1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1970 CE
#7161
Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.
1970 CE
#12341
Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.
The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.
1970 CE
#6786.16
The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. An annotated checklist of first editions viewed from the angle of their subject content. Astronomy. Mathematics. Medicine. Natural science. Physics. Technology.
1970 CE
#2068.15
The birth of penicillin.
“Disposes of many myths deeply embedded in the literature” (Macfarlane, see No. 1934).
1970 CE
#9894
The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.
1970 CE
#4483.4
The early orthopaedic surgeons of America.
1970 CE
#5019.9
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
1970 CE
#13327
The herbarium of Aylmer Bourke Lambert: Notes on Its acquisition, dispersal, and present whereabouts,
"Lambert acquired a number of significant herbarium collections including those of Johann Reinhold Forster, Archibald Menzies and Henry de Ponthieu.[2] He also amassed a large collection of specimens and drawings from…
1970 CE
#3161.2
The history of cardiac surgery.
1970 CE
#3161.3
The history of coronary heart disease.
A scholarly work with extensive bibliographies.
1970 CE
#1766.608
The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.
1970 CE
#11112
The human placenta.
An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.
1970 CE
#10059
The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.
Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
1970 CE
#2068.12
The story of ergot.
Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.
1970 CE
#7325
Thickness, cross-sectional areas and depth of invasion in the prognosis of cutaneous melanoma.
Classic paper on the prognosis of melanoma. Digital facsimile available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1970 CE
#2660.22
Viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase: RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of RNA tumour viruses.
In 1970 Baltimore and Temin discovered that certain viruses that have their genes in the form of RNA can copy the RNA "backward" into DNA in infected cells. The enyzme, reverse transcriptase, enables the manufacture o…
1970 CE
#12305
Virus-like particles in serum of patients with Australia-antigen-associated hepatitis.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Dane, Cameron, Briggs.) The authors showed that the "Australian antigen" was a virus causing hepatitis B. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretati…
1970 CE
#6604.2
Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.
Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.
1970 CE
#10554
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
1970 CE–1971 CE
#7550
Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…
1970 CE–1990 CE
#8192
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vols. 1-16 (1-15, Supplement 1) edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie. Vols. 17-18 (Supplement 2) edited by Frederick L. Holmes.
Over 5,000 biographies, each with detailed bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Medical biographies tend to be of physiologists and other researchers rather than clinicians. Includes an exhaustive index an…
1971 CE
#13958
Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs.
In 1982 Vane shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances."
1971 CE
#11818
A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
1971 CE
#6786.18
A catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine. First supplement.
Supplements Nos. 6783 and 6786.12. Records 27 15th century imprints and 272 16th century imprints acquired by the library since publication of those two catalogues.
1971 CE
#3705.03
A history of dentistry in Canada.
1971 CE
#4672.5
A history of poliomyelitis.
1971 CE
#10677
A history of the Nigerian Health Services.
1971 CE
#6007.1
A history of the ophthalmoscope.
1971 CE
#13181
A list of the works of Sir James Young Simpson, 1811-1870: A centenary tribute by K. F. Russell and F. M. C. Forster.
1971 CE
#6485.5
Antike Medizin. Wege der Forschung ccxxi.
1971 CE
#7353
Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.
"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…
1971 CE
#6510.1
Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.
1971 CE
#11665
Blacks, medical schools and society.
A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.
1971 CE
#6550.4
British contributions to medical science. The Woodward – Wellcome symposium, University of British Columbia, 1970
1971 CE
#9439
Chaucer's physician: Medicine and literature in fourteenth-century England.
1971 CE
#534.71
Congenital malformations. Notes and comments.
Warkany's contributions span all aspects of teratology, both clinical and experimental. This has been called his magnum opus. It includes 124 chapters, each with detailed bibliography, on a total of 1271 pages.
1971 CE
#6809
Dictionary of medical syndromes.
Second edition with E. Scrasia, 1981.
1971 CE
#7142
Die Geschichte der Arzneimittelforschung.
1971 CE
#8348
Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.
First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).
1971 CE
#12029
DNA restriction and modification mechanisms in bacteria.
In this single author paper Boyer isolated, characterized and named the enzyme that Arber No. 12028 had observed and described in terms of its basic action on DNA. Boyer called it the “fi R-factor restriction en…
1971 CE
#8501
Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.
1971 CE
#12601
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Quantitative assay of immunoglobulin G.
Perlmann (principal investigator) and Engvall conceptualized and developed the very commonly used enzyme-lined immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that uses antibodies to detect proteins and other different immunogens. The as…
1971 CE
#12010
Expression of animal virus genomes.
The Baltimore classification of virus groups places viruses into one of seven groups depending on a combination of their nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), strandedness (single-stranded or double-stranded), sense, and method …
1971 CE
#10765
Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.
1971 CE
#6510.2
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.
1971 CE
#7389
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.
1971 CE
#3911
Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und Kretinismus.
A superbly produced and illustrated work, with tipped-in color plates. English translation, Bern: H. Huber, 1984.
1971 CE
#8327
Health maintenance strategy.
Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…
1971 CE
#7405
Histology of the human eye.
Hogan and Alvarado's work was the first book on histology of the eye to include electron microscopy. It also reproduced spectacular three-dimensional representations of ocular ultrastructures by Joan Esperson Weddell.
1971 CE
#1588.8
Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.
A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.