1640 HAFENREFFER, Samuel (1587 – 1660)
Monochordon symbolico-biomanticum. Abstrusissimam pulsuum doctrinam, ex harmoniis musicis dilucidè, figurisq[ue] oculariter demonstrans, de causis & prognosticis inde promulgandis fideliter instruens, & jucundè per Medicam praxin resonans.
Hafenreffer believed that the sound of music could assist in regulating an abnormal pulse by means of vibrating air. His book included graphic representations of irregular pulses. Digital facsimile from Bayerische Sta…
GMN 13009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15259
1729 BROWNE, Richard
Medicina musica: Or, a mechanical essay on the effects of singing, musick, and dancing, on human bodies. Revis'd and corrected. To which is annex'd a new essay on the nature and cure of the spleen and vapours.
A very early book on music therapy. Among other things Browne was aware of the effect of music upon mood, and recognized that music could lift depression. OCLC states "Originally published anonymously in 1727 under ti…
GMN 9503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11688
1747 MARQUET, François-Nicolas (1687 – 1759)
Nouvelle méthode facile et curieuse, pour apprendre par les notes de musique à connoître le pous de l'homme, & les différens changemens qui lui arrivent, depuis sa naissance jusqu'a sa mort, tirée des observations faite par M. F. N. Marquet, Docteur en medecine, ancient medecin ord. du feû Duc Leopold, & Doyen des medecins de Nancy.
Osler, whose copy is recorded in Bibliotheca Osleriana 3335, quoted a previous owner's comment on this edition: "A curious and uncommon book. The author, in claiming to judge of the state of the pulse by its resemblan…
GMN 13007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15257
1758 ROGER, Joseph-Louis ( – 1761)
Tentamen de vi soni et musices in corpus humanorum.
The first significant work on music and medicine. The best edition is the French translation by E. Sainte-Marie, augmented with 96pp. of notes: Traité des effets de la musique sur le corps humain. Paris, Brunot, An XI…
GMN 6631.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7711
1769 BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807); MARQUET, François-Nicolas (1687 – 1759)
Nouvelle méthode facile et curieuse pour connoitre le pouls par les notes de la musique, par feu M.F.N. Marquet. Seconde édition, augmentée de plusieurs observations et réflexions critiques, & d'une dissertation en forme de thèse sur cette méthode; d'un mémoire sur la manière de guérir la mélancholie par la musique, & de l'éloge historique de M. Marquet. Par Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz.
Buc'hoz applied his father-in-laws theories of music therapy to the treatment of depression. Digital facsimile from loc.gov at this link.
GMN 13008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15258
1792 BACHMANN, Christian Ludwig (1763 – 1813)
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de effectibus musicae in hominem.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16050
1854 –1855 GARCIA, Manuel Patricio Rodríguez (1805 – 1906)
Observations on the human voice.
Garcia, a teacher of singing, invented the modern laryngoscope.
GMN 3329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4575
1863 HELMHOLTZ, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821 – 1894)
Die Lehre von der Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik.
Helmholtz’s theory of hearing, upon which all modern theories of resonance are based. This exhaustive study of acoustics ranks as one of the greatest books on the subject and shows that Helmholtz was, besides being a …
GMN 1562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1223
1895 HIS, Wilhelm Sr. (1831 – 1904)
Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.
To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…
GMN 7408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9580
1926 SCHRÖTTER, Anton Hermann Victor Thomas von (Schrötter von Kristelli) (1870 – 1928); LOEWY, Adolf (1862 – 1937)
Über den Energieverbrauch bei musikalischer Betätigung.
Specialized study on the energy consumption of musicians.
GMN 12298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14520
1946 MARMELSZADT, Willard Lee (1919 – 2012)
Musical sons of Aesculapius.
GMN 6631.02 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7713
1948 SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989); SCHOEN, Max (1888 – 1959)
Music and medicine.
GMN 6631.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7717
1957 BILLROTH, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 – 1894); FISCHER, Georg (1836 – 1921); BARKAN, Hans (1882 – 1960); BRAHMS, Johannes (1833 – 1897)
Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.
Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…
GMN 8586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10763
1961 LONG, Esmond Ray (1890 – 1979)
A history of the therapy of tuberculosis and the case of Frederic Chopin.
GMN 10321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12513
1977 KÜMMEL, Werner Friedrich (1936 – )
Musik und Medizin: Ihre Wechselbeziehungen in Theorie und Praxis von 800 bis 1800.
GMN 9058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11237
1977 CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997); HENSON, R. A.
Music and the brain. Studies in the neurology of music. Edited by MacDonald Critchley and R. A. Henson.
GMN 9378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11561
1989 –1991 NEUMAYR, Anton (1920 – 2017)
Musik und Medizin. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik; Vol. 2: Am Beispiel der deutschen Romantik; Vol. 3: Chopin, Smetana, Tschaikowsky, Mahler. The three volumes were translated into English by Bruce Cooper Clarke, and published i…
GMN 7531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9703
1996 HUTCHESON, Michael; HUTCHESON, Linda
Opera, desire, disease, death.
"The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with f…
GMN 12316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14539
2000 HORDEN, Peregrine
Music as medicine: The history of music therapy since antiquity. Edited by Peregrine Horden.
GMN 9790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11978
2002 BAD HAND, Howard P.
Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.
Medical rituals of the Lacota people.
GMN 10410 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12603
2007 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.
In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…
GMN 9132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11311
2014 KENNAWAY, James
Music and the nerves 1700-1900. Edited by James Kennway.
GMN 12783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15029
2015 MROCZKOWSKI, Tomasz F.
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
GMN 8800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10978
