1990–1999
809 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1997 CE
#7102
Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.
Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacular…
1997 CE
#13541
Transmission of hepatitis C by intrahepatic inoculation with transcribed RNA.
Rice and colleagues constructed a viral RNA genome with the 3’ region and a consensus region to exclude potential inactivating mutations, which was then injected into the liver of chimps. That RNA, specifically …
1997 CE
#12128
U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.
Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…
1997 CE
#7457
Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells.
Cloning of the lamb Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Her birth established that the nuclei of at least some adult cells can be used to produce sheep or other animals that are genetically identi…
1997 CE
#7166
Women in the biological sciences. A biobibliographic sourcebook.
1998 CE
#6888
Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: A platform for investigating biology.
Completion of the first genome of a multi-cellular organism—C. elegans. "C. elegans is a free-living nematode which is widely used as a model organism. The C. elegans genome has been fully sequenced and is there…
1998 CE
#9642
"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
1998 CE
#11743
A brief history of cocaine.
Second edition, 2006.
1998 CE
#11895
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…
1998 CE
#8350
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
1998 CE
#10933
A history of the Society of Apothecaries.
1998 CE
#12553
African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
1998 CE
#10332
An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.
"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…
1998 CE
#7322
An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.
1998 CE
#7269
Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.
1998 CE
#14153
Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor
"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…
1998 CE
#9980
Archives in Russia: A directory and bibliographic guide to holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
". . . a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in…
1998 CE
#12572
Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
1998 CE
#13294
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
1998 CE
#11591
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
1998 CE
#10574
Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.
"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…
1998 CE
#12812
Catalogue of the Burmese-Pāli and Burmese Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicince.
Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
1998 CE
#10398
Centenary history of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1898-1998.
1998 CE
#11342
Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1998 CE
#9650
Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.
1998 CE
#9682
Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.
1998 CE
#14264
CYCLE Is a Second bHLH-PAS Clock Protein Essential for Circadian Rhythmicity and Transcription of Drosophila period and timeless.
In 1998 Rosbach, Hall and colleagues discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then det…
1998 CE
#14251
DARPP-32: Regulator of the efficacy of dopaminergic neurotransmission.
"Greengard's research focused on events inside the neuron caused by neurotransmitters. Specifically, Greengard and his fellow researchers studied the behavior of second messenger cascades that transform the docking of…
1998 CE
#8785
Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.
1998 CE
#9375
Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.
1998 CE
#11998
Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence.
Abstract: "Countless millions of people have died from tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus. The complete genome sequence of the best-characterized strain of Mycobacterium tubercu…
1998 CE
#12112
Defective LPS signaling in C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr mice: Mutations in the Tlr4 gene.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Poltorak, Smirnova...Beutler. The authors, led by Beutler, showed that mice that harbor a mutation of the gene which codes for the production of the Toll-like receptor TLR4 q…
1998 CE
#13977
Derivation of pluripotent stem cells from cultured human primordial germ cells.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Shamblott, Axelman,... Gearheart. Gearheart led the team that successfully developed human embryonic germ cells, pluripotent stem cells derived from primordial germ cel…
1998 CE
#7143
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and Study by Donald J. Harper.
Detailed historical analysis and English translation of medical manuscripts buried with their owner in 168 BCE and unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973, representing Chinese medical traditions from the 4th to 2nd ce…
1998 CE
#12527
Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.
1998 CE
#10900
Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…
1998 CE
#13286
Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts.
Thomson and collaborators first isolated embryonic stem cells from human blastocysts. Order of authorship in original publication: Thomson, Itskovitz-Eldor, Shapiro et al. Available online from science.sciencemag.org …
1998 CE
#10477
Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.
1998 CE
#11941
Europäische Heilkräuterkunde: Ein Erfahrungsschatz aus Jahrtausenden.
1998 CE
#8032
Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
Originally published in 1969.
1998 CE
#9125
Galen on antecedent causes. Introduction, text, translation and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
1998 CE
#8648
Gangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.
1998 CE
#9999
General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.
1998 CE
#8486
Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.
1998 CE
#12510
Greek thought, Arabic culture: The Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghadad and early Abbāsid Society (2nd-4th/8th centuries).
1998 CE
#12779
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
1998 CE
#7901
HEALTH AND HISTORY. Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine. 1-
Issues may be viewed through JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/journal/healthhist.
1998 CE
#7780
High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.
1998 CE
#8458
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.
1998 CE
#8434
