"Although a few more reports were published furing the next hundred years [after Tyson] it was Tiedemann alone who gave a more detailed account, on monkeys, in his... Icones Simiarum.... In monkeys he found the brain shorter, the sulci shallower, and both sulci and gyri far fewer than in the human brain....in monkeys, as also in the ape, he observed greater symmetry and regularity of the convolutional pattern than is generally seen in man (Meyer, Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy, 142). Digital facsimile of the 1821 edition from Google Books at this link.

In 1816 Leacock, from Barbados, reported systematic experiments in Edinburgh on dogs and cats that established that donor and recipient must be of the same species, and recommended inter-human transfusion; he then returned to Barbados and published nothing more.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (including cancer and lymphoma), mummification, and remedial therapy.

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 the 1940s, until its generalization and dilution.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a masterpiece of Romanesque book art and one of the most complicated manuscripts ever made, has been studied by the author for almost half a century. The present book is the culmination of this research and provides a detailed codicological and textual analysis, showing how this wonderful book was put together and which are the hidden ideas Lambert sought to develop in its hundreds of texts and pictures dealing with astronomy, geography, natural history, history, religion and countless other subjects" (publisher).

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

"This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanced the scientific enterprise available to the public through modern digital technology."

Demonstration of the mutational basis of antibiotic resistance. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

Revised 4th edition, 2012.

In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witnessed serious maltreatment of patients by the staff of the hospitals. His autobiographical account of his hospitalization and the abuses he suffered was widely and favorably reviewed. It became a bestseller, and is still in print. Through this book Beers became the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. He gained the support of the medical profession and others  to reform the treatment of the mentally ill. In 1908 Beers founded the "Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene", now Mental Health Connecticut. The following year he founded the "National Committee for Mental Hygiene", now called "Mental Health America", to continue reform of the treatment of the mentally ill. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

This 6,000-word short story by is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating and critiquing 19th century attitudes toward women's health, both physical and mental. Digital facsimile from the U. S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

Motulsky clearly stated that inheritance might explain many individual differences in the efficacy of drugs and in the occurence of adverse drug reactions. 

In this paper Vogel coined the term pharmacogenetics, as the study of the role of genetics in drug response.

Watson's first book on molecular biology, and the first textbook on what was then a new academic subject. Seventh revised edition, with five co-authors, 2013.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of visual statements by psychotic artists such as Adolf Wlfli and Richard Dadd. John MacGregor draws on his dual training in art history and in psychiatry and psychoanalysis to describe not only this evolution in attitudes but also the significant influence of the art of the mentally ill on the development of modern art as a whole. His detailed narrative, with its strangely beautiful illustrations, introduces us to a fascinating group of people that includes the psychotic artists, both trained and untrained, and the psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, critics, and art historians who encountered their work" (publisher).

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays 

Images with detailed captions documenting the development of this institution.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern authors. 

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

A useful collection of Garrison's numerous historical articles published in this journal.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom underwent in Late Antiquity and in Byzantine and Islamic cultures.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Public Health Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the Veterans Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and Medicare. In examining these, he traces the growth of federal influence from its tentative beginnings in 1798 through the ambitious infrastructures of today - and offers startling insights on the current debate.

The author contends that until the twentieth century, governmental involvement in health care policy was nominal. With the sweeping food and drug reforms of 1906 and the Medicare amendments to Social Security in 1965, a whole new system of health care was brought to the American public. A careful analysis of the various programs generated by this legislation, however, shows a different picture of pet projects, budgetary lobbying, competitive bureaucracy and discord between the agencies and their opposition" (publisher).

"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely toward the medical profession; in the United States, independent schools of public health are open to physicians, engineers, nurses, lawyers, administrators and other professional groups. Despite their differences, these two systems continue to serve as models for public health schools and training programs throughout the world. This unique study provides a lucid view of the political, economic, and social forces which shape public health patterns. It will provoke and inform policy decisions about the future directions of education in all countries interested in building stronger and more effective public health systems" (publisher).

Chapter 11 is an analysis of the life and work of librarian and key early pioneer in medical informatics, Sanford V. Larkey by Margaret Pelling. Another chapter, by Paul Slack, “Mirrors of health and treasures of poor men: the uses of the vernacular medical literature of Tudor England,” identified 153 medical books printed in English in England before 1605.

Revised second edition, 2002.

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.

Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).

Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.

The first historical dictionary of psychiatry.

Vol. 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution. Vol. 2: De la révolution française au conflit mondial de 1914. Vol. 3: De 1914 à nos jours.

Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts analysed are provided. Towards the end of each entry, there are references to corresponding entries, if any, in standard historical dictionaries of English (Dictionary of Old English, Middle English Dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary). If the origin or meaning of the term has been discussed in academic books or articles, references to the latter are also provided.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.