1920 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.
The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …
GMN 7000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9166
1922 –1931 KAHN, Fritz (1888 – 1968)
Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.
By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…
GMN 7649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9821
1924 DUSSER DE BARENNE, Johannes Gregorius (1885 – 1940)
Experimental researches on sensory localization in the cerebral cortex of the monkey (Macacus).
Dusser de Barenne demonstrated the major functional subdivisions of the sensory cortex.
GMN 1442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2241
1924 MOLLIER, Siegfried (1866 – 1954); SACHS, Hermann (1883 – 1940)
Plastische Anatomie: Die konstruktive Form des menschlichen Körpers. Mit Bildern von Hermann Sachs.
An anatomy for artists, illustrated by Hermann Sachs.
GMN 13680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15962
1924 SONNTAG, Charles F. (1887 – 1925)
The morphology and evolution of the apes and man. With a foreward by Professor G. Elliot Smith.
As far as I able to determine in 2024, Sonntag's book was the first attempt to write a general treatise on what eventually came to be called "human evolutionary anatomy," in the sense of studying the relationship betw…
GMN 14287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16610
1925 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
The evolution of anatomy. A short history of anatomical and physiological discovery to Harvey.
This invaluable reference book was reprinted under the title A short history of anatomy and physiology from the Greeks to Harvey, Dover, 1957.
GMN 454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1162
1925 ECONOMO, Constantin von (1876 – 1931); KOSKINAS, Georg N. (1885 – 1975)
Die Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen. 1 vol. and atlas.
This work consisted of textbook of more than 800 pages and an atlas with 112 large-sized microphotographic plates of the cortex. The textbook contained detailed descriptions of their studies and an introduction to the…
GMN 1444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2243
1926 –1978 HENKE, Friedrich (1868 – 1943); LUBARSCH, Otto (1860 – 1933); RÖSSLE, Robert (1876 – 1856)
Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie. Edited by Friedrich Henke, Otto Lubarsch and Robert Rössle. 13 vols. in 43.
1: Blut, Knochenmark, Lymphknoten, Milz. 1/1: Blut, Lymphknoten von Max Askanazy. 1926. 1/2: Milz, Knochenmark von Max Askanazy. 1927. 3A: Lymphknoten: Diagnostik in Schnitt und Ausstrich: Cytologie und Lymphadenitis …
GMN 2311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2967
1926 MONDINO DE LUZZI, [MUNDINUS] (1270 – 1326); WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965); GUIDO DA VIGEVANO, (Guido da Pavia) (1280 – 1349)
Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.
Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Condé at …
GMN 8362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10538
1927 –1943 MÖLLENDORFF, Wilhelm von (1887 – 1944)
Handbuch der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen. 7 vols. [in 17.]
GMN 563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/293
1927 CORNER, George Washington (1889 – 1981)
Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1168
1928 TILNEY, Frederick (1875 – 1938); RILEY, Henry Alsop (1887 – 1966)
The brain from ape to man: A contribution to the study of the evolution and development of the human brain by Frederick Tilney. With chapters on the reconstruction of the gray matter in the primate brain stem by Henry Alsop Riley. 2 vols.
Classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/269
1928 ADACHI, Buntarō (1865 – 1945); HASEBE, Kotondo (1882 – 1969)
Das Arteriensystem der Japaner von Dr. Buntaro Adachi unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Kotondo Hasebe ... mit 539 Abbildungen im Text und auf vier farbigen Tafeln sowie mit etwa 700 Tabellen.
GMN 9516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11701
1929 WINKLER, Cornelis (1855 – 1941); POTTER, Ada
Microscopical atlas of the human brain. Edited by the Royal Academy of Sciences Amsterdam. Plates IV, IV B, VI A , VI B, VII, and VIII.
Very large format. This was a continuation of the Fuse and Monakow atlas begun in 1916 (No. 9559), and interupted by World War I. It appears that only that part, and this continuation were published.
GMN 9560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11746
1934 KEATS, John (1795 – 1821); FORMAN, Maurice Buxton (1872 – 1957)
John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.
Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…
GMN 6622.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7682
1935 GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.
GMN 8403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10580
1935 BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); FROHSE, Franz; WILLIAMS, Jesse Feiring (1886 – 1966); SCHLOSSBERG, Leon (1912 – 1999)
Atlas of human anatomy, with explanatory text by Jesse Feiring Williams...colored illustrations by Franz Frohse, Max Brödel and Leon Schlossberg.
Reproduced Frohse's anatomical charts in much reduced form with supplementary charts added by Brödel and Schlossberg of Johns Hopkins.
GMN 10205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12394
1936 YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
The structure of nerve fibres in cephalopods and crustacea.
Young’s discovery of the giant nerve fibers of the squid (squid giant axon) Loglio forbesi made possible the study of the electrical phenomena of the nervous impulse in the interior as well as on the surface of a nerv…
GMN 1309.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1152
1936 FOERSTER, Otfrid (1873 – 1941)
The motor cortex in man in the light of Hughlings Jackson’s doctrines.
In this Hughlings Jackson Lecture, Foerster published his famous cytoarchitectonic map of the human cerebral cortex.
GMN 1450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2318
1936 ARIENS KAPPERS, Cornelius Ubbo (1877 – 1946); HUBER, Gotthelf Carl (1874 – 1943); CROSBY, Elizabeth Caroline (1888 – 1983)
The comparative anatomy of the nervous system of vertebrates, including man. 2 vols.
This edition and translation was so extensively reworked and expanded by Kappers, Huber and Crosby that it should be considered a new work. See No. 1247 for the original edition in German. Order of authorship as publi…
GMN 14229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16546
1937 –1960 PERNKOPF, Eduard (1888 – 1955)
Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.
Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …
GMN 10200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12389
1939 WEGNER, Richard Nikolaus (1884 – 1967)
Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.
GMN 459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1172
1941 POLYAK, Stephen Lucian (1889 – 1955)
The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.
A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.
GMN 1533.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2860
1943 RILEY, Henry Alsop (1887 – 1966)
An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.
"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …
GMN 7347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9519
1943 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.
The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…
GMN 8096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10272
1945 MARSH, Reginald (1898 – 1954)
Anatomy for artists.
By the famous American social realist artist.
GMN 9177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11356
1948 ROUGHEAD, William (1870 – 1952); BURKE, William (1792 – 1829); HARE, William
[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.
Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9158
1948 NETTER, Frank Henry (1906 – 1991)
The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.
This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.
GMN 10204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12393
1952 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deCusance Morant (1903 – 1991)
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
GMN 366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/430
1953 THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…
GMN 6623.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7687
1953 –1990 NETTER, Frank Henry (1906 – 1991)
Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.
"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…
GMN 10203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12392
1954 SINGER, Marcus (1914 – 1994); YAKOVLEV, Paul Ivan (1894 – 1983)
The human brain in sagittal section.
A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in conseq…
GMN 7351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9523
1956 –1960 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915); HIMMELWEIT, Fred (1902 – 1977)
Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.
Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…
GMN 86.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1453
1957 WOERDEMANN, Martinus Willem (1892 – 1990)
Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).
Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.
GMN 436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1068
1959 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); HESELER, Baldasar (1507 – 1567); ERIKSSON, Ruben (1895 – 1962)
Andreas Vesalius's first public anatomy at Bologna, 1540. An eyewitness report by Baldasar Heseler, together with his notes on Matthaeus Curtius's lectures on Anatomia Mundini. Edited, with an introduction, translation into English and notes by Ruben Eriksson.
A unique manuscript discovery helping us to bridge the gap in the development of Vesalius’s ideas between the Tabulae anatomicae sex (1538) and the Fabrica (1543). Vesalius typically preceded his anatomical demonstrat…
GMN 372.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/491
1959 WILSON, Mitchell; DEWITT, Cornelius Hugh (1905 – 1995); SELIGMANN, Arthur W.
The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.
A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.
GMN 13256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15521
1961 KELLETT, Charles Ernest Montchal (1903 – 1978)
Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961
"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.
GMN 7033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9200
1961 YAKOVLEV, Paul Ivan (1894 – 1983); ANGEVINE, Jay Bernard Jr. (1928 – 2012); MANCALL, Elliott L. (1927 – 2013)
The human cerebellum. An atlas of gross topography in serial sections.
GMN 7352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9524
1962 DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Anatomical eponyms: being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described. 2nd ed.
GMN 460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1186
1964 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.
GMN 12693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14938
1967 WOLF-HEIDEGGER, Gerhard (1910 – 1986); CETTO, Anna Maria
Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung.
Full descriptions and illustrations of 355 of the most important paintings, prints, sculpture, and book illustrations concerning anatomy in its widest sense.
GMN 461.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1206
1967 –1972 HERRLINGER, Robert (1914 – 1968); PUTSCHER, Marielene (1919 – 1997)
Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.
A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…
GMN 461.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1208
1968 –1982 BERMAN, Alvin L.; JONES, Edward G. (1938 – 2011)
1: The brain stem of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates. 2: The thalamus and basal telencephalon of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates.
Large folio. Images reproduced from contact prints recorded on 14 x 17 inch Kodak high-contrast metallographic plates. The first volume was by Alvin L. Berman; the second volume was by Berman and Edward G. Jones.
GMN 7349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9521
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAY, Margaret Tallmadge (1896 – 1990)
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
GMN 9097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11276
1969 CRELIN, Edmund Slocum Jr. (1923 – 2004)
Anatomy of the newborn: An atlas.
Self-illustrated by Crelin, this was the first atlas of human infant anatomy. Crelin followed this with a synopsis of the atlas, Functional anatomy of the newborn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).
GMN 10211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12400
1970 HAMILTON, William James (1903 – 1975); BOYD, J. B.
The human placenta.
An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.
GMN 11112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13308
1970 C. S. HAMMOND & CO.
Hammond's wall atlas of human anatomy.
With pages measuring 731 x 536 mm., this is the largest anatomical atlas ever published with plastic overlays. The covers include metal grommets so that the book could be hung on the wall. The work was undated, but is…
GMN 14216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16532
1971 MEYER, Alfred
Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.
A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.
GMN 1588.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1497
1971 YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.
GMN 7159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9326
1971 ANGEVINE, Jay Bernard Jr. (1928 – 2012); SIDMAN, Richard Leon; TABER PIERCE, Elizabeth
Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.
"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…
GMN 7353 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9525
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