1950–1959

1954 CE

#2883.01

The use of ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording the movements of heart walls.

Echocardiography, from which the field of medical ultrasonics developed.

1954 CE–1956 CE

#9199

The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.

1954 CE–1960 CE

#5352.3

Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.

South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.

1954 CE–1965 CE

#11218

A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794

Mostly written by Herbert S. Klickstein for the collector Denis Duveen.

1954 CE–1973 CE

#6471.2

Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.

Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…

1955 CE

#3666.1

A note on transplantation of the whole liver in dogs.

Placement of auxiliary whole liver.

1955 CE

#9420

A short history of medicine.

Revised and expanded edition with a Foreward and Concluding Essay by Charles Rosenberg (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).

1955 CE

#13685

A small particulate component of the cytoplasm.

Palade first described the association of what were subsequently determined to ribosomes with membranes. He and Keith Porter subsequently named this structure the endoplasmic reticulum. Digital facsimile from PubMedCe…

1955 CE

#9103

A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.

1955 CE

#13140

Airborne contagion and air hygiene: An ecological study of droplet infections.

"In 1954, Wells began a long-term experiment to demonstrate that tuberculosis could be transmitted through air. At the VA Hospital in Baltimore, collaborating with Riley, John Barnwell, and Cretyl C. Mills, he built a…

1955 CE

#6604.6

An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine in Australia.

Revised and enlarged as An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine and health in Australia. Sydney, Royal Australian College of Physicians, 1984. With A. Holster and S. Simpson.

1955 CE

#8329

Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1955 CE

#6786.1

Bibliotheca Walleriana. The books illustrating the history of medicine and science and bequeathed to the library of the Royal University of Uppsala. 2 vols.

Details 23,000 printed items, including 150 incunabula. The catalogue does not include Erik Waller’s vast collection of autographs and manuscripts also preserved in Uppsala.

1955 CE

#9037

Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society.

http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year/royobits "November 1955 "Obituaries of Royal Society Fellows first appeared in 1830, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Initially obituaries were read…

1955 CE

#2660.8

Carcinolytic action of antibiotics: puromycin and actinomycin.

1955 CE

#11577

Cardiovascular surgery: Studies in physiology, diagnosis and techniques. Proceedings of the symposium held at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, March, 1955. Edited by Conrad R. Lam.

This symposium was a foundational work in the history of cardiovascular surgery. It included contributions by most of the pioneers of the closed and open-heart procedures that revolutionaized the care of children and …

1955 CE

#1947.1

Cephalosporin C, a new antibiotic containing sulpher and d-x aminoadipic acid.

1955 CE

#2700.2

Cineradiography with an image amplifier: a practical technique.

Electron optical image intensifier, 1953.

1955 CE

#3108.6

Clinical trials of p-(DI-2-chloroethylamino)-phenylbutyric acid (CB 1348) in malignant lymphoma.

Clinical use of chlorambucil for chronic lymphatic leukemia. With L. G. Israels, J. D. N. Nabarro, and M. Till.

1955 CE

#3047.7

Controlled cross circulation for direct-vision intracardiac surgery; correction of ventricular septal defects, atrioventricularis communis, and tetralogy of Fallot.

Controlled cross circulation (human heart–lung “machine”) for intracardiac surgery.

1955 CE

#2527.1

Crystallization of purified MEF-1 poliomyelitis virus particles.

First crystallization of an animal virus.

1955 CE

#10994

Diseases of the liver and biliary system.

13th edition, 2018. "In 1959 she [Sherlock] became the United Kingdom's first ever female Professor of Medicine when she was appointed at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. She founded the liver uni…

1955 CE

#3978.1

Ein neues antidiabetisches Prinzip. Ergebnisse klinischer Untersuchungen.

Introduction of carbutamide (BZ55), the first of the sulphonylureas. It was followed by tolbutamide and chlorpropamide.

1955 CE

#4771.1

Eine neue x-chromosomale Muskeldystrophie.

Becker-type muscular dystrophy.

1955 CE

#752.3

Enzymatic synthesis of nucleic acidlike polynucleotides.

Ochoa shared the Nobel Prize with Arthur Kornberg in 1959 for their artificial synthesis of nucleic acids by means of enzymes. Order of authorship in the original publication: Ochoa, Grunberg-Manago, Ortiz. See also O…

1955 CE

#4256.3

Experiences with renal homotransplantation in the human. Report of nine cases.

With Benjamin F. Miller. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1955 CE

#10153

Histoire illustrée de la médecine vétérinaire. 2 vols.

1955 CE

#2360

Historical chronology of tuberculosis. 2nd ed.

1955 CE

#4672.3

Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.

Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …

1955 CE

#12911

Index of dental and adjacent topics in medical and surgical works before 1800.

1955 CE

#10995

Intracardiac surgery with the aid of a mechanical pump oxygenator system (Gibbon type): Report of eight cases.

Co-authored with JW Dushane, RT Patrick, DE Donald, PS Hetzel and EH Wood, "Kirklin refined the heart-lung machine (screen type) originally developed by Gibbon, to the point that it allowed the person to receive oxyge…

1955 CE

#5264.3

Man’s mastery of malaria.

Heath Clark Lectures, 1953.

1955 CE

#9222

Medical Department, United States Army. United States Army Dental Service in World War II.

Digital text from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1955 CE

#10249

Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1955 CE

#9593

Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Stedelijke Pharmacopeeën.

1955 CE

#14036

Old English silver and its medical interest. Presidential Address, Liverpool Medical Institution, 14th October 1954.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1955 CE

#3877.1

Primary aldosteronism, a new clinical syndrome.

Primary aldosteronism (“Conn’s syndrome”).

1955 CE

#3558.2

Primary peptic ulcerations of the jejunum associated with islet cell tumors of the pancreas.

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

1955 CE

#5546.3

Propagation and primary isolation of mumps virus in tissue culture.

1955 CE

#2527

Reconstitution of active tobacco mosaic virus from its inactive protein and nucleic acid components.

First reconstitution of a virus.

1955 CE

#14001

Structure of tobacco mosaic virus.

The first discovery of the geometry of a protein structure. Franklin, whose X-ray photographs of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the molecule's double helix structure in 1953, began researching the…

1955 CE

#11547

Surgery of the heart.

This 1062-page volume was the first textbook of modern cardiovascular surgery.

1955 CE

#8873

Textes Grecs inédits relatifs aux plantes.

Previously unpublished ancient Greek textes on botany, with French translations.

1955 CE

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

1955 CE

#2137.01

The diseases of occupations.

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raf…

1955 CE

#1207

The disulphide bonds of insulin.

Sanger sequenced the amino acids of insulin, the first of any protein. His work “revealed that a protein has a definite constant, genetically determined sequence—and yet a sequence with no general rule for…

1955 CE

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1955 CE

#2578.16

The fractionation of rabbit -globulin by partition chromatography.

Preliminary note in Biochem. J., 1954, 58, xxxix-xl. Porter received the Nobel Prize in 1972. See No. 2578.25.

1955 CE

#12458

The lung: Clinical physiology and pulmonary function tests.

Comroe and associates at the University of Pennsylvania introduced pulmonary function tests developed by physiologists into clinical practice. Comroe invented several of the tests described in the book.

1955 CE

#14312

The maser - new type of microwave amplifier, frequency standard, and spectrometer.

In 1964 Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Alexandr Mihailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of osci…