The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a revised catalogue and check-list / by Fielding H. Garrison.
- Fielding Hudson Garrison
- Date:
- [1934]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a revised catalogue and check-list / by Fielding H. Garrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Nye Sundhedstidende, 179. Nyeste Sundhedstidende, 207. Observations anatomicae selectiores (1667), 1,2. Observations medicales, 148. Patriotische (Der) Medicus, 6. Petersburgskoye Vrachevnie Viedomosti, 107. Philosophische (Der) Arzt, 35. Progres de la medecine (1695-1709), I, 9. Psychologisches Magazin (1796—97), 251. Psychologisches Magazin (1796-98), 252. Rathgeber fiir alle Stande 208. Real Academia de medicina (Madrid), 146. Real Sociedad de medicina (Sevilla), 22. Recueil d’observations de medecine des hopitaux militaires, 23. Repertorium fiir Chemie, Pharmacie [etc.], 214. Royal Society of London, II, 4-40. Schwedische Annalen der Medicin, 159. Societas medica Havniensis (Acta), I, 3-3c. Societe de medicine de Lyon, 170. Societe de sante de Lyon, 155. Societe de sante (medicine) de Paris, 135-135b. Societe des pharmaciens de Paris. (lournal), 220. Societe medicate d’emulation, 145. Societe royale de medecine, 41-41b. Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, 117. Sundhed og Underholdning, 184. Sundhedsblade, 182. Sundhedsbog, 188. Sundhedsjournal, 195. Sundhedsjournal, et Maanedskrift, 199. Sundhedsraad, 196. Sundhedstidende, 178. Taschenbuch fiir deutsche Wundartze, 55. Tyrolische (Der) Arzt, 99. Unterhaltende (Der) Arzt, 183. Veckoskrift for Lakare och Naturforskare, 47. Verhandelingen omtrent de Weersgesteldheid en Ziekten, 120. Vetenskaps-Handlingar for Lakare, 117. Vetenskaps-Journal for Lakare, 172. Weeklijk Discours over de pest, 4. Wiener medicinische Monatschrift, 82. Wienerische Beitrage zur practischen Arznei- kunde, 45. Wochenblatt des aufrichtigen Volksarztes, 202. Wundarzt (Der), 80. Zodiacus medico-gallicus (1680-85), I, 4a. Apart from the interests of librarians, bibliographers and collectors, what is the significance or value of this bewildering array of titles? First of all, it may be said that while the protracted survey of 15th century medical books (incunabula) is approaching finality in the definitive catalogue of Dr. Arnold Klebs, an intensive study of the medical literature of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries has hardly just begun. To date, we have only the tentative and fragmentary cata¬ loguing of 16th century books by Mattaire, Panzer and Proctor, in which the medical items are buried. Of the medical literature be¬ tween Benivieni and Bichat, we really know very little; for none of it has been catalogued apart, in chronologic or even alphabetic sequence. The medical literature of the 18th century deserves especial study, since it anticipated the directives and expansion of modern medicine in nearly every particular. The above lists afford, in fact, a more comprehensive vista of the peculiar activities of the period of “enlight- ment” than might be available from a given arrangement of the medi¬ cal authors alone. Here we may trace, step by step, the sluggish evolution of the scientific society and its literary organ, the medical and scientific periodical, out of all sorts of inchoate, experimental forms. The vague 17th century appetite for new knowledge, mani¬ festing itself as idle curiosity about signs, portents, marvels, mon¬ strosities and freaks of nature, transforms itself into a widespread](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31356278_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
