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1960–1969

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1964 CE

#3161.1

The history of electrocardiography.

Reprinted with new introduction by Joel D. Howell, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.

1964 CE

#10178

The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.

The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.

1964 CE

#2883.7

The physiological basis of cardiac arrhythmias.

1964 CE

#7263

The problem of man's antiquity. An historical survey.

1964 CE

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1964 CE

#9396

The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 4 vols.

Revised and slightly expanded from Keynes's first edition (6 vols., London: Faber & Faber, 1928-31).

1964 CE

#2924.4

Transluminal treatment of arterioschlerotic obstruction; description of a new technic and a preliminary report of its application.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

1964 CE

#10363

Veterinary medicine and human health.

Foundational work on veterinary epidemiology. At the University of California, Davis in 1966 Schwabe founded the first epidemiology department and graduate program in a school of veterinary medicine. Unusually extensi…

1964 CE

#2660.18

Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus …

1964 CE–1971 CE

#8783

A history of medicine in South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1670-1825. Vol. 2: 1825-1900. Vol. 3: 1900-1970.

1964 CE–1972 CE

#6742.2

Nobel lectures. Physiology or medicine. 4 vols.

Prize lectures 1901-70, with biographies of prize-winners. See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/10396

1964 CE–2005 CE

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.

1965 CE

#3666.4

A “new” antigen in leukemia sera.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Blumberg, Alter, Visnich.) Discovery of Australia antigen, hepatitis B antigen, Aa, later called HBsAg. Blumberg received half of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Biolo…

1965 CE

#258.3

A history of genetics.

1965 CE

#2581.6

A history of immunization.

1965 CE

#2463.1

A history of parasitology.

1965 CE

#5813.6

A history of the acute abdomen.

1965 CE

#197

A hundred years of anthropology. 3rd ed.

Includes a useful chronological table and a valuable bibliography. First published 1935.

1965 CE

#14338

A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.

Published as a 20-page pamphlet.

1965 CE

#5351.5

A new, active metabolite of ‘Miracil D’.

Lucanthone. With five co-authors.

1965 CE

#258.4

A short history of genetics. The development of the main lines of thought: 1864-1939.

1965 CE

#6491.2

A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.

A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.

1965 CE

#13914

Attempts to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations in man. Addendum p. 46 in: Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. NINDB Monograph No. 2. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and Michael Alpers.

In their Addendum on p. 46 the authors stated that 20 and 21 months post innocculation in the brain with brain material from Kuru patients two chimpanzees showed symptoms of an illness suggestive of Kuru. Digital facs…

1965 CE

#7233

Auditory nerve.

Describes the first "chronically" implanted or permanent cochlear implant. With John M. Epley of Stanford; Robert C. Lummis, Newman Guttman, Lawrence C. Frishkopf of Bell Telephone Laboratories; and Leon D. Harmon and…

1965 CE

#5369.1

Bibliography of hookworm disease (ancylostomiasis) 1920-62.

1965 CE

#9598

Bio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.

1965 CE

#6656

CLIO MEDICA. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae. 1-

1965 CE

#8834

Computers in biomedical research. Edited by Ralph W. Stacy and Bruce Waxman. 2 vols.

Section A, Chapter 2: "New mathematical methods in the life sciences" by George B. Dantzig. Section D, Chapter 12: "The application of computers to electroencephalography" by Mary A. B. Brazier. Section E, Chapter 13:…

1965 CE

#11587

Congenital heart disease: Correlation of pathologic anatomy and angiography. 2 vols.

With Lewis Carey and Richard Lester.

1965 CE

#1092.53

Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.

1965 CE

#13189

Die Geschichte der Hersteller und Verkäufer zahnärztlicher Bedarfsartikel bis um 1900: eine historische Sammlung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ältesten deutschen Dentaldepots.

1965 CE

#6529.2

Die Wiener medizinische Schule im 19. Jahrhundert.

English translation as The Vienna Medical School of the 19th century (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1977.) Second edition in German, 1979.

1965 CE

#14174

Dynein: A protein with adenosine triphosphate activity from cilia.

IN 1963 Gibbons discovered a novel protein on microtubules. In 1965 he purified two regions of the protein, known as its two "arms" and named the protein dynein. This protein converts the chemical energy stored in ATP…

1965 CE

#14311

Enzymatic basis for the active transport of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane.

Skou discovered that the active transport of sodium and potassium is carried out in the cell membrane by an enzyme that serves as a sodium and potassium "pump," that catalyzes ATP hydrolysis. He named the enzyme "sodi…

1965 CE

#10680

Epidemic disease in Ghana 1901-1960.

1965 CE

#7933

Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.

1965 CE

#2138.1

Essays on the history of aviation medicine.

"Translation of Ocherki po istorii aviatsionnoy meditsiny," Moscow: U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences Publishing House, 1962. Primarily useful for the history of aviation medicine in Russia, with a very extensive biblio…

1965 CE

#11463

Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States.

1965 CE

#5733.2

Foundations of anesthesiology. 2 vols.

An anthology of 150 papers on anesthesia and related topics, from the 16th century to 1961.

1965 CE

#4154.8

Genetic classification of ichthyosis.

Sex-linked recessive ichthyosis shown to be an important but not uncommon entity. See also Kerr & Wells: Sex-linked ichthyosis. Ann. hum. Genet., 1965, 29, 33-50.

1965 CE

#1671.61

Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.

1965 CE

#12569

Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.

First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…

1965 CE

#2068.8

Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.

1965 CE

#7860

Historia de la pediatría española.

1965 CE

#1685.1

History and geography of the most important diseases.

Originally published in German, 1963.

1965 CE

#258.8

Kurze Geschichte der Genetik bis zur Wiederentdeckung der Vererbungsregeln Gregor Mendels. Zweite Ausgabe.

Revised and enlarged English translation, Cambridge, Mass., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press,1972.

1965 CE

#6524.2

Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts.

1965 CE

#6603.6

Médicos y medicina en Cuba. Historia, biografia, costumbrismo.

1965 CE

#11986

Microsurgical resection of acoustic tumors by a transmeatal posterior fossa approach.

"On August 1st, 1957, Theodore Kurze at the University of Southern California became the first neurosurgeon to use an operating microscope to remove a a neurilemmoma of the VIIIth nerve. The inspiration to develop thi…

1965 CE

#5733.1

Milestones in anesthesia. Readings in the development of surgical anesthesia, 1665-1940.

First-hand accounts of discoveries and advances in anesthesia.