1838 ANONYMOUS
Botica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.
The first medical book printed in California, a small 23-page pamphlet of folk or popular medicine. It was printed by Agustín V. Zamorano, the first printer in Alta California under Mexican rule before the region beca…
GMN 10402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12595
1850 TYSON, James Lawrence
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
GMN 10426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12619
1850 SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL SOCIETY
Constitution, by-laws and fee bill of the San Francisco Medical Society: Organized June 22, 1850.
This 8-page pamphlet is one of the earliest separate publications relating to medicine printed in the State of California. The "Society" disbanded shortly after this was published, perhaps over disputes concerning the…
GMN 11306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13504
1851 STILLMAN, Jacob David Babcock (1819 – 1888)
Observations on the medical topography and diseases (especially diarrhoea) of the Sacramento Valley, California, during the Years 1849, 1850.
Stillman was personal physician to Leland Stanford, the first governor of California, and was a partner of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins from their days on board a ship to California in 1849. Stillman was also co-foun…
GMN 12086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14295
1854 GARNIER, Pierre (1819 – 1901)
Voyage médical en Californie.
Translated into English by L. Jay Oliva, introduced and annotated by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. as A medical journey in California (Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1967).
GMN 10404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12597
1856 CASSIN, John (1813 – 1869)
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.
Originally issued in ten parts from 1853 to 1855. Cassin ran an engraving and lithographing firm in Philadelphia, which produced illustrations for government and scientific publications. He pursued ornithology as an a…
GMN 7875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10047
1856 COOPER, Elias Samuel (1820 – 1862)
Anatomical and surgical lectures.
A one-page advertising circular dated December 10, 1856 advertising Cooper's first course of private lectures in San Francisco. Cooper, founder of California’s (and the West Coast’s) first medical school, came to San …
GMN 12319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14542
1857 PRASLOW, J.
Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.
Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…
GMN 10427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12620
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
1906 GREELY, Adolphus Washington (1844 – 1935)
Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11402
1909 TODD, Frank Morton
Eradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12599
1910 KRESS, George H.
A history of the medical profession of Southern California with an historical sketch. Second edition. First edition destroyed in Times catastrophe.
Probably the first book on the history of medicine in the State of California. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12592
1910 HOAG, Ernest Bryant (1868 – 1924)
The health index of children.
Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…
GMN 11446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13645
1925 LYMAN, George Dunlap (1882 – 1949)
The beginnings of California's medical history.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12468
1925 LYMAN, George Dunlap (1882 – 1949)
The scalpel under three flags in California.
GMN 10405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12598
1930 READ, Jay Marion (1889 – 1963)
A history of the California Medical Society.
GMN 12150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14360
1932 HARRIS, Henry (1874 – 1938)
California's medical story.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12470
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
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
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
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 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 BAUR, John E.
The health seekers of Southern California 1870-1900.
GMN 13534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15811
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
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
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
GMN 6995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9161
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); GOTTLIEB, Michael Stuart (1947 – )
Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.
The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; ho…
GMN 9329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11511
1993 KAY, Lily E. (1947 – 2000)
The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.
GMN 12429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14660
1995 PERSING, David H.; HERWALDT, Barbara L.; GLASER, Carol; ET AL
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
GMN 10889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13085
2001 SHAH, Nahan (1962 – )
Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 10534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12727
2002 WILSON, John Long (1914 – 2001)
Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.
Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html
GMN 12320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14543
2003 CHASE, Marilyn
The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.
GMN 13145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15404
2006 MOLINA, Natalia (1971 – )
Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.
GMN 13702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15984
2007 NASH, Linda (1962 – )
Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.
"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…
GMN 11303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13501
2007 FLOOD, Marilyn E.
Promise on Parnassus: The first century of the UCSF School of Nursing.
History of the School of Nursing at the University of California San Franicsco.
GMN 13219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15483
