Entry Nos. 11400–11499

1785 CE

#11450

Notes on the State of Virginia; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him.

Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia in response to a series of questions sent in 1781 to various members of the Continental Congress by François Barbé-Marbois, then secretary to the French leg…

2001 CE

#11451

Medical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine. Edited by E. H. Shortliffe, L. E. Perreault, G. Wiederhold, L. M. Fagan.

A fourth expanded edition of this textbook, edited by Shortliffe and James J. Cimino, was published as Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (New York: Springer, 2014).

1830 CE

#11452

Organisation, Systematik und geographische Verhältniss der Infusionsthierchen. Zwei Vorträge, in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin gehalten in den Jahren 1828 und 1830.

In this work Ehrenberg first published his classification of infusioria, including the naming of bacteria for the first time. The work published two papers based on his expeditions. The first, read on January 10, 1828…

2019 CE

#11453

Charcot's studies on hysteria: Five case histories, 1870-1893.

1980 CE

#11454

Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.

2012 CE

#11455

Charcot in Morocco. Introduction, notes and translation by Toby Gelfand.

1995 CE

#11456

Charcot: Constructing neurology

An essential account of the life and contributions of Charcot.

1914 CE–1917 CE

#11457

Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Compiled under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Ethelyn Maria Tucker. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1958 CE

#11458

Fecal enema as an adjunct in the treatment of pseudomembranous enterocolitis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Eiseman, Silen, Bascom.... Report of the first "fecal transplant / fecal therapy," also known as "faecal microbiota transplanation," for recurrent / resistant C. diffic…

2013 CE

#11459

Duodenal infusion of donor feces for recurrent Clostridium difficile.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nood, Vrieze, Nieuwdorp....This research provided convincing evidence that fecal donation (faecal microbiota transplantation) is more effective therapy for virulent C. …

2019 CE

#11460

Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caearian-section birth.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Shao, Forster, Tsaliki....The authors used whole genome sequencing to characterize the microbiota of caesarian babies, demonstrating that caesarian babies were not colo…

2018 CE

#11461

Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Stewart, Ajami, O'Brien....This study confirmed that "breastfeeding was associated with higher levels of Bididofacterium species" (a very desirable organism), and that …

2019 CE

#11462

A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Almeida, Mitchell, Boland.... Abstract: "The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge of individual microbial species is n…

1965 CE

#11463

Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States.

2007 CE

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007 CE

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

1937 CE

#11466

The origin and growth of renal calculi.

Randall founded the theory of kidney stone formation on anchored papillary plaque. https://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/randalls-plaque/ Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1837 CE

#11467

The spirit of the woods, illustrated by coloured engravings

Little is known of the anonymous author of this early illustrated work on trees except that she was also "Mrs. William Hey" and had previously published The moral of flowers. The beautiful hand-colored plates presumab…

1955 CE

#11468

Vancomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Chemical and biologic properties.

Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist working at Eli Lilly, first isolated Vancomycin in 1953 from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary, Rev. William M. Bouw (1918-2006). The organ…

2011 CE

#11469

The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: Its evolution and current challenges.

1911 CE–1918 CE

#11470

The Bradley Bibliography: A guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder. 5 vols.

An attempt at a truly comprehensive bibliography of the world literature in western languages on these subjects to 1900, including more than 100,000 entries. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at…

1698 CE

#11471

Paradisus Batavus, continens plus centum plantas affabrè aere incisas & descriptionibus illustratas. Cui accesit catalogus plantarum, quas pro tomis nondum editis, delineandas curaverat Paulus Hermannus, M. D. In Academia Lugduno-Batava nuper medicinae ac botanices professor. Opus posthumum.

Catalogue of the plants in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, posthumously edited from Hermann's unpublished manuscript, and reproducing 111 of Hermann's botanical illustrations, by William Sherard. Digital facsimile from R…

1690 CE

#11472

Florae Lugduno-Batavae flores sive enumeratio stirpium horti Lugduno-Batavi methodo, naturae vestigiis isistente, dispositarum, & anno 1689 in lectionibus tam publicis quam privatis expositarum a Paulo Hermann. Nunc vero in gratiam botanophilorum primum in lucem editarum opera Lothari Zumbach.

In this treatise on the flowering plants in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden Hermann coined the term Angiospermae as the name of one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom. This division included flowering plants po…

1717 CE

#11473

Musaeum Zeylanicum, sive catalogus plantarum, in Zeylan sponte nascentium, observatarum & descriptarum a viaro celeberrimo Paulo Hermanno.

Paul Hermann's study of the plants of Sri Lanka collected during his experience as a Ship's Medical Oficer in the Dutch East India Company after Hermann completed his medical studies at Padua. This work was edited for…

2018 CE

#11474

Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.

1989 CE

#11475

Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.

1986 CE

#11476

New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war.

Leaf helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in 1961 and became a prominent member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This paper highlighted "new research on estimat…

2019 CE

#11477

The integrative human microbiome project.

Results from this large research consortium show the influence of the microbiome on preterm birth, inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's and ulcerative colitis, and prediabetes leading to type II diabetes. (Th…

2007 CE

#11478

Bacteriocin production as a mechanism for the antiinfective activity of Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Corr, Li, Reidel...Hill. The authors discovered that Lactobacilli produce a bacteriocin, a peptidic toxin that inhibits the growth of similar or closely related bacteri…

1925 CE

#11479

Sur un remarquable example d'antogonisme entre deux souches de colibacille.

Discovery of bacteriocins. Gratia called his discovery a colicine because bacteriocins killed E. coli.

2018 CE

#11480

Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signaling interference.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Piewngam, Zheng, Nguygen....The authors discovered a mechanism by which probiotics help maintain a healthy microbiome. They showed that Bacillus subtilis can produce a …

2005 CE

#11481

Glycan foraging in vivo by an intestine adapted bacterial symbiont.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Sonnenberg, Xu, Leip....The authors showed that complex plant carbohydrates (glycans), which the human body cannot digest, provide food for benign bacteria in the micro…

2019 CE

#11482

Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…

1920 CE

#11483

American medical biographies.

This is the extensively revised second edition of Kelly's A cyclopaedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, …

2009 CE

#11484

The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.

2020 CE

#11485

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

1919 CE

#11486

The amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph.

"I have attempted in this monograph to give an accurate and concise account of all the amoebae which live in human beings." Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1866 CE

#11487

Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1980 CE

#11488

The seeds of artificial intelligence: SUMEX-AIM.

A semi-popular and extensively illustrated summary of research on artificial intelligence in medicine at Stanford Medical School as directed by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanley N. Cohen, Carl Djerassi, and Elliott C. Lev…

1565 CE

#11489

Calculorum qui in corpore ac membris hominum innascuntur, genera XII. depicta descriptaque, cum historiis singulorum admirandis.

The first treatise to specifically on urinary calculi and gallstones, with each of the 12 chapters exploring a part of the human body where such stones are found (gall bladder, kidneys, bladder, etc.). Additionally, t…

1565 CE

#11490

De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquote, plerique nunc primum editi.

A collection of eight separate tracts, most with their own title page, by seven authors, all edited, and some with commentary by Gesner. The work is relevant for the history of "natural history" for containing Kentman…

1797 CE

#11491

A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes, and indications of cure,

Bree "embodied the numerous experiments in his own case, gave a more full and complete view of asthma and dyspnœa than had hitherto appeared, and laid down some important therapeutic rules, the practical value o…

1967 CE

#11492

C. G. Jung Bibliothek Katalog by Die Bibliothekskimmission.

1865 CE

#11493

Medicinische Blumenlese aus Shakespeare zu eigener und seiner Collegen Kurzweil gesammelt von Georg Cless.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1887 CE

#11494

Militärmedicin: kurze Darstellung des gesamten Militär-Sanitätswesens. (Band 13 von Wreden’s Sammlung kurzer medizinischer Lehrbücher).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1930 CE

#11495

The William H. Welch Medical Library of The Johns Hopkins University. An account of its origin and development together with a description of the building an an account of the exercises held on the occasion of the dedication of the library and the inauguration of the chair of the history of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University.

A separate edition in book form was also issued.

2016 CE

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

1797 CE–1800 CE

#11497

Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis.

This work on monkeys and apes was published in a series of ten fascicules, with a total of 65 plates drawn and engraved by Audbert, and printed in color. Audebert was a miniaturist who developed a technique of color p…

1616 CE–1622 CE

#11498

Fasciculus rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis quae collegit et suis impensis aeri ad vivum incidi curavit atque evulgavit.

Besler was the first to illustrate a natural history Wunderkammer in Germany. The engraved frontispiece of this work, which Besler published himself, depicts Besler exhibiting the contents to a visitor. The first edit…

1628 CE

#11499

Les oeuvres de Jacques et Paul Contant pere et fils maistres apoticaires de la ville de Poictiers. Divisées en cinq traictez. 1. Les commentaires sur Dioscoride. 2. Le second Eden. 3. Exagoge mirabilium naturae e gazophylacio. 4. Synopsis plantarum cum ethymologiis. 5. Le jardin & cabinet poëtique ....

Jacques and Paul Contant were Huguenot apothecaries in Poitiers, and notable collectors. There were among the first in France to assemble a cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer. The first work, a commentary on Diosc…