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1960–1969

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1969 CE

#11990

Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.

The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.

1969 CE

#11992

Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.

Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…

1969 CE

#11917

Neonatal surgery.

Rickham founded the first neonatal surgical unit in the world, at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. This unit became the benchmark for similar units around the world. It brought about an improvement in the s…

1969 CE

#14157

Oeuvres d'Ambroise Paré conçu et réalisé par Pierre de Tartas. Préfacées par le professeur de Vernejoul & Jean Rostand de l'Académie Française. 3 vols. Vol. 1 illustré par Hans Erni, Vol. 2 illustré par Pierre-Yves Tremois, Vol. 3 illustré par Michel Ciry.

Facsimile of the 1585 fourth and best edition of Paré's Oeuvres, published in 3 vols., each volume additionally illustrated by a distinguished French 20th century artist. 5000 numbered sets were issued in vario…

1969 CE

#10041

On death and dying.

"The Kübler-Ross model - otherwise known as the five stages of grief - postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis and by loved-ones after a death. The…

1969 CE

#7810

Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement.

The first total artificial heart implant, performed by Colley using a device developed by Liotta on April 4, 1969. The device, known as the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with s…

1969 CE

#13809

Pain and the neurosurgeon.

This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…

1969 CE

#10675

Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.

1969 CE

#14055

Preliminary examination of lunar samples from Apollo 11: A physical, chemical, mineralogical, and biological analysis of 22 kilograms of lunar rocks and fines.

On p. 1226 the massive number of authors reported that "microscopic, culture, injection and inoculation studies on many different organisms to include mice, fish, invertebrates, insects, plants and lower animals such …

1969 CE

#5440.2

Prevention of varicella by zoster immune globulin.

With A. Ross, L. H. Miller, and B. Kuo.

1969 CE

#9251

Priesterärzte und Heilkunst im alten Persien. Medizinisches bei Zarathustra und im Königsbuch des Firdausi.

1969 CE

#9112

Roman medicine.

1969 CE

#3611.3

Shouldice repair for inguinal hernia.

The Canadian or Shouldice repair.

1969 CE

#3047.23

Surgical treatment of Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.

Surgical management of the tachycardia of Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.

1969 CE

#11840

The Andromeda strain. A novel.

A techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.

1969 CE

#2578.39

The covalent structure of an entire ÁG immunoglobulin molecule.

Complete sequence of an immunoglobulin molecule. With five coauthors. In 1972 Edelman shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with R. R. Porter “for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure o…

1969 CE

#2702.4

The rays: a history of radiology in the United States and Canada.

1969 CE

#7967

Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile.

Discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures. This is one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcus–Thermus group, and the source of the heat-re…

1969 CE

#12205

Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. (1798-1866): An annotated bibliography

An outstanding, very extensively annotated bibliography covering the full range of Hodgkin's publications.

1969 CE

#11413

Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.

Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …

1969 CE

#4914.5

Transphenoidal microsurgery of the normal and pathological pituitary. In: Clinical neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…1968, 185-217.

Confirmation of Cushing’s idea that a micro-tumor causes Cushing’s syndrome. See No. 3904.

1969 CE

#6666

Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 53-

SUDHOFF'S ARCHIV

Formerly Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, 1-20, 1907-28; Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin (und der Naturwissenschaften), 21-52, 1929-68.

1969 CE–1972 CE

#6841

Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.

First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…

1969 CE–1975 CE

#6786.15

The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.

The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.