Facets

1971 CE

#3911

Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und Kretinismus.

A superbly produced and illustrated work, with tipped-in color plates. English translation, Bern: H. Huber, 1984.

1854 CE

#5551

Glossulae quatuor magistrorum super chirurgiam Rogerii et Rolandi nunc primum ad fidem codicis Mazarinei edidit

In Roger of Salerno's Practica chirurgiae, which appeared about 1180, end-to-end suture is described, as is the value of mercurial inunction in chronic skin diseases; in his recommendation of seaweed for the treatment…

1865 CE

#3915

Glycosurie, diabète sucré. In his Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel-Dieu, 2me. éd., 2, 663-98.

First description of hemochromatosis.

1923 CE

#3797

Greffes testiculaires

Voronoff first reported his controversial experimental rejuvenation by means of testicular transplants in 1919.

1903 CE

#10606

Grundriss der gesammten Radiotherapie fuer praktische Aerzte.

The first textbook on radiation therapy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1926 CE

#2650

Haemagglutinegehalte van het bloedserum bij carcinoompatiënten.

Bendien test for the diagnosis of cancer. He published books in German and English on this subject in 1931. Modification by E. C. Lowe, Brit. med. J., 1932, 2, 1060.

1902 CE

#2556

Hämolysine, Cytotoxine and Präcipitine.

1898 CE–1900 CE

#4001

Handatlas der Hautkrankheiten fur Studirende und Arzte. 3 pts.

An extensive and valuable collection of illustrations in dermatology. Includes 377 chromolithographs. "In publishing this hand atlas of skin diseases, I wish to provide students with an aid to their studies and genera…

1932 CE–1934 CE

#1921

Handbuch der Chemotherapie. 2 vols.

1910 CE

#2566

Handbuch der experimentellen Serumtherapie.

1927 CE–1937 CE

#4006

Handbuch der Haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Hrsg…von J. JADASSOHN. 24 vols.

1812 CE–1816 CE

#534.56

Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 2 vols.

Meckel classified malformations systematically, on the basis of altered developmental mechanisms, basing his work on embryology. See No. 2284.

1831 CE

#2584

Hay fever.

Elliotson was the first to ascertain that pollen was the cause of hay fever.

1880 CE

#2589

Hay fever.

1938 CE

#3787.1

Hemolysins as the cause of clinical and experimental hemolytic anemias.

Acquired hemolytic anemia was the first condition to be recognized as an auto-immune disease.

1913 CE

#9443

Heredity with reference to carcinoma: As shown by the study of the cases examined in the pathological laboratory of the University of Michigan, 1895-1913.

"In 1895, a young seamstress of his [Warthin's] acquaintance told him about her family's long history of cancer deaths.[6] Intrigued, he researched her family's history, searching death records and administering quest…

1946 CE

#3924.2

Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis; a familial syndrome not hitherto described.

“Refsum’s syndrome”, an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism.

1908 CE

#9502

Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1967 CE

#12662

Herpes-type virus and chromosome marker in normal leukocytes after growth with irradiated Burkitt cells.

Hausen and colleagues showed for the first time that a cancer virus (Epstein-Barr virus) can transform healthy cells (lymphocytes) into cancer cells. This showed that viruses can cause cancer cell formation. (Order of…

1893 CE

#4084

Hidrocystoma.

Robinson wrote an excellent textbook on dermatology in 1884, the year in which he published the first description of hydrocystoma (“Robinson’s disease”).

1958 CE

#2578.30

Histocompatibility genes of the mouse.

Snell made fundamental contributions to transplantation genetics. At his suggestion genes governing transplantation were called histocompatibility genes and Gorer’s Antigen II became Histocompatibility-2 (H-2). …

1972 CE

#2578.29

Histocompatibility-linked immune response genes.

Benacerraf and McDevitt discovered that the capacity to mount certain immune responses is genetically determined. In 1980 Benacerraf shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with J. Dausset and G. D. Snell "fo…

1880 CE

#7874

Histoire des monstres, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'a nos jours.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1832 CE–1837 CE

#534.58

Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux. 3 vols. and atlas.

Isidore, the son of Étienne (See No. 534.57) organized all known human and animal malformations taxonomically. Many principles governing abnormal development were enunciated for the first time in this work. It …

1987 CE

#3979.2

Histoire illustrée du diabète de l’antiquité à nos jours.

1978 CE

#7317

Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory skin diseases: A method by pattern analysis.

1900 CE

#14160

Histologie du pancreas. In Traité d'anatomie humaine, edited by Paul Julien Poirier & Adrien Charpy, vol. 4, pp. 821-831.

Laguesse, who in 1893 named the islets of Langerhans, established in this work that the islets of Langerhans were the seat of internal secretion of the pancreas. On figures 425 and 427 he drew that are now called "the…

1949 CE

#7316

Histopathology of the skin.

1858 CE

#5525

Historia de la verrugas.

Verruga peruana.

2002 CE

#7471

Historical atlas and dermatology and dermatologists.

2005 CE

#9431

Historical atlas of immunology.

2014 CE

#8397

History of allergy. Edited by K. C. Bergmann and J. Ring. (Chemical Immunology and Allergy Vol. 100.)

Allergy through 20 centuries; most common allergic diseases: historical reflections; mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries; detection and environmental influences and allergens; progress in allergy management; …

2002 CE

#7877

History of the pancreas: Mysteries of a hidden organ.

1910 CE

#2439

Histotechnik der leprösen Haut.

Unna was among the first to maintain that the lymphatics were involved in leprosy and that it was curable.

1968 CE

#12028

Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli, X. In vitro restriction of phage FD replicative form.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Linn, Arber. Arber announced the discovery, with proof, of the first restriction endonuclease (restriction enzyme or restrictase)."These enzymes are found in bacteria a…

1962 CE

#12033

Host specificity of DNA produced by escherichia coli. II. Control over acceptance of DNA from infecting phage lambda.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Dussoix, Arber. The authors discovered that restriction of DNA from infecting bacteriophage was due to the attack and breakdown of the modified bacteriophage's DNA by s…

1973 CE

#5484.4

Human cell culture rabies vaccine. Antibody response in man.

Human diploid cell vaccine. With S. A. Plotkin and D. W. Grella. See also Develop, biol. Standard., 1978, 40, 3-9.

1996 CE

#10882

Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.

Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…

1891 CE–1893 CE

#534.68

Human monstrosities. 4 vols.

The first large work on the subject illustrated primarily by photographs of specimens, and one of the last to use to the term "monster" as a medical descriptor. Digital facsimile of the 4 volumes from the Internet Arc…

1916 CE

#2600.6

Human sensitization.

The concept of atopy had its origin in the report by Cooke and Vander Veer in 1916.

1887 CE

#12039

Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur's system containing a translation of all his communications on the subject, the technique of his method, and the latest statistical results

The author, qualified M.D. in both Edinburgh and Paris, characterized himself on the title page of this work as "Commissioned by the Government of the Colony of Mauritius to study M. Pasteur's new treatment in Paris."…

1929 CE

#2576.02

Hypersensitiveness to arsphenamine in guinea pigs. I. Experiments in prevention and desensitization.

First demonstration of specific, acquired, lasting refractoriness to sensitization. This is the same or a closely related phenomenon to that demonstrated later by Burnet and Medawar under the name immune tolerance. Se…

1840 CE

#3882

Hypertrophie der Hypophysis cerebri und dadurch bedingter Druck auf die Hirngrundfläche, insbesondere auf die Sehnerven, das Chiasma derselben und den linkseitigen Hirnschenkel.

The first case of pituitary obesity with infantilism (Fröhlich’s syndrome) was reported by Mohr. Coincidentally, this appears in the same volume of the Wochenschrift as does Basedow’s classic descript…

1886 CE

#1883

Ichthyol und Resorcin als Repräsentanten der Gruppe reduzierender Heilmittel.

Unna introduced ichthyol and resorcinol into medicine. Supplement to Mh. prakt. Derm., No. 1.

1973 CE

#11074

Identification of a novel cell type in peripheral lymphoid organs in mice. I. Morphology, quantitation, tissue distribution.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Steinman, Cohn. In this paper Steinman announced his discovery of the dendritic cell. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. In 2011 Steinman received half …

1994 CE

#10880

Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.

Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …

1872 CE

#4063

Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut.

First description of “Kaposi’s sarcoma” – multiple idiopathic hemorrhagic sarcoma. English translation in CA, 1982, 32, 342-47.

1875 CE–1888 CE

#4067

Illustrations of clinical surgery. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 pp. 49-52: Hutchinson’s classic description of cheiropompholyx, dysidrosis (“Hutchinson’s disease”). The first description and illustration of sarcoidosis is on p. 42.

1841 CE

#7478

Illustrations of cutaneous disease: A series of delineations of the affections of the skin in their more interesting and frequent forms.

Large folio, with 94 hand-colored lithographed plates by Archibald Henning (1805-64).

1949 CE

#3855.1

Imidazoles. IV. The synthesis and antithyroid activity of some 1-substituted-2-mercaptoimidazoles.

Synthesis of methimazole (mercazole, thiamazole), an antithyroid drug more potent than methylthiouracil. With E. C. Kornfeld, K. C. McLaughlin, and R. C. Anderson.