Entry Nos. 12100–12199
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
2020 CE
#12100
IHME COVID-19 health service utilization forecasting team. Forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months.
This paper was published online on March 26, 2020 and updated periodically. When I added it to this database on April 2, 2020 it had been updated on March 31, 2020. At that time the paper was available from healthdata…
2010 CE
#12101
Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.
2013 CE
#12102
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
2018 CE
#12103
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
1830 CE
#12104
Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.
In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…
2020 CE
#12105
Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus,and early Homo erectus in South Africa.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Herries, Martin, Leece....Menter. Summary: "Understanding the extinction of Australopithecus and origins of Paranthropus and Homo in South Africa has been hampered by t…
1996 CE
#12106
Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.
1987 CE
#12107
Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.
1942 CE
#12108
Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.
1923 CE
#12109
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
1991 CE
#12110
The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.
1996 CE
#12111
The dorsoventral regulatory gene cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus controls the potent antifungal response in Drosophila adults.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Lemaitre, Nicolas,... Hoffmann. This paper represented the foundation of molecular immunology. Hoffmann and colleagues found that flies with mutated Toll genes were una…
1998 CE
#12112
Defective LPS signaling in C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr mice: Mutations in the Tlr4 gene.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Poltorak, Smirnova...Beutler. The authors, led by Beutler, showed that mice that harbor a mutation of the gene which codes for the production of the Toll-like receptor TLR4 q…
2005 CE
#12113
Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…
1902 CE
#12114
The significance of recent American cases of hookworm disease (Uncinariasis or Anchylostomiasis) in man.
In this paper Stiles fully characterized and extensively illustrated the American hookworm parasite that he first described in No. 5363. This species and the Schistosoma are the pathogenic organisms that can penetrate…
1819 CE
#12115
Entozoorum synopsis cui accedunt mantissa duplex et indices locupletissimi.
In this work Rudolphi detailed the life cycle of nematode parasites of mankind, such as the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1923 CE
#12116
Acute lymphadenosis compared with acute lymphatic leukemia, Part II - Hematologic studies.
Downey characterized reactive lymphocytes, usually associated with viral illnesses, such as Epstein-Barr virus, but which can also be caused by drug reactions or other pathogens. He classified the cells into type 1, t…
2020 CE
#12117
Infectious mononucleosis diagnosed by Downey cells: Sometimes the old ways are better.
The Downey cell method for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis remains effective and cost-effective nearly 100 years after it was discovered: "An 18-year-old woman visited her physician because she had a fever, …
2009 CE
#12118
The evolution and emergence of RNA viruses.
"This impressive monograph by Edward Holmes opens with a quotation from La Peste, by Albert Camus: “Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in…
2020 CE
#12119
A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…
1981 CE
#12120
The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.
1978 CE
#12121
International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
1885 CE
#12122
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1943 CE
#12123
Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
1987 CE
#12124
Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur
1966 CE
#12125
Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.
1869 CE
#12126
The nomenclature of diseases drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. (Subject to decennial revision).
"The first authoritative source of disease terminology, with the names in English, Latin, French, German and Italian. Standardization of disease terminology was necessary for accurate recording and study of mortality,…
1839 CE
#12127
First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
In 1836 the Births and Deaths Registration Act was passed in England with provisions for inquiry into causes of death in the population, and registration began during the following year through the General Registratio…
1997 CE
#12128
U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.
Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…
2001 CE
#12129
The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.
2015 CE
#12130
Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.
2012 CE
#12131
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.
"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …
2003 CE
#12132
The scientific study of mummies.
2000 CE
#12133
Chemical biology. Selected papers of H. Gobind Khorana (with introductions).
Khorana edited this selection of his key papers and wrote the introductions to each paper.
1806 CE
#12134
The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; Together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry: Comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's second edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States. With several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus.
Coxe's "formulary" was the first attempt at standarization of drugs and their preparation in the United States. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1636 CE
#12135
Pharmacopoea Amstelredamensis, Senatus auctoritate munita. [Edited by Nicolaes Tulp.]
Tulp was both a surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. As such he was responsible for inspections of apothecary shops. Thanks to new shipping routes, pharmacists in Amsterdam had access to many exotic herbs and spices from t…
1844 CE
#12136
Life in the sickroom: Essays by an invalid.
"Life in the Sickroom is one of many first-hand accounts of the experience of being ill written by an invalid. Martineau was ill for six years, but she found taking on the identity of an invalid a reprieve from the st…
2003 CE
#12137
Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.
1907 CE
#12138
Plague in Queensland, 1900-1907.
Ham was Queensland's first Commissioner of Public Health. Extensively illustrated. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1987 CE
#12139
A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.
2009 CE
#12140
Tormented hope: Nine hypochondriac lives.
Accounts of writers, artists, and scientists: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol.
2013 CE
#12141
Cholera in Detroit: A history.
2000 CE
#12142
Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
2012 CE
#12143
The evolution of the human placenta.
Chapter one is "The history of placental investigations."
2009 CE
#12144
The evolution of obesity.
2001 CE
#12145
Aristotle on life and death
1929 CE–1931 CE
#12146
Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.
Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.
1985 CE
#12147
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
2009 CE
#12148
Of books and botany in early modern England: Sixteenth-century plants and print culture.
2014 CE
#12149