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Entry Nos. 10800–10899

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2015 CE

#10800

The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.

2013 CE

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

1968 CE

#10802

Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.

1977 CE

#10803

Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.

1968 CE

#10804

Medical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.

1815 CE

#10805

Sketch of the medical history of the British Armies in the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, during the late campaigns.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1998 CE

#10806

Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.

1918 CE

#10807

The history of the Boston Medical Library.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1975 CE

#10808

The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975.

1881 CE

#10809

Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.

The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…

1944 CE

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

1983 CE

#10811

Scientists’ libraries: A handlist of printed sources.

Includes references to the libraries of many physicians. Digital text available from historyofscience.com at this link.

1832 CE

#10812

Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1788 CE

#10813

An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.

Falconbridge was a surgeon in the slave trade before becoming an abolitionist. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1744 CE

#10814

The art of preserving health: A poem.

John Armstrong was the brother of George Armstrong. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. The edition consisted of 1250 of which 50 were on "fine paper."

2007 CE

#10815

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.

1982 CE

#10816

The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.

Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patie…

1916 CE

#10817

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.

2003 CE

#10818

Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…

1922 CE

#10819

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.

1928 CE

#10820

Medical and allied topics in Latin poetry.

1992 CE

#10821

Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.

1947 CE

#10822

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.

1921 CE

#10823

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

1833 CE

#10824

The dispensatory of the United States of America.

Digital facsimile of this, the first, and later editions from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1896 CE

#10825

Medical and dental colleges of the west: Historical and biographical.

Covers institutions in Chicago and environs: Augustana Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Northwestern University Medical …

1904 CE

#10826

The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.

A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

c. 1903 CE

#10827

The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benefactors and alumni: A history. Edited by John Shrady. 2 vols.

A massive history of nearly 1200 pages issued by the publisher of the similarly huge history of the Rush Medical College (No. 10826). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1924 CE

#10828

Humane society leaders in America. With a sketch of the early history of the humane movement in England.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1875 CE

#10829

Experimentation on animals, as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1902 CE

#10830

Animal experimentation: A series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science.

Contributors included Charles Elliot, G. Stanley Hall, William T. Sedgwick, James J. Putnam, Henry P. Bowditch, William T. Porter, William T. Councilman, Theobald Smith, and members of the religious community. Digital…

1935 CE

#10831

1000 Ärzte gegen die Vivisektion (wissenschaftliche Tierfolter) wegen ihrer Grausamkeit und Nutzlosigkeit.

Considered a classic of the anti-vivisection movement.

1914 CE

#10832

Animal experimentation and medical progress.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1901 CE

#10833

The vivisection question.

Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…

1981 CE

#10834

A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.

"... restricted to literature in the English language, with over 3200 entries; it is also confined to the thought and practices of the Western world, from Biblical times to 1980." Concerns much on animal experimentati…

1910 CE

#10835

The humane movement: A descriptive survey.

Concerns the origins and evolution of the humane movement that played a significant role in the emergence and growth of the antivivisection movement in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1896 CE

#10836

Biological experimentation: Its function and limits.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2001 CE

#10838

The scalpel and the butterfly: The war between animal research and animal protection.

1876 CE

#10839

Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: With minutes and evidence and appendix.

This commission, or others with a similar name, seems to have continued intermittently in England for several decades, with the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection issued as late as 1908. Digital facs…

1959 CE

#10840

Scrapie and Kuru.

In 1959 Hadlow, a veterinarian, visited a medical exposition in England where Carlton Gajdusek posted pathological slides of autopsied Kuru brains and a clinical description of the illness. He realized that Gajdusek's…

1968 CE

#10841

Kuru and cannibalism.

Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…

1982 CE

#10842

Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.

Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…

1986 CE

#10843

Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei.

The authors coined the name Fatal Familial Insomnia to describe a family cohort of individuals who were dying from a prion illness causing an inability to sleep. This disease has been characterized as one of the most …

1996 CE

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…

1971 CE

#10845

La sexualidad femenina. Una investigación estadística.

"Between 1932 and 1961 Serrano Vicéns systematically studied the sexuality of 1417 women who went through his surgery. With that data, he wrote a book entitled "Female sexuality. A statistical investigation " t…

1978 CE

#10846

Informe sexual de la mujer española.

1930 CE

#10847

Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.

Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…

1899 CE–1933 CE

#10848

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.

"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured article…

1994 CE

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1996 CE–1997 CE

#10850

The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.