1950–1959

1956 CE–1960 CE

#86.4

Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.

Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…

1956 CE–1963 CE

#5019

Grosse Nervenärzte. 3 vols.

1957 CE

#14250

3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine and 5-Hydroxytryptophan as reserpine rntagonists.

Carlsson demonstrated that dopamine was a neurotransmitter in the brain and not just a precursor for norepinephrine. Digital facsimile from nature.com at this link. In 2000 Arvid Carlsson shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…

1957 CE

#2419.2

A fluorescent test for treponemal antibodies.

Fluorescent treponemal antibody test. With V. H. Falcone and A. Harris.

1957 CE

#11653

A history of luminescence: From the earliest times until 1900.

A history of bioluminescence, the production and emission of light by living organisms.

1957 CE

#1092.52

A history of nutrition.

1957 CE

#10322

A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

1957 CE

#10993

A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.

1957 CE

#4154.5

Alopecia mucinosa. Inflammatory plaques with alopecia characterized by root-sheath mucinosis.

Follicular mucinosis.

1957 CE

#4405.01

Atlas of arthroscopy.

The first atlas of arthroscopy, a major step in gaining wide acceptance of this operating technique. The color illustrations were prepared by an artist as available arthroscopes did not permit color photography. Watan…

1957 CE

#13471

Chronic thyroiditis and autoimmunization.

"Witebsky helped develop procedures for the isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens. He also began the practice of neutralization of certain antibodies in the blood of universal blood donors. …

1957 CE

#12450

Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.

The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.

1957 CE

#4729.1

Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.

First description of Kuru, a disease occurring in natives of New Guinea. Cause of the disease was unknown. "It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via f…

1957 CE

#9726

Drug reactions, enzymes and biochemical genetics.

Motulsky clearly stated that inheritance might explain many individual differences in the efficacy of drugs and in the occurence of adverse drug reactions.

1957 CE

#2660.9

Fluorinated pyrimidines, a new class of tumour-inhibitory compounds.

Synthesis of 5-fluorouracil. With eight co-authors.

1957 CE

#3155.1

Gene mutations in human haemoglobin: the chemical difference between normal and sickle cell haemoglobin.

Sickle-cell hemoglobin differs from normal hemoglobin by a single amino acid (valine for glutamic acid).

1957 CE

#6603.2

Historia y medicina; figuras y hechos de la historiografia médica mexicana.

1957 CE

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1957 CE

#13594

Intravenous infusion of bone marrow in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy.

Thomas and colleagues reported the first bone marrow transplants. They described the treatment of six patients with cancers and/leukemia and one patient with multiple myeloma. Three of the patients died, two responded…

1957 CE

#11944

Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.

See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.

1957 CE

#8586

Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.

Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…

1957 CE

#2578.23

Leukocyte agglutinins in human sera. Correlations between blood transfusions and their development.

Leucocyte typing.

1957 CE

#6663

MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

The latest issue may be viewed at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/latest-issue. Vols. 1-60 (1957-2016) are archived at PubMedCentral at this link.

1957 CE

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1957 CE

#10282

Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.

Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

1957 CE

#11282

Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A study in the history of the booktrade.

1957 CE

#436

Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).

Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.

1957 CE

#13097

Nucleic acids.

This paper published in September 1957, based on Crick's famous "Central Dogma" lecture given the same month, presented his first published statement of The Central Dogma: “Information is transmitted from DNA an…

1957 CE

#3978.3

Pharmacological studies of a new oral hypoglycemic drug.

Phenformin, a biguanide formerly used in diabetes. With L. Freedman and S. L. Shapiro. Clinical report on pp. 193-4.

1957 CE

#10886

Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another te…

1957 CE

#1947.4

Production and isolation of a new antibiotic, kanamycin.

With nine co-authors.

1957 CE

#2681

Progress in the techniques of soft tissue examination by 15 MC pulsed ultrasound. In: Ultrasound in biology and medicine, ed. E. Kelly, pp. 30-48.

1957 CE

#3215.4

Recovery from infants with respiratory illness of a virus related to chimpanzee coryza agent (CCA).

Respiratory syncytial virus. With B. Roizman and R. Myers.

1957 CE

#2419.1

Reiter protein complement fixation test for syphilis.

See also H. Reiter, Brit. J. vener. Dis., 1960, 36, 18-20.

1957 CE

#8736

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.

1957 CE

#5991.1

Studies on the etiology of trachoma with special reference to isolation of the virus in chick embryo.

Isolation of trachoma agent, Chlamydia trachomatis. With H. L. Chang, Y. T. Huang, and K. C. Wang.

1957 CE

#5436.1

The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France.

The appendices contain the early histories of inoculation, a list of German doctoral dissertations on inoculation 1720-52, and a bibliography.

1957 CE

#2883.2

The contributions of right heart catheterization to physiology and medicine, with some observations on the physiopathology of pulmonary heart disease.

1957 CE

#2578.21

The effects of the continuous re-infusion of lymph and lymphocytes on the output of lymphocytes from the thoracic duct of unanaesthetized rats.

Gowans’s work, particularly between 1957 and 1962, was mainly responsible for the fusion of studies on the lymphocytes with the mainstream of immunology. The above paper dealt with the recirculation of lymphocyt…

1957 CE

#1766.606

The evolution of medical education in the nineteenth century.

Covers medical education in England.

1957 CE

#2660.10

The induction of neoplasms with a substance released from mouse tumors by tissue culture.

Isolation of polymavirus (papovavirus). With B. E. Eddy, A. M. Gochenour, N. G. Borgese, and G E. Grubbs.

1957 CE

#752.5

The nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955. In: Festschrift Arthur Stoll, pp. 35-47.

In 1955 Theorell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries relating to the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes."

1957 CE

#7386

The path of carbon in photosynthesis.

Discovery of the Calvin cycle, also known as the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle, or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle — a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the s…

1957 CE

#11362

The principles and art of plastic surgery. 2 vols.

1957 CE

#3161

The story of heart disease.

1957 CE

#12633

The total synthesis of penicillin V.

Sheehan and Henery-Logan reported the step by step synthesis of penicillin V (phenoxymethylpenicillin) and the cyclization of the beta lactam ring, key to creation of beta-lactam antibiotics. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…

1957 CE

#7404

The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.

1957 CE

#2883.21

Ultrasonic Doppler method for the inspection of cardiac functions.

Demonstration of the Doppler shift in the frequency of ultrasound backscattered by moving cardiac structures.

1957 CE

#2578.22

Virus interference. I. The interferon.

Discovery of interferon type I, a protein that interferes with viral replication. "While working together at the NIMR, Lindenmann and Isaacs noticed that if they killed viruses using heat and applied the dead viruses …

1957 CE

#6650.2

Women doctors of the world.