1539 BOCK [TRAGUS], Hieronymus (1498 – 1554)
New Kreütter Buch.
Bock was the first to describe the local flora of Germany, discovering many new species. His work gave a fresh impetus to plant description, With Brunfels and Fuchs he was one of the three “German fathers of botany”. …
GMN 1806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1959
1540 BERIS, Johannes von [PARIS] (1400 – )
Eyn new Wund Artznei M. Johans von Parisijs. Wie mann alle wunden, sie seien gestochen, gehawen, geschossen mit pfeil oder lot gequetzt vnd gestossen [et]c. mit salben, pflastern vnnd wundttranck, durch den gantzen leip dess menschens, vom Kopff an biss auff die füss, heylen solein kurtzer, ordenlicher Bericht M. Johan von Parisiis jtzunt am newsten auss gangen.
Johannes von Beris (or Paris) lived in the mid-15th century near Metz, and is thus the earliest identifiable German surgeon, and the first to write about gunshot wounds and wound surgery. His work, which was first pub…
GMN 6959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9124
1564 OCCO, Adolph (1524 – 1606)
Enchiridion, sive ut vulgo vocant dispensatorium, compositorum medicamentorum, pro Reipub. Augstburgensis pharmacopoeis.
One of the earliest pharmacopeias, and one which exerted a great influence on later pharmacopeias. Several new editions followed the first, and that of 1613 was adopted as the official pharmacopeia of Augsburg, the fa…
GMN 1816 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2064
1671 BLONDEL, François (1613 – 1703)
Thermarum Aquisgranensium et porcetanarum descriptio. Congruorum quoque ac salubrium usuum balneationis et potationis elucidatio, opera.
An extenisvely illustrated work promoting the medicinal value of the sulphur springs of Aachen and Burscheid. Blondel devoted his life to the promotion of the medicinal value of these springs, becoming inspector of th…
GMN 12881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15128
1774 ESPER, Johann Friedrich (1732 – 1781)
Ausfürliche Nachricht von neuentdeckten Zoolithen, unbekannter vierfüsiger Thiere…
Esper was the first to record the finding, in Gailenreuth Cave, of human bones alongside the remains of unknown and probably extinct animals. The implications of this dramatic observation published in a color plate bo…
GMN 203.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3834
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
1808 GILBERT, Nicolas-Pierre (1751 – 1814)
Tableau historique des maladies internes de mauvais caractère qui ont affligé la grande armée dans la campagne de Prusse et de Pologne, et notamment de celles qui ont été observées dans les hôpitaux militaires et les villes de Thorn, Bromberg, Fordon et Culm, dans l'hiver de 1806 à 1807, le printems et l'été de 1807, suivi de réflexions sur les divers modes de traitement de ces maladies adoptés par les médecins français et allemands.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
GMN 13355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15626
1851 BROCKMANN, Carl Heinrich
Die metallurgischen Krankheiten des Oberharzes.
Brockmann's book on the pulmonary disease of miners, including black lung disease, was first book on occupational health published in Germany. Brockmann published a preliminary paper on the subject in 1845. Digital fa…
GMN 8942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11121
1857 SCHAAFHAUSEN, Hermann (1816 – 1893); FUHLROTT, Johann Carl (1804 – 1877)
[On the Feldhofer Neanderthal.]
The first account of the Neanderthal remains (Neanderthal 1), discovered in 1856 in the the Feldhofer cave of the Neander valley. The remains, which consist of a partial skull, pelvis and assorted long bones, were sen…
GMN 7250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9419
1858 SCHAAFHAUSEN, Hermann (1816 – 1893)
Zur Kenntniss der ältesten Rassenschädel.
The first comprehensive description of the Neanderthal skull, following Schaaffhausen’s and Fuhlrott’s preliminary announcements of the discovery in the Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rh…
GMN 204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3844
1859 FUHLROTT, Johann Carl (1804 – 1877)
Menschliche Ueberreste aus einer Felsengrotte des Düssenthals. Ein Beitrag zur Frage über die Existenz fossiler Menschen.
Fuhlrott’s first detailed account of the “Neanderthal 1” skeleton discovered in 1856 in the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte, located in the Düssel River gorge in southwestern Germany.
GMN 7251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9420
1868 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.
Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.
GMN 1616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1930
1877 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Beiträge zur physischen Anthropologie der Deutschen. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Friesen.
Virchow made an important survey of the physical characters of the German people. Outside pathology of which he was the Master, Virchow’s greatest scientific interest was anthropology.
GMN 176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3335
1883 –1885 ROHLFS, Heinrich (1827 – 1898)
Die chirurgischen Klassiker Deutschlands. 2 vols.
GMN 5796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6881
1893 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894)
Geschichte der medicinischen Wissenschaften in Deutschland.
Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1966.
GMN 6558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8240
1898 TILLMANS, Robert Hermann (1844 – 1927)
Hundert Jahre Chirurgie.
History of 18th-century German surgery.
GMN 5801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6896
1904 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935)
Berlins drittes Geschlecht.
"Third sex" was Hirschfeld's provisional term for gays and lesbians. Translated into English by James J. Conway as Berlin's third sex, Berlin: Rixdorf Editions, 2017.
GMN 13379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15650
1908 SCHOETENSACK, Otto (1850 – 1912)
Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg. Ein Beitrag zur Paläontologie des Menschens.
First report on the Mauer jaw discovered by Schoetensack in a sandpit or quarry in the environs of Heidelberg. This was the first fossil specimen unearthed of an extinct hominin species which Schoetensack named Homo h…
GMN 7253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9422
1912 SCHMIDT, Robert Rudolf (1882 – 1950)
Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands. Archäologischer Teil, von R. R. Schmidt; II. Geologischer Teil, von Ernest Koken, Die Geologie und Tierweld der paläolithischen Kulturstätten Deutschlands; III. Anthropologischer Teil von A. Schliz, Die diluvialen Menschenreste Deutschlands.
This splendidly produced and illustrated large folio volume was the first major book on paleolithic research published in Germany. Schmidt described systematic investigations of the caves in the Swabian Alps, and was …
GMN 11254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13451
1915 PROWAZEK, Stanislaus Joseph Matthias von (1875 – 1915)
Ätiologische Untersuchungen über den Flecktyphus in Serbien 1913 und in Hamburg 1914.
Prowazek, like Ricketts and Wilder, demonstrated the specific causal agent in typhus. Like Ricketts he died of the disease.
GMN 5384.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7107
1927 STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)
Die Entwickelung der ärztlichen Kunst in Deutschland.
GMN 6559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8242
1934 HABERLING, Wilhelm Gustav Moritz (1871 – 1940)
German medicine. Translated by Jules Freund.
Clio Medica series.
GMN 6560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8245
1939 SEYFARTH, Paul Carly (1890 – 1950)
Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).
GMN 13462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15736
1947 MITSCHERLICH, Alexander (1908 – 1982); MIELKE, Fred (1922 – 1959)
Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.
English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…
GMN 7892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10065
1951 KILLIAN, Hans Franz Edmund (1892 – 1981); KRÄMER, G
Meister der Chirurgie und die Chirurgenschulen im Deutschen Raum.
GMN 5813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6923
1970 EULNER, Hans-Heinz (1925 – 1980)
Die Entwicklung der medizinischen Spezialfacher an den Universitaten des Deutschen Sprachgebietes.
Detailed study, organized by specialty, of the vital role that German universities played in the invention and promotion of medical specialties.
GMN 8638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10815
1987 DUDEN, Barbara (1942 – )
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
GMN 8048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10224
1988 PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
GMN 10228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12418
1989 STOLL, Ulrich; KEIL, Gundolf (1932 – )
Das Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.
The Lorschner Arzneibuch (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1; Lorsch Leechbook), a Carolingian codex from the time of Charlemagne, was written in Latin around 800 in Lorsch Abbey. It is the oldest surviving book of mona…
GMN 8446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10623
1989 KATER, Michael Hans (1937 – )
Doctors under Hitler.
GMN 8678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10855
1992 STOLL, Ulrich
Das ‚Lorscher Arzneibuch‘. Ein medizinisches Kompendium des 8. Jahrhunderts (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1). Text, Übersetzung und Fachglossar. (Philosophische Dissertation Würzburg 1989) (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 28).
Digital facsimile of the original manuscript with the transcription and translation by Ulrich Stoll from Staatsbibliothek Bamberg at this link.
GMN 8447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10624
1996 LINDEMANN, Mary (1949 – )
Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.
GMN 8052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10228
1996 MURKEN, Axel Hinrich (1937 – ); BÖSING, Bernhard
Medicina in nummis: Die Heilkunde im Spiegel der Medaillen.
GMN 8728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10906
1998 ACKERMAN, Albert Bernard (1936 – 2006); WEYERS, Wolfgang (1958 – )
Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.
GMN 8785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10963
1999 PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
The Nazi war on cancer.
GMN 10229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12419
1999 MORAN, Michael
Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.
"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…
GMN 13315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15581
2000 MIDELFORT, Hans Christian Erik (1942 – )
A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany.
GMN 8229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10405
2000 FALTIN, Thomas
Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).
GMN 13428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15700
2001 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – ); DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – ); EBBINGHAUS, Angelika (1945 – ); LINNE, Karsten; ROTH, Karl Heinz (1942 – )
The Nuremberg medical trial, 1946/47: Transcripts, material of the prosecution and defense, related documents. On behalf of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Edited by Klaus Dörner, Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne in cooperation with Karl Heinz Roth and Paul Weindling. Guide to the microfiche-edition. Compiled by Johannes Eltzschig and Michael Walter. With an introduction to the Trial's history by Angelika Ebbinghaus and short biographies of the participants.
GMN 7894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10067
2001 EFRON, John M. (1957 – )
Medicine and the German Jews: A history.
GMN 8276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10452
2001 KLEE, Ernst (1942 – 2013)
Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich: Karrieren vor und nach 1945.
GMN 13979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16282
2002 DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – ); EBBINGHAUS, Angelika (1945 – )
Vernichten und Heilen: Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Folgen.
GMN 7915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10088
2002 FALTIN, Thomas
Homöopathie in der Klinik: die Geschichte der Homöopathie am Stuttgarter Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus von 1940 bis 1973.
GMN 13427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15699
2002 NICOSIA, Francis R. (1944 – ); HUENER, Jonathan D.
Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.
GMN 13503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15778
2004 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.
GMN 7893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10066
2006 FORSBACH, Ralf
Die Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Bonn im "Dritten Riech".
GMN 7171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9338
2006 FORSBACH, Ralf
Medizin im "Dritten Reich". Humanexperimente, "Euthanasie" und die Debatten der Gegenwart.
GMN 7172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9339
2006 ECKART, Wolfgang Uwe (1952 – )
Man, medicine, and the state: The human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century, edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart.
Chapters on controversial government experimental programs in Senegal, in Germany under the Nazi regime, including in concentration camps and in aerospace research, and also the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Tuskege…
GMN 7176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9343
2009 BERGER, Silvia
Bacterien in Krieg und Frieden: Eine Geschichte der medizinischen Bakteriologie in Deutschland 1890-1933.
GMN 12012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14220
2013 SCHOLZ, Albrecht (1940 – 2013)
Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.
GMN 12580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14819
