Entry Nos. 13600–13699

2010 CE

#13650

Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.

Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.

1849 CE–1851 CE

#13651

The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya: Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2010 CE

#13652

Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.

https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing p…

2008 CE

#13653

The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.

http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…

1994 CE

#13654

The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.

1995 CE

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

1978 CE–1980 CE

#13656

Atlas on the history of spectacles. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 catalogues spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of S…

2004 CE

#13657

The history of ophthalmology in Japan.

2020 CE

#13658

The history of glaucoma.

2002 CE

#13659

History of strabismology.

2013 CE

#13660

Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.

2013 CE

#13661

The history of color blindness. Translated from the original French manuscript by Colin Mailer.

2009 CE

#13662

Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.

1840 CE

#13663

De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.

Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…

1833 CE

#13664

Compte rendu des travaux de l'École de Médecine d'Abou-Zabel (Égypte), et de l'examen général des élèves pour les 1re, 2e, 3e, 4e, et 5e années da sa fondation 1242-1243 (1827-1828)....Suivi de l'exposé de la conduite et des travaux de l'auteur lui-même en Égypte, depuis 1240 à 1248 (Hégyre) 1825 à 1832, et de diverses pièces relatives à son voyage en France.

"During the French occupation of Egypt, Napoleon designated Kasr al-Aini a hospital for his troops in 1799, and then afterwards proposed the opening of a school to teach local Egyptian students the medicine required t…

1858 CE

#13665

Compte rendu de l'examen des élèves de l'École de Médecine et de l'École d'Accouchement du Caire, pour la première année de sa réorganisation ... 6 avril 1858.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1849 CE

#13666

Compte-rendu de l'état del'enseignement médical et du service de santé civil et militaire de l'Égypte au commencement de mars 1849.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2021 CE

#13667

Vesaliana: An updated and annotated Vesalius Bibliography, including all known publications on Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and his works. Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.

http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ A bibliography of studies about Vesalius and his works. When I added this entry in October 2021 the latest version was a 582-page PDF dated January 2021.

2020 CE

#13668

In the shadow of Vesalius: An exciting series of new insights into life and work of Andreas Vesalius and his friends. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

2021 CE

#13669

Inventory of the editions of Andreas Vesalius's works and letters (Opera litteraeque Andreae Vesalii). Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.

http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ An update of Harvey Cushing's Biobibliography. When I added this entry in October 2021 the most recent online version of this bibliography was a 506-page PDF dated January 2021.

2020 CE

#13670

Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.

2019 CE

#13671

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.

2017 CE

#13672

Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890.

2018 CE

#13673

Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power. Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martinez.

"Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea,…

2013 CE

#13674

Ways of regulating drugs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess.

1870 CE

#13675

Nouvelles études sur les quinquinas, d'après les matériaux présentés en 1867 à l'Exposition universelle de Paris et accompagnées de facsimilé des dessins de la quinologie de Mutis, suivis de remarques sur la culture de quinquinas.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1728 CE–1737 CE

#13676

Historia plantarum rariorum [centuriae primae decas prima-quinta].

Contains some of the earliest attempts at printing copper plates in color. The plates were "engraved by [Elisha] Kirkall in what is generally called 'mezzotint printed in colour.' The phrase is misleading. ... Kirkall…

2021 CE

#13677

C'rona pandemic comics.

https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/crona-comix/

1997 CE

#13678

Attorney's illustrated medical dictionary.

2021 CE

#13679

An organ of murder: Crime, violence and phrenology in nineteenth-century America.

1924 CE

#13680

Plastische Anatomie: Die konstruktive Form des menschlichen Körpers. Mit Bildern von Hermann Sachs.

An anatomy for artists, illustrated by Hermann Sachs.

1995 CE

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

1988 CE

#13682

Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

1991 CE

#13683

Aids: The making of a chronic disease. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

1810 CE

#13684

Des erreurs populaires relatives a la médecine.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Second edition, revised, corrected, and expanded with 50 additional pages, Paris, 1812. Digital facsimile of the second edition from wellcomecollection.org a…

1955 CE

#13685

A small particulate component of the cytoplasm.

Palade first described the association of what were subsequently determined to ribosomes with membranes. He and Keith Porter subsequently named this structure the endoplasmic reticulum. Digital facsimile from PubMedCe…

1789 CE

#13686

A historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. M,DCC,LXXXIX.

"This describes the former Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, originally designed in 1664 by John Webb as a palace, and afterwards adapted for use as a Naval Hospital by Sir Christopher Wren, with the assistance of Ni…

1856 CE

#13687

Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.

Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…

1870 CE

#13688

Étude médico-légale sur la pendaison, la strangulation, les suffocations.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

2019 CE

#13689

Rotten bodies: Class and contagion in eighteenth-century Britain.

2004 CE

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

2013 CE

#13691

A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.

2014 CE

#13692

Past scents: Historical perspectives on smell.

2006 CE

#13693

Criminels and their scientists: The history of criminology in international perspective. Edited by Richard F. Wetzell and Peter Becker.

1841 CE

#13694

Report on British fossil reptiles. Part II. In: Report of the eleventh meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Plymouth, July 1841, pp. 60-204.

In this review article Owen coined the term Dinosaur (pp. 102-103). In surveying fossil bones and teeth found by Gideon Mantell, William Buckland, and others, he observed that three genera--Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, an…

1721 CE

#13695

The farriers dispensatory, in three parts. Containing I. A description of the medicinal simples, commonly made use of in the diseases of horses, with their virtues and manner of operation, distributed into proper classes, &c. II. The preparations of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral ; with an explanation of the most usual terms, both in the chymical and galenical pharmacy. III. A number of useful compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases, never before published; as also those of greatest account from Solleysell, Ruini, Blundevill, and other most celebrated authors, digested under their proper heads of powders, balls, drinks, ointments, charges, &c. The proper Method of compounding and making them, with many other useful observations and improvements tending to their right administration. To which is also added, a compleat index of all the medicines contained in the book, whether simple or compound, with a table of diseases pointing to the remedies proper in each malady.

1470 CE

#13696

Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.

First description of the "method of loci," the memory technique as known as the "memory palace." Because of its wide use during the Middle Ages this text survives in hundreds of medieval manuscripts. Fourteen printed …

1979 CE

#13697

Pharmaceutical manufacturing encyclopedia.

"Descriptions of 673 major pharmaceuticals, information having been obtained from the patent literature. Alphabetical arrangement by generic names. Each entry gives therapeutic function; chemical, common, and trade na…

1977 CE

#13698

Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.

Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…

1790 CE

#13699

Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures....

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.