Entry Nos. 1600–1699

1921 CE

#1654

A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.

1927 CE

#1655

The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.

1927 CE

#1656

Evolution of preventive medicine.

1929 CE

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

1932 CE

#1658

A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.

1934 CE

#1659

A history of food adulteration and analysis.

1935 CE

#1660

Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.

1936 CE

#1661

The last thirty years in public health.

1936 CE

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1940 CE

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1943 CE

#1665

Cleanliness and godliness.

A history of sewage disposal, the privy, and related matters.

1943 CE

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

Reprinted 1980.

1946 CE

#1667

The story of water supply.

1947 CE

#1668

A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1948 CE

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

1950 CE

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1923 CE

#1672

Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.

Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.

1640 CE

#1673

Epidemiorum et ephemeridum libri duo.

A pupil of Fernel, De Baillou was a follower of Hippocrates in his advancement of the doctrine of “epidemic constitutions”. Crookshank regards him as the first modern epidemiologist. This work includes the…

1751 CE

#1674

Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744 to 1749.

Cleghorn left a good account of several diseases and conditions not previously observed, among them epidemic jaundice. He included accounts of many post-mortems. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1752 CE–1770 CE

#1675

Observationes de aëre et morbis epidemicis. 3 vols.

Huxham made daily records of the weather and prevailing diseases; his aim was to establish a relationship between atmospheric conditions and disease. The work was first published in 1728; vol. 1 and 2 of the edition g…

1802 CE

#1676

Epidemiologia española o historia cronológica de las pestes, contagios, epidemias y epizootias que han acaecido en España: Desde la venida de los cartagineses hasta el año 1801.... 2 vols.

A chronological history of epidemics (plagues, contagions and epizootics) occurring in Spain to the end of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1843 CE

#1677

Bibliotheca epidemiographica.

A second edition was published in 1862. Digital facsimile of the second edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive, at this link.

1865 CE

#1678

Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.

A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…

1882 CE

#1679

Geschichte der epidemischen Krankheiten.

Forms vol. 3 of his Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medizin und der epidemischen Krankheiten, 3te. Aufl.

1891 CE–1894 CE

#1680

A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.

A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 CE–1912 CE

#1681

Abhandlungen aus der Seuchengeschichte und Seuchenlehre. Pt. 1: Die Pest. Pt. 2: Die Cholera. 2 vols. in 3.

1916 CE

#1682

Epidemics resulting from wars. Edited by Harald Westergaard.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932 CE

#1683

Epidemiology, historical and experimental.

1941 CE

#1684

War and disease.

1952 CE

#1685

Man and epidemics.

1662 CE

#1686

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality.

The first book on vital statistics. Graunt, a draper, studied the Bills of Mortality, which began as weekly lists of deaths and their causes, compiled by parish clerks. They gained much in importance after Graunt&rsqu…

1693 CE

#1687

An estimate of the degrees of mortality of mankind, drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw, with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives.

Halley, the astronomer, compiled the “Breslau tables” to show “the proportion of men able to bear arms … to estimate mortality rates, to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives, and was th…

1699 CE

#1688

Several essays in political arithmetic.

A pioneer statistician, Petty took the first census of Ireland. He was Professor of Anatomy at Oxford and later Graham Professor of Music. SeeNo. 1686.

1723 CE

#1689

A letter … containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation.

Jurin was an enthusiastic supporter of inoculation against smallpox, and proved statistically that the fatality of inoculated smallpox is very much less than the fatality of natural smallpox. This is one of the earlie…

1725 CE

#1690

Annuities upon lives; or, the valuation of annuities upon any number of lives; as also, of reversions. To which is added, an appendix concerning the expectations of life and probabilities of survivorship.

De Moivre, French Huguenot mathematician and demographer, formulated the hypothesis that among a body of persons over a certain age the successive annual decreases by death are nearly equal.

1742 CE

#1691

Die göttliche Ordnung in denen Veränderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts.

Süssmilch, a German army chaplain, produced an important book on vital statistics, the title of which translates as The divine order in the circumstances of the human sex, birth, death and reproduction. Among oth…

1750 CE

#1692

New observations, natural, moral, civil, political, and medical, on city, town, and country bills of mortality.

Original and suggestive work on vital statistics, showing vividly the changing conditions of life as he saw it (Greenwood).

1798 CE

#1693

An essay on the principle of population, as it affects the future improvement of society.

Malthus laid down the principle that populations increase in geometrical ratio, but that subsistence increases only in arithmetical ratio. He argued that a stage is reached where increase of populations must be limite…

1802 CE

#1694

Natural and political observations and conclusions upon the state and condition of England, 1696. Pages 405-449 in An estimate of the comparative strength of Great-Britain; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution; with an introduction of previous history. A new edition, corrected and continued to 1801. To which is now annexed Gregory King's celebrated state of England.

King has been called the first great economic statistician, surpassing Petty. King was an engraver, herald, surveyor, and Secretary to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts, but he is best known for his 1696 estim…

1806 CE

#1695

Analyse et tableaux de l’influence de la petite vérole sur la mortalité à chaque âge, et de celle qu’un préservatif tel que la vaccine peut avoir sur la population et la longevité.

Duvillard showed statistically the effect of smallpox vaccination on the mortality rate. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1825 CE–1835 CE

#1696

Beiträge zur medizinischen Statistik un Staatsarzneikunde. 2 vols.

1829 CE

#1697

Elements of medical statistics.

First English book devoted specifically to medical statistics. Hawkins was instrumental in obtaining the insertion of a column for the names of diseases or other causes of death, in connexion with the first Act for th…

1835 CE

#1698

Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires, et sur l’action de l’émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie.

Louis refuted Broussais’s system of medicine, his “médicine physiologique.” Louis was instrumental in establishing medicine as an exact science by the introduction of the numerical or statisti…

1839 CE

#1699

Vital statistics. IN: A statistical account of the British Empire: exhibiting its extent, physical capacities, population, industries, and civil and religious institutions by J[ohn] R[amsey] McCulloch, 2nd ed., 2, 52-90.

Ranks with Graunt’s Observations as an original contribution to medical statistics. Significantly expanded from the first edition (1837). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.