Facets

1901 CE

#2687.3

The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery.

Because of rapid developments in this field Williams put this book through three editions, in 1901, 1902, and 1903. Digital facsimile of the 1901 first edition from the Wellcome Collection at this link, of the 1902 se…

1931 CE

#2919.1

The roentgenographic visualization of the arteries of the extremities in peripheral vascular disease.

2010 CE

#9844

The Royal Society: The Repository.

https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science "INCIPIT "Hello and welcome to the Centre for History of Science. We look after the Royal Society’s amazing collections of archives, rare books, pictures and art…

1999 CE

#13589

The saint.

https://newrepublic.com/article/116863/sherwin-nuland-william-osler One of the best late 20th century summaries of Osler's life and significance in the form of a review of Michael Bliss's Sir William Osler: A life in …

1980 CE

#11488

The seeds of artificial intelligence: SUMEX-AIM.

A semi-popular and extensively illustrated summary of research on artificial intelligence in medicine at Stanford Medical School as directed by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanley N. Cohen, Carl Djerassi, and Elliott C. Lev…

2015 CE

#12531

The shape of spectatorship. Art, science, and early cinema in Germany.

"Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I....Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual inst…

2010 CE

#10117

The Sloane Letters Project.

http://sloaneletters.com/ "A pilot of this project, Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online, was first launched at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Sir Hans Sloane…

2008 CE

#9916

The Sloane Printed Books catalogue.

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/ "The Sloane Printed Books catalogue lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Bibliographical records are enhanced with Sloane's own numbers or other identifying ma…

1952 CE

#13998

The structure of synthetic polypeptides. 1. The transform of atoms on a helix.

This paper gives the formulae for the Fourier transforms of a number of helical structures, and provides evidence that the structure of a synthetic polypeptide was based on the alpha helix of Pauling and Corey. "It wa…

1832 CE

#10462

The substance of the official medical reports upon the epidemic, called cholera: Which prevailed among the poor at Dantzick, between the end of May and the first part of September, 1831, as transmitted to their lordships; being an analysis of the said epidemic disease in that city--founded upon actual observation and accurate inquiry: With important and well-authenticated facts relative to the same disease, as it prevailed among the poor in other parts of the North of Europe.

Hamett privately published this report after it was rejected for publication by the British government. He included hospital admission tables in his book and produced perhaps the first map based on hospital reports of…

2015 CE

#7509

The technical image: A history of styles in scientific imagery.

1965 CE

#2702.3

The trail of the invisible light. From X-Strahlen to Radio(bio)logy.

A great deal of valuable information presented in a not always serious manner.

1919 CE

#12006

The use of blood agar for the study of streptococci.

In this monograph with numerous charts and 34 full-page plates Brown classified streptococci into α, β, A prime and γ based on the type and degree of hemolysis produced by the bacteria on a blood agar…

1865 CE

#3334

The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat; with an appendix on rhinoscopy.

1900 CE

#2687.2

The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).

The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …

1954 CE

#2883.01

The use of ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording the movements of heart walls.

Echocardiography, from which the field of medical ultrasonics developed.

1993 CE

#8618

The uses of life: A history of biotechnology.

1987 CE

#10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …

1986 CE

#10201

The Visible Human Project.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional r…

1976 CE

#10100

The Watermark. The quarterly publication of Librarians, Archivists and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS).

http://iis-exhibits.library.ucla.edu/alhhs/index.html "Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) membership is open to librarians, archivists, and museum professi…

1953 CE

#7993

The Welch Medical Library indexing project.

A progress report on this pioneering information retrieval project. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2010 CE

#8117

The Wellcome Library Digital Collections.

http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/ "The Wellcome Library is developing a world-class online resource for the history of medicine by digitising a substantial proportion of its holdings and maki…

2001 CE

#8167

The Wikipedia.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history When I posted this in December 2016 there were over 5,300,000 entries just in the English language Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Though, of course, the q…

1896 CE

#2684.3

The x-ray and its application to dentistry.

First dental radiography in America.

1949 CE

#2010.5

Therapeutic possibilities of microwaves.

Introduction of microwave radiation therapy. With J. F. Herrick, G. M. Martin.

1972 CE

#8442

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A digital library of Greek literature.

http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlg.php "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a Special Research Program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG® represents the first effort in the Hum…

1948 CE

#2879

Thoracic aortography. Preliminary report.

With H. E. Hanson and J. Karnell.

2024 CE

#14326

Three epochs of artificial intelligence in health care.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813874 Abstract: "Importance Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has reached an all-time high, and health care leaders across the ecosystem are faced with questi…

1989 CE

#12292

Three-dimensional display in nuclear medicine.

Maximum intensity projection (MIP) or MIP imaging, invented by Jerold Wallis, "is a method for 3D data that projects in the visualization plane the voxels with maximum intensity that fall in the way of parallel rays t…

1975 CE

#14182

Three-dimensional model of purple membrane obtained by electron microscopy.

The invention of Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). The novel technique was achieved by "by applying the method to tilted specimens, and using the principles put forward by De Rosier and Klug (GM - 13935), for t…

1935 CE

#2699

Tomographie.

Grossmann's tomograph was able to image a single slice through the body. He was influential in establishing the word "tomographie" in its radiological context.

1885 CE

#7332

Topographical anatomy of the brain. 3 vols.

The most outstanding American neurological atlas of the nineteenth century and one of the best American photographically illustrated medical books of the period. The atlas reproduces the specimens, which Dalton prepar…

1907 CE

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1762 CE

#305

Traité anatomique de la chénille, qui ronge le bois de saule. Augmenté d'une explication abrégée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi pour anatomiser à la loupe et au microscope, & pour déterminer la forcer de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement.

Lyonet’s monograph on the goat moth caterpillar remains a famous example of anatomical examination. It is also a thorough treatise on the microscope and lenses that Lyonet used. Digital facsimile from Biodiversi…

1800 CE

#537

Traité des membranes en général et diverses membranes en particulier.

Bichat conceived the idea of a science of anatomy and pathology based upon an accurate classification of the various tissues of the body, their distribution in the various organs and parts, and their particular suscep…

1871 CE

#10123

Traité des opérations qui se pratiquent sur l'oeil.

Published in fascicules beginning in 1870. Includes 22 original mounted albumen photographs by Montméja illustrating chapters on cataract, iridectomy, strabismus, eyelids, and lacrymal passages. There are also …

2001 CE

#7959

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…

1979 CE

#13929

Transformation of mammalian cells with genes from procaryotes and eucaryotes.

Axel, along with microbiologist Saul J. Silverstein and geneticist Michael H. Wigler, discovered a technique of cotransformation via transfection. This process, which allows foreign DNA to be inserted into a host cell…

1959 CE

#13334

Transfusions et greffes de moelle osseuse homologue chez des humains irradiés a haute dos accidentellement.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mathé, Jammet, Pendic et al. Mathé performed the first bone marrow graft between unrelated donors and hosts in order to save six Yugoslavian nuclear resea…

1964 CE

#2924.4

Transluminal treatment of arterioschlerotic obstruction; description of a new technic and a preliminary report of its application.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

1880 CE

#6874

Tratado clinico iconografico de dermatologia quirurgica.

The first medical text in Spanish to use photographs as illustrations. Includes 17 lithographed plates (12 chromolithographs) and 3 original photographs (2 hand-colored). Giné y Partagás was a surgeon, d…

1998 CE

#9215

U. S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History: Books and Documents.

http://history.amedd.army.mil/books.html "The US Army Medical Department has an extensive and illustrious history. Brief historical highlights include maintaining one of the oldest regiments within the Army, providing…

1998 CE

#8171

U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

1929 CE

#1446

Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.

First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity…

1921 CE

#4605.1

Über die diagnostische Bedeutung der intraspinalen Luftinjektionen bei Rückenmarksleiden, besonders bei Geschwülsten.

Myelography by air injection into spinal subarachnoid space.

1931 CE

#3658

Über ein neues Röntgensymptom der Gallensteinkrankheit.

Star-shaped radiolucencies caused by gas in gallstones.

1897 CE

#2550.1

Über specifische Reactionen im keimfreien Filtraten aus Cholera, Typhus und Pestbouillonculturen, erzeugt durch homologes Serum.

The precipitin reaction, employed for the qualitative identification of antigens and antibodies. English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology,(1988) pp. 265-68.

1871 CE

#2482

Ueber Bakterien in der Pockenhaut.

Weigert was the first to stain bacteria. He introduced many of the best staining methods in use today. Weigert discovered bacteria in hemorrhagic smallpox. In the same paper is described how carmine will color cocci.

1924 CE

#5069

Ueber cutane Hautreaktion mittels Diphtherie-Toxin zum Nachweis der Diphtherie-Immunität.

The “scratch test”, a cutaneous reaction for determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.

1881 CE

#2493

Ueber das Methylenblau und seine klinisch-bakterioskopische Verwerthung.

Introduction of methylene blue in bacteriological staining.