1950–1959

1957 CE–1963 CE

#2188

Medicine and the navy, 1200-1900. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by C. Lloyd and J. L. S. Coulter.

1958 CE

#5546.6

A bibliography of internal medicine. Communicable diseases.

An extensive bibliography, and substantial excerpts from practically every important reference made to each of 30 communicable diseases, from 1800 onwards.

1958 CE

#2581.1

A guide to the history of bacteriology.

A selective annotated bibliography.

1958 CE

#8500

A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century.

1958 CE

#1671.3

A history of public health.

1958 CE

#6911

A three-dimensional model of the myoglobin molecule obtained by x-ray analysis.

Initial paper on the first solution of the three-dimensional molecular structure of a protein. Computing the molecular structure in 3 dimensions was possible through the use of the Cambridge EDSAC stored-program elect…

1958 CE

#4154.6

A unique case of trichorrhexis nodosa – “bamboo hairs”.

“Netherton’s syndrome”.

1958 CE

#13499

Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1958 CE

#8941

Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.

Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.

1958 CE

#9232

Bibliography of international congresses of medical sciences. Prepared by W. J. Bishop under the auspices of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences with the financial assistance of Unesco.

1958 CE

#11543

Cardiovascular sound in health and disease. Being a comprehensive treatise, introduced by a historical survey, illustrated mainly by sound spectrograms (spectral phonocardiograms) and supplemented by an extensive bibliography. With a section on respiratory sound.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958 CE

#3047.12

Clinical use of an elastic Dacron prosthesis.

Arterial prosthesis. With L. C. France, R. F. Smith, and J. G. Whitcomb.

1958 CE

#12561

Cold injury, ground type.

Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1958 CE

#8993

Darwin's century: Evolution and the men who discovered it.

An elegantly written and profound book that was a powerful influence to my own intellectual development when I read it in 1958; it also a great inspiration for me to study the history of evolution and biology. "Eisele…

1958 CE

#13218

Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir Ibn Hayyān Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymūr [sic] Tibb 393, Kairo), übersetzt und Erläuter von Alfred Siggel. (Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literature [Mainz], Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band XIII).

Edition and translation of Jabir's The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145).

1958 CE

#3558.3

Demonstration of the new gastroscope, the “fiberscope”.

The Hirschowitz fiber optic endoscope, the "Fiberscope." In February 1957 Hirschowitz passed the first prototype instrument down his own throat and, a few days later, down that of a patient. Hirschowitz gave the first…

1958 CE

#2188.1

Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.

1958 CE

#1931.6

Enzymatic O-methylation of epinephrine and other catechols.

The authors discovered the enzyme "COMT" or cathecol-O-methyltransferase, and determined that it was crucial in the methylation and inactivation of adrenergic and other catecholamine type neurotransmitters. (Thanks to…

1958 CE

#4011.1

Experimental ringworm in guinea pigs: oral treatment with griseofulvin.

Use of griseofulvin in the treatment of ringworm.

1958 CE

#5289.1

Factors that may influence the infection rate of Glossina palpalis with Trypanomosoma gambiense. 1. The age of the fly at the time of the infected feed.

Wijers showed that the tsetse fly is infected during its first or second blood meal, but not afterwards, information of considerable importance in determining the criteria for the transmission of trypanosomiasis.

1958 CE

#11458

Fecal enema as an adjunct in the treatment of pseudomembranous enterocolitis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Eiseman, Silen, Bascom.... Report of the first "fecal transplant / fecal therapy," also known as "faecal microbiota transplanation," for recurrent / resistant C. diffic…

1958 CE

#3412.7

Fenestration of the oval window.

Stapedectomy.

1958 CE

#9740

Herbals of five centuries. A contribution to medical history and bibliography.

1958 CE

#2578.30

Histocompatibility genes of the mouse.

Snell made fundamental contributions to transplantation genetics. At his suggestion genes governing transplantation were called histocompatibility genes and Gorer’s Antigen II became Histocompatibility-2 (H-2). …

1958 CE

#14190

History of dental laboratories and their contributions to dentistry.

1958 CE

#12151

History of the San Francisco Medical Society. Vol. I, 1850 to 1900.

1958 CE

#14170

Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex.

Probably the first publication to illustrate the stages of surgical transition from male to female, and to discuss the risks then involved in the operations. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958 CE

#12971

Influence of light on the hyperbilirubinaemia of infants.

In 1956 Sister Jean Ward of the Premature Unit of the Rochford General Hospital in Essex, England noted the benefit of phototherapy when she took infants outside because she assumed that fresh air had healing benefits…

1958 CE

#2682

Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed ultrasound.

Donald, J. MacVicar and T. G. Brown used an ultrasound scanner to investigate the pregnant abdomen (see also No. 6235.1).

1958 CE

#2578.26

Iso-leuco-anticorps.

Discovery of the first histocompatibility antigen. In 1980 Dausset shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with B. Benacerraf and G. D. Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structure…

1958 CE

#7778

John Wesley among the physicians: A study of eighteenth-century medicine.

1958 CE

#7401

L’Hérédité en ophtalmologie.

English translation St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1961.

1958 CE

#9110

Late ancient and medieval population.

Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.

1958 CE

#12215

Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.

1958 CE

#10257

Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.

1958 CE

#2578.27

Leucocyte antibodies in sera from pregnant women.

Leucocyte typing and matching of histocompatibility determinants. See also Payne (No. 2578.23). With J. G. Eernisse and A. van Leeuwen

1958 CE

#8603

Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.

1958 CE

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1958 CE

#5813.1

Milestones in modern surgery.

Each chapter contains prefatory comments, a short biography of each main builder of the particular milestone (with portrait), and his surgical contribution reprinted or translated in full.

1958 CE

#8478

Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.

1958 CE

#9297

Negroes and medicine.

1958 CE

#2660.11

Neuartige Krebs-Chemotherapeutica aus der Gruppe der zyklischen N-Lost-Phosphamidester.

Cyclophosphamide. With F. Bourseaux and N. Brock.

1958 CE

#6311.2

Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.

79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.

1958 CE

#6895

On protein synthesis.

This paper proposed two general principles: 1) The Sequence Hypothesis: “The order of bases in a portion of DNA represents a code for the amino acid sequence of a specific protein. Each ‘word’ in the…

1958 CE

#5449.3

Propagation of measles virus in cultures of chick embryo cells.

With M. V. Milovanovič.

1958 CE

#6610.2

Rembrandt’s Anatomy of Dr. Nicholas Tulp. An iconological study.

An important supplement to and revision of this work is W. Schupbach, The paradox of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy of Dr. Tulp’. Med. Hist. Suppl. 2, 1982.

1958 CE

#2578.25

Separation and isolation of fractions of rabbit gamma-globulin containing the antibody and antigenic combining sites.

In 1972 Porter shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with G.M. Edelman (No. 2578.39) "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies."

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.

1958 CE

#752.6

Studies on polynucleotides. I. A new and general method for the chemical synthesis of the C5'-C3' intemucleotide linkage. Synthesis of deoxyribo-dinucleotides.

In 1968 Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with R. W. Holley and M. W. Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis." H. G. Khorana, T. M. Jacob, …

1958 CE

#6894

Sur l’expression et le rôle des allèles “inductible” et “constitutif” dans la synthèse de la β-galactosidase chez des zygotes d’ “Escherichia coli.

The “PaJaMo” experiment of PArdee, JAcob, and MOnod “broke the impasse in Crick and Brenner’s comprehension of how information in the sequence of bases in DNA came to be expressed as a sequence…