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- On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules.
- Addison, Thomas, 1793-1860
- 1502
- The present work is one of the truly remarkable medical books of the nineteenth century and has long been among the principal desiderata for medical book collectors. Addison describes here for the first time two chronic diseases of the adrenal...
- Chirurgiae . . . libri septem
- Croce, Giovanni Andrea dalla, d. 1580
- 0266
- The present work is Croce's major contribution and is chiefly a historical compilation of the writings of the important authorities from Hippocrates to Abulcasis. Croce's recommendations for wound management are surprisingly modern and are similar...
- On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- 1724
- What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin's On the origin of species was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds and the world-wide...
- The functions of the brain
- Ferrier, David, 1843-1928
- 2059
- This work furnished the link between Hughlings Jackson and the later work on cerebral cortical localization by Sir Charles Sherrington and others at the turn of the century. This classic book summarizes the fundamental and startling new facts...
- Feldtbůch der Wundartzney
- Gersdorff, Hans von, d. 1529
- 0149
- By Hans von Gersdorff. Cf. Dedication. The book contains many woodcuts, attributed to Hans Wechtlin (b. ca. 1480), which depict anatomy, surgical operations, and surgical instruments and devices. Herrlinger comments that "The illustrations . . ....
- Kreutterbuch . . . jetzt widerumb mit vielen schönen newen Figuren, auch nützlichen Artzneyen . . . gemehret, und verfertiget durch Joachimum Camerarium.
- Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577
- 0239
- Mattioli's commentary on Dioscorides went through numerous Italian, Latin, French, German, and Czech editions. The first German edition was published in 1562 and the work continued to be published well into the eighteenth century.
- Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum.
- Petrus, de Abano, ca. 1250-ca. 1315
- 0093
- The Conciliator is Pietro's greatest work and one which made a great impression on his age. In fact, its influence was such that its method of dialectics became the fashion for student dissertations and disputations at Padua through the seventeenth...
- A treatise on the eye, the manner and phaenomena of vision
- Porterfield, William
- 0824.5
- Porterfield devoted himself chiefly to research on the physiology of vision, reporting his experiments and observations in this book. Porterfield’s Treatise was carefully read by all of the subsequent great contributors to ophthalmology and...
- A medieval medical atlas : Roger de Salern, Livre de chirurgie
- Roger, of Salerno, 12th cent.
- 0083.4
- This sequence of brightly coloured miniatures from a magnificent 13th century French manuscript is among the best examples of leading French book illumination during the medieval period of Gothic style.
- The birth of mankinde, otherwise named the woman's booke. Set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde
- Rösslin, Eucharius, d. 1526
- 0201
- English midwives and physicians were largely dependent on this book for guidance in the practice of obstetrics until the eighteenth century when Smellie and Hunter published their scientific treatises.

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