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1993 CE

#7592

The case books of John Hunter FRS, edited by Elizabeth Allen, J. L. Turk, and Reginald Murley.

The edition also provides invaluable information regarding Hunter's life and work, and a discussion of the existing Hunterian manuscripts and the record of their survival or loss. As an account of the unique story of …

1993 CE

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1993 CE

#9301

The cultural relations of classification: An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram.

The Nuaulu or Naulu are a tribe located in Seram, Maluku, Indonesia.

1993 CE

#9797

The face of mercy: A photographic history of medicine at war.

1993 CE

#8355

The High German Bartholomaeus: Text, with critical commentary of a mediaeval medical book based on the London manuscripts Brit. Mus. Add. 16, 892, Brit. Mus. Arundel 164, Brit. Mus. Add. 17, 527, Brit. Mus. Add. 34, 304, by Walter L. Wardale.

1993 CE

#12882

The history of pain. Translated by Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, S. W. Cadden.

1993 CE

#12429

The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.

1993 CE

#7399

The pupil: Anatomy, physiology and clinical applications. 2 vols.

1993 CE

#8618

The uses of life: A history of biotechnology.

1993 CE

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1993 CE

#14341

Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.

Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…

1993 CE–1995 CE

#8130

The codification of medical morality: Historical and philosophical studies of the formalization of western medical morality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vol. 1: Volume One: Medical ethics and etiquette in the eighteenth century. Vol. 2: Anglo-American medical ethics and medical jurisprudence in the nineteenth century. Edited by Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter.

1993 CE–2009 CE

#10255

Space biology and medicine. 5 vols. Vol. 1: Space and its exploration, edited by J. D. Rummel, V.A. Kotelnikov, and M. V. Ivanov. Vol. 2: Life support and habitability, edited by F. M. Sulzman and A. M. Genin. Vol. 3, Books 1 & 2: Humans in spaceflight, edited by Carolyn S. Leach Huntoon, Vesevolod V. Antipov, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 4: Health, performance, and safety of space crews, edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Stanley R. Mohler, Oleg G. Gazenko, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 5: U.S. and Russian cooperation in space biology and medicine, edited by Charles F. Sawin, Svetlana I. Hanson, Nancy G. House, and Igor D. Pestov.

"The five-volume Space Biology and Medicine is a joint work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first volume contributors describe the current status of the…

1994 CE

#7647

I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.

Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.

1994 CE

#14261

Ultrastructural analysis of the autophagic process in yeast: detection of autophagosomes and their characterization.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Baba, M., Takeshige, Baba, N., Ohsumi. In 2016 Oshuni received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy."

1994 CE

#10195

A history of gene transfer and therapy by Jon A. Wolff and Joshua Lederberg in: Wolff, Jon A. (ed.) Gene therapeutics: Methods and applications of direct gene transfer, pp.3-25.

Valuable for its detailed, but highly compressed discussion of the earliest history of these subjects, co-authored by Lederberg, who played a significant role during that period.

1994 CE

#13823

A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.

1994 CE

#12436

A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.

Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…

1994 CE

#14015

A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1.

Discovery of the BRCA1 gene using the technique of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1994 CE

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1994 CE

#8029

Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.

Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).

1994 CE

#9608

Ancient natural history: Histories of nature.

1994 CE

#12924

Antique hearing devices.

1994 CE

#7276

Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.

Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root&r…

1994 CE

#7187

Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.

1994 CE

#13190

Bibliographie medicale des Antilles Françaises: Imprimés médicaux dans les colonies françaises des Antilles sous l'Ancien Regime: Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, La Martinique, Sainte-Lucie, Grénade et Guyane, 1765-1805.

1994 CE

#10499

CERL. Consortium of European Research Libraries

https://www.cerl.org/resources/main "The Consortium was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. CERL seeks to share resources and exp…

1994 CE

#7421

Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.

1994 CE

#11889

Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.

Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…

1994 CE

#8309

Constantine the African and ‘Alī Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağdūsī: The Pantegni and related texts. Edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

The first book on Constantine the African, which sheds light on the School of Salerno, with which Constantine was associated, and the formation of a medical corpus in the High Middle Ages.

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1994 CE

#11969

Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers.

Completely revised and updated second edition.

1994 CE

#11506

English manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1): from Anatomia hepatis (The anatomy of the liver), 1654. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 3. Edited by Andrew Cunningham.

Publishes for the first time the surviving partial English text of Glisson's book on the liver, and of the work's postscript on the lymphatic system. Glisson wrote in English, but his text was translated into Latin fo…

1994 CE

#11285

Epilogue: The death of an imprint: A supplement to two hundred years of publishing.

Retrospective on Lea & Febiger after its closure.

1994 CE

#8989

Evolution of infectious disease.

1994 CE

#12335

Fifty years of cardiac and pulmonary surgery 1942-1993. The beginning of open heart surgery of postoperative intensive care. The first complete left heart catheterization. Mechanical heart valves.

Björk may be most remembered for the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.

1994 CE

#7886

Fighting for life: American military medicine in World War II.

1994 CE

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

1994 CE

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994 CE

#13564

Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression.

Chalfie and colleagues showed that the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, could be used as a visible marker for protein localization and expression in vivo, in bacteria and worm cell…

1994 CE

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1994 CE

#12375

Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.

Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…

1994 CE

#11070

Histoire de la biologie moléculaire.

Translated into English by Matthew Cobb as A history of molecular biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

1994 CE

#8864

Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.

"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …

1994 CE

#8462

Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.

1994 CE

#10038

How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter.

1994 CE

#10901

Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?

Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…

1994 CE

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

1994 CE

#10880

Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.

Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …

1994 CE

#10500

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.