Entry Nos. 12300–12399

1977 CE

#12300

Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Fox.) Woese and Fox discovered a "third kingdom" in microbial life that they called "archaebacteria" (Archaea) as distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. In thei…

1990 CE

#12301

Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, …

2020 CE

#12302

Isolation of an archeon at the prokaryote eukaryote interface.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Imachi, Nobu, Nakahara...Takai.) The authors report that after 12 years of research they have cultured a microorganism that may be the transitional species between pro…

1890 CE

#12303

Sur les organisms de la nitrification.

In his research on nitrifying bacteria Winogradsky discovered the first known form of chemoautotrophy in which organisms obtain energy by oxidation of electron donors in their environments without the intervention of …

1980 CE

#12304

Expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulligan, Berg.) In an understated paper the authors suggested the potential of treating recessive diseases like Lesch-Nyhan syndrome by gene therapy. (Thanks to Juan …

1970 CE

#12305

Virus-like particles in serum of patients with Australia-antigen-associated hepatitis.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Dane, Cameron, Briggs.) The authors showed that the "Australian antigen" was a virus causing hepatitis B. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretati…

1970 CE

#12306

Chronic liver disease and primary liver-cell cancer with hepatitis-associated (Australia) antigen in serum.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Sherlock, Niazi, Fox...). The authors demonstrated that the hepatitis B virus can cause cancer. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

2007 CE

#12307

Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.

1983 CE

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

2020 CE

#12309

Innovation in Byzantine medicine: The writings of John Zacharias Aktourarios (c. 1275- c. 1330)

1978 CE

#12310

Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner. Vol. 1: Philosophie, Rhetorik, Epistolographie, Geschichtschreibung, Geographie. Vol. 2: Philologie, Profandichtung, Musik, Mathematik und Astronomie, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Kriegswissenschaft, Rechsliteratur

1932 CE

#12311

Manuscripta medica: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Medical Society of London.

This manuscript collection was acquired by the Wellcome Trustees in 1984, and is now in the Wellcome Library. It included a number of Byzantine medical manuscripts.

2016 CE

#12312

Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.

2004 CE

#12313

Le médecins nestoriens au Moyen Âge. Les maîtres des Arabes.

1988 CE

#12314

Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.

2005 CE

#12315

Who's who in orthopedics.

A biographical encyclopedia of contributors to the history of orthopedics.

1996 CE

#12316

Opera, desire, disease, death.

"The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with f…

1900 CE

#12317

Physicians and surgeons of the West. Illinois edition.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1877 CE

#12318

Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.

1856 CE

#12319

Anatomical and surgical lectures.

A one-page advertising circular dated December 10, 1856 advertising Cooper's first course of private lectures in San Francisco. Cooper, founder of California’s (and the West Coast’s) first medical school, …

2002 CE

#12320

Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.

Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html

1970 CE

#12321

Australia antigen (a hepatitis-associated antigen). Purification and physical properties.

Purification of the Australia antigen and investigation of its physical properties. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Millman, Loeb, Bayer, Blumberg.) Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology…

1857 CE

#12322

Report of an operation for removing a foreign body from beneath the heart. Published by the San Francisco County Medico Chirurgical Association as an additional paper to its Transactions for the year 1857.

Perhaps the earliest separate publication on a surgical operation issued in California.

1950 CE

#12323

Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.

Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.

1877 CE

#12324

Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2019 CE

#12325

Pioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.

1997 CE

#12326

A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.

1929 CE

#12327

Glycogen formation in the liver from d- and 1-lactic acid.

The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle), a metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the mu…

2000 CE

#12328

Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.

1992 CE

#12329

Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.

Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.

2007 CE

#12330

Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.

2008 CE

#12331

On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.

Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

2006 CE

#12332

The evolution of cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology.

1984 CE

#12333

Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.

1990 CE

#12334

Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.

1994 CE

#12335

Fifty years of cardiac and pulmonary surgery 1942-1993. The beginning of open heart surgery of postoperative intensive care. The first complete left heart catheterization. Mechanical heart valves.

Björk may be most remembered for the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.

1998 CE

#12336

History of cardiovascular surgery. Edited by L. A. Bockeria.

An international conference on the history of cardiovascular surgery. Dedicated to the memory of V.I. Burakovsky (Moscow, September 24-25, 1996). Attendees and contributors included many Western and Russian pioneers.

1989 CE

#12337

Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.

1977 CE

#12338

Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.

2012 CE

#12339

Ultrasound in clinical diagnosis: From pioneering developments in Lund to global application in medicine. Edited by Bo Ekloff, Kjell Lindström and Stig Persson.

Concerns applications in echocardiography, echoencephalography, in obsterics and gynecology, Doppler ultrasound in vascular disease, ultrasound in radiology, and development of ultrasound in ophthalmology.

1999 CE

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

1970 CE

#12341

Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.

The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.

1854 CE

#12342

Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Revised edition, 1857, of which a digital facsimile is also available from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by J. C. Reeve as A history of the …

1974 CE

#12343

The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.

Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.

1980 CE

#12344

Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.

2006 CE

#12345

Classic papers in coronary angioplasty. Edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman.

1831 CE

#12346

Die Lehre vom Kreislauf vom Harvey. Eine historische Abhandlungen.

Perhaps the earliest essay by a professional historian on the pre-Harveian history of the circulation. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#12347

Die Meningitis cerebro-spinalis epidemica vom historisch-geographischen und pathologisch-therapeutischen Standpunkte.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1889 CE

#12348

Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.

Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…

1988 CE

#12349

The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.