1635 CORNUT, Jacques-Philippe [Cornuti] (1606 – 1651)
Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia.
First description of the Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America, but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the …
GMN 8953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11132
1751 BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777); KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 7677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9849
1753 –1761 KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
En Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
Between 1748 and 1749, Kalm, a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, traveled throughout northeast America, specifically in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada, surveying the countryside, an…
GMN 9923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12111
1784 –1787 PENNANT, Thomas (1726 – 1798)
Arctic zoology. 3 vols.
Pennant had "intended to write a "Zoology of North America" but as he explained in the "Advertisement", since he felt mortified by the loss of British control over America, this was changed to Arctic Zoology.[22] The …
GMN 11618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13818
1803 MICHAUX, André (1746 – 1802); REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759 – 1840)
Flora Boreali-Americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux, Instituti Gallici Scientiarum, necnon Societatis Agriculturae Caroliniensis socius. Tabulis Aeneis 51 ornata [after Pierre-Joseph Redouté]. 2 vols.
"The French government sent Michaux to the United States to collect North American seeds, shrubs, and trees ; he landed at New York City on 1 October, accompanied by his son [François-André Michaux] and a gardener. In…
GMN 12399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14629
1814 PURSH, Frederick Traugott (1774 – 1820)
Flora Americae septentrionalis; or, a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America. Containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. 2 vols.
The first survey of all plants of North America above Mexico, including more than 3,000 species and 470 genera; describes more than 100 species collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Digital facsimile from Botan…
GMN 7876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10048
1815 PARMLY, Levi Spear (1790 – 1859)
The summum bonum.
The first book on dentistry published in Canada. Facsimile edition, Montreal, 1969.
GMN 12914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15161
1819 DOUGLAS, John (1788 – 1861)
Medical topography of Upper Canada.
The only book on the War of 1812 by a British or Canadian surgeon, and the first medical book on the Province of Ontario, Canada. This and the work of Mann (No. 2161.1) are the only books on medicine in the War of 181…
GMN 2162.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1005
1820 STEPHENSON, John (1797 – 1842)
Dissertatio chirurgo-medica inauguralis de velosynthesi.
Stephenson, a medical student from Montreal, was the first to be operated upon by Roux (No. 5739.1) for the repair of cleft of the soft palate. He described the operation in his graduation thesis. Stephenson later fou…
GMN 5740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6538
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
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
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
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
1865 CHEADLE, Walter Butler (1836 – 1910); WENTWORTH-FITZWILLIAM, William Viscount Milton (1839 – 1877)
The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains.
Together with William Fitzwilliam (Viscount Milton), Cheadle travelled up the Athabasca River and in 1863 they became the first "tourists" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass. Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, t…
GMN 12659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14903
1884 RAUCH, John Henry (1828 – 1894)
Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.
Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…
GMN 10114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12303
1885 TUKE, Daniel Hack (1827 – 1895)
The insane in the United States and Canada.
The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.
GMN 5003.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6563
1885 MATHEWS, Percy W.
Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…
GMN 10192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12381
1886 BELL, Robert (1847 – 1917)
The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12380
1894 CANNIFF, William (1830 – 1910)
The medical profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850.
Rescues from oblivion many historical facts and discusses the pioneer medical men of Canada. Biographies of many famous physicians of Canada are included. Reprinted Toronto, 1980.
GMN 6582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8490
1910 FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959)
Medical education in the United States and Canada.
This report caused massive reforms in North American medical education, including the closure or merging with stronger institutions, of 76 medical schools between 1910 and 1920. Part 1 is a history and analysis of med…
GMN 1766.502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3217
1912 TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
Does a human tick-borne disease exist in British Columbia?
Report on the first cases of "tick paralysis", a potentially lethal disease treatable by removing the tick. Follow-up paper by Todd: "Tick bite in British Columbia," Canad. med. Assoc. J., 2 (1912) 1118-1119. Unlike m…
GMN 10921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13117
1914 MAGROU, Joseph Émile (1883 – 1951)
Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.
Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.
GMN 5536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6699
1916 –1917 HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927); BLUMER, George Alder (1857 – 1940); BURGESS, Thomas Joseph Workman (1849 – 1926); PILGRIM, Charles Winfield (1855 – 1934); DREWRY, William Francis (1860 – 1934); DEWEY, Richard (1845 – 1933)
The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.
Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 5006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6576
1919 MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014); MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)
In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.
McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…
GMN 11739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13835
1925 MACPHAIL, Andrew John (1864 – 1938)
The Medical Services: Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War: 1914-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11628
1928 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BURRAGE, Walter Lincoln (1860 – 1935)
Dictionary of American medical biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times.
This is the revised and expanded third and final edition of Kelly's A cyclopedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. S…
GMN 6728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7847
1928 HEAGERTY, John Joseph (1879 – 1946)
Four centuries of medical history in Canada. 2 vols.
GMN 6583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8491
1928 DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11453
1928 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.
GMN 9289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11471
1931 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
History of medicine in the province of Quebec.
Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13222
1932 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.
Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.
GMN 9295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11477
1933 BROWNE, John Symonds Lyon (1904 – 1984)
Chemical and physiological properties of crystalline oestrogenic hormones.
Estriol obtained from placental tissue.
GMN 1198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1816
1933 HOWELL, William Boyman (1873 – 1947)
Medicine in Canada.
GMN 6584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8492
1935 MACDERMOT, Hugh Ernest (1888 – 1983)
History of the Canadian Medical Association.
GMN 13603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15883
1940
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
GMN 1664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2219
1953 –1956 FEASBY, W. R.
Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11629
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.
GMN 8603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10780
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
GMN 10853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13049
1962 MCLEAN, Donald M.; MCQUEEN, Joan; PETITIE, H. Elizabeth; ET AL
Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.
The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…
GMN 10920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13116
1967 MACDERMOT, Hugh Ernest (1888 – 1983)
One hundred years of medicine in Canada, 1867-1967.
GMN 13602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15882
1970 BEAMISH, Robert Earl (1916 – 2001)
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
GMN 8605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10782
1972 MCKECHNIE, Robert E. (1861 – 1944)
Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.
GMN 9917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12105
1973 BLACK, Meredith Jean
Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
GMN 9274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11456
1974 HELLSON, John C.
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
GMN 9285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11467
1975 COSBIE, Waring Gerald (1894 – )
The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.
GMN 11649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13850
1979 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009); POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ); CRAWFORD, David Sullivan
An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.
In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.
GMN 14345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16675
1984 –2000 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 was co-edited with Jacques Bernier.
GMN 6584.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8493
1984 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.
GMN 6584.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8494
1988 SEGALL, Harold Nathan (1897 – 1990)
Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.
GMN 11507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13706
1991 BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
GMN 10984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13180
