1745 CADWALADER, Thomas (1708 – 1779)
An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.
Cadwalader, an American pupil of Cheselden, left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin, printer of the above work, to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum whic…
GMN 2094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2586
1751 BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease.
Bartram founded one of the first botanical gardens in America (at Kingsessing). Linnaeus referred to him as the “greatest natural botanist in the world”. A few copies of this 7-page work printed by Benjamin Franklin w…
GMN 1832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2171
1753 –1761 KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
En Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
Between 1748 and 1749, Kalm, a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, traveled throughout northeast America, specifically in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada, surveying the countryside, an…
GMN 9923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12111
1754 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its first rise, to the beginning of the fifth month, called May 1754.
Franklin was a prime mover in establishing the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first permanent hospital built in the future United States. This publication included the text of most of the founding documents of the hospita…
GMN 7429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9601
1761 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790); RHOADS, Samuel (1711 – 1784)
Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.
Written in Franklin's absence, this continuation was printed in the same style and format as Franklin's 1761 work. Rhoads was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia.
GMN 7430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9602
1765 MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
A discourse upon the institution of medical schools in America.…
The first American publication on medical education. Morgan founded the first medical school in the United States, in connection with what is now the University of Pennsylvania.
GMN 1766.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3208
1770 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
Syllabus of a course of lectures on chemistry.
Rush inaugurated the first regular course of lectures on chemistry taught in America, at the College of Philadelphia. Includes much on pharmaceutical chemistry. Facsimile reprint with an introduction by L. H. Butterfi…
GMN 9204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11385
1778 BROWN, William (1752 – 1792)
Pharmacopoeia simpliciorum et efficaciorum.
The first original pharmacopeia published in the USA. Reproduced in facsimile, with translation, in The Badger Pharmacist, 1938. No. 22-25.
GMN 1834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2180
1781 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
The new method in inoculating for the small pox.
GMN 5422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7348
1785 MARSHALL, Humphrey (1722 – 1801)
Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs…
Like his cousin, John Bartram (No. 1832), Marshall maintained a private botanical garden. According to W. Darlington the above work is “the first truly indigenous botanical essay published in the Western Hemisphere”. …
GMN 1836.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2189
1789 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
An account of the bilious remitting fever. In his Medical inquiries and observations, 1, 104-21
One of the first important accounts of dengue (“breakbone fever”). Rush described the Philadelphia outbreak of 1780.
GMN 5470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7607
1790 GARDETTE, James (1756 – 1831)
Remarks on the diseases of the teeth.
The first "scientific" paper on dentistry to appear in an American periodical. Trained in France, Gardette accepted a commission as a surgeon in the French navy and went to America in 1778 when France sent her ships t…
GMN 3677.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5543
1793 CAREY, Mathew (1760 – 1839)
A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: With a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States.
Carey was a Philadelphia publisher and economist rather than a physician. In this little book, which passed through four editions in a few months, Carey left a graphic description of the great yellow fever epidemic of…
GMN 5451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7515
1793 CURRIE, William (1754 – 1828)
A description of the malignant, infectious fever prevailing at present in Philadelphia; with an account of the means to prevent infection, and the remedies and method of treatment, which have been found most successful.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7523
1794 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1793.
Benjamin Rush was the most eminent figure in Philadelphia medicine in his day. His description of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 is classic. He did magnificent work in treating the sick during the epidemic and in p…
GMN 5453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7528
1794 JONES, Absolom (1746 – 1818); ALLEN, Richard (1760 – 1831); CLARKSON, Matthew (1733 – 1800)
A narrative of the proceedings of the black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications.
A refutation of slights by Matthew Carey in his Short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia (1793; No. 5451) to the important contributions of black people, many of whom served as nurses and…
GMN 5453.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7530
1798 BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798.
Digital facsimile of the 1798 edition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. Digital facsimile of the much-expanded third edition (1810) from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11491
1799 BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Part First [All Published].
This 24-page pamphlet is the first work by an American devoted entirely to American birds. It deals predominantly with migratory birds, arranged according to the dates throughout the year 1791 in which they were first…
GMN 7218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9386
1806 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.
Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…
GMN 10379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12571
1824 HORNER, William Edmonds (1793 – 1853); WISTAR, Caspar (1761 – 1818)
Report on the state of the anatomical museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 30th June, 1824.
This 36-page pamphlet is the earliest printed record of Caspar Wispar's museum collection. It was augmented by William Horner, whom Wistar appointed to manage the collection. The combined collections beame known as th…
GMN 11315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13513
1831 PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.
GMN 10441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12634
1831 RIVINUS, Edward Florens
A catalogue of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-House, prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers.
First edition, 1824. Founded in 1732/33, this institution became known in the 19th century as "Old Blockley" after it moved to the Blockley Township in West Philadelphia. It was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital i…
GMN 13405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15677
1840 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
Numbers 901-929 in Morton's catalogue are "Thirty Skulls of genuine unmixed NEGROES born in Africa. This interesting series series was collected by Don José Rodriguez Cisnerso, M. D. of Havana, in the island of Cuba, …
GMN 8828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11006
1847 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; HAYES, Isaac (1796 – 1879)
Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.
The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…
GMN 10063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12252
1848 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; HAYES, Isaac (1796 – 1879)
Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Adopted May 1847.
Heavily influenced by Percival's work, the AMA's code of ethics was written by Isaac Hayes. The first leaf of this 30-page pamphlet indicates that it was "Printed for Private Distribution by the Philadelphia Delegatio…
GMN 10056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12245
1855 LA ROCHE, René (1795 – 1872)
Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.
The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, and pr…
GMN 5454.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7545
1857 FISCHER, Emil (librarian)
Catalogue raisoneé of the medical library of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
Listing 10,500 items, the library of the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1763, was undoubtedly the largest hospital library in the United States in 1857, and possibly the largest medical library in America. The firs…
GMN 7470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9642
1857 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851); MEIGS, James Aitken (1829 – 1879)
Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.
"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…
GMN 8829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11007
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
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
1904 GOULD, George Milbry (1848 – 1922)
The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.
A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13022
1905 LAWRENCE, Charles (1837 – )
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10866
1929 CROSKEY, John Welsh (1858 – 1951)
History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.
GMN 13404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15676
1935 BRENDLE, Thomas Royce; UNGER, Claude W. (1882 – 1945)
Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
GMN 8616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10793
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
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
1977 FRANKEL, Barbara
Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
GMN 9288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11470
1977 HOLLOWAY, Lisabeth M.; HENRY, Frederick P. (1844 – 1919); ANDERS, James M. (1854 – 1936); KONKLE, Burton Alva (1861 – 1944)
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia by Burton A. Konkle, with the collaboration of James M. Anders ... [et al.] ; edited by Frederick P. Henry. Revised by Lisabeth M. Holloway, with an index and bibliography.
GMN 12609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14849
1998 ROGERS, Naomi (1958 – )
An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.
"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…
GMN 10332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12524
2008 GRAHAM, Kirsten A.
A history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
GMN 9117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11296
2011 MEYERS, Amy R. W.
Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.
GMN 7805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9977
2019 UPRETY, Priyanka; CURTIS, Darcy; ELKAN, Michael; GRAF, Erin H.; ET AL
Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.
The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion tha…
GMN 12715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14961
2022 BRANDT, Susan H.
Women healers: Gender, authority, and medicine in early Philadelphia.
GMN 13904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16196
