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2014 CE
#14355
The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.
2026 CE
#14354
Discovery of a handwritten laboratory notebook by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin describing experimental studies and development of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis
"Abstract: Background: The Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is the most widespread vaccine in the world. Discovered by French investigators Albert Calmette and Camille Gué…
2013 CE
#14353
Adrenaline.
A history and survey.
2018 CE
#14352
Structure and distribution of an unrecognized interstitium in human tissues.
The authors described "the anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized, though widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues, a novel expansion and specification of the concept of the h…
1906 CE
#14351
A study of the structural unit of the liver.
Mall defined the liver's structural unit as a tissue block centered on a portal vein, rather than the classic hepatic lobule centered on a central vein. He proposed that the structural unit of the liver is defined by …
1874 CE
#14350
Ueber die Function der Bogengänge des Ohrlabyrinthes.
“[Breuer’s] basic premise was that the semicircular canals sense angular movement of the head by movement of the fluid (endolymph) within them. The endolymph moves relative to the walls of the canals becau…
1877 CE–1907 CE
#14349
An atlas of illustrations of pathology [and] An atlas of illustrations of clinical medicine, surgery and pathology ... a continuation of the "Atlas of Pathology." 30 fascicules numbered I - XXIV, XXIVbis, XXIVter, XXV, XXVbis, XXVI - XXVII.
1832 CE–1862 CE
#14348
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie für praktische Aerzte. 4 parts in 1. With: Erläuterung zu dem Atlasse der pathologischen Anatomie für praktischen Aertze. 4 vols. in 5.
Albers' atlas of pathology, with 257 lithographed plates (93 hand-colored) covers diseases of the brain and spinal cord (Part 1), the throat (Part 2), the thorax (Part 3) and the abdomen (part 4); the five text volume…
2017 CE
#14347
Vertigo: Five physician scientists and the quest for a cure.
Concerns the work of Prosper Ménière, Josef Breuer, Robert Bárány, Charles Hallpike, and Harold Schuknecht.
1770 CE
#14346
Élements de l'art vétériniare. Essai sur les appareils et sur les bandages propres aux quadrupèdes. A l'usage des élèves des Écoles Royales Vétérinaires.
This work includes 21 folding plates of devices and bandages.
1979 CE
#14345
An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.
In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.
1889 CE
#14344
The action of natural selection in producing old age, decay, and death. In Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems by August Weismann; authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland and Arthur E. Shipley, Chapter 1, "The duration of life," page 23.
Wallace proposed the first evolutionary theory of aging. He stated that if too many people lived for a long time they would compete for resources needed for other members of the species that were of reproduction age. …
1955 CE
#14343
The Negro in science.
In the forward Martin D. Jenkins pointed out that while African Americans made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists was rather low. In the first chapter…
1966 CE
#14342
The life of William Harvey.
1993 CE
#14341
Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.
Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…
1990 CE
#14340
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…
1990 CE
#14340
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
1985 CE
#14339
Filamentous fusion phage: Novel expression vectors that display cloned antigens on the virion surface.
In this paper Smith invented "phage display technology," a technique where a specific protein sequence is artifically inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the …
1965 CE
#14338
A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.
Published as a 20-page pamphlet.
1846 CE
#14337
Disquisitiones de structura protuberantia annularis sive pontis Varolii. Untersuchungen über den Bau des Hirnknotens oder der Varoli’schen Brucke. Text and atlas.
Stilling’s great work on the pons Varolii, the structure that links the brain to the spinal cord, includes the first accurate description of the red nucleus (superior olive), a structure in the midbrain involved…
1682 CE
#14336
Traité de la lithotomie ou de l'extraction de la pierre hors la vessie.
In Tolet's day lithotomy was one of the major and most dangerous of operations. Tollet provided explicit directions for the operation in children as well as adults of both sexes. He particularly stressed the need for …
1938 CE
#14335
A new method of measuring nuclear magnetic moment.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Rabi, Zacharais,...Kusch. Followed by: (2) The magnetic moments of 3Li6, 3Li7, and 9F19. Physical Review 53, 1938. (3) The molecular beam resonance method for measuring…
1992 CE
#14334
Nitric oxide as a mediator of relaxation of the corpus cavernosum in response to nonadrenergic, noncholinergic neurotransmission.
Using strips of corpus cavernosum tissue from 21 male volunteers, the authors showed how the interaction of nitric oxide with the musculo/vascular system of the human penile corpora cavernosa initiated and maintained …
2002 CE
#14333
Crystal structure and mechanism of a calcium gated potassium channel.
The authors first obtained the crystal structure of a Ca2+ - gated K+ ion channel and then deciphered how ion channels open and close, a process called "gating" in response to cues in their environment. They determine…
1998 CE
#14332
The structure of the potassium channel: Molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity.
The authors determined the first high resolution structure of an ion channel, called KcsA from the bacterium Streptomyces lividans. The structure that they revealed was perfectly adapted to allow entry of potassium io…
2012 CE
#14331
The vitamin A story: Lifting the shadow of death.
(Thanks to Malcolm Kottler for this reference.)
1941 CE
#14330
Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.
2014 CE
#14329
Chinese medicinal identification: An illustrated approach.
"For centuries, pharmacists and clinicians have relied on the traditional method of macroscopic identification to assess the quality and authenticity of medicinal materials. Macroscopic identification uses the naked s…
2021 CE
#14328
The gray zones of medicine: Healers & history in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez.
1849 CE
#14327
Effects of chloroform and of strong chloric ether, as narcotic agents.
“On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Warren participated in the first public demonstration of anesthesia for surgery. He was the surgeon for the first surgical patient given ether anesthesia,…
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…
1913 CE
#14325
Extramukose cardiaplastik beim chronischen cardiospasmus mit dilatation des esophagus.
Heller myotomy for the treatment of achalasia.
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…
1826 CE
#14323
Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
Second edition, hugely revised, expanded, and improved. The pagination of the first edition (1819) was 456 pp. in vol. 1 and 472 pp. in vol. 2. The second edition was expanded to 728pp. in vol. 1 and 790 pp. in vol. 2…
1930 CE
#14322
Les femmes et la progrès des sciences médicales.
1867 CE–1872 CE
#14321
Arsenal de la chirurgie contemporaine. Description, mode d'emploi et appréciation des appareils et instruments en usage pour le diagnostic et le traitement des maladies chirurgicales, l'orthopédie, la prothèse, les opérations simples, générales, spéciales et obstétricales. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1882 CE
#14320
Chirurgie de la main.
The first manual on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
2024 CE
#14319
Exposed: The hidden history of the pelvic exam.
2021 CE
#14318
Coming home: How midwives changed birth.
1946 CE
#14317
Radioactive Element 94 from deuterons on uranium.
"This letter was received for publication on the date indicated (January 28, 1941), but was voluntarily withheld from publication until the end of the war." Seaborg and McMillan discovered element 94, which they named…
1835 CE
#14316
On the osteology of the chimpanzee and orang utan.
Owen was the first anatomist, after Petrus Camper, to distinguish decisively between the chimpanzee and the orangutan. He began studying the anatomy of non-human primates in the 1830s, when the Regent’s Park Zoo…
1974 CE
#14315
"Conformational Coupling in Biological Energy Transductions." In L. Ernster et al. (eds.), Dynamics of Energy-Transducing Membranes, pp. 289-301.
In 1997 Boyer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Walker and Jens C. Skou “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).” The Nobel Pr…
1994 CE
#14314
Structure at 2.8 Â resolution of F1-ATPase from bovine heart mitochondria.
Walker used X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of ATP synthase (ATPase or adenosine triphosphatase). In 1997 Walker shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Boyer and Jens C. Skou “for their e…
1926 CE
#14313
Studies in intracranial physiology & surgery. The third circulation. The hypophysis. The gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925.
This series of three lectures was an analytical review by Cushing of the three main categories of scientific work that he had accomplished during the previous 25 years. Remarkably, Cushing completed this review and de…
1955 CE
#14312
The maser - new type of microwave amplifier, frequency standard, and spectrometer.
In 1964 Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Alexandr Mihailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of osci…
1965 CE
#14311
Enzymatic basis for the active transport of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane.
Skou discovered that the active transport of sodium and potassium is carried out in the cell membrane by an enzyme that serves as a sodium and potassium "pump," that catalyzes ATP hydrolysis. He named the enzyme "sodi…
1895 CE
#14310
Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere.
Discovery of argon, the first discovery of an inert gas. In 1904 Ramsay was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determina…
1896 CE
#14309
Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1897 CE
#14308
De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.
Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …
2012 CE
#14307
Corps du papier. L'Anatomie en papier mâché du Docteur Auzoux. Text: Christophe Degueurce. Photos: Didier Gaillard. Préface: Philippe Comar.
Outstanding color photographs.