Facets

1977 CE

#11044

Spliced segments at the 5' terminus of adenovirus 2 late mRNA.

Discovery of introns simultaneously with Roberts, Chow, Broker (No. 11043). Sharp's electron microscopist, Berget, visualized the introns in the electron microscope. James D. Watson took note of the profound significa…

1944 CE

#1935

Streptomycin, a substance exhibiting antibiotic activity against Grampositive and Gram-negative bacteria.

Introduction of streptomycin. Order of authorship: Schatz, Gregory, Waksman. In 1952 Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for ingenious, systematic, and successful studies of the soil microbe…

1916 CE

#8599

Studies in ethics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1952 CE

#3108.2

Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.

Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.…

2005 CE

#13622

Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.

Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This techno…

1898 CE

#2003

Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.

The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…

1887 CE

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

1881 CE

#11022

The college story: Valedictory address to the twenty-ninth graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

"Bodley sought to survey all the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from its founding 1850 through 1880. Of the total 276 graduates, 244 were alive. Her survey is based on the 186 graduates who r…

1955 CE

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

1981 CE

#14224

The crystallization of ribsomal proteins from the 50 S subunit of the Escherichia coli and Bacillus stearothermophilus ribosome.

The authors crystallized fragments of the 50S subunit of a thermophile bacterium’s ribosome to 3 angstroms resolution. Order of authorship in the original publication: Appelt, Dyck, et al., Yonath. Digital facsi…

1837 CE

#10411

The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…

1864 CE

#8994

The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.

Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …

2001 CE

#10934

The history of the Royal Society of Medicine.

1950 CE

#12063

The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize.

"In the summer of 1944 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, McClintock systematic studies on the mechanisms of the mosaic color patterns of maize seed and the unstable inheritance of this mosaicism.[44] She identified tw…

2010 CE

#7844

The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.

1986 CE

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1898 CE

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1959 CE

#6637

The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.

2014 CE

#7858

The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.

2010 CE

#9002

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

1867 CE

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1992 CE

#10283

To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.

1993 CE

#14341

Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.

Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…

1924 CE

#530

Über Induktion von Embryonalanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren.

This was Hilde Mangold's thesis. Spemann designed the experiment, and Mangold performed the work, and was the co-discoverer of the "organizer," the chemical that directs the embryonic development of tissues and organs…

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1988 CE

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.