Facets

1894 CE

#6395

Medical history from the earliest times.

A classic brief history up to the early 19th century. Reprinted 1964.

1936 CE

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1789 CE–1793 CE

#80

Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.

Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…

2002 CE

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1967 CE

#6786.11

Medical reference works 1679-1966: A selected bibliography.

Contains over 2,700 items with annotations. Supplements: I (1967-68), 1970; compiled by M.V. Clark. II (1969-72), 1973; compiled by J. S. Richmond. III (1973-74), 1975; compiled by J. S. Richmond.

2009 CE

#8645

Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.

2015 CE

#8770

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.

1547 CE

#54

Medici antiqui omnes, qui latinis literis diversorum morborum genera et remedia persecuti sunt.

MEDICI ANTIQUI OMNES

Contains selections from the writings of Celsus, Plinius Secundus, Soranus, Apuleius, Barbarus, Musa, Priscianus, Trotula, Macer, Caelius Aurelianus, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus, Serenus Samonicus, Strabus …

2007 CE

#9026

Medicina, ideología e historia en España (siglos XVI-XXI). Edited by Ricardo Campos, Luis Montiel and Rafael Huertas.

1973 CE

#10223

Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#10541

Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.

The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…

2010 CE

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

1968 CE

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

2015 CE

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2011 CE

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

1998 CE

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1978 CE

#6451.10

Medicine: An illustrated history.

Includes over 1,000 illustrations, many in color.

1950 CE

#6447

Medicinens historie.

2nd edition, 1964.

1916 CE

#6409

Medizin-geschichtliches Hilfsbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entdeckungsgeschichte und der Biographie.

1910 CE

#6406

Medizinisches aus der Geschichte. 3te. Aufl.

1999 CE

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

1682 CE

#10017

Mercurius compitalitius, sive, Index medico-practicus.per decisiones, cautiones, animadversiones, castigationes & observationes in sugulis affectibus praeter naturam et praesidiis medicis, deaeteticis, cheirurgicis & pharmaceuticis... Accessit appendix de medici munere.

Discusses 63 topics on medical ethics and decorum, patient behavior, medical diagnosis, prognosis, and practice guidelines, including how to relate to the patient in all matters, including extreme old age and death. "…

1986 CE

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

1876 CE

#11574

Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.

"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…

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. …

1992 CE

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1992 CE

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

1992 CE

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

1907 CE–1910 CE

#11290

Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.

Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…

1987 CE

#2319.2

Morbid appearances: the anatomy of pathology in the early nineteenth century.

2007 CE

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2003 CE

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

2008 CE

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

2015 CE

#6824

Neuroanatomical terminology: A lexicon of classical origins and historical foundations.

The first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized parts list of the human nervous system. "This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural featur…

2002 CE

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

1987 CE

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1957 CE

#436

Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).

Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.

2017 CE

#9712

Normality. A critical genealogy.

Perhaps the first study of the history of the "normal" in medicine. Traces the concept of normal to French anatomical and physiological discourse in the 1820s and 1830s, and its dissemination in modern culture through…

1930 CE

#2239

Nosography, the evolution of clinical medicine in modern times. 2nd ed.

A well-illustrated and reliable account.

1763 CE

#2202

Nosologia methodica sistens morborum classes, genera et species juxtà Sydenhami mentem & botanicorum ordinem. 5 vols.

Sauvages de Lacroix, a friend of Linnaeus, adopted the botanical system of Linnaeus for the classification of diseases. His classification system listed 10 major classes of disease, which were further broken down into…

1866 CE

#7378

Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.

Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.

1891 CE

#11633

Notes on the practice of medicine.

This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…

2010 CE

#9662

Obesity: The biography.

2012 CE

#13759

Obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States American sexual histories.

Includes a study of the trials of American sex educator Frederick Hollick for obscenity.

1676 CE

#2198

Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiamet curationem.

Sydenham recorded significant observations on dysentery, scarlet fever (p. 387), scarlatina, measles and other conditions. He stressed the clinical study of medicine and kept careful case records. Includes (pp. 272-80…

1827 CE

#5589

Observations upon traumatic haemorrhage, illustrated by experiments upon living animals.

Jameson was surgeon to Baltimore Hospital for 20 years. This essay described some of the earliest multiple animal experiments used in American medical research.

1962 CE

#2137.02

Occupational health in America.

Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.

1839 CE–1861 CE

#13

Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.

The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…