1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1920 CE
#51
The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1970 CE
#8156
The influence of nitrogen oxides on the atmospheric ozone content.
Crutzen showed that nitrous oxide impacts the ozone layer by pointing out "that emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a stable, long-lived gas produced by soil bacteria, from the Earth's surface could affect the amount of…
1970 CE
#11527
A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.
1970 CE
#4297.1
A history of bladder stone.
1970 CE
#5145
A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.
1970 CE
#2581.8
A history of medical bacteriology and immunology.
1970 CE
#8496
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
1970 CE
#6889
A restriction endonuclease from Hemophilus influenzae. II. Base sequence of the recognition site.
Discovery of the first type II restriction enzyme (HindII). Smith shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Werner Arber and Daniel Nathans "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their applicat…
1970 CE
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1970 CE
#2578.40
An analysis of the sequences of the variable regions of Bence Jones proteins and myeloma light chains and their implications for antibody complementarity.
Hypervariable regions of “Ig.”
1970 CE
#12321
Australia antigen (a hepatitis-associated antigen). Purification and physical properties.
Purification of the Australia antigen and investigation of its physical properties. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Millman, Loeb, Bayer, Blumberg.) Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
1970 CE
#10887
Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…
1970 CE
#5546.8
Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.
Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.
1970 CE
#7661
Catalogue of the anatomical preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Museum of the Anatomy Department. From the original catalogue (1898-1900) prepared by Professor John Teacher.
1970 CE
#2883.9
Catheterization of the heart in man with use of a flow-directed balloon-tipped catheter.
The Swan-Ganz balloon flotation catheter, a flow-guided balloon-tipped catheter of flexible construction, which enabled “placement without associated ventricular arrhythmias, prompt and reliable passage to the p…
1970 CE
#2578.41
Cell interactions in the induction of tolerance: The role of thymic lymphocytes.
Suppressor T cells.
1970 CE
#5289.3
Chagas’s disease (South American trypanosomiasis). A bibliography compiled from Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletin 1908-1912, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 1912-1970.
Supplement to Trop. Dis. Bull., vol. 67.
1970 CE
#14232
Characterization of ovine hypothalamic hypophysiotropic TSH-releasing factor.
Working with sheep preparations, the authors determined that the molecular structure of TRF (thyroid releasing hormone), is 2-pyrrolidone-5-carboxylyl-histidyl-L-proline amide. On page 324, they showed the molecular s…
1970 CE
#12306
Chronic liver disease and primary liver-cell cancer with hepatitis-associated (Australia) antigen in serum.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Sherlock, Niazi, Fox...). The authors demonstrated that the hepatitis B virus can cause cancer. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1970 CE
#11564
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
1970 CE
#2660.24
Combination chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced Hodgkin’s disease.
Combination chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard (mustine hydrochloride), vincristine sulphate, procarbazine hydrochloride and prednisone, introduced in 1964 for the treatment of advanced Hodgkin’s disease. With A…
1970 CE
#6553
Dějiny československeho lekařstvi. Svazek 1. Dor. 1740.
1970 CE
#13730
Dermatologie in der Kunst.
1970 CE
#12066
Dickens and medicine: An exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1970 CE
#8638
Die Entwicklung der medizinischen Spezialfacher an den Universitaten des Deutschen Sprachgebietes.
Detailed study, organized by specialty, of the vital role that German universities played in the invention and promotion of medical specialties.
1970 CE
#1588.5
Die Entwicklung der physiologischen Methodik von 1784 bis 1911. Eine qualitative Untersuchung.
1970 CE
#6510.01
Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].
1970 CE
#7010
Discoveries in biological psychiatry.
Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…
1970 CE
#2442.5
Experimental and clinical studies on rifampicin in treatment of leprosy.
With J. M. H. Pearson and M. F. R. Waters.
1970 CE
#2660.26
Field trials with an attentuated cell associated vaccine for Marek's disease.
In 1959 Biggs moved to the Houghton Poultry Research Station (HPRS) to form and head a unit to study lymphoid tumor conditions of the domestic fowl. He gave the name Marek’s disease to one of the tumor condition…
1970 CE
#5019.10
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
1970 CE
#9128
Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.
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1970 CE
#13933
Genetic control of the cell-division cycle in yeast 1. Detection of mutants.
This was the first paper to describe cdc mutants. The authors also coined the term 'execution point' — the stage in the cell cycle when the gene function is required. In this paper, three cdc genes were describe…
1970 CE
#8380
George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…
1970 CE
#14216
Hammond's wall atlas of human anatomy.
With pages measuring 731 x 536 mm., this is the largest anatomical atlas ever published with plastic overlays. The covers include metal grommets so that the book could be hung on the wall. The work was undated, but is…
1970 CE
#3611.4
Hernia repair without disability.
First monograph on ambulatory hernia surgery. Second edition published by Ishiyaku Euroamerica in 1986 was retitled: Hernia repair without disability: A surgical atlas illustrating the anatomy, technique, and physiolo…
1970 CE
#10689
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
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Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…
1970 CE
#9099
History of human life span and mortality. Translated by K. Balás.
A particularly valuable collection of reviews ot his work published in Current Anthropology, I5 (1974) 495-507 is available from JSTOR at this link.
1970 CE
#13559
Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?
Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…
1970 CE
#6485.4
La medicina Hipocrática.
1970 CE
#5546.4
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings.
An arenovirus infection first noted in Lassa, N. E. Nigeria, in 1969. With J. M. Baldwin, D. J. Gocke, and J. M. Troup.
1970 CE
#5546.5
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.
Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
1970 CE
#7761
Low dose radiation and cancer.
This paper, delivered at the 1969 Nuclear Science Symposium and Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Symposium, October, 1969, provided powerful scientific evidence that the then currently allowable radiation dose (Feder…
1970 CE
#7822
Medicine and stamps.
1970 CE
#9122
Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.
Revised edition, 1990.
1970 CE
#1588.7
Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
1970 CE
#6665
NEUE MÜNCHENER BEITRÄGE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER MEDIZIN UND NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN; MEDIZINHISTORISCHE REIHE. 1-
Monographic series. Continuation of Münchener Beiträge, etc., 1-17, 1926-29.
1970 CE
#8605
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
1970 CE
#7783
Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.
In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.
1970 CE
#2660.23
RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of Rous sarcoma virus.
Discovery of reverse transcriptase. "In 1969, Temin and a postdoctoral fellow, Satoshi Mizutani, began searching for the enzyme that was responsible for the phenomenon of viral RNA being transferred into proviral DNA.…