1960–1969
624 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1967 CE
#6643.2
The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.
1967 CE
#7466
The origin of life.
An outstanding illustrated synthesis of the topics as they stood in 1967, including Chapter 2: "Notions of the origins of life in the past," summarizing prior theories. Appendix 1 publishes the English translation of …
1967 CE
#258.6
The origins of genetics: A Mendel source book.
1967 CE
#10396
The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.
1967 CE
#6610.5
The rod and serpent of Asklepios: Symbol of medicine.
1967 CE
#12677
The role of the Nestorians and Muslims in the history of medicine.
1967 CE
#10679
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
1967 CE
#8155
The theory of island biogeography.
MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.
1967 CE
#7865
Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit.
Isolation, identification and structure of the Marburg virus. WITH H. L. Shu, W. Sienczka, D. Peters, and G. Müller.
1967 CE–1972 CE
#461.2
Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.
A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…
1968 CE
#6639.1
A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.
Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.
1968 CE
#11204
A bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne
Second edition, revised and augmented.
1968 CE
#8691
A catalogue of books in the Liverpool Medical Institution Library to the end of the nineteenth century.
1968 CE
#10044
A definition of irreversible coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death.
This report described the following characteristics of a permanently nonfunctioning brain, a condition it referred to as "irreversible coma," now known as brain death: 1. Unreceptivity and unresponsitivity--patient sh…
1968 CE
#12913
A history of dentistry in the Philippines.
1968 CE
#5019.7
A history of the treatment of speech disorders.
1968 CE
#9134
An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.
The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…
1968 CE
#3108.9
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
1968 CE
#7789
Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission.
Published 23 years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing for carcinogenesis after the latency period. Digital facsimile available from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at this link.
1968 CE
#11988
Cerebral radiosurgery, I. Gammathalamotomy in two cases of intractable pain.
Leksell Gamma Knife. "Over the subsequent 50 years Gamma Knife surgery has evolved to cover much of what is done in neurosurgery and there are more than 330 Gamma Knife centers all over the world. By the end of 2017 m…
1968 CE
#12038
Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.
Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this corresponde…
1968 CE
#11751
Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)
1968 CE
#752.7
Cyclic AMP.
Sutherland elucidated the role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate, the second messenger mediating actions in a wide range of hormonal effects. In 1971 Sutherland was awarded the Nobel Prize in in Physiology or Medicine…
1968 CE
#8406
Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.
1968 CE
#6806
Die klinische Eponyme.
1968 CE
#3666.7
Die Leber und ihre Krankheiten. Zweihundert Jahre Hepatologie.
Contains short biographies and an excellent bibliography.
1968 CE
#10802
Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.
1968 CE
#273.2
Early history of the electron microscope.
1968 CE
#7948
Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service.
The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requ…
1968 CE
#13551
Evolutionary rate at the molecular level.
Using complex mathematics, Motoo Kimura calculated that genomes constantly undergo a remarkably high number of mutations per unit of time. He wrote, "Calculating the rate of evolution in terms of nucleotide substituti…
1968 CE
#6807
Familiar medical quotations.
Over 7,000 quotations, arranged under broad subject headings; author and subject indexes.
1968 CE
#9097
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
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1968 CE
#9129
Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.
1968 CE
#6451.6
Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.
A general history of medicine from a Marxist perspective.
1968 CE
#12028
Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli, X. In vitro restriction of phage FD replicative form.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Linn, Arber. Arber announced the discovery, with proof, of the first restriction endonuclease (restriction enzyme or restrictase)."These enzymes are found in bacteria a…
1968 CE
#11551
Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.
Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli&rsq…
1968 CE
#11230
John Evelyn: A study in bibliopphily with a bibliography of his writings
Second edition, revised. First published in 1937 by The Grolier Club and Cambridge University Press.
1968 CE
#6661
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY. 1-
The most recent issue may be viewed at this link.
1968 CE
#13180
Justus von Liebig. Eine Bibliographie sämtlicher Veröffentlichungen mit biographischen Anmerkungen von Carlo Paolini
1968 CE
#10841
Kuru and cannibalism.
Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…
1968 CE
#5813.8
La chirurgie moderne. Ses debuts en Occident: XVIe-XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles.
1968 CE
#13997
Los Médicos y las Enfermedades de Monterrey [1881]. Memorias de Gonzalitos que se publican con una introducción sobre su vida y su obra por Francisco Guerra.
Edition by Francisco Guerra and first publication of a manuscript by Eleuterio in the Wellcome Library. According to the catalogue of the Wellcome archives the contents are as follows: "Los médicos y las enferm…
1968 CE
#13987
Mechanism of DNA chain growth, I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains.
The Okazakis discovered what became known as Okazaki fragments, short sequences of DNA nucleotides (approximately 150 to 200 base pairs long in eukaryotes) which are synthesized discontinuously and later linked togeth…
1968 CE
#10804
Medical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.
1968 CE
#7836
Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.
In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.
1968 CE
#11984
Microneurosurgery: Application of the binocular surgical microscope in brain tumors, intracranial aneurysms, spinal cord disease, and nerve reconstruction.
1968 CE
#6916
Molecular pathology of human haemoglobin.
Perutz opened up "the field of 'molecular pathology,' relating a structural abnormality to a disease" (Aaron Klug, "Max Perutz 1914-2002," Science 295 ([2002] 2383). Specifically Perutz showed that hemoglobin molecule…
1968 CE
#14303
Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.
Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…
1968 CE
#6840
Particles associated with Australia antigen in the sera of patients with leukemia, Down's syndrome and hepatitis.
Particles with the appearance of a virus were detected by electron microscopy in the serum of individuals with Au. These were subsequently shown to be the surface antigen particles, different from the whole virus part…
1968 CE
#13935
Reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from electron micrographs.
Klug and deRosier invented methods for two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital image processing of electron microscope images. The latter method provided the theory behind the development of computed tomography …