1980–1989

1980 CE

#14256

The identification of 23 complementation groups required for post-translational events in the yeast secretory pathway.

See also: Novick, P., Ferro, S. and Schekman, R. "Order of events in the yeast secretory pathway," Cell, 25, 1981, 461-469. In 1979 Schekman devised a genetic selection for temperature-conditional secretion-defective …

1980 CE

#7078

The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.

The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…

1980 CE

#14246

The obligatory role of endothelial cells in the relaxation of arterial smooth muscle by acetylcholine.

In 1978 Furchgott discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). By 1986, he had worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism of action, and de…

1980 CE

#11488

The seeds of artificial intelligence: SUMEX-AIM.

A semi-popular and extensively illustrated summary of research on artificial intelligence in medicine at Stanford Medical School as directed by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanley N. Cohen, Carl Djerassi, and Elliott C. Lev…

1980 CE

#14108

The striking resemblance of high-resolution G-banded chromosomes of man and chimpanzee.

Chimpanzees are the closest primates genetically to humans. In this paper the authors demonstrated the genetic changes that differentiated humans from chimpanzees. By comparing human and chimpanzee chromosomes the aut…

1980 CE

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1980 CE

#11736

Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.

A biographical introduction proceeds Dewhurst's edition of John Locke's transcripts of Willis's lectures from 1663-64 (Bodleian MS Locke f19) and Richard Lower's notes from the 1661-62 lectures in the Robert Boyle pap…

1980 CE

#13985

Transforming gene product of Rous sarcoma virus phosphorylates tyrosine.

Tony Hunter discovered that tyrosine phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism for transmembrane-signal transduction in response to growth factor stimulation, and that disregulation of such tyrosine phosphorylation, …

1980 CE

#14255

Transport of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein in a cell-free extract.

See also: Fries & Rothman, "Transitent activity of Golgi-like membranes as donors of vescular stomatitis viral glycoprotein in vitro," J. Cell. Biol., 90, 1981, 697-704. "Rothman's research[15] details how vesicles&md…

1980 CE

#6551.1

Wales and medicine. A source-list for printed books showing the history of medicine in relation to Wales and Welshmen.

1980 CE

#6604.31

When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.

Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.

1980 CE–1990 CE

#9495

Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.

Banks' Florilegium has been called the largest fine art printing project of the 20th century. It is the first complete publication in color of the 734 folio size copperplate engravings of newly discovered plants colle…

1981 CE

#10834

A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.

"... restricted to literature in the English language, with over 3200 entries; it is also confined to the thought and practices of the Western world, from Biblical times to 1980." Concerns much on animal experimentati…

1981 CE

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1981 CE

#13960

A complete nucleotide sequence of an infectious clone of cauliflower mosaic virus by M13mp7 shotgun sequencing.

Messing and colleagues employed shotgun sequencing to sequence the genome of cauliflower mosaic virus, the first genome sequenced by the shotgun method. They developed the shotgun DNA sequencing method with single and…

1981 CE

#197.1

A history of the study of human growth.

1981 CE

#6596.5

American medicine in transition, 1840-1910.

1981 CE

#8335

Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.

1981 CE

#7144

Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the movement and progression of animals, translated, with Introduction and notes by Anthony Preuss.

The Commentaria in de motu et de incessu animalium by the Byzantine writer Michael of Ephesus are the only surviving commentaries in Greek on Aristotle's De motu animalium and De incessu animalium. This edition provid…

1981 CE

#8841

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

1981 CE

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

1981 CE

#10690

Books on the horse and horsemanship: Riding, hunting, breeding & racing 1400-1941. The Paul Mellon Collection. Compiled by John B. Podeschi.

Includes annotated descriptions of numerous classics on veterinary medicine for horses.

1981 CE

#12776

Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: A illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.

1981 CE

#13495

Catalog of the Sidney M Edelstein collection of the history of chemistry, dyeing & technology. Compiled by Moshe Ron.

1981 CE

#6786.24

Catalogue of the Pybus collection of medical books, letters and engravings, 15th-20th centuries.

Describes the collection of 2305 classics in the history of medicine formed by Frederick C. Pybus (1883-1975), giving pagination and plate counts. Also included are annotated descriptions of 158 autograph letters by p…

1981 CE

#14183

Computer averaging of electron micrographs of the 405 ribosomal subunit.

Frank and colleagues developed a method that allows sorting of particle images into classes based on their orientation, as well as their structural features. Specifically Frank developed mathematical tools used for im…

1981 CE

#10045

Defining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1981 CE

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

1981 CE

#11681

Dr. Martin Lister: A bibliography by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.

1981 CE

#7899

DYNAMIS: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam. 1-

1981 CE

#13285

Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.

Evans and Kauffman were the first to identify, isolate and successfully culture embryonic stem cells using mouse blastocysts. This discovery opened the doors to the creation of “murine genetic models” -- m…

1981 CE

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

1981 CE

#6533.2

Histoire de la médecine belge.

1981 CE

#11965

History of botanical science: An account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day.

1981 CE

#3705.3

History of dentistry. Translated by H. M. Koehler.

The author does not consider this a simple translation of his Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde (1973), as in the sections devoted to the 19th and early 20th centuries it has been so substantially revised as to be “a…

1981 CE

#5768.4

History of free skin grafting.

Comprehensive work, with hundreds of bibliographical references. No index.

1981 CE

#10222

Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.

A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.

1981 CE

#8282

Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine.

1981 CE

#13961

Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells (embryonic stem cells/inner cell masses/differentiation in vitro/embryonal carcinoma cells/growth factors) .

Martin used a different approach that avoided in vivo alteration. She reasoned that an ES cell line might be obtained by culturing cells isolated from blastocysts in a medium that had previously been conditioned by an…

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1981 CE

#5019.19

La maladie de l’âme. Étude sur la relation de l’âme et du corps dans la tradition médico-philosophique antique.

1981 CE

#11947

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle. En annexe, 2e supplément au Dictionnaire d'Ernest Wickersheimer.

1981 CE

#8437

Lectures on Galen's De sectis. (Arethusa Monographs, VIII). Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.

English translation of this commentary on Galen's De sectis (On sects) given by the iatrosophist and commentator on medical texts, Agnellus, circa 600 CE.

1981 CE

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1981 CE

#6786.23

Medical bibliography in an age of discontinuity.

A history of medical bibliography since World War II, focusing on the information requirements of biomedical research; supplements No. 6785.1

1981 CE

#6742.9

Medical obituaries. American physicians’ biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907.

With E.N. Feind and G.N. Holloway.

1981 CE

#2682.55

Medicine and its technology: an introduction to the history of medical instrumentation.

1981 CE

#13583

Medicine and the Mormons: An introduction to the history of Latter-day Saint health care.

1981 CE

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.