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1970–1979

586 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1973 CE

#8126

Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy.

1973 CE

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1973 CE

#12652

Hepatitis A: Detection by immune electron microscopy of a viruslike antigen associated with acute illness.

Identification of the Hepatitis A virus.

1973 CE

#1588.12

History of physiology. Edited and translated by G. B. Risse

A revised and expanded translation of Geschichte der Physiologie, Berlin, 1953.

1973 CE

#5484.4

Human cell culture rabies vaccine. Antibody response in man.

Human diploid cell vaccine. With S. A. Plotkin and D. W. Grella. See also Develop, biol. Standard., 1978, 40, 3-9.

1973 CE

#6311.6

Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.

French translation, 1976.

1973 CE

#11074

Identification of a novel cell type in peripheral lymphoid organs in mice. I. Morphology, quantitation, tissue distribution.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Steinman, Cohn. In this paper Steinman announced his discovery of the dendritic cell. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. In 2011 Steinman received half …

1973 CE

#2700.5

Image formation by induced local interactions: Examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance.

Lauterbur proposed a workable method for using nuclear magnetic resonance to produce images of tissues. In 2003 Lauterbur shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Peter Mansfield “for their disc…

1973 CE

#8730

International bibliography of the history of legal medicine.

1973 CE

#8687

Jewish physicians: A biographical index.

Over 9000 entries.

1973 CE

#2660.25

Malignant lymphoma in cottontop marmosets after inoculation with Epstein–Barr virus.

Epstein-Barr virus as a cause of Burkitt’s lymphoma. With D. DeChairo and G. Miller.

1973 CE

#8621

Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.

1973 CE

#10223

Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1973 CE

#9255

Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.

1973 CE

#9153

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

1973 CE

#8878

Obras médicas de Pedro Hispano. Edited by Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira.

1973 CE

#6610.1

Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. A catalogue.

1973 CE

#14241

Regulation of 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase activity in human fibroblasts by lipoproteins.

Goldstein and Brown discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develo…

1973 CE

#14089

Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.

1973 CE

#5352.6

Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.

Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.

1973 CE

#4914.6

Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: Neurophysiological aspects and operative technique.

With A. Richardson and N. Mitchell-Heggs.

1973 CE

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1973 CE

#2138.2

The dangerous sky. A history of aviation medicine.

1973 CE

#1588.13

The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.

1973 CE

#8620

The Percival Bailey collection of neurology & psychiatry.

1973 CE

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1973 CE

#6495.6

Tibetan medicine, illustrated in original texts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1973 CE

#14161

Transplantation of isolated pancreatic islets into the portal vein of diabetic rats.

Lacy and colleagues showed that transplanation of murine pancreatic islet tissue into the portal vein of diabetic rats of the same inbred strain normalized the sugar levels and urine output of the rats that received t…

1973 CE

#11828

Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.

1973 CE–1975 CE

#6550.5

Half a century of medical research. 2vols.

The origins, policy and program of the (British) Medical Research Council.

1974 CE

#14315

"Conformational Coupling in Biological Energy Transductions." In L. Ernster et al. (eds.), Dynamics of Energy-Transducing Membranes, pp. 289-301.

In 1997 Boyer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Walker and Jens C. Skou “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).” The Nobel Pr…

1974 CE

#6935

A selective inhibitor of serotonin uptake: Lilly 110140, 3-(p-Trifluoromethylphenoxy)-n-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine.

The first paper on the anti-depressant fluoxetine, marketed under the trade name Prozac. With Jong S. Horng, Frank P. Bymaster, Kenneth. L. Hauser, and Bryan B. Molloy. doi:10.1016/0024-3205(74)90345-2. PMID 4549929

1974 CE

#7521

Telediagnosis: A new community health resource, Observations on the feasibility of telediagnosis based on 1000 patient transactions.

In 1968 Bird founded and directed the first "telemedicine" system, which linked a medical station at Boston's Logan Airport with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who supplied remote diagnosis, treatment and …

1974 CE

#9942

The DNA of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1974 CE

#9487

"A computer-based system for the study and control of drug interactions in hospitalized patients," P. L. Morselli, S. Garattini, and S. N. Cohen, Drug interactions, 363-373.

MEDIPHOR System (Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Interactions by a Pharmacy-Oriented Reporting System) developed by Cohen, Shortliffe and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School, published as a chapter in t…

1974 CE

#5019.15

A centennial bibliography of Huntington’s chorea, 1872-1972.

Over 2,000 references to original works. Chronological arrangement. Author, geographic and other indexes. With F. Baro and N. C. Myrianthopoulos.

1974 CE

#12491

A history of public health in New York City.

1974 CE

#8819

A history of the Army Medical Department. 2 vols.

1974 CE

#12717

A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.

The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1974 CE

#12246

A sector scanner for real time two-dimensional echocardiography.

Abstract "During the past several years one-dimensional pulse-echo ultrasound techniques have proven extremely useful in cardiac diagnosis. A one-dimensional system, however, only visualizes structures lying along a s…

1974 CE

#8280

Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.

1974 CE

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

1974 CE

#9008

Bestimmung der Instensität im medizinischen System Galens: Ein Beiträg zur theoretische Pharmakologie, Nosologie und Therapie in der Galenischen Medizin.

1974 CE

#5019.13

Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.

1974 CE

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

1974 CE

#13948

Chromatin structure: A repeating unit of histones and DNA.

While a postdoctoral fellow working with Aaron Klug and Francis Crick at the MRC in the 1970s, Kornberg discovered the nucleosome as the basic protein complex packaging chromosomal DNA in the nucleus of eukaryotic cel…

1974 CE

#6909

Computerized transaxial x-ray tomography of the human body.

Ledley and team developed the developed the ACTA 0100 CT Scanner (Automatic Computerized Traverse Axial)— the first whole-body computed tomography scanner. With G. Di Chiro, A. J. Luessenhop, and H.L. Twigg. For…

1974 CE

#11356

Conundrum.

Morris underwent male to female sex change surgery by Georges Burou in Casablanca during the 1960s. As a much-published writer, her book was one of the first to draw wide attention to the phenomenon. New edition, with…

1974 CE

#11553

Corpuscles: Atlas of red blood cell shapes.

A spectacular oversize atlas reproducing 121 photographs of erythrocytes as visualized with a scanning electron microscope. The first edition was published in English, followed by an edition in French in 1976.

1974 CE

#7777

Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.