Facets

2015 CE

#7209

Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions, with beautiful color illustrations, of some of the greatest classics in the history of dentistry in the library of the Svenska Tandläkare-Sällskapet (Swedish Dental Society).

1815 CE

#3679.4

Odontologie, ou observations sur les dents humaines, suivies de quelques idées nouvelles sur le mécanisme des dentier artificielles.

Delabarre was one of the first to systematize occlusal anomalies through description and illustration of individual kinds. He also developed some of the earliest orthodontic appliances using bands.

1798 CE

#10035

Of the treatment of the dying: Disturb him not - let him pass peaceably. IN: Medical histories and reflections, volume 3, 191-208.

"This apparently first-ever full essay on palliative care is tightly reasoned and carefully crafted—an innovative classic that attests to years of first-hand experience in the care of gravely ill and dying perso…

1952 CE

#3705

Old instruments used for extracting teeth.

1896 CE

#2000

Om anvendelse medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske lysstraaler.

Finsen was the founder of modern phototherapy. He demonstrated the value of invisible light, the actinic or chemical ray, the ultra-violet ray, as therapeutic measures. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at…

1842 CE

#202

Om formen af nordboernes cranier.

Retzius introduced the method of classifying races according to the cranial or cephalic index. A German translation of his paper is available in the Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med., 1845, 84-129.

1536 CE

#46

Omnia opera Ysaac in hoc volumini contenta: cum quibusdam alijs opusculis: Liber de definitionibus. Liber de elementis. Liber dietaru[m] vniversalium: cum co[m]me[n]to Petri Hispani. Liber dietarum particularium ... Liber de vrinis cum commento eiusdem. Liber de febribus. Pantechni decem libri theorices: et decem practices: cum tractatu de gradibus medicinarum Constantini. Viaticum Ysaac quod constantinus sibi attribuit. Liber de oculis Constantini. Liber des stomacho Constantini. Liber virtutum de simplici medicina Constantini. Compendium megatechni Galeni a Constantino compositum ; Cum tabula [et] repertorio omnium operum et questionum in co[m]mentis contentarum. Edited by Andreas Turinus.

Constantine was a Muslim from North Africa who converted to Christianity. His writings were first published with those of Isaac Judaeus in the above edition which includes many separate texts. Many of the writings of …

1922 CE

#1910.1

On a remarkable bacteriolytic element found in secretions and tissues.

Lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme that is a component of secretions such as tears and saliva. Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link

1840 CE

#2099

On a remarkable effect upon the human gums produced by the absorption of lead.

Burton was the first to note the blue line on the gums in lead poisoning – “Burton’s blue line" – an important diagnostic sign. He was physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.

1923 CE

#1767

On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137

“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See N…

1858 CE

#3684

On certain irregularities of the teeth with cases illustrative of a novel method of successful treatment.

First work devoted exclusively to irregularities of the teeth.

1969 CE

#10041

On death and dying.

"The Kübler-Ross model - otherwise known as the five stages of grief - postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis and by loved-ones after a death. The…

1876 CE–1877 CE

#2391

On irregular and defective tooth development.

“Moon’s molars”, the first molars in congenital syphilitics.

1897 CE

#5247

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood.

Ross proved that the mosquito was responsible for the transmission of malaria. On 20 August 1897, he found Laveran’s Plasmodium in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito after it had fed on the blood of malaria p…

1963 CE

#14069

On the aims and methods of ethology.

In this paper Tinbergen defined Tinbergen's Four Questions, or complementary categories of explanations for animal behavior. that form the basis of ethology: Causation, Ontogeny, Survival Value, and Evolution. In 1973…

1929 CE

#1933

On the antibacterial action of cultures of a penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae.

Discovery of the growth-inhibiting action of Penicillium on certain bacteria. In 1945 Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of …

1836 CE

#11309

On the brain of the negro, compared with that of the European and the orang-outang.

In this very thoroughly researched, highly documented, and well-illustrated paper Tiedemann demonstrated that there are no significant anatomical differences between the brains and mental capacities of Black people an…

1913 CE

#211

On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetr…

1836 CE–1837 CE

#2123.1

On the influence of trades, professions, and occupations, in the United States in the production of disease.

The first American work devoted entirely to occupational diseases. Reprinted with introduction, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.

1862 CE–1866 CE

#167

On the methods and results of ethnology.

Includes Huxley’s classification of mankind by means of the hair. The full text was originally published in the Fortnightly Review, I, 1865, 257-76. The full text was reprinted in Huxley's Critiques and addresse…

1856 CE

#3683.1

On the presence of fibrils of soft tissue in the dentinal tubes.

Tomes described and drew the protoplasmic processes from the odontoblasts, which are known as “Tomes’s fibrils”. These had been previously seen by Johannes Müller and others.

1841 CE

#12926

On the structure, economy, and pathology of the human teeth, with careful instructions for their preservation and culture: And concise descriptions of the best modes of surgical treatment; equally adapted to the uses of the medical practitioner, the student in medicine, and the public.

The author described himself as "Surgeon. Surgical and Mechanical Dentist." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1839 CE

#3681

On the structure, physiology, and pathology of the persistent capsular investments and pulp of the tooth.

“Nasmyth’s membrane”, or persistent dental capsule.

1942 CE

#14239

On the utilization of acetic acid for cholesterol formation.

See also, Rittenberg & Bloch, "The Utilization of Acetic Acid for the Synthesis of Fatty Acids," J. Biol. Chem. 160, 1945, 417-424. Bloch, "The Biological Conversion of Cholesterol to Pregnanediol," J. Biol. Chem. 157…

1742 CE

#73

Opera omnia medica.

Boerhaave created of the modern method of clinical teaching. His writings had an enormous influence during his lifetime. Haller, Cullen, Pringle, van Swieten and de Haen were among his pupils. See Lindeboom, Herman Bo…

1663 CE

#9576

Opera omnia: Tam hactenus excusa, hîc tamen aucta & emendata, quàm nunquam aliàs visa ac primùm ex auctoris ipsius autographis eruta curâ Caroli Sponii .... 10 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Università degli Studi di Milano at this link.

1925 CE

#12908

Operative dentistry for children: A text book dealing with prophylactic and curative treatment of the teeth of the child, based upon experience gained during more than twenty-five years devoted to the care of children exclusively.

The first book in English exclusively on pedodontics. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1563 CE–1564 CE

#1093

Opuscula anatomica.

Eustachius is credited with several anatomical discoveries, among them the tensor tympani muscle and the Eustachian tube, published in his chapter entitled De auditus organis. In the last respect, however, he was anti…

1634 CE

#12611

Opuscula medica senilia in quatuor libros tributa, quorum I. De dentibus. II. De rationali curandi ratione. III. De facultatibus medicamentorum, praecipud purgantium. IV. De morbo regio. Omnia nunc primum ex MS. Bibliotheca Romana in lucem data: ad singulare philiatrorum, omniumque sane philosophantium emolumentum, adiectis indicibus necessariis.

1525 CE

#12773

Opuscula nuper in lucem aedita quorum nomina proxima habentur pagella.

Thomaeus's commentary on Aristotle's Mechanica includes an explanation of the action of a dental forceps illustrated with two small woodcut illustrations on page XXXXI. This was the first printed dental illustration. …

1917 CE

#3690

Oral roentgenology.

1987 CE

#8601

Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.

1865 CE

#11562

Organization of nursing: An account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing by a member of the Committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale.

The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was established in 1865, from which a district nursing system was implemented in Liverpool through the 1860s. This system eventually spread throughout England. Digital…

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

1904 CE

#12904

Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face. With seven hundred and sixty original illustrations.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1926 CE

#3699

Orthodontics; an historical review of its origin and evolution, including an extensive bibliography of orthodontic literature up to the time of specialization. 2 vols.

1990 CE

#10985

Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.

1895 CE

#9001

Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2005 CE

#10931

Our shared legacy: Nursing education at Johns Hopkins, 1889–2006. Edited by Mame Warren in association with the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

1971 CE

#9469

Outcasts from evolution: Scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859 - 1900.

2003 CE

#10025

Palliative care perspectives.

2015 CE

#9968

Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.

This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail.

1920 CE

#86.2

Papers and addresses by William Henry Welch. [Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Pathology and preventive medicine. Vol. 2: Bacteriology. Vol. 3: Medical education, history, miscellaneous subjects, and Welch's bibliography. Introduction by Simon Flexner. Digital facsimile from the Internet…

1875 CE

#2

Papyros Ebers: Das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift, herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers, mit Hieroglyphisch-Lateinischem Glossar von Ludwig [Christian] Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 vols.

The Ebers Papyrus dates from about 1552 BCE. It measures 20.23 m. in length and 30 cm. in height, and is, along with the Edwin Smith Papyrus, one of the two most important surviving medical papyri. It was written in h…

1928 CE

#12909

Partial denture construction: A text book describing the technics of impression taking and the construction of that type of removable partial dentures which are supported and retained by external attachments.

First book form exposition of the Kennedy Classification for partially edentulous arches or partial removable dentures. The Kennedy Classification system was originally introduced by Dr. Edward Kennedy in New York in …

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1929 CE

#13079

Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1940 CE

#1934

Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent.

Proof of the therapeutic action in vivo of penicillin against streptococcal and other bacterial infections. Building upon Fleming’s work (No. 1933 and 10784), the consequences of which had originally been widely…

2002 CE

#14292

Peptidotriazoles on Solid Phase: [1,2,3]-Triazoles by Regiospecific Copper(I)-Catalyzed 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Terminal Alkynes to Azides.

In 2022 Morten Meldal shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless for the discovery of click chemistry. Simultaneously, but independently of Sharpless, the authors discovered that cop…

2022 CE

#14106

Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models.

Abstract: "We evaluated the performance of a large language model called ChatGPT on the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which consists of three exams: Step 1, Step 2CK, and Step 3. ChatGPT performed at o…