1565 VALLAMBERT, Simon de [VALLEMBERT] (1525 – 1565)
Cinq livres, de la manière de nourrir et gouverner les enfans dès leur naissance.
The first French work on pediatrics. Vallambert considered a wider range of diseases than any previous writer, including the first reference to syphilis in children, and gave the best commentary up to his time on infa…
GMN 6318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8085
1598 BELLEVAL, Pierre Richer de (1564 – 1632)
Onomatologia, seu nomenclatura stirpium quae in Horto Regio Monspeliensi recens constructo coluntur.
The first catalogue of medicinal plants in the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier, founded by Richer de Belleval in 1593. This was the first medical botanical garden in France. Reprinted in Opuscules de Pierre Richer d…
GMN 13347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15618
1640 LA BROSSE, Guy de (1589 – 1641)
L'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, pour la demonstration des plantes medecinales.
La Brosse founded the Jardin des Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi), the first botanical garden in Paris. It was the second garden of this type in France, after the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier founded in 1593. D…
GMN 13346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15617
1642 RENAUDOT, Théophraste (1586 – 1653)
La presence des absens; ou facile moyen de rendre présent au médecin l'estat d'un malade absent. Dressé par les docteurs en médecine consultans charitablement à Paris pour les pauvres malades.
Renaudot, physician, philanthropist and journalist, published this self-diagnostic handbook so that charity patients could communicate with their physicians by correspondence. Digital facsimile from biusante.paris.des…
GMN 8956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11135
1766 –1767 SMOLLETT, Tobias George (1721 – 1771)
Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particularly description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: to which is added a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9537
1766 SMOLLETT, Tobias George (1721 – 1771)
Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: To which is added a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. "After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled acro…
GMN 12496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14729
1771 BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
Aldrovandus Lotharingiae, ou catalogue des animaux, quardupedes, reptiles, oseaux, poissons, insectes, vermisseaux et coquillages qui habitent la Lorraine et les Trois-Évechés.
A catalogue of "over 1100 quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, worms and mollusks native to Lorraine. Buc’hoz follows the classification schemes of Argenville, Brisson, Buffon, Daubenton and Geoffro…
GMN 13011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15261
1776 –1778 LE PECQ DE LA CLÔTURE, Louis (1736 – 1804)
(1) Observations sur les maladies épidemiques, Année 1770, ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des epidémiques d'Hippocrate, et dans lequel on indique la meilleure méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies ... Publié par ordre du gouvernement, et aux fraix du roi. (2) Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques; ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées, selon le voeu d'Hippocrate, avec les causes météorologiques, locales & relatives aux différens climats, ainsi qu'avec l'histoire naturelle & médicale de la Normandie. On y a joint un appendix sur l'ordre des constitutions épidémiques ... Pub. par ordre du gouvernement .… 3 vols.
The first title, in 1 volume, was published in 1776; the second work in 2 vols., supplementing the first work, was published in 1778. In these two bioclimatological and biogeographical studies of disease in Normandy, …
GMN 12272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14490
1778 LÉPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis (1736 – 1804)
Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: Ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées, selon le voeu d'Hippocrate, avec les causes météorologiques, locales & relatives aux différens climats, ainsi qu'avec l'histoire naturelle & médicale de la Normandie. On y joint un appendix sur l'ordre des constitutions épidémiques ... 2 vols.
This work is divided into four parts: "The first, which occupies the first volume, contains a general description of Normandy, considerations about its climate, its people, their morals and habits, and the most common…
GMN 13852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16142
1779 MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
A view of society and manners in France, Switzerland and Germany: with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters
Digitial facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14727
1785 GEOFFROY, Étienne Louis (1725 – 1810); FOURCROY, Antoine François, comte (1755 – 1809)
Entomologia Parisiensis; sive, catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secondum methodum Geoffraeanam in sections, genera & species distributus; Cui addit sun nomina trivalia & sere recentae novae species.
In this work co-written with Geoffroy, Fourcroy presented a major contribution to the systemization of entomology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11122
1793 MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France.
GMN 13872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16162
1809 COURTIN, Charles (1777 – 1855)
Recueil général des lois, réglemens, décisions et circulaires sur le service des hôpitaux militaires. 2 vols.
On the organization and administration of French military hospitals during the Napoleonic era, and probably the most comprehensive account published up to this time on the administration of military hospitals in gener…
GMN 10267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12458
1815 CROSSE, John Green (1790 – 1850)
Sketches of the medical schools of Paris.
Crosse, a British surgeon whose name appears without the final "ed" on the title page, was a British surgeon who spent the winter of 1814-15 in Paris, where he wrote numerous letters to friends in london and Dublin de…
GMN 14176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16491
1818 FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE DE PARIS
Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a Facultate Medica Parisiensi anno 1818.
The first French national pharmacopeia. The French pharmacopeia became the model for later national attempts to publish national pharmacopeias. Notably the first U.S. pharmacopeia was issued in 1820. After a legal not…
GMN 10268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12459
1819 BÉRARD, Joseph Frédéric (1789 – 1828)
Doctrine médicale de l'École de Montpellier, et comparaison de ses principes avec ceux des autres écoles d'Europe.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12255
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1860 PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812 – 1896)
On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne.
This paper is a key record of the early recognition of the antiquity of man by the scientific establishment. Having returned from a visit to Abbeville, France, in May 1859, where he viewed the evidence for the antiqui…
GMN 7262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9431
1864 LARTET, Édouard (1801 – 1871); CHRISTY, Henry (1810 – 1865)
Cavernes du Périgord. Objets gravés et sculptés des temps pré-historiques dans l’Europe occidentale.
In 1863 Lartet and Christy began systematically examining the caves in the Périgord (Dordogne) region of France. This study of mobiliary or portable art, such as carved stones, carved ivory, carved bones, or carved re…
GMN 7258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9427
1868 LARTET, Louis (1840 – 1899)
Mémoire sur une sépulture des anciens troglodytes du Périgord.
In March 1868, railway workers clearing away debris from a rock shelter known locally as the Abri de Crô-Magnon (shelter of Crô-Magnon) at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, noticed stone tools and pieces of skeleton imbedded in t…
GMN 7252 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9421
1874 CHÉREAU, Achille (1817 – 1885)
Le Parnasse médicale français, ou dictionnaire des médecins-poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants.
Dictionary of French medical poets. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 6616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7672
1874 MONTEIL, Amans-Alexis (1769 – 1850); LE PILEUR, Auguste (1810 – )
La médecine en France, hommes et doctrines depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours; avec introduction, notes et supplément par A[uguste] Le Pileur. Ouvrage publié sur la dernière édition de l'Histoire des français des divers états, couronnée deux fois par l'Académie française.
One of the pioneer histories of medicine in France. "He [Monteil] boasted of having been the first to write really 'national' history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled L'Influence de l'histoire …
GMN 9592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11779
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
1875 LARTET, Édouard (1801 – 1871); CHRISTY, Henry (1810 – 1865); JONES, Thomas Rupert (1819 – 1911)
Reliquiae Aquitanicae; being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France. Edited by Thomas Rupert Jones.
This beautiful and bibliographically complicated work was issued in 17 parts from 1865 to 1875. It includes 82 tinted lithographic plates, and is the first visually spectacular large extensively illustrated publicatio…
GMN 9492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11677
1877 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10594
1882 QUATREFAGES DE BRÉAU, Jean Louis Armand de (1810 – 1892); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Crania ethnica. Les crânes des races humaines décrits et figurés d 'après les collections du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris et les principales collections de la France et de l'étranger par A. de Quatrefages et Ernest T. Hamy: Ouvrage accompagné de planches lithographiées d'après nature par H. Formant et illustré de nombreuses figures intercalées. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 203.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3584
1888 CARRIER, Henriette
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15742
1888 PERY, G.
Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Bordeaux et de l'enseignement médical dans cette ville 1441-1888.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15897
1889 DAVID, Théophile-Timothée (1851 – 1892)
Bibliographie français de l’art dentaire.
Concerns the French literature of dentistry.
GMN 3694.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5748
1890 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); NICAISE, Édouard (1838 – 1896)
La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.
The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.
GMN 6999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9165
1893 MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11726
1896 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 14309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16634
1906 WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965)
La médecine et les médecins en France à l’époque de la Renaissance.
Wickersheimer, librarian of University of Strasbourg, contributed several scholarly works on the history of medicine.
GMN 6554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8230
1911 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2526
1911 GAFFAREL, Paul Louis Jacques (1843 – 1920); DURANTY, Marquis de
La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
GMN 5137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6149
1911 LANDOUZY, Louis Théophile Joseph (1845 – 1917); LEGRAND, Noé (1875 – 1915)
Les collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris: Inventaire raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné of the collection of paintings, drawings, prints, medals and sculptures belonging to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10869
1913 MOUTIN, Lucien (1854 – 1918); MANN, G. A.
Manuel d'ostéopathie pratique, théorie et procédés, par le Dr L. Moutin et G. A. Mann, d'après les ouvrages du Dr Andrew Taylor Still,... et du Dr Wilfred L. Riggs,... à l'usage des élèves de l'École d'ostéopathie.
The first French monograph on osteopathy.
GMN 11155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13352
1915 HUNT, George Herbert (1884 – 1926); RANKIN, Allan Coats (1877 – 1959)
Intermittent fever of obscure origin, occurring among British soldiers in France. The so-called “trench-fever”.
In this paper trench fever is so named for the first time.
GMN 5386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7118
1917 –1922 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922); ABADIE, Joseph Louis Irenée Jean (1873 – 1934); BROUARDEL, Georges (1869 – 1959); ALBERT, François (1877 – 1933)
Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.
A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…
GMN 10532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12725
1934 FOURMESTRAUX, Jacques de (1879 – 1950)
Histoire de la chirurgie française (1790-1920).
GMN 5807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6914
1934 LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953); MOLINÉRY, Raymond (1876 – 1946)
French Medicine. Translated by E. B. Krumbhaar.
Clio Medica series.
GMN 6555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8234
1935 DELAUNAY, Paul (1878 – 1958)
La vie médicale aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
GMN 6555.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8235
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
1937 MACKINNEY, Loren Cary (1891 – 1963)
Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.
GMN 6524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8100
