1980–1989

1983 CE

#12658

Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.

The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…

1983 CE

#11814

U.S. cancer mortality rates and trends, 1950-1979. 4 vols.

Riggan supervised this long-term project of calculating and publishing cancer mortality rates and trends for every county in the United States over several decades. The last 30 of the 40 years of the underlying data b…

1983 CE

#8475

Unidentified curved bacilli on gastric epithelium in active chronic gastritis.

In 2005 Marshall and Warren shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease." See also their follow-up pape…

1983 CE–1984 CE

#13716

Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.

1983 CE–1988 CE

#1588.19

A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.

1983 CE–1991 CE

#8945

Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.

"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …

1983 CE–1994 CE

#6936

Catalogo del fondo Haller della Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense di Milano, edited by Maria Teresa Monti. Parte prima: Libri, vol. I-III (t. I-II). Parte seconda: Dissertazioni, vol. I-V, Parte terza: libri delle biblioteche lombarde, vol. I-II (t. I-II), Indici. 13 vols.

Haller's library, which comprises 15,000 volumes and 145 manuscripts, was purchased in 1778 by order of Emperor Joseph II, son of Maria Theresa of Austria, and donated to the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan.

1983 CE–1998 CE

#10797

Pictorial encyclopedia of Civil War medical instruments and equipment. 3 vols.

1984 CE

#10330

Stapling in surgery.

Ravitch and Steichen refined primitive surgical stapling systems that were developed in Russia, and made them viable in a wide range of procedures.

1984 CE

#12664

A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.

Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…

1984 CE

#11059

A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy A…

1984 CE

#6551.3

A portrait of Irish medicine. An illustrated history of medicine in Ireland.

Published for the bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

1984 CE

#8622

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.

1984 CE

#12600

Antibodies to the core protein of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) in patients with AIDS.

The authors mentioned in a footnote added at the end of the paper that "A specific ELISA test with total LAV proteins detects LAV-speciic antibodies in 95% of LAS patients and 70-95% of AIDS depending on the risk grou…

1984 CE

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1984 CE

#14078

Bibliographie de l'homéopathie: Publications en langue française de 1824 à 1984.

1984 CE

#6668

CANADIAN BULLETIN OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

1984 CE

#12819

Catalogue of printed books and manuscripts (1491-1900) in the Library of St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School.

1984 CE

#12231

Clinical use of the total artificial heart.

"Abstract "We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. The heart [Jarvik-7] was developed at the University of Utah, and the patient was a 61-year-old man with chroni…

1984 CE

#12333

Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.

1984 CE

#13991

Completion of mouse embryogenesis requires both the maternal and paternal genomes.

Solter discovered mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression, with consequences for development and disease. "Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that causes genes to…

1984 CE

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1984 CE

#14184

Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses.

Dubochet and colleagues introduced "Dubochet's vitrification method" to vitrify water by cooling it so rapidly that it solidified to form a glass instead of crystals. Using this method, the authors published the first…

1984 CE

#9979

Culture, health and illness.

Revised and expanded fifth edition, London: Hodder Arnold, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in healt…

1984 CE

#6997

Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.

Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …

1984 CE

#6742.1

Dictionary of American medical biography. Edited by Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, and Todd L. Savitt. 2 vols.

1984 CE

#7428

DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…

1984 CE

#6742.11

Dutch medical biography. A biographical dictionary of Dutch physicians and surgeons 1475-1975.

1984 CE

#461.4

Early history of human anatomy, from antiquity to the beginning of the modern era.

1984 CE

#2068.21

Electricity and medicine: A history of their interaction.

1984 CE

#258.13

Evolution: The history of an idea.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.

1984 CE

#2663

Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.

Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.

1984 CE

#11692

Giambattista Morgagni, Clinical consultations, the edition of Enrico Benassi (1935) translated and revised by Saul Jarcho.

Italian text and English translation of 100 clinical consultation lettes written by Morgagni, discussing patients that in most cases he had not seen, a practice that was considered acceptable at the time. Morgagni gav…

1984 CE

#6584.2

Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.

1984 CE

#11325

Highlights in the development of medical history in the United States (Materials from an exhibit).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1984 CE

#13811

Histoire illustrée de la rhumatologie.

1984 CE

#9044

Historia general de la medicina en México: Medicina novohispana siglo XVI.

1984 CE

#6603.7

Historia general de medicina en México: México antiguo. Edited by Fernando Cortés. Tomo I.

1984 CE

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

1984 CE

#12578

Into thin air: A history of aviation medicine in the RAF.

1984 CE

#6556.1

La médecine à Paris du XIIIe au XXe siècle.

A collective work, edited by Pecker, superbly illustrated. Includes Paul Dumaître, "La Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris,"

1984 CE

#11658

Lipoplasty: The theory and practice of blunt suction lipectomy. Edited by G. P. Hetter.

The first comprehensive review in English of the development of liposuction, theory, and technique, including the techniques of Illouz and Fournier. Includes several chapters by Pierre Fournier, including "A history a…

1984 CE

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

1984 CE

#7189

Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.

1984 CE

#10302

Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,

1984 CE

#6501.3

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

1984 CE

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

1984 CE

#8789

Modern Chinese medicine: Vol. 1: Chinese surgery: A comprehensive review of surgery in the People's Republic of China Vol. 2: Chinese medicine: A comprehensive review of medicine in the People's Republic of China. Vol. 3: Chinese health care: A comprehensive review of health services in the People's Republic of China. Edited by He-Guang Wu and Rui-Tu Ran.

1984 CE

#7008

Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.

1984 CE

#14263

Molecular analysis of the period locus in Drosophila malanogaster and identification of a transcript involved in biological rhythms.

Rosbach and colleagues, including Jeffrey C. Hall, sequenced the Drosophila period gene in 1984. Full text available from cell.com at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Reddy, Zehring, Wheeler…