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DITTRICK MEDICAL HISTORY CENTER
 
 
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Publications

 

Fisch, Max H., Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494, Published for The Cleveland Medical Library Association by Herbert Reichner, New York, 1947.

Fisch, Ruth B. and Max H., "The Marshall Collection of Herbals in the Cleveland Medical Library," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 21 (2) (March-April 1947):224-261.

Ingrid Ebner and Glen Jenkins, Skeletons in Our Closet. Skeletal Illustration as Represented in the Rare Book Collection of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Occasional Contributions to the History of the Health Sciences from the Historical Division of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library, No. 2, October 1983).

Johnston, Stanley, compiler, The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections. A Descriptive Bibliography of Pre-1830 Works from the Libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland (Kent, Ohio and London, England: Kent State University Press, 1992). Nearly 1000 titles are included in this study, many of them extremely rare. The book contains indexes of authors and titles, printers and publishers, illustrators, portraits, and of non-botanical illustrations.

Johnston, Stanley, Cleveland's Treasures from the World of Botanical Literature (Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 1998).

The Museum Collection

Helen Cesvet, "Dittrick Museum: the birth of a museum," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 11 (1964): 51-58.

Writings by Howard Dittrick:
  • "The saddlebags of Peter Allen," in H .Dittrick, comp., Pioneer medicine in the Western Reserve (Cleveland: Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, 1932), 23-28.
  • "From the doctor's day book," Ohio State Medical Journal 32 (1936): 16 .
  • "The equipment, instruments and drugs of pioneer physicians of Ohio," Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 48 (1939): 198-210
  • "A description of medical history collections in Cleveland, Ohio," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 8 (October, 1940): 1214-45.
  • "A medical pioneer of Trumbull County a century ago," Ohio State Medical Journal 37 (1941): 355-59, 459-63.
  • "The introduction of anesthesia into Ohio, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 50 (1941): 338-50
  • . "Ex Votos of Medical Interest," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 32 (1944): 345-55. "Cleveland doctors and their fees (about 1840)," Ohio State Archeological and Historical Quarterly 54 (1945): 361-70.
  • "A Cleveland drug store of 1835," Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly 55 (1946): 338-45.
  • "The Historical Museum and the Medical Library," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 35 (1947): 334-35.
  • "Some important contributions to medicine made by Clevelanders," Ohio Medical Journal 44 (1948): 1128-32.
  • "An ancestor of Ohio medicine: Fairfield Medical School (1812-1840)," Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 61 (1952):365-70.
  • "Chinese Medicine Dolls," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 26 (Sept.-Oct., 1952): 422-29
  • . "Medical agents and equipment used in the Northwest Territory," Ohio State Medical Journal 48 (1952): 2-8
  • . "Indian objects in a Cleveland museum," Journal of the Oklahoma Medical Association 47 (1954): 150, 152.
  • "The Challenge of the Future," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library Association 2,2 :10
  • "The Joy of Gathering Medical Treasures," Missouri Medicine (January 1954): 47-49.
Writings by James M. Edmonson:
  • Surgical Garb, 1870-1920. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Health Sciences Library, 1982.
  • "A Recent Museum Acquisition: an 'Iron Lung'," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library Association 28, 2 (Fall/Winter, 1982): 14-15.
  • "Medical Education in the Western Reserve, 1810-1910," CWRU Medical Alumni Bulletin 46, 2 (Spring, 1983): 4-9.
  • "New Exhibit at the Howard Dittrick Museum: a 1927 Engeln Tilting X-/ray Table," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library Association 29, 2 (Fall/Winter, 1983): 12-14.
  • "Changes in the Dittrick Museum," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library Association 30, 1 (Spring/Summer, 1984): 23-25.
  • "Medical Objects for the Non-Specialist: the Interpretive Challenge," Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the European Association of Museums of History of Medical Sciences (London, 1984): 117-19
  • . Nineteenth Century Surgical Instruments: A Catalogue of the Gustav Weber Collection at the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Health Sciences Library, 1986.
  • "The Medical Period Room," Caduceus 3, 4 (Winter, 1987): 26-43.
  • "Charles Truax, "The Mechanics of Surgery, and the Development of the American Surgical Instrument Industry," introduction to reprint of 1899 edition of Charles Truax, The Mechanics of Surgery. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1988.
  • [Translation of] Urs Boschung, "Joseph-Frederic-Benoit Charriere (1803-1876): Paris Surgical Instrument Maker from Switzerland," Caduceus 4, 2 (Summer, 1988): 34-46.
  • "Charriere Instruments in America," Caduceus 4, 2 (Summer, 1988): 47-57
  • . "Asepsis and the Transformation of Surgical Instruments, 1885-1900," Medical Collectors Association Newsletter No. 13 (July, 1988).
  • [with co-author F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.] "George Tiemann & Co., the American Armamentarium Chirurgicum, and the American Surgical Instrument Trade," introduction to reprint of 1889 edition of George Tiemann & Co., American Armamentarium Chirurgicum. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1989.
  • "Charles Spencer (1813-1881), microscope maker," Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 114, 1 (July, 1989): 93-94.
  • "Gastric freezing: the view a quarter century later," Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 114, 5 (November, 1989): 613-14.
  • "Dr. Dittrick's Museum," Caduceus 6, 3 (Winter, 1990): 1-25.
  • "History of the instruments for gastointestinal endoscopy," Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 37, 2 (March/April Supplement, 1991): 27-56.
  • "Asepsis and the Transformation of surgical instruments," Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Ser. 5 13, 1 (Spring, 1991): 75-91
  • "Sterilizing Surgical Instruments: A Curator's Perspective," Caduceus 7, 2 (Autumn, 1991): 32-38.
  • "Artifacts and Archives: Groves' Amputating Knife," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 7 (1991): 289-91.
  • [with co-author William S. Haubrich, M. D.] "History of Endoscopy," in Michael V. Sivak, Jr., ed., Gastroenterologic Endoscopy, 2nd. ed, (W. B. Saunders Co., forthcoming).
  • "The American surgical instrument industry, 1880-1916: the impact of asepsis and European importation," Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium of the European Association of Museums of History of Medical Sciences (Leiden, 1992), 69-79.
  • "Learning from the artifact: surgical instruments as resources in the history of medicine and medical technology," Caduceus 9,2 (Autumn, 1993): 87-98.
  • "Documentation of instruments and their makers," Watermark 16, 4 (Fall, 1993), 63-65.
  • "United States patents for medical devices: patterns of inventive activity in the nineteenth century," Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of the European Association of Museums of History of Medical Sciences (Zurich, 1994).
  • "Endoscopy," in Robert Bud, ed., Instruments of Science: A Historical Encyclopedia (London: the Science Museum, 1996).
  • American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History to 1900, with a Directory of the American Instrument Trade (San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1997).
Writings by Henry Fertig:
  • " Our Heritage and Our Museum," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library Association 6 (April, 1959): 15-30.
  • "Medical Museums and the History of Medicine," Journal of the American Medical Association 182, 2 (Oct. 13, 1962): 163-165.
Writings by Patsy A. Gerstner:
  • "Plans for the Howard Dittrick Museum,"Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 14, 1 (January, 1967):18-9.
  • "The Care and Exhibition of Medical Museum Objects," Health Sciences Information Series, Cleveland Health Sciences Library 1, 6 (1974).
  • "Viewpoints in the teaching of medical history. V. Medical history for young people: experience at the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine," Clio Medica 10, 2 (June, 1975): 161-5.
  • "Genevieve Miller and The Cleveland Medical Library Association," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 25, 2 (April, 1979): 36-42. (with Judy Chelnick)
  • (with Judy Chelnick)"The classification of artifacts at the Howard Dittrick Museum," Caduceus 2, 2 (Summer, 1986):39-43.
  • "Evolution of a dream: the Dittrick Museum today." Caduceus 6, 3 (Winter, 1990):64-71.
  • (with Jennifer Compton) "Public Access to Museum Collections: MARC and OCLC - The experiences of an Ohio group," Spectra 22 (4), Summer 1995: 25-28.
  • "Using MARC and OCLC to Catalog Artifacts," Architext 5 (1) August 1995: 6-7.
Writings by Genevieve Miller:
  • "The Value of Medical History for the Practising Physician," Bulletin of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland 40 (October, 1955): 8-11, 46.
  • "A Plan for the Historical Section of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 14, 1 (January, 1967):16-7.
  • "Eighteenth Century Cataract Instruments," Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 25, 2 (April, 1979):343-45.