1911 –1913 RUBNER, Max (1854 – 1932); ET AL
Handbuch der Hygiene. 6 vols.
With Max Gruber and P. M. Ficker.
GMN 1639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2039
1911 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2526
1911 MCCOY, George Walter (1876 – 1952)
A plague-like disease of rodents.
Tularemia first recorded (in rodents).
GMN 5173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6269
1911 PETERS, O. H.
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
GMN 7762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9934
1912 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.
Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…
GMN 8407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10584
1913 FOWLER, Gilbert John (1868 – 1953)
Sewage disposal by oxidation methods.
GMN 1640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2059
1913 ROSENAU, Milton Joseph (1869 – 1946); WHIPPLE, George Chandler (1866 – 1924); WILBUR, Cressy Livingstone (1865 – 1928); SALMON, Thomas William (1876 – 1927)
Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.
Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.
GMN 1641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2085
1914 CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)
A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.
Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems so obvious to…
GMN 1664.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2223
1914 KRULISH, Emil (1878 – 1965)
Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.
In 1912 the U.S. Public Health Service assigned Dr. Emil Krulish to supervise health care in the Territory of Alaska. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12713
1917 –1922 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922); ABADIE, Joseph Louis Irenée Jean (1873 – 1934); BROUARDEL, Georges (1869 – 1959); ALBERT, François (1877 – 1933)
Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.
A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…
GMN 10532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12725
1917 EVANS, William Augustus (1865 – 1948)
Dr. Evans' How to keep well: A health book for the home.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15403
1919 MORRIS, Sir Malcolm Alexander (1849 – 1924)
The story of English public health.
GMN 1653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2172
1919 FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959)
Prostitution in Europe. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene". Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13212
1921 RÁVENEL, Mazyck Porcher (1861 – 1946)
A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.
GMN 1654 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2174
1925 IMHOFF, Karl (1876 – 1965)
Fortschritte de Abwasserreinigung.
In 1909 Imhoff devised the system of sewage purification which bears his name.
GMN 1642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2132
1927 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)
The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.
GMN 1655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2185
1927 NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
Evolution of preventive medicine.
GMN 1656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2193
1927 LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl (1869 – 1967)
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
GMN 7842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10014
1929 MCCURRICH, Hugh James (1890 – 1955)
The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.
GMN 1657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2198
1931 NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)
Contains almost no references to prior literature.
GMN 8887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11065
1932 NEWMAN, Sir George (1870 – 1948)
The rise of preventive medicine.
GMN 1657.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2200
1932 WILLIAMS, John Hargreaves Harley (1901 – 1974)
A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.
GMN 1658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2204
1934 FILBY, Frederick A.
A history of food adulteration and analysis.
GMN 1659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2208
1935 NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.
GMN 1660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2210
1935 ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)
Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.
GMN 5403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7242
1936 NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
The last thirty years in public health.
GMN 1661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2213
1936 HIMES, Norman Edwin (1899 – 1949)
Medical history of contraception.
Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.
GMN 1662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2215
1939 HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790); BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)
John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography
GMN 11239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13436
1940
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
GMN 1664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2219
1941 SILBERBERG, Szprynca (Stephania) (1898 – 1942)
Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.
A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author perished a…
GMN 10769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12965
1943 REYNOLDS, Reginald (1905 – )
Cleanliness and godliness.
A history of sewage disposal, the privy, and related matters.
GMN 1665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2227
1943 WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)
The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
Reprinted 1980.
GMN 1666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2229
1944 SIMMONS, James Stevens (1890 – 1954); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – ); ANDERSON, Gaylord West (1901 – 1979); HORACK, Harold Maclachlan (1912 – 1977)
Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.
GMN 9032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11211
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 ROBINS, Frederick William
The story of water supply.
GMN 1667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2232
1947 LEONARD, Fred Eugene (1866 – 1922); AFFLECK, George Baird (1874 – 1958)
A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 1668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2271
1948 FERGUSON, Thomas (1900 – 1977)
The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
GMN 1669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2274
1948 BRADLEY, David John (1915 – 2008)
No place to hide.
Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …
GMN 7786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9958
1948 MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)
The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.
GMN 9024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11203
1950 FRAZER, William Mowll (1888 – 1958)
A history of English public health, 1834-1939.
GMN 1670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2275
1950 DEAN, Henry Trendley (1893 – 1962); ET AL
Studies on mass control of dental caries through fluoridation of the public water supply.
It has not been conclusively demonstrated whether fluoride serves a specific physiological role, but fluoridation of public water supplies was followed by a reduction in the incidence of dental caries. One of the firs…
GMN 3692.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5735
1950 PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.
La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.
GMN 9030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11209
1950 COHN, Alfred Einstein (1879 – 1957); LINGG, Claire
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
GMN 11571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13770
1951 WILLIAMS, Ralph Chester (1888 – 1984)
The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.
GMN 1671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2278
1951 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957); GREEN, Robert Montraville (1880 – 1955)
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
First translation into a modern language.
GMN 9093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11272
1952 SAND, René (1877 – 1953)
The advance to social medicine.
Originally published in French, 1948.
GMN 1671.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2283
1954 PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.
La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.
GMN 9031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11210
1955 BUSTAMENTE VASCONCELOS, Miguel E. (1898 – 1986)
The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.
Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.
GMN 9027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11206
1956 BROCKINGTON, Colin Fraser (1903 – 2004)
A short history of public health.
2nd edition, 1966.
GMN 1671.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2288
1958 ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)
A history of public health.
GMN 1671.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2290