On Medical History and Literature

Adams W H D . (1887) The Healing Art. London.

Aikin J . (1780) Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain. London.

Alison W P . (1833–5) History of Medicine. In: Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine. Ed. Forbes J Tweedie A Conolly J . London; 1, Ixxiii.

Allbutt T C . (1896) A System of Medicine. London; 1, ix.

Baillie J . (1728) A letter to Dr … in answer to a tract in the Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne Relating to some Passages in Dr Freind's History of Physick. London.

Barker J . (1747) An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern Physicians in acute Diseases. London.

Black W . (1782) An Historical Sketch of Medicine and Surgery. London.

Bostock J . (1835) Sketch of the History of Medicine. London.

Clifton F . (1732) The State of Physick, Ancient and Modern. London.

Cockburn W . (1703) The present Uncertainty in the Knowledge of Medicines. London.

Cockburn W . (1728) Preface to: An Answer to what Dr Freind has written in his History of Physick concerning several Mistakes, which he pretends to have found in a short Work of Dr LeClerc intituled, An Essay of a Plan, &c. By D LeClerc. London.

Cockburn W . (1730) The Danger of improving Physick: with a Brief Account of the Present Epidemick Fever. London.

Cushing H . (1925) The Life of Sir William Osier. Oxford.

Dibdin T F . (1811) Bibliomania. 2nd ed. London.

Freind J . (1725–6) The History of Physick from the Time of Galen to the beginning of the 16th century. London.

Fulton J F . (1935) A Bibliography of Two Oxford Physiologists, Richard Lower (1631–1691) and John Mayow (1643–1679). Oxford; p 50. (Also quoted by Muirhead 1962).

Garrod A E . (1882) The Nebul: A fragment of Astronomical History (Johnson Memorial Prize Essay 1879). Oxford & London.

Garrod A E . (1919) In: Contributions to Medical and Biological Research. Dedicated to Sir William Osier. New York; 1, 59.

Good J M . (1822) The Study of Medicine. London.

Greenhill W A . (1889) Dict. Nat. Biograph. 20, 241.

Greenwood M . (1936) The Medical Dictator and other biographical studies. London.

Hamilton W . (1831) The History of Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy. London.

Harvey J . (1706) Praesagium Medicum, or the Prognostick Signs of Acute Diseases. London.

Holmes O W . (1860) The Professor at the Breakfast Table. London.

Holmes O W . (1883) Medical Essays, 1842–1882. 2nd ed. Boston.

Hutchinson B . (1799) Biographia Medica. London.

Johnson S . (1753) The Adventurer, December 11.

LeClerc D . (1699) The History of Physick ‘made English’ by Dr J Drake & Dr A Baden. London.

Lettsom J C . (1778) History of the Origin of Medicine. London.

Locke J . (1669) De Arte Medica. In: Gibson A G . (1933) The Physicians' Art. Oxford; p 13.

MacNalty A S . (1963) Proc. R. Soc. Med. 56, Suppl. p 3.

Maynwaring(e) E . (1668) The Compleat Physitian, Qualified and Dignified. London.

Maynwaring(e) E . (1671) Praxis Medicorum, Antiqua et Nova. The Ancient and Modern Practice of Physick examined, stated and compared. London.

Meryon E . (1861) The History of Medicine. London; Vol. 1.

Millar J . (1770) Observations on the prevailing diseases in Great Britain together with a Review of the History of Those of former periods and in other countries. London.

Millar R . (1811) Disquisitions in the History of Medicine. Edinburgh; part 1.

Milward E . (1740) A circular Invitatory Letter to All Orders of Learned Men … concerning an Attempt or Essay towards an History of the … most celebrated British Physical & Chirurgical Authors. London.

Mountford J . (1963) Guardian, April 18.

Muirhead A . (1962) Book Collector 11, 427.

Newman J H . (1960) University Sketches. Ed. Tierney M . Dublin.

Power D'A . (1920) Statement appended to Minutes of the Section of History of Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, for January 14 (see Proc. R. Soc. Med. 56, Suppl. p 45).

Poynter FNL . (1963) Broadway (Mar.) p 37.

Rosen G . (1949) J. Hist. Med. 4, 460.

Rowley W . (1794) Schola Medicinae. London.

Sigerist H E . (1953) Practitioner 171, 188.

Singer C . (1919) Brit. med. J. ii, 141.

Sudhoff K . (1930) Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull. 46, 101.

Thomson StC . (1933) Proc. R. Soc. Med. 27, 1.

Thornton J L . (1951) Med. Pr. ii, 285.

Tyndall (1860) see New English Dictionary under ‘literature’ (1903) Ed. Murray J A H . Oxford; Vol. 6, Part 1.

Walker R . (1799) Memoirs of Medicine, including a sketch of Medical History. London.

Wintrmgham C . (1726) Observations on Dr Freind's History of Physick. London.

Wise T A . (1867) Review of the History of Medicine. London.

Withington E T . (1894) Medical History. London.