1950–1959
576 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1959 CE
#10676
Parasites and parasitic infections in early medicine and science.
1959 CE
#14056
Pheromones (ectohormones) in insects.
Karlson and Butenandt (Nobel Prize 1939) defined pheromones as “substances which are secreted to the outside by an individual of the same species, in which they release a specific reaction, for example, a defini…
1959 CE
#12655
Programs with Common Sense. IN: Mechanisation of thought processes, Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Physics Laboratory, pages 77-84.
"Programs with Common Sense was probably the first paper on logical AI, i.e. AI in which logic is the method of representing information in computer memory and not just the subject matter of the program. The paper was…
1959 CE
#13800
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
1959 CE
#13526
Quantitative studies of tissue transplantation immunity. IV. Induction of tolerance in newborn mice and studies on the phenomenon of Runt Disease.
First description of what became known as Graft-versus-host disease (GvDH). This the authors initially called "graft against host (GAH)." The authors cited three conditions, later known as the Billingham criteria, whi…
1959 CE
#6908
Reasoning foundations of medical diagnosis.
The beginning of the development of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) — interactive computer programs, or expert systems, designed to assist physicians and other health professionals with decision making …
1959 CE
#14242
Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex.
Also: Hubel & Wiesel, Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex, J. Physiol., 160, 1962, 106-154. In 1981 Hubel and Wiesel shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiol…
1959 CE
#10840
Scrapie and Kuru.
In 1959 Hadlow, a veterinarian, visited a medical exposition in England where Carlton Gajdusek posted pathological slides of autopsied Kuru brains and a clinical description of the illness. He realized that Gajdusek's…
1959 CE
#6623.1
Shakespeare and medicine.
1959 CE
#13242
Speech and brain mechanisms.
1959 CE
#12969
Standards for height and weight of British children from birth to maturity.
Tanner established "normal" parameters for ranking the height and weight of children by percentile during growth. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1959 CE
#10753
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
1959 CE
#12603
The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem
1959 CE
#2578.31
The clonal selection theory of acquired immunity. The Abraham Flexner Lectures of Vanderbilt University 1958.
Burnet's clonal selection theory extended the idea that each antibody-producing cell makes antibodies of only one specificity, predicting these cells proliferate in response to the detection of antigens, cloning and t…
1959 CE
#11405
The discovery of Dicumarol and its sequels.
An historical account of the discovery of the anticoagulant Warfarin by the primary investigator. The first use for this substance was rat poison. Digital facsimile from ahajournals.org at this link.
1959 CE
#13534
The health seekers of Southern California 1870-1900.
1959 CE
#1586.1
The historical development of physiological thought.
1959 CE
#6638
The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.
1959 CE
#13256
The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.
A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.
1959 CE
#10281
The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering.
1959 CE
#6548.1
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.
1959 CE
#6637
The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.
1959 CE
#3047.10
The use of intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block.
First use of pacemaker for Stokes–Adams syndrome, using dogs as subjects. External power source. See also Furman and Scawadel, John B., "An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes–Adams seizures ," New Engl. J. …
1959 CE
#13334
Transfusions et greffes de moelle osseuse homologue chez des humains irradiés a haute dos accidentellement.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mathé, Jammet, Pendic et al. Mathé performed the first bone marrow graft between unrelated donors and hosts in order to save six Yugoslavian nuclear resea…
1959 CE
#3047.13
Ventricular aneurysm following myocardial infarction: Results of surgical treatment.
Cardiopulmonary bypass and open excision of the aneurysm. With W.S. Henly, K.H. Amad, & D.W. Chapman.
1959 CE–1967 CE
#3666.6