Facets

1988 CE

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

2007 CE

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

1909 CE

#13795

Smallpox and vaccination in British India.

Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2009 CE

#7548

Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.

2013 CE

#10772

Smallpox: A history.

1914 CE

#5301

Sobre o tratemento de leishmaniose tegumentar.

Vianna introduced tartar emetic in the treatment of S. American leishmaniasis. His preliminary announcement on this form of treatment was made to the Brazilian Dermatological Society and appears in Arch. brasil. Med.,…

1759 CE

#5419

Some account of the success of inoculation for the small-pox in England and America. Together with plain instructions, by which any person may be enabled to perform the operation.

Franklin’s statistical account of smallpox inoculation in Boston during the epidemic of 1753-54, showing the beneficial effects of the practice, was written for William Heberden, who contributed the “Plain…

1721 CE

#5410.1

Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox by the learned Dr. Emmanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks theron. To which are added, a few queries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method.

An abridgement of Nos. 5409 & 5410 together with Boylston’s remarks. From internal evidence this 24-page pamphlet would appear to be the first North American publication on inoculation. See No. 5415. Digital fac…

1902 CE

#5274

Some clinical notes on a European patient in whose blood a trypanosoma was observed.

In 1901 Forde saw (but did not at first recognize as such) trypanosomes in the blood of a patient in Gambia. (See No. 5275.)

1840 CE

#5025

Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever, applied to the solution of the question of the identity or non-identity of the two diseases.

Typhoid and typhus were often confused. Stewart made a careful analysis of a number of cases of both fevers and clearly demonstrated that there were in Britain two distinct fevers – typhoid and typhus.

1721 CE

#5411

Some observations on the new method of receiving the smallpox by ingrafting or inoculating.

This work offers general support for the practice of Zabdiel Boylston, detailing some of Boylston’s cases, including accounts of occasions when patients died. Reprinted with additional material by Daniel Neal, a…

1920 CE

#11921

Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, Pa., September 1 to December 31, 1918.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

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…

1882 CE

#5316

Spirillum fever.

Asiatic relapsing fever; original work on this disease by Carter is remembered by the eponym “Carter’s fever” and the name Borrelia carteri. He reproduced the disease in the monkey.

1958 CE

#4661.2

St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.

In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.

1995 CE

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

2010 CE

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2004 CE

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

1945 CE

#2350

Streptomycin in treatment of clinical tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

1946 CE

#5180

Streptomycin treatment of tularemia.

1900 CE

#5252.1

Studi di uno zoologo sulla malaria.

Includes the best illustrations of the various stages of the malaria parasite published up to that time.

1903 CE

#5254

Studien über krankheitserregende Protozoen. II. Plasmodium vivax (Grassi & Feletti), der Erreger des Tertianfiebers beim Menschen.

Confirmation of the work of Ross and of Grassi.

1953 CE

#4672.2

Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.

Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.

1928 CE

#5256.1

Studies in malaria, with special references to treatment. Part IX. Plasmoquine in the treatment of malaria.

Clinical trials of pamaquin.

1906 CE

#5320

Studies in Spirillum obermeieri and related organisms.

Novy and Knapp made important observations on the spirochaete isolated by Norris et al. from a case of (American) relapsing fever, proving it to be different from Borrelia obermeieri, sometimes referred to as “N…

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.

1925 CE

#5432

Studies of the viruses of vaccinia and variola.

Medical Research Council Special Report No. 98; a summary of the more important additions to the knowledge of the subject.

1960 CE

#5449.4

Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine. I. Development and preparation of the vaccine: technics for assay of effects of vaccination.

Live virus vaccine. With M. V. Milovanovič, and A. Holloway.

1925 CE

#3200

Studies on pneumonia following naso-pharyngeal injections of oil.

Lipoid pneumonia first described.

1919 CE

#5391

Studies on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

In his important aetiological and pathological studies of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Wolbach mentioned the causal agent Dermacentroxenus rickettsi.

1949 CE

#5500

Studies on survival of influenza-virus between epidemics and antigenic variants of the virus.

Recovery of influenza C virus.

1945 CE

#5260

Studies on synthetic antimalarial drugs.

F. H. S. Curd, D. G. Davey, and F. L. Rose synthesized proguanil (“paludrine”) and first tested it in avian malaria.

1945 CE

#5261

Studies on synthetic antimalarial drugs. XIII. Results of a preliminary investigation of the therapeutic action of 4888 (paludrine) on acute attacks of benign tertian malaria.

First use of proguanil in human malaria. With B. G. Maegraith, J. D. King, R. H. Townsend, T. H. Davey, and R. E. Havard.

1930 CE

#5463

Studies on the action of yellow fever virus in mice.

The intracerebral protection test in mice, a test for the diagnosis of yellow fever and for the determination of its past existence in a community, was made possible by Theiler’s discovery that white mice are su…

1952 CE

#11103

Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…

1944 CE

#3213.1

Studies on the etiology of primary atypical pneumonia. A filterable agent transmissible to cotton rats, hamsters, and chick embryos.

The Eaton agent, isolated from primary atypical pneumonia. With G. Meiklejohn and W. van Herick.

1921 CE

#5287

Studies on the treatment of human trypanosomiasis with tryparsamide (the sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid).

Introduction of tryparsamide in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

1926 CE

#5433

Studies on variola, vaccinia, and avian molluscum.

Ledingham’s diagnostic test.

1884 CE

#5147

Studio experimentale sull’ eziologia del tetano.

Demonstration of the transmissibility of tetanus by inoculation into rabbits of pus from a human case.

1906 CE

#5319

Study of a spirochete obtained from a case of relapsing fever in man, with notes on morphology, animal reactions, and attempts at cultivation.

Spirochaete causing the American variety of relapsing fever first isolated. With A. W. Pappenheimer and T. Flournoy.

1832 CE

#5105

Suggestions respecting the cause, nature, and treatment of cholera.

Parkin suggested the water-born character of cholera and the use of charcoal filters for water purification.

1889 CE

#5240

Sul ciclo evolutivo dei parassiti malarica nella febbre terzana.

Golgi showed that the parasite of quartan differs from that of tertian malarial fever. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1886 CE

#5239

Sull infezione malarica.

Description of the development of the parasite of quartan malaria. Golgi differentiated the tertian and quartan parasites by the periods of their respective developments.

1881 CE

#2330

Sulla poliorromennite scrofolosa, o tisi delle sierose.

Concato’s excellent description of tuberculous inflammation of the serous membranes resulted in the eponym “Concato’s disease”.

1895 CE

#5170

Sulla preparazione del siero anti-carbonchioso.

Specific anti-anthrax serum. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1895, 1 Abt., 18, 744-45.

1865 CE

#2390

Sulla sifilide per allattamento.

Profeta’s law – a non-syphilitic child born of syphilitic parents is immune.

1892 CE

#5244

Sulle febbre malariche estivo-autumnali.

A summary of the Italian work on malaria. English translation, 1894.

2005 CE

#13622

Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.

Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This techno…

1880 CE

#5169

Sur l’étiologie du charbon.

First use of attenuated bacteria for therapeutic purposes. See also the same journal, 1881, 92, 1378-83.