1950–1959

1950 CE

#4405

The use of an artificial femoral head for arthroplasty of the hip joint.

Judet acrylic prosthesis.

1950 CE

#3215.1

Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma: A study of 684 proved cases.

A case-control study proving an association between heavy prolonged cigarette smoking and bronchogenic carcinoma. See also the following paper on pp. 336-38. Reprinted in J. Amer. med. Assoc. 1985, 253, 2986-97.

1950 CE

#3788.1

Triethylene melamine in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and allied neoplasms

With D. A. Karnofsky, J. H. Burchenal, and L. F. Craver.

1950 CE

#9185

Variation and evolution in plants.

The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …

1950 CE–1966 CE

#6784

UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.

Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library&rdq…

1951 CE

#5262.4

2:4-Diaminopyrimidines – a new series of antimalarials.

Preparation and laboratory tests of pyrimethamine. With L. G. Goodwin, G. H. Hutchings, I. M. Rollo, and P. B. Russell.

1951 CE

#5262.5

A 2:4-diamino pyrimidine in the treatment of proguanil-resistant laboratory malarial strains.

Pyrimethamine (daraprim).

1951 CE

#4672.4

A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.

An exhaustive list of books and papers.

1951 CE

#1671.11

A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.

Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.

1951 CE

#5017

A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.

Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.

1951 CE

#6515

A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.

A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amst…

1951 CE

#4154.4

A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair with congenital deafness.

“Waardenburg’s syndrome”.

1951 CE

#2993.1

A propos du traitement des anévrysmes de l’aorte. Ablation de l’anévrysme. Rétablissement de la continuité par greffe d’aorte humaine conservée.

First successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm and insertion of a homologous graft. With M. Allary and N. Oeconomos.

1951 CE

#143.1

A source book in animal biology.

1951 CE

#9093

A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.

First translation into a modern language.

1951 CE

#269.8

An electrostatic focusing system and its application to a fine focus x-ray tube.

X-ray microscopy.

1951 CE

#3855.2

Antithyroid activity of 2-carbethoxythio-1-methylglyoxaline.

Synthesis of Carbimazole. With C. Rimington and C. E. Searle. For clinical application see Lancet, 1951, 2, 621.

1951 CE

#3047.2

Aortic plastic valvular prosthesis.

Hufnagel designed and inserted the first workable prosthetic heart valve in man.

1951 CE

#13182

Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui

1951 CE

#5729

Bis-Cholinester von Dicarbonsäuren als Muskelrelaxantien in derNarkose.

Clinical use of succinylcholine chloride. With K. H. Ginzel, H. Klupp, F. Pfaffenschlager, and G. Werner.

1951 CE

#12203

Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.

Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…

1951 CE

#5546.2

Cat-scratch fever. A disease entity.

First description.

1951 CE

#13937

Conditions de l'efficacité inductice du rayonnement ultra-violet chez une bactérie lysogène.

Lwoff successfully explained how the process of lysogeny works. The bacteriophage’s genes are incorporated into the bacteria’s genetic material, but remain latent until a trigger factor causes a new phage …

1951 CE

#2660.3

Contributions to the study of marine products. XXXII. The nucleosides of sponges.

Cytosine arabinoside, a pyramidine antagonist, used in acute myeloblastic anemia.

1951 CE

#1246.01

Das Multiplikationsprinzip als Grundlage der Harnkonzentrierung in der Niere.

A theoretical treatment of the countercurrent hypothesis accompanied by data from a working model.

1951 CE

#7164

Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.

1951 CE

#12229

Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.

Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged ot…

1951 CE

#356.2

Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart.

Revised English translation by H. and C. Epstein, ed. by G. Cottrell, as Ornithology from Aristotle to the present, with a foreword and an epilogue on American ornithology by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ…

1951 CE

#10293

Doctors under three flags.

Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1951 CE

#8479

El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.

1951 CE

#532.2

Fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa deposited into the Fallopian tubes.

Discovery that maturation of the sperm in the mammalian female tract is a necessary step in reproduction. This was co-discovered and called capacitation by Austin in the same year. See C.R. Austin, Observation on the …

1951 CE

#1945.4

Fungicidin, an antibiotic produced by a soil actinomycete.

Isolation of nystatin (fungicidin).

1951 CE

#8202

Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

1951 CE

#6529.1

Geschichte der Medizin in Österreich.

Forms Bd. 226 Heft 5, of Österr. Akad. Wtss., Sitzungsber. Phil.-hist. Kl.

1951 CE

#6658

HISTOIRE DE LA MÉDECINE. 1-

1951 CE

#6602.1

Historia de la medicina en Venezuela.

Comprehensive account to end of ninteenth century.

1951 CE

#6602

Historia de la medicina Peruna. 3 vols.

1951 CE

#6545

History of medicine in Ireland.

Second edition, Dublin, Skellig Press, 1983.

1951 CE

#12238

Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.

In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…

1951 CE

#10616

Inherit the wind.

This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

1951 CE

#5991

Intra-ocular acrylic lenses.

Ridley implanted the first intra-ocular lens on 19 November 1949. At the time of this first report the lens had remained in place for 17 months.

1951 CE

#1945.2

Isolation of antibiotics from a species of Cephalosporium. Cephalosporins P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5.

1951 CE

#3978

Kliniske undersøgelser med nye retarderet virkende insulin-praeparater.

First clinical trials of lente, ultralente, and semilente insulin zinc suspension. See also Science, 1952, 116, 394-98; and J. Amer. med. Assoc., 1952, 150, 1667. With M. Jersild, K. Peterson, and J. Schlichtkrull.

1951 CE

#3020.1

La greffe vasculaire dans les thromboses du carrefour aortique.

Arterial homograft on aorta.

1951 CE

#2725.1

La visualizzazione radiologica della porta pervia splenica.

Introduction of portal venography for investigation of portal hypertension.

1951 CE

#4203.1

Le réservoir iléal de substitution après la cystectomie totale chez l’homme.

Artificial bladder.

1951 CE

#1246.1

Lokalisation des Konzentrierungsprozesses in der Niere durch direkte Kryoskopie.

The initial experimental evidence advanced in support of the countercurrent hypothesis. With B. Hargitay and W. Kuhn.

1951 CE

#5813

Meister der Chirurgie und die Chirurgenschulen im Deutschen Raum.

1951 CE

#13723

Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent.

The Lowry protein assay, a biochemical assay for determining the total level of protein in a solution. As of 2015 this paper was considered the most highly-cited paper in the scientific literature with over 310,000 ci…

1951 CE

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.