hospital with a catalogue of the medical and surgical staff from 1736 to 1894. Edited by Robert J. Carlisle.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13489
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
1897 WOODBURY, Frank (1848 – 1927); MORTON, Thomas George (1835 – 1903)
The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10903
1898 BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley (1847 – 1898)
History of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania; The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Now Drexel University College of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15486
1899 TOLLET, Casimir (1828 – 1899)
Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle. Études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs a leur construction.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11725
1904 OCHSNER, Albert John (1858 – 1925); STURM, Meyer Joseph
The organization, construction, and management of hospitals, with numerous plans and details.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12935
1905 LAWRENCE, Charles (1837 – )
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10866
