Books on Medical Specialties

Below is a selection of texts on Medical Specialties. Some are in Latin, most are downloadable.

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Opthalmology
–Fuchs, Leonard, Alle Kranckheyt der Augen, [All Diseases of the Eyes], 1539 (Downloadable)


Gynecology & Obstetrics
–Rueff, Jacob, De conceptu et generatione hominis… 1580 (Downloadable)
–Mercado, Luis, Ludouici Mercati… De mulierum affectionibus libri quatuor… 1579 (Downloadable)
–Bodium, Apud, Hieronymi Barbari … De formatrice, conceptu, organizatione, & nutritione foetus, 1676 (Downloadable)
–Drelincourt, Charles, De Conceptu Conceptus, 1685 (Downloadable)
–Strupanus, Johann Niklaus, Propositiones medicae de sterilitate mulierum, 1604? (Downloadable, e-rara)
–Blass, Disputatio Medica inauguralis, de mulierum sterilitate, 1618 (Downloadable, e-rara)
–Hemel, Disputatio inauguralis medica de sterilitate mulierum, 1627 (Downloadable, e-rara)
–A directory for midwives, Culpeper, 1762 (Downloadable)
–The Midwives Book, Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered, Mrs. Jane Sharp (Midwife), 1671 (D’loadable)
––Another Edition: The Compleat Midwife’s Companion, Mrs. Jane Sharp (Midwife), 1725 (4th Edition) (Downloadable)
–The complete midwife’s practice enlarged … With instructions of the Queen of France’s midwife [Louise Bourgeois]. Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, 1680 (Wellcome, Downloadable)
–Aristotle’s Compleat and Experienc’d Midwife, (Englished by W.S.), 1700 (Downloadable)


Dermatology
Note that many skin diseases were covered in texts on Tumors.
–De morbis cutaneis. A treatise of diseases incident to the skin, Daniel Turner, (Second Edition) 1723


Tumors
–Ingrassia, Giovanni Filippo, De tumoribus praeter naturam tomus primus… 1552 (Downloadable)
–Ingrassia, Giovanni Filippo, De tumoribus praeter naturam, 1553 (Downloadable)
–Hermann, Johannes, De tumoribus propositiones… 1555 (Downloadable)
–Rueff, Jacob, Libellus de tumoribus quibusdam phlegmaticis non naturalibus, 1556 (Downloadable)
–Rudio, Eustachio, De tumoribus praeter naturam, 1600 (Downloadable)
–van Foreest, Pieter, De tumoribus praeter naturam, 1610
–Saporta, Antonius, De tumoribus praeter naturam, 1624 (Downloadable)


Infectious Diseases, Plague, Fever
–Borgarucci, Prospero, De peste perbrevis commentarius, 1565 (Downloadable)


Surgery
–Vesalius, Andreas and Borgarucci, Prospero, Chirurgia magna, Venetiis, 1568 (Downloadable)
–Several Chirurgical Treatises, Richard Wiseman, 1676 (Downloadable)
–A Short Compendium of Chirurgery, John Shirley, 1678 (Downloadable)
–Mellificium Chirurgiæ: Or, The Marrow Of Chirurgery, James Cook, 1717 (Downloadable)
–Eight Chirurgical Treatises, Richard Wiseman, 1719 (Downloadable)
––6th Edition, 1734 (Downloadable)
–The Art of Surgery, Daniel Turner, 1736