1798 –1799 BICHAT, Marie François Xavier (1771 – 1802); DESAULT, Pierre-Joseph (1744 – 1795)

Oeuvres chirurgicales de P. J. Desault....ou tableau de sa doctrine & de sa pratique dans le traitement des maladies externes. Ouvrage publié par Xav. Bichat, son èlève. 3 vols.

Desault was one of the first professors at the École Pratique de Chirurgie, Paris. He made many suggestions regarding the treatment of fractures and dislocations and is one of the founders of modern vascular surgery. …

GMN 2927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7007

1805 VICQ D’AZYR, Félix (1748 – 1794); MOREAU DE LA SARTHE, Jacques-Louis (1771 – 1826)

Oeuvres de Vicq-d'Azyr recueillie et publiées avec des notes et un discours sur sa vie et ses ouvrages par Jacq[ues] L[ouis]- Moreau [de la Sarthe]. 6 vols. and atlas.

Vicq d’Azyr has been called the greatest comparative anatomist of the 18th century. The mammillo-thalamic tract is named the “bundle of Vicq d’Azyr”. See No. 401.2. Digital facsimile of from the Internet Archive at th…

GMN 313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/133

1817 LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815); PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)

Memoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom..., with a selection from his correspondence

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 12694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14939

1818 BORDEU, Théophile de (1722 – 1776); RICHERAND, Anthelme Louis Claude Marie (1779 – 1840)

Oeuvres complètes de Bordeu, précédés d'une notice sur sa vie et sur ses ouvrages, par M. le Chevalier Richerand. 2 vols.

GMN 10069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12258

1821 –1833 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); KÜHN, Karl Gottlob (1754 – 1840)

Opera omnia. 20 vols., [in 22].

This Greek–Latin edition, edited by C. G. Kühn, is reprinted from much earlier editions, and leaves much to be desired with respect to scholarship. However, it remained the standard edition for about 100 years.

GMN 28 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4708

1822 WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)

The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering. To which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character and writings. 2 vols.

Withering's collected works, with the exception of his A botanical arrangement of all the the vegetables naturally growing in the Great Britain. Includes the second edition of his monograph on the foxglove. Digital fa…

GMN 11738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13939

1825 –1826 SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)

Opere. 6 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11542

1827 CULLEN, William (1710 – 1790)

The works. 2 vols.

Cullen was the most conspicuous figure in the history of the Edinburgh Medical School during the 18th century. He was an inspiring teacher and was instrumental in founding the Glasgow Medical School in 1744. His clini…

GMN 76 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1295

1835 –1837 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)

The works of John Hunter. With notes. Edited by J.F. Palmer. 4 vols. and atlas.

Hunter gave a great impetus to the study of morbid anatomy; he was the veritable founder of experimental and surgical pathology. He was responsible for the commencement of some of the greatest medical museums; the Hun…

GMN 78 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1314

1839 –1861 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); LITTRÉ, Émile Maximilien Paul (1801 – 1881)

Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.

The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…

GMN 13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4475

1840 –1841 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590); MALGAIGNE, Joseph François (1806 – 1865)

Oeuvres complètes d’Ambroise Paré revues et collationnées sur toutes les éditions, avec les variantes; ornées de 217 planches et du portrait de l'auteur; accompagnées de notes historiques et critiques et précédées d'une introduction sur l'origine et les progrès de la chirurgie en occident du sixième au seizième siècle, et sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Ambroise Paré. Par J.-F. Malgaigne. 3 vols.

The best edition of Paré’s works, edited by Malgaigne. An English translation of Pare's Oeuvres by Thomas Johnson appeared as early as 1634. See also No. 5565. Janet Doe published A bibliography of the works of Ambroi…

GMN 59 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/961

1844 SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689); GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814 – 1894)

Thomae Sydenham, M. D., Opera omnia. Edidit Gulielmus Alexander Greenhill.

Sydenham has been called the “Father of English Medicine”. His reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc. A better edition of th…

GMN 63 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/991

1846 HEWSON, William (1739 – 1774); GULLIVER, George (1804 – 1882)

The works. Edited with an introduction and notes by George Gulliver.

Hewson was a pupil of the Hunters. In 1769 his memoir on the lymphatics in fishes won for him the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. See also Nos. 863, 1102. The editor of this edition provided a detailed historical i…

GMN 79 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1371

1847 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); WILLIS, Robert (1799 – 1878)

The works of William Harvey. Translated from the Latin, with a life of the author by Robert Willis.

See Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s Life of William Harvey, Oxford, 1966, (2nd printing, with corrections, 1978) and his Bibliography of the writings of William Harvey, 3rd ed., revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine Engl…

GMN 61.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/981

1848 –1850 SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689); GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814 – 1894); LATHAM, Robert Gordon (1812 – 1888)

The works of Thomas Sydenham. Translated from the Latin edition of Dr. Greenhill with a life of the author by R.G. Latham. 2 vols.

Best English translation of Sydenham’s works.

GMN 64 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1087

1849 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)

The genuine works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams. 2 vols.

Francis Adams, surgeon of Banchory, Scotland, prepared this partial translation to acquaint his contemporaries with “the opinions of an author, whom I verily believe to be the highest exemplar of professional excellen…

GMN 14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/914

1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…

GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934

1859 –1864 STAHL, Georg Ernst (1660 – 1734)

Oeuvres médico-philosophiques et pratiques. 6 vols.

Stahl was responsible for the re-introduction of the idea of a “sensitive soul”, propounded by van Helmont. The Stahlian “animism” considered the body to be composed of passive or “dead” substance, which became animat…

GMN 70 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1258

1868 GOODSIR, John (1814 – 1867); TURNER, Sir William (1832 – 1916); LONSDALE, Henry (1816 – 1876)

The anatomical memoirs of John Goodsir F.R.S. Edited by William Turner. With a biographical memoir by Henry Lonsdale. 2 vols.

GMN 13221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15485

1868 MURCHISON, Charles (1830 – 1879); FALCONER, Hugh (1808 – 1865)

Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer. For many years superintendent of the H.E.I. Company's botanical gardens at Suharunpoor and Calcutta. With a biographical sketch of the author. Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison. Vol. 1. Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Vol. II. Mastodon, elephant, rhinoceros, ossiferous caves, primeval man and his cotemporaries. 2 vols.

Falconer's writings on human antiquity appear in Vol. 2 of his Palaeontogical memoirs. Together with William Pengelly, Falconer was one of the first two scientists to visit Brixham Cave after its discovery in 1858, an…

GMN 14093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16404

1871 –1888 BROCA, Pierre Paul (1824 – 1880)

Mémoires d’anthropologie. 5 vols.

Most often remembered for his contributions to neurology, Broca was also among the greatest of the French anthropologists. He originated modern craniometry and in that connection devised many craniometric and craniosc…

GMN 169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3253

1871 –1878 TRAUBE, Ludwig (1818 – 1876)

Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologie und Physiologie. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 11715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13916

1876 –1878 LATHAM, Peter Mere (1789 – 1875)

The collected works. 2 vols.

Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical educati…

GMN 2227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3783

1879 RUFUS OF EPHESUS, (Ῥοῦφος ὁ Ἐφέσιος) (60 – 100); DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872); RUELLE, Charles Émile (1833 – 1912)

Oeuvres, texte collationné sur les manuscrits, traduit pour la première fois en français avec une introduction. Publication commencée par Ch. Daremberg, continuée et terminée par Ch. Émile Ruelle.

Greek–French edition containing all the extant works of Rufus, as well as fragments collected from a wide range of ancient and medieval sources. Digital facsimile fro the BnF at this link. The treatise On the interrog…

GMN 24 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4667

1879 CZERMAK, Johann Nepomuk (1828 – 1873)

Gesammelte Schriften. 2 vols.

In "Beschreibung und mikroskopische Untersuchungen von Mumien", published in I, 114-156, Czermak used histology to identify arterioschlerosis in an Egyptian mummy. Digital facsimile of this specific paper from ECHO at…

GMN 7703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9875

1886 –1891 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); BOURNEVILLE, Désiré-Magloire (1840 – 1909)

Œuvres complètes ed J.-M. Charcot. Recueillies et publiées par D. M. Bourneville [and others]. 9 vols.

Charcot, famous teacher at La Salpêtrière, created there the greatest neurological clinic of his time. He was a pioneer of psychotherapy and left many memorable descriptions of nervous disorders. Pierre Marie, who die…

GMN 84 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1404

1892 WESTPHAL, Carl Friedrich Otto (1833 – 1890)

Gesammelte Abhandlungen, edited by A. Westphal. 2 vols.

Westphal was Professor of Psychiatry at Berlin; at this time was common for physicians to practice both psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 1: psychiatry; Vol. 2: neurology.

GMN 4579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/452

1892 BOWMAN, Sir William (1816 – 1892); BURDON-SANDERSON, Sir John Scott (1828 – 1905); HULKE, John Whitaker (1830 – 1895)

The collected papers of Sir W. Bowman. Edited by J. Burdon-Sanderson and J. W. Hulke. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 12786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15032

1893 –1915 BEHRING, Emil Adolf von (1854 – 1917)

Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur ätiologischen Therapie von ansteckenden Krankheiten. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 2545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3576

1894 –1902 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); KÜHLEWEIN, Hugo (1847 – )

Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.

This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…

GMN 15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/36

1894 –1896 GULL, Sir William Withey (1816 – 1890)

A collection of the published writings. 2 vols.

Gull, one of the best clinicians of his time, spent most of his working life at Guy’s Hospital. He described the spinal lesion of tabes and left an important account of aneurysm. His best works are his description of …

GMN 2232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3794

1897 MIESCHER, Johann Friedrich (1844 – 1895)

Die histochemischen und physiologischen Arbeiten. 2 vols.

In a letter to his uncle, the embryologist, Wilhelm His, written on December 17, 1892, and first published in this collected edition, Miescher described a kind of genetic code. He remarked how "some of the large molec…

GMN 11094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13290

1898 –1903 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (1847 – 1929); FOSTER, Sir Michael (1836 – 1907)

The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Edited by Professor Michael Foster... and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. 5 vols.

Presents virtually all of Huxley's scientific papers arranged in chronological order, as well as reports of his Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourses. The final supplemental volume contains the remainder of Huxl…

GMN 7450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9622

1899 GRAUNT, John (1620 – 1674); PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687); HULL, Charles Henry (1864 – 1936)

The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.

Full text available from en.wikisource.org at this link.

GMN 11824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14026

1903 –1929 GOLGI, Camillo (1844 – 1926)

Opera Omnia. Volume I: Istologia normale—1870-1883 (Con 21 Tavole e ritratto); Volume II: Istologia normale—1883-1902 (Con 21 tavole); Volume III: Patologia generale e isto-patologia—1868-1894 (Con 9 Tavole). Volume IV: Scritti su argomenti varii.

Limited to 325 copies, including material not previously published.

GMN 7338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9509

1903 FLINT (YOUNGER), Austin (1836 – 1915)

Collected essays and articles on physiology and medicine. 2 vols.

Flint was one of the founders of laboratory research on physiology in America. Besides the regular trade edition Flint issued a deluxe version of this set limited to 25 copies. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heri…

GMN 12166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14376

1905 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865); GYÖRY, Tibor (1869 – 1938)

Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.

An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological papers an…

GMN 82.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1381

1906 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915); WEIGERT, Carl (1845 – 1904); EDINGER, Ludwig (1855 – 1918); RIEDER, Robert

Carl Weigert Gesammelte Abhandlungen unter Mitwirkung von Ludwig Edinger und Paul Ehrlich. Herausgegeben und Eingeleitet von Robert Rieder. 2 vols.

GMN 11731 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13932

1908 –1952 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); SMITH, John Alexander (1863 – 1939); ROSS, Willliam David (1877 – 1971)

The works of Aristotle translated into English. Edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross. 12 vols.

De motu animalium. De incessu animalium. In his Works, edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross, 5, 698a-714b., Oxford, 1912. De Anima. In his Works… translated into English. Edited by J. A. Smith and W. D. Ross. 3, 402a-35…

GMN 18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4491

1909 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912); GODLEE, Sir Rickman John (1849 – 1925); CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878 – 1958); CHEYNE, Sir William Watson (1852 – 1932); WILLIAMS, Sir Dawson (1854 – 1928); MARTIN, C. J.

The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.

Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the antiseptic…

GMN 85 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1407

1910 STENO, Nicolas [Niels Steensen, Nicholaus Stenonis] (1638 – 1686); MAAR, Edward Vihelm Emil (1871 – 1940)

Opera philosophica. Edited by Vilhelm Maar. 2 vols.

Steno's collected works, presented in the original Latin with an introduction in English. Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.

GMN 7474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9646

1912 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910); GAFFKY, Georg Theodor August (1850 – 1918); SCHWALBE, Julius (1866 – 1930); PFUHL, Ernst (1876 – 1940)

Gesammelte Werke von Robert Koch. Unter Mitwirkung von G. Gaffky and E. Pfuhl. Herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe. 2 vols. [in 3).

For his work on tuberculosis Koch received the Nobel Prize in 1905. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See T.D. Brock, Robert Koch: A life in medicine and bacteriology, Madison, WS: Science-Tech…

GMN 86 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1437

1914 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

[Opera omnia]. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V ...

As of 1990 about twenty volumes containing perhaps a fifth of the Corpus were published. Although the principles of the edition varied somewhat over the 75 year course of the project, all volumes represent a decisive …

GMN 29 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/42

1918 –1973 PURKYNĔ, Jan Evangelista [PURKINJE] (1787 – 1869)

Sebrané spisy. Opera omnia. Tom. 1-12.

Purkynĕ was Professor of Physiology at Breslau and Prague. Eminent as physiologist and microscopist, he was first to use the microtome. See Kruta, V. J.E. Purkynĕ, Physiologist. A short account of his contributions…wi…

GMN 82 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1378

1920 WELCH, William Henry (1850 – 1934); BURKET, Walter Cleveland (1888 – 1974)

Papers and addresses by William Henry Welch. [Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Pathology and preventive medicine. Vol. 2: Bacteriology. Vol. 3: Medical education, history, miscellaneous subjects, and Welch's bibliography. Introduction by Simon Flexner. Digital facsimile from the Internet…

GMN 86.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1444

1921 –1924 PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690); HEIBERG, Johan Ludvig (1854 – 1928)

Paulus Aegeneta [Opera] ed. J.L. Heiberg. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX. 2 vols.

Standard Greek text.

GMN 37 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8761

1922 –1939 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); VALLERY-RADOT, Joseph Louis Pasteur (1886 – 1970)

Œuvres de Pasteur, réunies par Pasteur Vallery-Radot. 7 vols.

One of the founders of bacteriology, Pasteur's work on fermentation, the doctrine of spontaneous generation (which he exploded), virus diseases and preventive vaccinations, was fundamental. Digital facsimile of the co…

GMN 83 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1399

1922 –1933 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); PARACELSUS, [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493 – 1541); MATTHIESSEN, Wilhelm (1891 – 1965)

Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke…Herausg. von K. Sudhoff und W. Mathiessen. 14 vols.

Paracelsus was first to write on miners’ diseases, the first to establish the relationship between cretinism and endemic goitre and to note the geographic differences in diseases. Sudhoff was the author of what remain…

GMN 57 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8775

1923 –2012 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947); POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – )

Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.

Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.

GMN 16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/37

1924 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922); BURKET, Walter Cleveland (1888 – 1974)

Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.

In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…

GMN 86.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1447