1783 JUGLER, Johann Heinrich (1758 – 1812)
Bibliothecae ophthalmicae specimen primum eruditorum examini subjicit.
The earliest bibliography and history of ophthalmology.
GMN 5992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7109
1785 CARRÈRE, Joseph Barthélemy François
Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages qui ont été publiés sur les eaux minérales en général et sur celles de la France en particulier, avec un notice doutes des eaux minérales de ce royaume, et un tableau des différens degrés de température de celles qui son thermales.
The earliest bibliography of mineral springs. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks to Webb Dordick for this reference.)
GMN 14118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16429
1801 NODIER, Jean Charles Emmanuel (1780 – 1844)
Bibliographie entomologique, ou catalogue raisonné des ouvrages relatifs à l'entomologie et aux insectes, avec des notes critique et l'exposition des méthodes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15896
1807 SINCLAIR, Sir John (1754 – 1835)
The code of health and longevity; or, a concise view of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. 4 vols.
One of the most comprehensive works on gerontology ever written, with a bibliography of 1800 references, supplemented by abstracts, translated excerpts from ancient authors, national data, etc.
GMN 1602.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1727
1826 KRÜGELSTEIN, Franz Christian Karl (1779 – 1864)
Die Geschichte der Hundswuth und der Wasserscheu und deren Behandlung.
A full account of rabies, summarizing current knowledge, with a bibliography of about 300 items.
GMN 5481.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6372
1840 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899)
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…
GMN 6502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8045
1861 FÖRSTER, August (1822 – 1865)
Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.
An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the subject.
GMN 534.63 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1828
1863 ZEIS, Eduard (1807 – 1868)
Die Literatur and Geschichte der plastichen Chirurgie.
A history of plastic surgery and an annotated bibliography of its literature prior to 1860. Nachträge, 1864. Reprint, including Nachträge, Bologna, 1963. The main bibliography has 2008 references, the supplement 275 m…
GMN 5767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6755
1866 DUREAU, Alexis (1831 – 1904)
Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.
Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.
GMN 7378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9550
1877 –1882 PLATEAU, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand (1801 – 1883)
Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.
Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la contemplation d'objets brillants. Quatrième …
GMN 9640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11827
1878 –1879 WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
Bibliotheca therapeutica, or bibliography of therapeutics, chiefly in reference to articles of the materia medica, with numerous critical, historical, and therapeutical annotations, and an appendix containing the bibliography of British mineral waters. 2 vols.
References to over 10,000 items, ‘arranged under 660 separate headings or articles,’ some with comments by the compiler. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 2034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2173
1878 –1880 COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
American ornithological bibliography. 4 parts. (Also called "Ornithological bibliography").
This is an exhaustive work up to time of publications, including scientific references to American birds in publications, the titles of which do not indicate any ornithological material. [Pt. 1.] Geological and Geogra…
GMN 11788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13990
1881 –1894 TARUFFI, Cesare (1821 – 1902)
Storia della teratologia. 8 vols. (Tomo 1-3, 5-7 called pt. 1; t. 4 and 8 called pt. 2, Note ed osservazioni.)
The most extensive history and bibliography of teratology ever published, even though the section on malformations of single organs and parts was never completed. Contains excerpts and detailed abstracts of innumerabl…
GMN 534.67 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/122
1890 CORDASCO, Francesco (1920 – 2001); ALLOWAY, David Nelson
Medical education in the United States: A guide to information sources.
"2364 references to bibliographies, journal articles, books, dictionaries, directories, histories, biographical accounts, and miscellaneous literature. Intended to provide the basic references from which the developme…
GMN 13188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15449
1892 –1982 HASSALL, Albert (1862 – 1942); STILES, Charles Wardell (1867 – 1941); ET AL
Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.
An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…
GMN 355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/289
1892 BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley (1847 – 1898)
Homeopathic bibliography of the United States, from the year 1825 to the year 1891.
Of particular value for researching homeopathic literature, societies and institutions in America from 1825 to 1891. Digital facsimile from the Hathitrust at this link.
GMN 6764.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8236
1893 BOLTON, Henry Carrington (1843 – 1903)
A select bibliography of chemistry 1492-1892.
Bolton, a chemist, was the earliest American bibliographer of chemistry. His first edition, which atempted to list "the principal books on chemistry published in Europe and America from the rise of the literature to t…
GMN 11425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13624
1900 GYÖRY, Tibor (1869 – 1938)
Bibliographia medica Hungariae, 1472-1899,
GMN 6766 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8241
1904 MURRAY, David (1842 – 1928)
Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.
Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…
GMN 7686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9858
1904 –1924 CORDIER, Henri (1849 – 1925)
Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'empire Chinois. Deuxième édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols. (1904-1908), plus Supplement (1923-1945).
The "standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921, including the full titles, tables of contents, and annotations regarding many books. Cordier was able to achieve this despite having only mi…
GMN 12952 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15199
1907 CRAINICIANU, Gheorghe (1853 – )
Literatura medicală românească; biografii si bibliografie.
Covers the period 1700-1900. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15762
1910 FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940)
Zur Quellenkunde persischen Medizin.
A descriptive analytical bibliography of classics of Persian medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15394
1911 –1912 GOCHT, Hermann (1869 – 1938)
Die Röntgen-Literatur. 2 vols.
GMN 2701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4345
1911 HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan (1828 – 1913); HEWITT, Charles Richard (1870 – 1931)
The New Sydenham Society: Retrospective memoranda by Jonathan Hutchinson. Subject index and index of names compiled by Charles R. Hewitt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12990
1915 ARTIGAS Y CUERVA, Manuel (1866 – 1925)
Bibliografía médico-farmacéutica de Filipinas. Con biografías de los profesionales extranjeros de nota que han estado en el país, y con especialidad las de los filipinos.
GMN 13858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16148
1917 GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716 – 1785); SINGER, Hans Wolfgang (1867 – 1957); LADMIRAL, Jan [l'Admiral] (1698 – 1773)
Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios
GMN 7494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9666
1927 ROST, Hans (1877 – 1970)
Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.
Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…
GMN 7698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9870
1928 ROSSIISKII, Dmitri M.
Bibliographicheskii ukazatel' russkoi literatury po istorii meditsiny s 1789 g. po 1928.
GMN 7824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9996
1932 SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971)
Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.
GMN 1092.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/882
1933 HAAGENSEN, Cushman Davis (1900 – 1990)
An exhibit of important books, papers, and memorabilia illustrating the evolution of the knowledge of cancer.
GMN 2662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3448
1936 –1938 GOCHT, Hermann (1869 – 1938); BLENCKE, August (1869 – 1937); WITTE, Erich
Die orthopädische Weltliteratur 1903-30. Herausg von A. Blencke und H. Gocht. Ergänzungsband 1931-35 bearbeitet von Erich Witte. 3 vols.
GMN 4481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8872
1936 QUENSTEDT, Werner (1893 – 1960)
Hominidae fossiles. Edited by W. Quenstedt.
Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia (ed. W. Quenstedt), part 74. “This volume has been prepared under the critical editorship of Dr. Werner Quenstedt, as a work in cooperation with the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the…
GMN 11502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13701
1937 –1969 BROOKS, Jerome E. (1895 – 1983); ARENTS, George Jr. (1875 – 1960)
Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.
GMN 11629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13829
1938 MORGAN, Bayard Quincy (1883 – 1967)
A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927: With supplement embracing the Years 1928-1935. Second edition, completely revised and greatly augmented.
Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edit…
GMN 8224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10400
1938 BAYON, Henry Peter George (1876 – 1952)
William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I-V.
"The most comprehensive bibliographical reference work on the history of the circulation" (Bedford 200).
GMN 12398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14628
1939 MCCOY, Elizabeth Florence (1903 – 1978); MCCLUNG, Leland Swint (1910 – 2000)
The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.
Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.
GMN 2525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3658
1939 PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)
Bibliografia di storia della medicina italiana.
Classified list of 7451 books and papers, some annotated, on Italian medical history and biography.
GMN 6565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8261
1941 DUVIVIER, Ulrick
Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti. 2 vols.
Vol. 2, pp. 169-208 contains a comprehensive chronological account of medical publications printed in Haiti, or about medicine in Haiti, from the earliest imprints to 1941. Digital facsimile from ufdc.ufl.edu at this …
GMN 13361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15632
1942 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985)
A bibliography of aviation medicine.
GMN 2137.30 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2700
1943 –1955 FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)
Catalogue of the Ferguson collection of books mainly relating to alchemy, chemistry, witchcraft and gypsies in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 2 vols. including Supplement (1955).
Due to wartime paper rationing only 40 copies of the first printing of the catalogue were published when it was issued in 1943; it was reprinted in the 21st century. Ferguson is best known as the author of the extensi…
GMN 11332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13530
1944 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); BAUER, Donald deF.; ASTBURY, Eppie C.
Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.
Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.
GMN 11859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14063
1945 LEAGUE OF NATIONS, Health Organization of (1920 – 1946)
Bibliography of the technical work of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, 1920-1945.
GMN 8057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10233
1946 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)
The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.
GMN 5732.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6493
1948 DONNER FOUNDATION
Index to the literature of experimental cancer research 1900-1935.
Divided into author and subject sections.
GMN 2662.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3451
1948 –1966 HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985); GREENBAUM, Leon Jack Jr.
A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.
Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14401
1950 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)
Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1
Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.
GMN 5016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6603
1951 SHOCK, Nathan Wetherill (1906 – 1989)
A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.
GMN 1671.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2284
1953 MURRAY, Margaret Ransome (1901 – ); KOPECH, Gertrude (1915 – )
A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.
GMN 567.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/311
1955 –1970 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.
Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.
GMN 6581.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8489
1955 GANDEVIA, Bryan Harle (1925 – 2006)
An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine in Australia.
Revised and enlarged as An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine and health in Australia. Sydney, Royal Australian College of Physicians, 1984. With A. Holster and S. Simpson.
GMN 6604.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8537
