1938 HERTZLER, Arthur Emanuel (1870 – 1946)
The horse and buggy doctor.
The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
GMN 10408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12601
1939 COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)
The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.
GMN 6594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8501
1939 WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)
Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.
GMN 9323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11505
1940 WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
GMN 10324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12516
1941 WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988); HARRIS, Stuart K.
Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.
GMN 9281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11463
1941 BASSETT, John Young (1805 – 1851); ELKIN, Daniel C.
The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.
Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."
GMN 11000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13196
1942 –1943 GRIFFIN, John Strother (1816 – 1898)
A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.
"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…
GMN 12088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14297
1944 ELMORE, Francis Hapgood
Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.
Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.
GMN 9282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11464
1946 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.
GMN 9504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11689
1946 WAITE, Frederick Clayton (1870 – 1956)
Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.
GMN 11725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13926
1947 LARSELL, Olof (1886 – 1964)
The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.
GMN 10284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12475
1948 –1963 CHESNEY, Alan Mason (1888 – 1964)
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.
GMN 10981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13177
1949 WAITE, Frederick Clayton (1870 – 1956)
The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13927
1950 FLORIO, Lloyd Joseph (1910 – 1975); ET AL
Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.
Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.
GMN 5546.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6766
1950 JONES, Joseph Roy (1888 – 1975)
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
GMN 12323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14546
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
1952 ARMSTRONG, Harry George (1899 – 1983); WHITE, Clayton Samuel (1912 – 2004); BENSON, Otis Otto Jr. (1902 – 1982)
Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.
Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…
GMN 7175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9342
1953 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.
GMN 9505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11690
1955 COOK, Sherburne Friend (1896 – 1974)
The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13048
1956 MYERS, Burton Dorr (1870 – 1951)
The history of medical education in Indiana
GMN 10326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12518
1957 HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967); HUMMEL, William W
Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10846
1957 PACKARD, Francis Randolph (1870 – 1950); GREIM, Florence M.
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.
GMN 8736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10914
1957 TRAIN, Percy; ARCHER, William Andrew (1894 – 1973); HEINRICHS, James R.
Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)
GMN 9272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11454
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
1957 MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
GMN 10322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12514
1957 ROGERS, Fred Blackburn (1889 – 1974); DUVALL, Marius (1818 – 1891)
A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.
GMN 10993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13189
1958 LUMSDEN, Leslie Leon (1875 – 1946)
St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.
In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.
GMN 4661.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/791
1958 READ, Jay Marion (1889 – 1963); MATHES, Mary E.
History of the San Francisco Medical Society. Vol. I, 1850 to 1900.
GMN 12151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14361
1959 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering.
GMN 10281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12472
1959 BAUR, John E.
The health seekers of Southern California 1870-1900.
GMN 13534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15811
1959 BLAKE, John Ballard (1922 – 2006)
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
GMN 13800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16087
1961 GARLAND, Joseph Everett (1922 – 2011)
Every man our neighbor: A brief history of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
GMN 10992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13188
1962 PHILLIPS, Paul Chrisler (1883 – 1956); CALLAWAY, Llewellyn Link (1868 – 1951)
Medicine in the making of Montana. Written by Paul C. Phillips from his own researches and the pioneer manuscripts of Llewellyn L. Callaway. Additional researches and notes by contributors.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12476
1962 MATAS, Rudolph (1860 – 1957); DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)
The Rudolph Matas history of medicine in Louisiana. Edited by John Duffy. 2 vols.
GMN 13580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15858
1964 –1971 WARING, Joseph Ioor Jr. (1897 – 1977)
A history of medicine in South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1670-1825. Vol. 2: 1825-1900. Vol. 3: 1900-1970.
GMN 8783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10961
1964 COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006)
Medicine and health in New Jersey: A history.
GMN 11422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13621
1964 JONES, Joseph Roy (1888 – 1975)
History of the Medical Society of the State of California.
Digital facsimile from ssvms.org at this link.
GMN 12153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14363
1965 CORNER, George Washington (1889 – 1981)
Two centuries of medicine. A History of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
GMN 10991 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13187
1966 QUEBBEMAN, Frances E. (1911 – 2010)
Medicine in territorial Arizona.
GMN 10286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12477
1966 GOLDOWSKY, Seebert
The history of the Rhode Island Medical Society and its component societies 1812-1962.
GMN 13581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15859
1968 KANNEL, William B. (1923 – 2011)
The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.
"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…
GMN 10213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12402
1970 WESTERN, Karl A.; BENSON, Gordon D.; GLEASON, Neva N.; ET AL
Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…
GMN 10887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13083
1970 KEELING, Charles David (1928 – 2005)
Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?
Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…
GMN 13559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15836
1971 SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deCusance Morant (1903 – 1991)
Humboldtian physicians in California.
Concerns the influence of Alexander von Humboldt on early California physicians. Library Associates of the University Library, Davis, Keepsake No. 4.
GMN 12090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14299
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
1972 LONG, Dorothy
Medicine in North Carolina: Essays in the history of medical science and medical service, 1524 1960. Edited by Dorothy Long. 2 vols.
GMN 10320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12512
1972 ROSENKRANTZ, Barbara Gutman (1923 – 2014)
Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
GMN 12490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14723
1973 CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005)
Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.
GMN 8621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10798
1974 TURNER, Thomas Bourne (1902 – 2002)
Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.
GMN 10982 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13178
1974 DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)
A history of public health in New York City.
GMN 12491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14724
