A History of Organized Medicine in Harris County, Texas

The item was written by the Historical Committee of the Harris County Medical Society and signed on October 28, 1948. A brief history of medicine in Texas is given before the focus shifts to the Harris County and Houston area. Information on the early years is taken from various sources such as Pat Ireland Nixon’s The Medical Story of Early Texas and the writings of George Plunkett (Mrs. S. C.) Red. Significant information comes from the Minutes of the Harris County Medical Society.

My scrapbook of medicine : a series of squibs in prose and verse, presented in popular medicine style, that are calculated to throw a few highlights on some of the personages and some of the events that have made medical history : with bibliography and index /

"Some of these squibs have appeared in the monthly 'Bulletin' which is the official organ of the Academy of medicine of Toledo and Lucas county. They ran under the caption 'Medical phflugg'." - Pref.

Educating physicians in the nineteenth century : selected titles bearing on the subject in the collections of the National Library of Medicine /

Includes index.

Medicine, disease, and death; being an enquiry into the progress of medicine as a practical art.

Microfilmed for preservation

The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians.

Mode of access: Internet.

A list of books on the history of science. January, 1911.

Accompanied by "Second supplement. Prepared by Reginald B. Gordon." (v. 25 cm.) Published: Chicago, The John Crerar library, 1942-

A compendium of the anatomy of the human body : intended principally for the use of students ... This edition is prefixed with A compendious history of anatomy, and The Ruyschian art and method of making preparations to exhibit the structure of the human body, illustrated with a representation of the quicksilver tray and its appendages, which is not in the London edition.

"A compendious history of anatomy" and "The Ruyschian art and method of making preparations to exhibit the structure of the human body" (32 p. at front of v. 1) are by Robert Hooper, and are reprinted, with slight changes in text, from his The anatomist's vade-mecum, 4th ed., London, 1802.

History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America : their founders, benefectors, faculties, officers, hospitals alumni, etc.with a record of achievement of its representatives in the world of medicine

UANL

The history and heroes of the art of medicine.

Mode of access: Internet.

A general natural history or, new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world : with their virtues and uses ... in medicine and mechanics : ... including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages : as also observations ... with a great number of figures, elegantly engraved /

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of the materia medica : containing descriptions of all the substances used in medicine ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

The peaks of medical history; an outline of the evolution of medicine for the use of medical students and practitioners,

"Bibliographical notes": p. 95-100

The London medical dictionary : including under distinct heads every branch of medicine viz. anatomy, physiology, and pathology, the practice of physic and surgery, therapeutics and materia medica; with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history /

Mode of access: Internet.

History of veterinary medicine at Iowa State College. 1879 - Semi-centennial - 1929.

Mode of access: Internet.