1950–1959

1955 CE

#14343

The Negro in science.

In the forward Martin D. Jenkins pointed out that while African Americans made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists was rather low. In the first chapter…

1955 CE

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1955 CE

#8391

The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.

A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…

1955 CE

#6548

The Royal Society of Medicine: The realization of an ideal (1805-1955).

1955 CE

#7757

The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…

1955 CE

#2883.1

The significance of the serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase activity following acute myocardial infarction.

Diagnostic test for myocardial infarction.

1955 CE

#13954

The structure of collagen.

Rich and Crick solved the structure of collagen, the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix found in the body's various connective tissues. As the main component of connective tissue, it is the most abund…

1955 CE

#566.4

Tissue fractionation studies. 6. Intracellular distribution patterns of enzymes in rat-liver tissue.

Lysosomes. With B. C. Pressman, R. Gianetto, R. Wattiaux and F. Appelmans.

1955 CE

#2993.2

Total excision of the aortic arch for aneurysm.

Total excision and replacement by polyvinyl sponge (Ivalon) prosthesis.

1955 CE

#11468

Vancomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Chemical and biologic properties.

Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist working at Eli Lilly, first isolated Vancomycin in 1953 from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary, Rev. William M. Bouw (1918-2006). The organ…

1955 CE

#5500.1

Vergleichende sero-immunologische Untersuchungen über die Viren der Influenza und klassischen Geflügelpest.

Schäfer showed the close serological relationship between human influenza viruses and their avian counterparts and suggested that members of this group might change their host specificity.

1955 CE

#7913

VESALIUS: Official Journal of the International Society for the History of Medicine. 1-

Past issues may be viewed at: http://www.vesalius.org.uk/issues/past-issues.

1955 CE–1956 CE

#1947.2

Amphotericins A and B, antifungal antibiotics produced by a streptomycete.

With six co-authors.

1955 CE–1960 CE

#5551.1

The surgery of Theodoric ca. 1267. Translated from the Latin by Eldridge Campbell and James Colton. 2 vols.

Theodoric, a Dominican friar, was a pupil of Hugh of Lucca (circa 1160-1257), whose teachings are reflected in his writings. Allbutt considered Theodoric to be one of the most original surgeons of all time. Borgognoni…

1955 CE–1969 CE

#9221

Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive medicine in World War II. Editor in chief John Boyd Coates, Jr. Editor for Preventive medicine Ebbe Curtis Hoff. 9 vols.

Digital facsimile of vols. 2-9 from the Hathi Trust at this link. (When I created this entry in March 2017 it was unclear whether vol. 1 was ever published.)

1955 CE–1970 CE

#6581.2

Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.

Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.

1956 CE

#14065

Character displacement.

In this paper Brown and Wilson defined character displacement as follows: "Two closely related species have overlapping ranges. In the parts of the ranges where one species occurs alone, the populations of that specie…

1956 CE

#1671.2

A short history of public health.

2nd edition, 1966.

1956 CE

#3047.9

A simple, expendable, artificial oxygenator for open heart surgery.

DeWall bubble oxygenator. With six co-authors.

1956 CE

#2578.19

Autoantibodies in Hashimoto’s disease (lymphadenoid goitre).

Demonstration of autoantibodies. With P. N. Campbell, and R. V. Hudson.

1956 CE

#12518

Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, Urgūza fi' t-tibb, Cantica Avicennae.

1956 CE

#7238

Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.

Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.

1956 CE

#3160.1

Classics in arterial hypertension.

1956 CE

#2442.2

Clinical trials of diphenyl thiourea compound SU 1906 (Ciba 1509E) in the treatment of leprosy. Progress during the first year.

Introduction of diphenylthiourea (thiambutosine) therapy.

1956 CE

#752.4

Enzymic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid.

In 1959 Kornberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Severo Ochoa "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid." Order of authorshi…

1956 CE

#2353.1

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccination of newborn infants with a British vaccine.

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccine.

1956 CE

#4257.1

Further developments of a coil kidney. Disposable artificial kidney.

Disposable twin coil kidney.

1956 CE

#6603.1

Historia de la medicina en Bolivia.

1956 CE

#3047.8

Homologous aortic-valve-segment transplants as surgical treatment for aortic and mitral insufficiency.

First successful aortic valve homograft. For report of six-year follow-up, see A. J. Kerwin, et al., New Engl. J. Med.,1962, 266,852.

1956 CE

#8346

I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).

1956 CE

#2578.17

Infectivity of ribonucleic acid from tobacco mosaic virus.

Proof that nucleic acid produces infectivity. See also Z. Naturf., 1956, 11b, 138-42.

1956 CE

#6569.2

Istoriia vseobshchei i otechestvennoi meditsiny i zdravookhraneniia: Bibliografiia (996-1954). Edited by B. D. Petrov.

1956 CE

#8957

Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.

1956 CE

#7418

Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.

1956 CE

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1956 CE

#1947.3

Mitomycin, a new antibiotic from streptomyces.

Isolation of mitomycin C, effective in Hodgkin’s disease and lymphoma. With six co-authors.

1956 CE

#8933

Morão, Rosa & Pimenta; notícia dos três primeiros livros em vernáculo sôbre a medicina no Brasil. Estudo crítico de Gilberto Osório de Andrade. Introduções históricas, interpretações e notas de Eustáquio Duarte. Pref. de Gilberto Freyre.

1956 CE

#7782

Preliminary communication: Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in-utero.

Stewart was one of the earliest to study the effect of prenatal X-rays, later replaced by ultrasound. She found that the children of mothers who received these X-rays were almost twice as likely to develop leukemia or…

1956 CE

#2527.2

Propagation in tissue culture of a cytopathogenic virus from human salivary gland virus (SGV) disease.

Isolation of cytomegalovirus

1956 CE

#9367

Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

1956 CE

#2578.20

Studies on organ specificity. IV. Production of rabbit thyroid antibodies in the rabbit.

Autoimmune thyroiditis

1956 CE

#4257

Successful homotransplantation of the human kidney between identical twins.

This was the first successful kidney transplant. The patient, both of whose own kidneys had been removed, was alive 11 months after the transplant. With Warren R. Guild. See No. 4256.1. In 1990 Joseph Murray shared th…

1956 CE

#5729.3

The action of fluothane–a new volatile anaesthetic.

Halothane (“fluothane”) a non-inflammable and non-irritant anesthetic, was synthesized by C. W. Suckling at the I.C.I. Laboratories in Manchester.

1956 CE

#2578.18

The bursa of Fabricius and antibody production in the domestic fowl.

The relationship of the bursa of Fabricius to antibody formation was discovered by Glick, T. S. Chang, and R. G. Jaap. Its removal in early life led to inability to produce antibodies.

1956 CE

#256.5

The chromosome number in man.

Proof that the normal chromosome number in man is 46.

1956 CE

#10326

The history of medical education in Indiana

1956 CE

#5729.2

The human cardiovascular response to fluothane.

Clinical introduction of halothane (“fluothane”).

1956 CE

#8020

The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1956 CE

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1956 CE

#3978.2

Über die orale Behandlung des Diabetes mellitus mit N-(4-Methyl-Benzolsulfonyl)-N’Butyl-Harnstoff (D 860).

A Symposium on tolbutamide, introduced by H. Maske.