Facets

2007 CE

#7994

Development of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).

Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.

1916 CE

#2692.1

Diaphragming Roentgen rays. Studies and experiments.

Moving grid. "Bucky-Potter grid" invented by Gustav Bucky and improved by radiologist Hollis E. Potter.

1913 CE

#5066

Die Diphtherietoxin – Hautreaktion des Menschen als Vorprobe der prophylaktischen Diphtherieheilseruminjektion.

Schick developed his test for use as an indication as to whether or not prophylactic injections of antitoxin are necessary in children already exposed to diphtheria. English translation in J. Mt. Sinai Hosp., 1938, 5,…

1869 CE

#549

Die Einschmelzungs-Methode, ein Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Technik.

Introduction of paraffin embedding

1908 CE

#3316

Die entzündlichen Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen der Nase im Röntgenbild.

The first important work on the radiology of the accessory nasal sinuses.

1913 CE

#3647

Die Farbstoffe des Blutserums. 1. Eine quantitative Bestimmung des Bilirubins im Blutserum.

The van den Bergh test.

1905 CE

#4192

Die Gestalt der menschlichen Harnblase im Röntgenbilde.

First cystograms.

1908 CE

#2340

Die kutane und konjunktivale Tuberkulinreaktion, ihre Bedeutung für Diagnostik und Prognose der Tuberkulose.

Wolff-Eisner’s conjunctival tuberculin reaction.

1865 CE

#3271

Die Laryngoskopie und die laryngoskopische Chirurgie. 1 vol. and atlas.

Bruns claimed to have been the first to remove a tumor from the larynx with the aid of the laryngoscope.

1902 CE

#2625

Die Lehre von den Geschwülsten. 2 vols.

“With this book the microscopical epoch in the evolution of the knowledge of cancer may be said to have been brought to a close” (Haagensen).

1885 CE

#2503

Die Methoden der Bakterienforschung.

Hueppe, a colleague of Koch, wrote an admirable manual on bacteriological methods, a subject to which he gave several original contributions. English translation, New York, 1886.

1934 CE

#269.4

Die Methoden der Fluoreszenzmikroskopie. In: Abderhalden, Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, Abt. II, Teil 3, pp. 3307-37.

Modern methods of fluorescence microscopy were developed by Haitinger.

1911 CE–1912 CE

#2701

Die Röntgen-Literatur. 2 vols.

1903 CE

#2689

Die Röntgen-Technik.

Albers-Schönberg invented the compression diaphragm, the function of which is to intensify the object by cutting out secondary rays.

1923 CE

#2916

Die Röntgenographische Darstellung der Arterien und Venen am lebenden Menschen.

Arteriography. First angiogram of a living patient.

1912 CE

#3338

Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.

Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.

1909 CE

#2690

Die Technik der Roentgenkinematographie.

Groedel invented the first machine for taking serial x-rays.

1908 CE

#12385

Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.

First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for s…

1939 CE

#2700

Differential radiography.

Watson first described axial transverse tomography.

2011 CE

#9841

Digital Bodeian. Judith Siefring, Head of Digital Research.

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ "The Bodleian Libraries’ collections are extraordinary and significant—both from a scholarly point of view and as material that has an historic and aesthetic richness tha…

2010 CE

#8522

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

https://dp.la/ "The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations,…

2012 CE

#9839

Digitized Collections: Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

https://library.medicine.yale.edu/digital Yale School of Medicine Collection Medical Instruments & Artifacts Peter Parker Papers Civil War Photographs Postcard Collection Tobacco Advertising Books by & about Harvey Cu…

2024 CE

#14324

Directory of History of Medicine Collections.

https://hmddirectory.nlm.nih.gov/ A world directory of history of medicine libraries edited and published online by NLM. The date this was first published is not stated. I entered it into this database in 2024 and arb…

1927 CE

#2008

Discordance des effets des rayons X, d’une part dans la peau, d’autre part dans le testicule, par le fractionnement de la dose: diminution de l’efficacité dans la peau, maintien de l’efficacité dans le testicule.

Dose fractionation.

2011 CE

#8686

Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.

Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors.

1853 CE

#5869.1

Dissertatio ophthalmologica inauguralis de speculo oculi.

Trigt's thesis contains the first printed illustrations of the fundus of the eye. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. The following year Trigt's thesis was translated into German by C. H. Schauenberg as …

2012 CE

#10586

Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.

2020 CE

#12157

Documenting COVID-19, [a collaborative document.]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5tso8spFq6SpW53h2OJULcdRoPEbyI6xpah31kW-H0/edit [I copied this document into this database on April 9, 2020.] "Documenting COVID-19 "https://bit.ly/doc-covid19 #doccovid19 This is …

1968 CE

#273.2

Early history of the electron microscope.

1887 CE

#2505.1

Eine kleine Modification des Koch’schen Plattenverfahrens.

Petri dish. A similar dish was described by Cornil and Babès (see No. 2501) and by Nicati and Rietsch, Arch. Physiol. norm. path., 1885, 6, 72. Petri was an assistant of Koch.

1929 CE

#2695

Eine neue Methode zur röntgenologischen Darstellung der Milz.

Thorium dioxide (“thorotrast”) first used in radiological diagnosis.

1902 CE

#2688

Eine neue, einfache Dosirungsmethode in der Radiotherapie (das Chromoradiometer).

Holzknecht did important work on x-ray dosimetry.

1906 CE

#2402

Eine serodiagnostische Reaktion bei Syphilis.

The “Wassermann reaction”, a specific diagnostic blood test for syphilis, and a modification of the complement-fixation reaction of Bordet and Gengou. With A. Neisser and C. Bruck.

1927 CE

#2694

Einstellung der Röntgenologie.

1912 CE

#2840

Electro-cardiography and its importance in the clinical examination of heart affections.

1934 CE

#2864

Electrocardiograms that represent the potential variations of a single electrode.

Unipolar leads. With F. D. Johnston, A. G. MacLeod, and P. S. Barker.

1943 CE

#14005

Electron microscope studies of bacterial viruses.

This work demonstrated the absorption of the phages on the host cell, and the lysis of the host cell and the liberation of a hundred or so daughter paritcles from each cell. It also showed that the particles multiply …

1937 CE

#12832

Electrophoresis of serum globulin. II- Electrophoretic analysis of normal and immune sera.

Tiselius showed that an antibody that he produced in a rabbit by immunizing it with albumin (ovalbumin) was clearly located in the gamma globulin fraction. He summarized the paper with this statement: "Investigation o…

1936 CE

#2865.1

Elektrographische Diagnostik der Herzmuskelerkrankungen.

Introduction of the vectorcardiogram.

1998 CE

#13286

Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts.

Thomson and collaborators first isolated embryonic stem cells from human blastocysts. Order of authorship in original publication: Thomson, Itskovitz-Eldor, Shapiro et al. Available online from science.sciencemag.org …

2006 CE

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

1941 CE

#4614.1

Encephalography.

Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.

2007 CE

#10346

Encyclopédie sur la mort: La mort et la mort volontaire à travers les pays et les âges.

http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort/

1891 CE

#7243

Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic].

In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a st…

2009 CE

#12058

Environment & Society Portal.

http://www.environmentandsociety.org/ "The Environment & Society Portal is a gateway to open access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. It addresses the community of teacher…

1971 CE

#12601

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Quantitative assay of immunoglobulin G.

Perlmann (principal investigator) and Engvall conceptualized and developed the very commonly used enzyme-lined immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that uses antibodies to detect proteins and other different immunogens. The as…

1919 CE–1920 CE

#3850

Epinephrin hypersensitiveness test in the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism.

Goetsch devised a skin reaction test for use in the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism

1881 CE

#2495

Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection.

Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat led him to the discovery in 1877 of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization). His work on the subject is included in …

1981 CE

#13285

Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.

Evans and Kauffman were the first to identify, isolate and successfully culture embryonic stem cells using mouse blastocysts. This discovery opened the doors to the creation of “murine genetic models” -- m…

1913 CE–1914 CE

#560.1

Estudios sobre la degeneración y regeneración de sistema nervioso.

The most complete work on the subject so far written. Ramón y Cajal, great neuroanatomist and histologist, was for many years in charge of the institute bearing his name at Madrid. He gained the Nobel Prize in …