1906 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910)
The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).
Ricketts (who himself died of typhus) demonstrated that the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
GMN 5378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7054
1907 HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
Hamilton's Itinerarium; being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744, Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.
Hamilton's Itinerarium was first issued by Albert Bushnell Hart in an edition privately printed by William K. Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri, 1907. It was republished as Gentleman's progress: the Itinerarium of Dr. Alexan…
GMN 7364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9536
1908 HUBBELL, Alvin Allace (1846 – 1911)
The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870.
Of limited value, but the only available history of early American ophthalmology.
GMN 6002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7138
1908 HRDLIČKA, Aleš (1869 – 1943)
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6455.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8626
1908 BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
GMN 9724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11911
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
1911 AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
GMN 8598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10775
1912 SANDERS, Georgiana Jane (1864 – )
Modern methods in nursing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12606
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10725
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 GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…
GMN 9287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11469
1919 –1968 BENT, Arthur Cleveland (1866 – 1954)
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
GMN 12828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15074
1920 PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940); REED, Lowell Jacob (1886 – 1966)
On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation.
GMN 1712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2537
1922 DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956); NOYES, Clara Dutton (1869 – 1936); CLEMENT, Fannie Fletcher (1881 – 1950); FOX, Elizabeth Gordon (1884 – 1958)
History of American Red Cross nursing.
By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12121
1924 –1929 MEISEL, Max
A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9264
1925 LYMAN, George Dunlap (1882 – 1949)
The beginnings of California's medical history.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12468
1926 MAXCY, Kenneth Fuller (1889 – 1966)
Clinical observations on endemic typhus (Brill’s disease) in Southern United States.
Maxcy described murine (flea-borne) typhus (“Maxcy’s disease”).
GMN 5396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7169
1926 MALLOCH, Archibald (1887 – 1953); MACKALL, Leonard (1879 – 1937)
Catalogue of an exhibition of early and later medical Americana.
GMN 8909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11087
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 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 TYLER, Albert F.; AUERBACH, Ella F.
History of medicine in Nebraska. Albert F. Tyler, Editor. Ella F. Auerbach, Compiler.
This work was edited by Tyler from the writings of 24 collaborators. Reprinted and augmented, with an index, by Bernice M. Hetzner. Omaha, NE: University fo Nebraska Medical Center, 1977. Digital facsimile of the 1977…
GMN 10287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12478
1930 –1933 BLANTON, Wyndham Bolling (1890 – 1960)
Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.
GMN 6588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8498
1930 BURR, Colonel Bell (1856 – 1931)
Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.
GMN 10301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12492
1931 PACKARD, Francis Randolph (1870 – 1950)
History of medicine in the United States. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.
An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States. The first edition appeared in 1901. Dr. Packard edited the Annals of Medical History from its commencement in 1917 until its decease in 194…
GMN 6590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8499
1932 COMMITTEE ON THE COSTS OF MEDICAL CARE
Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.
See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…
GMN 8074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10250
1932 HARRIS, Henry (1874 – 1938)
California's medical story.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12470
1933 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
Amerika und die Medizin.
This is not a systematic history of American medicine, but an account of the most important landmarks in the development of medical science and teaching in the United States. An English translation, American Medicine,…
GMN 6592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8500
1933 HURD-MEAD, Kate Campbell (1867 – 1941)
Medical women of America: A short history of the pioneer medical women of America and of a few of their colleagues in England.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13198
1934 KAGAN, Solomon Robert (1881 – 1955)
Jewish contributions to medicine in America from colonial times to the present.
GMN 8677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10854
1938 HERTZLER, Arthur Emanuel (1870 – 1946)
The horse and buggy doctor.
The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
GMN 10408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12601
1939 COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)
The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.
GMN 6594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8501
1940 TAYLOR, Lyda Averill
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
GMN 9278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11460
1944 NORWOOD, William F.
Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.
Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.
GMN 1766.605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3270
1946 PICKARD, Madge Evelyn; BULEY, Roscoe Carlyle (1893 – 1968)
The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…
GMN 8741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10919
1946 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.
GMN 9504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11689
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
1947 SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
American medical research, past and present.
GMN 6595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8502
1947 FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.
GMN 8644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10821
1947 LARSELL, Olof (1886 – 1964)
The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.
GMN 10284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12475
1949 DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)
The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
GMN 5015.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6600
1949 GORDON, Maurice Bear (1916 – 2006)
Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.
GMN 6596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8503
1951 WILLIAMS, Ralph Chester (1888 – 1984)
The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.
GMN 1671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2278
1951 POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
The health of slaves on southern plantations.
Chiefly from contemporary MS records.
GMN 6596.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8504
1951 ANDERSON, Fannie
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12484
1953 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.
GMN 9505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11690
1956 MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
GMN 7238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9407
1957 HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967); HUMMEL, William W
Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10846
1957 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
GMN 10282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12473
1959 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering.
GMN 10281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12472
1961 AUSTIN, Robert B.
Early American medical imprints. A guide to works printed in the United States 1668-1820.
Describes 2105 items with paginations. Reprinted 1977.
GMN 6786.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8337
