1829 ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc (1768 – 1837)
Sur la pyrophlyctide endémique, ou pustule d’Aleppo.
Important description of “Aleppo boil”, furunculosis orientalis.
GMN 5291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6412
1829 CHRISTOL, Jules Marie Gabriel de (1802 – 1861)
Notice sur les ossemens humains fossiles des cavernes du Département du Gard, présentée à l’Académie des Sciences le 29 juin 1829.
Christol excavated of the caverns of Pondres and Souvignarges, northeast of Montpellier in the department of Gard. These caverns, which showed no evidence of accidental disturbance, contained human remains intermixed …
GMN 7293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9463
1829 WAITZ, Friedrich Carl August (1798 – 1882)
Praktische waarnemingen over eenige Javaansche geneesmiddelen, welke niet alleen vele uitheemsche medicamenten, die thans nog van Europa naar Java moeten worden overgezonden, kunnen vervangen, maar dezelve ook tegen eenige ziekten op het eiland Java heerschende, in werkzaamheid overtreffen.
An early account of Jamu (old spelling Djamu), the traditional medicine of Indonesia, especially Java. "It is a predominantly herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as roots, bark, f…
GMN 9450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11633
1829 –1837 BOISDUVAL, Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de (1799 – 1879); LE CONTE, John Eatton Jr. (1784 – 1860)
Histoire général et iconographie des lepidoptérès et des chenilles de l’Amerique septentrionale.
Includes illustrations from drawings by John Abbot.
GMN 9574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11761
1829 –1837 RICHARDSON, Sir John (1787 – 1865); SWAINSON, William John (1789 – 1855); KIRBY, William (1759 – 1850)
Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, the zoology of the northern parts of British America: Containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. 4 vols.
Richardson, surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer, was physician and naturalist on Sir John Franklin’s first two Arctic expeditions, and collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the Canadian Arcti…
GMN 13135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15393
1830 –1833 ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی) (970 – ); SELIGMANN, Franz Romeo (1808 – 1892)
Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae. Auctore Abu Mansur Mowafik ben Ali al Herui. Epitome codicis manuscripti persici Bibl. caes. reg. Vienn. inediti. Primus Latio donavit Romeo Seligmann. 2 vols.
The most important early Persian pharmacological work, first published in print in Latin translation. Muvaffak flourished in Herat (current Afghanistan), under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 t…
GMN 1788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1842
1830 GUNN, John C.
Gunn’s domestic medicine, or poor man’s friend in the hours of affliction, pain, and sickness. This book points out, in plain language, free from doctor's terms the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states. It also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the western and southern country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases: arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine reduced to the principles of common sense.
Gunn intended his book to serve as a guide for frontier and rural families who lived far away from any sort of medical care so it contained instructions on how to treat a wide variety of illnesses. While the first edi…
GMN 9150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11329
1830 –1836 SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
American conchology, or descriptions of the shells of North America illustrated from coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature. 7 parts. Parts 1–6: New Harmony, 1830–1834; Part 7: Philadelphia, 1836.
The printer or publisher of part 7 is not identified. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11669
1830 HENNEN, John (1779 – 1828)
Sketches of the medical topography of the Mediterranean; comprising an account of Gibraltar, the Ionian Islands, and Malta. To which is prefixed a sketch of a plan for memoirs on medical topography
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11900
1831 –1854 BOURGERY, Jean Baptiste Marc (1797 – 1849); JACOB, Nicolas-Henri (1782 – 1871)
Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médecine opératoire. 16 vols.
With over 2000 pages of text and 726 lithographed plates (incorporating 3604 individual figures), this work is the most comprehensive, and perhaps the most beautiful anatomical surgical atlas of the 19th century. It w…
GMN 7246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9415
1831 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Anatomy. Copy of a letter from the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, to Viscount Melbourne.
On December 5, 1831, the notorious London "resurrection men" John Bishop and Thomas Williams were executed for the murder of an itinerant fourteen-year-old (known only as the "Italian Boy"), whose corpse they had then…
GMN 9995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12184
1831 BOYLE, James
A practical medico-historical account of the western coast of Africa: Embracing a topographical description of its shores, rivers, and settlements, with their seasons and comparative healthiness: Together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment, of the fevers of western Africa, and a similar account respecting the other diseases which prevail there.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12986
1832 –1834 NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Vol. 1: The land birds. Vol. 2: The water birds.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9945
1832 DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852)
Practical essays on medical education, and the medical profession, in the United States.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10807
1832 TWINING, William (1790 – 1835)
Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10984
1832 NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION
Anatomy. Proceedings at the National Political Union, respecting legislative interference in the study of anatomy, and the supply of bodies for anatomical research.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12182
1832 TREBUCHET, Adolphe (1801 – 1865)
Code administratif des établissemens dangereux, insalubres ou incommodes.
Trebuchet's work sets out the rules and regulations governing dangerous and unhealthy work environments (particularly those involving steam engines) and public nuisances. Pages 281-301 contain a table of businesses cl…
GMN 10393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12586
1832 BRIERRE DE BOISMONT, Alexandre-Jacques-François (Brière de Boismont) (1797 – 1881)
Relation historique et médicale du choléra-morbus de Pologne, comprenant l'apparition de la maladie, sa march, ses progrès, ses symptômes, son mode de traitement et les moyens préservatifs. Avec une carte.
In his study of the spread of cholera in Poland in 1831 Brière de Boismont used a map to show the progression of the disease from a central point through the country along a red line through principal towns and the da…
GMN 10457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12650
1832 HAMETT, John
The substance of the official medical reports upon the epidemic, called cholera: Which prevailed among the poor at Dantzick, between the end of May and the first part of September, 1831, as transmitted to their lordships; being an analysis of the said epidemic disease in that city--founded upon actual observation and accurate inquiry: With important and well-authenticated facts relative to the same disease, as it prevailed among the poor in other parts of the North of Europe.
Hamett privately published this report after it was rejected for publication by the British government. He included hospital admission tables in his book and produced perhaps the first map based on hospital reports of…
GMN 10462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12655
1832 CORBYN, Frederick
A treatise on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in India; together with the reports of the medical officers, made to the medical boards of the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, for the purpose of ascertaining a successful mode of treating that destructive disease; And a critical examination of all the works that have hitherto appeared on the subject.
Corbyn mapped the history of cholera in India within British regimental stations. He included the date of each reported outbreak in a table of British regimental locations to describe the temporal progression of the d…
GMN 10463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12656
1832 YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13008
1833 –1834 SCHMERLING, Phillipe-Charles (1791 – 1836)
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles découvertes dans les cavernes de la province de Liège. 2 vols. and atlas.
A physician from Delft, Schmerling found extensive human remains and artifacts associated with the remains of extinct animals in the caverns around Liège. These human remains were distinctively different anatomically …
GMN 203.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3638
1833 OPPENHEIM, Friedrich Wilhelm (1799 – 1852)
Ueber den Zustand der Heilkunde und über die Volkskrankheiten in der europäischen und asiatischen Türkei. Ein Beitrag zur Kultur- und Sittengeschichte.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9429
1833 GASKELL, Peter (1806 – 1841)
The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.
Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…
GMN 10389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12581
1833 BACHE, Franklin (1792 – 1864); WOOD, George Bacon (1797 – 1879)
The dispensatory of the United States of America.
Digital facsimile of this, the first, and later editions from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13020
1833 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
Compte rendu des travaux de l'École de Médecine d'Abou-Zabel (Égypte), et de l'examen général des élèves pour les 1re, 2e, 3e, 4e, et 5e années da sa fondation 1242-1243 (1827-1828)....Suivi de l'exposé de la conduite et des travaux de l'auteur lui-même en Égypte, depuis 1240 à 1248 (Hégyre) 1825 à 1832, et de diverses pièces relatives à son voyage en France.
"During the French occupation of Egypt, Napoleon designated Kasr al-Aini a hospital for his troops in 1799, and then afterwards proposed the opening of a school to teach local Egyptian students the medicine required t…
GMN 13664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15946
1834 DEWHURST, William Henry
The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.
Characterizing himself "Surgeon-Accoucheur" on the title page, Dewhurst lectured in 1827-8 on anatomy and physiology, and served as a ship's surgeon, making voyage to Greenland and its surrounding seas in 1824. During…
GMN 10259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12450
1834 –1840 HOUSTON, John (1802 – 1845)
Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Vol. I. (Anatomy). Vol. 2. (Pathology).
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12572
1834 TREBUCHET, Adolphe (1801 – 1865)
Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12587
1835 MALCOLMSON, John Grant ( – 1844)
A practical essay on the history and treatment of beriberi.
A classic account, in which the author brought together all that was known about the disease in his day.
GMN 3738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4533
1836 –1840 HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
North American herpetology; or, a description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. 4 vols.
The greatest American book on herpetology, and one of the finest American color plate books on natural history. The fourth volume is particularly rare. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link…
GMN 326.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/171
1836 –1837 MCCREADY, Benjamin William (1813 – 1892)
On the influence of trades, professions, and occupations, in the United States in the production of disease.
The first American work devoted entirely to occupational diseases. Reprinted with introduction, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.
GMN 2123.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2639
1836 KNOX, Frederick John (1794 – 1873)
The anatomist's instructor, and museum companion; being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums.
"Dr Frederick Knox was the librarian of New Zealand's first public library. He emigrated from Scotland in July 1840 and within days of arriving in Port Nicholson became involved in establishing the country's first pub…
GMN 7674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9846
1836 GRIFFITH, Mary (1772 – 1846)
Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.
The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision in Da…
GMN 11430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13629
1837 BROECKX, Corneille (1807 – 1869)
Essai sur l’histoire de la médecine belge avant le XIXe siècle.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8126
1837 MARTIN, James Ranald (1796 – 1874)
Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10981
1837 DUNGLISON, Robley (1798 – 1869)
The medical student; or, aids to the study of medicine. Including a glossary of the terms of the science, and of the mode of prescribing,--bibliographical notices of medical works; the regulations of different medical colleges of the union, &c. &c.
A remarkable survey of medical education in the U.S. at the time, with a thorough analysis of the different medical schools and the courses they offered, and an extensively annotated bibliography of 195 recommended me…
GMN 10107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12296
1837 CHILD, Lydia Maria Francis (1802 – 1880)
The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…
GMN 10411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12604
1837 BLANCO, Francisco Manuel (1778 – 1845)
Flora de Filipinas. Según el sistema sexual de Linneo.
The first manual of Philippine botany published in the Philippines. The first two editions (1837 and 1845) were unillustrated. From 1877 to 1883 Celestine Fernandez Villar (1838-1907), together with others including A…
GMN 11879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14083
1837 ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
Catalogue raisonné, or, classified arrangement of the books in the Library of the Medical Society of Edinburgh.
Classification by subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15307
1839 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Crania Americana; or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America. To which is prefixed an essay on the varieties of the human species.
In his day Morton was the most eminent craniologist in the United States. He had a collection of nearly 1,000 skulls. In this work, which described both modern and fossil skulls, Morton described fractures and anthrop…
GMN 201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3545
1839 TROUSSEAU, Armand (1801 – 1867); LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 – 1872); SHATTUCK, George Cheyne (1813 – 1893)
Anatomical, pathological and therapeutic researches on the yellow fever of Gibraltar of 1828, by P. Ch. A. Louis. From observations taken by himself and M. Trousseau as memebers of the French Commission at Gibraltar. Translated from the manuscript by G. C. Shattuck.
The Translator's Introduction begins as follows: "The work now presented to the public has heretofore existed in manuscript only. Circumstances have delayed its publication in France, and some years may yet elapse bef…
GMN 12011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14219
1839 –1855 GASIOROWSKI, Ludwik Hiacynt (1807 – 1863)
Zbiór wiadomości do historyi sztuki lekarskiéj w Polsce od czasów najdawniejszych, aź do najnowszych. 4 vols.
Gasiorowski is considered the father of medical history in Poland. Digital facsimile from polona.pl at this link.
GMN 13838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16128
1840 –1856 LAWSON, Thomas (1789 – 1861); COOLIDGE, Richard Henry (1816 – 1866)
Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States. Vol. 1 (1819-1839), Vol. 2 (1839-1855), Vol. 3 (1855-1860).
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General's Office
Vol.1 by Thomas Lawson; Vols 2 & 3 by Richard H. Coolidge. Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2163.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1025
1840 CLARKE, Robert B.
Observations on the disease lethargus: with cases and pathology.
Clarke left a detailed account of African trypanosomiasis; he saw cases of the disease while serving as a colonial surgeon at Sierra Leone, and named it “narcoleptic dropsy”.
GMN 5267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8562
1840 FABRE, François (1797 – 1854); DAUMIER, Honoré-Victorin (1808 – 1879)
Némésis médicale illustrée, recueil de satires par François Fabre....contenant trente vignettes dessinées par M. Daumier... 2 vols.
The only medical book illustrated by Honoré Daumier (1808-79), and a great satire in verse on the medical profession. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 6604.94 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8568
1840 –1843 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892); DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); GOULD, John (1804 – 1881); BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880); WATERHOUSE, George Robert (1810 – 1888); JENYNS, Leonard (1800 – 1893)
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. 5 pts in 3 vols.
Part 1: Fossil mammalia by Richard Owen; Part 2: Mammalia by George Waterhouse; Part 3: Birds by John Gould; Part 4: Fish by Leonard Jenyns; Part 5: Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive…
GMN 7437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9609
1840 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
Numbers 901-929 in Morton's catalogue are "Thirty Skulls of genuine unmixed NEGROES born in Africa. This interesting series series was collected by Don José Rodriguez Cisnerso, M. D. of Havana, in the island of Cuba, …
GMN 8828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11006
1840 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.
Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…
GMN 13663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15945
1841 BROECKX, Corneille (1807 – 1869)
Coup d’oeil sur les institutions médicales belges, depuis les derniéres années du dix-huitième siècle jusqu’a nos jours, suivie de la bibliographie de cette époque.
GMN 6531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8129
