1823 HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)
Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.
Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…
GMN 8798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10976
1850 TYSON, James Lawrence
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
GMN 10426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12619
1856 CASSIN, John (1813 – 1869)
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.
Originally issued in ten parts from 1853 to 1855. Cassin ran an engraving and lithographing firm in Philadelphia, which produced illustrations for government and scientific publications. He pursued ornithology as an a…
GMN 7875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10047
1857 PRASLOW, J.
Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.
Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…
GMN 10427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12620
1862 BILL, Joseph Howland (1835 – 1885)
Notes on arrow wounds.
The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …
GMN 2166.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1101
1906 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910)
The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).
Ricketts (who himself died of typhus) demonstrated that the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
GMN 5378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7054
1925 LYMAN, George Dunlap (1882 – 1949)
The beginnings of California's medical history.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12468
1932 HARRIS, Henry (1874 – 1938)
California's medical story.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12470
1946 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.
GMN 9504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11689
1953 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.
GMN 9505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11690
1956 MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
GMN 7238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9407
1962 PHILLIPS, Paul Chrisler (1883 – 1956); CALLAWAY, Llewellyn Link (1868 – 1951)
Medicine in the making of Montana. Written by Paul C. Phillips from his own researches and the pioneer manuscripts of Llewellyn L. Callaway. Additional researches and notes by contributors.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12476
1966 GOETZMANN, William H. (1930 – 2010)
Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.
GMN 9827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12015
1966 QUEBBEMAN, Frances E. (1911 – 2010)
Medicine in territorial Arizona.
GMN 10286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12477
1967 KAROLEVITZ, Robert Francis (1922 – 2011)
Doctors of the old west: A pictorial history of medicine on the frontier.
GMN 10280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12471
1971 HALL, Thomas B.
Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail.
GMN 10449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12642
1972 MEAD, George R.
The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.
Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.
GMN 9918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12106
1979 CHUINARD, Eldon G. (1904 – 1993)
Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.
GMN 7190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9357
2005 STEELE, Volney W. (1922 – 2015)
Bleed, blister, and purge. A history of medicine on the American frontier.
GMN 9750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11938
2010 AGNEW, Jeremy
Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.
GMN 12101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14310
2013 AGNEW, Jeremy
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
GMN 12102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14311
2014 HENDRICKSON, Brett
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
GMN 7837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10009
