1886 JAMES W. QUEEN & CO. (1853 – 1925)
Catalogue of anatomical models, charts and osteological preparations. Auzoux's papier mache anatomical models, Bocksteger models painted in natural colors, human skeletons.
One of the better illustrated American trade catalogues of the period describing available anatomical models, charts, skeletons for use in teaching. Reprinted, along with several other catalogues relating to instrumen…
GMN 10207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12396
1887 ODDI, Ruggero (1864 – 1913)
D’une disposition à sphincter spéciale de l’ouverture du canal cholédoque.
“Sphincter of Oddi” of the bile duct, already known to Glisson in 1654. Reprinted as a pamphlet, Perugia, 1887.
GMN 1018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/880
1887 SYMINGTON, Johnson (1851 – 1924)
The topographical anatomy of the child.
The first part of this work concerns cross-sectional anatomy; the second part systematically discusses the differences between anatomy in children and adults of different parts of the body.
GMN 14019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16326
1889 –1892 TESTUT, Jean Leo (1849 – 1925)
Traité d’anatomie humaine. 3 vols.
7th edition, 1921-23.
GMN 428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1026
1891 HARTMANN, Henri Albert (1860 – 1952)
Quelques points de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie des voies biliaires.
“Hartmann’s pouch”, a dilatation of the neck of the gall-bladder.
GMN 1018.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/886
1891 –1892 MCCLELLAN, George (1849 – 1913)
Regional anatomy in its relation to medicine and surgery. 2 vols.
Includes 97 beautiful chromolithographed plates dissected, photographed, and colored from nature by McClellan. Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12780
1892 –1895 BRODIE, Charles Gordon (1860 – 1948)
Dissections illustrated.
“Brodie’s ligament”, the transverse humoral ligament, described.
GMN 429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1029
1892 BOWMAN, Sir William (1816 – 1892); BURDON-SANDERSON, Sir John Scott (1828 – 1905); HULKE, John Whitaker (1830 – 1895)
The collected papers of Sir W. Bowman. Edited by J. Burdon-Sanderson and J. W. Hulke. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15032
1893 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
Atlas of head sections. Fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head, and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts.
Intended to supplement and illustrate Macewen’s neurosurgical textbook published the same year (No. 4872). Includes coronal, sagittal and horizontal sections with commentary on each.
GMN 431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1035
1893 –1903 CATHCART, Charles Walker (1853 – 1932); SHENNAN, Theodore
Descriptive catalogue of the anatomical and pathological specimens in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 3 Vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Charles W. Cathcart; Vol. 3 by Theodore Shennan. Vol. 1.- The skeleton and organs of motion.
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 10367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12559
1895 –1903 SPALTEHOLZ, Karl Werner (1861 – 1940)
Handatlas der Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.
16th edition in English, 1967.
GMN 430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1031
1895 HIS, Wilhelm Sr. (1831 – 1904)
Die anatomische Nomenclatur.
His was largely responsible for the Basle Nomina Anatomica, the first attempt to produce a standard anatomical nomenclature. English translation by L.F. Barker, 1907.
GMN 432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1037
1897 KULSCHITZKY, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1856 – 1925)
Zur Frage über den Bau des Darmkanals.
The “cells of Kultschitzky” in the epithelium of the intestine, between the cells which line the gland of Lieberkühn.
GMN 1021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/906
1898 –1903 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (1847 – 1929); FOSTER, Sir Michael (1836 – 1907)
The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Edited by Professor Michael Foster... and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. 5 vols.
Presents virtually all of Huxley's scientific papers arranged in chronological order, as well as reports of his Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourses. The final supplemental volume contains the remainder of Huxl…
GMN 7450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9622
1899 ADDISON, Christopher (1869 – 1951)
On the topographical anatomy of abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastrointestinal canal.
“Addison’s transpyloric plane”. Addison was Britain’s first Minister of Health (1919-21).
GMN 1023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/921
1899 MEIGS, Arthur Vincent (1850 – 1912)
The penetration of the muscular fibres of the human heart by capillaries, and the existence in that organ of very large capillaries.
Meigs discovered that the capillaries of the heart enter the heart muscle fibers. These became known as "Meigs capillaries." Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14485
1934 KEATS, John (1795 – 1821); FORMAN, Maurice Buxton (1872 – 1957)
John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.
Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…
GMN 6622.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7682
2003 BOURNE, Charles P.; HAHN, Trudi Bellardo
A history of online information services 1963-1976.
Pages 197-223 concern "Modern bibliographic control of medical literature." Development of MEDLARS, MEDLARS II, MEDLINE.
GMN 9804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11992
2007 RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919); LINDBLAD, Thomas
Gustaf Retzius: A Biography by Thomas Lindblad. With special contributions by Gunnar Grant, Björn Afzelius, Olle Johansson & Markku Virtanen, Helge Rask-Andersen, Torstein Sjøvold. Editor: Ove Hagelin.
A finely written and superbly illustrated and produced study of Retzius's life and published works, issued in the style of Retzius's magnificent publications.
GMN 14074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16385
2008 GRAY, Henry (1825 – 1861); CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897); RICHARDSON, Ruth
The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.
An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.
GMN 13166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15425
2009 BARSANTI, Giulio; CHELAZZI, Guido
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 1, Le collezioni della Specola : zoologia e cere anatomiche.
GMN 13207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15469
2011 FRAGONARD, Jean-Honoré (1732 – 1799); DEGUEURCE, Christophe (1966 – )
Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.
The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…
GMN 7005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9171
2012 DEGUEURCE, Christophe (1966 – ); AUZOUX, Louis Thomas Jérôme (1797 – 1880)
Corps du papier. L'Anatomie en papier mâché du Docteur Auzoux. Text: Christophe Degueurce. Photos: Didier Gaillard. Préface: Philippe Comar.
Outstanding color photographs.
GMN 14307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16632
