Facets

1871 CE–1872 CE

#10585

Photographic review of medicine and surgery. A bi-monthly illustration of interesting cases, accompanied by notes. Edited by F.F. Maury [and] L.A. Duhring. Vols. 1 & 2 (All published).

The leading 19th century American publication of artistic medical photography. Each of the two volumes includes 24 mounted photographs. The photographs ilustrate cases of unusual and extreme disease, such as gross def…

1865 CE

#6873

Photographs (coloured from life) of the diseases of the skin.

The first dermatologic publication illustrated with photographs.

1887 CE

#10596

Photography of bacteria. Illustrated with eight-six photographs reproduced in autotype.

The first book entirely devoted to the photography of bacteria. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2017 CE

#10730

Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.

1849 CE

#7693

Physical Atlas. A series of maps & illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural phenomena. Embracing I. Geology. II Hydrography. III Meterology. IV. Natural History.

30 double-page maps, 15 of which are after the physical atlas of Berghaus. Contributors included Edward Forbes, George Waterhouse, Abbe Boué, etc. Various concern disease.

1845 CE

#543.1

Physiologie pathologique. 2 vols. & atlas.

One of the earliest atlases of pathological histology. Lebert’s work played an important role in introducing the cellular idea of pathology, laying the groundwork for Virchow’s theories.

1858 CE

#3331

Physiologie Untersuchungen mit Garcia’s Kehlkopfspiegel.

Czermak was the first to demonstrate the utility of the laryngoscope invented by Garcia. He substituted artificial light for sunlight and made other improvements.

1924 CE

#12701

Pierre Curie par Marie Curie.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Through a quirk in publishing history the English translation appeared in 1923 prior to the French edition as Pierre Curie by Marie Curie, Translated by Charlotte and V…

2017 CE

#9549

Pierre Fauchard Academy: Historical Articles

This international honorary dental organization provides useful historical articles concerning the history of dentistry at https://www.fauchard.org/history/articles.

1986 CE

#2702.5

Pioneers and early years: A history of British radiology.

Well-illustrated and carefully documented, incorporating detailed biographies of pioneers. Covers the history before 1930.

1990 CE

#7073

Portraits of the insane. The case of Dr. Diamond, by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher.

Reproduces many of Diamond's photographs of psychiatric patients. Diamond was fascinated by the possible use of photography in the treatment of mental disorders; some of his many photographs depicting the expressions …

1892 CE

#2545.1

Practical results of bacteriological researches.

Sternberg demonstrated that the serum of an animal recovered from vaccinia possesses the property of neutralizing the activity of the causative virus. His test was readily adaptable for use in various host-systems.

1837 CE

#3328

Practical surgery.

In his day Liston was the most dexterous and resourceful surgeon in the British Isles. He was the first in the country to remove the scapula and the first – on 21 Dec. 1846 – to perform a major operation w…

1938 CE

#2868

Praecordial leads in electrocardiography. A joint memorandum of a committee of the Cardiac Society of Gt. Britain and Ireland and the Committee of the American Heart Association.

PRECORDIAL LEADS

Also in Amer. Heart J.,1938, 15,107-08, 235-39. Precordial leads are also called unipolar leads.

1860 CE

#3333

Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.

1932 CE

#5351.1

Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.

Intradermal test for trichinosis.

2004 CE

#8137

Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.

1998 CE

#9717

Profiles in science: U. S. National Library of Medicine.

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanc…

#13766

Profiles in science.

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "Explore digitized archival collections to learn about prominent scientists, physicians, and other 20th-century leaders in biomedical research and public health."

1959 CE

#12655

Programs with Common Sense. IN: Mechanisation of thought processes, Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Physics Laboratory, pages 77-84.

"Programs with Common Sense was probably the first paper on logical AI, i.e. AI in which logic is the method of representing information in computer memory and not just the subject matter of the program. The paper was…

1957 CE

#2681

Progress in the techniques of soft tissue examination by 15 MC pulsed ultrasound. In: Ultrasound in biology and medicine, ed. E. Kelly, pp. 30-48.

1971 CE

#10237

Project Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg, a volunteer project founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, was the first digital library. Later leapfrogged by much better financed non-profit or government-spon…

1903 CE–1904 CE

#4372

Projektions-Röntgenbilder einer seltenen Knochenerkrankung.

First description of osteosclerosis fragilis, marble bones (“Albers-Schönberg disease”).

1884 CE

#12161

Prophylaxie et géographie médicale: Des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène.

Includes several colored world maps of diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1921 CE

#4988.1

Psychodiagnostik. 1 vol & atlas of test cards.

Rorschach test. 2nd ed., Bern, 1932. English translation, Bern, Huber, 1942. See the biography of Rorschach in Bull. Menninger Clin., 1954, 18, 173-219.

2000 CE

#8112

PubMed Central (PMC).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ "PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In …

1906 CE

#4231

Pyelographie (Roentgenographie des Nierenbeckens nach Kollargolfüllung).

Introduction of pyelography.

1946 CE

#9338

Radioactive iodine therapy: Effect on functioning metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid.

Seidlin and Marinelli described the first successful treatment of a patient with thyroid cancer metastases using radioiodine (I-131). This paper demonstrated the potential of nuclear medicine as a medical specialty.

2011 CE

#10562

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.

This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…

1924 CE

#9334

Radiochemical method of studying the circulation of lead in the body.

First application of radioactive tracers in animals, specifically rabbits and guinea pigs. See also Hevesy et al, "Radiochemical method of studying the circulation of bismuth in the body," C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 178…

1993 CE

#7182

Radiological oncologists: The unfolding of a medical specialty.

1994 CE

#7583

Radiologie in der medizinischen Diagnostik. Evolution der Röntgenstrahlenanwendung 1895-1995.

Includes a section on the development of tomography and computed tomography (CT). Translated into English by Peter F. Winter as Radiology in medical diagnostics: Evolution of X-ray applications 1895-1995 (Oxford: Blac…

1992 CE

#7184

Radiology: An illustrated history.

1694 CE

#10455

Raguaglio historico del contaggio occorso nella provincia di Bari negli anni 1690, 1691 e 1692.

Arrieta published two very early disease maps in this work showing locations of plague in the province of Bari, Italy, and his employment of troops to isolate those areas. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive a…

1834 CE

#7480

Rapport sur la marche et les effets du choléra-morbus dans Paris et les communes rurales du département de la Seine par la commission nommée, avec l'approbation de M. le ministre du commerce et des travaux publics, par MM. les préfets de la Seine et de police; année 1832.

This work contained one of the earliest applications of spatial analysis in epidemiology—an early thematic map by geographer and cartographer Charles Picquet, in which the 48 districts of Paris were represented …

1984 CE

#11363

Readings in medical artificial intelligence: The first decade. Edited by William Clancey and Edward H. Shortliffe.

1959 CE

#6908

Reasoning foundations of medical diagnosis.

The beginning of the development of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) — interactive computer programs, or expert systems, designed to assist physicians and other health professionals with decision making …

1896 CE

#2550

Recherches de la réaction agglutinante dans le sang et le sérum desséchés des typhiques et dans la sérosité des vesicatoires.

Developing the work of Gruber and Durham, Widal noted that a patient’s serum could be tested with bacteria of known type and his disease identified by this means. They demonstrated specific agglutinins in the bl…

1830 CE

#13909

Recherches expérimentales sur le sang human considérè à l'état sain.

Denis discovered the presence of cholesterol (“cholestérine”) in the blood. This he announced on p. 110 of his Recherches expérimentales.

1978 CE

#9720

Recombinant DNA: The untold story.

1968 CE

#13935

Reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from electron micrographs.

Klug and deRosier invented methods for two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital image processing of electron microscope images. The latter method provided the theory behind the development of computed tomography …

1960 CE

#12654

Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part 1.

The original paper on LISP, the first programming language designed for symbolic computation, which made the development of artificial intelligence programming possible. Part 2 was never published. Digital text from j…

1832 CE

#10457

Relation historique et médicale du choléra-morbus de Pologne, comprenant l'apparition de la maladie, sa march, ses progrès, ses symptômes, son mode de traitement et les moyens préservatifs. Avec une carte.

In his study of the spread of cholera in Poland in 1831 Brière de Boismont used a map to show the progression of the disease from a central point through the country along a red line through principal towns and…

1854 CE

#5874

Report on the ophthalmoscope.

Jones reported that Charles Babbage (1792-1871), the computer pioneer, had produced a simple ophthalmoscope in 1847. After the success of Helmholtz’s instrument in 1851 (No. 5866) Jones wrote about Babbage&rsquo…

1842 CE

#1608

Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.

Chadwick devoted his life to social reform. He was secretary to the Poor Law Commission when he made the above report to Parliament. In it he included a careful analysis of causes of death in 1838 and 1839 and gave a …

1963 CE

#8149

Representation of a Function by its Line Integrals, with Some Radiological Applications.

Cormack showed that changes in tissue density could be computed from x-ray data. Because of limitations in computing power no machine was constructed during the 1960s. Cormack's papers generated little interest until …

2020 CE

#13332

Revolutionary therapies: How the California Stem Cell Program saved lives, eased suffering - and changed the face of medicine forever.

1922 CE

#4605.2

Right-sided hemi-hypertrophy resulting from right-sided congenital spastic hemiplegia, with a morbid condition of the left side of the brain, revealed by radiograms.

Sturge–Weber syndrome (see No. 4560.1).

1932 CE

#2697

Roentgen ray motion pictures of the stomach.

Camera used for direct Roentgen-cinematography.

1896 CE

#4293

Roentgen rays. Photography of renal calculus.

First radiogram of renal calculus.