1969 KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ); WALTERS, Russell S.; DOUGHTY, Richard M.
A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;
Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.
GMN 8415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10592
1972 MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.
The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…
GMN 2199.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1598
1972 CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972)
Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.
Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. availabl…
GMN 9189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11370
1980 CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005); ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); CHRISTANSON, Eric H.
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
GMN 6596.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8507
1983 CRONON, William (1954 – )
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
GMN 10407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12600
1997 HERRICK, James W.
Iroquois medical botany.
"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…
GMN 8544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10721
2001 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – ); THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …
GMN 9408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11591
2006 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790); FINGER, Stanley
Dr. Franklin's medicine
The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.
GMN 8596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10773
2006 TILNEY, Nicholas L. ( – 2013)
A perfectly striking departure: Surgeons and surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912—1980.
GMN 10144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12333
2011 SILVA, Cristobal
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
GMN 10360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12552
