Entry Nos. 8900–8999
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1919 CE
#8900
Pioneers of birth control in England and America.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1946 CE
#8901
Victory over pain: A history of anesthesia.
1973 CE
#8902
The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…
2002 CE
#8903
Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.
1822 CE
#8904
Confessions of an opium eater.
First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, 4, No. xxi, 293-312, and No. xxii, 353-79, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and, after various reprints, again in 185…
2006 CE
#8905
Leprosy and empire: A medical and cultural history.
"An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missio…
2011 CE
#8906
Printing and the brain of man.
Annotated catalogue of an exhibition of rare books in the history of neuroanatomy and neurosurgery from Eugene Flamm's library, including many great classics.
2003 CE
#8907
The dawn of neurosurgery. Rare books from the collection of Eugene S. Flamm.
2008 CE
#8908
From skulls to brains: 2500 years of neurosurgical progress.
An annotated exhibition catalogue of rare books on the history of neurological surgery from Eugene Flamm's library.
1926 CE
#8909
Catalogue of an exhibition of early and later medical Americana.
1865 CE
#8910
On the movements and habits of climbing plants.
Darwin's report on his discoveries concerning the adaptive value of climbing for certain plants, including the development of circumnutation. Darwin waited ten years to publish the first edition in book form (1875) wi…
1876 CE
#8911
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
Darwin's report on over 12 years of experimentation with cross and self-fertilization on 57 species. In these experiments Darwin discovered and demonstrated the concept of hybrid vigor or heterosis.
1974 CE
#8912
Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.
In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …
1881 CE
#8913
The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.
Darwin's last book, published only 6 months before his death, but reporting on a subject that he had studied for more than 50 years. "He showed the services performed by earthworms in eating leaves and grinding earth …
1861 CE
#8914
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.
Darwin's first work on plant fertilization and the first volume of evidence that he published to support the theories advanced in On the origin of species (1859). This was also the only book by Darwin that was issued …
1861 CE
#8915
On the origin of species by means of natural selection....Third edition with additions and corrections (Seventh thousand).
Extensively revised, and the first edition to include the "historical sketch" crediting the historical precursors to the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin added this chapter in response to writings by S…
1842 CE
#8916
The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N. During the years 1832 to 1836.
With slight modification, Darwin's work remains the accepted explanation for these phenomena. "Even if he had done nothing else, the theory of the coral islands alone would have placed Darwin in the very front of inve…
1844 CE
#8917
Observations on the volcanic islands, visited during the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, together with some brief notices on the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
1846 CE
#8918
Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
The third and last of Darwin's geological reports on the Beagle voyage. In it he described the pampas, the plateaus and the Andres, showing how they had been gradually pushed up in the way that Charles Lyell surmised …
1879 CE
#8919
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin.
Krause's short biography originally appeared in the German evolutionary periodical Kosmos in February 1879. In this translation Darwin added a biographical contribution that is longer than Krause's, i.e. 127pp by Darw…
1835 CE
#8920
For private distribution. The following pages contain extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq.
Darwin's teacher, John Stevens Henslow, had some of Darwin's letters to him published for private distribution as a pamphlet while Darwin was on the Beagle circumnavigation. Estimates of the number of copies printed v…
1789 CE–1791 CE
#8921
The botanic garden: A poem in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. 2 vols.
The first edition of part 2, preceded part 1, being published in 1789. This poem was the chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime. Like his other works, this poem contains a great deal of fre…
1803 CE
#8922
The temple of nature; or the origin of society. A poem, with philosophical notes.
Erasmus Darwin's last poem, which mainly expounds his theories of evolution. He traces the progress of life form its origin as microscopic specks in premeval seas to its culmination in a civilized human society. The f…
1783 CE
#8923
A system of vegetables, according to their classes, orders, genera, species with their characters and differences.... Translated from the thirteenth edition (As published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present professor Linneus
English translation of Linneus's Species plantarum (No. 99.1), edited by Charles Darwin's grandfather. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1820 CE–1825 CE
#8924
Dictionaire des sciences médicales. Biographie médicale. 7 vols.
Authorship of this anonymous work is frequently attributed to Jourdan, who signed the preface. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1829 CE
#8925
Procede pour écrire les paroles, la musique et le plain-chant au moyen de points, a l’usage des aveugles et dispose pour eux.
This large quarto volume of 4 preliminary leaves and 32 pages included the first presentation of the Braille system of printing and reading for the blind, which represents letters and numbers by combinations of six do…
1996 CE
#8926
Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…
1756 CE
#8927
A. Cornelius Celsus. Of Medicine. In eight books. Translated with notes critical and explanatory by James Grieve.
First English translation of Celsus De medicina. That it was translated into English for the first time in the mid-eighteenth century is a reflection of the use of Latin as the international language of medicine and s…
1954 CE
#8928
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
2013 CE
#8929
Dispelling the darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
1694 CE
#8930
Trattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.
The first scientific description of yellow fever in Brazil by the first European physician to treat the disease in Brazil, and perhaps in all of Latin America. It includes the description of the first autopsy of a yel…
1549 CE
#8931
Dialogus de re medica compendiaria ratione, præter quædam alia, universam Anatomen humani corporis perstringens, summè necessarius omnibus Medicinæ canditatis.
The first Spanish medical book based on the writings of Vesalius, written by Vesalius’s student Pedro Jimeno, whose activities “constituted the cornerstone of the Valencian School of Anatomy and the Spanis…
1977 CE
#8932
História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).
1956 CE
#8933
Morão, Rosa & Pimenta; notícia dos três primeiros livros em vernáculo sôbre a medicina no Brasil. Estudo crítico de Gilberto Osório de Andrade. Introduções históricas, interpretações e notas de Eustáquio Duarte. Pref. de Gilberto Freyre.
1683 CE
#8934
Trattado unico das bexigas, e sarampo, offerecido a D. João de Sousa, composto por Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo.
One of the first works on medicine practiced in Brazil, published by Mourão under the pseudonym Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo. Mourão distinguished clearly between smallpox and measles. There was st…
2006 CE
#8935
Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.
1969 CE
#8936
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
1999 CE
#8937
Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
1707 CE
#8938
Noticias do que he o achaque do bicho, diffiniçam do seu crestame[n]to, subimento corrupçaõ, sinaes, & cura atè, o quinto grao, ou intensaõ delle, suas differenças, & co[m]plicaços, com que se ajunta.
This book has been "considered by some authors to be the first reference to the chagasic megaesophagus and megacolon that appeared in history. In descriptions considered to refer megaesophagus, although dysphagia, the…
1894 CE
#8939
Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1583 CE
#8940
De plantis libri XVI.
Cesalpino developed the first scientific classification system for flowering plants. "Unlike the "herbals" of that period, it contains no illustrations. The first section, including thirty pages of the work, is the pa…
1958 CE
#8941
Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.
Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.
1851 CE
#8942
Die metallurgischen Krankheiten des Oberharzes.
Brockmann's book on the pulmonary disease of miners, including black lung disease, was first book on occupational health published in Germany. Brockmann published a preliminary paper on the subject in 1845. Digital fa…
1785 CE
#8943
Entomologia Parisiensis; sive, catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secondum methodum Geoffraeanam in sections, genera & species distributus; Cui addit sun nomina trivalia & sere recentae novae species.
In this work co-written with Geoffroy, Fourcroy presented a major contribution to the systemization of entomology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2004 CE
#8944
Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750-1950. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée.
"The new edition of "Histoire des Entomologistes Français" is completely revised and expanded. The author has supplemented this work with five new biographies, a chapter on Agricultural Entomology, a list of th…
1983 CE–1991 CE
#8945
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
1942 CE
#8946
Catálogo das obras da colecção portuguesa anteriores a fundação das Regias Escolas de Cirurgia (1825). 2 vols.
(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)
1910 CE
#8947
Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)
1820 CE
#8948
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 par MM. Pariset et Mazet, docteurs en médecine de la Faculté de Paris, et rédigées par M. Pariset.
Pariset and Mazet distinguished themselves combating an outbreak of yellow fever in Spain. Pariset's colleague was apparently not involved with publication of the book, and died in a yellow fever outbreak in Barcelona…
1988 CE
#8949