1851 DAVIS, Nathan Smith (1817 – 1904)
History of medical education and institutions in the United States: From the first settlement of the British colonies to the year 1850; with a chapter on the present condition and wants of the profession, and the means necessary for supplying those wants, and elevating the character and extending the usefulness of the whole profession.
Davis instrumental in the establishment of the American Medical Association and was twice elected its president. He became the first editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was a founder of the C…
GMN 10102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12291
1857 RENZI, Salvatore de (1801 – 1871)
Storia documentata della scuola medica di Salerno. 2nd. ed.
An account of the School was provided by P.O. Kristeller in Bull. Hist. Med., 1945, 17, 138-94. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8088
1857 MEDICI, Michele (1782 – 1859)
Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11032
1872 JEX-BLAKE, Sophia Louisa (1840 – 1912)
Medical women: Two essays. I. Medicine as a profession for women. II. Medical education for women
From the time of her admission to medical school Jex-Blake became virtually the leader of the movement in Great Britain to open the medical profession to women. Greatly expanded second edition, Edinburgh, 1886.
GMN 6649.91 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7780
1874 TONER, Joseph Meredith (1825 – 1896)
Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 6585 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8496
1877 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10594
1884 –1885 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins. Première série: auteurs grecs & Latins. Deuxième série: Auteurs français jusqu'a Molière. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Selections were translated , with annotations by T. C. Minor as The Evil that has been said of doctors: Extracts from early writers. (Cincinnati: Reprint from …
GMN 11120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13316
1888 PERY, G.
Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Bordeaux et de l'enseignement médical dans cette ville 1441-1888.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15897
1889 PUSCHMANN, Theodor (1844 – 1899)
Geschichte des medizinischen Unterrichtes von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart.
The only comprehensive multinational study of the development of medical education, and of limited value for coverage of the 19th century. Translated into English by Evan H. Hare as A history of medical education from…
GMN 1766.601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3246
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
1896 BAAS, Johann Hermann (1838 – 1909)
Die geschichtliche Entwicklung des ärztlichen Standes und der medicinischen Wissenschaften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1766.602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3252
1896 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 14309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16634
1897 HENRY, Frederick P. (1844 – 1919); ANDERS, James M. (1854 – 1936); KONKLE, Burton Alva (1861 – 1944)
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia. Edited by Frederick P. Henry, with the collaboration of James M. Anders....
"The materials of the first five chapters were collected by an experienced historian in the employ of the publishers"--Pref. 2nd ed; 1977, identifies as Burton Alva Konkle. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at th…
GMN 12608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14848
1898 BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley (1847 – 1898)
History of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania; The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Now Drexel University College of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15486
c. 1903 SHRADY, John
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benefactors and alumni: A history. Edited by John Shrady. 2 vols.
A massive history of nearly 1200 pages issued by the publisher of the similarly huge history of the Rush Medical College (No. 10826). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13023
1904 GOULD, George Milbry (1848 – 1922)
The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.
A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13022
1908 LENNMALM, Karl Gustav Frithiof (1858 – 1924)
Svenska Läkaresällskapets historia 1808-1908.
Continued (1908-38) by Gunnar Nilson, Stockholm, General-Statens litograf. Anstalt, 1947.
GMN 6572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8276
1910 KRESS, George H.
A history of the medical profession of Southern California with an historical sketch. Second edition. First edition destroyed in Times catastrophe.
Probably the first book on the history of medicine in the State of California. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12592
1912 KIRKPATRICK, Thomas Percy Claude (1869 – 1954)
History of medical teaching in Trinity College Dublin and of the School of Physic In Ireland.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13213
1916 CAMERON, Sir Charles Alexander (1830 – 1921)
A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.
First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6537.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8150
1923 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)
"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).
Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10729
1925 WEAVER, George Howitt (1866 – 1947)
Beginnings of medical education in and near Chicago: The institutions and the men.
Digital facsimile of separately paginated 144pp. illustrated offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13203
1930 HERACLIDES (ἩΡΑΚΛΕΊΔΗΣ) (-225 – -150); DEICHGRÄBER, Karl Marienus (1903 – 1984)
Die griechische Empirikerschule: Sammlung der Fragmente und Darstellung der Lehre von Karl Deichgräber.
The writings of Heraclides are frequently quoted by Galen, who regarded Heraclides as a reliable authority. Unfortunately, only a few fragments of Heraclides's works survived; his work is mainly known through quotatio…
GMN 18.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4653
1930 READ, Jay Marion (1889 – 1963)
A history of the California Medical Society.
GMN 12150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14360
1932 INNES SMITH, Robert William (1872 – 1933)
English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leiden.
Based upon an examination of the Album of Students at Leiden from 1575 to 1875. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13221
1933 BEN MILED, Ahmed (1902 – 1994)
L'école médicale de Kairouan aux x et xi siècles.
GMN 13340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15608
1934 ROMAN, Charles Victor (1864 – 1934)
Meharry Medical College: A history.
The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…
GMN 12990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15239
1935 MACDERMOT, Hugh Ernest (1888 – 1983)
History of the Canadian Medical Association.
GMN 13603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15883
1936 SHAFER, Henry Burnell (1906 – )
The American medical profession, 1783 to 1850.
GMN 1766.604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3265
1944 NORWOOD, William F.
Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.
Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.
GMN 1766.605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3270
1946 WAITE, Frederick Clayton (1870 – 1956)
Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.
GMN 11725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13926
1947 FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.
GMN 8644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10821
1948 –1963 CHESNEY, Alan Mason (1888 – 1964)
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.
GMN 10981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13177
1949 WAITE, Frederick Clayton (1870 – 1956)
The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13927
1950 JONES, Joseph Roy (1888 – 1975)
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
GMN 12323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14546
1957 NEWMAN, Charles Edward (1900 – 1989)
The evolution of medical education in the nineteenth century.
Covers medical education in England.
GMN 1766.606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3272
1958 READ, Jay Marion (1889 – 1963); MATHES, Mary E.
History of the San Francisco Medical Society. Vol. I, 1850 to 1900.
GMN 12151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14361
1963 LAWN, Brian
The Salernitan questions: An introduction to the history of Medieval and Renaissance problem literature.
GMN 8352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10528
1963 FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)
Naissance de la clinique: Une archéologie du regard médical.
Translated into English as The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception (1973).
GMN 9947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12135
1964 –2005 CLARK, Sir George Norman (1890 – 1978); COOKE, A. M.; BRIGGS, Asa (1921 – 2016)
A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.
GMN 6550.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8200
1964 JONES, Joseph Roy (1888 – 1975)
History of the Medical Society of the State of California.
Digital facsimile from ssvms.org at this link.
GMN 12153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14363
1965 LESKY, Erna (1911 – 1986)
Die Wiener medizinische Schule im 19. Jahrhundert.
English translation as The Vienna Medical School of the 19th century (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1977.) Second edition in German, 1979.
GMN 6529.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8123
1965 CORNER, George Washington (1889 – 1981)
Two centuries of medicine. A History of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
GMN 10991 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13187
1967 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
Medicine at the Paris Hospital 1794-1848.
GMN 1766.607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3278
1968 KETT, Joseph F. (1938 – )
The formation of the American medical profession: The role of institutions, 1780-1860.
GMN 9157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11336
1970 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970)
The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.
GMN 1766.608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3286
1970 EULNER, Hans-Heinz (1925 – 1980)
Die Entwicklung der medizinischen Spezialfacher an den Universitaten des Deutschen Sprachgebietes.
Detailed study, organized by specialty, of the vital role that German universities played in the invention and promotion of medical specialties.
GMN 8638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10815
1971 CURTIS, James L.
Blacks, medical schools and society.
A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.
GMN 11665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13866
1972 BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)
Western medicine in a Chinese palace: Peking Union Medical College, 1917-1951.
Traces the development of Western medicine in China from 1805 to the creation of the Peking Union Medical College.
GMN 8614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10791
1972 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )
American physicians in the nineteenth century: From sects to science.
GMN 10432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12625