1868 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865); GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.
An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14634
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
1873 CLEAVE, Egbert
Cleave's Biographical cyclopaedia of homoeopathic physicians and surgeons.
The first biographical encyclopedia of American homeopathic physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13643
1874 BERGER, Charles; REY, Henri
Répertoire bibliographique des médecins et des pharmaciens de la marine française 1698-1873.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13325
1874 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873); WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.
"Livingstone’s most famous expedition was in 1866–73, when he traversed much of central Africa in an attempt to find the source of the Nile. This book contains the daily journals that Livingstone kept on this expediti…
GMN 12705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14950
1875 BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
Medical hints to the people of India. Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who had advanced medical science; Compiled for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India.
A compilation of biographical sketches of selected figures in medical history written by Balfour as Surgeon-General, Madras Medical Department, "for the hindu Vydian, for the muhammadan Hakim, and for the students of …
GMN 11758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13958
1877 STILL, James (1812 – 1882)
Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.
Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…
GMN 8980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11159
1877 GROVER, W. A.; CALIFORNIA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.
GMN 12318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14541
1877 –2021 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (U.S.)
Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal and scholarly views of America's most distinguished scientists.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/ "Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagu…
GMN 12940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15187
1878 ATKINSON, William Biddle (1832 – 1909)
The physicians and surgeons of the United States.
The second edition was entitled, A biographical dictionary of contemporary American physicians and surgeons. Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton, 1880. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 6715.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7825
1878 LAMSON, Mary Swift (1822 – 1909)
The life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl.
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-89, the first deaf-blind person ever to read, write, and converse in the finger alphabet. The book includes a signed holograph facsimile of Bridgman's widely circulated religious poem…
GMN 7745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9917
1879 DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802); DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); KRAUSE, Ernst (1839 – 1903); DALLAS, William Sweetland (1824 – 1890)
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin.
Krause's short biography originally appeared in the German evolutionary periodical Kosmos in February 1879. In this translation Darwin added a biographical contribution that is longer than Krause's, i.e. 127pp by Darw…
GMN 8919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11097
1884 –1888 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894); GURLT, Ernst Julius (1825 – 1899); WERNICH, A. (1843 – 1896)
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by August Hirsch, with the assistance of Ernest Gurlt and A. Wernich. 6 vols.
This is one of the best sources of medical biography up to 1880, with useful bibliographical notes. Articles were written by many physicians, whose names were mentioned on the title page. Gurlt and Wernich assisted Hi…
GMN 6716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7827
1885 BETTANY, George Thomas (1850 – 1891)
Eminent doctors; their lives and their work. Second edition. 2 vols.
Deals with British doctors only.
GMN 6717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7829
1887 CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890); RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.
Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…
GMN 1625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1972
1892 WILKS, Sir Samuel (1824 – 1911); BETTANY, George Thomas (1850 – 1891)
A biographical history of Guy's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9668
1895 BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1821 – 1910)
Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women; autobiographical sketches.
Blackwell led the movement in America to open the medical profession to women.
GMN 6649.92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7781
1896 WATSON, Irving Allison (1849 – 1918)
Physicians and surgeons of America. (Illustrated.) A collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7832
1897 BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley (1847 – 1898)
The pioneers of homoeopathy.
Brief biographies of about 500 homepathic physicians from all countries who were practitioners prior to 1835. In the first part Bradford docmented the lives of those who assisted Hahnemann. Digital facsimile from the …
GMN 6719.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7833
1897 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851); COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899); AUDUBON, Maria Rebecca (1843 – 1925)
Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
A biographical study by his grand-daughter, based on previously unpublished letters and journals of John James Audubon. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15046
1899 FERRARI DA GRADI, Giovanni Matteo [Ferrarius, Johannes Matthaeus, de Gradibus, de Grado] (1392 – 1472); FERRARI, Henri-Maxime (1873 – 1901)
Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures
Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15692
1900 RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
Disciples of Aesculapius, with a life of the author by his daughter, Mrs. George Martin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7835
1900 CUTLER, Harry Gardner (1856 – )
Physicians and surgeons of the West. Illinois edition.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14540
1901 PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912)
Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Aerzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Mit einer historischen Einleitung.
Besides biographical accounts this work reproduced many portraits of physicians. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Second, revised edition, containing entries from 1880 to 1930, 2 vols., Munich & Berli…
GMN 6720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7834
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
1902 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842); TRIAIRE, Paul (1842 – 1912)
Dominique Larrey et les compagnes de la révolution et de l'empire 1768-1842. Étude historique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles d'après documents inédits. Journal et agendas de compagnes. Notes manuscrites. Correspondance officielle et privée.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link
GMN 12943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15190
1904 SPERRY, F. M.
A group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago. A collection of biographical sketches of many of the eminent representatives, past and present, of the medical profession of Chicago.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13170 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15430
1905 –1922 CARØE, Kristian Frederik (1851 – 1921)
Den Danske Laegestand, 1749-1900. 5 vols.
Biographies of Danish physicians and surgeons. Supplements about every ten years.
GMN 6571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8275
1905 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
My life: A record of events and opinions. 2 vols.
GMN 7441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9613
1906 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); REED, Walter (1851 – 1902)
Walter Reed and yellow fever.
Digital facsimile of the revised edition published in 1907 from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15066
1907 CRAINICIANU, Gheorghe (1853 – )
Literatura medicală românească; biografii si bibliografie.
Covers the period 1700-1900. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15762
1907 MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 14162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16477
1908 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
An Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
This collection of biographical essays includes most of Osler's famous writings in this category, with the exception of his essay on Michael Servetus. (Copies were also issued with a New York and a Toronto imprint.) D…
GMN 6722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7836
1908 BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
GMN 9724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11911
1909 –1910 KOCH, Charles Rudolph Edward (1844 – 1916)
History of dental surgery. Contributions by various authors. Edited by Charles R.E. Koch. 3 vols.
GMN 6870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9034
1910 THORPE, Burton Lee (1871 – 1923)
Biographies of pioneer American dentists and their successors. Edited by Charles R. E. Koch.
Forms Vol. 3 of History of Dental Surgery, edited by Charles R. E. Koch. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9033
1912 MARK, Leonard Portal (1855 – 1930)
Acromegaly: a personal experience.
Mark, a medical practitioner, suffered from acromegaly from the age of 24. The condition was obvious to his friends, but Mark was 50 before he realized the cause of the symptoms of which he had kept a record for many …
GMN 3898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4966
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10725
1914 DUBREUIL-CHAMBARDEL, Louis
Les médecins dans l'ouest de la France au Xième et XIIème siècles.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16030
1915 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935); BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
John Shaw Billings: A memoir.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11943
1917 JOHNSTON, William (1843 – 1914)
Roll of commissioned officers in the medical service of the British Army.
Covers the period from the accession of George II in 1727 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898. Reprinted 1968, together with the complementary List of commissioned medical officers of the Army, Char…
GMN 6723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7837
1919 CUMMINGS, Bruce Frederick [BARBELLION] (1889 – 1919); WELLS, Herbert George (1866 – 1946)
The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.
Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…
GMN 10741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12936
1920 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BURRAGE, Walter Lincoln (1860 – 1935)
American medical biographies.
This is the extensively revised second edition of Kelly's A cyclopaedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, …
GMN 11483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13682
1920 –1924 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); OSLER LIBRARY OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
McGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.
https://osler-letters.library.mcgill.ca/about "About the William Osler Letter Collection "Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is one of the most renowned and respected physicians in medical history. Born in Bond Head, Ontar…
GMN 13463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15737
1922 HAEHL, Richard (1873 – 1932)
Samuel Hahnemann, sein Leben und Schaffen. 2 vols.
A standard work on the development of homeopathy and the life of Hahnemann. Digital facsimile of the 1922 German edition from the Hathitrust at this link. The work was translated into English as Samuel Hahnemann, His …
GMN 6863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9027
1922 CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY
History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago. Endorsed and published under the supervision of the council of the Chicago Medical Society.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14636
1923 –1929 GROTE, Louis Ruyter Radcliffe (1886 – 1960)
Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen. Hrsg. von L. R. Grote. 8 vols.
GMN 6724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8468
1923 TREVES, Sir Frederick (1853 – 1923)
The elephant man and other reminiscences.
The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…
GMN 7407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9579
1924 CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906); CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
Pierre Curie par Marie Curie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Through a quirk in publishing history the English translation appeared in 1923 prior to the French edition as Pierre Curie by Marie Curie, Translated by Charlotte and V…
GMN 12701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14946
1925 –1928 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)
Profili bio-bibliografici di medici naturalisti celebri Italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo. 2 vols.
GMN 6725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7845
