1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1971 CE
#6880
Homeopathy in America: The rise and fall of the medical heresy.
A history of homeopathy in America, including its demise during the early to mid-20th century.
1971 CE
#12090
Humboldtian physicians in California.
Concerns the influence of Alexander von Humboldt on early California physicians. Library Associates of the University Library, Davis, Keepsake No. 4.
1971 CE
#12370
International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.
Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.
1971 CE
#1671.7
International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.
A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.
1971 CE
#13398
Isolation of a tumor fraction responsible for angiogenesis.
Isolation of the first angiogenic tumor factor. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link.
1971 CE
#7934
La odontología en el México prehispánico.
1971 CE
#10845
La sexualidad femenina. Una investigación estadística.
"Between 1932 and 1961 Serrano Vicéns systematically studied the sexuality of 1417 women who went through his surgery. With that data, he wrote a book entitled "Female sexuality. A statistical investigation " t…
1971 CE
#534.4
Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle. Genération des animaux de Descartes à l’Encyclopédie. 2e ed.
Translated into English by Robert Ellrich as The life sciences in eighteenth-century French thought, edited by Keith R. Benson, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
1971 CE
#11963
Linnaeus and the Linneans: The spreading of their ideas in systematic botany, 1735-1789.
1971 CE
#13395
Love between women.
1971 CE
#10673
Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
1971 CE
#14298
Marijuana reconsidered.
A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…
1971 CE
#6467.2
Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.
See also No. 6448
1971 CE
#10449
Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail.
1971 CE
#6786.17
Medicine: A bibliography of bibliographies.
Extracted from A world bibliography of bibliographies (4th ed., 1965-66)
1971 CE
#13964
Mutation and cancer: Statistical study of retinoblastoma.
In this paper Knudson first described his "two-hit hypothesis," also known as the "Knudson hypothesis," which explains the incidence of hereditary cancers, such as retinoblastoma. "Humans inherit two copies of every g…
1971 CE
#14304
Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.
1971 CE
#9469
Outcasts from evolution: Scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859 - 1900.
1971 CE
#8467
Persian literature: A Bio-bibliographical survey. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine.
1971 CE
#10857
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
1971 CE
#13973
Polyadenylic acid sequences in the heterogeneous nuclear RNA and rapidly-labeled polyribosomal RNA of HeLa cells: Possible evidence for a precursor relationship.
Edmonds discovered the poly-A tails on eukaryotic mRNA. The addition of a poly(A) tail to an RNA transcript, typically a messenger RNA (mRNA), is called polyadenylation. Poly(A)polymerase was first identified in 1960 …
1971 CE
#4405.5
Polycentric knee arthoplasty: Prosthetic simulation of normal knee movement.
Total knee replacement (replacing diseased articular surfaces of both femur and tibia), holding the metal and plastic components in place with acrylic cement.
1971 CE
#10237
Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg, a volunteer project founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, was the first digital library. Later leapfrogged by much better financed non-profit or government-spon…
1971 CE
#13787
Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.
Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.
1971 CE
#6604.5
South Africa: Its medical history 1652-1898.
1971 CE
#6890
Specific cleavage of simian virus 40 DNA by restriction endonuclease of Hemophilus influenzae.
Nathans showed that the restriction enzyme discovered by Hamilton Smith cleaved SV40 DNA into 11 specific pieces. Nathans and his student Kathleen Danna wrote: "The availability of pieces of SV40 DNA from specific sit…
1971 CE
#14231
Structure of the porcine LH-and FSH-releasing hormone. II. Confirmation of the proposed structure by conventional sequential analyses.
Publication in May 1971: Working with pig preparations, the authors reinvestigated the peptide that they had previously isolated, which acted as an LH-FSH releasing hormone. They performed an Edman-dansyl degradation …
1971 CE
#3047.24
Surgical repair of triscuspid atresia.
Fontan procedure. “Anastomosis between the divided superior vena cava and the right pulmonary artery, anastomosis of the right atrium to the pulmonary artery, and insertion of a homograft valve in the ostium of …
1971 CE
#14193
The American Association of Orthodontists: The biography of a specialty organization.
1971 CE
#14020
The anatomical basis of medical practice.
A notorious anatomy textbook that was pulled from the market by the publisher due to protest over its use of Playboy magazine type models to illustrate female external anatomy, as well as its sexist language. Preface:…
1971 CE
#7159
The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.
1971 CE
#5019.11
The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.
1971 CE
#8364
The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.
Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.
1971 CE
#10007
The dynamics of glomerular ultrafiltration in the rat.
"Brenner and colleagues combined two relatively novel tools: a servo-null device for accurate measurment of capillary hydrostatic pressure... and a strain of specially selected rats with superficially located glomerul…
1971 CE
#14258
The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat.
See also: O'Keefe, "Place units in the hippocampus of the freely moving rat," Experimental Neurology, 51 (1976) 78–109. O’Keefe and his student Jonathan Dostrovsky discovered place cells in the hippocampus…
1971 CE
#4297.2
The history of urology.
A scholarly, detailed work. Part 1 is an adapted translation of E. Desnos: Histoire de l’urologie, in Encyclopédie française d’urologie, eds. A. Pousson & E. Desnos, 1914, 1, 1-294.
1971 CE
#12758
The Liber de diversis medicinis in the Thornton Manuscript (MS Lincoln Cathedral A.5.2). Edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden. Revised reprint of 1938 edition.
Edition of a mid-15th century Middle English compilation of medicinal recipes, a manuscript that records how such recipes were passed on through several centuries.
1971 CE
#258.7
The origins of theoretical population genetics.
1971 CE
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1971 CE
#10678
The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.
1971 CE
#6501.2
Through the Bible with a physician.
1971 CE
#4729.2
Transmission of two subacute spongiform encephalopathies of man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) to New World monkeys.
Following Hadlow's suggestion (1959), Gadjusek was able to transmit Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to primates through cerebral inoculations. Similarity in the clinical course of the diseases and in the cell…
1971 CE
#13397
Tumor angiogenesis: Therapeutic implications.
Folkman reported that solid tumors are angiogenesis-dependent. He hypothesized that there was an unknown "factor" that tumors secreted to help increase their blood supply, and that if that factor could be blocked, tum…
1971 CE
#10871
Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
1972 CE
#7585
"Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism." IN: T.J.M. Schopf, ed., Models in Paleobiology.
The theory of punctuated equilibrium or punctuated equilibria in evolution. This theory argues that once species appeared in the the fossil record they became stable, showing little net evolutionary change for most of…
1972 CE
#5289.4
A bibliography on Chagas’s disease (1909-1969)
Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, Special Publication No. 2.
1972 CE
#1588.10
A history of biochemistry. 5 vols.
Forms vols. 30-34 of Comprehensive biochemistry, edited by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz.
1972 CE
#14296
A human infection caused by monkeypox virus in Basankusu Territory, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Reports the first described case of Mpox in humans. It was thought that acquisition occurred through zoonotic contact. Order of authorship in the original paper: Ladnyj, Ziegler, Kima. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this r…
1972 CE
#9021
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who cam…
1972 CE
#5766.2
A new method of total reconstruction of the penis.
The first description of the use of a musculocutaneous flap in reconstructive surgery. The resulting penis was fully-functional.