Below are books used in History of Medicine I classes, arranged by lecture topic. Books in OHSU Historical Collections & Archives are available for research by appointment. Books in the circulating collection are available via the Main Library.
Hippocrates
Hippocrates. The Medical Works of Hippocrates. Oxford: Blackwell, 1950.
Hippocrates. Aphorisms. Leiden: Ioannis Maire, 1638.
Above: Hippocrates, 1638
Galen
Galen. Galeni opervm. Basel: Officina Frobeniana, 1542.
Above: Galen, 1542
Medieval Medicine
Guglielmo da Saliceto. The surgery of William of Saliceto. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp, 2002.
Rosenman, Leonard D. A Medieval Surgical Pharmacopoeia and Formulary: With a List of Simples and Compounds : 1170-1325. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp, 1999.
Islamic Medicine
Avicenna A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna, Incorporating a Translation of the First Book. New York: Kelley, 1970.
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, and Max Meyerhof. The Book of the Ten Treatises on the Eye. Cairo: Government Press, 1928.
Maimonides, Moses. Treatise on Poisons and Their Antidotes. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā. A treatise on the small-pox and measles. London: Sydenham Society, 1848.
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Ioannem Oporinum, 1555.
Above: Vesalius, 1555
Medical Humanism
Caius, John. The Works of John Caius, M.D. Second Founder of Gonville and Caius College and Master of the College, 1559-1573. Cambridge: University Press, 1912.
William Harvey
Harvey, William. Exercitationes de generatione animalium. The Hague: A. Leers, 1680.
Harvey, William. The works of William Harvey. London: Sydenham Society, 1847.
Willis, Leeuwenhoek, and Sydenham
Sydenham, Thomas, and John Pechey. The Whole Works of That Excellent Practical Physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham. London: J. Darby, 1729.
Willis, Thomas. Pharmaceutice Rationalis, or, An Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies: Shewing the Signs, Causes, and Cures of Most Distempers Incident Thereunto ; in Two Parts ; As Also a Treatise of the Scurvy, and the Several Sorts Thereof, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Cure. London: T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh, 1679.
Above: Willis, 1679
The Hunters
Hunter, John. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease. London: G. Nicol, 1788.
Hunter, William. Hunter's Lectures of Anatomy. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1972.
Laennec and Skoda
Laennec, R. T. H.. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest and on Mediate Auscultation. London: Thomas & George Underwood, 1829.
Skoda, Joseph, and W. O. Markham. Auscultation and percussion. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1854.
Above: Laennec, 1829
Rudolf Virchow
Virchow, Rudolf. Cellular Pathology As Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology: Twenty Lectures Delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, 1859.
Virchow, Rudolf. Post-Mortem Examinations; with Especial Reference to Medico-Legal Practice. Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1880.
Thomas Addison
Addison, Thomas. On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Medicine Library, 1980.
Richard Bright
Bright, Richard. Reports of Medical Cases: Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, and Green, 1827.
William Beaumont
Beaumont, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. Plattsburgh, N.Y.: F. P. Allen, 1833.
Claude Bernard
Bernard, Claude. Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale. Paris: J.B. Baillière et fils, 1865.
Bernard, Claude, Walter F. Atlee, and Charles Robin. Notes of M. Bernard's Lectures on the Blood: With an Appendix. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1854.
Wilhelm Roentgen
Klickstein, Herbert S. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on a New Kind of Rays: A Bibliographical Study. [St. Louis, MO]: Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, 1966
Morton, William J., and Edwin W. Hammer. The X Ray or Photography of the Invisible and Its Value in Surgery. New York: American Technical Book Co, 1896.
Ignaz Semmelweis
Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp, and K. Codell Carter. The etiology, concept, and prophylaxis of childbed fever. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Archibald Garrod
Garrod, Archibald E., and Harry Harris. Inborn Errors of Metabolism. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Alexander Fleming
Fleming, Alexander. Penicillin, Its Practical Application. London: Butterworth & Co.; [etc.], 1946.
Fleming, Alexander. On the antibacterial action of cultures of a penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae. British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1929; 10: 226-236. Reprinted in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001.
Women in medicine
Blackwell, Elizabeth. Essays in Medical Sociology. London: Bell, 1902.
Lovejoy, Esther Pohl. Women Doctors of the World. New York: Macmillan Company, 1957.
Walter Reed
United States Surgeon-General's Office. Report on the Origin and Spread of Typhoid Fever in U.S. Military Camps During the Spanish War of 1898. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.
HIV/AIDS
Center for Disease Control. Pneumocystis pneumonia --- Los Angeles. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1981;30:250--2.
William Osler
Osler, William. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892.
Harvey Cushing
Cushing, Harvey. The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1912.
Cushing, Harvey. Tumors of the Nervus Acusticus and the Syndrome of the Cerebellopontile Angle. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1917.
Fuller Albright
Albright, Fuller, and Edward Conrad Reifenstein. The Parathyroid Glands and Metabolic Bone Disease; Selected Studies. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1948.
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