1950–1959

1951 CE

#7114

Schöne Fischbücher: kurze Geschichte der ichthyologischen Illustrationen; Bibliographie fischkundlicher Abbildungswerke.

1951 CE

#13558

Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.

Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.

1951 CE

#255.7

Studio dei gemelli.

The first truly comprehensive work on the scientific study of twins. (1381pp., 547 illustrations, 161 tables). English translation of the first half of the work, with some revisions: Twins in history and science, Spri…

1951 CE

#12402

The ancient art of feeling the pulse.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1951 CE

#9266

The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7.

Digital facsimile from WHO.int at this link.

1951 CE

#2067

The development of pharmacopoeias.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1951 CE

#6785

The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.

1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject…

1951 CE

#6596.1

The health of slaves on southern plantations.

Chiefly from contemporary MS records.

1951 CE

#1246

The kidney: structure and function in health and disease.

An encyclopaedic presentation of kidney physiology, including the many contributions of the author.

1951 CE

#2352.1

The multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

The Heaf multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

1951 CE

#4256.11

The pathogenesis of acute renal failure associated with traumatic and toxic injury. Renal ischemia, nephrotoxic damage and the ischemuric episode.

Oliver’s work on the structural lesions associated with acute renal failure in which he differentiated between the two types of damage: nephrotoxic, due to toxic substances, and tubulorhexic, due to ischemia, es…

1951 CE

#6742

The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.

1951 CE

#13298

The pleated sheet, a new layer configuration of polypeptide chains.

Pauling and Corey discovered the β-sheet, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from PNAS.org at this link.

1951 CE

#13175

The social system.

The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.

1951 CE

#6846

The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.

Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy o…

1951 CE

#7348

The study of instinct.

Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…

1951 CE

#13595

The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.

This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1951 CE

#11699

Tobacco and the cardiovascular system: The effects of smoking and of nicotine on normal persons.

1951 CE

#6533

Uit drie eeuwen Nederlands geneeskunde.

1951 CE

#1945.3

Viomycin, a new antibiotic active against mycobacteria.

Isolation of viomycin. With 11 co-authors.

1951 CE

#269.7

X-ray shadow microscope.

1951 CE–1952 CE

#7113

Die botanische Buchillustration: Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. 2 vols.

1951 CE–1952 CE

#6910

The computation of Fourier syntheses with a digital electronic calculating machine.

The first paper published in a scientific journal on the application of an electronic computer to computational biology. At the second English computer conference held in Manchester from July 9-12, 1951 computer scien…

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1952 CE

#1946

“Ilotycin”, a new antibiotic.

Discovery of erythromycin. With R. L. Bunch, R. C. Anderson, H. E. Boaz, E. H. Flynn, H. M. Powell, and J. W. Smith.

1952 CE

#9357

A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits.

1952 CE

#12032

A nonhereditary, host-induced variation of bacterial viruses.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Luria, Human. Luria and Human discovered the restriction modification system found in bacteria and other prokaryotic organisms. This system provides a defense against f…

1952 CE

#6235

A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.

1952 CE

#2578.9

Agammaglobulinemia.

First report.

1952 CE

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

1952 CE

#13155

Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition

1952 CE

#10042

Care of the dying.

1952 CE

#2353

Chemotherapy of human tuberculosis with hydrazine derivatives of isonicotinic acid. (Preliminary report of representative cases.)

Introduction of isoniazid. With I. J. Selikoff and G. G. Omstein. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1952, 65, 257-442.

1952 CE

#3108.1

Christmas disease, a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia.

Christmas disease, hemophilia B, due to lack of Factor IX. Named after the patient whose case was the first recorded example. With six co-authors.

1952 CE

#7898

CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-

Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.

1952 CE

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1952 CE

#1354.2

Different forms of signalling employed by the nervous system.

In 1970 Katz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ulf von Euler and J. Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, re…

1952 CE

#2187.1

Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.

1952 CE

#6882

Entwicklungsgeschichte physiologischer Probleme in Tabellenform.

1952 CE

#4672

Evaluation of Red Cross gamma globulin as a prophylactic agent for poliomyelitis.

Trial of gamma globulin in the prophylaxis of poliomyelitis. With L. L. Coriell, J. Stokes, P. F. Wehrle, and C. R. Klimt.

1952 CE

#256.1

Genetic exchange in Salmonella.

Description of a new mechanism (“transduction”) for the transfer of genetic characters from one bacterial strain to another.

1952 CE

#13970

Genetic exchange in salmonella.

Working as a graduate student with Lederberg, Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named thi…

1952 CE

#6449

Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.

Contains extensive bibliographies.

1952 CE

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1952 CE

#4672.1

Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.

Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.

1952 CE

#7764

Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.

1952 CE

#256

Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid in growth of bacteriophage.

DNA shown to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction. In 1969 Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with S. E. Luria and M. Delbrück for "for their discoveries concerning th…

1952 CE

#1155.1

Isolation of a highly active mineralocorticoid from beef adrenal extract.

Isolation of aldosterone. With S. A. Simpson and J. F. Tait.

1952 CE

#6500

Jewish medicine.