1980–1989

1983 CE

#6604.81

Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.

A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.

1983 CE

#11657

Body contouring by lipolysis: A 5-year experience with over 3000 cases.

Illouz improved on the Fischers’ technique with the invention of a cannula with a blunt tip. This new type of cannula reduced blood loss and nerve damage, as well as reducing the risk of complications or death f…

1983 CE

#8612

Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.

1983 CE

#10472

Challenging man-made disease.

Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…

1983 CE

#10407

Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.

"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…

1983 CE

#12956

Constantini Liber de coitu: El tratado de andrología de Constantino el Africano. Edited by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

1983 CE

#14254

Cyclin: A protein specified by maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs that is destroyed at each cleavage division.

"It was at Woods Hole around July 1982, using Arbacia sea urchin eggs as his model organism, that he discovered cyclin proteins.[12] Cyclins play a key role in regulating the cell-division cycle.[16] Hunt was observin…

1983 CE

#8331

Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.

First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …

1983 CE

#12061

Differential equations and mathematical biology.

"This textbook shows how first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to model the growth of a population, the administration of drugs, and the mechanism by which living cells divide. The authors presen…

1983 CE

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1983 CE

#11091

Disease in ancient man: A report of an international symposium on disease in ancient man. Edited by Gerald D. Hart.

1983 CE

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1983 CE

#14212

Evidence for plasmid mediated toxin production in Bacillus anthracis.

The authors illustrated and proved that “heating V770-NPI-R containing anthrax strains, to exactly 42.5 degrees centigrade, as Pasteur and colleagues reported in GM 14211, essentially ‘cured’ these s…

1983 CE

#11531

Exploring the heart: Discoveries in heart disease and high blood pressure.

1983 CE

#8755

Exploring the origins of electrical cardiac stimulation.

1983 CE

#13989

Expression of chimaeric genes transferred into plant cells using a Ti-plasmid-derived vector.

Schell and Montagu discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering in…

1983 CE

#11238

Franz Joseph Gall Bibliographie. Mit einem Porträt und 13 Abbildungen

1983 CE

#11376

Hemorrhagic colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Riley, Remis, Helgerson. First description in print of a particularly virulent E.coli (0157-H7) infection, for which no antibiotics were effective; the only treatment b…

1983 CE

#10687

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome X, 2e partie: Maladies II. Texte établi et traduit by Jacques Jouanna.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On diseases II from the Hippocratic Collection, possibly from the second half of the fifth century BCE.

1983 CE

#272

History of staining by Harold J. Cohn. 3rd edition by George C. Lusk and Frederick H.Kasten.

1983 CE

#10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…

1983 CE

#11191

Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?

This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …

1983 CE

#12632

Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.

Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…

1983 CE

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

1983 CE

#6485.62

Les maladies à l’aube de la civilization occidentale.

English translation entitled, Diseases in the ancient Greek world, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989.

1983 CE

#7563

Les tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.

Translated into English by Stanley Hochman as Great voyages of discovery: Circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. (New York: Facts on File, 1983).

1983 CE

#14140

Mammalian beta-adrenergic receptors. Structural differences in beta 1 and beta 2 subtypes revealed by peptide maps.

Lefkowitz and colleagues showed that there are two different types of beta receptors, distinguishing them as Beta-1 and Beta-2. They noticed that each has specific pharmacological characteristics. Order of authorship …

1983 CE

#7653

Medical book illustration: A short history.

1983 CE

#6623.5

Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.

The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.

1983 CE

#6485.63

Medizinische Instrumente aus Sepulkralfunden der römischen Kaiserzeit.

1983 CE

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1983 CE

#13975

Metallothionein - human GH fusion genes stimulate growth of mice.

Brinster and Palmiter created the first "transgenic" animals, transferring non-native genes into mice through genetic engineering techniques. The cover of the issue of Science magazine in which this paper was publishe…

1983 CE

#5768.6

Plastic surgery past and present. Origin and history of modern lines of incision.

Well-documented history of current plastic operations using both recent surgical photographs and illustrations from classics in the historical literature. Includes brief biographies of the most important pioneers.

1983 CE

#9313

Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.

According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…

1983 CE

#5436.2

Princes and peasants: Smallpox in history.

Reissued in 2002 with a new introduction as The greatest killer: Smallpox in history.

1983 CE

#6610.17

Russiche Ikonenmalerie und Medizin. Zugleich eine Einführung in die Ikonographie. 2., Überarbeitete Auflage.

1983 CE

#10811

Scientists’ libraries: A handlist of printed sources.

Includes references to the libraries of many physicians. Digital text available from historyofscience.com at this link.

1983 CE

#7210

Sertraline, 1S,4S-N-methyl-4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine, a new uptake inhibitor with selectivity for serotonin.

Sertraline hydrochloride, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, developed by the authors of this paper at Pfizer, and marketed under the tradename Zoloft. With R. G. Browne.

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1983 CE

#10868

Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.

1983 CE

#12173

Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]

1983 CE

#5813.13

Surgery in America. From the colonial era to the twentieth century. Second edition.

Well-chosen readings from original published sources, with informative commentary.

1983 CE

#9244

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

1983 CE

#12230

The artificial heart.

First published report on the first successful "permanent" artificial heart operation, in which DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artifical heart in Barney Clark, a patient affected with end-stage congestive heart failur…

1983 CE

#13021

The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.

1983 CE

#9219

The demands of humanity: Army medical disaster relief.

Digital facsimile from history.army.mil at this link.

1983 CE

#12852

The dentist and the empress: The adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in gas-lit Paris.

"Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a Philadelphia dentist of pioneering skill and great charm, moved in the highest circles of France's Second Empire. His expertise gave American dentistry a special distinction, while his discreti…

1983 CE

#214.91

The establishment of human antiquity.

The most complete historical treatment of the pre-1900 literature.

1983 CE

#8316

The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).

1983 CE

#8146

The visual display of quantitative information.