1910 WOOTTON, A. C. (1843 – 1910)
Chronicles of pharmacy. 2 vols.
From antiquity to time of writing, with chapters on pharmacy in mythology, in Shakespeare, in the Bible, and in popularmedicine.
GMN 2045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2231
1910 FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940)
Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin.
Comprehensive analysis, with thorough bibliographical citations, of classic writings and scholarship in this field, to 1910. Besides medicine and pathology, Includes pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and "medical works i…
GMN 6511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8078
1910 JONES, Alfred Ernest (1879 – 1958)
The Oedipus-complex as an explanation of Hamlet's mystery: A study in motive.
Jones developed this thesis based on Freud's comments on the play, as expressed to Wilhelm Fliess in 1897,[2] before Freud published the ideas in Chapter V of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Jones later developed…
GMN 9992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12181
1911 SHAW, George Bernard (1856 – 1950)
The doctor's dilemma, getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.
"Historian John Crellin opens his essay on William Osler and George Bernard Shaw with a quotation about this 1911 book that the compilers of the catalogue of Osler's library wrote: 'With a cynical 'Preface on Doctors'…
GMN 11661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13862
1914 CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne (1865 – 1938)
Plague and pestilence in literature and art.
Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.
GMN 5138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6151
1916 DANA, Charles Loomis (1852 – 1935)
Poetry and the doctors: A catalogue of poetical works written by physicians with biographical notes & An essay on the poetry of certain ancient practitioners of medicine, illustrated with translations from the Latin and by reproductions of the title pages of the rarer works.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13013
1917 KÖRNER, Otto (1858 – 1935)
Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12177
1917 GOGARTY, Oliver St. John (1878 – 1957)
Blight: The tragedy of Dublin: An exposition in 3 acts.
Gogarty, an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin was "o…
GMN 12539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14776
1918 SCHMIEDEBERG, Johann Ernst Oswald (1838 – 1921)
Ueber die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee.
Medicines and poisons in the Iliad and Odyssey.
GMN 9986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12175
1918 BOUTAREL, M.
La médecine dans notre théâtre comique, depuis ses origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle...
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16124
1919 CUMMINGS, Bruce Frederick [BARBELLION] (1889 – 1919); WELLS, Herbert George (1866 – 1946)
The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.
Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…
GMN 10741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12936
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
1920 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935); WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
GMN 11295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13492
1922 COGLIEGINA, Benevenuto
Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.
Medicine in Homer.
GMN 9985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12174
1922 MONTAIGNE, Michel de (1533 – 1592); TAYLOR, James Spottiswoode (1870 – )
Montaigne and medicine; being the essayist's comments on contemporary physic and physicians; his thoughts on many material matters relating to life and death; an account of his bodily ailments and peculiarities and of his travels in search of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13015
1925 LEWIS, Sinclair (1885 – 1951)
Arrowsmith.
"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…
GMN 10197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12386
1927 WILSON, Frederick Perera (1876 – 1926)
The plague in Shakespeare’s London.
GMN 5142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6156
1928 OPPENHEIMER, Heinrich (1870 – 1933)
Medical and allied topics in Latin poetry.
GMN 10820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13016
1929 KÖRNER, Otto (1858 – 1935)
Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.
Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12176
1930 NORRIS, Charles Gilman (1881 – 1945)
Seed, a novel of birth control.
GMN 12158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14368
1931 BURTON, Robert (1577 – 1640); JORDAN-SMITH, Paul (1885 – 1971)
Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings
GMN 11250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13447
1932 HUXLEY, Aldous Leonard (1894 – 1963)
Brave new world.
"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…
GMN 12160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14370
1933 PIA, Pascal (1903 – 1979)
Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.
GMN 6621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7678
1933 YEARSLEY, Percival Macleod (1867 – 1951)
Doctors in Elizabethan drama.
GMN 6622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7679
1934 KEATS, John (1795 – 1821); FORMAN, Maurice Buxton (1872 – 1957)
John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.
Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…
GMN 6622.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7682
1936 MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
GMN 8726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10904
1937 CRONIN, Archibald Joseph (1896 – 1981)
The Citadel.
This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…
GMN 10198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12387
1937 PRITCHER, Jacob Leon
A sex starved world.
A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …
GMN 11797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13999
1939 CRUCHET, Jean René (1875 – 1959)
La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.
GMN 9735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11922
1943 HUGHES, Muriel Joy (1903 – )
Women healers in medieval life and literature.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10731
1943 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); OBERNDORF, Clarence Paul (1882 – 1954)
The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes
A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.
GMN 11259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13456
1945 MCDONOUGH, Mary Lou McCarthy
Poet physicians: An anthology of medical poetry written by physicians.
GMN 6623 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7684
1947 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
The diagnosis of the acute abdomen in rhyme by Zeta.
Cope published this humorous version of his Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen under the pseudonym Zeta.
GMN 10822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13018
1951 MONRO, Thomas Kirkpatrick (1865 – 1958)
The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.
GMN 6742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7871
1951 LAWRENCE, Jerome (1915 – 2004); LEE, Robert Edwin (1918 – 1994)
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
GMN 10616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12809
1953 THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…
GMN 6623.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7687
1953 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); CURRIER, Thomas Franklin (1873 – 1946); TILTON, Eleanor Marguerite (1913 – 1991)
A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes
GMN 11203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13400
1959 SIMPSON, Robert Ritchie
Shakespeare and medicine.
GMN 6623.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7688
1960 PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976)
The torch.
A romantic and inspirational historical novel about Hippocrates by the great Canadian neurosurgeon.
GMN 6623.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7690
1960 MALATO, Marco T.; ALICANDRI-CIUFELLI, Concezio
Lo "Speculum hominis": Poema anonimo di etimologia medica del secolo XIII. Edited by Marco T. Malato and Concezio Alicandri-Ciufelli.
GMN 9442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11625
1963 KIELL, Norman (1916 – )
Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.
Contains 4,460 references.
GMN 5019.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6640
1964 KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 4 vols.
Revised and slightly expanded from Keynes's first edition (6 vols., London: Faber & Faber, 1928-31).
GMN 9396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11579
1967 SILVETTE, Herbert (1906 – 2002)
The doctor on the stage: Medicine and medical men in seventeenth-century England.
GMN 9741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11929
1968 KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
A bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne
Second edition, revised and augmented.
GMN 11204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13401
1969 CRICHTON, Michael (1942 – 2008)
The Andromeda strain. A novel.
A techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.
GMN 11840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14044
1970 WELLCOME LIBRARY; DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (1812 – 1870)
Dickens and medicine: An exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14275
1971 USSERY, Huling Eakin (1898 – 1988)
Chaucer's physician: Medicine and literature in fourteenth-century England.
GMN 9439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11622
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1973 BRANDENBURG, Dietrich
Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.
GMN 9255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11437
1974 PICKERING, Sir George White (1904 – 1980)
Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
GMN 7777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9949
