Entry Nos. 11400–11499

2019 CE

#11400

Artificial intelligence in medicine: Weighing the accomplishments, hype and promise.

1940 CE

#11401

Découverte d'une remarkable grotte ornée, au domaine de Lascaux, Montignac (Dordogne).

Lascaux, which has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Paleolithic", was discovered on September 12, 1940 by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, fell into a hole. Ravidar returned to the cave with three…

1902 CE

#11402

Les cavernes ornées de dessins. La grotte d’Altamira, Espagne. “Mea culpa” d’un sceptique.

Cartailhac’s famous retraction of his opposition to the concept of paleolithic cave wall art, published over 20 years after Sanz de Sautuola’s discovery of the Altamira cave paintings in northern Spain. Ca…

1809 CE

#11403

Observationes in Ordines plantarum naturales. Dissertatio prima complectens Anandrarum ordines Epiphytas, Mucedines, Gastromycos et Fungo.

Link described Polyangium, the first bacterium to be described that is still recognized today. Link also described Penicillium for the first time.

1562 CE

#11404

Gli ornamenti delle donne: Tratti dalle scritture d'una reina greca per m. Giovanni Marinello et diuisi in quattro libri.

A comprehensive manual by a physician on female hygiene, beauty and adornment, containing hundreds of recommendations, advice on cosmetics, and more than two dozen recipes for dyes to bleach hair blond. Marinello reco…

1959 CE

#11405

The discovery of Dicumarol and its sequels.

An historical account of the discovery of the anticoagulant Warfarin by the primary investigator. The first use for this substance was rat poison. Digital facsimile from ahajournals.org at this link.

1992 CE

#11406

Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.

From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …

1742 CE

#11407

An mortis incertae signa minus incerta a chirurgicis quam ab aliis experimenti?

Between the mid-1700s and the early 1900s many physicians lost confidence in their ability to declare legal death. This phenomenon was in part sparked by Winslow, whose dissertation claimed the existence of a death-li…

1997 CE

#11408

The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…

2016 CE

#11409

Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes …

1806 CE

#11410

La découverte d'un nouveau principe végétal dans le suc des asperges.

Isolation of Asparagine, the first amino acid to be isolated.

1820 CE–1821 CE

#11411

Neueste phytochemische Entdeckungen zur Begründung einer wissenschaftlichen Phytochemie. 2 vols.

On pp. 144-146 of vol. 1 Runge reported the isolation of relatively pure caffeine for the first time. He called it "Kaffebase." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. In 1821 the French chemists Pierre-Jose…

2009 CE

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

1969 CE

#11413

Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.

Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …

1982 CE

#11414

Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.

1826 CE

#11415

Observations on the May-Bug, and its ravages on plum and other trees, and also on the means of preventing the mischief.

Griffth was probably the first American woman to publish in the sciences outside of materia medica and childcare. This article was probably her earliest non-geological publication. See Robt S. Cox, "A spontaneous flow…

1881 CE

#11416

Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .

Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…

2002 CE

#11417

Paul Ehrlich's receptor immunology: The magnificent obsession.

2010 CE

#11418

Evaluating and standardizing therapeutic agents, 1890-1950. Edited by C. Gradmann and J. Simon.

1995 CE

#11419

The history of pharmacy: A selected annotated bibliography.

1961 CE

#11420

America's pre-pharmacopeial literature.

1990 CE

#11421

Pharmacy: An illustrated history.

1964 CE

#11422

Medicine and health in New Jersey: A history.

2001 CE

#11423

Pharmacopoeias and related literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847.

"Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the peri…

1974 CE

#11424

The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.

1893 CE

#11425

A select bibliography of chemistry 1492-1892.

Bolton, a chemist, was the earliest American bibliographer of chemistry. His first edition, which atempted to list "the principal books on chemistry published in Europe and America from the rise of the literature to t…

1925 CE

#11426

A list of old medical books, books on the history of medicine, and medical bibliography, and a list of medical portraits, in the posession [sic] of Le Roy Crummer. Together with some bibliographical notes

1878 CE

#11427

Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque scientifique de Claude Bernard.

Auction catalogue of Bernard's library conducted by Bernard's publisher and bookseller, J.-B Baillière et Fils. The sale, conducted over 4 days, included 1077 lots. Most were books published during Bernard's li…

1949 CE

#11428

The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.

Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.

1914 CE

#11429

Bibliographia medica typographica pedemontana saeculorum XV et XVI. A Iohanne Carboneli medico doctore collecta in qua non tantum auctorum nomina sed etiam fere omnium operum inscriptiones eadem forma mensuraque relatae inveniuntur. Cum appendicibus et explanationibus atque indicibus copiosissimis.

1836 CE

#11430

Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.

The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision…

1838 CE

#11431

Barn-Yard rhymes; showing what opinions the turkey, the cock, the goose, and the duck, enterain of allopathia, homopathia, electro-galvanism and the animalcule doctrines.

A critique of medical practice and procedures in 80 pages of rhymed couplets voiced by farmyard animals. Mary Griffith, who published these satirical poems anonymously, dedicated the work to the Philadelphia physician…

1849 CE

#11432

Friedrich Tiedemann’s Bücher-Sammlung.

"After resigning his professorship of anatomy and physiology at Heidelberg due to deteriorating eyesight, Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) sold his extensive personal library—over 4,600 volumes, assembled over fi…

1960 CE

#11433

Catalog of the Edgar Fahs Smith memorial collection in the history of chemistry.

Catalogue of the collection formed by Smith, provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection was augmented by the university after its donation by Smith.

1860 CE

#11434

Catalogue de la bibliothèque d’histoire naturelle, de médecine et d’ autres sciences de feu M. G. Vrolik.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2017 CE

#11435

Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.

2018 CE

#11436

The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.

2016 CE

#11437

Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.

1913 CE

#11438

Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung.

The Michaelis-Menten equation, which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex. This relationship between reaction rate and enzyme–substra…

1952 CE–1959 CE

#11439

Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.

This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…

1978 CE

#11440

Chemosurgery: Microscopically controlled surgery for skin cancer.

Mohs surgery for common types of skin cancer.

1937 CE

#11441

Toxicity of industrial organic solvents.

2015 CE

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2009 CE

#11443

Women doctors in war.

The history of female physicians in the U.S. military.

1873 CE

#11444

Cleave's Biographical cyclopaedia of homoeopathic physicians and surgeons.

The first biographical encyclopedia of American homeopathic physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2000 CE

#11445

The biographical dictionary of women in science: Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century.

1910 CE

#11446

The health index of children.

Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…

1931 CE

#11447

Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.

Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…

1990 CE

#11448

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes. Associate editors: Stephen Donaldson, Warren Johansson, and William A. Percy. 2 vols.

1890 CE

#11449

The antiquity of man in South Africa, and evolution.

The first separately published work on human origins published in the continent of Africa. Hillier's text was read on his behalf before the Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape…