Entry Nos. 10900–10999

1928 CE

#10950

De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.

New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.

1940 CE

#10951

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

1943 CE

#10952

Transmission of West Nile virus by infected Aedes albopictus.

The authors demonstrated that the Aedes albopictus mosquito is the vector of West Nile virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1999 CE

#10953

Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.

On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…

1999 CE

#10954

Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.

First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …

2002 CE

#10955

A history of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing torches to others.

1977 CE

#10956

Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.

2009 CE

#10957

An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.

A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.

1679 CE

#10958

Les nouvelles descouvertes sur toutes les parties de la medecine. Recueillies en l'année 1679.

Blégny edited the first medical periodical published in the vernacular. To begin with it reported only the transactions of a medical society that Blégny organized. The periodical continued only until 168…

1585 CE

#10959

Herbario nuovo...con figure, che rappresentano le vive piante, che nascondo in tutta Europa, & nell' Indie Orientali, & Occidentali.

Durante, physician to Pope Sixtus V, published this encyclopedia of medicinal plants from Europe and the East and West Indies, illustrated with woodcuts by Leonardo Parasole. The work contains discussions of the habit…

1471 CE

#10960

Opera medicinalia. Ed: Peregrinus Cavalcobovis, with a preface by Nicolaus Gupalatinus. Consisting of: Canones universales. De simplicibus. Grabadin. Practica.

This undated edition, which the ISTC im00508000 catalogues as "not before 18 May 1471", may be the earliest printed edition of the writings of the medieval Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician Yuhanna ibn…

1536 CE

#10961

De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.

The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…

1590 CE

#10962

Libellus Rogerii Baconi Angli doctissimi mathematici et medici, De retardandis senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis.... opera Johannis Williams Oxoniensis.

Translated into English by Richard Browne as The cure of old age and preservation of youth by Roger Bacon, a Franciscan frier (London, 1683). Digital facsimile of the 1683 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1974 CE

#10963

Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.

Confirmation of the success of methods outlined in No. 257.5. Abstract: "Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resi…

1977 CE

#10964

Expression in Escherichia coli of a chemically synthesized gene for the hormone somatostatin.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Itakura, Hirose, Crea..., Bolivar, Boyer. Synthesis of the gene for somatostatin (growth hormone-inhibiting hormone (GHIH). This was the first demonstration of a foreign gene…

1985 CE

#10965

Serologic identification and characterization of a macaque T-lymphotropic retrovirus closely related to HTLV-III.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Kanki, McLane... Essex. This paper was followed in the issue of Science by: Daniel, M., Letvi, N. L., King, N.W., "Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-3 - like retrovirus from ma…

2017 CE

#10966

Medicine at Michigan: A history of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial.

1995 CE

#10967

Technology in the hospital: Transforming patient care in the early twentieth century.

2016 CE

#10968

Bellevue: Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital.

2015 CE

#10969

Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.

A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

2014 CE

#10970

Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.

A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed.

2017 CE

#10971

A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.

2011 CE

#10972

The bleeding disease: Hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress.

2010 CE

#10973

Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.

"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…

2008 CE

#10974

Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.

"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…

2006 CE

#10975

A personal history of nuclear medicine.

2000 CE

#10976

Guardians of medical knowledge: The genesis of the Medical Library Association.

Traces the first 50 years of the MLA, from its inception in 1898 in response to the unprecedented expansion of medical literature during the 19th century.

1999 CE

#10977

Medicine in Maryland: The practice and profession, 1799-1999.

1736 CE

#10978

Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner.

A partial English translation of Luisinus's, De morbo gallico omnia quae extant (1566-67) as expanded by Boerhaave (1728). Digital facsimile of the 1736 work from the Internet Archive at this link.

1995 CE

#10979

An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.

An autobiographical study of bipolar disorder by a distinguished American clinical psychologist who personally suffers from this disorder.

1978 CE

#10980

The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.

"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging …

1948 CE–1963 CE

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

1974 CE

#10982

Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.

1991 CE

#10983

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.

1991 CE

#10984

Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.

1990 CE

#10985

Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.

1986 CE

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific …

1986 CE

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

1984 CE

#10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

1763 CE

#10989

Observations on some of the diseases of the parts of the human body. Chiefly taken from the dissections of morbid bodies.

Clossy, an Irish physician, previously at Trinity College, Dublin, gave the first anatomy classes and dissections at King’s College in New York City (now Columbia) in 1763. Clossy worked closely with other King&…

1981 CE

#10990

Oslerian pathology: An assessment and annotated atlas of museum specimens.

Covers the 55 remaining specimens of pathological preparations by William Osler preserved at McGill University. The book is divided into 4 sections: A: presentation and discussion of those aspects of Osler's activitie…

1965 CE

#10991

Two centuries of medicine. A History of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

1961 CE

#10992

Every man our neighbor: A brief history of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

1957 CE

#10993

A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.

1955 CE

#10994

Diseases of the liver and biliary system.

13th edition, 2018. "In 1959 she [Sherlock] became the United Kingdom's first ever female Professor of Medicine when she was appointed at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. She founded the liver uni…

1955 CE

#10995

Intracardiac surgery with the aid of a mechanical pump oxygenator system (Gibbon type): Report of eight cases.

Co-authored with JW Dushane, RT Patrick, DE Donald, PS Hetzel and EH Wood, "Kirklin refined the heart-lung machine (screen type) originally developed by Gibbon, to the point that it allowed the person to receive oxyge…

1946 CE

#10996

Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.

1988 CE

#10997

Bibliography of Australian medicine and health services to 1950. 4 vols.

"A joint project of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Department of Community Services and Health."

1918 CE

#10998

The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2004 CE

#10999

Doctoring the South: Southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century.