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• Medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Medicine -- Early works to 1800

• Tesoro de Medicinas para Diversas Enfermedades (in Spanish; third printing; Madrid: Imprenta de Musica, 1708), by Gregorio López, contrib. by Mathias de Salazar Mariaca and Joseph Diaz Brizuela
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• The Merck Manual (historic series) (partial serial archives)
• The Merck Manual (current professional version) (illustrated HTML at merckmanuals.com)

• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants (2003), ed. by Daniel D. Federman, Kathi E. Hanna, and Laura Lyman Rodriguez (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: The NICE Guideline on Clinical Management and Service Guidance (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 2007), by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)

• Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching for Evidence (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Institutional Protocols for Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatments: Special Report (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica, Together With a Summary of Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments (first edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1899) (centenary facsimile reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1901 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Practicing Physician and Surgeon (second edition of the Merck Manual; New York and Chicago: Merck and Co., c1901) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1905 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (third edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fourth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fifth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy (4th edition, 1917), by Lucius Elmer Sayre (PDF files at swsbm.com)
• Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica, Together With a Summary of Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments (first edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1899) (centenary facsimile reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1901 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Practicing Physician and Surgeon (second edition of the Merck Manual; New York and Chicago: Merck and Co., c1901) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1905 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (third edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fourth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fifth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dr. Colbatch's Legacy, or the Family Physician: Containing an Account of All the Diseases Incident to the Human Body, Alphabetically Digested (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1733), by John Colbatch (page images at NIH)

• The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women (2007), by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (PDF at NIH)

• The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women (2007), by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (PDF at NIH)

• University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook (electronic edition, 2001), ed. by Mark A. Graber, Peter P. Toth, and Robert L. Herting (HTML at archive.org)

• The Merck Manual of Geriatrics (3rd edition), ed. by Mark H. Beers and Robert Berkow (searchable HTML at merck.com)

• Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (second edition, revised 2015), by Karen Patrias, ed. by Daniel L. Wendling (HTML and PDF files at NIH)

• Abdominal Surgery on the Battle-Field (reprinted from St. Louis Clinique, June 1894), by Nicholas Senn (page images at NIH)

• A Manual of Military Surgery, for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate States Army; With an Appendix of the Rules and Regulations of the Medical Department of the Confederate States Army (second edition; Richmond, VA: West and Johnson, 1862), by Julian John Chisolm
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Manual of Military Surgery, for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate States Army; With Explanatory Plates of All Useful Operations (third edition; Columbia, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1864), by Julian John Chisolm
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Manual of Military Surgery, Prepared for the Use of the Confederate States Army by Order of the Surgeon-General (possibly based on Gross's 1861 manual; Richmond: Ayres and Wade, 1863), by Confederate States of America Surgeon-General's Office, contrib. by Samuel D. Gross
  • PDF files with commentary at Jefferson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Manual of Military Surgery: or, Hints on the Emergencies of Field, Camp and Hospital Practice (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1861), by Samuel D. Gross (PDF files with commentary at Jefferson)
• A Manual of Military Surgery: or, Hints on the Emergencies of Field, Camp and Hospital Practice (Augusta, GA: Steam Power Press Chronicle and Sentinel, 1861), by Samuel D. Gross
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Manual of Military Surgery: or, Hints on the Emergencies of Field, Camp and Hospital Practice (unauthorized Confederate edition; Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1862), by Samuel D. Gross
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Medical Management of Biological Casualties: Handbook (third edition, 1998), by U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (frame-dependent HTML at nbc-med.org)

• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (revised edition, 1992), by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell (PDF files at hesperian.org)
• The Poor Man's Physician, or The Receipts of The Famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch: Being a Choice Collection of Simple and Easy Remedies For Most Distempers; To Which Is Added, The Method of Curing The Small Pox and Scurvy (second edition; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Paton, 1716), by John Moncrief, contrib. by Archibald Pitcairn (page images at NIH)

• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (revised edition, 1992), by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell (PDF files at hesperian.org)

• The Merck Veterinary Manual (8th edition, 1998), ed. by Susan E. Aiello (frame-dependent HTML at merck.com)
• The Merck Veterinary Manual (partial serial archives)

• Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory: Further Adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, Now Living in the Said Colledg: Being That Book by Which All Apothecaries are Bound to Make Up All the Medicines in Their Shops (London: Printed by Peter Cole, 1665), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at NIH)

• An Exact Collection of the Choicest and Mose Rare Experiments and Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery (Both Cymick and Galenick) viz. of Leonard Phioravant, Knight and Doctour in Physick and Chyrurgery, His Rational Secrets and Chyrurgery &c. (with additional works by Paracelsus, Penot, and Hollandus; London: Printed for W. Shears, 1659), by Leonardo Fioravanti, Paracelsus, Bernard Georges Penot, and Johan Isaäc Hollandus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Plain and Short Treatise of an Apoplexy, Convulsions, Colick, Twisting of the Guts, Poisons, Bleeding at Nose, Vomiting of Blood, Stone in the Kidneys, Quinsey, Mother-Fits, Miscarriage, Hard Labour, Acute Diseases of Women In Childbed, and Several Other Dangerous and Violent Diseases That Come of a Sudden, and Require Present Help (second edition; London: The author, 1708), by John Pechey
  • page images at NIH
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Briefe and Most Easie Introduction to the Astrologicall Judgement of the Starres (London: Printed by T. Purfoot, 1598), by Claude Dariot, trans. by Fabian Withers, contrib. by G. C.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at astrologiamedieval.com
• Here Beginneth The Seinge Of Urynes, of All The Coloures That Urynes Be Of, Wyth The Medecynes Annexed To Everye Uryne, And Every Uryne Hys Urynall: Muche Profytable For Every Men To Knowe (London: Printed by W. Copland for A. Uele, 1552)
  • page images at NIH
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The London Medical Journal (full serial archives)
• Medical Facts and Observations (full serial archives)
• The Practise of Chymicall, and Hermeticall Physicke, For the Preservation of Health (London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1605), by Joseph Du Chesne, trans. by Thomas Tymme (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Doctor Fludds Answer unto M. Foster (London: Printed for N. Butter, 1631), by Robert Fludd (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A New Theory of Acute and Slow Continued Fevers: Wherein, Beside The Appearance of Such, and The Manner of Their Cure, Occasionally, The Structure of The Glands, and The Manner of Laws of Secretion, The Operation of Purgative, Vomitive, and Mercurial Medicines, Are Mechanically Explained; To Which Is Prefix'd an Essay Concerning The Improvements of The Theory of Medicine (8th edition, corrected; London: Printed for W. Otridge, 1766), by George Cheyne (page images at NIH)
• The Philosophical Works of The Honourable Robert Boyle Esq.: Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under The General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine (3 volumes; London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, et al., 1725), by Robert Boyle, ed. by Peter Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works: Literary, Moral, Philosophical and Medical (new edition, 4 volumes, with title pages varying somewhat between volumes and copies; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1807), by Thomas Percival, ed. by Edward Percival (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basil Valentine His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony; With Annotations of Theodore Kirkringius, M.D.; With The True Book of the Learned Synesius, A Greek Abbot, Taken Out of the Emperour's Library, Concerning the Philosopher's Stone (London: Printed for D. Newman, 1678), by Basilius Valentinus and Synesius of Cyrene, contrib. by Theodor Kerckring (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Basilius Valentinus, a Benedictine Monk, Of Natural and Supernatural Things ("Basilius Valentinus" believed to be Tholde in this book; with Bacon's Of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony and Holland's Work of Saturn; from a 1671 edition), by Basilius Valentinus, trans. by Daniel Cable, contrib. by Johannes Thölde, Roger Bacon, and Johan Isaäc Hollandus (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Sweating Sickness: A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate or Sweatyng Sicknesse (from a Works edition of 1912), by John Caius, ed. by E. S. Roberts (Gutenberg text)

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