1950–1959

1958 CE

#10683

The Banks letters: A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.

1958 CE

#9022

The first ten years of the World Health Organization.

Digital facsimile from who.int at this link.

1958 CE

#16.3

The fragments of Praxagoras of Cos and his school. Collected, edited, and translated by Fritz Steckerl.

1958 CE

#1586

The history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions: an Anglo-American symposium.

1958 CE

#145

The history of biology.

1958 CE

#2578.24

The homograft reaction.

Medawar showed grafting to be unsuccessful when donor and recipient animals came from the same litter, unless the two are genetically identical – another instance of the delayed hypersensitivity reaction.

1958 CE

#256.6

The replication of DNA in Escherichia coli.

The so-called Meselson-Stahl experiment, the first proof of semi-conservative replication of DNA. Semi-conservative replication describes the mechanism of DNA replication in all known cells. It derives its name from t…

1958 CE

#13560

The suppressor-mutator system of control of gene action in maize.

In this paper McClintock described a novel mobile genetic element that she called Suppressor-Mutator (Spm), and its complex regulation. She discovered that Spm could switch back and forth between an “inactive&rd…

1958 CE

#3047.11

The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and artificial pacemaker.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weirich, Gott, Lillehei. Attachment of a wire to the ventricular epicardium, and bringing it out percutaneously to an external pacemaker. This was a key development lea…

1958 CE

#8657

Young endeavour: Contributions to science by medical students of the past four centuries.

1958 CE

#7538

Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.

1958 CE–1959 CE

#2660.12

A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.

Burkitt’s lymphoma (African lymphoma), first described in detail by Sir Albert Cook, a medical missionary, but not published by him.

1958 CE–1961 CE

#8744

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

1959 CE

#2883.3

A bipolar myocardial electrode for complete heart block.

With N. A. Roth, D. Bernardez, and J. L. Noble.

1959 CE

#144

A history of biology to about the year 1900. A general introduction to the study of living things. 3rd ed.

1959 CE

#145.1

A history of cytology.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1959 CE

#5019.1

A history of neurology.

1959 CE

#14191

A history of the American Dental Association 1859-1959.

1959 CE

#7288

A new fossil from Olduvai.

In 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the "Zinj" skull (OH 5) at Olduvai Gorge. This became the type specimen for Paranthropus boisei, arguably the most famous early human fossil from Olduvai in Northern Tanzania. The specie…

1959 CE

#372.1

Andreas Vesalius's first public anatomy at Bologna, 1540. An eyewitness report by Baldasar Heseler, together with his notes on Matthaeus Curtius's lectures on Anatomia Mundini. Edited, with an introduction, translation into English and notes by Ruben Eriksson.

A unique manuscript discovery helping us to bridge the gap in the development of Vesalius’s ideas between the Tabulae anatomicae sex (1538) and the Fabrica (1543). Vesalius typically preceded his anatomical demo…

1959 CE

#12277

Angina pectoris.I. A variant form of angina pectoris. Preliminary report.

Prinzmetal angina. "Dr. Prinzmetal and his collaborators focus upon an interesting variant of angina pectoris which appears to be associated with temporary, recurrent spasm of a partially occluded coronary artery. In …

1959 CE

#14230

Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings: Blood cholesterol level, blood clotting time, incidence of arcus senilis, and clinical coronary artery disease.

Abstract: "Three groups of men, selected solely according to the behavior pattern which they habitually manifested in their work, were compared with respect to their serum cholesterol levels, clotting times, presence …

1959 CE

#13156

Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.

1959 CE

#11639

Bibliotheca Boerhaaviana by G. A. Lindeboom.

1959 CE

#6357.01

Catalogue of the Clifford G. Grulee collection on pediatrics.

4404 entries. The rare books formerly in the John Crerar Library are now in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.

1959 CE

#5111.4

Cholera.

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

1959 CE

#258.2

Classic papers in genetics.

1959 CE

#8757

Dictionary of medical slang and related esoteric expressions.

This book by the physician chairman of the National Association on Standard Medical Vocabulary includes many terms and phrases that were found in any other dictionary with the word medical in the title. Digital facsim…

1959 CE

#2442.3

Diethyl dithiolisophthalate in the treatment of leprosy (ETIP or “Etisul”); a progress report.

Ditophal (Etisul) in leprosy.

1959 CE

#11560

Digital recording of electrocardiographic data for analysis by a digital computer.

This is probably the earliest paper on the use of computers to analyze electrocardiograms. The abstract: "A corrected orthogonal 3-lead system has been used to record electrocardiograms directly from patients at Veter…

1959 CE

#13591

Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.

Davis was a personal friend of Kelly for twenty years. She based this biography partly on Kelly's notebooks and journals that Kelly left her upon his death.

1959 CE

#14227

Einführung in die stereotaktischen Operationen mit einem Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns. Introduction to stereotaxis with an atlas of the human brain. Large folio text plus 2 large folio binders of plates with captions.

1959 CE

#4962.5

Étude des chromosomes somatiques de neuf enfants mongoliens.

Discovery of trisomy-21, cause of Down’s syndrome. With M. Gautier and R. Turpin.

1959 CE

#4405.02

Experiences with a finger-joint prosthesis.

First prosthetic device for replacement of destroyed finger-joints.

1959 CE

#2353.2

Experiments on the antituberculous activity of alpha-ethyl-thioisonicotinamide.

Ethionamide. With F. Grumbach and D. Liberman.

1959 CE

#14141

Factors affecting the activity of muscle phosphorylase b kinase.

In 1992 Krebs and Fischer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism." Digital facsimile from PubMe…

1959 CE

#532.3

Fertilization of rabbit ova in vitro.

The birth of normal rabbits from in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer was the first proof that births resulting from this procedure are normal.

1959 CE

#3155.2

Genetic basis of the thalassaemia diseases.

1959 CE

#8135

Jewish medical ethics: A comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice.

1959 CE

#6495.1

La médecine chinoise au cours des siècles.

English translation by B. Fielding, London, 1968.

1959 CE

#7402

Les cataractes congénitales.

1959 CE

#6569.3

Materialy po istorii meditsiny i zdravookhraneniia Latvii.

With F.F. Grigorash and A. A. Krauss. Revised abridged version by Vasil’ev and Grigorash, Moscow, 1964.

1959 CE

#13146

Metabolic care of the surgical patient. Edited by Francis D. Moore.

"...This book, by authorities in the field, is up to date and well organized. A wide range of subjects, including surgical endocrinology and metabolism, is covered. Important subjects such as normal and abnormal conva…

1959 CE

#1246.2

Micropuncture study of the mammalian urinary concentrating mechanism: Evidence for the countercurrent hypothesis.

Proof that tubular fluid is first concentrated in the loop of Henle, then diluted in the ascending limb of the loop before its final concentration in the collecting ducts, as predicted by the countercurrent hypothesis.

1959 CE

#9727

Moderne problem der humangenetik.

In this paper Vogel coined the term pharmacogenetics, as the study of the role of genetics in drug response.

1959 CE

#13104

Napoleon immortal: The medical history and private life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1959 CE

#12922

Notes et mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'art dentaire et à l'étude de l'évolution scientifique de l'odonto-stomatologie en France.

1959 CE

#6552

Obrazy z minulosti českého lèkarstvi.

1959 CE

#13942

On the topology of the genetic fine structure.

Benzer developed "the T4 rII system, a new genetic technique involving recombination in T4 bacteriophage rII mutants. After observing that a particular rII mutant, a mutation that caused the bacteriophage to eliminate…

1959 CE

#3666.2

One-stage homotransplantation of the liver following total hepatectomy in dogs.

With nine co-authors.