Facets

1975 CE–1999 CE

#8632

La médecine à Montpellier. 7 vols.

1895 CE

#1751

La mort et la mort subite.

Brouardel was professor of forensic medicine, Paris. He was to a great extent responsible for the development of that subject in France; he instituted courses of practical instruction at the Paris morgue, and wrote se…

1971 CE

#7934

La odontología en el México prehispánico.

1642 CE

#8956

La presence des absens; ou facile moyen de rendre présent au médecin l'estat d'un malade absent. Dressé par les docteurs en médecine consultans charitablement à Paris pour les pauvres malades.

Renaudot, physician, philanthropist and journalist, published this self-diagnostic handbook so that charity patients could communicate with their physicians by correspondence. Digital facsimile from biusante.paris.des…

1988 CE

#8635

La scuola medica di Bologna: Settecento anni di storia. Edited by Raffaele A. Bernabeo and Giuseppe D'Antuono.

2007 CE

#8556

La Scuola Medica Salernitana. Gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004. A cura di Danielle Jacquart e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 01.

Includes on pp. 185-188, and 211-13, Monica H. Green, "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno." Also, on pp. 15-60, Monica H. Green, “Rethinking the manuscript basis of Salvatore De Renzi’s Collecti…

2003 CE

#11903

Labeling people: French scholars on society, race, and empire, 1815-1848.

1882 CE

#6284

Labor among primitive peoples.

Third edition, revised, 1884.

1851 CE

#10416

Ladies' indispensable assistant: Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife ... Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen ... ; also, safe directions for the management of children ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine ... : to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published ....

In spite of the verbose title, the Table of Contents of this work indicates that roughly the first half of the book concerns home remedies for the widest range of complaints and illnesses, and medical properties of pl…

1555 CE–1556 CE

#9773

Le benefice commun de tout le monde, ou commodité de vie d’vn chascun, pour la conseruation de santé: Remedes segretz tirées des plantes contre toutes maladies. 3 vols.

A vernacular guide for living a healthy life compiled from the writings of Fuchs. Includes herbal and dietary remedies, recipes for oils, pills and other preparations to treat maladies such as fever, plague and wounds.

1728 CE

#3671

Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents. 2 vols.

Pierre Fauchard has been called the “Father of Dentistry”; his comprehensive and scientific account of all that concerned dentistry in the 18th century is one of the greatest books in the history of the su…

1884 CE–1885 CE

#11120

Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins. Première série: auteurs grecs & Latins. Deuxième série: Auteurs français jusqu'a Molière. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Selections were translated , with annotations by T. C. Minor as The Evil that has been said of doctors: Extracts from early writers. (Cincinnati: Reprint from …

1929 CE

#967

Le sinus carotidienet la zone homologue cardio-aortique.

In 1938 Heymans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration."

2012 CE

#10932

Leading the way: A history of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

1985 CE

#8374

Learning to heal: The development of American medical education.

1997 CE

#11050

Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

2012 CE

#13926

Learning with the lights off: Educational film in the United States. Edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, Dan Streible.

1819 CE

#11240

Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man.

This work set forth Lawrence's then radical and remarkably advanced ideas concerning evolution and heredity. Arguing that theology and metaphysics had no place in science, Lawrence relied instead on empirical evidence…

1836 CE

#7374

Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed.

Thomsen's work established the "Three-Age system," according to which artifacts were first made of stone, then bronze, and then iron. This basic chronology underpins the archaeology of most of the "Old World.”

1914 CE

#190

Lehrbuch der Anthropologie.

Exhaustive bibliography. 2nd ed., 1928.

1897 CE

#1022

Lektsii o rabotie glavnikh pishtshevaritelnikh zhelyoz. [Lectures on the work of the principal digestive glands.]

Pavlov's classic study of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments. The second published edition was a German trans…

1530 CE

#12774

Lentretenement de vie, summairement compose par maistre Jehan Goeurot docteur en medicine... Contenant les remedes de medicine & cyrurgie, contre toutes maladies survenantes quotidiannement es corps humains. Lesquelles il a approuvees, & en ce petit livre inserees a la requeste de madame, pour la sante utilite & proffit de tout le monde...Item une régime singulier contre peste approuve sur plusieurs. Item une table pour plus facilement trouver le contenu dudict livre.

Concerns medical and surgical treatment of the diseases of the head, ears, eyes, chest, heart, liver, and intestines, and plague. Also includes treatments for tooth aches, bad breath, and how to whiten teeth. The Lyon…

1575 CE

#5565

Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.

Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cauter…

1887 CE

#182

Les pygmées.

De Quatrefages showed that pygmies are descended from ancient races and are not, as was believed by many, a retrograde or degenerate type of negro of comparatively recent growth. English translation by Frederick Starr…

1903 CE

#11119

Les seins dans l'histoire.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1886 CE

#181

Les signalements anthropométriques.

Bertillon invented a method (“Bertillonage”) of identifying persons by means of selected measurements, the five following measurements being used as the basis of his system: head length, head breadth, leng…

1881 CE

#7707

Lésions osseuses de l'homme préhistorique en France et en Algérie.

Le Baron attempted diagnosis and predicted etiology on thousands of bones collected at the Musée Broca, the Musée Dupuytren, and the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle.. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica…

1752 CE

#11504

Lettres sur la certitude des signes de la mort où l'on rassure les citoyens de la crainte d'être enterrés vivans ; avec des observations et des expériences sur les noyés.

In this work in the pathophysiology of drowning, resuscitation and the legal diagnosis of death Louis sought to reassure the public that the risk of being buried alive was very low. He rejected a proposal for late bur…

2013 CE

#8001

Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.

History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.

2018 CE

#12566

Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.

The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.

1932 CE

#12060

Light and life. Address delivered at the opening meeting of the International Congress on Light Therapy in Copenhagen 15. August 1932.

In 1922 Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." Including Bohr's 1932 address, Light and life, in the Nob…

1885 CE

#706

Lois d’équilibre chimique dans l’état dilué, gazeux ou dissous.

Van’t Hoff stated that osmotic pressure is proportional to the concentration if the temperature remains invariable, and proportional to the absolute temperature if the concentration remains invariable. In 1901 V…

2019 CE

#14014

Machine learning identification of surgical and operative factors associated with surgical expertise in virtual reality simulation.

"Abstract "Importance Despite advances in the assessment of technical skills in surgery, a clear understanding of the composites of technical expertise is lacking. Surgical simulation allows for the quantitation of ps…

1901 CE

#50

Magistri salernitani nondum editi. Catalogo ragionato della Esposizione di storia della medicina aperta in Torino nel 1898. By Piero Giacosa, with the assistance of Ferdinando Gabotto. 2 vols.

Reproduction of some of the texts produced at the School of Salerno. In all, it is believed that the total output from the School numbered 100 texts, including the famous poem Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, or Flos M…

2012 CE

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2008 CE

#8641

Making room in the clinic: Nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care.

1981 CE

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

1983 CE

#14140

Mammalian beta-adrenergic receptors. Structural differences in beta 1 and beta 2 subtypes revealed by peptide maps.

Lefkowitz and colleagues showed that there are two different types of beta receptors, distinguishing them as Beta-1 and Beta-2. They noticed that each has specific pharmacological characteristics. Order of authorship …

1894 CE

#187

Man and woman.

A study of the constitutional differences between man and woman.

1980 CE

#3705.2

Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe

Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma.

1823 CE

#8798

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…

1786 CE

#14119

Manuel pour le service des malades, ou précis des connoissances nécessaires aux personnes chargées du soin des malades, femmes en couche, enfans nouveaux-nés, &c.

The first French book on nursing. Digital facsimile of the 1787 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. (Thanks to Webb Dordick for this reference.)

2022 CE

#14059

Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.

1986 CE

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

1972 CE

#13806

Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).

1996 CE–2006 CE

#11012

McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.

The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.

2002 CE

#10194

Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".

"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …

1801 CE

#13750

Médecine du voyageur; ou avis sur les moyens de conserver la santé, et de remédier aux accidens et aux maladies auxquels on est exposé dans les voyages, tant par terre que par mer. Suivie d'un essai de médecine pratique sur les voyages, considérés comme remèdes. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1855 CE

#6503

Médecine et hygiène des Arabes. Études sur l’exercice de la médecine et de la chirurgie chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie, leurs connaissances en anatomie, histoire naturelle, pharmacie, médecine légale, etc. Leurs conditions climatériques générales, leur pratiques hygiéniques publiques et privées, leurs maladies, leurs traitements les plus usités. Précédées de considérations sur l’état général de la médecine chez les principales nations Mahométanes.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.