Facets

1819 CE

#10456

A statement of the occurrences during a malignant yellow fever in the city of New-York, in the summer and autumnal months of 1819; and of the check given to its progress, by the measures adopted by the Board of Health. With a list of cases and names of sick persons, and a map of their places of residence within the infected and proscribed limits: With a view of ascertaining, by comparative arguments, whether the distemper was engendered by domestic causes, or communicated by human contagion from foreign ports.

Pascalis mapped this yellow fever outbreak using a method similar to Valentine Seaman, but with a more extensive and detailed list of cases. A condensation of his 60-page pamphlet with a reissue of his map appeared in…

1797 CE

#7687

An inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.

Includes four early plot maps; Seaman was one of the first to create maps that attempted to show the spread of contagious disease.

2017 CE

#8517

Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…

2012 CE

#10586

Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.

2021 CE

#13578

Health and medicine by Michael B. Dougan.

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/health-and-medicine-392/ An overview of the history of health and medicine in Arkansas with many cross-references to related articles in the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

2012 CE

#7692

Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.

Includes medical, statistical cartography.

2004 CE

#9836

OnView: Curated content from the Center for the History of Medicine's extraordinary collections. The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: An alliance of the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School.

http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/collection-tree Archives for Women in Medicine Avery, Mary Ellen papers, 1929-2002 (inclusive) Baumgartner, Leona papers, 1837-1993 (inclusive) 1930-1970 (bulk) Bibring, …

1996 CE

#9427

Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.

1996 CE

#9426

Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.

1871 CE–1872 CE

#10585

Photographic review of medicine and surgery. A bi-monthly illustration of interesting cases, accompanied by notes. Edited by F.F. Maury [and] L.A. Duhring. Vols. 1 & 2 (All published).

The leading 19th century American publication of artistic medical photography. Each of the two volumes includes 24 mounted photographs. The photographs ilustrate cases of unusual and extreme disease, such as gross def…

2002 CE

#12320

Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.

Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html

1999 CE

#10053

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

2013 CE

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …