Entry Nos. 11500–11599
99 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1968 CE
#11551
Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.
Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli&rsq…
c. 1911 CE–c. 1916 CE
#11552
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War.
"The chapters comprising the volume appeared originally as separate articles in the 'Military surgeon.' Upon their compilation a limited number of copies of reprints were obtained by this office and bound together for…
1974 CE
#11553
Corpuscles: Atlas of red blood cell shapes.
A spectacular oversize atlas reproducing 121 photographs of erythrocytes as visualized with a scanning electron microscope. The first edition was published in English, followed by an edition in French in 1976.
1966 CE
#11554
The papers of Alfred Blalock. Edited by Mark Ravitch. 2 vols.
This massive (2026-page) work includes a biographical study of Blalock, his complete bibliography, and biographical sketches of co-authors of Blalock's publications.
1992 CE
#11555
Mechanisierung des Herzen: Harvey und Descartes- Der Vitale und der mechanische Aspekt des Kreislaufs.
Translated into English by Marjorie Grene as The mechanization of the heart: Harvey and Descartes. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
1836 CE
#11556
Nouvelles recherches sur le rhumatisme articulaire en général, et spécialement sur la loi de coincidence de la péricardite et de l'endocardite avec cette maladie, ainsi que sur l'efficacité de la formule des émissions sanguines coup sur coup dans son traitement.
"In this volume he [Bouillaud] irrevocably established the etiologic relationship between rheumatic fever and heart disease. Early reports on this relationship had been contributed by Pitcairn, Jenner, and Wells, but …
1685 CE
#11557
Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy to which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines.
In this work on drug action or pharmacodynamics Boyle argued that remedies composed of only one or two ingredients were preferable to more complex drugs for two reasons. First, because the patient would experience few…
1846 CE
#11558
On the disorders of the cerebral circulation; and on the connection between affections of the brain and diseases of the heart.
"Burrows was the first to indicate that the effects of cerebral anemia could be produced not only by obvious anemia itself, but also from a fall in blood pressure. He carried out some of the earliest studies of the ph…
1906 CE
#11559
Case teaching in medicine: A series of graduated exercises in the differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of actual cases of disease.
"The first comprehensive description of the 'Cabot case' style of medical teaching that evolved into the classic clinicopathological case (CPC) mode. Cabot had a special interest in heart disease and was a pioneer of …
1959 CE
#11560
Digital recording of electrocardiographic data for analysis by a digital computer.
This is probably the earliest paper on the use of computers to analyze electrocardiograms. The abstract: "A corrected orthogonal 3-lead system has been used to record electrocardiograms directly from patients at Veter…
1890 CE
#11561
Sketch of the history & progress of district nursing, from its commencement in the year 1859 to the present date, including the foundation by the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute" for nursing the poor in their own home
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1865 CE
#11562
Organization of nursing: An account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing by a member of the Committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale.
The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was established in 1865, from which a district nursing system was implemented in Liverpool through the 1860s. This system eventually spread throughout England. Digital…
1906 CE
#11563
Uniterminal and biterminal venous transplantations.
"The possibility of transforming a vein into an artery, from a functional point of view, naturally arouses the idea of substituting veins for arteries when the latter are rendered useless by some pathological processe…
1970 CE
#11564
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
1873 CE
#11565
Removal of a needle from the heart. Recovery of the patient.
"The first occasion on which a surgeon deliberately operated on an injured heart was in October 1872. This followed a brawl in a public house in East London, after which a 31-year-old man could not find a needle he us…
1855 CE
#11566
Self-adjusting stethoscope of Dr. Cammann.
The American physician George P. Cammann invented the binaural flexible stethoscope. By 1852 Cammann "had developed a stethoscope with flexible tubing (spirals of wire covered with silk, later rubber, or as he called …
1923 CE
#11567
Traumatic shock.
"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…
1937 CE
#11568
La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.
Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.
1976 CE
#11569
Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.
1931 CE
#11570
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
1950 CE
#11571
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
1904 CE
#11572
The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.
The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1902 CE
#11573
Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.
According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…
1876 CE
#11574
Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.
"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…
2007 CE
#11575
Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.
1793 CE
#11576
Storia di un monocolo con alcune riflessioni.
A rather elegantly produced and illustrated medical monograph on a cyclops, with plates printed in sepia. Engraved headpieces allude to monsters from classical mythology Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1955 CE
#11577
Cardiovascular surgery: Studies in physiology, diagnosis and techniques. Proceedings of the symposium held at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, March, 1955. Edited by Conrad R. Lam.
This symposium was a foundational work in the history of cardiovascular surgery. It included contributions by most of the pioneers of the closed and open-heart procedures that revolutionaized the care of children and …
1864 CE
#11578
Medical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.
During the Civil War Da Costa was an acting surgeon in Philadelphia where he supervised a ward for patients with heart disease. In this book he presented the first description of a condition that he called "irritable …
1980 CE
#11579
The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.
"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…
1924 CE
#11580
Herz und Sport: klinische Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des Sportes auf das Herz.
This pioneering study on the effects of exercise on the cardiovascular system was translated into English by Louis M. Warfield as Herz und Sport. Heart and athletics. London: Henry Kimpton, 1927. Digital facsimile of …
1644 CE
#11581
Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.
"Digby's Two Treatises was intended to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body, a dualistic view shared by many of his contemporaries. the work is noteworthy on several co…
2013 CE
#11582
Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.
1861 CE
#11583
Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations.
Dobell was the first physician to propose periodic health examinations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896 CE
#11584
Notes on the coronary arteries.
Dock recorded one of the earliest diagnoses of myocardial infaction in a living patient: "The diagnosis was mymalacia folling coronary sclerosis with secondary pericarditis. This was based on the history of increasing…
1987 CE
#11585
Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century
"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …
1961 CE
#11586
An atlas of acquired diseases of the heart and great vessels. 3 vols.
1965 CE
#11587
Congenital heart disease: Correlation of pathologic anatomy and angiography. 2 vols.
With Lewis Carey and Richard Lester.
1639 CE
#11588
De flagrorum usu in re veneria et lumborum renumque officio, epistola.
According to Havelock Ellis, Studies in the psychology of sex (1913) this is the earliest published work on flogging in "medicine" and for sexual gratification, giving accounts of a number of examples. "David Savran d…
1906 CE
#11589
Het telecardiogram.
This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.
1960 CE
#11590
An implantable pacemaker in the heart. IN: Medical electronics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Electronics, Paris 24-27 June 1959. Edited by C. N. Smyth.
"This is the original report of the first fully implantable pacemaker that was designed by Elmqvist and surgically inserted under the skin of a patient in October 1958. It is an abstract of their presentation that sig…
1998 CE
#11591
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
1799 CE
#11592
An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.
"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it…
2003 CE
#11593
The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.
2005 CE
#11594
The eugenics movement: An encyclopedia.
1927 CE
#11595
How to make the periodic health examination: A manual of procedure. Foreward by Major General Merritte W. Ireland, Surgeon General, United States Army.
Fisk was medical director, Life Extension Institute; Crawford was Assistant Medical Director, Life Extension Institute. "This pioneering monograph on the value of periodic health examination includes numbers of photog…
1867 CE
#11596
Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, GA. Edited by Austin Flint.
Includes contributions by Roberts Bartholow, Jacob Mendez DaCosta, Paul Eve, Frank Hamilton, Joseph Jones, S. Wier Mitchell, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1629 CE–1631 CE
#11597
Integrum morborum mysterium, sive medicinæ catholicæ tomi primi tractatus secundus. [Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia ... Hoc est, portionis tertiae pars tertia, de pulsuum scientia ... medicorum ... sive tomi primi tractatus secundi, sectio secunda, de morborum signis ... hoc est, divinatio per urinam.] In sectiones distributus duas : quorum ...
Fludd's Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia contain's Fludd's chief medical writings. Dated 1629, but issued in this form, Fludd's Pulsus was the first published endorsement of Harvey's theory of the circulatio…
1963 CE
#11598
Periodic health examinations: Abstracts from the literature. Public Health Service Publication No. 1010.
An annotated bibliography of the literature to June 1962. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1824 CE
#11599
Original cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest: Also commentaries on the same subjects selected and translated from Auenbrugger, Corvisart, Laennec and others
This is the earliest English work on the stethoscope. It "includes the first English translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion, selected sections from Laennec's book on auscultation, and detailed reports from 39…