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1969 CE

#532.4

Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes.

First successful in-vitro fertilization of human oocytes. In 2010 Robert Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization."

1856 CE

#7809

Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.

Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…

1986 CE

#6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

2002 CE

#8542

Edited ancestors, inventible traditions: Essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology. Edited by Richard Handler.

1983 CE

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

2010 CE

#10973

Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.

"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…

1935 CE

#1949

Ein Beitrag zur Chemotherapie der bakteriellen Infektionen.

Introduction of Prontosil, the first drug containing sulfanilamide. In 1939 Domagk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil."

1951 CE

#8479

El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.

1570 CE

#12610

El Tratado breve y compendioso sobre la maravillosa obra de la boca y dentadura.

Martinez de Castrillo's second book on dentistry was based on richer clinical and therapeutic experience, and had a great influence in Spain for almost a century. It was partially copied or summarized by doctors, surg…

1996 CE

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

2007 CE

#10346

Encyclopédie sur la mort: La mort et la mort volontaire à travers les pays et les âges.

http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort/

2001 CE

#12071

Encylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.

1932 CE

#11025

English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leiden.

Based upon an examination of the Album of Students at Leiden from 1575 to 1875. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#14267

Enhancement of antitumor immunity by CTLA-4 blockade.

In the early 1990s James Allison showed that CTLA-4 acts as an inhibitory molecule to restrict T-cell responses. In 1996, Allison was the first to show that antibody blockade of a T-cell inhibitory molecule (known as …

1991 CE

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1985 CE

#10785

Enzymatic amplication of B-globin genomic sequences and restriction site analysis for diagnosis of sickle cell anemia.

Polymerase chain reaction first published. With Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona et al. Order of authorship in the original paper was Saiki, Scharf, Faloona, Mullis.... In 1993 the Nobel Prize in Chemist…

1965 CE

#14311

Enzymatic basis for the active transport of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane.

Skou discovered that the active transport of sodium and potassium is carried out in the cell membrane by an enzyme that serves as a sodium and potassium "pump," that catalyzes ATP hydrolysis. He named the enzyme "sodi…

1958 CE

#1931.6

Enzymatic O-methylation of epinephrine and other catechols.

The authors discovered the enzyme "COMT" or cathecol-O-methyltransferase, and determined that it was crucial in the methylation and inactivation of adrenergic and other catecholamine type neurotransmitters. (Thanks to…

1947 CE

#751.4

Enzymatic reactions in carbohydrate metabolism.

In 1947 Carl Cori and his wife Gerty Cori (1896-1957) shared the Nobel Prize (with Houssay) “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.” They are more often remembered for t…

1956 CE

#752.4

Enzymic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid.

In 1959 Kornberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Severo Ochoa "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid." Order of authorshi…

1930 CE

#9846

Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz.

Bälz was personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan. "Bälz taught more than 800 students in Western medicine during his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial …

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 …

1746 CE

#3672.2

Essai d’odontotechnie, ou dissertation sur les dents artificielles.

The first specialized book on dental prosthetics.

1936 CE

#4905

Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.

Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originall…

1817 CE

#12858

Essai sur l'anatomie et la physiologie des dents, ou nouvelle théorie de la dentition.

In this work Serres described the glands of Serres, epithelial remnants of the dental lamina. These have the capicity to form small cysts (Bohn's nodules). Serres believed that gingival crevicular fluid was secreted f…

1743 CE

#3672.1

Essai sur les maladies des dents, où l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne conformation dès la plus tendre enfance...

The first book incorporating specialized odontological research. Dissatisfied with the incomplete coverage of dental problems that he found in the works of Fauchard and Gerauldy, Bunon addressed such issues as dental …

1841 CE

#12867

Essay on the importance of regulating the teeth of children before the fourteenth year, or the period of life when the second set of teeth become perfectly developed.

This 11-page pamphlet was the first American work on orthodontics.

1769 CE

#5304

Essay on the natural history of Guiana, in South America. Containing a description of many curious productions in the animal and vegetable systems of that country. Together with an account of the religion, manners, and customs of several tribes of its Indian inhabitants. Interspersed with a variety of literary and medical observations. In several letters....

Bancroft was an English physician who lived for many years in South America. He noted the transmission of yaws by flies (p. 385 of his book). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#7670

Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history.

Essays on medical and natural historical museums, anthropology, and biography. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1981 CE

#13285

Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.

Evans and Kauffman were the first to identify, isolate and successfully culture embryonic stem cells using mouse blastocysts. This discovery opened the doors to the creation of “murine genetic models” -- m…

2016 CE

#9895

Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.

"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…

1857 CE

#12921

Étude sur le développement des dents humaines. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine.

1887 CE

#9964

Euthanasia; or, medical treatment in aid of an easy death.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1734 CE

#9675

Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country.

The first medical hand-book for lay persons written and published in America. It is probable that this book was first published in 1734, though the earliest recorded copy or copies appear to be the "second edition" wi…

1863 CE

#165

Evidence as to man’s place in nature.

Huxley showed that in the visible characters man differs less from the higher apes than do the latter from lower members of the same order of primates. He also provided the first thorough and detailed comparative desc…

1976 CE

#14245

Evidence for somatic rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes coding for variable and constant regions.

Discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. In 1987 Tonegawa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generat…

1934 CE

#12509

Exhibit for dentistry at a Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934: A portrayal of problems of dental health and the prevention of dental disease with which is interwoven something of the development of the profession and the history of dental practice. Booklet prepared by Arthur D. Black. Exhibit operated under auspices of American Dental Association [and] Chicago Dental Society, by the Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, Chicago.

Illustrated 64-page brochure recording in detail an exhibition that was seen supposedly by 8,000,000 people. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2005 CE

#10166

Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.

Focuses on the period of the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939.

1913 CE

#12905

Exodontia: A practical treatise on the technic of extraction of teeth with a chapter on anesthesia. A complete guide for the exodontist, general dental practitioner, and dental student.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1746 CE

#12928

Experiences et demonstrations faites à l'Hôpital de la Salpêtriere, & à S. Côme en présence de l'Académie Royale de Chirurgie. Pour servir de suite & de preuves a l'Essai sur les maladies des dents, & c. Et une pharmacie odontalogique, ou Traité des médicamens, simples & composés propres aux maladies des dents, & des différentes parties de la bouche, à l'usage des dentistes.

In this follow-up to his book published in 1743 Bunon proved the assertions of his earlier Essai through a series of dental researches conducted on patients at the Salpêtrière and at the hospital of St. C…

1878 CE

#3826

Exstirpation einer Struma retroesophagea.

Kocher, a pupil of Billroth, was a pioneer of thyroidectomy for goitre. Before his time the operation was seldom performed. Garrison says that Kocher performed this difficult operation 2,000 times, with a mortality ra…

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…

1959 CE

#14141

Factors affecting the activity of muscle phosphorylase b kinase.

In 1992 Krebs and Fischer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism." Digital facsimile from PubMe…

1912 CE

#1048

Feeding experiments illustrating the importance of accessory factors in normal dietaries.

In 1929 Hopkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eijkman "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins."

2014 CE

#8038

Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.

1985 CE

#14339

Filamentous fusion phage: Novel expression vectors that display cloned antigens on the virion surface.

In this paper Smith invented "phage display technology," a technique where a specific protein sequence is artifically inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the …

1878 CE

#203.3

Finska kranier: Jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi.

1839 CE

#12127

First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.

In 1836 the Births and Deaths Registration Act was passed in England with provisions for inquiry into causes of death in the population, and registration began during the following year through the General Registratio…

2006 CE

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2016 CE

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.