1980–1989

1964 CE

#1588.1

Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.

1980 CE

#12916

A history of dentistry in New Zealand.

1980 CE

#8175

Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.

1980 CE

#13993

Are snRNPs involved in splicing?

Steitz and Lerner used immunoprecipitation with human antibodies from patients with autoimmunity to isolate and identify the novel entities snRNPs (pronounced "snurps") and detect their role in splicing. A snRNP is a …

1980 CE

#3161.5

Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of people, and of ideas.

A collective work by 19 authors, edited by M. M. Wintrobe. This is a detailed history of haematology, well documented and well indexed.

1980 CE

#11209

British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.

A partially annotated listing of all principal natural history books published in the UK from 1495 to 1900.

1980 CE

#5145.2

Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.

1980 CE

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1980 CE

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

1980 CE

#7950

Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1980 CE

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

1980 CE

#6893

Cloning in single-stranded bacteriophage as an aid to rapid DNA sequencing.

Sanger and colleagues developed the random shotgun method to prepare templates for DNA sequencing. With A. R. Coulson, B. G. Barrell, A. J. H. Smith & B. A. Roe.

1980 CE

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus …

1980 CE

#11057

Detection and isolation of type C retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Poiesz, Ruscetti,... Gallo. Gallo and associates announced the discovery of a human retrovirus with type C morphology causing a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Gallo named t…

1980 CE

#8988

Evolutionary biology and the treatment of signs and symptoms of infectious disease.

"When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, manifestations of infectious diseases can be classified as (1) adaptations of the host to counteract harmful aspects of the disease, (2) adaptations of the pathogen to ma…

1980 CE

#12304

Expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulligan, Berg.) In an understated paper the authors suggested the potential of treating recessive diseases like Lesch-Nyhan syndrome by gene therapy. (Thanks to Juan …

1980 CE

#14207

Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.

Following up on No. 14206, the authors stated that the same excess iridium areas were found in two different areas of W. Europe and in New Zealand, and posited that “the anomalous iridium concentrations at the C…

1980 CE

#13206

From DNA to Protein: The transfer of genetic information.

1980 CE

#13918

Gene transfer in intact animals.

Cline and colleagues were the first to successfully transfer a functioning gene into a living mouse, creating the first transgenic organism.

1980 CE

#1588.17

Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.

1980 CE

#3415.22

Histoire des maladies de l’oreille, du nez et de la gorge. Les grandes étapes de l’oto-rhino-laryngologie.

1980 CE

#12344

Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.

1980 CE

#11220

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC).

https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) , an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library, seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists book…

1980 CE

#9163

Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.

1980 CE

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

1980 CE

#3705.2

Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe

Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma.

1980 CE

#11689

Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).

1980 CE

#6596.4

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.

1980 CE

#9147

Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.

Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...&a…

1980 CE

#8503

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

1980 CE

#10444

Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.

1980 CE

#2312.8

Mummies, disease, and ancient cultures.

1980 CE

#7455

Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophilia.

In 1995 Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development."

1980 CE

#6311.7

Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.

1980 CE

#8426

Pelagonii Ars veterinaria. Edited by K. D. Fischer.

1980 CE

#11257

Preliminary report on the pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for freshwater and soil amoebae.

Discovery of the pathogenic relationship between amoebas and Legionella bacteria--a key step in understanding how this bacteria infects mankind. Legionella bacteria, along with amoeba, live in the organic contaminatio…

1980 CE

#11454

Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.

1980 CE

#12388

Purification and characterization of the major allergen from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus-antigen P1.

First purification and publication of a dust mite allergen in 1978 by Platts-Mills and Chapman.

1980 CE

#13228

Speech and speech disorders in Western thought before 1600.

1980 CE

#14186

Speech disorder in nineteenth century Britain. The history of stuttering.

1980 CE

#6451.11

Subject catalogue of the history of medicine and related sciences. 18 vols.

Subject section: 9 vols.; Biographical section: 5 vols.; Topographical section: 4 vols. Reproduces the card subject catalogue of the library and includes a cumulation of Current Work in the History of Medicine (No. 64…

1980 CE

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

1980 CE

#12270

Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.

First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.

1980 CE

#8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

1980 CE

#3161.6

The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.

Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.

1980 CE

#7970

The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.

Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.

1980 CE

#13803

The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.

1980 CE

#11579

The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.

"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…

1980 CE

#5434.2

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a s…

1980 CE

#12917

The history of old Turkish dentistry.