1679 BLÉGNY, Nicolas de (1652 – 1722)
Les nouvelles descouvertes sur toutes les parties de la medecine. Recueillies en l'année 1679.
Blégny edited the first medical periodical published in the vernacular. To begin with it reported only the transactions of a medical society that Blégny organized. The periodical continued only until 1685, and the tit…
GMN 10958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13154
1801 –1821 REUSS, Jeremias David (1750 – 1837)
Repertorium commentationum a societatibus litterariis editarum. 16 vols.
A classified subject index to the contents of learned society journals to the end of the 18th century. Vols. 10-16 deal with medicine and surgery. Reprinted, New York, Franklin, 1961.
GMN 6750.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8165
1867 –1925 ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
Catalogue of scientific papers. Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. 19 vols.
An author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, published from 1800 to 1900. Continued by the international catalogue of scientific literature, wh…
GMN 6760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8205
1879 –1899 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); FLETCHER, Robert (1823 – 1912); U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Index Medicus. A monthly classified record of the current medical literature of the world. Vols. 1-21.
"Functionally, however, the greatest difference between the two publications [Index Medicus and the Index-Catalogue] was that the Index-Catalogue was a government publication and Index Medicus was not. For its entire …
GMN 6762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8227
1880 –1961 U.S. WAR DEPT. SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE; BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.
In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to develop the librar…
GMN 6763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8233
1881 VERENIGING TEGEN DE KWAKZALVERIJ
Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .
Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…
GMN 11416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13615
1886 TAFT, Jonathan Collins (1820 – 1903)
Index to the periodical literature of dental science and art, as presented in the English language.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 7387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9559
1892 –1982 HASSALL, Albert (1862 – 1942); STILES, Charles Wardell (1867 – 1941); ET AL
Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.
An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…
GMN 355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/289
1897 –1899 ELLIS, Henry Havelock (1859 – 1939); BEDBOROUGH, George; SEYMOUR, Henry Albert (1861 – 1938)
The adult: A journal for the advancement of freedom in sexual relationships. 3 vols.
When I created this entry in February 2017 there was, inexplicably, no digital facsimile of this rare periodical on the web; however, there was an exceptionally excellent and most comprehensive finding aid available f…
GMN 9005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11184
1897 BOLTON, Henry Carrington (1843 – 1903)
A catalogue of scientific and technical periodicals, 1665-1895. Together with chronological tables and a library checklist. 2nd edition.
Includes one of the most comprehensive listings of scientific periodicals, including medical, up to the time of publication. The chronological tables show the runs of the various journals within a time frame. There ar…
GMN 10296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12487
1921 –1969 BLACK, Arthur Davenport (1870 – 1937)
Index of the periodical dental literature in the English language.
Retrospective from 1839; discontinued in 1969. Later known as Index to dental literature. Digital facsimile of the early volumes from the Hathi Trust at this link. Black spearheaded the project and supervised the comp…
GMN 3698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5761
1934 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)
The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with revised catalogue and check-list.
Addenda and corrigenda by D.A. Kronick, Bull. Hist. Med. 1958, 32, 456-74.
GMN 6774 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8289
1937 LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
British periodicals of medicine. A chronological list.
Covers British periodicals published in the British Empire. Published in book form, Baltimore, 1938. Supplement, 1938-61, by A. M Shadrake, Bull. med. Libr. Ass., 1963, 51, 181-96, covers Gt Britain and Ireland, but e…
GMN 6775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8293
1976 KRONICK, David A. (1918 – 2006)
A history of scientific and technical periodicals. The origins and development of the scientific and technical press, 1665-1790. 2nd ed.
“Includes much of medical interest and contains several tables indicating comparative numbers of periodicals on various subjects at different dates” (L.T.Morton).
GMN 6786.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8383
1979 ASH, Lee
Serial publications containing medical classics. An index to citations in Garrison/Morton (3rd edition, 1970). Compiled by Lee Ash in collaboration with Michael A. Murray. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged.
An index to periodical citations in the 1970 printed edition of this bibliography. It is, however, still useful for references to 19th century, early 20th century, and earlier citations.
GMN 10208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12397
1979 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009); POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ); CRAWFORD, David Sullivan
An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.
In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.
GMN 14345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16675
2017 COYER, Megan
Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.
GMN 9702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11889
