1950–1959

1953 CE

#6560.1

Az újabbkori magyar orvosi müvelödés és egészégügy története. I Kötet.

1953 CE

#2924.2

Catheter replacement of the needle in percutaneous angiography. A new technique.

Percutaneous arterial catheterization.

1953 CE

#11839

Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…

1953 CE

#4158

Classics in clinical dermatology. With biographical sketches.

Contains 143 classic descriptions of cutaneous diseases by 93 writers. Many portraits are also included.

1953 CE

#3108.3

Clinical evaluation of a new antimetabolite, 6-mercaptopurine, in treatment of leukemia and allied diseases.

Clinical introduction of 6-mercaptopurine in treatment of acute leukemia and chronic myelocytic leukemia. With nine co-authors.

1953 CE

#2660.5

Clinical studies on the carcinolytic action of triethylenephosphoramide.

TEPA. With five co-authors.

1953 CE

#11678

Closure of atrial septal defects with the aid of hypothermia; experimental accomplishments and the report of one successful case.

Lewis performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl on September 2, 1952. The procedure took 5.5 minutes. For the next three years Lewis and colleagues opera…

1953 CE

#5143

Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.

1953 CE

#10682

Dentistry in ancient India.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1953 CE

#6495.5

Die tibetische Medizinphilosophie. Der Mensch als Mikrokosmos.

2nd edition, 1965.

1953 CE

#13946

Evidence for 2-chain helix in crystalline structure of sodium deoxyribonucleate.

Franklin and Gosling's completed Patterson synthesis of the A-form of DNA, based on work begun in 1952, represents the first independent confirmation that the Watson-Crick double-helix model was correct. "We suggest t…

1953 CE

#3908.1

Experience with hypophysectomy in man.

Demonstration of the beneficial effect of hypophysectomy in cancer of the breast and of the testis.

1953 CE

#4435.4

Fundamental aspects of fracture treatment. [In Japanese]

First electrically-induced osteogenesis. Yasuda demonstrated that small amounts of electric current applied to bone stimulated osteogenesis at the cathode. He was also the first to describe stress generated potentials…

1953 CE

#7138

Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid.

In this paper published on May 30, 1953 Watson and Crick proposed the method of replication of DNA. This discovery has been called as significant, or possibly even more significant, than their discovery of the double-…

1953 CE

#256.4

Helical structure of crystalline deoxypentose nucleic acid.

In 1962 Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Crick and Watson "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living…

1953 CE

#6603

Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.

1953 CE

#14072

Induction of instability at selected loci in maize.

McClintock (Nobel Prize 1983) discovered transposable elements or jumping genes. She found that certain parts of chromosome had switched position. This refuted the then-popular theory that genes were fixed in their po…

1953 CE

#2526.2

Isolation of a cytopathogenic agent from human adenoids undergoing spontaneous degeneration in tissue culture.

Discovery of adenoviruses. With R. J. Huebner, L. K. Gilmore, R. H. Parrott, and T. G. Ward.

1953 CE

#2578.13

Méthode permettant l’étude conjugée des propriétés éléctrophorétiques et immunochimiques d’un mélange de protéines. Application au sérum sanguin.

Immunoelectrophoresis.

1953 CE

#11200

Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works

1953 CE

#3412.5

Mobilization of the stapes to restore hearing in otosclerosis.

Transmeatal exposure of the middle ear.

1953 CE

#6847

Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate.

This paper reports Franklin's discovery of the existence of DNA in 2 forms, and conditions for readily and rapidly changing from one to the other. Its phosphates were on the outside.” (Maddox 195) The Watson-Cri…

1953 CE

#256.3

Molecular structure of nucleic acids. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid.

Watson and Crick shared the Nobel Prize with M. H. F. Wilkins (No. 256.4) "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." L…

1953 CE

#3108.4

Myleran in chronic myeloid leukaemia: chemical constitution and biological action.

Introduction of myleran (busulphan). For results, see pp. 208-13.

1953 CE

#3215.3

Newborn virus pneumonitis (type Sendai). II. The isolation of a new virus possessing hemagglutinin activity.

M. Kuroya, N. Ishida, and T. Shiratori isolated the first recognized Sendai (para-influenza) virus.

1953 CE

#6484

Observation et expérience chez les médecins de la Collection Hippocratique.

1953 CE

#10504

Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.

Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…

1953 CE

#7383

Production of amino acids under possible primitive earth conditions.

The Miller–Urey experiment or Miller experiment, a classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested the chemical origin of l…

1953 CE

#1931.1

Propriétés pharmacodynamiques du chlorhydrate de chloro-3 (diméthylamino-3’propyl) -10 phénothiazine (4.560 R.P.).

Chlorpromazine. With J. Foumel, R. Ducrot, M. Kolsky, and P. Koetschet. Chloropromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1953 CE

#11075

Quantitative field studies on a carbon dioxide chemotropism of mosquitoes.

Reeves demonstrated that mosquitoes detect their prey by sensing the carbon dioxide that animals exhale. (It was later shown that some mosquitoes can detect their prey from more than 165 feet away.) (Thanks to Juan We…

1953 CE

#12449

Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.

Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, As…

1953 CE

#5440.1

Serial propagation in vitro of agents producing inclusion bodies derived from varicella and herpes zoster.

Isolation of the varicella-herpes virus.

1953 CE

#7037

Sexual behavior in the human female

1953 CE

#4672.2

Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.

Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.

1953 CE

#3047.4

Successful resection of aneurysm of thoracic aorta and replacement by graft.

1953 CE

#14290

Switching systems as mechanized brains.

Written in the earliest days of automatic switching systems when few electronic computers existed, Meszar's paper raised the question of whether certain aspects of human thought are computable and others are not. Mesz…

1953 CE

#6501

The Bible and modern medicine: A survey of health and healing in the Old and New Testaments.

1953 CE

#9243

The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.

1953 CE

#2660.6

The concentration of oxygen dissolved in tissues at the time of irradiation as a factor in radiotherapy.

The sensitivity of tumour cells to x rays shown to be much enhanced when irradiated in a well-oxygenated medium. With A. D. Conger, M. Ebert, S. Hornsey, and O. C. A. Scott.

1953 CE

#256.2

The detection of chromosomal sex in hermaphrodites from a skin biopsy.

Sex chromatin demonstrated in humans.

1953 CE

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…

1953 CE

#1931.2

The effects of progesterone and related compounds on ovulation and early development in the rabbit.

First practical demonstration of an oral contraceptive.

1953 CE

#4615.3

The parietal lobes.

Defines for the first time the various functions of the parietal lobes.

1953 CE

#7264

The Piltdown Forgery.

Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new introduction and afterward by Chris Stringer (Oxford University Press, 2003).

1953 CE

#7301

The solution of the Piltdown problem.

Exposure of the Piltdown fraud. Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark found ample evidence of forgery in the Piltdown remains, including the use of artificial abrasion and staining; they also applied fluorine and nitrogen …

1953 CE

#6357.59

The surgery of infancy and childhood.

Gross developed the specialty of pediatric surgery, inventing numerous operations. This was the first modern comprehensive textbook on the subject.

1953 CE

#1175.3

The synthesis of an octapeptide amide with the hormonal activity of oxytocin.

Synthesis of oxytocin. With C. Ressler, J. M. Swan, C. W. Roberts, P. G. Katsoyannis, and S. Gordon. In 1955 Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds…

1953 CE

#13965

The transplantability of nuclei of arrested hybrid blastulae (R. pipiens female X R. catesbeiana male).

King and Briggs cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplanation performed in metazoans. The same cloning technique, using somatic cells, was later…

1953 CE

#7993

The Welch Medical Library indexing project.

A progress report on this pioneering information retrieval project. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1953 CE

#3108.5

Treatment of leukemia with triethylenethiophosphoramide (Thio-TEPA); preliminary results in experimental and clinical leukemia.

With C. Zarafonetis, N. Smith, I. Woldow and D. C. H. Sun.