1857 COOPER, Elias Samuel (1820 – 1862)
Report of an operation for removing a foreign body from beneath the heart. Published by the San Francisco County Medico Chirurgical Association as an additional paper to its Transactions for the year 1857.
Perhaps the earliest separate publication on a surgical operation issued in California.
GMN 12322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14545
1858 FOURGEAUD, Victor Jean (1817 – 1875)
Diphtheritis: A concise historical and critical essay on the late epidemic pseudo-membranous sore throat of California (1856-7), with a few remarks illustrating the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of the disease.
For publishing this 46-page pamphlet Fourgeaud has been called "California's first medical historian." Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14362
1859 LOGAN, Thomas Muldrup (1808 – 1876)
Report on the medical topography and epidemics of California.
Logan provided an updated report with the same title in 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1865 report from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 11304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13502
1860 HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. 1 (All Published).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 10337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12529
1861 SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9986
1862 STOUT, Arthur B.
Chinese immigration and the physiological causes of the decay of a nation.
Medical justification for racism, racial prejudice, and xenophobia in its purest sense. The author, a physician, also published several works of conventional medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…
GMN 10440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12633
1863 PORCHER, Francis Peyre (1825 – 1895)
Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.
The first extensive treatise on the botany of the Southern States of the US and the only Confederate manual of materia medica. This is also a manual of “survival information”, teaching how live off the land and how to…
GMN 1865.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2429
1863 FORMENTO, Felix (1837 – 1907)
Notes and observations on army surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9985
c. 1865 JORDAN, Louis J.
Hand-book & descriptive catalogue of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Natural Science, now open at the Eureka Theatre, Montgomery St., between California and Pine, San Francisco.
A commercial medical and "natural science" museum operated by Jordan. This may have been the earliest commercial medical museum in California. Pages 50 onward describe what Jordan called the "Pathological Room, For re…
GMN 11316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13514
1866 WOODHULL, Alfred Alexander (1837 – 1921)
Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12567
1867 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); CURTIS, Edward (1838 – 1912)
Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12561
1867 WOOSTER, David (1825 – 1894)
Diseases of the heart: Their diagnosis and treatment.
The first medical book, as distinct from a pamphlet, that was written and published in California. See Shapiro, "California's 'first' medical book. David Wooster's Diseases of the heart (1867)," Calif. Med., 108 (1968…
GMN 10603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12796
1868 BOBBS, John Stough (1809 – 1870)
Case of lithotomy of the gall-bladder.
First cholecystotomy for the removal of gallstones.
GMN 3621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4563
1869 LOGAN, Thomas Muldrup (1808 – 1876)
Medical history of the year 1868, in California. A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869. And published by order of the society.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 11305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13503
1870 JACKSON, John Barnard Swett (1806 – 1879)
A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9773
1871 JAMINET, Alphonse
Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.
Study of caisson disease and its treatement resulting from experience in treating workmen constructing the Eads Bridge, which opened in 1874. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12676
1872 BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805 – 1861); ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10790
1872 HEWSON, Addinell (1828 – 1889)
Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.
Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…
GMN 9699 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11886
1873 SMITH, Andrew Heermance (1837 – 1910)
The effects of high atmospheric pressure, including the caisson disease.
Classic study of caisson disease. Smith was "Late Surgeon to the New York Bridge Co. (Caisson Work)", treating workmen who built the Brooklyn Bridge. The Eads Bridge (St. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City)…
GMN 10482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12675
1873 HOPKINS, Johns (1795 – 1873)
Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".
The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…
GMN 11388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13587
1875 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); SMITH, Stephen (1823 – 1922); JONES, Joseph (1833 – 1896); MORRIS, Caspar (1805 – 1884); FOLSOM, Norton (1842 – 1903)
Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.
Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …
GMN 10652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12845
1875 GIFT, George Washington (1833 – 1879)
Something about California: Being a description of its climate, health, wealth and resources, compressed into small compass: Marin County: Its industries, roads, appearance, health and population, also, a series of carefully written and well considered articles and paragraphs describing the sanatarium of San Rafael in which the mildness and equability of its climate are explained.
This 32-page pamphlet was probably the first separate publication concerning health matters in Marin County, California, my county of residence during the years in which I wrote this online bibliography-- J.M.N. Digit…
GMN 11307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13505
1876 PIERCE, Ray Vaughn (1840 – 1914)
The people's medical advisor.
A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…
GMN 10412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12605
1876 STALLARD, Joshua Harrison
Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.
This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …
GMN 12089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14298
1876 JONES, Joseph (1833 – 1896)
Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee.
The first major discussion of human skeletal pathology in American archeological samples. Jones introduced histopathological techniques in analysis of paleopathological material. Digital facsimile from Google Books at…
GMN 14060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16370
1877 GROVER, W. A.; CALIFORNIA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.
GMN 12318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14541
1877 STILLMAN, Jacob David Babcock (1819 – 1888)
Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14547
1878 WHITE, Victoria
A manual of nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. [Compiled and edited by Dr. Victoria White.]
The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United States run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. Among other things, these principles called fo…
GMN 11536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13735
1878 CONNECTICUT TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR NURSES
A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…
GMN 11538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13737
1879 POWER, John Logan (1834 – 1901)
The epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi: Report of the yellow fever relief work.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 10524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12717
1879 WICKES, Stephen (1813 – 1989)
History of medicine in New Jersey, and of Its medical men, from the settlement of the province to A.D. 1800.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16159
1881 GREEN, Samuel Abbott (1830 – 1919)
History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10334 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12526
1881 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892); HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); CHADWICK, James Read (1844 – 1905)
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
GMN 10809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13005
1885 SINCLAIR, Isabella (1842 – 1900)
Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.
The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…
GMN 10575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12768
1886 HAWAII. BOARD OF HEALTH
Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
GMN 10521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12714
1889 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934)
Preliminary observations on the microorganism of Texas fever.
First report on the discovery of a Babesia, cause of Babesiosis. Smith first observed the microscopic organism in the summer of 1886, but mentioned Babes's work in this paper, perhaps resulting in Babes being credited…
GMN 10885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13081
1892 ANDERSON, Winslow (1860 – 1917)
Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.
The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…
GMN 10438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12631
1893 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934); KILBORNE, Frederick Lucius (1858 – 1936)
Investigations into the nature, causation and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever.
U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Bulletin No. 1. Discovery of the parasite of Texas cattle fever, Pyrosoma bigeminum, and proof that its transmission is due to the cattle tick, Boöphilus bovis. This was the first demon…
GMN 5529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6646
c. 1894 BARD, Cephas Little (1843 – 1902)
A contribution to the history of medicine in Southern California. Annual address of the retiring President of the Souther California Medical Society, Delivered at San Diego, August 8, 1894.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14296
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
1897 WOODBURY, Frank (1848 – 1927); MORTON, Thomas George (1835 – 1903)
The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10903
1897 HENRY, Frederick P. (1844 – 1919); ANDERS, James M. (1854 – 1936); KONKLE, Burton Alva (1861 – 1944)
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia. Edited by Frederick P. Henry, with the collaboration of James M. Anders....
"The materials of the first five chapters were collected by an experienced historian in the employ of the publishers"--Pref. 2nd ed; 1977, identifies as Burton Alva Konkle. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at th…
GMN 12608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14848
1899 MAXEY, Edward Ernest (1867 – 1934)
Some observations on the so-called spotted fever of Idaho.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever first described.
GMN 5377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7044
1900 OPHÜLS, William (1871 – 1933); MOFFITT, Herbert Charles (1867 – 1951)
A new pathogenic mould (formerly described as a protozoon: Coccidioides immitis pyogenes). Preliminary report.
Recognition that the protozoan was the pathogenic phase of a mycelial fungus.
GMN 5530.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6667
1900 CARTER, Henry Rose (1852 – 1925)
A note on the interval between infecting and secondary cases of yellow fever from the records of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Mississippi, in 1898.
Carter's determination of the incubation period yellow fever influenced the direction of Reed’s researches, and was instrumental in the discovery of the mode of transmission of the yellow fever virus.
GMN 5456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7553
1900 BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
"The ʔívil̃uqaletem (or Ivilyuqaletem) are Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.[2] Their original territory included an area of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2). The traditional Cahuilla te…
GMN 9475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11659
1900 GOLDSTEIN, Max Aaron (1870 – 1941)
One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri: Historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions. Edited by Max A. Goldstein.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12506
1901 BROWN, Philip King (1869 – 1940); OPHÜLS, William (1871 – 1933)
A fatal case of acute primary infectious pharyngitis.
First recorded case of extreme leucopenia.
GMN 3072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3727
c. 1903 SHRADY, John
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benefactors and alumni: A history. Edited by John Shrady. 2 vols.
A massive history of nearly 1200 pages issued by the publisher of the similarly huge history of the Rush Medical College (No. 10826). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13023
1903 CORDELL, Eugene Fauntleroy (1843 – 1913)
The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13216
