Facets

1934 CE

#6229

Roentgen visualization of the placenta.

Direct radiography of the placenta. "Clilan (C.B.) Powell, longtime owner of the Amsterdam News, was born in 1894 to former Virginia slaves. Very little is known about his childhood. He received his medical degree in …

1921 CE

#3197

Roentgenographic studies of bronchiectasis and lung abscess after direct injection of bismuth mixture through the bronchoscope.

Important studies on bronchiectasis were carried out by Lynah and Stewart.

1917 CE

#3194.1

Roentgenography of the lung: Roentgenographic studies in living animals after intratracheal injection of iodoform emulsion.

Experimental introduction of iodoform (lipiodol) into the bronchial tree in dogs, obtaining satisfactory bronchograms.

1923 CE

#4199

Roentgenography of the urinary tract during excretion of sodium iodide.

First use of sodium iodide in uretero-pyelography. With C. G. Sutherland and A. J. Scholl.

1924 CE

#3652

Roentgenologic examination of the gallbladder.

Introduction of cholecystography.

1916 CE

#2845

Roentgenology of the heart.

Introduction of kymography in clinical cardiology.

1912 CE

#4596.1

Röntgen-diagnostik der Erkrankungen des Kopfes.

A fundamental work on radiological examination of the skull. English translation, St. Louis, 1918.

1936 CE

#3209.1

Röntgen-photographia. Processo e apparelho de röntgen-photographia. Tuberculose pulmonar. Cadastra social. Radiographia e radioscopia. Röntgen-photographia collectiva.

Introduction of chest photofluorography or abreugraphy, also called mass miniature radiography.

1919 CE

#4603

Röntgenography of the brain after the injection of air into the spinal canal.

Introduction of pneumoencephalography.

1933 CE

#2698

Röntgenschnitte.

Tomography first described.

1967 CE

#5509.4

Rubella-virus hemagglutination-inhibition test.

With five co-authors.

1918 CE–1973 CE

#82

Sebrané spisy. Opera omnia. Tom. 1-12.

Purkynĕ was Professor of Physiology at Breslau and Prague. Eminent as physiologist and microscopist, he was first to use the microtome. See Kruta, V. J.E. Purkynĕ, Physiologist. A short account of his contributions&he…

2002 CE

#10175

Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.

"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…

1967 CE

#2924.5

Selective coronary arteriography. Part I: A percutaneous transfemoral technic.

Selective percutaneous transfemoral arteriography.

1967 CE

#7699

Sémiologie graphique: Les diagrammes. Les reseaux. Les cartes.

Foundational work in design and cartography concerning the graphic display of quantitative information. Includes display of medical or statistical information. Translated into English by William J. Berg as Semiology o…

1918 CE

#5081

Serologische Beobachtungen am Scharlachexanthem.

Schultz–Charlton reaction.

1933 CE

#13200

Sex efficiency through exercises. Special physical culture for women, with 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations.

Includes a series of 12 "cinematographic" films on 480 flicker cards. In all the photographs frontal nudity of the female model is covered by clothing, though her buttocks are exposed in some views. Having previously …

1992 CE

#14171

Sex reassignment. Thirty years of international follow-up studies after sex reassignment surgery: A comprehensive review, 1961-1991. Translated from German into American English by Roberta B. Jacobson and Alf B. Meier.)

Includes an extensive bibliography of printed and online sources. https://web.archive.org/web/20070520063824/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/pfaefflin/1000.htm

2012 CE

#8955

Simon Online. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Aims_of_the_project&oldid=12132 "Simon Online is a collaborative edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century. More o…

2009 CE

#13335

Single Lgr5 stem cells build crypt-villus structures in vitro without a mesenchymal niche.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Sato, de Vries, .... Clevers. Clevers and postdoc Toshiro Sato took adult stem cells from the mouse intestine and created the first mini-guts they called organoids&mdas…

2020 CE

#14185

Single particle cryo-EM at atomic resolution.

The authors located individual atoms with a protein molecule for the first time using cryo-EM. This was the highest resolution imaging of a single protein molecule achieved to date using cryo-EM. Order of authorship o…

1987 CE

#13931

Site-directed mutagenesis by gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells.

In 2007 Capecchi shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of em…

1843 CE

#7696

Six ethnographic maps illustrative of "The natural history of man".

An atlas of six large hand-colored folding maps originally issued to accompany Prichard's popular work, The natural history of man, first issued in 1843. The maps were revised and re-issued in 1851 and 1861.

1897 CE

#10597

Skin diseases of children. With twelve photogravure and chromographic plates, and sixty illustrations in the text.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

c. 2000 CE

#9826

Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.

https://library.si.edu/digital-library/natural-and-physical-sciences "About Our Collections "The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, …

1899 CE

#4191.1

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

1933 CE

#12485

Sound motion pictures in obstetrics.

DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. In this paper he described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff member…

1777 CE

#145.53

Specimen zoologiae geographicae, quadrupedem domicilia et migrationes sistens dedit, tabulamque mundi zoographicam adjunxit.

The first textbook of zoogeography, containing the first world map showing the distribution of mammals. French translation of part 1 only by Jakob Mauvillon: Zoologie géographique. Premier article, L'homme (Cas…

1877 CE

#4344.1

Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic…

1982 CE

#10046

Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2002 CE

#12320

Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.

Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html

2002 CE

#13598

Stem cells and the future of regenerative medicine.

In 2001 this report cited the following diseases with high prevalence in the United States as likely candidates for stem cell research: Cardiovascular Disease: 58 million U.S. patients Automimmune Disease: 30 million …

1896 CE

#2686

Stereoscopic Roentgen pictures.

Invention of the Roentgen stereoscope.

2020 CE

#13267

Strange blood: The rise and fall of lamb blood transfusion in 19th century medicine and beyond.

eBook version available at no cost from play.google.com at this link.

1932 CE

#2414.1

Studies in the serology of syphilis. VII. A new flocculation test for the serum diagnosis of syphilis.

Eagle flocculation test.

1922 CE

#2413

Studies in the standardization of the Wassermann reaction. XXX. A new complement-fixation test for syphilis based upon the results of studies in the standardization of technic.

Kolmer test.

1926 CE–1927 CE

#796

Studies in the velocity of blood flow.

First practical method of measuring circulation time. "In 1925, Hermann Blumgart performed the first diagnostic procedure using radioactive indicators on humans; this first is well recognized. Less well recognized is …

1928 CE–1929 CE

#4246

Studies of urea excretion.

Blood urea clearance test. With J. F. Mcintosh and D. D. Van Slyke.

1939 CE

#3098

Studies on leukemia with the aid of radioactive phosphorus.

Therapeutic use of radioactive isotopes for the treatment of leukemia. John H. Lawrence was the brother of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron; John Lawrence also worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa…

1939 CE

#2870

Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnormalities in cardiac function, from the heart’s recoil and the blood’s impacts; the ballistocardiogram.

Introduction of the ballistocardiogram. With A. J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph.

1927 CE

#9335

Studies on the velocity of blood flow: I. The method utilized.

Reports the first diagnostic procedure, done in 1925, using radioactive indicators on humans. "Less well recognized is the fact that Blumgart and his coworker Otto C. Yens, then a medical student, developed the first …

1998 CE–2014 CE

#9834

Suda On Line: Byzantine lexicography.

http://www.stoa.org/sol/ "In 1998 the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities organized by Ross Scaife sponsored the online collaborative annotated first English translation of the massive Byzanti…

1880 CE

#6838

Sulla circolazione del sangue nel cervello dell’uomo. Ricerche sfigmografiche.

In this work Angelo Mosso reported his discovery that blood circulation in the brain increases in certain discrete areas during mental activity, and published the records of this activity produced by the machine he in…

1886 CE

#1416

Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso.

Golgi’s histological studies made a clear conception of the nervous system possible for the first time. He demonstrated the existence of multipolar nerve-cells (Golgi cells) by means of his silver nitrate stain,…

1901 CE

#2553

Sur l’existence de substances sensibilisatrices dans la plupart des sérums antimicrobiens.

The Bordet–Gengou complement-fixation reaction is the basis of many tests for infection, notably the Wassermann test for syphilis, and reactions for gonococcus infection, glanders, hydatid disease. English trans…

1896 CE

#2001

Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence.

The discovery of radioactivity – research stimulated by Roentgen’s discovery of x rays. In 1903 Becquerel received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he h…

1884 CE

#2498.1

Sur un filtre donnant de l’eau physiologiquement pure.

Chamberland filter, an unglazed porcelain bar with pores smaller than bacteria, enabled the earliest distinction between viruses and bacteria and led in 1898 to the re-introduction of the Latin word "virus" with the i…

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.…

1904 CE

#4004

Surla radiothérapie des teignes.

Sabouraud’s method of radiological treatment of ringworm.

1953 CE

#14290

Switching systems as mechanized brains.

Written in the earliest days of automatic switching systems when few electronic computers existed, Meszar's paper raised the question of whether certain aspects of human thought are computable and others are not. Mesz…