1841 –1846 CHINCHILLA Y PIQUERAS, Anastasio (1801 – 1867)
Anales históricos de la medicina en general, y biografico-bibliográficos de la española en particular. 8 vols.
Includes No. 6576, together with Historia particular de las operaciones quirúrgicas, 1841; Historia general de la medicina, 2 vols. 1841-43; and Vade mecum histórico y bibliográfico, etc., 1844. Facsimile reproduction…
GMN 6575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8286
1841 –1846 CHINCHILLA Y PIQUERAS, Anastasio (1801 – 1867)
Historia de la medicina española. 4 vols.
Forms Vols. 3-6 of No. 6575.
GMN 6576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8287
1841 –1849 NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859); MICHAUX, François André (1770 – 1855)
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts, and their introduction into commerce; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European trees. Illustrated by 156 coloured engravings. Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ... With three additional volumes, containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States. Illustrated by 122 finely coloured plates. 6 vols.
The first study of all the trees of North America. Digital facsimile of all 6 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7774 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9946
1841 CRUZ, Francisco Ignacio dos Santos (1787 – 1859)
Da prostituição na cidade de Lisboa; ou considerações historicas, hygienicas e administrativas em geral sobre as prostitutas, e em especial na referida cidade: com a exposição da legislação portugueza a seo respeito, e proposta de medidas regulamentares, necessarias para a manutenção da saude publica, e da moral.
In this comprehensive study of prostitution in Lisbon Cruz analyzed the history of prostitution in Portugal and compared it to the practice in Japan, India, Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a number of moder…
GMN 9063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11242
1841 COMBE, George (1788 – 1858)
Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12261
1841 GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.
"In 1837, at the age of 25, Grey led an ill-prepared expedition that explored North-West Australia. British settlers in Australia at the time knew little of the region and only one member of Grey's party had been ther…
GMN 13014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15264
1842 CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.
Chadwick devoted his life to social reform. He was secretary to the Poor Law Commission when he made the above report to Parliament. In it he included a careful analysis of causes of death in 1838 and 1839 and gave a …
GMN 1608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1890
1842 –1852 HERNÁNDEZ MOREJÓN, Antonio (1773 – 1836)
Historia bibliográfica de la medicina española. 7 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6576.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8288
1842 WENRICH, Johann Georg (1787 – 1847)
De auctorum graecorum versionibus et commentariis syriacis, arabicis, armeniacis persicisque commentatio.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10601
1842 DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837); WESTWOOD, John Obadiah (1805 – 1893)
Natural history of the insects of China, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions by E. Donovan. A new edition, brought down to the present state of the science, with systematic characters of each species, synonyms, indexes, and other additional matter by J. O. Westwood.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.
GMN 9083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11262
1842 BARTLETT, Elisha (1804 – 1855)
The history, diagnosis, and treatment of typhoid and of typhus fever: With an essay on the diagnosis of bilious remittent and of yellow fever.
Bartlett's book contains the first complete description of typhoid fever in English. In 1908 Osler wrote, "The chief interest of the work today lies in the remarkably accurate picture which is given of typhoid fever--…
GMN 10064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12253
1842 ANDRAL, Gabriel (1797 – 1876); LACROIX, Louis Edward; DENONVILLIERS, Charles-Pierre (1808 – 1872)
Muséum d'anatomique pathologique de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, ou Musée Dupuytren. Publié au nom de la Faculté. 2 vols. and atlas.
Plates lithographed after drawings by Émile Beau. Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
GMN 10381 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12573
1842 BERNARD, Karl Ambros (1808 – 1844)
Les bains de Brousse, en Bithynie (Turquie d'Asie), avec une vue des bains et un plan des environs de Brousse.
The introduction of Western hydrotherapy to the Ottoman world. Focusing upon the hot springs of Bursa, Bernard promoted the healing effects of warm waters to the general Ottoman population. Digital facsimile from Goog…
GMN 13708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15992
1842 DAVY, John (1790 – 1868)
Notes and observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta: With some remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of quarantine as at present conducted. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16133
1843 BASOV, Vasili Aleksandrovich (1812 – 1879)
Voie artificielle dans l’estomac des animaux.
First gastric fistula established specially for the purpose of experimentation.
GMN 992.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/713
1843 –1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…
GMN 7448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9620
1843 MACGREGOR, William Lewis (1801 – 1853)
Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10985
1843 CRUZ, Francisco Ignacio dos Santos (1787 – 1859)
Ensaio sobre a topographia medica de Lisboa. ou consideraçoens especiaes relativas a' sua historia; meteorologia; geognosia; agoas potaveis; zoologia, quanto aos animaes mais utei, e em quanto ao homem sua parte hygienica e medica; a população, e suas respectivas observaçoens, &c.
GMN 10234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12424
1843 HOLLAND, George Calvert (1801 – 11865)
Diseases of the lungs from mechanical causes; and inquiries into the condition of the artisans exposed to the inhalation of dust.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12583
1843 MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.
McWilliam included a history of yellow fever, pathology, description of symptoms, sequences, causes, treatment. He also described the state of medicine among the Africans. He specifically described the ventilation of …
GMN 10737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12932
1843 CLARKE, Robert B.
Sierra Leone: A Description of the manners and customs of the liberated Africans; with observations upon the natural history of the colony, and a notice of the native tribes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14904
1844 SLEEMAN, Sir William Henry (1788 – 1856)
Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. 2 vols.
Lathyrism, a disease occuring in India, and parts of Africa, was known to Hippocrates. Sleeman, an Indian official and major general who presided over the suppression of Thuggee, had no special knowledge of medicine, …
GMN 2077.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2548
1844 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
Pathologia Indica, or, The anatomy of Indian diseases, medical and surgical: Based upon morbid specimens from all parts of India in the museum of the Calcutta Medical College; illustrated by detailed cases, with the prescriptions and treatment employed, and comments, physiological, practical and historical.
Significantly expanded second edition, in two parts (Calcutta: Thacker & Co., 1848). Digital facsimile of the 1848 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10988
1844 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Crania Aegyptiaca: or, observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the monuments. From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.
Morton argued that blacks and whites had been racially distinct since the Egyptian First Dynasty and drew the following conclusions, long since debunked: "Conclusions. "1. The valley of the Nile, both in Egypt and in …
GMN 8832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11010
1844 –1845 CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
First [Second] report of the commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts [Appendix- Part II].
The publication of Chadwick's 1842 Report inspired the creation in 1843 of the Royal Commission for Inquiry into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts, in which Chadwick once again played a leading role, dra…
GMN 8884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11062
1844 –1871 GAY, Claude [Claudio] (1800 – 1893)
Historia fisica y politica de Chile, segun documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella .... 28 vols. text plus 2 vols. atlas. (30 vols.).
Gay, a French botanist, was commissioned in 1830 by the government of Chile to carry out a thorough scientific survey of the country, and to produce a detailed description of its geography, geology and natural history…
GMN 9067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11246
1844 MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); JAMES, Constantin (1813 – 1888)
Voyage scientifique à Naples avec M. Magendie en 1843.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 11666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13867
1844 BERNARD, Karl Ambros (1808 – 1844)
Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomano. Pharmacopée militaire Ottomane.
The first original pharmacopoeia printed in the Ottoman Empire, with an original text by the Austrian physician Karl Ambros Bernard. The text of this pharmacopeia was in French and Latin, accompanied by Italian terms.…
GMN 13074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15326
1845 WILLIAMS, Stephen West (1790 – 1855)
American medical biography…
Biographies of American physicians who died after publication of Thacher (No. 6710). Reprint, New York, Milford House, 1967.
GMN 6711.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7819
1845 –1848 RENZI, Salvatore de (1801 – 1871)
Storia della medicina italiana. 5 vols.
Reprinted Bologna, 1966.
GMN 6561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8248
1845 WISE, Thomas Alexander (1801 – 1889)
Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.
Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 7169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9336
1845 –1854 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851); BACHMAN, John (1790 – 1874)
The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.
The largest and most significant color plate book produced in America during the 19th century.
GMN 7769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9941
1845 GRISCOM, John Hoskins (1809 – 1874)
The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11742
1845 VOIGT, Joachim Johann Otto (1798 – 1843)
Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalog of the plants which were cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841; drawn up according to the Jussieuan arrangement, and mostly in conformity with the second edition (1836) of Lindsay 's Natural System of Botany.
Catalogue of the thousands of plants which were cultivated in the East India Company’s Royal Botanical Garden in Shibpur (near Calcutta, founded in 1786) and ‘Dr. William Carey’s’ botanical garden in Serampore, Bengal…
GMN 10760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12956
1846 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
The third and last of Darwin's geological reports on the Beagle voyage. In it he described the pampas, the plateaus and the Andres, showing how they had been gradually pushed up in the way that Charles Lyell surmised …
GMN 8918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11096
1846 WILSON, John (1788 – 1870)
Medical notes on China.
Wilson served as Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets from 1841 to 1843 onboard the Minden, a British hospital ship deployed in China at Chusan and Hong Kong at the end of 1841 to treat casualties in the First Opium War …
GMN 13739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16023
1847 DANIELSSEN, Daniel Cornelius (1815 – 1894); BOECK, Carl Wilhelm (1808 – 1875)
Om spedalskhed. Udgivet efter Foranstaltning af den Kongelige Norske Regjerings Department for det Indre. 1 vol. and atlas.
First modern description of leprosy (“Danielssen-Boeck disease’’). Danielssen, physician to the leprosy hospital at Bergen, was the founder of scientific leprology. The extremely rare Atlas consists of 24 plates and t…
GMN 2434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2894
1847 –1864 BOUCHER DE CRÈVECOEUR DE PERTHES, Jacques (1788 – 1868)
Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes. Mémoire sur l'industrie primitive et les arts à leur origine. 3 vols.
Customs inspector at Abbéville and a prolific writer on diverse subjects, Boucher de Perthes found extensive deposits of flint implements in association with the bones of mammoths and other fossil animals. His work pr…
GMN 203.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3842
1847 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Nouveau procédé pour produire, au moyen de la vapeur d’éther, l’insensibilité chez les individus soumis à des opérations chirurgicales.
Pirogov was the first to practise rectal etherization, suggested by Roux earlier in 1847.
GMN 5655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7296
1847 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Recherches pratiques et physiologiques sur l’éthérisation.
Pirogov, the great military surgeon, was with Syme the first in Europe to adopt ether anesthesia, and he left an interesting account of his experiences with it. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 5656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7297
1847 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)
Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faerøerne i Aaret 1846.
When only 26 years of age, Panum was sent by the Danish Government to investigate the epidemic of measles then raging in the Faroe Islands. His report on the subject was a valuable contribution to medical literature. …
GMN 5443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7478
1847 LUND, Peter Wilhelm (1801 – 1880)
Notice sur des ossements humains fossiles, trouvés dans une caverne du Brésil.
Lund, a student of Cuvier, excavated extensively in the region of Lagoa Santa, an area rich in caves and karst formations comprising the northern part of Greater Belo Horizonte in Brazil. Between 1835 and 1843 he coll…
GMN 7305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9475
1847 GRIFFITH, Robert Eglesfeld (1798 – 1850)
Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.
The author intended to update and correct the earlier works on American materia medica by Barton, Bigelow and Rafinesque, and to make this information available at a reasonable price. Digital facsimile from the Biodiv…
GMN 8545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10722
1847 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; HAYES, Isaac (1796 – 1879)
Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.
The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…
GMN 10063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12252
1848 –1851 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879); AUVERT, Alexandre Ivanovich ( – 1865)
Selecta praxis medico-chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet Alexander Auvert, ...Typis et figuris expressa Parisiis, moderante Ambroise Tardieu.
Auvert was professor in Moscow. This folio atlas includes 120 folio plates of pathology subjects, drawn by Schtschegoleff in Moscow. The text is in Latin throughout. The drawings were engraved in Paris by Oudet, print…
GMN 7495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9667
1848 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; HAYES, Isaac (1796 – 1879)
Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Adopted May 1847.
Heavily influenced by Percival's work, the AMA's code of ethics was written by Isaac Hayes. The first leaf of this 30-page pamphlet indicates that it was "Printed for Private Distribution by the Philadelphia Delegatio…
GMN 10056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12245
1848 STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin (1811 – 1853); MELVILLE, Alexander Gordon (1819 – 1901)
The dodo and its kindred; Or, the history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon.
The first separate monograph on the dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. "The closest genetic relative to the dodo was the also extinct …
GMN 10176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12365
1849 HOOKER, Worthington (1806 – 1867)
Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community.
"During this era of rampant sectarianism in medicine, doctors frequently became dishonest or abusive as they competed for patients. To deal with this situation, the American Medical Association adopted [in 1847] a cod…
GMN 10110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12299
1849 BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
Notes on the influence exercised by trees in inducing rain and preserving moisture.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13957
1849 –1851 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911); HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya: Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15932