1788 BEARDSLEY, Hezekiah (1748 – 1790)
Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.
First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published. Beard…
GMN 3426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5363
1808 JACKSON, James (1777 – 1867); WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856); MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY
The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,
The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12256
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 DAVIS, Nathan Smith (1817 – 1904); BUTLER, Samuel Worcester (1823 – 1874)
History of the American Medical Association, from its organization up to January, 1855. To which is appended biographical notices, with portraits of the presidents of the association, and of the author
The first history of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, written by one of its chief founders. Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12292
1861 –2005 MUNK, William (1816 – 1898)
The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.
“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this series of obituaries…
GMN 6715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7824
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
1883 FLINT (ELDER), Austin (1812 – 1886)
Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10309
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
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
1916 CAMERON, Sir Charles Alexander (1830 – 1921)
A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.
First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6537.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8150
1923 BURRAGE, Walter Lincoln (1860 – 1935)
A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13204
1930 PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)
Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.
Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…
GMN 6730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7850
1930 BURR, Colonel Bell (1856 – 1931)
Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.
GMN 10301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12492
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
1947 FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.
GMN 8644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10821
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
1959 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.
GMN 6548.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8189
1964 –2005 CLARK, Sir George Norman (1890 – 1978); COOKE, A. M.; BRIGGS, Asa (1921 – 2016)
A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.
GMN 6550.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8200
1964 WOLSTENHOLME, Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward (1913 – 2004)
The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.
Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.
GMN 6610.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8591
1976 CRAIG, William Stuart McRae (1903 – 1975)
History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
GMN 6551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8215
1978 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.
"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging of ide…
GMN 10980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13176
1979
TRANSACTIONS AND STUDIES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. MEDICINE AND HISTORY. Series V, 1-
GMN 6667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8470
1981 RAVITCH, Mark Mitchell (1910 – 1989)
A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.
GMN 10329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12521
1984 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.
GMN 10988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13184
1986 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.
"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…
GMN 10986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13182
1993 HAFNER, Arthur W.
Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. Edited by Arthur W. Hafner. 2 vols.
GMN 9791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11979
