Facets

2001 CE

#11853

Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.

1927 CE

#2414

Bismuth arsphenamine sulphate.

Clinical introduction of bismarsen, synthesized by G. W. Raiziss in 1924.

2001 CE

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

1937 CE

#5264.1

Blackwater fever, a historical survey and summary of observations made over a century.

1915 CE

#5757

Bone-graft surgery.

Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make inlaid, perfectly-fitting grafts. See especially his “Transplantation of a portion of the tibia int…

1949 CE

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1980 CE

#5145.2

Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.

1996 CE

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

1473 CE

#5114

Büchlein der Ordnung (Pest Regiment)

Steinhöwel was a Swabian author, humanist, and translator who was much inspired by the Italian Renaissance. His translations of medical treatises and fiction were an important contribution to early Renaissance Hu…

1895 CE

#5347.1

Case of Filaria loa in which the parasite was removed from under the conjunctiva.

First detailed description of Loa loa. See also Trans. ophthal. Soc. U.K., 1897, 17, 227-32. Robertson first briefly mentioned this procedure and the Loa Loa worm in a brief article written for him by the editor of La…

2006 CE

#12597

CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile infection.

The authors showed that the absence of the CCR5 receptor, which provides immunoresistance to HIV increases susceptability to West Nile virus. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Glass, McDermott, Lim et …

1987 CE

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

1948 CE

#2993

Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.

1834 CE

#4636

Cerebral affections of children.

Accurate clinical description of tuberculous meningitis.

1563 CE

#2371

Certaine works of chirurgerie.

Includes the first mention of syphilis in the English literature. Facsimile reprint, New York, Da Capo Press, 1971.

1970 CE

#5289.3

Chagas’s disease (South American trypanosomiasis). A bibliography compiled from Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletin 1908-1912, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 1912-1970.

Supplement to Trop. Dis. Bull., vol. 67.

2005 CE

#11335

Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…

1944 CE

#5449.1

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. XII. The use of concentrated normal human serum gamma globulin (human immune serum globulin) in the prevention and attenuation of measles.

Gamma globulin used for passive immunization against measles. With C. G. Jennings and C. A. Janeway.

1907 CE

#5281

Chemotherapeutische Trypanosomen-Studien.

The first account of induced microbial drug resistance. Ehrlich encountered induced drug resistance in microbes while researching arsenical preparations as cures for sleeping sickness and other trypanosome-caused illn…

1964 CE

#5351.6

Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.

Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).

1952 CE

#2353

Chemotherapy of human tuberculosis with hydrazine derivatives of isonicotinic acid. (Preliminary report of representative cases.)

Introduction of isoniazid. With I. J. Selikoff and G. G. Omstein. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1952, 65, 257-442.

1938 CE

#1951

Chemotherapy of pneumococcal and other infections with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

Experimental proof of the efficacy of sulfapyridine (M & B 693) in pneumococcal pneumonia.

1946 CE

#2359

Chemotherapy of tuberculosis. Researches during the past 100 years.

2015 CE

#7504

Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.

1923 CE

#5288

Chimiothérapie des trypanosomiasis.

Introduction of moranyl (“Foumeau 309”).

2006 CE

#11041

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…

1947 CE

#1940

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

1946 CE

#5261.1

Chloroquine for treatment of acute attacks of vivax malaria.

Harry Most led the development of chloroquine for use in treating American troops suffering from malaria. At the beginning of the American involvement in the war there were more American casualties from malaria than f…

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

1876 CE

#10681

Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#12141

Cholera in Detroit: A history.

2014 CE

#10771

Cholera: A worldwide history.

1959 CE

#5111.4

Cholera.

Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.

1899 CE

#5252

Ciclo evolutivo della semilune nell’ Anopheles claviger.

Grassi and Bignami showed that the Plasmodium undergoes its sexual phase only in the Anopheles mosquito.

1565 CE

#6318

Cinq livres, de la manière de nourrir et gouverner les enfans dès leur naissance.

The first French work on pediatrics. Vallambert considered a wider range of diseases than any previous writer, including the first reference to syphilis in children, and gave the best commentary up to his time on infa…

1979 CE

#11256

Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Brenner, Steigerwalt, McDade. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1926 CE

#5396

Clinical observations on endemic typhus (Brill’s disease) in Southern United States.

Maxcy described murine (flea-borne) typhus (“Maxcy’s disease”).

1856 CE

#10112

Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.

One of the most comprehensive studies of disease in India during the mid-19th century; includes 556 case reports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link

1956 CE

#2442.2

Clinical trials of diphenyl thiourea compound SU 1906 (Ciba 1509E) in the treatment of leprosy. Progress during the first year.

Introduction of diphenylthiourea (thiambutosine) therapy.

1826 CE

#10529

Clinique de la maladie syphilitique. Enrichie d’observations communiquées par messieurs Cullerier oncle, Cullerier neveu, Bard, Gama, Desruelles et autre médecins. Text and atlas.

Includes 126 hand-colored engraved plates from drawings by Dupont the elder, assisted by Delestre the younger and Verollot, engraved by Johann Theodor Susemihl, a German engraver working in Paris, known for his zoolog…

1866 CE

#5204

Coincidence du chancre syphilitique primitif avec la gale, la blénorrhagie, le chancre simple et la vaccine.

Rollet recognized the possibility of mixed infection of one sore with syphilis and chancroid, thus establishing the dualist theory of venereal infection. The mixed chancre is named “Rollet’s disease”.

1936 CE

#13044

Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.

2006 CE

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1563 CE

#1815

Colóquios dos simples, e drogas he cousas mediçinais da Índia e assi dalgũas frutas achadas nella onde se tratam algũas cousas tocantes a medicina, pratica, e outras cousas boas pera saber.

The first account of Indian materia medica and the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European. It includes a classic account of Asiatic cholera, the first account of this disease by a European. This is …

1950 CE

#5546.1

Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.

Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.

1940 CE

#5224

Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.

Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.

1998 CE

#11342

Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1907 CE

#4683

Concerning a serum therapy for experimental infection with Diplococcus intracellularis.

Flexner prepared an antiserum for use in cerebrospinal meningitis.

1941 CE

#5507

Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother.

Gregg drew attention to congenital defects in infants following rubella in the mother during the early part of pregnancy.