1864 –1865 COUCH, Jonathan (1789 – 1870)
A history of the fishes of the British Islands. 4 vols.
Couch, a general practitioner at Polperro, Cornwall, became one of the greatest authorities on British fishes. The work, a monument of industry and patience, includes 252 hand-colored plates, also by Couch. Digital fa…
GMN 335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/222
1864
British pharmacopoeia, published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act, 1858.
PHARMACOPOEIA
First official British pharmacopoeia.
GMN 1866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2435
1864 –1866 COCKAYNE, Thomas Oswald (1807 – 1873)
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…
GMN 6534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8141
1866 OGLE, John William (1824 – 1905); HOLMES, Timothy (1825 – 1907)
Catalogue of the pathological museum of St. George's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12570
1874 FLÜCKIGER, Friedrich August (1828 – 1894); HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
Pharmacographia. A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in Great Britain and British India.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 2032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2157
1875 HAVILAND, Alfred Joseph (1824 – 1903)
The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.
Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…
GMN 10451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12644
1879 RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
On health and occupation. Manuals of Health. Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12590
1886 SOUTH, John Flint (1797 – 1882); POWER, Sir D’Arcy (1855 – 1941)
Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.
South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Digital facsimi…
GMN 5797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6886
1888 RIVINGTON, Walter (1835 – 1897)
The medical profession in the United Kingdom.
(1200pp.) This is the greatly expanded edition of the book first published with the same title nine years earlier. "His most important and voluminous writings were the two Carmichael Prize essays of the Royal College …
GMN 8746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10924
1890 SIMON, Sir John (1816 – 1904)
English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…
GMN 1650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2163
1890 YOUNG, Sidney (1843 – )
The annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London, compiled from their records and other sources
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6888
1891 –1894 CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927)
A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.
A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2363
1896 HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12574
1904 PAYNE, Joseph Frank (1840 – 1910)
English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1903.
GMN 6535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8142
1908 MOORE, Sir Norman (1847 – 1922)
The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1905-06.
GMN 6536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8145
1913 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937); DAWSON, Charles (1864 – 1916); WOODWARD, Arthur Smith (1864 – 1944)
On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetrated in scie…
GMN 211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3866
1913 MOORE, Sir Norman (1847 – 1922)
The physician in English history.
Linacre Lecture, 1913.
GMN 6537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8147
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
1918 MOORE, Sir Norman (1847 – 1922)
The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10898
1919 CHAPLIN, Thomas Hancock Arnold (1864 – 1944)
Medicine in England during the reign of George III.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1917-18.
GMN 6538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8152
1919 –1933 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929); BULLOCK, Fred (1878 – 1937)
The early history of veterinary literature and its British development
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and limited (search only) of vol. 2-4 from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12338
1920 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
Early English magic and medicine.
Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.
GMN 6539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8174
1930 POWER, Sir D’Arcy (1855 – 1941)
Medicine in the British Isles
Clio Medica series.
GMN 6540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8178
1932 COMRIE, John Dixon (1875 – 1939)
History of Scottish medicine. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.
GMN 6541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8181
1933 JAMES, Robert Rutson (1881 – 1959)
Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England prior to the year 1800.
GMN 6004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7148
1934 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.
GMN 8876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11054
1936 JOHANNES DE MIRFELD ( – 1407); HARTLEY, Percival Horton-Smith (1867 – 1952); ALDRIDGE, Harold Richard
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
GMN 8456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10633
1946 MALLOCH, Archibald (1887 – 1953)
Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.
GMN 10996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13192
1949 STOKER, Sir Michael George Parke (1918 – 2013)
Serological evidence of Q fever in Great Britain.
Relationship of primary atypical pneumonia and Q fever.
GMN 5402.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7237
1950 FRAZER, William Mowll (1888 – 1958)
A history of English public health, 1834-1939.
GMN 1670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2275
1952 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960); GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)
Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"
GMN 6546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8185
1954 KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960); ET AL
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
GMN 6311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8055
1955 DAVIDSON, Maurice (1883 – 1967)
The Royal Society of Medicine: The realization of an ideal (1805-1955).
GMN 6548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8187
1959 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.
GMN 6548.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8189
1960 ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
A history of the nursing profession.
Covers England and Wales only.
GMN 6639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7739
1960 COPEMAN, William Sydney Charles (1900 – 1970)
Doctors and disease in Tudor times.
GMN 6548.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8190
1960 LISNEY, Arthur A.
A bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799.
Bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.
GMN 10569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12762
1961 DAINTON, Courtney
The story of England’s hospitals.
GMN 1671.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2293
1961 LEIGH, Archibald Denis (1915 – 1998)
The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)
GMN 5019.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6615
1962 ELLIS, Maurice (1905 – 1977)
The casualty officer's handbook.
The first handbook published in England on what later came to be called emergency medicine. Ellis, appointed to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1952, was the first "Casualty" consultant in England, and remained so unti…
GMN 10274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12465
1962 PERRING, Franklyn (1927 – 2003); WALTERS, Stuart Max (1920 – 2005)
Atlas of the British flora.
A pioneering large-scale project in plant distribution cartography, containing 10-km square distribution maps for all non-critical native and frequently occurring alien vascular plant species found in Britain and Irel…
GMN 10506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12699
1963 HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981); MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)
Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.
GMN 5019.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6619
1963 BONSER, Wilfrid (1887 – 1971)
The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.
GMN 6549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8193
1963 WALL, Cecil (1869 – 1947); UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980); CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878 – 1958)
A history of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Abstracted and arranged from the MS notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles Cameron, revised annotated and edited by E. Ashworth Underwood. Vol.1: 1617-1815.
GMN 6550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8634
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 –2005 CLARK, Sir George Norman (1890 – 1978); COOKE, A. M.; BRIGGS, Asa (1921 – 2016)
A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.
GMN 6550.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8200
1964 POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)
The evolution of hospitals in Britain. Edited by F. N. L. Poynter
14 papers delivered at the 3rd British Congress on the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1962, and a classified bibliography of British hospital history by E. Gaskell (pp. 225-79).
GMN 6550.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8204
1964 ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.
GMN 10178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12367
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
1967 TALBOT, Charles Holwell (1906 – 1993)
Medicine in medieval England.
GMN 6550.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8206