1950–1959
576 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1948 CE
#139.1
The cell-theory: a restatement, history, and critique.
1950 CE
#6783
A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.
For supplement see No. 6786.18.
1950 CE
#1670
A history of English public health, 1834-1939.
1950 CE
#2352
A new and practical B.C.G. skin test (the B.C.G. scarification test) for the detection of the total tuberculous allergy.
1950 CE
#2660.2
A sensitive directional gamma-ray detector.
Directional scintillation detector probe. Cassen assembled the first automated scanning system, comprised of a motor driven scintillation detector coupled to a relay printer. The scanner was initially used to image th…
1950 CE
#7568
An inferometer microscope.
Dyson designed one of the first usable interference microscopes This optical system achieved interference imaging without requiring polarizing elements in the beam path.
1950 CE
#4154.3
Balanitis circumscripta chronica met plasmacellen-infiltraat.
Zoon’s plasma cell balanitis.
1950 CE
#5016
Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1
Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.
1950 CE
#5352.2
Bibliography of onchocerciasis.
Publication No. 242.
1950 CE
#13912
Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.
1950 CE
#6655
CENTAURUS. International Magazine of the History of Science and Medicine. 1-
1950 CE
#255.6
Chemical specificity of nucleic acids and the mechanism of their enzymatic degradation.
"Chargaff's rules." Between 1946 and 1950 Chargaff carried out chemical studies that revolutionized attitudes towards DNA.
1950 CE
#7537
Childhood and society.
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.
1950 CE
#2882
Congenital heart disease.
A new classification proposed.
1950 CE
#258.1
Die Zeugungs- und Vererbungslehren der Antike und ihr Nachwirken.
A study of the earliest “scientific” theories of heredity and genetics.
1950 CE
#13474
Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects--the pharmacology of placebos.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1950 CE
#13473
Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis. 1. The vagina as a portral of entry of toxoplasma in the mouse. Experimental congenital toxomplasmosis II. Transmission of toxomplasmosis to the placenta and fetus following vaginal infection the the pregnant mouse. Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis III. Toxomplasmosis in the offspring of mice infected by the vaginal route. Incidence and manifestations of the disease.
"In 1950 and 1951, Drs. Cowen and Wolf published a series of 5 papers, super-titled, “Experimental Congenital Toxoplasmosis,” in which they demonstrated the intrauterine infection of placenta, fetus, and o…
1950 CE
#7173
German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.
Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…
1950 CE
#4256.1
Homotransplantation of the kidney in human; preliminary report.
Report of first human patient to survive a kidney transplant. The operation was on June 17, 1950, and the patient was discharged on August 26. With four co-authors. See No. 4257.
1950 CE
#3047.1
Hypothermia: its possible role in cardiac surgery: an investigation of factors governing survival in dogs at low body temperatures.
Bigelow pioneered surface-induced whole body hypothermia and temporary cardiac flow occlusion. With W.F. Greenwood.
1950 CE
#9030
La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.
1950 CE
#12616
Liber medicinalis. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par R. Pépin.
Latin text with French translation.
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.
1950 CE
#13525
Lysogenicity in Escherichia coli strain K-12.
Discovery of phage λ (lambda phage). According to estherlederberg.com, only about 100 people received the first issue of Microbial Genetics Bulletin, a typed and mimeographed publication. Digital facsimile from…
1950 CE
#2881
Mechanism of the auricular arrythmias.
With E. Corday, I. C. Brill, A. L. Seller, R. W. Oblath, W. A. Flieg, and H. E. Kruger.
1950 CE
#6447
Medicinens historie.
2nd edition, 1964.
1950 CE
#12323
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
1950 CE
#12199
On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.
The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …
1950 CE
#10656
Oxygen transport and utilization in dogs at low body temperatures.
This research by Bigelow and collegues first made possible the use of hypothermia in cardiac surgery.
1950 CE
#4203
Permanent artificial (silicone) urethra.
First implantation of silicone rubber tube to replace urethra.
1950 CE
#2028.1
Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.
Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.
1950 CE
#5262.3
Primaquine, S.N. 13,272, a new curative agent in vivax malaria: a preliminary report.
Introduction of primaquine.
1950 CE
#1757
Reciprocal skin homografts in a medico-legal case of familial identification of exchanged identical twins.
Skin grafting used to decide the relationship of identical twins who had been accidentally separated at birth.
1950 CE
#3215.2
Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.
A study of 1,465 cases of lung cancer and 1,465 matched controls, which confirmed and extended the studies of Wynder and Graham, and others. See also later papers by the same authors in Brit. med. J., 1952, 2,1271-86;…
1950 CE
#3692.1
Studies on mass control of dental caries through fluoridation of the public water supply.
It has not been conclusively demonstrated whether fluoride serves a specific physiological role, but fluoridation of public water supplies was followed by a reduction in the incidence of dental caries. One of the firs…
1950 CE
#1945.1
Terramycin, a new antibiotic.
Oxtetracycline (terramycin).
1950 CE
#8779
The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.
"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…
1950 CE
#11571
The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).
In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…
1950 CE
#13808
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
1950 CE
#4435.3
The closed treatment of common fractures.
“A classic exposition of the non-operative approach” (Peltier).
1950 CE
#5264.2
The conquest of malaria.
1950 CE
#12821
The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.
The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.
1950 CE
#13804
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
1950 CE
#1584
The history of muscle physiology from the natural philosophers to Albrecht von Haller.
Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, Vol. 7.
1950 CE
#14277
The interconversion of the retinenes and vitamins A in vitro.
Continuing his research on retinal pigments structure and function with emphais on rhodopsin, Wald deciphered the interconversion of rhodopsin to retinene to Vitamin A. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its…
1950 CE
#16.1
The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.
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This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.
1950 CE
#12063
The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize.
"In the summer of 1944 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, McClintock systematic studies on the mechanisms of the mosaic color patterns of maize seed and the unstable inheritance of this mosaicism.[44] She identified tw…
1950 CE
#2238
The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.
In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.
1950 CE
#13609
The role of urethra in female orgasm.
"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful…