Facets

1835 CE

#3440.1

A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.

First operation for intussusception in the United States, performed in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The patient was a negro slave; the operation was a complete success. Reported by Wilson’s pupil, W.W. Thompson.

1987 CE

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1802 CE

#9581

An entire, new, and original work; being a complete treatise upon spinae pedum; containing several important discoveries. Illustrated with copperplates exhibiting the different species of spinae.

The first original British work on podiatry, with several illustrations, one hand-colored. Disappointed at being refused a medical degree, Lion, a German Jewish émigré, wrote this book, taking the unusua…

1960 CE

#7938

La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.

2012 CE

#8258

Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

1988 CE

#8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

1986 CE

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.