Entry Nos. 13500–13599
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1996 CE
#13550
Manuscripts and drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications No. 2.
The Natural History Museum at Tring, located in the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park, was originally the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild. The building was constructed in…
1968 CE
#13551
Evolutionary rate at the molecular level.
Using complex mathematics, Motoo Kimura calculated that genomes constantly undergo a remarkably high number of mutations per unit of time. He wrote, "Calculating the rate of evolution in terms of nucleotide substituti…
#13552
A catalogue of rare syphilis books held in the Special Collections Department of the University of Glasgow.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_389083_smxx.pdf Describes and illustrates in color over 200 rare books from the 15th century to 1820, including those in the Hunterian Collection, with links to more extensive online …
1603 CE
#13553
A brief discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother. Written uppon occasion which hath beene of late taken thereby, to suspect possession of an evill spirit, or some such like supernaturall power. Wherin is declared that divers strange actions and passions of the body of man, which the common opinion, are imputed to the Divell, have their true naturall causes, and do accompanie this disease.
Jorden was the first English physician who viewed women accused of witchcraft as unfortunate persons suffering from some medical condition. "Asserting that there were natural causes for their afflictions, Jorden often…
1981 CE
#13554
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.
"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …
1990 CE
#13555
Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.
"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…
1991 CE
#13556
Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case.
1767 CE
#13557
A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad, according to the different soils, situations, business of life, use of the non-naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above three hundred vouchers, and many of them for a long course of years, in two different Periods. To which is added a syllabus of the general States of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1951 CE
#13558
Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.
Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.
1970 CE
#13559
Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?
Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…
1958 CE
#13560
The suppressor-mutator system of control of gene action in maize.
In this paper McClintock described a novel mobile genetic element that she called Suppressor-Mutator (Spm), and its complex regulation. She discovered that Spm could switch back and forth between an “inactive&rd…
1931 CE
#13561
Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus.
Halberlandt, professor of physiology at Innsbruck, invented the first hormonal contraceptive, Infecundin, using corpus luteum extracts from females rich in the hormone progesterone. His initial report on the contracep…
1962 CE
#13562
Extraction, purification and properties of Aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the luminous hydromedusan, Aequorea.
Shimomura reported the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in a single footnote in this paper that was otherwise devoted to an entirely different bioluminescent protein: photoprotein aequorin. This may be the…
1920 CE
#13563
The nature of animal light.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Harvey later published Living light (1940) and Bioluminescence (1952). The 1952 book extended over 600 pages, and was his definitive study. (Thanks to Malcolm Jay Kott…
1994 CE
#13564
Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression.
Chalfie and colleagues showed that the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, could be used as a visible marker for protein localization and expression in vivo, in bacteria and worm cell…
1996 CE
#13565
Crystal structure of Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein.
Tsien and colleagues published the crystal structure of the 238 A.A. long green fluorescent protein (GFP). With this data, the authors could determine what had to be modified within the protein in such a way that the …
2018 CE
#13566
Luminous creatures: The history and science of light production in living organisms.
2002 CE
#13567
Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.
"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…
1989 CE
#13568
Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: Chromosome walking and jumping.
Utilizing the chromosome "walking and and jumping" technique developed by Collins, the authors showed how they cloned the cystic fibrosis locus on the basis of its chromosomal location without the benefit of genomic r…
1989 CE
#13569
Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: Cloning and characterization of complimentary DNA.
The authors first published a ‘map’ of the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene and on p. 1071, they published an illustration/schematic model of the predicted CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulato…
1989 CE
#13570
Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: Genetic analysis.
The authors demonstrated that about 70% of the crucial mutation in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients corresponds to the specific deletion of 3 base pairs, which results in the loss of a phenylalanine residue at A.A. posit…
2011 CE
#13571
Correction of the 508del-CFTR protein processing defect in vitro by the investigational drug VX-809.
Negulescu and colleagues published a "proof of concept" experiment showing that the novel molecule called VX-809 could correct in vitro the very common and critical 508del-CFTR mutation identified by Collins. (See GM …
1853 CE
#13572
Esoteric anthropology.
In this rather comprehensive popular and illustrated book on medicine and physiology Nichols explained sexual physiology in a level of detail radical for the time, and also advocated free love. Digital facsimile from …
1891 CE
#13573
Catalogue of works on alchemy and chemistry. Exhibited at The Grolier Club, 29 East 32d St. New York, Jan. 16th to Jan. 26th, 1891.
This appears to be the second catalogue of a U.S. exhibition of rare books on any scientific subject, following John Shaw Billing's catalogue of his exhibition of books from the Army Medical Library at Johns Hopkins H…
1906 CE
#13574
The eye and nervous system: Their diagnostic relations by various authors. Edited by Wm. Campbell Posey and William G. Spiller.
The first comprehensive treatise in English on neuro-ophthalmology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1947 CE
#13575
Clinical neuro-ophthalmology.
Considered first textbook on neuro-ophthalmology.
2001 CE
#13576
One hundred important ophthalmology books of the 20th century.
http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/20thcenturybooks/100Books.htm#TOC "One hundred 20th century ophthalmic books arranged chronologically within each subspecialty area. The subspecialty areas themselves are arranged ro…
2007 CE
#13577
Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …
2021 CE
#13578
Health and medicine by Michael B. Dougan.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/health-and-medicine-392/ An overview of the history of health and medicine in Arkansas with many cross-references to related articles in the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
2018 CE
#13579
Images in Mississippi medicine: A photographic history of medicine in Mississippi
1962 CE
#13580
The Rudolph Matas history of medicine in Louisiana. Edited by John Duffy. 2 vols.
1966 CE
#13581
The history of the Rhode Island Medical Society and its component societies 1812-1962.
2013 CE
#13582
Modern colonization by medical intervention: U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico.
1981 CE
#13583
Medicine and the Mormons: An introduction to the history of Latter-day Saint health care.
2018 CE
#13584
Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.
1999 CE
#13585
Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.
"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…
c. 1990 CE
#13586
Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …
1890 CE
#13587
Rare medical books. Remarks made by Dr. John S. Billings at the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society, December 16th, 1889.
This three page paper is primarily a detailed bibliographical listing of a selection of rare books that Billings brought from the Army Medical Library for exhibition at Johns Hopkins Hospital. This was probably the fi…
1936 CE
#13588
Snakes of Maryland.
1999 CE
#13589
The saint.
https://newrepublic.com/article/116863/sherwin-nuland-william-osler One of the best late 20th century summaries of Osler's life and significance in the form of a review of Michael Bliss's Sir William Osler: A life in …
1961 CE
#13590
Nicolás Bautista Monardes: Su vida y su obra, ca. 1493-1588.
1959 CE
#13591
Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.
Davis was a personal friend of Kelly for twenty years. She based this biography partly on Kelly's notebooks and journals that Kelly left her upon his death.
1896 CE
#13592
Women in medicine.
Kelly was one of the first influential male physicians in America to advocate for the advancement of women physicians. This presentation was primarily a review of Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering work in opening the m…
1788 CE
#13593
The theory of rain.
In this paper on the operation of the water-cycle in meteorology Hutton hypothesized that rain was caused by a mixture of air currents of differing temperatures, either saturated or nearly saturated with moisture. "Hi…
1957 CE
#13594
Intravenous infusion of bone marrow in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy.
Thomas and colleagues reported the first bone marrow transplants. They described the treatment of six patients with cancers and/leukemia and one patient with multiple myeloma. Three of the patients died, two responded…
1951 CE
#13595
The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.
This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…
1911 CE
#13596
Ūber eigenartige Krankheitsfälle des späteren Alters.
In this record of his continuing research on what in 1910 Kraepelin called Alzheimersche Krankheit (Alzheimer's disease) Alzheimer provided detailed history, clinical signs, symptoms descriptions, pathologic and histo…
1943 CE
#13597
Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.
"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …
2002 CE
#13598
Stem cells and the future of regenerative medicine.
In 2001 this report cited the following diseases with high prevalence in the United States as likely candidates for stem cell research: Cardiovascular Disease: 58 million U.S. patients Automimmune Disease: 30 million …
1998 CE
#13599
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …