1950–1959

1952 CE

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1952 CE

#2700.1

Lymphangiography in man. A method of outlining lymphatic trunks at operation.

Introduction of lymphangiography.

1952 CE

#13306

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

1952 CE

#13941

Mammalian chromosomes in vitro I: The karyotype of man.

Since the turn of the twentieth century, chromosomes prepared on microscope slides formed clumps that made it extremely difficult to distinguish them. Although the preparations made the identification of individual ch…

1952 CE

#1685

Man and epidemics.

1952 CE

#10940

Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.

First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…

1952 CE

#3705

Old instruments used for extracting teeth.

1952 CE

#7175

Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.

Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…

1952 CE

#2068

Plants of the Bible.

The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.

1952 CE

#2578.10

Presence d’une leuco-agglutinine dans le sérum d’un cas d’agranulocytose chronique.

Discovery of leuco-agglutinins.

1952 CE

#13999

Production of plaques in monolayer tissue cultures by single particles of an animal virus.

Following Max Delbruck's advice, Dulbecco visited the major centers of animal virus work in the US in order to discover a way to quantitatively assay animal viruses by a plaque technique, similar to the technique that…

1952 CE

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

1952 CE

#13983

Recombination in Bact. coli K 12: Unidirectional transfer of genetic material.

Hayes "developed the concept of a donor–recipient partnership with uni-directional transfer of genetic material. The importance of this discovery was quickly emphasised and widely recognised when he found that o…

1952 CE

#10851

Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.

1952 CE

#9719

Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants.

Demonstration of the mutational basis of antibiotic resistance. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1952 CE

#1931

Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.

Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.

1952 CE

#2883

Resuscitation of the heart in ventricular standstill by external electric stimulation.

External cardiac pacemaker. "The medical world took notice when Zoll announced in 1952 that he had successfully kept a patient alive through numerous episodes of ventricular standstill using a bedside device that deli…

1952 CE

#13938

Rôle des cations bivalents dans l'induction du développement du prophage par les agents reducteurs.

Lwoff gave the name "prophage" to the form in which the genome of the bacteriophage is perpetuated in lysogenic bacteria. The bacteriophages produced by these bacteria, known as temperate bacteriophages, can therefore…

1952 CE

#566.3

Some local factors in the restoration of the rat’s liver after partial hepatectomy. 1. Glycogin; the Golgi apparatus; sinusoidal cells; the basement membranes of the sinusoids.

First detailed account of lysosomes.

1952 CE

#859.1

Some physiologic aspects of the artificial heart problem.

On July 3, 1952 Dodrill completed the first successful open heart surgery on the left ventricle of Henry Opitek. He used a machine developed by himself and researchers at General Motors, the Dodrill-GMR, considered to…

1952 CE

#3108.2

Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.

Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.…

1952 CE

#11103

Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…

1952 CE

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1952 CE

#12615

The clinical application of antibiotics. Penicillin.

Printed on the title page: "This volume, although a separate publication, is a continuation of the work described in Antibiotics Volumes I and II, and may be read in conjunction with it." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for thi…

1952 CE

#5018

The history and development of neurological surgery.

1952 CE

#6471.1

The old Egyptian medical papyri.

A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.

1952 CE

#12209

The pathology, symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system.

Dix–Hallpike test or Nylen–Barany test, a diagnostic maneuver used to identify benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1952 CE

#7469

The planets: Their origin and development.

Urey coined the term cosmochemistry. He speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his graduate students, Stanley Miller, showed in the Miller&ndas…

1952 CE

#13998

The structure of synthetic polypeptides. 1. The transform of atoms on a helix.

This paper gives the formulae for the Fourier transforms of a number of helical structures, and provides evidence that the structure of a synthetic polypeptide was based on the alpha helix of Pauling and Corey. "It wa…

1952 CE

#13441

The superb library of Bernhard W. Weinberger, D.D.S., on the history and folklore of dentistry. With a preface by Curt Proskaur.

1952 CE

#1155.2

The total synthesis of steroids.

Synthesis of cortisone by Woodward and colleagues. With F. D. Taub, K. Heusler, and W. M. McLamore.

1952 CE

#3047.3

The use of tubes constructed from Vinyon “N” cloth in bridging arterial defects.

Introduction of plastic material to repair arterial defects. Voorhees later abandoned this material in favour of Dacron. With A. Jaretzki and A. W. Blakemore.

1952 CE

#14100

Tissue culture studies of the proliferative capacity of cervical carcinoma and normal epithelium.

A cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gey propagated the HeLa cell line from Henrietta Lacks' cervical tumor. This cell line, which maintained a continuous growth phase, was the first immortal human cell line to…

1952 CE

#4962.3

Trente-huit cas de psychoses traitées par la cure prolongée et continue de 4560 R. P. C. R. Congr. Alien, et Neurol, de Langue Franç.

Introduction of chlorpromazine in the treatment of psychosis. Chlorpromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1952 CE

#2680.1

Ultrasonic visualization of soft-tissue structures of the body.

First tomogram of soft tissue.

1952 CE

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

1952 CE

#10939

Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.

Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …

1952 CE–1959 CE

#11439

Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.

This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…

1952 CE–1961 CE

#9033

World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.

In English and German.

1952 CE–1962 CE

#2180

History of the Second World War. Medical series. 13 vols.

GREAT BRITAIN

1952 CE–1968 CE

#2180.1

The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.

UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE

Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department

1953 CE

#2578.11

‘Actively acquired tolerance’ of foreign cells.

Proof of Burnet and Fenner’s theory of immunity. For their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance Medawar and Burnet (No. 2578.7) shared the Nobel Prize in 1960.

1953 CE

#1138.1

3:5:3'-Triiodothyronine. I. Isolation from thyroid gland and synthesis.

Discovery of the second thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1953 CE

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1953 CE

#567.1

A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.

1953 CE

#9505

A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.

1953 CE

#12184

A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant.

The Apgar score for summarizing the health of newborn children, based on skin color, pulse rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone, and respiratory effort. These form a backronym, referring back to the author: Appearan…

1953 CE

#6604.39

A short history of medicine in the Philippines during the Spanish regime.1565-1898.

1953 CE

#5729.1

Anesthesia: XL. The anesthetic action of trifluoroethyl vinyl ether.

Fluroxene, first fluorine-containing anesthetic. With C. J. Carr, Go Lu and F. K. Bell.

1953 CE

#2660.4

Aryl-2-halogenoalkylamines. Part XII. Some carboxylic derivatives of NN-Di 2-chloroethylaniline.

Chlorambucil (a nitrogen mustard) used in the chemotherapy of cancer. With J. R. Roberts and W. J. C. Ross.