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1950 CE
#13804
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
1980 CE
#13803
The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.
1914 CE
#13802
The history of small-pox in Australia 1788-1908.
A second volume, The history of small-pox in Australia, 1909-1923 by J.H.L. Compston and F. McCallum was published in Melbourne: H. J. Green, govt. printer, 1925.
1945 CE
#13801
The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
1959 CE
#13800
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
1815 CE
#13799
The history of the small pox.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1987 CE
#13798
CDC and the smallpox crusade.
Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.
2019 CE
#13797
Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.
1979 CE
#13796
The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.
1909 CE
#13795
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2021 CE
#13794
A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.
2002 CE
#13793
Pox Americana: The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82.
1565 CE
#13792
De vini natura, artificio et usu deque re omni potabili.
On the medical sues of wine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1795 CE
#13791
Tratado de las enfermedades de la boca sobre todas las partes del arte del dentista.
The first significant book on dentistry by a Spanish dentist. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1838 CE
#13790
Des maladies les plus fréquentes à bord des navires baleiniers, et de leur traitement.
On injuries and diseases of the crews of whaling voyages in particular. This was Santy's medical dissertation; dissertation and commercially published issues appeared from the same publisher the same year. Digital fac…
2010 CE
#13789
The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.
1979 CE
#13788
The eradication of smallpox from India.
1971 CE
#13787
Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.
Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.
1986 CE
#13786
Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.
2021 CE
#13785
Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.
"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written…
1986 CE
#13784
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
1754 CE
#13783
Poissons, écrevisses et crabes, de diverse couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des Terres Australes....
"This extraordinary work purports to show marine life from the seas around Indonesia at a time when the natural wildlife of that area was virtually unknown in Europe. Renard, both a publisher and a spy for the British…
2016 CE
#13782
Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.
1877 CE
#13781
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
1617 CE
#13780
Discursus medico-philosophicus de casu adolescentis [...]: qui [...] mortuus in quodam paternarum aedium loco, adjacente ipsi serpente, à domesticis inventus fuit.
An extensively illustrated work on death from snake bites and species of venomous snakes instigated by the sudden death from snake bite of an otherwise healthy young man. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…
1802 CE
#13779
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1928 CE
#13778
Tumors arising from the blood-vessels of the brain. Angiomatous malformations and hemangioblastomas.
1748 CE
#13777
Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, à M. de Joyeuse, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Montpellier ....
The first account of cataract extraction. Daviel also published this in the Mercure de France in September 1748, pp. 198-218. The separate edition, a 24-page pamphlet, was printed from a different setting of type.
2020 CE
#13776
The human gene editing debate.
"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…
2011 CE
#13775
The history and future of bioethics.
2020 CE
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2021 CE
#13773
Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.
1847 CE
#13772
Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.
2006 CE
#13771
Freud's library: A comprehensive catalogue / Freuds Bibliothek: Vollständiger Katalog compiled and edited by J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner. Introductory volume and CD-ROM.
In January 2022 when I wrote this entry the English language text of this catalogue (dated 2004) was available as a PDF at this link.
1894 CE
#13770
La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
2005 CE
#13769
Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.
"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…
2002 CE
#13768
Healing earths: The third leg of medicine. A history of minerals in medicine.
#13767
FDA Notices of Judgment Collection, 1908-1966.
https://fdanj.nlm.nih.gov/ "The FDA Notices of Judgment Collection is a digital archive of the published federal notices of judgment (a summary of the final outcome of a court case) for manufacturers and products pros…
#13766
Profiles in science.
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "Explore digitized archival collections to learn about prominent scientists, physicians, and other 20th-century leaders in biomedical research and public health."
1792 CE
#13765
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de effectibus musicae in hominem.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1777 CE
#13764
Bref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.
Von Troil’s compilation is the only contemporary printed book steming from Sir Joseph Banks’s pioneering scientfic expedition to Iceland, Banks's first and only expedition as indisputable leader. Having re…
1789 CE
#13763
A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
Trained in horticulture at Syon House, London, Paterson was sent in 1777 to the Cape of Good Hope to collect plants for the estate of the Countess of Strathmore, undertaking four journeys into the South African interi…
1811 CE
#13762
Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.
"In 1809 he went to Iceland to make a botanical survey for [Sir Joseph] Banks; his collections were lost in a fire at sea on the way home but with the aid of Banks’s notes from his own journey there in 1772 Hook…
1845 CE
#13761
The origin of life: A popular treatise on the philosophy and physiology of reproduction, in plants and animals, including the details of human generation with a full description of the male and female organs. Illustrated by fine colored engravings on stone.
Digital facsimile of the 20th edition from Google Books at this link.
1850 CE
#13760
The marriage guide, or natural history of generation; a private instructor for married persons and those about to marry, both male and female, in every thing concerning the physiology and relations of the sexual system and production or prevention of offspring; including all the new discoveries, never before given in the English language.
Digital facsimile of the 196th edition, much enlarged and improved from Google Books at this link. Sappol (2002) estimated that Hollick's works on sexuality and reproduction underwent at least 500 editions of between …
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.
2003 CE
#13758
Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.
1978 CE
#13757
The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.
A history of contraception in the United States.
1810 CE
#13756
Ueber die Verkrümmungen des menschlichen Körpers und eine rationelle und sichere Heilart derselben.
Valentin considered this work on the correction of deformities of the spine, neck, rickets, clubfoot, etc. one of the first "scientific" treatises on orthopedics. Digital facsimile from digitale-bibliothek-mv.de at th…
1811 CE
#13755
Travels in the island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX.
Only Mackenzie is credited with authorship on the title page. Holland and Bright accompanied Mackenzie on this voyage and exploration. On p. xi of the Preface Mackenzie indicates that he benefitted from Hooker's notes…