Facets

1837 CE

#539

Symbolae ad anatomiam villorum intestinalium, imprimis eorum epithelii et vasorum lacteorum.

Henle first described the epithelia of the skin and intestines, and defined the structure and function of columnar and ciliated epithelium. He applied the term “epithelium” to all mucous membranes in the b…

1987 CE

#13940

Targeted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells.

Smithies discovered, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previ…

1905 CE

#2817

Technik der Herstellung fast orthodiagraphischer Herzphotogramme vermittelst Röntgeninstrumentarien mit kleiner Elektrizitätsquelle.

Introduction of teleradiography of the heart.

1879 CE

#553

Technique de l’emploi du collodion humide pour la pratique des coupes microscopiques.

Introduction of collodion for embedding.

2018 CE

#13049

Telemedicine and health technologies: A guide for mental health professionals.

"...Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide to patient-centered clinical care delivered in whole or in part by technologi…

1975 CE

#7522

Telemedicine: Explorations in the use of telecommunications in health care.

The first book on telemedicine, with contributions by 18 authors, including Kenneth T. Bird. In the final chapter the editors summarize telemedicine programs then operational in the United States. The book also includ…

1991 CE

#8138

Telepresence: Dextrous procedures in a virtual operating field.

The first teleoperated surgery. Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the first prototype of a telesurgery robot was developed at Stanford Research International (SRI) (Menlo Park, CA) and called the Green Telepresence…

2000 CE

#13318

The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.

According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and…

1896 CE

#3688

The “x” rays in the practice of dental surgery.

Harrison was the first to describe a method of making dental radiographs.

1923 CE

#9333

The absorption and translocation of lead by plants: A contribution to the application of the method of radioactive indicators in the investigation of the change of substance in plants.

The first application of radioactive tracers in biological studies. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Hevesy received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers …

1941 CE

#2577

The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

2008 CE

#13653

The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.

http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…

1931 CE

#3923

The analysis of whole-blood. II. The determination of sugar and of saccharoids (non-fermentable copper-reducing substances).

Benedict’s test for blood-sugar.

1941 CE

#1533.1

The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.

A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.

1949 CE

#7992

The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.

One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not y…

2017 CE

#10752

The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.

Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the …

1960 CE

#10488

The atlases of ophthalmoscopy: A bibliography, 1850-1960.

2003 CE

#9855

The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925.

Available online at http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/44/8/1362.long.

1999 CE

#10053

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

2013 CE

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …

2008 CE

#10547

The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director.

http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ "The Casebooks Project offers a tool for searching and reading the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier. The project is ongoing: 48,500 cases ar…

2010 CE

#9953

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library

https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1912 CE

#13924

The cinematograph as an aid to medical education and research: A lecture illustrated by moving pictures of ultramicroscopic life in the blood and tissues, and of surgical operations.

1896 CE

#2684.1

The clinical application of the roentgen rays in surgical diagnosis.

First clinical application in America, published in March, 1896.

1948 CE

#4615.2

The clinical use of fluorescein in neurosurgery; localization of brain tumors.

Tumor localization by radio-isotopes. With W. T. Peyton, L. A. French, and W. W. Walker. Preliminary reports in Science, 1947, 106, 130-31; 1948, 107, 569-71.

1939 CE–2015 CE

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.

2009 CE

#11399

The coming of age of artificial intelligence in medicine.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Patel, Shortliffe, Stefanelli, Szolovits, Berthold, Bellazzi, Abu-Hanna. "Abstract: This paper is based on a panel discussion held at the Artificial Intelligence in Med…

1977 CE

#12031

The construction of molecular cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.

Order of authorship in the original publication Bolivar, Rodriguez, Betlach...Boyer...The authors describe the composition and molecular construction of pBR-322 (named after Bolivar and Rodriguez) and call it "the mos…

1955 CE

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

1974 CE

#10551

The Darwin correspondence project.

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/" "Search over 12000 letters and articles..."

2016 CE

#9922

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.

http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…

2011 CE

#13319

The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.

1946 CE

#2659.5

The design of a proton linear accelerator.

Linear ion accelerator. In 1968 Alvarez received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possi…

1916 CE

#14094

The differentiation of cells as a criterion for cell identification, considered in relation to the small cortical cells of the thymus.

First use of the term "stem cells" in English. Digital facsimile from rupress.org at this link.

1913 CE

#6919

The diffraction of short electromagnetic waves by a crystal.

At the age of 22, Bragg discovered that the regular pattern of dots produced on a photographic plate by an X-ray beam passing through a crystal could be regarded as a reflection of electromagnetic radiation from plane…

1896 CE

#2684

The discovery of a bullet lost in the wrist by means of the Roentgen rays.

This was probably the first published report of the clinical use of x rays (February 22).

1963 CE

#12428

The distribution of colony-forming cells among spleen colonies.

Evidence that stem cells are capable of self-renewal. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Siminovitch, McCullch, Till). Digital facsimile from tspace.library.utoronto.ca at this link.

1981 CE

#9728

The DNA story: A documentary history of gene cloning.

1953 CE

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…

1905 CE–1906 CE

#10599

The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of Anatomy. Edited by David Waterston. 5 vols.

The first large scale application of stereoscopic photography to anatomy. The 5 parts each contain 50 stereo cards on which are pasted original stereo photographs and corresponding printed descriptive text. Digital fa…

2012 CE

#13925

The educated eye: Visual culture and pedagogy in the life sciences. Edited by Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich.

1937 CE

#4824

The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.

Demonstration of the changes in the electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. With S. Graham and W. Grey Walter.

1932 CE

#2863

The electrocardiographic diagnosis of coronary occlusion by the use of chest leads.

Introduction of chest leads.

2005 CE

#8199

The European Library.

"Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users …

2002 CE

#9565

The evolution of the conservation movement, 1850-1920.

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government…

1967 CE

#273.1

The evolution of the microscope.

1872 CE

#4975

The expression of the emotions in man and animals.

Darwin examined the causes, physiological and psychological, of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that “the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now …

1976 CE

#7072

The face of madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the origin of psychiatric photography. Edited by Sander L. Gilman.

Papers by Diamond, including their illustrations, edited with an extensive annotated introduction.