Entry Nos. 7900–7999
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1980 CE
#7950
Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2006 CE
#7951
Robotics in surgery: History, Current and future applications. Edited by Russel A. Faust.
1988 CE
#7952
A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.
With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.
2002 CE
#7953
Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.
2007 CE
#7954
The emergence of genetic rationality: Space, time & information in American biological science, 1870-1920.
1688 CE
#7955
Remèdes contre les cours de ventre.
"The remedy here treated of is ipecacuanha: although its antidysenteric virtues had previously been made known in 1649 by the writings of Piso and Marggraf [No. 2263.1] it was left to Helvetius, about forty years subs…
2003 CE
#7956
Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism
1986 CE
#7957
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
2004 CE
#7958
Robotic surgery: A current perspective.
A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link.
2001 CE
#7959
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…
1998 CE
#7960
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
2012 CE
#7961
Roots of ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel.
2006 CE
#7962
The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.
2007 CE
#7963
"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.
The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…
2016 CE
#7964
Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.
The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.
1699 CE
#7965
The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.
An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.
1990 CE
#7966
The emergence of bacterial genetics.
1969 CE
#7967
Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile.
Discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures. This is one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcus–Thermus group, and the source of the heat-re…
1596 CE
#7968
De naturali vinorum historia de vinis Italiae et de conviviis antiquorum libri septem....Accessit de factitiis ac cervisiis de q[ue] Rheni, Galliae, Hispaniae et de totius Europa vinis et de omni vinorum usu compendiaria tractatio.
A comprensive study of the production, storage, characteristics, and use of wines. Book two considers wine in relation to health. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1997 CE
#7969
Landmarks in cardiac surgery. By Stephen Westaby, with Cecil Bosher.
History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.
1980 CE
#7970
The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.
Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.
1802 CE
#7971
Ausführliche Beschreibung und Abbildung der beiden sogenannten Stachelschweinmenschen aus der bekannten engelischen Familie Lambert, oder, the porcupine man.
Tilesius continued the study of the Lambert family of sufferers from ichthyosis hystrix begun by Machin and Baker (see No. 4013). Notably Tilesius illustrated the bizarre condition with several color plates. In 2016 o…
2007 CE
#7972
Experimental design for biologists.
Explains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up all of the components of an experimental system, design experiments within that system, determine and use the correct set of controls,…
1999 CE
#7973
MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching.
Second edition, 2006.
1998 CE
#7974
MEDLINE for health professionals; How to search PubMed on the internet.
1996 CE
#7975
Information retrieval: A health care perspective.
Third edition as Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective (2009).
2000 CE
#7976
A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
From Pre-Columbian times to the present.
1977 CE
#7977
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
1798 CE
#7978
An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement: comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind, and a history of the passions and their effects. 2 vols.
In chapter 2 of vol. 1, pp. 254-90, “On Attention and its Diseases” Crichton described a mental state much like the inattentive subtype of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He did not mentio…
1902 CE
#7979
The Goulstonian lectures on some abnormal psychical conditions in children. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 4th, 6th, and 11th, 1902.
Considered by many historians to be the scientific starting point of the study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.
1937 CE
#7980
Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.
Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention …
1954 CE
#7981
Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.
The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.
1975 CE
#7982
Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial edition. 2 vols.
Chapter B, "Vital statistics and health and medical care." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link; from the U. S. Census Bureau at this link.
2002 CE
#7983
Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.
1880 CE
#7984
La médecine du Thalmud ou tous le passages concernant la médecine extraits des 21 traités du Thalmud de Babylone.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2000 CE
#7985
A short history of medical ethics.
1998 CE
#7986
The birth of bioethics.
2005 CE
#7987
Bioethics beyond the headlines: Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?
2004 CE
#7988
The Hippocratic oath and the ethics of medicine.
2006 CE
#7989
Oath betrayed: Torture, medical complicity and the war on terror.
1577 CE
#7990
De arte medica infantium libri quatuor. Quorum duo Priores de tuenda eorum sanitate, posteriores de curandis morbis agunt.
An early illustrated work on pediatrics. The three parts of his book deal with the management of the nurse and her milk, the care and feeding of the new-born, and diseases of children, including skin diseases, and cha…
1961 CE
#7991
The first catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Washington, 1840. Facsimile copy of the original manuscript published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1949 CE
#7992
The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.
One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not y…
1953 CE
#7993
The Welch Medical Library indexing project.
A progress report on this pioneering information retrieval project. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
2007 CE
#7994
Development of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).
Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.
2000 CE
#7995
The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
1889 CE
#7996
Electrical stimulation of the heart in man.
MacWilliams described experiments in which application of an electrical impulse to the human heart in asystole caused a ventricular contraction, and that a heart rhythm of 60–70 beats per minute could be evoked …
2013 CE
#7997
Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.
1899 CE–1904 CE
#7998
Kunstformern der Natur.
Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…
1978 CE
#7999