1691 DESCARTES, René (1596 – 1650); BAILLET, Adrien (1649 – 1706)
Le vie de monsieur Descartes. [par Adrien Baillet].
An early separately published biography of a contributor to the history of the life sciences. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14937
1724 SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); ANONYMOUS
An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie.
Authorship of this early English account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy has never been determined, according to Geoffrey Sill, "The authorship of An impartial history of Michael Servetus," Papers of the Bibl…
GMN 12698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14943
1727 SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); MOSHEIM, Johann Lorenz von (1693 – 1755); ALLWOERDEN, Heinrich von (1703 – )
Historia Michaelis Serveti Quam praeside Io. Laur. Mosheimio...auctor Henricus ab Allwoerden.
An early biographical account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy, prepared under the direction of Johann Lorenz von Mosheim whose Kaisergeschichte (2 vols, 1746-48) initiated the modern, objective historiography…
GMN 12697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14942
1783 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777); HENRY, Thomas (1734 – 1816)
Memoirs of Albert de Haller, M.D. Member of the Sovereign Council of Berne; President of the University, and of the Royal Society of Gottingen; Fellow of the Royal Society of London, &c. Compiled, chiefly, from the elogium spoken before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and from the tributes paid to his memory by other foreign societies
This is illustrated with a small cameo portrati of Haller drawn and engraved by William Blake. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14934
1831 HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
Die Lehre vom Kreislauf vom Harvey. Eine historische Abhandlungen.
Perhaps the earliest essay by a professional historian on the pre-Harveian history of the circulation. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14570
1834 COXE, John Redman (1773 – 1864)
An inquiry into the claims of Doctor William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood; with a more equitable retrospect of that event. To which is added an introductory lecture delivered on the third of November, 18929, in vindication of Hippocrates from sundry charges of ignorance preferred against him by the late professor Rush.
Perhaps the earliest American monograph on the history of circulation. Keynes characterized this volume as "an elaborate and very learned attempt to belittle Harvey's achievement" Keynes, Life of William Harvey, p. 42…
GMN 12395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14623
1854 FLOURENS, Marie Jean Pierre (1794 – 1867)
Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Revised edition, 1857, of which a digital facsimile is also available from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by J. C. Reeve as A history of the …
GMN 12342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14566
1865 LEE, Robert (1793 – 1867)
History of the discoveries of the circulation of the blood, of the ganglia and nerves, and of the action of the heart.
Lee, an obstetrician, published one of the earliest studies of the history of the circulation of the blood in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14581
1866 MARTÍNEZ DE ANGUIANO, Pedro (1827 – 1903)
Recopilación histórico-bibliográfica de la circulación de la sangre en el hombre y los animales.
Digital facsimile from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link.
GMN 12358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14582
1878 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); WILLIS, Robert (1799 – 1878)
William Harvey: A history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12401 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14631
1882 DALTON, John Call (1825 – 1889)
The experimental method in medical science.
Dalton, Professor of Physiology at the universities of Buffalo and Vermont, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, was the first American to devote his time exclusively to that subject. He was present a…
GMN 1571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1297
1882 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
Experimental physiology: Its benefits to mankind, with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone 6th August 1881.
A little-known historical work on the history of physiology and the history of medicine by Owen, who, even though he was trained in medicine, most often wrote on topics in comparative anatomy, zoology, paleontology an…
GMN 14028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16335
1884 DALTON, John Call (1825 – 1889)
Doctrines of the circulation.
GMN 1572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1302
1897 MARCET, William (1829 – 1900)
A contribution to the history of the respiration of man.
GMN 1573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1310
1897 NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955)
Die historische Entwicklung der experimentellen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksphysiologie vor Flourens.
Unsurpassed coverage of the experimental physiology of the brain and spinal cord up to the work of Flourens. The best edition is the extensively annotated English translation as The historical development of experimen…
GMN 1574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1319
1899 SOURY, Jules (1842 – 1915)
Le système nerveux centrale structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. 2 vols.
Massive history of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century, limited in its historical analysis. The second volume is a survey of end of 19th century opinions…
GMN 1574.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1323
1901 FOSTER, Sir Michael (1836 – 1907)
Lectures on the history of physiology.
Reprinted 1924 and (Dover Pubs.), 1970.
GMN 1575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1327
1902 STIRLING, William (1851 – 1932)
Some apostles of physiology.
Well illustrated, and finely printed, but dated history, by a pupil of Ludwig. See No. 629.
GMN 1576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1331
1902 BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892); BOWDITCH, Vincent Yardley (1852 – 1929)
Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14620
1915 BAYLISS, Sir William Maddock (1860 – 1924)
Principles of general physiology.
Bayliss’s book treats of general physiology from the physical chemical point of view. For some years it remained the most important book of its kind, and today is still of great value for its historical information an…
GMN 658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/561
1926 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)
Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement.
A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography.
GMN 663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/538
1930 FEARING, Franklin (1892 – 1962)
Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.
Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.
GMN 1577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1334
1934 CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
The story of the development of our ideas of chemical mediation of nerve impulses.
GMN 1580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1348
1935 LIEBEN, Fritz (1890 – 1966)
Geschichte der physiologischen Chemie.
Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1970.
GMN 1581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1357
1935 IBN-AL-NAFIS (ALA-AL-DIN ABU AL-HASSAN ALI IBN ABI-HAZM AL-QARSHI AL-DIMASHQI; علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي ) (1210 – 1288); MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945)
Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.
Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…
GMN 753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1873
1935 MAYOW, John (1643 – 1679); FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); LOWER, Richard (1631 – 1691)
A bibliography of two Oxford physiologists: Richard Lower 1631-1691, John Mayow 1643-1679
GMN 11516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13715
1936 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); IZQUIERDO, José Joaquín (1893 – 1974)
Harvey, iniciador del método experimental.
First edition in Spanish of De motu cordis as well as a facsimile of the first edition. "Contains an important historical review of the circulation with particular reference to Servetus and to the Spanish reception of…
GMN 12400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14630
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
1949 FRANKLIN, Kenneth James (1897 – 1966)
A short history of physiology. 2nd ed.
GMN 1583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1366
1950 BASTHOLM, Eyvind Borge Martin Marius (1904 – 1989)
The history of muscle physiology from the natural philosophers to Albrecht von Haller.
Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, Vol. 7.
GMN 1584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1370
1952 ROTHSCHUH, Karl Eduard (1908 – 1984)
Entwicklungsgeschichte physiologischer Probleme in Tabellenform.
GMN 6882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9046
1953 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)
Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works
GMN 11200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13397
1954 FERREIRA DE MIRA, Matias Boleto (1875 – 1953)
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
GMN 8928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11106
1959 BROOKS, Chandler McCuskey (1905 – 1989); CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
The historical development of physiological thought.
GMN 1586.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1385
1960 LIDDELL, Edward George Tandy (1895 – 1981)
The discovery of the reflexes.
GMN 1587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1394
1960 GOODFIELD, June (1927 – )
The growth of scientific physiology: Physiological method and the mechanist-vitalist controversy, illustrated by the problems of respiration and animal heat.
GMN 11708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13909
1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. Second edition
GMN 11201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13398
1963 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Hormone: Die Geschichte der Hormonforschung.
GMN 1588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1420
1964 FISHMAN, Alfred Paul (1918 – 2010); RICHARDS, Dickinson Woodruff (1895 – 1973)
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
GMN 1588.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1429
1964 KOSHTOYANTS, Khachatur Sedrakovich (1900 – 1961)
Essays on the history of physiology in Russia, by Kh.S. Koshtoyants. Editor of English translation: Donald B. Lindsley. Translated from the Russian by David Boder, Kristan Hanes [and] Natalie O'Brien.
Focuses on neurophysiology, especially the work of Sechenov and Pavlov. Originally published in Moscow, 1946.
GMN 8145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10321
1966 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)
Selected readings in the history of physiology. Second edition, revised.
These readings extend from Aristotle to contemporary writers; they give access to many classical works that might otherwise be unobtainable to students of the history of physiology. Foreign material is translated into…
GMN 1588.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1456
1966 KEILIN, David (1887 – 1963); KEILIN, Joan
The history of cell respiration and cytochrome
See No. 968.
GMN 1588.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1471
1966 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The life of William Harvey.
GMN 14342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16671
1967 BERNARD, Claude (1813 – 1878); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Catalogue des manuscrits de Claude Bernard avec la bibliographie de ses travaux imprimés et des études sur son oeuvre. Collège de France
GMN 11207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13404
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)
Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.
GMN 9129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11308
1969 HALL, Thomas Steele (1909 – )
Ideas of life and matter; studies in the history of general physiology 600 B.C. to A.D. 1900. 2 vols.
GMN 1588.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1487
1970 RAPP, D
Die Entwicklung der physiologischen Methodik von 1784 bis 1911. Eine qualitative Untersuchung.
GMN 1588.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1483
1970 YOUNG, Robert Maxwell (1935 – )
Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
GMN 1588.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1492
1972 FLORKIN, Marcel (1900 – 1979)
A history of biochemistry. 5 vols.
Forms vols. 30-34 of Comprehensive biochemistry, edited by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz.
GMN 1588.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1508
1972 NEEDHAM, Dorothy Mary Moyle (1896 – 1988)
Machina carnis: the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development.
A definitive history of the development of knowledge on muscle biochemistry; valuable bibliography.
GMN 1588.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1510
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