1820 RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or natural history of the fishes inhabiting the river Ohio and its tributary streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches.
In Rafinesque's polemic style the title page includes the following statement: "The art of seeing well, or of noticing and distinguishing with accuracy the objects which we perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unf…
GMN 10617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12810
1832 DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852)
Practical essays on medical education, and the medical profession, in the United States.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10807
1850 –1854 DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852); SMITH, Samuel Hanbury (1810 – 1894); SMITH, Francis G.
A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America as they appear in the Causcasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of Its population. 2 vols.
This classical contribution to the social / medical history of North America includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Internet …
GMN 1777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3345
1851 DAVIS, Nathan Smith (1817 – 1904)
History of medical education and institutions in the United States: From the first settlement of the British colonies to the year 1850; with a chapter on the present condition and wants of the profession, and the means necessary for supplying those wants, and elevating the character and extending the usefulness of the whole profession.
Davis instrumental in the establishment of the American Medical Association and was twice elected its president. He became the first editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was a founder of the C…
GMN 10102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12291
1888 ANDREWS, Edward Wyllys (1856 – 1927); ANDREWS, Edmund (1824 – 1904)
Rectal and anal surgery, with a description of the secret methods of the itinerants.
The authors were father and son. An unusual feature of this work was its critical analysis of the methods used by itinerant or untrained practitioners. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 9533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11719
1888 KUHN, Georges Paul Emile
L'Enseignement et l'organisation de l'art dentaire aux États-Unis. Rapport adresse à Monsieur le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
The first study of the American dental profession, and the system of teaching dentistry in the United States.
GMN 13173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15433
1896 CUTLER, Harry Gardner (1856 – )
Medical and dental colleges of the west: Historical and biographical.
Covers institutions in Chicago and environs: Augustana Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Northwestern University Medical …
GMN 10825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13021
1919 GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…
GMN 9287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11469
1919 –1968 BENT, Arthur Cleveland (1866 – 1954)
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
GMN 12828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15074
1928 DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11453
1928 TYLER, Albert F.; AUERBACH, Ella F.
History of medicine in Nebraska. Albert F. Tyler, Editor. Ella F. Auerbach, Compiler.
This work was edited by Tyler from the writings of 24 collaborators. Reprinted and augmented, with an index, by Bernice M. Hetzner. Omaha, NE: University fo Nebraska Medical Center, 1977. Digital facsimile of the 1977…
GMN 10287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12478
1930 BURR, Colonel Bell (1856 – 1931)
Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.
GMN 10301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12492
1946 PICKARD, Madge Evelyn; BULEY, Roscoe Carlyle (1893 – 1968)
The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…
GMN 8741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10919
1951 ANDERSON, Fannie
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12484
1957 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
GMN 10282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12473
1959 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering.
GMN 10281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12472
1977 BROWN, Kent L.
Medicine in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: 1810-1976. Edited by Kent L. Brown.
41 chapters that address all aspects of medical and surgical practice (arranged by specialty) in addition to studies of specific institutions and special groups (e.g. women physicians and black physicians).
GMN 10300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12491
2012 SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Lincoln and medicine.
GMN 10290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12481
