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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - 1836â€“1917

by Louisa Garrett Anderson

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 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836â€"1917), physician, feminist and champion of women's medical education, played a key role in advancing the position of women in British professional life. This 1939 biography by her daughter Louisa, herself a distinguished physician, is presented largely through Elizabeth's own letters.
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Reports Of A Series Of Inoculations For The Variolae Vaccinae Or Cowpox - With Remarks And Observations On This Disease, Considered As A Substitute For The Smallpox

by William Woodville

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 When Jenner announced his experiments with vaccination against smallpox, William Woodville pursued similar trials, and in 1799 published the results: 200 cases where patients were vaccinated with matter obtained from cows or other cowpox sufferers. This demonstration of the safety and efficacy of vaccination led to its much wider adoption.
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Body And Mind - An Inquiry Into Their Connection And Mutual Influence, Specially In Reference To Mental Disorders

by Henry Maudsley

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 Henry Maudsley (1835â€"1918) practised psychiatry in London. He developed ideas of heredity derived from Darwin, aiming to 'bring man, both in his physical and mental relations, as much as possible within the scope of scientific enquiry'. Body and Mind contains his 1870 Gulstonian lectures and two earlier articles.
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The Works Of John Hunter, F.R.S.: Volume 5, Plates - With Notes

by John Hunter

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 This five-volume collection of the writings of the distinguished surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728â€"93), edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley, was published between 1835 and 1837. Volume 5 contains the plates which accompany the works in the other volumes, with notes.
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The Works Of John Hunter, F.R.S. - With Notes

by John Hunter

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 This five-volume collection of the writings of the distinguished surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728â€"93), edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley, was published between 1835 and 1837. Volume 3 discusses blood and the vascular system, wounds (especially those suffered in war), and infection.
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The Works Of John Hunter, F.R.S. - With Notes

by John Hunter

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 This five-volume collection of the writings of the distinguished surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728â€"93), edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley, was published between 1835 and 1837. Volume 2 discusses diseases of the jaw, teeth and gums, at a time when dental surgery was rudimentary.
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The Works Of John Hunter, F.R.S. - With Notes

by Drewry Ottley e John Hunter

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 This five-volume collection of the writings of the distinguished surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728â€"93), edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley, was published between 1835 and 1837. Volume 1 contains Ottley's biography, a list of Hunter's published works, and his lectures on surgery.
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A Concise History Of The Entire Abolition Of Mechanical Restraint In The Treatment Of The Insane - And Of The Introduction, Success, And Final Triumph Of The Non-Restraint System

by Robert Gardiner Hill

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 In this 1857 work, Robert Gardiner Hill describes his and Edward Charlesworth's reforms at the Lincoln Asylum, and attempts to refute the claim of the more famous John Conolly to primacy in abolishing restraints. Hill also reprints examples from the pamphlet war that arose out of this controversial topic.
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Biographical Memoirs Of Medicine In Great Britain - From The Revival Of Literature To The Time Of Harvey

by John Aikin

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 Published in 1780, this absorbing work by the physician and writer John Aikin (1747â€"1822) considers the key personalities of British medical history between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aikin presents details on the lives, works and quirks of more than fifty early medical writers, surgeons and physicians.
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An Historiall Expostulation Against The Beastlye Abusers, Both Of Chyrurgerie And Physyke, In Oure Tyme - With A Goodlye Doctrine And Instruction, Necessarye To Be Marked And Followed, Of All True Chirurgiens

by John Hall

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 The surgeon John Hall, born 1529/30, published this work in 1565 as an appendix to his translation of a thirteenth-century surgical work. Hall was vociferously opposed to fraudulent medicine, and this work, edited by surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Pettigrew (1791â€"1865) and published in 1844, describes his struggles against quacks.
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On Superstitions Connected With The History And Practice Of Medicine And Surgery

by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew

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 The surgeon Thomas Pettigrew (1791â€"1865) was interested in all aspects of antiquity, and gained fame in London society through his mummy-unwrapping parties. His interest in the early history of medicine is evidenced by this work, published in 1844, which describes the various forms of superstition which medical science had always attracted.
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The Elements Of Medical Chemistry - Embracing Only Those Branches Of Chemical Science Which Are Calculated To Illustrate Or Explain The Different Objects Of Medicine, And To Furnish A Ch

by John Ayrton Paris

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 The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785â€"1856) published this book in 1825 as a companion to his best-selling Pharmacologia (also reissued in this series). It functioned as a 'grammar' of chemistry for the medical student, moving from general principles to the details of the actions of specific elements.
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Medical Jurisprudence

by J. S. M. Fonblanque e John Ayrton Paris

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 The physician John Ayrton Paris (1785â€"1856) and his co-author J. S. M. Fonblanque (1787â€"1865) published this three-volume work in 1823. Volume 3 continues the discussion of homicide, followed by a 'synopsis of the objects of inquiry in cases of sudden death', an appendix presenting many historical cases, and an index.
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Medical Jurisprudence

by J. S. M. Fonblanque e John Ayrton Paris

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 The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785â€"1856) and his co-author J. S. M. Fonblanque (1787â€"1865) published this three-volume work in 1823. Volume 1 considers the role of medical evidence in matrimonial cases, and those involving pollution and the adulteration of food. It also opens the complex topic of unnatural death.
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A Treatise On Diet - With A View To Establish, On Practical Grounds, A System Of Rules, For The Prevention And Cure Of The Diseases Incident To A Disordered State Of The D

by John Ayrton Paris

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 The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785â€"1856) published this work on the significance of diet to health in 1826. After describing the physiology of the alimentary system and discussing the benefits and disadvantages of various foods and drinks, Paris suggests cures, including changes of lifestyle, for digestive illnesses.
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The Life Of Edward Jenner M.D. - With Illustrations Of His Doctrines, And Selections From His Correspondence

by John Baron

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 Written by his friend, the physician John Baron (1786â€"1851), this laudatory two-volume biography of Edward Jenner (1749â€"1823) appeared between 1827 and 1838. It illuminates Jenner's professional and personal life by drawing heavily on his correspondence, providing also a thorough explanation of the facts of vaccination.
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The Life Of Edward Jenner M.D. - With Illustrations Of His Doctrines, And Selections From His Correspondence

by John Baron

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 Written by his friend, the physician John Baron (1786â€"1851), this laudatory two-volume biography of Edward Jenner (1749â€"1823) appeared between 1827 and 1838. It illuminates Jenner's professional and personal life by drawing heavily on his correspondence, providing also a thorough explanation of the facts of vaccination.
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The Elements Of Materia Medica And Therapeutics: Volume 2, Part 2

by Jonathan Pereira

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 Jonathan Pereira (1804â€"53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.
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The Elements Of Materia Medica And Therapeutics: Volume 1

by Jonathan Pereira

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 Jonathan Pereira (1804â€"53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.
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A Treatise Of The Scurvy, In Three Parts - Containing An Inquiry Into The Nature, Causes, And Cure, Of That Disease

by James Lind

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 First published in 1753, this important treatise seeks to provide a thorough account of the nature, causes and treatment of scurvy. James Lind (1716â€"94) provided the groundwork for later investigations, and his research lent support to the later practice of including the juice of citrus fruit in a sailor's diet.
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The Soldier'S Manual Of Sanitation - And Of First Help In Sickness And When Wounded

by Charles Alexander Gordon e Robert Coleman Eaton

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 This joint reissue comprises two texts on military healthcare, providing instruction on the treatment of wounds and injuries common to soldiers, and advising on topics from malaria to drunkeness. Charles Gordon's 1873 manual precedes A Guide to Health for the Use of Soldiers by R. C. Eaton, first published in 1890.
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Women As Army Surgeons - Being The History Of The Women'S Hospital Corps In Paris, Wimereux And Endell Street, September 1914â€“October 1919

by Flora Murray

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 At the outbreak of the First World War, Flora Murray (1869â€"1923) and her fellow suffragists laid down their banners and sought to aid the Allied war effort. Murray's 1920 account records her efforts to operate military hospitals staffed by women in Paris and London during the war.
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Notes On Military Hygiene For Officers Of The Line - A Syllabus Of Lectures Formerly Delivered At The U.S. Infantry And Cavalry School

by Alfred A. Woodhull

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 First published in 1890 and reissued here in its revised third edition of 1904, this practical textbook, based on lectures delivered at the US Infantry and Cavalry School, offers guidance on military hygiene for line officers, covering such topics as the selection of men, uniform design, and waste management.
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The Elements Of Materia Medica And Therapeutics

by Jonathan Pereira

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 Jonathan Pereira (1804â€"53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.
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