1925 JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911); TAYLOR, James (1859 – 1946)
Neurological fragments, with ‘Biographical Memoir’ and ‘List of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Published Writings’ by James Taylor.
GMN 10763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12959
1925 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
The life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols.
Cushing received the Pulitzer Prize for this masterful biography, which remains the essential account of Osler's life, work, and selections from his correspondence. Cushing donated his very extensive research material…
GMN 11006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13202
1926 HURRY, Jameson Boyd (1857 – 1930)
Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.
GMN 6470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7673
1928 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)
Available sources and future prospects of medical biography.
Includes a valuable bibliography of sources of medical biography.
GMN 6727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7846
1928 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BURRAGE, Walter Lincoln (1860 – 1935)
Dictionary of American medical biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times.
This is the revised and expanded third and final edition of Kelly's A cyclopedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. S…
GMN 6728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7847
1929 BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945); YOUNG, Ruth (1884 – 1993)
The work of medical women in India.
GMN 8812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10990
1929 –1935 HABERLING, Wilhelm Gustav Moritz (1871 – 1940); VIERORDT, Karl Hermann (1853 – 1943); HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by Franz Hübotter with Wilhelm Haberling and Hermann Vierordt. 5 vols.
Very substantially revised second edition of No. 6716. Unchanged third edition, 1962.
GMN 12742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14988
1930 CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930.
Appendix and Errata, 1933. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7848
1930 PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)
Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.
Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…
GMN 6730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7850
1931 ELVENES, Lili Ilse (Lili Elbe) (1882 – 1931)
Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.
Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…
GMN 11447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13646
1932 –1933 FISCHER, Isidor (1868 – 1943)
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzen fünfzig Jahre. 1 vol. [in 2].
A supplement to the Biographisches Lexikon compiled by A. Hirsch (No. 6716). Reprinted Munich, 1962. Covers the period 1880-1930.
GMN 6732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7852
1932 OLPP, Gottlieb (1872 – 1950)
Hervorragende Tropenärzte in Wort und Bild.
GMN 6733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7853
1932 –1954 ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 1-9.
Continued as Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 1- 1955- See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/11216
GMN 6734 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7855
1932 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
Grosse Ärzte: Eine Geschichte der Heilkunde in Lebensbildern.
A series of biographies of the great men in medical history. English translation, New York, 1933, reprinted 1972; second (German) edition, 1954.
GMN 6735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7858
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 GLASSER, Otto (1895 – 1964)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays.
The standard biography of Röntgen with a detailed history of the discovery of X-rays and the early period of roentgenology. Includes a bibliography of 1044 items on the subject published during the first year after Rö…
GMN 2702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4386
1934 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968); SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith
GMN 13637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15918
1936 –1979 WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965); JACQUART, Danielle (1947 – )
Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).
GMN 6736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7861
1936 MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
GMN 8726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10904
1937 GIBSON, James Edgar; OTTO, Bodo (1711 – 1787)
Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.
Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.
GMN 8594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10771
1938 FERCHL, Fritz (1892 – 1953)
Chemisch-Pharmazeutisches Bio-und Bibliographikon. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie durch Fritz Ferchl. 2 vols.
GMN 7016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9182
1938 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.
GMN 7406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9578
1938 HERTZLER, Arthur Emanuel (1870 – 1946)
The horse and buggy doctor.
The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
GMN 10408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12601
1938 CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934); CURIE LOUISSE, Ève Denise (1904 – 2007)
Madam Curie par Ève Curie.
Ève Curie was Marie Curie's younger daughter. This biography was first published simultaneously in many languages. It was translated into English by Vincent Sheean and published in London by William Heinemann Ltd., 19…
GMN 12702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14947
1939 –2015 LEEUWENHOEK, Antonie van (1632 – 1723)
The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.
GMN 12964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15211
1942 BARKER, Lewellys Franklin (1867 – 1943)
Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.
Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…
GMN 12392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14619
1943 HAMILTON, Alice (1869 – 1970)
Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10767
1944 BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961); BAILEY, Henry Hamilton (1894 – 1961)
Notable names in medicine and surgery.
Biographical notes and portraits of men and women whose names are perpetuated in well-known medical eponyms. 3rd. edition 1959.
GMN 6737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7864
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
1946 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
The Huxley papers: A descriptive catalogue of the correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley ... preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
GMN 13638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15919
1947 DOOLIN, William (1887 – 1962)
Wayfarers in medicine.
GMN 6739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7867
1948 –1949 LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )
Lives of master surgeons.
One volume and supplement.
GMN 6740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7869
1951 MONRO, Thomas Kirkpatrick (1865 – 1958)
The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.
GMN 6742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7871
1955 ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society.
http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year/royobits "November 1955 "Obituaries of Royal Society Fellows first appeared in 1830, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Initially obituaries were read…
GMN 9037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11216
1958 ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.
GMN 7538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9710
1958 HILL, A. Wesley
John Wesley among the physicians: A study of eighteenth-century medicine.
GMN 7778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9950
1958 GIBSON, William Carleton (1913 – 2009)
Young endeavour: Contributions to science by medical students of the past four centuries.
GMN 8657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10834
1959 KEMBLE, James
Napoleon immortal: The medical history and private life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
GMN 13104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15357
1959 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006)
Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.
Davis was a personal friend of Kelly for twenty years. She based this biography partly on Kelly's notebooks and journals that Kelly left her upon his death.
GMN 13591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15870
1961 ROOS, Charles A.
Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: A Biobibliography.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12562
1961 MONARDES, Nicolás Bautista (1493 – 1588); GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Nicolás Bautista Monardes: Su vida y su obra, ca. 1493-1588.
GMN 13590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15869
1962 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961); GOLDIE, Sue M.
A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.
Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.
GMN 13164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15423
1963 POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979); YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)
The journal of James Yonge, Plymouth surgeon (1647-1721). Edited by F. N. L. Poynter.
A complete account of Yonge's life from the age of ten until the age of 61. "It is considered to be the most important diary of the 17th century after those of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.[1] In it Yonge mentioned fa…
GMN 8835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11013
1964 –1972 NOBEL FOUNDATION
Nobel lectures. Physiology or medicine. 4 vols.
Prize lectures 1901-70, with biographies of prize-winners. See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/10396
GMN 6742.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7878
1964 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.
GMN 12693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14938
1965 TALBOT, Charles Holwell (1906 – 1993); HAMMOND, E. A.
The medical practitioners in medieval England. A biographical register.
Precedes Munk’s Roll (No. 6715) as a biographical record.
GMN 6742.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7881
1965 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
Bio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
GMN 9598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11785
1966 MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694); ADELMANN, Howard Bernhardt (1898 – 1988)
Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology. 5 vols.
Vol. 1 is an exhaustive biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology, and annotated English translations of Nos. 468 & 469.
GMN 534.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1787
1966 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The life of William Harvey.
GMN 14342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16671
1967 GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
Médicos españoles.
GMN 6742.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7887
