Facets

2008 CE

#10289

The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.

1989 CE

#11907

The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.

1924 CE

#5082.1

The etiology of scarlet fever.

Proof that streptococcus is the cause of scarlet fever.

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, …

2007 CE

#11361

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…

2005 CE

#11339

The genome of the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei.

Genome of the parasite that causes Sleeping Sickness. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1948 CE

#566.2

The growth in vitro of single isolated tissue cells.

Sanford was the first to clone in vitro a single living cell of a mammal—in this instance, a rodent. She performed this feat in search of a means to research how cells transform into malignancy.

1929 CE

#566.1

The growth, development and phosphatase activity of embryonic avian femora in limb-buds cultivated in vitro.

First modern organ cultures.

1966 CE

#1588.3

The history of cell respiration and cytochrome

See No. 968.

2020 CE

#13512

The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.

"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…

1995 CE

#11419

The history of pharmacy: A selected annotated bibliography.

2001 CE

#10934

The history of the Royal Society of Medicine.

1906 CE

#732

The importance of individual amino-acids in metabolism.

Demonstration of the importance of tryptophan in diet. The pioneer work of Hopkins led eventually to the discovery of vitamins.

1957 CE

#2660.10

The induction of neoplasms with a substance released from mouse tumors by tissue culture.

Isolation of polymavirus (papovavirus). With B. E. Eddy, A. M. Gochenour, N. G. Borgese, and G E. Grubbs.

2003 CE

#11347

The invisible enemy: A natural history of viruses.

1934 CE

#12387

The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin

Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.

1936 CE

#1071

The isolation from wheat-germ oil of an alcohol, α-tocopherol, having the properties of vitamin E.

Isolation of vitamin E, named by Herbert M. Evans.

1852 CE

#11950

The laws of life, with special reference to the physical education of girls.

Blackwell's first book, a volume about the physical and mental development of girls, emphasizing the value of exercise, intended to help prepare young women for motherhood. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this …

2004 CE

#11244

The life and death of smallpox.

2014 CE

#14355

The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.

1811 CE

#7801

The maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors

The first American book on pediatrics, in the tradition of "advice books" or childcare manuals for mothers. This was the first American printed book on a medical subject written by a woman. Pages 248-75 publish a list…

1995 CE

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

1946 CE

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1671 CE

#6156.1

The midwives book: or the whole art of midwifery discovered.

The first book written by an English midwife. Sharp was the most accomplished midwife of 17th-century England. Scholarly, extensively annotated edition edited by Jane Hobby, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press,…

2009 CE

#11484

The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.

1980 CE

#7078

The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.

The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…

2020 CE

#11485

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

1935 CE

#2524.4

The natural occurrence of pleuropneumonia-like organisms in apparent symbiosis with Streptobacillus moniliformis and other bacteria.

Klieneberger isolated typical strains of pleuropneumonia-like organisms from Strep, moniliformis.

2009 CE

#10464

The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. Edited by Cynthia Koss and Anne Scott.

1913 CE

#1049

The necessity of certain lipids in the diet during growth.

Discovery of “fat-soluble A” (vitamin A). See also J. biol. Chem., 1915, 23,181-246, in which the same authors showed the necessity in diet for at least two factors – “fat-soluble A” and …

1949 CE

#8084

The Negro in the medical profession.

Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.

1891 CE

#11911

The opening of the Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Reprinted from Open Letters in the Century Magazine for February 1891.

A collection of articles by various experts supporting the opening of the planned Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Contributors included Cardinal Gibbons, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Josephine Lowell, C. F. Folsom, Care…

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…

1913 CE

#1113

The origin and development of the lymphatic system.

2010 CE

#7844

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

2013 CE

#8838

The Oxford handbook of women and gender in Medieval Europe. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.

Part V "Bodies, pleasures, desires" includes much of medical and biological interest, including a remarkable chapter by Kathryn M. Ringrose on "The Byzantine body."

1986 CE

#8088

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

1952 CE

#12209

The pathology, symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system.

Dix–Hallpike test or Nylen–Barany test, a diagnostic maneuver used to identify benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1949 CE

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

2013 CE

#10486

The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.

1881 CE

#11021

The practice of medicine by women in the United States.

"Emily F. Pope, C. Augusta Pope, and Emma Call, doctors on the staff of the New England Hospital, published a study on women physicians. Their sample included a group of 430 women doctors who had graduated from variou…

2020 CE

#11867

The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing.

A review of the scope of potential genome editing applications, the strategies from the most basic (2012) to the most recent (i.e. No. 11866), the current status of tissue specific delivery, accuracy, precision and sa…

1877 CE

#11912

The question of rest for women during menstruation.The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876.

"Jacobi's paper was a response to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's earlier publication, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1875), a book claiming that any physical or mental exertion during menstruation could le…

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…

2013 CE

#10552

The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.

1990 CE

#10173

The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.

1924 CE

#5084

The significance of Streptococcus hemolyticus in scarlet fever and the preparation of a specific anti-scarlatinal serum by immunization of the horse to Streptococcus hemolyticus-scarlatinae.

Dochez and Sherman immunized a horse by repeated injections of scarlet fever toxin. A serum obtained from the horse blanched a scarlet fever rash and, when injected subcutaneously, caused marked amelioration of the ea…

1837 CE

#11467

The spirit of the woods, illustrated by coloured engravings

Little is known of the anonymous author of this early illustrated work on trees except that she was also "Mrs. William Hey" and had previously published The moral of flowers. The beautiful hand-colored plates presumab…

1974 CE

#11424

The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.