Entry Nos. 6700–6799

1696 CE

#6703

Theatron in quo maximorum Christiani orbis pontifcum archiatros…spectandos exhibet.

The first book on the lives of papal physicians.

1778 CE

#6704

Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne, ou mémoires disposés en ordre alphabétique pour servir à l’histoire de cette science, et à celle des médecins, anatomistes, botanistes, chirurgiens et chymistes de toutes nations. 4 vols.

The earliest exhaustive collection of medical biographies, and biographies of scientists working in related subjects. The first edition of this work appeared in 1755; the above edition is the most useful. Digital facs…

1780 CE

#6705

Biographical memoirs of medicine in Great Britain from the revival of literature to the time of Harvey.

The first collection of British medical biographies.

1784 CE

#6706

Degli archiatri pontifici. 2 vols.

Biographies of papal physicians. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1799 CE

#6707

Biographia medica; or, historical and critical memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent medical characters that have existed from the earliest account of time to the present period; with a catalogue of their literary productions. 2 vols.

British and foreign medical biographies.

1827 CE

#6709

The gold-headed cane.

This charming “autobiography” tells of the adventures of the famous gold-headed cane, successively in the possession of Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, William and David Pitcairn, and Baillie, and then retired to …

1828 CE

#6710

American medical biography. 2 vols.

Thacher was the first American medical historian. The above biography is a valuable source of information on the early medical history of the United States. Reprinted, New York, Da Capo Press, 1967.

1838 CE–1840 CE

#6711

Medical portrait gallery. Biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians, surgeons, etc. etc. who have contributed to the advancement of medical science. 4 vols.

Includes engraved portraits as well as text. The text frequently contains extensively annotated bibliographies of key works of the physicians portrayed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE

#6712

Biographie médicale par ordre chronologique. 2 vols.

Reprinted, Amsterdam, B. M. Israël, 1967.

1861 CE–2005 CE

#6715

The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.

“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this se…

1884 CE–1888 CE

#6716

Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by August Hirsch, with the assistance of Ernest Gurlt and A. Wernich. 6 vols.

This is one of the best sources of medical biography up to 1880, with useful bibliographical notes. Articles were written by many physicians, whose names were mentioned on the title page. Gurlt and Wernich assisted Hi…

1885 CE

#6717

Eminent doctors; their lives and their work. Second edition. 2 vols.

Deals with British doctors only.

1896 CE

#6719

Physicians and surgeons of America. (Illustrated.) A collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1901 CE

#6720

Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Aerzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Mit einer historischen Einleitung.

Besides biographical accounts this work reproduced many portraits of physicians. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Second, revised edition, containing entries from 1880 to 1930, 2 vols., Munich & Berli…

1900 CE

#6721

Disciples of Aesculapius, with a life of the author by his daughter, Mrs. George Martin. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 CE

#6722

An Alabama student, and other biographical essays.

This collection of biographical essays includes most of Osler's famous writings in this category, with the exception of his essay on Michael Servetus. (Copies were also issued with a New York and a Toronto imprint.) D…

1917 CE

#6723

Roll of commissioned officers in the medical service of the British Army.

Covers the period from the accession of George II in 1727 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898. Reprinted 1968, together with the complementary List of commissioned medical officers of the Army, Char…

1923 CE–1929 CE

#6724

Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen. Hrsg. von L. R. Grote. 8 vols.

1925 CE–1928 CE

#6725

Profili bio-bibliografici di medici naturalisti celebri Italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo. 2 vols.

1928 CE

#6727

Available sources and future prospects of medical biography.

Includes a valuable bibliography of sources of medical biography.

1928 CE

#6728

Dictionary of American medical biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times.

This is the revised and expanded third and final edition of Kelly's A cyclopedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. S…

1930 CE

#6729

Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930.

Appendix and Errata, 1933. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1930 CE

#6730

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Sec…

1822 CE–1935 CE

#6731

Sveriges läkare-historia ifran Konung Gustaf den I:s till närvarande tid. 5 vols.

1932 CE–1933 CE

#6732

Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzen fünfzig Jahre. 1 vol. [in 2].

A supplement to the Biographisches Lexikon compiled by A. Hirsch (No. 6716). Reprinted Munich, 1962. Covers the period 1880-1930.

1932 CE

#6733

Hervorragende Tropenärzte in Wort und Bild.

1932 CE–1954 CE

#6734

Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 1-9.

Continued as Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 1- 1955- See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/11216

1932 CE

#6735

Grosse Ärzte: Eine Geschichte der Heilkunde in Lebensbildern.

A series of biographies of the great men in medical history. English translation, New York, 1933, reprinted 1972; second (German) edition, 1954.

1936 CE–1979 CE

#6736

Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).

1944 CE

#6737

Notable names in medicine and surgery.

Biographical notes and portraits of men and women whose names are perpetuated in well-known medical eponyms. 3rd. edition 1959.

1947 CE

#6739

Wayfarers in medicine.

1948 CE–1949 CE

#6740

Lives of master surgeons.

One volume and supplement.

1951 CE

#6742

The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.

1545 CE–1555 CE

#6743

Bibliotheca universalis, sive catalogus omnium scriptorum locupletissimus, in tribus linguis. Latina, Graeca, and Hebraica. 3 vols. and appendix.

This was one of the first attempts at a universal bibliography. Unfortunately the section on medicine (liber xxi) was never published. William Osler used the Bibliotheca universalis as one of the models for his own Bi…

1637 CE

#6744

De scriptis medicis, libri duo.

Van der Linden’s book was at the time of its appearance the most complete medical bibliography yet produced. He issued corrected editions in 1651 and 1662, and G.A. Mercklin published a considerably expanded ver…

1715 CE

#6745

Bibliographiae anatomicae specimen, sive catalogus omnium penè auctorum qui ab Hippocrate ad Harveum re anatomicam ex professo, vel obiter, scriptis illustrarunt.

The first attempt at a systematic medical bibliography. Revised edition with annotations by revisions by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Leiden, 1734). Douglas's original autograph manuscript for the book is preserved in …

1726 CE

#6746

Methodus discendi medicinam.

During 1710 Boerhaave lectured on the Methodus discendi medicinam. In 1726 the first edition was published from notes taken at his lectures but without his permission. Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (1959) No. …

1776 CE–1788 CE

#6747

Bibliotheca medicinae practicae. 4 vols.

Haller compiled four great bibliographies dealing respectively with botany, anatomy, surgery, and medicine. They formed the most complete reference work of the time, consisting of a classified analysis of over 52,000 …

1783 CE–1795 CE

#6748

Medicinische Bibliothek. 3 vols.

Includes detailed abstracts of periodical literature.

1786 CE

#6749

Introductio in historiam medicinae litterarium.

An annotated subject bibliography of the history of medicine, arranged chronologically from antiquity to Blumenbach’s time.

1793 CE–1797 CE

#6750

Initia bibliothecae medico-practicae et chirurgicae realis sive repertorii medicinae practicae et chirurgiae. 8 vols.

The first important classified bibliography of medical literature covering both monographic material and current periodicals.

1813 CE

#6751

An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology. Intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners.

The remarkable Thomas Young compiled this bibliography of works which he considered necessary to a complete medical library. Second edition, 1823.

1826 CE–1838 CE

#6752

Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 vols. [in 4].

Alphabetical author-index of 16,299 incunabula. Originally based on the contents of the Munich Hofbibliothek, it was made more useful when Walter Arthur Copinger published a 3-volume supplement, 1895-1902, which added…

1828 CE

#6753

Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die ältere Medizin zur Kenntniss der griechischen, lateinischen und arabischen Schriften im ärztlichen Fache und zur bibliographischen Unterscheidung ihrer verschiedenen Ausgaben, Uebersetzungen und Erläuterungen.

This check list of printed works of the older medical writers underwent a second edition in 1841, which was reprinted in 1911, 1926 and 1956. Digital facsimile of the 1841 edition from Google Books at this link.

1830 CE–1845 CE

#6754

Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexicon der jetzt lebenden Aerzte, Wundärzte, Geburtschelfer, Apotheker, und Naturforscher aller gebildeten Völker. 33 vols.

In 25 vols. and and 8-vol. supplement, Callisen’s great medical bibliography of writings by physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists then living gives a complete view of the literature o…

1835 CE

#6755

A manual of select medical bibliography, in which the books are arranged chronologically according to the subjects, and the derivations of the terms and the nosological and vernacular synonyms of the diseases are given. With an appendix, containing lists of the collected works of authors, systematic treatises on medicine, transactions of societies, journals, &c. &c &c.

“First serious attempt by anyone in the English-speaking world to give a subject classification for medical literature” (Fulton). This was first published in volume 4 of Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, …

1842 CE

#6756

Bibliotheca medico-historica: sive, catalogus librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus.

Additamenta, by Julius Rosenbaum, 2 parts, 1842-47. Reprinted (without Additamenta), 1960.

1858 CE

#6757

Graphische lncunabeln für Naturgeschichte und Medicin. Enthaltend Geschichte und Bibliographie der ersten naturhistorischen und medicinischen Drucke des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts, welche mit illustrirenden Abbildungen versehen sind.

Reprint, Munich, 1924, Hildesheim, 1963.

1863 CE

#6759

Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften. 8 vols. in 11 pts.

Brief biographies, fuller bibliographies. Erster Band. A–L. 1863 . Zweiter Band. M–Z. 1863 . Dritter Band (1858 bis 1883). 1898 Vierter Band (Die Jahre 1883 bis zur Gegenwart umfassend). 1904: T. 1. A-L. T…

1867 CE–1925 CE

#6760

Catalogue of scientific papers. Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. 19 vols.

An author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, published from 1800 to 1900. Continued by the international catalogue of scientific literature, wh…