1781 VIGILIIS VON CREUTZENFELD, Stephan Hieronymus de (1750 – 1789)
Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols.
Fulton (No. 6785) points out that this work contains the “most complete bibliographical study of the literature of head injury that had been brought together up to that time”. Digital facsimile from Google Books at th…
GMN 5000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6549
1877 –1878 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); PÉTREQUIN, Joseph Pierre Eléonord (1809 – 1876)
Chirurgie d’Hippocrate. 2 vols
A Greek-French edition with extensive notes and commentaries by J. E. Pétrequin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon. Operations attributed to Hippocrates included trephination and paracentesis; his most import…
GMN 4850.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6814
1922 BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936)
A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain.
Thomas Vicary Lecture. First published in Lancet, 1922, 1, 111-16, 165-72.
GMN 5008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6581
1946 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
Harvey Cushing: A biography.
Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.
GMN 11018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13214
1951 WALKER, Arthur Earl (1907 – 1995)
A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.
Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.
GMN 5017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6605
1952 SACHS, Ernest (1879 – 1958)
The history and development of neurological surgery.
GMN 5018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6606
1959 STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966); RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
GMN 14358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16688
1960 LASTRES Y QUINONES, Juan B. (1902 – 1960); CABIESES, Fernando Molina (1920 – 2009)
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
GMN 7938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10113
1965 WILKINS, Robert H.
Neurosurgical classics. Compiled by Robert H. Wilkins.
A collection of 52 classic contributions to neurosurgery, translated, where necessary, into English, with an appendix containing over 200 additional references related to the historical development of neurological sur…
GMN 5019.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6644
1985 BUCY, Paul Clancy (1904 – 1992)
Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.
Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliogr…
GMN 5019.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6708
1997 GREENBLATT, Samuel H.
A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts. Samuel H. Greenblat, Editor. T. Forscht Dagi and Mel H. Epstein, Constributing Editors.
The most comprehensive history of the subject.
GMN 6826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8990
2003 SILVER, John Russell
History of the treatment of spinal cord injuries.
A history of the treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord and cauda equina injuries.
GMN 7839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10011
2003 FLAMM, Eugene Sommer (1937 – )
The dawn of neurosurgery. Rare books from the collection of Eugene S. Flamm.
GMN 8907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11085
2003 FINGER, Stanley; ARNOTT, Robert; SMITH, C. U. M.
Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. Edited by Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, and C.U.M Smith.
GMN 14236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16555
2007 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.
A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.
GMN 11030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13226
2008 FLAMM, Eugene Sommer (1937 – )
From skulls to brains: 2500 years of neurosurgical progress.
An annotated exhibition catalogue of rare books on the history of neurological surgery from Eugene Flamm's library.
GMN 8908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11086
2008 DEL MAESTRO, Rolando Fausto (1949 – )
A history of neuro-oncology.
GMN 14011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16317
2011 FLAMM, Eugene Sommer (1937 – )
Printing and the brain of man.
Annotated catalogue of an exhibition of rare books in the history of neuroanatomy and neurosurgery from Eugene Flamm's library, including many great classics.
GMN 8906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11084
2016 LEBLANC, Richard; FEINDEL, William (1918 – 2014)
The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.
GMN 11794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13996
2019 GONZÁLEZ-DARDER, José M.
Trepanation, trephining and craniotomy: History and stories.
GMN 11389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13588
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