Facets

1906 CE

#5129

Les inoculations antipesteuses.

Haffkine developed an anti-bubonic plague vaccine (killed bouillon cultures), for use in man.

2010 CE

#9661

Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.

Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

1902 CE

#4135

Les parapsoriasis.

“Brocq’s disease”; he proposed the term “parapsoriasis” for the condition which had previously been described under various names and often mistaken for other dermatoses.

1900 CE

#2552

Les sérums hémolytiques, leurs antitoxines et les théories des serums cytolytiques.

English translation in T. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, p. 186.

1912 CE

#4147

Les sporotrichoses.

First complete description of sporotrichosis (“de Beurmann–Gougerot disease”).

1894 CE

#3999

Les tricophyties humaines.

In his extensive studies of the role of fungi in skin diseases, Sabouraud revived and elaborated the discoveries of Gruby (Nos. 4030, 4034-36), which had remained neglected for half a century. See also No. 4116.

1903 CE

#7217

Les tumeurs du rein.

Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…

1908 CE

#5781

Les tumeurs du sein.

1863 CE

#3914

Letter on corpulence; address to the public.

Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…

1958 CE

#2578.27

Leucocyte antibodies in sera from pregnant women.

Leucocyte typing and matching of histocompatibility determinants. See also Payne (No. 2578.23). With J. G. Eernisse and A. van Leeuwen

1946 CE

#3106

Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.

Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.

1957 CE

#2578.23

Leukocyte agglutinins in human sera. Correlations between blood transfusions and their development.

Leucocyte typing.

1490 CE

#47

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

1857 CE

#4045

Lichen exsudativus ruber.

First description of this condition (“Hebra’s pityriasis”).

1895 CE

#4120

Lichen ruber acuminatus und Lichen ruber planus.

1886 CE

#4086

Lichen ruber monileformis – Korallen schnurartiger Lichen ruber.

Kaposi is credited with the first description of this condition, sometimes called “Kaposi’s disease”, and probably a rare variety of lichen planus.

1859 CE

#3913

Lieber das Alcapton; ein neuer Beitrag zur Frage: welche Stoffe des Harns können Kupferreduction bewirken?

Excretion of homogentisic acid (in alkaptonuria) first described.

1887 CE

#3885

Lieber einen Fall von Akromegalie.

Minkowski called attention to the constancy of pituitary enlargement on acromegaly; he was the first definitely to note this relationship.

1892 CE

#3856

Lieber erfolgreiche Einheilung der Katzenschilddrüse in die Bauchdecke und Auftreten von Tetanie nach deren Exstirpation.

Experimental production of tetany by excision of the thyroid of a cat, previously successfully transplanted into the abdomen.

2013 CE

#9336

Life atomic: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine.

1990 CE

#13966

Linkage of early-onset familial breast cancer to Chromosome 17q21.

King showed that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein, a protein that in humans is encoded by the BRAC1 gene. BRCA1 is a human tumor suppressor gene (also …

1950 CE

#2578.8

Localization of antigen in tissue cells. II. Improvements in a method for the detection of antigen by means of fluorescent antibody.

Fluorescent antibody technique.

1994 CE

#14016

Location of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRACA2, to chromosome 13q12-13.

Stratton and colleagues discovered the BRCA2 gene. Oder of authorship in the original publication: Wooster, Neuhausen, Mangion....Stratton. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1970 CE

#7761

Low dose radiation and cancer.

This paper, delivered at the 1969 Nuclear Science Symposium and Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Symposium, October, 1969, provided powerful scientific evidence that the then currently allowable radiation dose (Feder…

1889 CE

#4095

Lupus pernio de la face; synovites fongueuses (scrofulo-tuberculeuses) symétriques des extrémités supérieures.

Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease, Boeck’s sarcoid. Boeck (No. 4128) wrote a classic paper on the subject and later Schaumann’s paper (No. 4149) resulted in a triple eponym. (See No. 4067).

1945 CE

#4011

Lupus vulgaris treated with calciferol.

Dowling and Prosser Thomas introduced calciferol in the treatment of lupus independently of Charpy (no. 4010) whose work was unknown to them owing to the wartime isolation of France.

1897 CE

#3775

Lymphosarkom (Lymphosarkomatose, Pseudoleukämie, Myelom, Chlorom).

“Paltauf-Sternberg disease” (see also No. 3776). On the European Continent the name “Hodgkin-Paltauf-Sternberg disease” is in use.

2002 CE–2007 CE

#8245

Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

1841 CE

#3444

Maladies de la glande parotide et de la région parotidienne.

First important treatise on parotid tumors.

1973 CE

#2660.25

Malignant lymphoma in cottontop marmosets after inoculation with Epstein–Barr virus.

Epstein-Barr virus as a cause of Burkitt’s lymphoma. With D. DeChairo and G. Miller.

1902 CE–1904 CE

#534.69

Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene. Volume 1, The foetus. Volume 2, The embryo.

Ballantyne was a pioneer advocate of antenatal care. Volume 2, The Embryo, is the most complete history of teratology in English, and among the best in any language. American edition, New York, 1905. Digital facsimile…

2019 CE

#11482

Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…

2018 CE

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

1977 CE

#9211

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

1948 CE

#4154.1

Melanomas of childhood.

Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.

1757 CE

#2607

Mémoire avec un précis de plusieurs observations sur le cancer.

Le Dran discarded the humoral conception of cancer for the first time. He regarded cancer as a local disease in its early stage and knew that it spread via the lymphatics to regional nodes, and from there into the gen…

1834 CE

#13415

Mémoire comparatif sur l'histoire naturelle de l'insecte de la gale.

Raspail first described and illustrated the Sarcoptes scabei, diffrentiating it from the horse's sarcopt and the cheese moth that Galès and Patrix, followed by Alibert, had confused with the scabies parasite. R…

1822 CE

#2530

Mémoire physiologique sur les maladies purulentes et putrides, sur la vaccine, etc.

Gaspard was one of the first to make experimental studies on pyemia following the injection of putrid fluids. He experimented on dogs, sheep, foxes, and pigs, injecting putrid infusions pus, vaccine, lymph, blood, bil…

1830 CE

#11150

Mémoire sur l'excision de la partie inférieure du rectum, devenue carcinomateuse.

“The first successful operation for rectal cancer was performed by Lisfranc in 1826. This consisted of excising the anus and rectum via the perineum, which resulted in the functional equivalent of a perineal col…

1844 CE

#3447

Mémoire sur une tumeur cancéreuse affectant l’iliaque du colon; ablation de la tumeur et de l’intestin; réunion directe et immédiate des deux bouts de cet organe. Guérison.

First intestinal resection for cancer.

1841 CE

#4030

Mémoire sur une végétation qui constitue la vraie teigne.

Independently of Schönlein (No. 4029) Gruby discovered the achorion of favus, describing it definitely as the cause of the disease, a point about which Schönlein was in doubt.

1942 CE

#2700.01

Metabolic studies on neoplasm of bone with the aid of radioactive strontium.

Radioisotopic bone scanning. With B. Low-Beer, H. Friedell, and J. Lawrence.

1953 CE

#2578.13

Méthode permettant l’étude conjugée des propriétés éléctrophorétiques et immunochimiques d’un mélange de protéines. Application au sérum sanguin.

Immunoelectrophoresis.

1885 CE

#2541

Méthode pour prévenir la rage après morsure.

Pasteur’s papers describing his rabies vaccine, and the results he attained with it gave further proof of the value of attenuated virus as a protective inoculum against infective diseases in man and animals. Thi…

1988 CE

#2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.

1991 CE

#8650

Milestones in leukemia research and therapy.

Freireich was part of the team that first introduced combined-drug cancer chemotherapy in 1965.

1927 CE

#6298

Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.

1956 CE

#1947.3

Mitomycin, a new antibiotic from streptomyces.

Isolation of mitomycin C, effective in Hodgkin’s disease and lymphoma. With six co-authors.

2006 CE

#9820

Mom's cancer.

This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…

1832 CE

#3990.1

Monographie des dermatoses.

This includes the first published illustration of Alibert’s famous “family tree” for the classification of skin diseases, a concept which Alibert borrowed freely from Torti (No. 5231). This classific…