1950–1959

1953 CE

#10310

Tropical victory: An account of the influence of medicine on the history of Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1923.

1953 CE–1956 CE

#9446

Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1953 CE–1956 CE

#86.1

Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. in 10.

1953 CE–1959 CE

#6450

A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)

1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.

1953 CE–1959 CE

#9245

La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides: Transmisión medieval y renacentista by César E. Dubler. Vol. I: La transmisión medieval y renacentista y la supervivencia en la medicina popular moderna de la "Materia médica" de Dioscórides, estudiada particularmente en España y África del Norte. Vol. 2: La versión árabe de la 'Materia Médica' de Dioscórides (texto, variantes e indices): estudio de la transcripción de los nombres griegos al árabe y comparación de las versiones griega, árabe y castellana. Vol. 3: La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides traducida y comentada por D. Andrés de Laguna (Texto crítico). Vol. 4: D. Andrés de Laguna y su época. Vol. 5: Glosario médico castellano del siglo XVI. Prólogo de Gregorio Marañón. Vol. 6: Indices generales y léxico especial de Andrés de Laguna.

1953 CE–1966 CE

#6451

Index zur Geschichte der Medizin. Vols. 1-2.

Vol. 1 contains over 10,000 and vol. 2 over 7,000 references to books and papers. Vol. 1 edited by W. Artelt, vol. 2 edited by J. Steudel. Covers the years 1945-48 and 1949-52.

1953 CE–1990 CE

#10203

Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.

"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…

1954 CE

#11916

First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history.

The most ancient testimony concerning the opium poppy found to date was inscribed in cuneiform script on a small white clay tablet at the end of the third millennium BC. This tablet was discovered in 1954 during excav…

1954 CE

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1954 CE

#6786

A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

Gives full bibliographical description of 632 incunabula.

1954 CE

#3558.1

A flexible fibrescope, using static scanning.

1954 CE

#6451.2

A history of medicine. 1 vol. [in 2]

1954 CE

#3412.6

A new method for testing hearing in temporal lobe tumours. Preliminary report.

The first tests for disorders of central auditory function were developed by Bocca, C. Calearo, and V. Cassinari.

1954 CE

#3924.3

A new syndrome: progressive familial infantile cerebral dysfunction associated with unusual urinary substance.

Maple syrup urine disease described. With P. L. Hurst and J. M. Craig.

1954 CE

#1175.4

A synthetic preparation possessing biological properties associated with arginine-vasopressin.

Synthesis of vasopressin. With D. T. Gish and P. G. Katsoyannis.

1954 CE

#3047.5

Application of a mechanical heart and lung apparatus to cardiac surgery.

First pump oxygenator used on humans. Performed on May 6, 1953, this was the first successful intracardiac operation in a patient with the use of total heart-lung bypass.

1954 CE

#3705.01

Bibliografia odontologica Mexicana.

1954 CE

#3047.6

Controlled cross circulation for open intracardiac surgery; physiologic studies and results of creation and closure of ventricular septal defects.

Warden and colleagues undertook the first repair of various cardiac anomalies. With M. Cohen, and R.C. Read.

1954 CE

#6451.1

Current work in the history of medicine. An international bibliography. No. 1-.

A quarterly subject index to periodical literature on the history of medicine. Also lists new books alphabetically by author. Discontinued. See No. 6451.11

1954 CE

#2660.7

Cytoactive amino-acid and peptide derivatives. I. Substituted phenylalanines.

Melphalan (a nitrogen mustard) later used in the chemotherapy of cancer.

1954 CE

#4914.2

Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.

This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.

1954 CE

#11714

Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.

"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).

1954 CE

#8928

História da fIsiologia em Portugal.

1954 CE

#6311.1

Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.

Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.

1954 CE

#2028.42

History of blood transfusion.

1954 CE

#14243

In vitro experiments on the effects of mouse sarcomas 180 and 37 on the spinal and sympathetic ganglia of the chick embryo.

Discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). Order of authorship in the original publication: Levi-Montalcini, Meyer, Hamburger. In 1986 Levi-Montalcini was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and St…

1954 CE

#13994

Induction spontanée du développement du bactériophage lambda au cours de la recombinaison génétique, chez Escherichia coli K 12.

Wollman and Jacob discovered zygotic induction. This occurs when a bacterial cell carrying the silenced DNA of a bacteriophage transfers the viral DNA along with its own DNA in its chromosome to another bacterial cell…

1954 CE

#2578.14

Kinetic studies on immune hemolysis. III-IV.

Complement fixation

1954 CE

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

1954 CE

#9031

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

1954 CE

#9228

Medical considerations in helicopter evacuation.

"The introduction of the helicopter to the Army Medical Department's traditional battlefield mission of medical evacuation of sick, injured, and wounded soldiers from frontline units to hospitals in the rear had its r…

1954 CE

#4256.2

Nephrotomography. A preliminary report.

With W. Dubilier and J. C. Monteith.

1954 CE

#11159

Neurosurgery of infancy and childhood.

The first complete textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. Ingraham, a protegé of Harvey Cushing, established the first pediatric neurosurgery unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1929.

1954 CE

#2578.15

Passive transfer of transplantation immunity.

Preliminary notice in Nature (Lond.), 1953, 171, 267-68.

1954 CE

#5131

Plague.

Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.

1954 CE

#14000

Plaque formation and isolation of pure lines with poliomyelitis viruses.

Dulbecco and Vogt were the first to successfully grow the poliovirus in vitro. They were also able to plaque purify it-- an essential step for subsequent vaccine production.

1954 CE

#6896

Possible relation between deoxyribonucleic acid and protein structures.

Gamow, a physicist, invented the concept of a genetic code. This brief 1-page paper, published in the February 13, 1954 issue of Nature was the first specific positive response to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA. …

1954 CE

#8469

Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.

1954 CE

#5449.2

Propagation in tissue cultures of cytopathogenic agents from patients with measles.

Isolation of measles virus.

1954 CE

#11887

Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.

Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…

1954 CE

#1947

Purification and some properties of cephalosporin N, a new penicillin.

With G. G. F. Newton and C. W. Hale.

1954 CE

#2578.12

Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. I. The survival times of skin homografts exchanged between members of different inbred strains of mice. II. The origin, strength and duration of actively and adoptively acquired immunity.

Experimental production of immunological tolerance by Billingham and colleagues.Paper II distinguished adoptive from passive immunization. E. M. Sparrow was a co-author of paper I.

1954 CE

#7981

Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.

The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.

1954 CE

#7085

Steroids. LIV.Synthesis of 19-Nov-17α-ethynyltestosterone and 19-Nor-17α-methyltestosterone.

Synthesis of Norethisterone (or norethindrone) (or 19-nor-17α-ethynyltestosterone), the first highly active progestin analog that was effective when taken by mouth. This molecule became part of one of the first …

1954 CE

#12968

The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.

Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…

1954 CE

#6785.1

The development of medical bibliography.

A historical study; includes a list of 255 medical bibliographies published since 1500. Reprinted 1981.

1954 CE

#7351

The human brain in sagittal section.

A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in …

1954 CE

#11268

The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.

1954 CE

#4962.4

The pharmacological properties of 2-methyl-2-m-propyl-1, 3-propanediol dicarbamate (Miltown), a new interneuronal blocking agent.

Introduction of meprobamate, later used for the treatment of anxiety. Miltown was the first widely prescribed psychotropic drug.

1954 CE

#14223

The structure of haemoglobin - IV. Sign determination by the isomorphous replacement method.

The first demonstration of isomorphous replacement in protein crystallography. This was a key step in determination of the structure of large biological molecules. Harittai, "On the origins of isomorphous replacement …