Facets

1845 CE

#10760

Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalog of the plants which were cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841; drawn up according to the Jussieuan arrangement, and mostly in conformity with the second edition (1836) of Lindsay 's Natural System of Botany.

Catalogue of the thousands of plants which were cultivated in the East India Company’s Royal Botanical Garden in Shibpur (near Calcutta, founded in 1786) and ‘Dr. William Carey’s’ botanical gar…

1974 CE

#8386

Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.

This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…

1883 CE

#10739

Hospital construction and management.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1868 CE

#8998

Hospital days.

Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…

1911 CE

#8598

Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.

Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.

1875 CE

#10652

Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.

Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …

2007 CE

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

1891 CE–1893 CE

#1628

Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.

This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…

1894 CE

#11267

Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.

Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…

2012 CE

#8292

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.

2017 CE

#10559

Human anatomy: Stereoscopic images of medical specimens. From the collection of the Vrolik Museum. Photographs by Jim Naughten, text by Laurens de Rooy.

Extraordinary stereoscopic photographs taken by Naughten from speciemens at the Vrolik Museum at the University of Amsterdam, collected by Gerard Vrolik and his son Willem.

1986 CE

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

1831 CE

#7741

Icones selectae praeparatiorum Musei Anatomici Universitatis Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae.

Discussion of various specimens in the anatomical museum of Medical Faculty of the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, highlighting a number of embryological, teratological and obstetrical items, so…

1786 CE

#10266

Idées sur les secours à donner aux pauvres malades dans une grande ville.

Dupont proposed replacing large city hospitals with smaller institutions similar to those then being tried in England. Du Pont studied medicine before devoting himself to political economy. Digital facsimile from BnF …

2012 CE

#13209

Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 4, Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche.

2014 CE

#13210

Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 5, Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche.

2009 CE

#13207

Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 1, Le collezioni della Specola : zoologia e cere anatomiche.

2010 CE

#13208

Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 3, Le collezioni geologiche e paleontologiche.

1910 CE

#10364

Illustrated guide to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Vistor's guide to the museum, including the collections formed by John Hunter, when it was intact, before the destruction it suffered in World War II. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#9751

Images of America: US National Library of Medicine. Edited by Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle with the staff of the US National Library of Medicine.

Images with detailed captions documenting the development of this institution.

1985 CE

#2581.11

Immunology to 1980. An illustrated bibliography of titles in the Middleton Health Sciences Library, including the Julius M. Cruse collection.

Citations, with paginations, of 3480 items. Author and subject indices

1989 CE

#9138

In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century.

1818 CE

#13644

Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.

Catalogues 1150 anatomical preparations in the anatomical museum at Kiel. Foreward by anatomist/pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833) who was responsible for much of the collection.

1969 CE

#13715

Index of manuscripts on medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences in the Zahiriyah Library

1710 CE

#11628

Index plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur.

Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Boerhaave became head of the botanical garden, a laboratory for materia medica. He published his first catalogue of plants in the …

1725 CE

#11298

Index supellectilis anatomicae quam Academia Batavae quae Leidae est legativ vir clarissimus Johannes Jacobus Rau...confectus a Bernhardo Seigried Albino.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1771 CE

#11299

Index supellectilis anatomicae: Rerum anatomicarum; tum phialis onctentarum In liquore limpido, Tum exsiccatarum. Quam suos In usus summa cum peritia atque dexteritate confecit...Bernard Siegfried Albinus

An listing of 431 medical museum specimens, including those preserved in liquid as well as dried specimens, prepared for their sale. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1742 CE

#11741

Index testarum conchyliorum quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri ... et methodice distributae exhibentur tabulae CX.

The beautiful catalogue of the shell collection formed by Gualtieri, physician to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany in his "museum." Many of the shells are depicted standing on their apices, and are depicted from two …

1880 CE–1961 CE

#6763

Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.

In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to …

1996 CE

#13399

Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.

1794 CE

#7659

Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorities.

Digital text available from ECCO TCP Eighteenth Century Collections Online at this link.

2016 CE

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

1876 CE

#13160

International Exhibition of 1876. Medical Department, U.S. Army. Photographs illustrating rare books in the National Medical Library. Philadelphia, 1876. 2 vols.

These two volumes include a series of original photographs of primarily the title pages of rare medical books in the National Medical Library pasted onto specially printed sheets with manuscript entries indicating the…

1980 CE

#9163

Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.

1629 CE

#12000

Iter plantarum investigationis ergo susceptum a decem Sociis in Agrum Cantianum, anno Dom. 1629, Julii 13. Ericetum Hamstedianum sive Plantarum ibi crescentium observatio habita, anno eodem I. Augusti. Descripta studio, & opera Thomæ Iohnsoni.

Johnson, an apothecary published this record of what he collected during a herb-collecting excursion conducted on July 13, 1629, with an appendix recounting the results of a second excursion on August 1. This was the …

1936 CE

#8456

Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.

Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…

1939 CE

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

1915 CE

#9755

John Shaw Billings: A memoir.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2014 CE

#7664

Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.

1974 CE

#9388

Katalog der Josephinischen Bibliothek des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin in Wien. Edited by Erna Lesky.

1995 CE

#7211

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

1591 CE

#13351

L'horto dei semplici di Padova, oue si vede primieramente la forma di tutta la pianta con le sue misure: & indi i suoi partimenti distinti per numeri in ciascuna arella, intagliato in rame.

First catalogue of the Orto botanico di Padova, the oldest academic botanical garden that remains in its original location., Digital facsimile from fc.cab.unipd.it at this link.

1992 CE

#10561

L'inventario del mondo: Catalogazione della natura e luoghi del sapere nella prima età moderna.

1640 CE

#13346

L'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, pour la demonstration des plantes medecinales.

La Brosse founded the Jardin des Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi), the first botanical garden in Paris. It was the second garden of this type in France, after the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier founded in 1593. D…

1929 CE

#12725

La Bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris. Aperçu historique de son développement et de son fonctionnement dans ses rapports avec l'évolution des sciences médicales et biologiques. Suivi d'un index complémentaire de bibliographie médicale.

1865 CE

#11384

La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis, son origine, son organisation et ses résultats avec une notice sur les hôpitaux militaires aux États-Unis et sur la réforme sanitaire dans les armées Europénnes.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1984 CE

#6556.1

La médecine à Paris du XIIIe au XXe siècle.

A collective work, edited by Pecker, superbly illustrated. Includes Paul Dumaître, "La Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris,"

1692 CE

#12982

Le cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les antiquitez de la religion des Chrétiens, des Egyptiens, & des Romains, des tombeaux, des poids & des medailles; des monnoyes, des pierres antiques gravées, & des minéraux; des talismans, des lampes antiques, des animaux les plus rares et les plus singuliers, des coquilles les plus considérables, des fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises.

Father Du Molinet's "cabinet" incorporated the major part of Fabri de Peiresc's collection. The first part of this work, extensively illustrated with engravings, described antiquities: Christian, Egyptian and Roman; f…

1609 CE

#11505

Le iardin, et cabinet poetique de Paul Contant, apoticaire de Poictiers.

Written in verse, this is the first catalogue of a private botanical garden published in France, and the first book that could be called a French catalogue of a natural history museum. Digital facsimile from the Inter…

1842 CE–1843 CE

#13402

Le Jardin des plantes. Description complete, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, de la ménagerie, des serres, des galeries de minéralogie et d'anatomie, et de la vallée suisse. Moeurs et instincts des animaux, botanique, anatomie comparée : minéralogie, géologie, zoologie. 2 vols. Title of vol. 2: Le jardin des plantes. Description complète, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle (oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, insectes et crustacés), par M. le docteur Emm. Lemaout.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.