An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 4, 2024

Browse by Publication Year 1980–1989

675 entries
  • 366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1980.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus English translation, commentary, etc. Combines material previously published less elegantly and accurately in Nos. 364 & 365. For a scientific analysis of Leonardo’s medical writings see K.D. Keele’s Leonardo da Vinci’s elements of the science of man, New York, Academic Press, 1983. For Leonardo’s contributions to neuroanatomy see E.M. Todd, The neuroanatomy of Leonardo da Vinci, Santa Barbara, Capra Press, [1983]. For his work on vision see D.S. Strong, Leonardo on the eye, An English translation and critical commentary on Ms. D. in the Bibliothèque Nationale… New York, Garland, 1979.

For more information on Leonardo's anatomical work see a short essay that I wrote on HistoryofInformation.com at this link.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 16th Century, ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › Medieval Anatomy (6th to 15th Centuries), ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, ART & Medicine & Biology, Renaissance Medicine
  • 1588.17

Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 2312.8

Mummies, disease, and ancient cultures.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1980.


Subjects: PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology
  • 3161.5

Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of people, and of ideas.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

A collective work by 19 authors, edited by M. M. Wintrobe. This is a detailed history of haematology, well documented and well indexed.



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › History of Hematology
  • 3161.6

The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Heart Failure, CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology
  • 3705.2

Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe

Tokyo: Ishiyaku, 1980.

Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma. 



Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 3415.22

Histoire des maladies de l’oreille, du nez et de la gorge. Les grandes étapes de l’oto-rhino-laryngologie.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1980.


Subjects: OTOLOGY › History of Otology
  • 5145.2

Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of
  • 6311.7

Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.

Chicago, IL: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics
  • 6551.1

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

Aberystwyth, Wales: National Library of Wales, 1980.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Wales
  • 6374.9
  • 6495.3

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.



Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Acupuncture (Western References), ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Acupuncture (Western References) › History of Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 6596.4

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.



Subjects: American (U.S.) REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Revolutionary War Medicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northeast, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Massachusetts
  • 6604.31

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

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

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



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, Japanese Medicine › History of Japanese Medicine
  • 5434.2

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

Geneva: World Health Organization, 1980.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a specimen of variola virus taken from the last case of endemic smallpox in the world, 26 October 1977. This was the successful conclusion of worldwide vaccination efforts initiated by Jenner in 1798. See No. 5423.



Subjects: Global Health, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › Vaccination, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Variola and Vaccinia
  • 6451.11

Subject catalogue of the history of medicine and related sciences. 18 vols.

Munich: Kraus International, 1980.

Subject section: 9 vols.; Biographical section: 5 vols.; Topographical section: 4 vols. Reproduces the card subject catalogue of the library and includes a cumulation of Current Work in the History of Medicine (No. 6451.1). Includes material published to 1977.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY , History of Medicine: General Works
  • 6893

Cloning in single-stranded bacteriophage as an aid to rapid DNA sequencing.

J. Mol. Biol., 143, 161-78, 1980.

Sanger and colleagues developed the random shotgun method to prepare templates for DNA sequencing. With A. R. Coulson, B. G. Barrell, A. J. H. Smith & B. A. Roe.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics
  • 7078

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

New York: Arno Press, 1980.

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 when preparing to lecture on the "Marital Relation" before the Mother's Club of the University of Wisconsin, and continued it for the duration of her career. The survey was initially controversial because of its frankness, and the overwhelmingly sex-positive views of the participants, even including the use of "male sheaths" (now called condoms) and "rubber cap over the uterus" (either a diaphragm or cervical cap) birth control. All this stood in high contrast to other existing historical literature of the time, which held that women have no sexual desires, and sex should only be used for reproduction. One theory is because the researcher was a woman gathering data from women that knew the results would only be put forth before a purely female audience, the normal strictures of propriety of that time were let down, and more realistic data was actually gathered.



Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 7455

Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophilia.

Nature, 287, 795-801, 1980.

In 1995 Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development."



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 7950

Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.

Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1980.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › History of Bibliography
  • 7970

The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment
  • 8175

Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.


Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine , BIOCHEMISTRY, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology
  • 8426

Pelagonii Ars veterinaria. Edited by K. D. Fischer.

Leipzig: Teubner, 1980.


Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › Byzantine Veterinary Medicine, VETERINARY MEDICINE
  • 8503

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

London: Tri-Med Books, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tanzania, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines
  • 8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1980.


Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BOTANY › Ethnobotany, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology
  • 8988

Evolutionary biology and the treatment of signs and symptoms of infectious disease.

J. Theor. Biol. 86 (1) 169–76., 1980.

"When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, manifestations of infectious diseases can be classified as (1) adaptations of the host to counteract harmful aspects of the disease, (2) adaptations of the pathogen to manipulate the host, or (3) “side effects” of the disease that do not serve adaptive functions for either the host or the pathogen. Although the functions of most manifestations are not known, support or rejection of these hypotheses should be readily derivable in many cases from analyses of existing data and relatively simple experiments. This approach should lead to improved medical treatment because preferred treatment depends on assessment of the validity of the three explanations. As an illustration, this perspective and its consequences for therapy are analyzed for fever, rhinorrhea and diarrhea" (Abstract).



Subjects: EVOLUTION › Evolutionary Medicine, INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  • 8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.


Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE, NURSING, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 9147

Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.

Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1980.

Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à M. Unzer...sur l'usage médicinal de L'Aimant from L'Antimagnetism...by Paulet (1784) [3.] Discours de M. Mesmer sur le magnétisme from Paulet, L'Antimagnétisme...(1784). [4.] Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal. (Regarding the translation of [4.] the authors state that their translation is significantly different "especially in the sections relating to medicine."



Subjects: Mesmerism, PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOTHERAPY › Hypnosis
  • 9163

Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980.


Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Massachusetts
  • 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.

London: Alecto Historical Editions & The British Museum (Natural History), 19801990.

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 collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander  while they accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771. Banks and Solander collected plants in Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java. 

Banks' and Solander's specimens were studied aboard the HMS Endeavour by the artist Sydney Parkinson. Parkinson drew each specimen and made notes on their color, and for some species completed watercolor illustrations. When the Endeavour returned to London Banks hired artists Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller, John Cleverly and Thomas Burgis to create watercolors of all of Parkinson's drawings. Between 1771 and 1784 Banks hired 18 engravers to create the copperplate engravings from the 743 completed watercolors with the purpose of eventually publishing an edition. Because Banks was engaged in many other projects, the Florilegium was not printed in Banks' lifetime, and he bequeathed the plates to the British Museum, where they were preserved. Between 1900 and 1905 James Britten and the British Museum issued prints of 315 of the plant engravings in black ink, under the title Illustrations of Australian Plants. Others were included in black and white in the 1973 book Captain Cook's Florilegium (Wikipedia). However, the complete series of plates in Banks' Florilegium was never issued in color until the above edition.

Limited to only 100 numbered sets, the sets were issued in 101 cloth-backed portfolios housed in 35 large folio custom-made solander boxes (including Supplement). The complete Banks’ Florilegium contains 738 engraved plates printed in color by hand using a 17th century printing technique called à la poupée, in which each color was applied directly to the copperplate by hand, and some plates were retouched with watercolor afterwards. The technique derives from a method developed by Johannes Tayler in the 17th century and revived by Pierre-Joseph Redouté in the early 19th century. The involved process of inking with a rolled up "dolly" of cotton tarlatan, printing, and cleaning the plates can take upwards of three hours for each impression.

 

 



Subjects: BOTANY, BOTANY › Botanical Illustration, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists
  • 9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980.


Subjects: Magic & Superstition in Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 10444

Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company & A Barra Foundation Book, 1980.


Subjects: MUSEUMS › History of Museums
  • 10736

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

New York: Harper & Row, 1980.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Ethnology, ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism
  • 11057

Detection and isolation of type C retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA),77, 7415-7419, 1980.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Poiesz, Ruscetti,... Gallo. Gallo and associates announced the discovery of a human retrovirus with type C morphology causing a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Gallo named this virus HTLV-1 (for Human T-cell Leukemia-Lymphoma Virus - 1). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HTLV-1 (Human T cell Leukemia-Lymphoma Virus-1), ONCOLOGY & CANCER, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Lymphoma, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae › HTLV-1
  • 11209

British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.

London: Dawson, 1980.

A partially annotated listing of all principal natural history books published in the UK from 1495 to 1900.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History
  • 11220

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC).

London: British Library, 1980.

https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search

The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) , an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library, seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists books by individual editions, recording standard bibliographic details for each edition as well as providing a census of known copies, organized by location. It currently holds records of about 30,000 editions. Work on the ISTC began in 1980 under the leadership of the British Library's Lotte Hellinga. Frederick R. Goff's Incunabula in American Libraries (1973) was the first pre-existing catalog to be keyed into ISTC's database. Besides providing the catalog's first 12,900 entries, Goff's system for classifying information about incunables formed the basis for the structure of ISTC's records. Entries for all of the incunables in British Library and the Italian union catalog (IGI) were added next, followed by other national incunable catalogs.

"The database records nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501, but not material printed entirely from woodblocks or engraved plates. 30,518 editions are listed as of August 2016, including some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th century.

"Information on each item includes authors, short titles, the language of the text, printer, place and date of printing, and format. Locations for copies have been confirmed by libraries all over the world. Many links are provided to online digital facsimiles, and also to major online catalogues of incunabula such as the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog and Bod-Inc online.

"A number of copies recorded in ISTC are now described in detail in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database. In due course, links will be added from the copies recorded in ISTC to their descriptions in MEI" (https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search).



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › 15th Century (Incunabula) & Medieval, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DIGITAL RESOURCES
  • 11257

Preliminary report on the pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for freshwater and soil amoebae.

J. clin. Path., 33, 1179-1183, 1980.

Discovery of the pathogenic relationship between amoebas and Legionella bacteria--a key step in understanding how this bacteria infects mankind. Legionella bacteria, along with amoeba, live in the organic contamination on the surfaces of water systems. Rowbotham demonstrated that Legionella grow inside another cell, specifically amoebas. Ordinarily amoeba eat bacteria and organic contamination, and in the process kill those bacteria.

It was later understood by others that when amoeba eat Legionella the bacteria become encapsulated, and continue to grow inside the amoeba until they are either released from the diseased amoeba into the water or a protective biofilm composed of mostly complex carbohydrate matrices containing the Legionella is released. In either form Legionella can be aerosolized and inhaled by a human host.

Once in the respiratory tract of humans, Legionella are ingested by macrophages and possess the unique ability to replicate inside the phagosome within the alveolar macrophages, which act in a protective manner for this specific bacteria. The key to the survival of Legionella within the macrophage, and thus their virulence, is the ability of Legionella  to prevent phagosome lysosome fusion and subsequent destruction.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

 

 



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Legionella, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Pneumonia › Legionnaire's Disease
  • 11454

Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.

New York: Praeger, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 11488

The seeds of artificial intelligence: SUMEX-AIM.

Washington, DC: U.S. National Institutes of Health, 1980.

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. Levinthal. 



Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • 11579

The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed as an inevitable result of the aging process, but rather a disease that may well be prevented or delayed if specific risk factors can be identified and controlled.

"Framingham project director Thomas Dawber now brings together in one comprehensive yet concise report the history of the study, from the development of hypotheses, to the selection of the population sample, to an examination of the methodological problems encountered in longitudinal research. Dr. Dawber’s presentation of the findings demonstrates the basis for current recommendations for decreasing blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, reducing weight, monitoring fat intake in diabetics, increasing physical activity, and discontinuing cigarette smoking" (publisher).



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, EPIDEMIOLOGY
  • 11689

Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).

Rotterdam: Kooyker Scientific Publications, 1980.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 11736

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

Oxford: Sandford Publications, 1980.

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 papers in the Royal Society.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY
  • 12270

Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.

New Eng. J. Med., 303, 322-324, 1980.

First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Arrythmias › Implantable Defibrillator
  • 12304

Expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.

Science, 209, 1422-1427, 1980.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulligan, Berg.) In an understated paper the authors suggested the potential of treating recessive diseases like Lesch-Nyhan syndrome by gene therapy.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GENETICS / HEREDITY › GENETIC DISORDERS, GENETICS / HEREDITY › Gene Therapy / Human Gene Transfer
  • 12344

Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.

Stroudsberg, PA: Academic Press, 1980.


Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease › Renal Hypertension
  • 12388

Purification and characterization of the major allergen from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus-antigen P1.

J. Immunol., 125, 587-592, 1980.

First purification and publication of a dust mite allergen in 1978 by Platts-Mills and Chapman.



Subjects: ALLERGY
  • 12916

A history of dentistry in New Zealand.

Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Dental Association, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › New Zealand, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 12917

The history of old Turkish dentistry.

Munich: Demeter Verlag, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1980.


Subjects: INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › Traditional Indian Medicine
  • 12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1980.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India › History of Ancient Medicine in India, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › Traditional Indian Medicine
  • 13206

From DNA to Protein: The transfer of genetic information.

London: Macmillan, 1980.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Synthesis
  • 13228

Speech and speech disorders in Western thought before 1600.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.


Subjects: Speech, Anatomy and Physiology of, Speech, Anatomy and Physiology of › Speech Disorders
  • 13803

The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.

New Delhi: World Health Organization, South-East Regional Office, 1980.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Bangladesh, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox
  • 13918

Gene transfer in intact animals.

Nature, 284, 422-425, 1980.

Cline and colleagues were the first to successfully transfer a functioning gene into a living mouse, creating the first transgenic organism.



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › Gene Therapy / Human Gene Transfer
  • 13985

Transforming gene product of Rous sarcoma virus phosphorylates tyrosine.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 77, 1311-1315, 1980.

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, by activated oncogenic protein tyrosine kinases, is a pivotal mechanism utilized in the malignant transformation of cells. This cell-signaling mechanism revolutionized basic research on cancer. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER
  • 13993

Are snRNPs involved in splicing?

Nature, 283, 220-224, 1980.

Steitz and Lerner used immunoprecipitation with human antibodies from patients with autoimmunity to isolate and identify the novel entities snRNPs (pronounced "snurps") and detect their role in splicing. A snRNP is a specific short length of RNA, around 150 nucleotides long, associated with protein, that is involved in splicing introns out of newly transcribed RNA (pre-mRNA), a component of the spliceosomes. Steitz's paper "set the field ahead by light years and heralded the avalanche of small RNAs that have since been discovered to play a role in multiple steps in RNA biosynthesis," noted Susan Berget. Order of authorship in the original publication: Streitz, Wolin...Lerner.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Nucleic Acids
  • 14108

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

Science, 208, 1145-1148, 1980.

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 authors showed that essentially every band and sub band observed in man has direct counterpart in the chimps' chromosome complement. However, man has 46 chromosomes whereas the chimp has 48. They unequivocally showed that the presence of just 46 chromosomes in man vs. the 48 in chimps can be explained by fusion of 2 acrocentric chromosomes to form the human chromosome number 2, and that this "fusion" is generated by telomeric fusion. The fusion occurred at the upper 2/3 and lower 1/3 of band q13.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Yunis, Sawyer, Dunham.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, GENETICS / HEREDITY, ZOOLOGY › Mammalogy › Primatology
  • 14186

Speech disorder in nineteenth century Britain. The history of stuttering.

London: Croom Helm, 1980.


Subjects: Speech, Anatomy and Physiology of › Speech Disorders
  • 14207

Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.

Science, 208, 1095-1108, 1980.

Following up on No. 14206, the authors stated that the same excess iridium areas were found in two different areas of W. Europe and in New Zealand, and posited that “the anomalous iridium concentrations at the C [retacous]-T[ertiary] boundary is best interpreted as indicating an abnormal influx of extraterrestrial material.” They suggested that this was produced by an asteroid strike on the earth that formed an impact crater, and that some of the dust sized material about 60 times the object’s mass would eject and inject the stratosphere with pulverized dust containing iridium which would then spread around the globe. This dust from the explosion would have blocked sunlight for a long time and suppressed photosynthesis, and as a result most food chains would have collapsed, and extinctions resulted. Luis Alvarez calculated the size of the asteroid needed to produce the catastrophic impact -- an asterioid with a diameter of about 10 plus or minus 4 kilometers at the entry velocity that meteorites hit earth. They pointed out that “an asteroid of 10 km. diameter is twice the typical oceanic depth and this would produce a crater on the ocean bottom, and pulverized rock could be ejected.” They estimated that no terrestrial vertebrate heavier than about 25kg. would have survived the extinction. Finally they stated that the crater resulting from such a collision must be found to validate their hypothesis, and “there is about a 2/3 probability that this object fell in the ocean.”

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › Climate Change, BIOLOGY › Evolution, Geology, Medical & Biological
  • 14246

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

Nature, 288, 373-376, 1980.

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 determined that EDRF was in fact nitric oxide (NO), an important compound in many aspects of cardiovascular physiology. 

See also: "Studies on relaxation of rabbit aorta by sodium nitrite: the basis for the proposal that the acid-activatable inhibtory factor from retractor penis in inorganic nitrite and the endothelium-derived relaxing factor is nitric oxide" IN: Vasodilatation: Vascular smooth muscle, petides, and endothelium, edited by P. M. Vanhoutte, (1988) 401-414.

In 1998 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system."



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY › Cardiovascular System, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 14255

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

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.), 77, 3870-3874, 1980.

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—tiny sac-like structures that transport hormones, growth factors, and other molecules within cells—know how to reach their correct destination and where and when to release their contents. This cellular trafficking underlies many critical physiological functions, including the propagation of the cell itself in division, communication between nerve cells in the brain, secretion of insulin and other hormones in the body, and nutrient uptake. Defects in this process lead to a wide variety of conditions, including diabetes and botulism " (Wikipedia article on James Rothman).



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 14256

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

Cell, 21, 205-215, 1980.

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 yeast mutants (sec mutants) based on an increase in cell density associated with accumulation of secretory proteins inside the mutant cells. This approach resulted in the discovery of some 23 SEC genes that encode components of the basic molecular machinery essential for vesicle-mediated protein transport along the secretory pathway.

In 2013 Scheckman shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James E. Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells."



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 2188.3

The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1981.


Subjects: American (U.S.) REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Revolutionary War Medicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine
  • 2682.55

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

Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.


Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 3705.3

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

Chicago, IL: Quintessence, 1981.

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 “almost a different book”. This is the best history of dentistry from the bibliographic point of view. Second edition in German, 1985



Subjects: DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 3342.1
  • 3415.3

Naissance et développement de l’oto-rhino-laryngologie dans l’histoire de la médecine. 3 vols.

Acta oto-rhino-laryng. belg., 35, Suppl. II, III, IV-, 1981.


Subjects: OTOLOGY › History of Otology, OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › History of ENT
  • 4158.2

The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.

New York: Praeger, 1981.

A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › History of Dermatology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis
  • 5019.18

The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.

Oxford: University Press, 1981.

Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology
  • 5019.19

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

Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1981.


Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry
  • 5768.4

History of free skin grafting.

Berlin & New York: Springer, 1981.

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



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery, PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › Skin Grafting, TRANSPLANTATION › History of Transplantation
  • 6007.2

Ophthalmologisch-optische Untersuchungsgeräte.

Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1981.

English translation by F.C. Blodi as The history of optical instruments for the examination of the eye, Bonn: J. P. Wayenborgh, 1986.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Ophthalmoscopy
  • 6610.15

The art of healing. Medicine and science in American art.

Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1981.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology
  • 6485.61

The Hippocratic treatises “On generation” “On the nature of the child” “Diseases IV”. A commentary.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece
  • 6524.4

Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 6742.9

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

New York: Garland Publishing, 1981.

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



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works)
  • 6533.2

Histoire de la médecine belge.

Zaventem, Belgium: Elsevier Librico, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Belgium
  • 197.1
  • 6357.3

A history of the study of human growth.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1981.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, PEDIATRICS
  • 6551.2

The healers: a history of medicine in Scotland.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Scotland
  • 6786.23

Medical bibliography in an age of discontinuity.

Chicago, IL: Medical Library Association, 1981.

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



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › History of Bibliography
  • 6786.24

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

Newcastle upon Tyne: Manchester University Press for The University Library, 1981.

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 physicians, and descriptions of about 1000 medical portraits and other prints. Completely indexed.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 6596.5

American medicine in transition, 1840-1910.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States
  • 6579.3

Historia general de la medicina española. Vol. 1-4.

Salamanca, Spain: Ed. Universidad de Salamanca, 19811987.

Vol. 1: Ancient and medieval; Vol. 2: Renaissance; Vol. 3: 17th century; Vol.. 4: 18th century.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

Taipei, Taiwan: Li Ming Cultural Enterprise Co., 1981.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a  French Jesuit working at the court of the Manchu Emperior K'ang Hsi (Kangxi). The manuscript reproduced and translated in this edition contained 90 illustrations; other surviving versions of this work (9 copies are known) may contain as many as 135 illustrations. The text was apparently intended only for consultation by members of the imperial household, and no attempts were made to disseminate this information to practioners outside the court.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 17th Century, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, Chinese Medicine
  • 6981

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

Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1981.

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.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives
  • 6982

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

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6995

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

Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. (MMWR) Jul 4; 30 (25) 305-8., 1981.

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 homosexual men in California.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Kaposi's Sarcoma / HHV-8, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, PULMONOLOGY, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › New York
  • 7144

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

Hildesheim & New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1981.

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 provides English translations of Aristotle's texts and Michael's commentaries, with detailed explanatory notes for both.



Subjects: Byzantine Zoology, Zoology, Natural History, Ancient Greek / Roman / Egyptian
  • 7760

Radiation and human health.

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1981.

The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER, PUBLIC HEALTH, TOXICOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure
  • 7899

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

1981.


Subjects: Periodicals Specializing in the History of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 8033

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

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine)
  • 8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

New York: The Free Press, 1981.

"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 treatment. Its purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects.

The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the disease might do to them; and, with the exception of a smattering of medication during the first few months, they were not given health care. Instead of the powerful drugs they required, they were given aspirin for their aches and pains. Health officials systematically deceived the men into believing they were patients in a government study of “bad blood”, a catch-all phrase black sharecroppers used to describe a host of illnesses. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications." New and expanded edition, 1993.



Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, Crimes / Frauds / Hoaxes, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Alabama
  • 8282

Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine.

Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1981.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri › History of Medical Papyri
  • 8324

The complete works, translated into English by Charles Allison Behr. 2 vols.

Leiden: Brill, 19811986.

"The six books of Sacred Tales “ are in a class apart. A record of revelations made to Aristides in dreams by the healing god Asclepius…they are of major importance, both as evidence for the practices associated with temple medicine, and as the fullest first-hand report of personal religious experience that survives from any pagan writer.” Modern scholarship has seen a proliferation of theories about the nature of Aristides’ illnesses (real or imagined) and about the meaning of his religious experiences; “a number of scholars have applied psychoanalytical theories to Aristides’ self-presentation” and have come to various conclusions. (Wikipedia article on Aelius Aristides, accessed 12-2016). See also Behr, Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales (Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1968).

 

 



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, PSYCHIATRY, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8335

Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1981.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England › Anglo-Saxon Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 8437

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

Buffalo, NY: Department of Classics, 1981.

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.



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
  • 8659

The American Red Cross: The first century.

New York: HarperCollins, 1981.

Extensively illustrated with photographs.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine
  • 8668

Science at the beside: Clinical research in American medicine 1905-1945.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Definitive account of the development of academic medicine and clinical research in America during the period covered.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession
  • 8693

Meilensteine der Wiener Medizin: Grosse Arzte Osterreichs in drei Jahrhunderten.

Vienna: W. Maudrich, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Austria
  • 8841

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

Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Bahamas, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Latin America, Latin American Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 9123

Galen: On the doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato. Edition, translation and commentary by Phillip DeLacy. 3 vols.

Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 19811984.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire
  • 9175

Molecular cloning of poliovirus cDNA and determination of the complete nucleotide sequence of the viral genome.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 78 (8) 4887-4891., 1981.

The poliovirus genome. Digital facsimile from PNAS through PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, VIROLOGY › Molecular Virology, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Picornaviridae, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Picornaviridae › Poliovirus
  • 9176

Primary structure, gene organization and polypeptide expression of poliovirus RNA.

Nature, 291, 547-553, 1981.

The poliovirus genome. With around 10 co-authors. 

"The primary structure of the poliovirus genome has been determined. The RNA molecule is 7,433 nucleotides long, polyadenylated at the 3′ terminus, and covalently linked to a small protein (VPg) at the 5′ terminus. An open reading frame of 2,207 consecutive triplets spans over 89% of the nucleotide sequence and codes for the viral polyprotein NCVPOO. Twelve viral polypeptides have been mapped by amino acid sequence analysis and were found to be proteolytic cleavage products of the polyprotein, cleavages occurring predominantly at Gln-Gly pairs" (Abstract).

 



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, VIROLOGY
  • 9329

Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.

Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. (MMWR) June 5, 30, 250-252, 1981.

The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; however, the lead author of the paper, Michael Gottlieb, had seen five cases of this infection since January 1981, all in previously healthy young homosexual men, indicating that their immune system was not working. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California
  • 9674

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

Philadelphia: University Pennsylvania Press, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Household or Self-Help Medicine
  • 9728

The DNA story: A documentary history of gene cloning.

San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman & Co, 1981.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › History of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology › History of Biotechnology
  • 10045

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

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: DEATH & DYING › Legal Death, Ethics, Biomedical, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Legislation, Biomedical
  • 10222

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

New York: Everest House, 1981.

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



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 10329

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

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1981.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , SURGERY: General › History of Surgery, Societies and Associations, Medical
  • 10690

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

London: The Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1981.

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



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Veterinary Medicine, VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine
  • 10834

A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.

Lantham, MD: University Press of America, 1981.

"... 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 experimentation and the antivivisection movement.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences, Medicine: General Works › Experimental Design › Vivisection / Antivivisection
  • 10990

Oslerian pathology: An assessment and annotated atlas of museum specimens.

Lawrence, KA: Coronado Press, 1981.

Covers the 55 remaining specimens of pathological preparations by William Osler preserved at McGill University. The book is divided into 4 sections: A: presentation and discussion of those aspects of Osler's activities related to pathology. B: Osler's orientation to the disease represented. C: An atlas of the 55 specimens, each with black & white photograph, original description and annotation. D: reproductions of Osler's handwritten autopsy protocols from 10 of the 55 specimens.



Subjects: MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological , PATHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY › History of Pathology
  • 11269

The house of Appleton: The history of a publishing house and its relationship to the cultural, social, and political events that helped shape the destiny of New York City.

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of
  • 11681

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

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1981.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History
  • 11735

Willis's Oxford casebook (1650-52) edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.

Oxford: Sanford Publications, 1981.


Subjects: NEUROLOGY
  • 11740

Research and discovery in medicine: Contributions from Johns Hopkins.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Essays on the history of pioneering clinical research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.



Subjects: U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Maryland
  • 11909

Theories of fever from antiquity to the enlightenment. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Vivian Nutton. Medical History, Supplement No. 1.

London: The Wellcome Institute, 1981.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease
  • 11947

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

Geneva & Paris: Droz, 1981.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › France, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 11959

The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1981.


Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Gardens › History of Botanical Gardens, BOTANY › History of Botany
  • 11965

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

London & New York: Academic Press, 1981.


Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany
  • 11966

The garden of eden: The botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

In the 15th century people still hoped that the original garden of Eden might be rediscovered, but in the 16th and 17th centuries efforts turned to collecting plants and attempting to re-create the wonder of the garden. Examines famous early botanical gardens in Paris, Oxford, Padua, Leyden, and Uppsala.



Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Gardens › History of Botanical Gardens
  • 12120

The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.

Geneva: World Health Organization, 1981.


Subjects: Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 12177

Pflanzen, Wurzeln, Säfte, Samen. Antike Heilkunst in Miniaturen des Wiener Dioskurides.

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-und Verlag-Anstalt, 1981.


Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica
  • 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.

Cape Town: Botanical Research Institute & A. A. Balkema, 1981.


Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Africa
  • 12918

Historia de la odontologia en Cuba. Vol. 1: La colonia (1492-1898) Vol. 2: Intervencion norteamericana (1899-1902) (1906-1909). Periodo republicano 1902-1909, 1909-1940. Vol. 3: Peridodo republicano (1940-1958) Vol. 4: Cuba comunista y en el exilio (1959-1983).

Miami, FL: Ediciones Universal, 19811984.

A remarkably comprehensive history of dentistry for a small country.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Cuba, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 13068

The mismeasure of man.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1981.

A critique of statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism. "Gould argues that the primary assumption underlying biological determinism is that, “worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity”. Biological determinism is analyzed in discussions of craniometry and psychological testing, the two principal methods used to measure intelligence as a single quantity. According to Gould, these methods possess two deep fallacies. The first fallacy is reification, which is “our tendency to convert abstract concepts into entities”.[3] Examples of reification include the intelligence quotient (IQ) and the general intelligence factor (g factor), which have been the cornerstones of much research into human intelligence. The second fallacy is that of “ranking”, which is the “propensity for ordering complex variation as a gradual ascending scale”.[3] (Wikipedia article on The Mismeasure of Man, accessed 10-2020). Expanded second edition, 1996.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology, Experimental Design, PSYCHOLOGY › History of Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY › Intelligence Testing
  • 13285

Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.

Nature, 292, 154-56, 1981.

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” -- mice that have had one or several of their genes deleted or otherwise modified to study their function in disease.

In 2007 Evans shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, EMBRYOLOGY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , Regenerative Medicine
  • 13495

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

Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634. Napier's clients were drawn from every social rank and his therapeutic techniques included all the types of psychological healing practised at the time. His vivid descriptions of his clients' afflictions and complaints illuminate the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. This book goes beyond simply analysing mental disorder in a seventeenth-century astrological and medical practice. It reveals contemporary attitudes towards family life, describes the appeal of witchcraft and demonology to ordinary villagers, and explains the social and intellectual basis for the eclectic blend of scientific, magical, and religious therapies practised before the English Revolution" (publisher).



Subjects: Magic & Superstition in Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 13583

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

Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers & Distributors, 1981.


Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Utah
  • 13902

The family book about sexuality.

New York: Xs Books, 1981.


Subjects: Popularization of Medicine, SEXUALITY / Sexology › Sexuality / Sexology
  • 13960

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

Nucleic Acids Research, 9, 2871-2888, 1981.

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 paired synthetic universal primers. The method is based on fragmenting DNA into small sizes, purifying them by cloning, and defining the start of sequencing with a short oligonucleotide. Because fragmentation produces overlapping fragments, sequences can be concatenated by overlapping sequence information, thereby reconstructing contiguous sequences (contigs).
Order of authorship in the original publication: Messing, Gardner, Howarth....

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics
  • 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) .

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 78, 7634-7638, 1981.

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 established teratocarcinoma stem-cell line (such a medium might contain a factor that stimulates ES-cell proliferation and/or suppress their differentiation). Using this approach, she established a cell line directly from normal pre-implantation mouse embryos and confirmed its pluripotency by showing that individual cells of this line could differentiate to form a wide variety of cell types in vitro and in vivo.  Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Developmental Biology, Regenerative Medicine
  • 14183

Computer averaging of electron micrographs of the 405 ribosomal subunit.

Science, 214, 1353-1355, 1981.

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 image analysis, which form the basis for single particle cryo-EM. He gathered them together in a suite of computer programs called “SPIDER”, making them readily available and useable for the scientific community. Order of authorship in the original publication: Frank, Verschoor, Boublik.

In 2017 Frank shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure, Microscopy › Cryogenic electron microscopy, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
  • 14224

The crystallization of ribsomal proteins from the 50 S subunit of the Escherichia coli and Bacillus stearothermophilus ribosome.

J. biol. Chem, 256, 11787-11790, 1981.

The authors crystallized fragments of the 50S subunit of a thermophile bacterium’s ribosome to 3 angstroms resolution. Order of authorship in the original publication: Appelt, Dyck, et al., Yonath. Digital facsimile from jbc.org at this link.

In 2009 Yonath shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ventatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Crystallization, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Synthesis, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected), WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 1588.18

A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982.

An index to bio-bibliographical articles listed alphabetically by scientist. Supplement published, Philadelphia, 1985.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Chemistry / Biochemistry, BIOCHEMISTRY › History of Biochemistry, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 145.2

The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology.

Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1982.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › History of Biology
  • 3979.1

The discovery of insulin.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982.


Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes › History of Diabetes
  • 3910

A history of endocrinology.

Lancaster, PA: MTP Press, 1982.

A detailed illustrated history, tracing the development of knowledge from ancient times to the present. Includes biographical notes on the important pioneers in the field and chronological tables. Revised and updated second edition entitled The history of clinical endocrinology (1993).



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY › History of Endocrinology
  • 5733.4

Under the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia.

London: Macmillan, 1982.

The most comprehensive work on the subject. Articles reprinted primarily from Brit. J. Anaesth., with new introduction and index.



Subjects: ANESTHESIA › History of Anesthesia
  • 5766.6

Breast reconstruction with a transverse abdominal island flap.

Plast. reconstr. Surg., 69, 216-24, 1982.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Hartrampf, Scheflan, Black. The transverse rectus abdominus myocutaneous flap for breast reconstruction. Breast reconstruction without the use of an artificial implant.



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › Mammaplasty
  • 5768.5

The progress of plastic surgery: An introductory history.

Oxford: Meeuws, 1982.


Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery
  • 5475.2

Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.

Nouméa, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1982.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Diseases, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Pacific, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Dengue Fever
  • 6623.4

Literature and medicine: an annotated bibliography. Revised edition.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

Annotated bibliography of medical references in Western literature from the ancient world to time of writing. Emphasis is on summaries of the medical content. Editions cited are usually modern and always in English,



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 6510.4

Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.

Basel: Editiones “Roche, 1982.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine
  • 6786.25

La médecine médiévale à travers les manuscrits de la Bibliothéque Nationale.

Paris: Bibliothéque Nationale, 1982.

Annotated exhibition catalogue, with introductory essays, describing 99 exceptionally important medieval medical manuscripts as well as a few very early medallions.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 6786.26

A catalogue of sixteenth-century medical books in Edinburgh libraries.

Edinburgh: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1982.

Describes 2509 books with paginations and collations. Reproduces 89 illustrations.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries
  • 6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

New York: Basic Books, 1982.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6610.16

La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gerard de Lairese, peintre en Hollande – Lairesse, Bidloo, Cowper.

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1982.


Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, ART & Medicine & Biology
  • 258.12

The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › History of Biology, EVOLUTION
  • 6885

Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage lambda.

J. Mol. Biol., 162, 729-773, 1982.

Sanger and colleagues sequenced the entire genome of bacteriophage lambda using a random shotgun technique. This was the first whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequence. 



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics
  • 7431

A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.

Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services & Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 1982.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Institutional Medical Libraries, Histories of, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Libraries & Databases, History of
  • 7676

The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1982.


Subjects: MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological
  • 8187

Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.

New York & Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982.

The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.



Subjects: Bioclimatology › History of Bioclimatology, Geography of Disease / Health Geography › History of Geography of Disease
  • 8333

Das Bad in der byzantinischen Zeit.

Munich: Institut für Byzantinistik und neugreichische Philologie, 1982.


Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, THERAPEUTICS › Hydrotherapy › History of Hydrotherapy or Physical Therapy
  • 8436

Iohannis Alexandrini Commentaria in librum De sectis Galeni. Edited by C. D. Pritchet.

Leiden: Brill, 1982.

Edited from the Latin translation by Burgundio of the Greek text first published in the 1490 edition of Galen's works.



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
  • 8737

Health science books, 1876-1982. 4 vols.

New York: R. R. Bowker, 1982.

One of the last very large printed works of this type:  "Over 132,000 English-language titles classified by some 28,000 Library of Congress subject headings. 'A unique feature ... is that, where possible, equivalent National Library of Medicine MeSH subject headings have been provided.; Covers health science literature as well as related disciplines, e.g., podiatry, psychology, and medical sociology. Intended for practitioners, researchers, students, and librarians. Subject index contains the main listing of entries. Each entry gives cataloging as prepared by the Library of Congress. Includes guides to MeSH/LC equeivalent subject headings and LC/MeSH subject headings. Author, title indexes" (publisher).



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 9227

Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1982.

Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Air Force, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Vietnam War
  • 9365

The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.

New York: Congdon & Weed, 1982.


Subjects: Chinese Medicine
  • 9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

St-Jean-Chrysostome (Québec): Les Editions du Sphinx, 1982.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern authors. 



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, Hippocratic Tradition
  • 9775

Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction
  • 9793

Histoire de la médecine aux armées. Par Pierre Lefebvre, Jean Guillermand et Albert Fabre. 3 vols.

Panazol, France: Les Éditions Lavauzelle, 19821987.

Vol. 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution. Vol. 2: De la révolution française au conflit mondial de 1914. Vol. 3: De 1914 à nos jours.



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine
  • 10046

Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: Biotechnology, Ethics, Biomedical
  • 10140

Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.

Science, 216 (4542),136–144, 1982.

In 1997 Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection."

In his 1982 paper Prusiner proposed a completely novel explanation for the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.To describe the cause of the disease in this paper Prusiner coined the term prion, which comes from the words "proteinaceous" and "infectious," to refer to a previously undescribed form of infection, due to protein misfolding, with no DNA or RNA involved. This new concept "violated all the rules" and failed to convince the scientific community, most of whom initially thought that Prusiner was "totally insane."
See also Nos. 10842, 12835 and 7624.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Prion Diseases, NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , VETERINARY MEDICINE
  • 10254

Space physiology and medicine. Edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and James F. Parker, Jr.

Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1982.


Subjects: AVIATION Medicine › Aerospace Medicine
  • 10403

The history of medicine in Alabama.

Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1982.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Alabama
  • 10572

Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation ratios, and census projection. He also analyzed the catastrophic population decline that resulted from contact with Europeans, and compared this experience with that of the coastal region and the Andean highlands.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Peru, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology
  • 10659

Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.

New Engl. J. Med., 306, 557-564, 1982.

First successful heart-lung transplant, performed on March 9, 1981, after nearly four years of testing on primates.

Abstract

"We report our initial experience with three patients who received heart-lung transplants. The primary immunosuppressive agent used was cyclosporin A, although conventional drugs were also administered. In the first patient, a 45-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension, acute rejection of the transplant was diagnosed 10 and 25 days after surgery but was treated successfully; this patient still had normal exercise tolerance 10 months late. The second patient, a 30-year-old man, underwent transplantation for Eisenmenger's syndrome due to atrial and ventricular septal defects. His graft was not rejected, and his condition was markedly improved eight months after surgery. The third patient, a 29-year-old woman with transposition of the great vessels and associated defects, died four days postoperatively of renal, hepatic, and pulmonary complications. We attribute our success to experience with heart-lung transplantation in primates, to the use of cyclosporin A, and to the anatomic and physiologic advantages of combined heart-lung replacement. We hope that such transplants may ultimately provide an improved outlook for selected terminally ill patients with pulmonary vascular disease and certain other intractable cardiopulmonary disorders."



Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › Heart Transplants, TRANSPLANTATION
  • 10782

Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?

Science, 216, 1317-1319, 1982.

Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered the bacterium. Order of authorship in the original publication was Burgdorfer, Barbour, Hayes....

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Spirochetes › Borrelia , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Lyme Disease
  • 10816

The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1982.

Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patient, among others.  The authors include Auden, Bellow, Dickens, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Flaubert, Goethe, Holmes, Keats, Mann, Maugham, Melville, Orwell, Schweitzer, Shakespeare, Shaw, Tolstoy, Twain, Williams, and Zinsser, etc.



Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 10842

Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.

Science, 218, 1309-1311, 1982.

Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982.

Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-authors published an additional, longer paper dated December 21, 1982, further characterizing the pure protein of the infectious agent:

"Further purification and characterization of Scrapie prions," Biochemistry, 21 (1982) 6942-6950. 

These papers provided the necessary evidence to convince members of the scientific community, and eventually led to Prusiner's Nobel Prize.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for these references and their interpretation.)

 



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Prion Diseases, VETERINARY MEDICINE
  • 11037

Origins of clinical chemistry: The evolution of protein analysis.

New York: Academic Press, 1982.


Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY › Clinical Chemistry, BIOCHEMISTRY › History of Biochemistry
  • 11055

Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques. By Lydie Boulle, Mirko D. Grmek, Catherine Lupovici et Janine Samion-Contet.

Paris: Masson, 1982.

Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES, PULMONOLOGY › Lung Diseases › Pulmonary Tuberculosis, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11058

A new subtype of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-II) associated with a T-cell variant of hairy cell leukemia.

Science, 218, 571-573, 1982.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Kalyanaraman, Sarngadharan,... Gallo. Discovery by Gallo of HTLV-II, which like HTLV-I, is carcinogenic.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HTLV-2, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Leukemia, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae
  • 11217

Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.

Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1982.

See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History
  • 11294

The gates of memory.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.

The autobiography of the great surgeon, bibliographer, scholar and book collector.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Book Collecting, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography
  • 11328

Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease, illness, health, and disability; violence, trauma, and power relations; and the cultures of biomedical science and technology and of the clinic, as these are represented and interpreted in verbal, visual, and material texts. Literature and Medicine features one thematic and one general issue each year. Past theme issues have explored identity and difference; contagion and infection; cancer pathography; the representations of genomics; and the narration of pain. Literature and Medicine is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine" (publisher).

Vol. 37 was published in 2019.



Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical, Humanities, Medical, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, Periodicals Specializing in the History of Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 -
  • 11414

Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.

Amer. J. Bot., 69, 1346-1355, 1982.

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.



Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About
  • 11769

The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.

Dordrecht & Boston: D. Reidel, 1982.


Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology
  • 11940

Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.

Zurich: Juris-Druck und Verlag, 19821986.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica
  • 12213

Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 19822012.


Subjects: WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 12236

Catheter technique for closed-chest ablation of the atrioventricular conduction system.

New Eng. J. Med., 306, 194-200, 1982.

The catheter ablation technique, pioneered by Gallagher and team.

Abstract
"This report describes a catheter technique for ablating the His bundle and its application in nine patients with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia that was unresponsive to medical management. A tripolar electrode catheter was positioned in the region of the His bundle, and the electrode recording a large unipolar His-bundle potential was identified. In the first patient, two shocks of 25 and 50 J, respectively, were delivered by a standard cardioversion unit to the catheter electrode, resulting in an intra-His-bundle conduction defect. Subsequent delivery of 300 J resulted in complete heart block. In the next eight patients, an initial shock of 200 J was used. The His bundle was ablated by this single shock in six of these patients and by an additional shock of 300 J in one. In the remaining patient, conduction in the atrioventricular node was modified, resulting in alternating first and second-degree atrioventricular block. A stable escape rhythm was preserved in all patients. The procedure was well tolerated, without complications, and all patients have remained free of arrhythmia, without medication, for follow-up periods of two to six months."



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY › Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • 12244

Doppler ultrasound in cardiology: Physical principles and clinical applications.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1982.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Echocardiography, CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Echocardiography › Doppler Echocardiography
  • 12368

Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.

Stroudsberg, PA, 1982.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Congenital Heart Defects, CARDIOLOGY › Pediatric Cardiology
  • 12469

Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.

Compt. Rend. l'Acad. Sci., Sér. III, 294, 933–8, 1982.

"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf from 1949 to 1980; shortened to RU-486), which was discovered to also be a progesterone receptor antagonist.[54][55] In October 1981, endocrinologist Étienne-Émile Baulieu, a consultant to Roussel-Uclaf, arranged tests of its use for medical abortion in 11 women in Switzerland by gynecologist Walter Herrmann at the University of Geneva's Cantonal Hospital, with successful results announced on April 19, 1982" (Wikipedia article on Mifepristone, accessed 4-2020).



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Abortion, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Abortion
  • 12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.


Subjects: POLICY, HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Wisconsin
  • 12595

The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.

Edinburgh: Churchill-Livingstone, 1982.

The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description, of the four cases he reported in his paper of 1921, and his fifth case reported in 1923. They concluded, "In summary our review of the original sections used by Jakob establishes several important points which help in the clarification of the nosology of CJD. First, at least two of Jakob's five cases had spogiform encephalopathy which fall within the present day diagnostic criteria. These cases represent the earliest proven examples of subacute spongiform encephalopathy, and justify the retention of Jakob's name in the eponymous designation of the disease." They also stated that "...Creutzfeldt's case remains undiagnosed by modern criteria, but fit best within the acquired toxic-metabolic encephalopathies." Their findings confirmed that Jakob, and not Creutzfeldt, first described what came to be known, incorrectly, as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Prion Diseases, NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders
  • 13179

John Gould, the bird man. A chronology and bibliography by Gordon C. Sauer.

Lawrence, KA: University of Kansas Press, 1982.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology
  • 13614

Health/medicine and the faith traditions: An inquiry into religion and medicine. Edited by Martin E. Marty and Kenneth L. Vaux.

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982.


Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 13932

Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena.

Cell, 31, 147-157, 1982.

Discovery of ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Cech discovered that RNA itself could cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. "In the 1970s, Cech had been studying the splicing of RNA in the unicellular organism Tetrahymena thermophila when he discovered that an unprocessed RNA molecule could splice itself. In 1982, Cech became the first to show that RNA molecules are not restricted to being passive carriers of genetic information – they can have catalytic functions and can participate in cellular reactions. RNA-processing reactions and protein synthesis on ribosomes in particular are catalysed by RNA. RNA enzymes are known as ribozymes and have provided a new tool for gene technology. They also have the potential to provide new therapeutic agents – for example, they have the ability to destroy and cleave invading, viral RNAs" (Wikipedia article on Thomas Cech, accessed 7-22).

In 1989 Cech shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA."



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
  • 14018

Agrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells.

Nature, 295, 432-434, 1982.

Chilton was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for causing disease could be removed from the bacterium without adversely affecting its ability to insert its own DNA into plant cells and modify the plant's genome. Chilton described what she had done as disarming the bacterial plasmid responsible for the DNA transfer. Using Agrobacterium carrying the disarmed Ti plasmid, in 1983 Chilton and her collaborators produced the first genetically modified plants.



Subjects: BOTANY, Biotechnology › Genetic Engineering / Genetic Modification
  • 14189

Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.

Paris: Éditions Aubier Montaigne, 1982.

Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019.

"The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. The sweep of the volume is broad; from a rereading and reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth to legislation regarding disability, Stiker proposes an analytical history that demonstrates how societies reveal themselves through their attitudes towards disability in unexpected ways.  Through this history, Stiker examines a fundamental issue in contemporary Western discourse on disability: the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society. He highlights the consequences of such a mindset, illustrating the intolerance of diversity and individualism that arises from placing such importance on equality.  Working against this thinking, Stiker argues that difference is not only acceptable, but that it is desirable, and necessary" (publisher).
 



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 14266

Tumor-specific antigen of murine T-lymphoma defined with monoclonal antibody.

J. Immunol., 129, 2293-2300, 1982.

In 1982 Allison discovered the T-cell receptor. Order of authorship in the original publication: Allison, Bloch, McIntyre.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › Molecular Immunology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 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.

New York: Raven Press, 19831988.


Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 214.91

The establishment of human antiquity.

New York: Academic Press, 1983.

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



Subjects: EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of
  • 5768.6

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

Basel: S. Karger, 1983.

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.



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery
  • 5813.13

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

New York: Praeger, 1983.

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



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 5436.2

Princes and peasants: Smallpox in history.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

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



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox
  • 6623.5

Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.

Melbourne, FL: Krieger, 1983.

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



Subjects: Crimes / Frauds / Hoaxes, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 6485.62

Les maladies à l’aube de la civilization occidentale.

Paris: Payot, 1983.

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



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Greece
  • 6485.63

Medizinische Instrumente aus Sepulkralfunden der römischen Kaiserzeit.

Cologne: Rheinland Verlag, 1983.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 6786.27

An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983.

Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927. 540 items, usually with detailed notes.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Latin America, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine
  • 6604.81

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

Brisbane, Australia: Dept. of Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, 1983.

A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 6610.17

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

Munich: Karl Thiemeg AG, 1983.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 272

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

Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1983.


Subjects: Microscopy › History of Microscopy
  • 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.

Milan: Franco Angeli, 19831994.

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.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 6996

Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Science, 220, 868-71, 1983.

Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1).

In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 
"for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other half of the prize was awarded to Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer."

With J. C. ChermannF. ReyM.T. NugeyreS. ChamaretJ. GruestC. DauguetC. Axler-Blin ]F. Vezinet-BrunC. RouziouxW. Rozenbaum. Bibcode:1983Sci...220..868B. doi:10.1126/science.6189183. PMID 6189183.i

See also Nos. 11059 and 12600.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae › HIV-1, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 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.

J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 226, 686-700, 1983.

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.



Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology
  • 7563

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

Paris: Bordas, 1983.

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



Subjects: VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians....
  • 7653

Medical book illustration: A short history.

Cambridge, England: The Oleander Press, 1983.


Subjects: Illustration, Biomedical
  • 7871

A short history of breast cancer.

Amsterdam: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.


Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1983.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Tennessee
  • 8146

The visual display of quantitative information.

Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1983.


Subjects: GRAPHIC DISPLAY of Medical & Scientific Information
  • 8316

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

Cairo: Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations & Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1983.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt › History of Ancient Medicine in Egypt
  • 8331

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

Husum, Germany: Mattheisen Verlag, 1983.

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, from whose work physicians of the later Western Middle Ages and the Renaissance derived their theory of the pulses. This text, in the Galenic tradition "largely mediated through the pseudo-Galenic tract "On pulses, for Antonius" was included in the Articella from the 11th century onward. Philaretos lived sometime between the early 9th and late 11th century.



Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE, CARDIOLOGY, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
  • 8475

Unidentified curved bacilli on gastric epithelium in active chronic gastritis.

Lancet, 321, (8336), 1273-5, 1983.

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 paper published in 1984: "Unidentified curved bacilli in the stomach of patients with gastritis and peptic ulceration", Lancet, 323 (8390) 1311-15, 1984.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Helicobacter, GASTROENTEROLOGY › Diseases of the Digestive System › Gastric / Duodenal Ulcer, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 8612

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

Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, 1983.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, Mesmerism, PSYCHOTHERAPY › Hypnosis › History of Psychotherapy: Hypnosis
  • 8670

A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Edited by Rudolf Hirsch.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology
  • 8745

"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.

London: John Murray, 1983.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa
  • 8755

Exploring the origins of electrical cardiac stimulation.

Minneapolis,MN: Medtronic, Inc., 1983.


Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › Electrophysiology › History of Electrophysiology
  • 8945

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

Stuttgart: Deutscher Verlags-Anstalt, 19831991.
"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 entries are arranged chronologically, and for each Koppel gives collation, condition of the Bosch copy, extensive bibliography and comments. There are indexes by author, subject, place of publication, artist, provenance and Brazilian place name.
 
"Vol. II, part 1, edited by Renate Löschner and Birgit Kirchstein-Gamber, describes 236 sketches (of which 92 are illustrated) made during the 1815-1817 expedition of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867) to Brazil. The Prince was one of the most noted German travellers to describe the Americas. Borba de Moraes states that "from a scientific point of view this expedition was one of the most profitable of the nineteenth century" (II, 544); an account of it was published as Reise nach Brasilien, Frankfurt, 1820.
Vol. II, part 2, covering the correspondence and sketches of the 1815-1817 expedition, is beautifully illustrated with over 100 color plates, among them drawings of monkeys, birds, reptiles, frogs, a jellyfish, a wasp's nest, etc.  This volume was edited by Birgit Kirschstein-Gamber, Susanne Koppel and Renate Löschner, with an introduction by Dorothea Kuhn" (Richard Ramer).


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Brazil, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 9095

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

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983.


Subjects: Contraception › History of Contraception, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology
  • 9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 9219

The demands of humanity: Army medical disaster relief.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1983.

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



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine
  • 9244

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

St-Jean-Chrysostome (Québec): Les Editions du Sphinx, 1983.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica
  • 9313

Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.

Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, 29, No. 2, 139-149., 1983.

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 basis for zombification to a poison that lowers metabolism and simulates death to such an extent that the victim is buried alive, and later resuscitated with an antidote administrated in the graveyard by the bokor. Though the recipes for the poison vary in different parts of Haiti, the key ingredient Wade discovered to be tetrodotoxin, a powerful neurotoxin derived from fish of the order of tetraodontiformes, usually from one of two genera of the puffer fish. Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, BIOLOGY › Ethnobiology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Haiti
  • 9997

A study of the English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, with special reference to the provinces.

London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 1983.

Medical History Supplement No. 3. Digital facsimile from discovery.ucl.ac.uk at this link.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 10217

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

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIAL MEDICINE
  • 10407

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

New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

"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 purchaser had ownership of every aspect. Native American law conceived only the possibility of usufruct rights, the right, that is, to own the nuts or fish or wood that land or bodies of water produced, or the right to hunt, fish or live on the land, there was no possibility of owning the land itself. The second innovative aspect of Cronon's work was to reconceptualize Native Americans as actors capable of changing the ecosystems with which they interacted. Native Americans could, in Cronon's recounting, alter the nature of the forests or exterminate species. Nevertheless, because their technological capabilities were limited and, therefore, native populations were small, their impact on the land was limited. For these reasons, "the shift from Indian to European dominance entailed important changes" (Wikipedia_



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology, BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northeast
  • 10472

Challenging man-made disease.

New York: Praeger, 1983.

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 LynnSalem, and Ipswich, Massachusetts. She discovered that many of the workers contracted berylliosis. Berylliosis is caused by the inhalation of dust or fumes containing beryllium. The disease presents itself with coughing, weight loss, shortness of breath, and scarring of the lungs. While beryllium was a main area of study for Dr. Hardy, throughout her career, she also studied anthraxmercury poisoning, women's growth, and physical fitness" (Wikipedia).



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE , TOXICOLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983.

"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. Practitioners from Babylonia and Egypt, whose expertise was acknowledged to be superior to that of local physicians, were welcome at the Hittite court" (G. Beckman, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30208, accessed 06-2018).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Anatolia, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS
  • 10687

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

Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1983.

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.



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Hippocratic Tradition
  • 10797

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

Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 19831998.


Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine
  • 10811

Scientists’ libraries: A handlist of printed sources.

Annals of Science, 40, 317-389, 1983.

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



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 10868

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

Canberra, Australia: Australian National University Press, 1983.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism
  • 11091

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

Toronto, Canada: Clarke Irwin, 1983.


Subjects: PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology
  • 11191

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

Lancet, 1 (for 1983), 1378, 1983.

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".  [The Lancet also designates the volume number as 321.]

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Parvovirus Diseases, PEDIATRICS, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11238

Franz Joseph Gall Bibliographie. Mit einem Porträt und 13 Abbildungen. By Brigitte and Helmut Heintel.

Stuttgart: Offizin Chr. Scheufele, 1983.


Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Phrenology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology
  • 11376

Hemorrhagic colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype.

New Eng. J. Med., 308, 681-85, 1983.

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 being aggressive hydration.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Food-Borne Diseases
  • 11531

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

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1983.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology
  • 11657

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

Plast. reconstr. Surg., 72, 591-97, 1983.

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 from liposuction procedures. Illouz published extensively on liposuction in French, beginning in 1977. This was his first major publication on the subject in English. 



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › Liposuction
  • 11814

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

Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, Environmental Epidemiology Branch, 1983.

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 base includes every death record in the country, not just those which indicate a cancer as a cause of death. This data remains valuable for researching the relationships between exposure to environmental factors and causes of death. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics, ONCOLOGY & CANCER
  • 12061

Differential equations and mathematical biology.

London & Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.

"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 present linear ODEs with constant coefficients, extend the theory to systems of equations, model biological phenomena, and offer solutions to first-order autonomous systems of nonlinear differential equations using the Poincaré phase plane. They also analyse the heartbeat, nerve impulse transmission, chemical reactions, and predator-prey problems. After covering partial differential equations and evolutionary equations, the book discusses diffusion processes, the theory of bifurcation, and chaotic behaviour. It concludes with problems of tumour growth and the spread of infectious diseases" (publisher). Second edition, with M. J. Plank, 2010.



Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology
  • 12173

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

Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1983.


Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE, Hippocratic Tradition
  • 12230

The artificial heart.

Ciba Symp., 35, No. 6, 1983.

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 failure. The surgery took place on December 2, 1982; Clark lived for 112 days after the surgery. The Ciba Symposia issue was extensively illustrated by Frank Netter,



Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › Heart Transplants › Artificial Heart Transplant
  • 12308

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

Paris: Payot, 1983.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology, PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology › History of Paleopathology
  • 12632

Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.

Science, 221, 823-828, 1983.

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 nematode and arthropod parasites, apparently by virtue of its action on the mediation of neurotransmission by gamma-aminobutyric acid. It is now in commercial use in various countries for the treatment and control of parasites in cattle, horses, and sheep, and is expected to become available for use in swine and dogs. Since studies with the drug in man are in a preliminary stage, it is not yet known whether ivermectin will be useful in human medicine."

In 2015 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites," and the other half to Tu Youyou "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antiparasitic Drugs, VETERINARY MEDICINE
  • 12658

Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.

New York & London: Plenum Press, 1983.

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: Epidemiology I: Modes of transmission. Chapter 14: Epidemiology II: Geographic distribution and prevalance by Charles W. Kim breaks down coverage to most countries and regions of the world.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Food-Borne Diseases › Trichinosis, PARASITOLOGY › Trichinella
  • 12663

A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 80, 3812-3815, 1983.

Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Papillomaviridae, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Papillomaviridae › Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
  • 12852

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

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

"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 discretion made him the confidant of Europe's reigning families. When they wished to communicate discreetly, they simply made an appointment with their dentist! Dr. Evans was a guest in the court society presided over by the spirited and beautiful Empress Eugénie, and he took part in the sparkling life of the boulevards and bohemia. Dr. Evans's inside knowledge of plans for the revitalization of Paris- largely the Paris we see today- allowed him to become a multi­millionaire through well-chosen investments in real estate. Among the French bohemians, Méry Laurent, an exquisite and witty artist's model, introduced him to painters and writers of genius—Manet and Whistler, the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, the Irish writer George Moore, and many others. When the Second Empire fell and an angry mob stormed the Tuileries palace, it was Evans who saved the Empress from prison, and perhaps the guillotine, in a dangerous and romantic escape to England. Always a staunch American, Dr. Evans visited President Lincoln, Secretary of State William Seward, and General Grant during the Civil War and helped convince Napoleon III to remain neutral during the conflict. Later Evans labored to bring the medical lessons of that war to the attention of European governments" (publisher).



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 12956

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

Santiago de Compostela: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Santiago, 1983.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy › Schola Medica Salernitana, SEXUALITY / Sexology
  • 13021

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

London: Robert Hale, 1983.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 13716

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

San Antonio, TX: Noor Health Foundation / Zahra Publications, 19831984.


Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine
  • 13975

Metallothionein - human GH fusion genes stimulate growth of mice.

Science, 222, 809-814, 1983.

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 published includes a picture of a normal mouse and a human growth-hormone enhanced mouse. With G. Norstedt, R. E. Gelinas, R. E. Hammer.



Subjects: Biotechnology › Genetic Engineering / Genetic Modification
  • 13989

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

Nature, 303, 209-213, 1983.

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 plants.

Abstract of the paper: "Foreign genes introduced into plant cells with Ti-plasmid vectors are not expressed. We have constructed an expression vector derived from the promoter sequence of nopaline synthase, and have inserted the coding sequences of the octopine synthase gene and a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene into this vector. These chimaeric genes are functionally expressed in plant cells after their transfer via a Ti-plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens."



Subjects: BOTANY, Biotechnology
  • 14140

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

J. biol. Chem., 258, 10689-94, 1983.

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 in the original publication: Stiles, Strasser, Caron, Lefkowitz. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

In 2012 Lefkowitz shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Receptors, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
  • 14212

Evidence for plasmid mediated toxin production in Bacillus anthracis.

Infection and Immunity, 39, 371-376, 1983.

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 strains of their plasmid and caused a loss of detectable lethal toxin.” Near the end of their paper they stated, “In assessing Pasteur’s experimental regimen, and by utilizing modern techniques, we are able to offer a reasonable explanation for a century old molecular event which has had such a significant impact in the field of medical microbiology and it is
very likely that his attenuation of the anthrax bacillus occurred as a result of curing the strain of plasmid
component which encoded for toxin structural and regulatory proteins.”

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mikesell, Ivins, Ristroph.... Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

See also: Mikesell, Ivins, Ristroph et all, "Plasmids, Pasteur, and anthrax," ASM News (1984) 320-322.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › Vaccines, VIROLOGY
  • 14254

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

Cell, 33, 389-396, 1983.

"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 observing the eggs undergo cell division after fertilization.[17] The study also included a control group where the eggs had been activated without fertilization by a calcium ionophore. The eggs were incubated with the amino acid methionine in which some of the atoms were radioactive isotopes (radiolabelled), with samples being taken from the eggs at 10 minute intervals. During the egg development, the radioactive methionine was uptaken into the cells and used to make proteins. From the samples, proteins were precipitated and then separated by mass into distinct bands on a resolving gel mat, which were then observed by photographic film that could detect the radioactivity emitted by the proteins. Observing the changes in the bands across the samples, Hunt noticed that one of the proteins rose in abundance before disappearing during the mitosis phase of cell division.[15] Hunt named the protein "cyclin" based on his observation of the cyclical changes in its levels.[18] It was later discovered that cyclins are continuously synthesised, but are specifically targeted for proteolysis during mitosis.[15] The discovery of cyclins was reported in a study published in Cell in 1983." (Wikipedia article on Tim Hunt).
Order of authorship in the original publication: Evans, Rosenthal, Youngbloom, Distel, Hunt.

In 2001 2001 Tim Hunt shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland Hartwell and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle."



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 461.4

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

Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1984.


Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy
  • 1588.20

Science and medicine in France. The emergence of experimental physiology, 1790-1855.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 2068.20

The history of lithium therapy.

London: Macmillan, 1984.


Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › Lithium
  • 2068.21

Electricity and medicine: A history of their interaction.

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Press, 1984.


Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › Electrophysiology › History of Electrophysiology
  • 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.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

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



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS
  • 3415.21

The hearing aid: its operations and development. Third edition.

Detroit, MI: National Hearing Aid Society, 1984.

Includes a comprehensive listing of manufacturers and the models each produced.



Subjects: OTOLOGY › Audiology › Hearing Aids, OTOLOGY › History of Otology
  • 5766.7

Tissue expansion in soft-tissue reconstruction.

Plast. reconstr. Surg., 74, 482-90, 1984.


Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
  • 6501.3

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

New York: Ktav Publishing, 1984.


Subjects: Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6742.1

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

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.


Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works)
  • 6742.11

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

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984.


Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Netherlands
  • 6551.3

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

Dublin: Ward River Press, 1984.

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



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ireland
  • 6556.1

La médecine à Paris du XIIIe au XXe siècle.

Paris: Editions Hervas, 1984.

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



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Institutional Medical Libraries, Histories of, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France
  • 6565.01

Storia d’ltalia. Vol. 7: Malattia e medicina.

Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1984.

A collective work, edited by della Peruta.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy
  • 6668

CANADIAN BULLETIN OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

Waterloo, Ontario, 1984.


Subjects: Periodicals Specializing in the History of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6584.1

Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 19842000.

Vol. 2 co-edited with Jacques Bernier. This work is complemented by C.G. Roland and P. Potter, An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975, Toronto, Hannah Institute, 1979.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada
  • 6584.2

Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.

Toronto, Canada: Hannah Institute, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada
  • 6603.7

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

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine
  • 258.13

Evolution: The history of an idea.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.



Subjects: EVOLUTION › History of Evolutionary Thought
  • 6997

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

Science, 224, 497–500, 1984.

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 6200935. This is the first of 4 related papers that Gallo's team published in Science in May 1984. In 1986 Gallo received his second Lasker Award, “For determining that the retrovirus now known as HIV-1 is the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)."



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae
  • 7008

Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.

Lancaster, England: MTP Press, 1984.


Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 7053

The Caribbean slave: A biological history.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine
  • 7189

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

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

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



Subjects: VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians....
  • 7272

The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence.

New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1984.

An historical and analytical review of the literature up to 1984, with detailed bibliographies, by several outstanding authorities, edited by Smith and Spencer. Includes, pp. 411-483, Milford H. Wolpott, Wu Xin Zhi, and Alan G. Thomas, "Modern Homo sapiens Origins: A General Theory of Hominid Evolution Involving the Fossil Evidence from East Asia." This proposed the multiregional hypothesis of the origin of modern humans, a view in opposition to the prevailing recent African origin of modern humans hypothesis, or "Out of Africa" theory (OOA).  



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of
  • 7428

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

Nature, 312, 282-284., London, 1984.

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 and Allan C. Wilson of the Research Department, San Diego Zoo.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, VETERINARY MEDICINE
  • 8411

The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.

For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.



Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 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.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Egypt, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine
  • 8529

The book of medical experiences attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra. Edited and translated by Joshua O. Leibowitz and Schlomo Marcus.

Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1984.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine
  • 8622

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography
  • 8624

Understanding the liver: A history.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.


Subjects: HEPATOLOGY › History of Hepatology
  • 8636

The history of the health care sciences and health care, 1700-1980: A selective annotated bibliography.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 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.

Hingham, MA: Springer, 1984.


Subjects: China, History & Practice of Medicine in
  • 9044

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

Mexico: Academia Nacional de Medicina, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine
  • 9098

The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.

Princeton, NJ: Bollingen , 1984.

Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new translations; and a new and enlarged selection of Fragments has been added. The aim of the translation remains the same: to make the surviving works of Aristotle readily accessible to English speaking readers" (Publisher).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Collected Works: Opera Omnia, PSYCHOLOGY, Zoology, Natural History, Ancient Greek / Roman / Egyptian
  • 9359

Edizioni nationale delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani. 30 vols.

Modena: Stem Mucchi Editore, 19842013.

Includes the correspondence and previously unpublished manuscripts. A description of this set is available from the publisher at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY, Collected Works: Opera Omnia
  • 9753

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

St-Jean-Chrysostome (Québec): Les Editions du Sphinx, 1984.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Concordances, Hippocratic Tradition
  • 9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones del Rectorado, Universidad central de Venezuela, 1984.
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 full title of their works and, in several cases, photographic reproduction of the title page, some explanatory notes, and references to bibliographies and library catalogues.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, Hippocratic Tradition
  • 9979

Culture, health and illness.

London: John Wright & Sons, 1984.

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 health, illness, and medical care; it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology
  • 10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance, SOCIAL MEDICINE, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 10243

Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.

Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1984.

"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance and then rejection of such drugs by Victorian Britain. Opium was a cheap and readily available antidote for the harsh life of the time and more effective than the traditional massive dosing by physicians. Its addictive nature gradually became apparent, and nonaddictive pain relievers such as aspirin became available"(publisher).



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Opium, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction
  • 10298

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

Jackson, MS: Medical Alumni Chapter...University of Mississippi, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Mississippi, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10302

Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,

Baltimore, MD: Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Maryland
  • 10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

Indianapolis, IN, 1984.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Indiana
  • 10330

Stapling in surgery.

Chicago, IL: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1984.

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



Subjects: SURGERY: General
  • 10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

No place identified: The Association, 1984.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, Societies and Associations, Medical
  • 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.

Annales de l'Institut Pasteur / Virologie, 135E, 119-134, 1984.

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 Associated Virus) was not antigenically related to HTLV, that it was very antigenically and morphologically related to EIAV (Equine Infectious Anemia Virus), a lentivirus, and that the p25 protein of LAV is not related to the p24 protein of HTLV. They also showed that the EM morphology of LAV is very similar to EIAV, as are its dimensions, that LAV has a strict tropism for OKT4 helper lymphocytes (See No. 11042). They also showed that when LAV infects a cell line it is lytic for those cells, whereas HTLVs immortalize the cells.

See also the following paper by the authors presented at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on September 15, 1983: "A new human lymphotropic retrovirus: Characterization and possible role in lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndromes," published as pp.363-369 in Gallo, R.C.; Essex, M., Gross, L., eds., Human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1984.

(Thanks for Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11225

Seed physiology: Its history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

Botanical Review, 50, 119-142, 1984.


Subjects: Agriculture / Horticulture, BOTANY › History of Botany
  • 11325

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

Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1984.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY , Historiography of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 11363

Readings in medical artificial intelligence: The first decade. Edited by William Clancey and Edward H. Shortliffe.

Lebanon, IN: Addison-Wesley, 1984.


Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • 11658

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

Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

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 and comparison of suction techniques until their debut in North America," by Fournier and Francis Otteni. Also, "The origins of lipolysis," a first-person account by Yves-Gerard Illouz.



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › Liposuction
  • 11692

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

Boston, MA: Francis Countway Library of Medicine, 1984.

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 gave these, along with 14 folio volumes of his writings to his favorite pupil Michele Girardi. They were edited and annotated by Enrico Benassi and published in Italian in 1935. Jarcho translated and annotated Benassi's text and added a new preface and many footnotes.



Subjects: PATHOLOGY
  • 11899

Professori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: Repertorio bio-bibliografico.

Padua: Lint, 1984.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy
  • 12231

Clinical use of the total artificial heart.

New Eng. J. Med., 310, 273-278, 1984.

"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 chronic congestive heart failure due to primary cardiomyopathy, who also had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

"Except for dysfunction of the prosthetic mitral valve, which required replacement of the left-heart prosthesis on the 13th postoperative day, the artificial heart functioned well for the entire postoperative course of 112 days. The mean blood pressure was 84±8 mm Hg, and cardiac output was generally maintained at 6.7±0.8 liters per minute for the right heart and 7.5±0.8 for the left, resulting in postoperative diuresis and relief of congestive failure.

"The postoperative course was complicated by recurrent pulmonary insufficiency, several episodes of acute renal failure, episodes of fever of unidentified cause (necessitating multiple courses of antibiotics), hemorrhagic complications of anticoagulation, and one generalized seizure of uncertain cause.

"On the 92nd postoperative day, the patient had diarrhea and vomiting, leading to aspiration pneumonia and sepsis. Death occurred on the 112th day, preceded by progressive renal failure and refractory hypotension, despite maintenance of cardiac output. Autopsy revealed extensive pseudomembranous colitis, acute tubular necrosis, peritoneal and pleural effusion, centrilobular emphysema, and chronic bronchitis with fibrosis and bronchiectasis. The artificial heart system was intact and uninvolved by thrombosis or infectious processes.

"This experience should encourage further clinical trials with the artificial heart, but we emphasize that the procedure is still highly experimental. Further experience, development, and discussion will be required before more general application of the device can be recommended. (N Engl J Med 1984; 310:273–8.)"



Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › Heart Transplants › Artificial Heart Transplant
  • 12281

Physicians, law and ethics.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.


Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 12333

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

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1984.


Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › History of Cardiac Surgery, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Pacemakers
  • 12578

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

London: R. Hale, 1984.


Subjects: AVIATION Medicine › History of Aviation / Aerospace Medicine
  • 12600

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

Science, 225, 321-322, 1984.

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 group and the stage of the disease."  This was the first announcement of the development of the ELISA HIV/AIDS antibody test. This remains the first test for HIV/AIDs given to patients who show signs of the disease.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Kalytanaraman, Cabradilla,...Barré-Sinousi, Montagnier....).

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS
  • 12664

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

EMBO J., 3, 1151-1157, 1984.
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 human cervical cancer, and provided a basis on which other researchers could develop a vaccine against cervical cancer. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Boshart, Gissmann, Ikenberg, Kleinheinz, Scheurlen, zur Hausen.)  Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

"Harald zur Hausen went against current dogma and postulated that oncogenic human papilloma virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer.[25] He realized that HPV-DNA could exist in a non-productive state in the tumours, and should be detectable by specific searches for viral DNA.[77] He and others, notably workers at the Pasteur Institute, found HPV to be a heterogeneous family of viruses. Only some HPV types cause cancer.[25]
"Harald zur Hausen pursued his idea of HPV for over 10 years by searching for different HPV types. [3] This research was difficult due to the fact that only parts of the viral DNA were integrated into the host genome. He found novel HPV-DNA in cervix cancer biopsies, and thus discovered the new, tumourigenic HPV16 type in 1983. In 1984, he cloned HPV16 and 18 from patients with cervical cancer.[77] The HPV types 16 and 18 were consistently found in about 70% of cervical cancer biopsies throughout the world.[25]
"His observation of HPV oncogenic potential in human malignancy provided impetus within the research community to characterize the natural history of HPV infection, and to develop a better understanding of mechanisms of HPV-induced carcinogenesis.[25] (Wikipedia article HPV vaccine, accessed 5-2020).


Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Papillomaviridae › Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
  • 12819

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

Risca, Newport, UK: The Starling Press, 1984.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries
  • 13811

Histoire illustrée de la rhumatologie.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1984.


Subjects: RHEUMATOLOGY › Gout (Podagra) › History of Rheumatology
  • 13991

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

Cell, 37, 179-183, 1984.

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 be expressed or not, depending on whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. Genes can also be partially imprinted. Partial imprinting occurs when alleles from both parents are differently expressed rather than complete expression and complete suppression of one parent's allele. Forms of genomic imprinting have been demonstrated in fungi, plants and animals. ...
Genomic imprinting is an inheritance process independent of the classical Mendelian inheritance. It is an epigenetic process that involves DNA methylation and histone methylation without altering the genetic sequence. These epigenetic marks are established ("imprinted") in the germline (sperm or egg cells) of the parents and are maintained through mitotic cell divisions in the somatic cells of an organism.

"Appropriate imprinting of certain genes is important for normal development. Human diseases involving genomic imprinting include Angelman syndromePrader–Willi syndrome and male infertility. (Wikipedia article Genomic imprinting, accessed 7-22).



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, EMBRYOLOGY
  • 14078

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

Lyon: Laboratoires Boiron, 1984.


Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Homeopathy › History of Homeopathy, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France
  • 14184

Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses.

Nature, 308, 34-36, 1984.

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 images of a number of different viruses, round and hexagonal.

In 2017 Dubochet shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure, Microscopy › Cryogenic electron microscopy
  • 14263

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

Cell, 38, 701-710, 1984.

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..., Hadfield, Hall, Rosbash.  

In 2017 Rosbash shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael W. Young “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.”

See also No. 14264.




Subjects: BIOLOGY › Chronobiology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 14265

Restoration of circadian behavioral rhythms by gene transfer in Drosophila.

Nature, 312, 752-754, 1984.

"At The Rockefeller University in the early 1980s, Young and his two lab members, Ted Bargiello and Rob Jackson, further investigated the circadian period gene in Drosophila. They constructed segments of recombinant Drosophila DNA, amplified them in bacteria, and injected them in per mutant animals. A locomotor behavior monitor was used to assay behavioral activity. The team watched and recorded fly activity through the day and night to show that the fly restored circadian behavioral rhythms by transferring a functional per gene" (Wikipedia article on Michael W. Young).

In 2017 Michael Young shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.”



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Chronobiology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 1588.21

The brain machine: The development of neurophysiological thought.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Translation of Le cerveau-machine: physiologie de la volonté, Paris, 1983.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 145.91

The background of ecology: concept and theory.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment
  • 1931.8

The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 7th ed.

New York: Macmillan, 1985.

Includes useful historical information.



Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 1757.2

Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985.


Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine
  • 3161.7

Hematology, the blossoming of a science: a story of inspiration and effort.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1985.


Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › History of Hematology
  • 2581.11

Immunology to 1980. An illustrated bibliography of titles in the Middleton Health Sciences Library, including the Julius M. Cruse collection.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Center for Health Sciences Libraries, 1985.

Citations, with paginations, of 3480 items. Author and subject indices



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology
  • 3705.4

Dentistry: An illustrated history.

St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby Co., 1985.


Subjects: DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 5019.20

Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.

New York: Elsevier, 1985.

Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliographies.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), NEUROSURGERY › History of Neurosurgery
  • 5768.7

The creation of aesthetic plastic surgery.

New York: Springer, 1985.

Reprints useful papers from Aesthetic plast. Surg., 1976-85. No index.



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery
  • 6610.18

Ars medica: Art, medicine, and the human condition.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1985.

Fully annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, book illustrations, and photographs. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, Illustration, Biomedical
  • 6639.11

Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.

St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby Co., 1985.

The most elaborately illustrated history available.



Subjects: NURSING › History of Nursing, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary texts in translation. 25th anniversary edition with new long, annotated preface, issued by same publishers in 2010.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine
  • 6524.5

Medieval medical miniatures.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1985.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 6786.28

American medical imprints, 1820-1910. 2 vols.

Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1985.

The work of over 40 years, this catalogue describes over 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides, arranged by decade, from 1820-1910, with a comprehensive index. Included is an essay: 19th century American medical literature: A gallery of Lea titles, and an appendix: Wood’s Library of Standard Medical Authors: A checklist and biographical guide.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States
  • 6786.29

The two Sydenham Societies. A history and bibliography of the medical classics published by the Sydenham Society and the New Sydenham Society (1844-1911).

Acrise, Kent, England: Winterdown Books, 1985.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY , BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of
  • 6986

Symposium on Byzantine medicine. Edited by John Scarborough.

Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1985.

Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 38, 1984. 



Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine
  • 7080

Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.

London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 19851998.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India
  • 7273

History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa.

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 28, 1-52., 1985.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Africa, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of
  • 7284

Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.

Nature, 316, 788-792, 1985.

The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 to 1.6 years old. The skeleton was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey, at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Kenya, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution
  • 7558

The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.



Subjects: MUSEUMS › History of Museums
  • 7607

De wasmodellen van Petrus Koning. Achtergrondinformatie over en beschrijvende catalogus van de wasmodellen door Petrus Konig uit de collecties van het Anatomisch Museum, van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht.

Utrecht: Universiteitsmuseum, 1985.

Annotated catalogue of wax models made by Konig; summary in English.



Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological
  • 7713

Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Second edition by Ortner as sole author (2003).



Subjects: PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology
  • 8123

Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.

Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Abortion
  • 8158

Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal Cl0x/Nox interaction.

Nature, 315, 207-210, 1985.

Discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. In December 2016 the full text of the paper was available from ciesin.org at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment, Environmental Science & Health
  • 8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.


Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 8228

Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.

Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1985.

Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.



Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology
  • 8297

Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1985.

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, Hippocratic Tradition, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
  • 8325

Stephanus of Athens: Commentary on Hippocrates' aphorisms. Edited and translated by Leendert G. Westerink. Vol. 1: Section 1-2; Vol. 2: Sections 3-4; Vol. 3: Sections 5-6.

Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 19851995.

Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 11, 1, 3, 1-3.



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, BYZANTINE MEDICINE
  • 8374

Learning to heal: The development of American medical education.

New York: Basic Books, 1985.


Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession
  • 8388

Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.

Cell, 43 (2 Pt 1) 405-413, 1985.

Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena.

In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."

See also No. 8387.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8498

Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.

Mumbai, India: Popular Prakashan, 1985.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India › History of Ancient Medicine in India, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India
  • 8567

Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1985.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, BOTANY › History of Botany, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine, TROPICAL Medicine › History of Tropical Medicine
  • 8882

William Osler's collected papers on the cardiovascular system. Edited by W. Bruce Fye.

Birmingham, England: Classics of Cardiology Library, 1985.

Includes a previously unpublished essay by Maude Abbott, "Osler's contributions to our knowledge of heart disease."



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY, CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY › Cardiovascular System
  • 8883

The collected essays of Sir William Osler. 3 vols. Edited by John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland.

Birmingham, AL: Classics of Medicine Library, 1985.

Vol. 1: The philosophical essays. Vol. 2: The educational essays. Vol. 3: The historical and biographical essays.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), Collected Works: Opera Omnia, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 8958

Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.

Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1985.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, BOTANY › History of Botany, Dictionaries, Biomedical › Lexicography, Biomedical
  • 9104

Histoire de la démographie: La statique de la population des origines à 1914.

Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1985.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.



Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography
  • 9133

The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.

London: Gerald Duckworth, 1985.

Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1]  The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered in 1986.

"The book comprises twenty-four essays split into four sections, each dealing with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits and excesses in the first two sections (with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere of the brain) while the third and fourth describe phenomenological manifestations with reference to spontaneous reminiscences, altered perceptions, and extraordinary qualities of mind found in mentally handicapped people."[2]" (Wikipedia)

 



Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, NEUROLOGY
  • 9233

An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.

London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over the past 200 years."



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Digitalis, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Cardiovascular Medications
  • 9835

Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, Editor-in-Chief.

Medford/Sommerville, MA: Tufts University, 1985.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

"The Perseus Digital Library Project began at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts in 1985. Though the project was ostensibly about Greek and Roman literature and culture, it evolved into an exploration of the ways that digital collections could enhance scholarship with new research tools that took libraries and scholarship beyond the physical book. The following quote came from their website around 2010:

"Since planning began in 1985, the Perseus Digital Library Project has explored what happens when libraries move online. Two decades later, as new forms of publication emerge and millions of books become digital, this question is more pressing than ever. Perseus is a practical experiment in which we explore possibilities and challenges of digital collections in a networked world.

"Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. We are applying what we have learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond. We have studied many problems over the past two decades, but our current research centers on personalization: organizing what you see to meet your needs.

"We collect texts, images, datasets and other primary materials. We assemble and carefully structure encyclopedias, maps, grammars, dictionaries and other reference works. At present, 1.1 million manually created and 30 million automatically generated links connect the 100 million words and 75,000 images in the core Perseus collections. 850,000 reference articles provide background on 450,000 people, places, organizations, dictionary definitions, grammatical functions and other topics."

In December 2013 I found this description of their activities on their website:

"Perseus has a particular focus upon the Greco-Roman world and upon classical Greek and Latin, but the larger mission provides the distant, but fixed star by which we have charted our path for over two decades. Early modern English, the American Civil War, the History and Topography of London, the History of Mechanics, automatic identification and glossing of technical language in scientific documents, customized reading support for Arabic language, and other projects that we have undertaken allow us to maintain a broader focus and to demonstrate the commonalities between Classics and other disciplines in the humanities and beyond. At a deeper level, collaborations with colleagues outside of classical studies make good on the claim that a classical education generally provides those critical skills and that intellectual adaptability that we claim to instill in our students. We offer the combination of classical and non-classical projects that we pursue as one answer to those who worry that a classical education will leave them or their children with narrow, idiosyncratic skills.

"Within this larger mission, we focus on three categories of access:

Human readable information: digitized images of objects, places, inscriptions, and printed pages, geographic information, and other digital representations of objects and spaces. This layer of functionality allows us to call up information relevant to a longitude and latitude coordinate or a library call number. In this stage digital representations provide direct access to the physical senses of actual people in particular places and times. In some cases (such as high resolution, multi-spectral imaging), digital sources already provide better physical access than has ever been feasible when human beings had direct contact with the physical artifact.

"Machine actionable knowledge: catalogue records, encyclopedia articles, lexicon entries, and other structured information sources. Physical access can serve our senses but provides no information about what we are encountering - in effect, physical access is like visiting a historical site about which we may know nothing and where any visible documentation is in a language that we cannot understand. Machine actionable knowledge allows us to retrieve information about what we are viewing. Thus, if we encounter a page from a Greek manuscript of Homer, we could at this stage find cleanly printed modern editions of the Greek, modern language translations, commentaries and other background information about the passage on that manuscript page. If we moved through a virtual Acropolis, we could retrieve background information about the buildings and the sculpture.

"Machine generated knowledge: By analyzing existing information automated systems can produce new knowledge. Machine actionable knowledge allows, for example, us to look up a dictionary entry (e.g., facio, "to do, make") in a dictionary or to find pre-existing translations for a passage in Latin or Greek. Machine generated knowledge allows a machine to recognize that fecisset is a pluperfect subjunctive form of facio and to provide reading support where there is no pre-existing human translation. Such reading support might include full machine translation but also finer grained services such as word and phrase translation (e.g., recognizing whetherorationes in a given context more likely corresponds to English "speeches," "prayers" or some other term), syntactic analysis (e.g., recognizing that orationes in a given passage is the object of a given verb), named entity identification (e.g., identifying Antonium in a given passage as a personal name and then as a reference to Antonius the triumvir) " (http://historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1238, accessed 02-2018).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries
  • 9854

Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.


Subjects: VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians....
  • 9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 1985.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Zimbabwe, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacopeias, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 10054

A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.


Subjects: ANESTHESIA › History of Anesthesia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics
  • 10089

African pioneers of modern medicine: Nigerian doctors of the nineteenth century.

Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria: University Press, 1985.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Nigeria
  • 10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.


Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 10306

Scalpels and sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas.

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1985.


Subjects: U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Texas
  • 10319

In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.


Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › Eugenics
  • 10430

Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood" (publisher). 



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10785

Enzymatic amplication of B-globin genomic sequences and restriction site analysis for diagnosis of sickle cell anemia.

Science, 230, 1350-1354, 1985.

Polymerase chain reaction first published. With Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona et al. Order of authorship in the original paper was Saiki, Scharf, Faloona, Mullis....

In 1993 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993 was awarded "for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry." Mullis received half "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method," and the other half was awarded to Michael Smith "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies."

See also No. 7213.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Polymerase Chain Reaction, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Blood Disorders › Sickle-Cell Disease, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
  • 10789

Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.

Lancet, 326, 1387-1389, 1985.

First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S. team. Order of authorship in the original publication was Barin, M'Boup, F. Denis, Kanki....

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Senegal, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae
  • 10965

Serologic identification and characterization of a macaque T-lymphotropic retrovirus closely related to HTLV-III.

Science, 228, 1199-1201, 1985.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Kanki, McLane... Essex. This paper was followed in the issue of Science by: Daniel, M., Letvi, N. L., King, N.W., "Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-3 - like retrovirus from macaques", Science, 228 (1985) 1201-1204. 

Discovery of Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVs), a species of retrovirus that cause peristent infections in "at least 45 species of African non-human primates."

"Virus strains from two of these primate species, SIVsmm in sooty mangabeys and SIVcpz in chimpanzees, are believed to have crossed the species barrier into humans, resulting in HIV-2 and HIV-1 respectively, the two human immunodeficiency viruses. The most likely route of transmission of HIV-1 to humans involves contact with the blood of chimps that are often hunted for bushmeat in Africa.[3] It is theorized SIV may have previously crossed the species barrier into human hosts multiple times throughout history, but it was not until recently, after the advent of modern transportation and global commuterism, that it finally took hold, spreading beyond localized decimations of a few individuals or single small tribal populations" (Wikipedia).

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: VETERINARY MEDICINE, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae
  • 11060

Structure of the protein subunit in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3 Å resolution.

Nature, 318, 618-624, 1985.

Discovery of the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, called the photosynthetic reaction center. This was the first elucidation of the 3D crystal structure of any membrane protein complex. The authors used X-ray crystallography to determine the exact arrangement of the 10,000 atoms in this protein complex. Photosynthesis has been called "the most important chemical reaction in the biosphere."

For the first time understanding of processes in bacterial cells elucidated a complex chemical reaction that had hitherto only been studied in plant cells.

In 1988 Deisenhofer, Huber and Michel shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation).



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › Photosynthesis, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
  • 11206

A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823. By William Lefanu.

Winchester, Hampshire, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1985.

Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951).  The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox
  • 11279

Two hundred years of publishing: A history of the oldest publishing company in the United States - Lea & Febiger, 1785-1985.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1985.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of
  • 11377

The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.

J. infect. Dis., 151, 775-182, 1985.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cured by antibiotics, was caused by an unusually potent toxin in the intestine produced by the E. coli 0157-H7. This toxin they identified as Verotoxin. Discovery that a toxin caused hemolytic uremic syndrome explained why this particular bacterial illness could not be treated by antibiotics.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Escherichia coli, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Food-Borne Diseases, TOXICOLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11509

William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.

Boston: Springer, 1985.

Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 11533

Medical thermometry--a short history.

West. J. Med., 142, 108-116, 1985.

Available from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Thermometer
  • 11949

Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine
  • 12147

El amor en los tiempos de cólera.

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1985.

"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at first nothing seems inevitable, for this is a tale of unrequited love. Fifty years, nine months, and four days' worth, to be exact. For that is how long Florentino Ariza has waited to declare, once again, his undying love to Fermina Daza, whom he courted and almost won so many years before" (publisher)



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Cholera, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Fiction
  • 12550

Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons

Honolulu, HI: Institute for Polynesian Studies & Polynesian Cultural Center, 1985.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Pacific
  • 13367

Histoire des médecins et pharmaciens de marine et des colonies.

Toulouse: Privat, 1985.


Subjects: Maritime Medicine, TROPICAL Medicine › History of Tropical Medicine
  • 13727

The management of smallpox eradication in India.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1985.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox
  • 13736

Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.

Nature, 316, 76-79, 1985.

Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine)
  • 13737

Hypervariable 'minisatellite regions in human DNA.

Nature, 314, 67-73, 1985.

Jeffries and team discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling. This was the first publication of the method.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine)
  • 13936

Repetitive zinc-binding domains in the protein transcription factor IIIA from Xenopus oocytes.

EMBO Journal, 4, 1609-1614, 1985.

Discovery of Zinc fingers, a protein structural motif. "Zinc fingers were first identified in a study of transcription in the African clawed frogXenopus laevis in the laboratory of Aaron Klug. A study of the transcription of a particular RNA sequence revealed that the binding strength of a small transcription factor (transcription factor IIIA; TFIIIA) was due to the presence of zinc-coordinating finger-like structures.[6] Amino acid sequencing of TFIIIA revealed nine tandem sequences of 30 amino acids, including two invariant pairs of cysteine and histidine residues. Extended x-ray absorption fine structure confirmed the identity of the zinc ligands: two cysteines and two histidines.[5] The DNA-binding loop formed by the coordination of these ligands by zinc were thought to resemble fingers, hence the name" (Wikipedia article on Zinc finger, accessed 7-22).



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure
  • 14175

Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin involved in microtubule based motility.

Cell, 42, 39-50, 1985.

The authors discovered and named a second motor protein, and named it kinesin. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Vale, Reese, Sheetz.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Motor Proteins
  • 1588.22

The history of blood gases, acids and bases.

Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1986.

The authors were prominent investigators in the field.



Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 534.42

A history of embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia 8. Edited by T. J. Horder, J. A. Wikowski and C. C. Wylie.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

A survey of the history of developmental biology from 1880.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › History of Biology, EMBRYOLOGY › History of Embryology
  • 1716.2

The history of statistics: The measurement of uncertainty before 1900.

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.

The first comprehensive history of statistics from about 1700 to 1900.



Subjects: Statistics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Statistics
  • 197.2

Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.

Florence: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1986.

Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centuries. With S. Gori-Savellini, P. Guarnieri, and C. Pogliano.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Anthropometry, PSYCHOLOGY › Experimental
  • 2702.5

Pioneers and early years: A history of British radiology.

Aldemey, Channel Islands: Colophon Limited, 1986.

Well-illustrated and carefully documented, incorporating detailed biographies of pioneers. Covers the history before 1930.



Subjects: RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology
  • 3705.5

Antique dental instruments.

London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1986.


Subjects: DENTISTRY › Dental Instruments & Apparatus, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 3726

The history of scurvy and vitamin C.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.


Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Deficiency Diseases › Scurvy, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet
  • 4158.3
  • 5546.10

Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › History of Dermatology, Mycology, Medical, VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine
  • 5768.8
  • 6007.3

History and tradition [of ophthalmic plastic surgery].

Advances in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 5, 1986.

A collection of articles by various authors, including partial reprint of No. 5768.1 and 6005.



Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery
  • 6623.51

The medical mind of Shakespeare.

Melbourne, Australia: Williams & Wilkins-Adis, 1986.


Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Drama › Shakespeare
  • 6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6357.9

Historical aspects of pediatric surgery. Prog. pediat. Surg., 20.

Berlin & New York: Springer, 1986.

Well-documented illustrated series of historical articles by various authors.



Subjects: Pediatric Surgery › History of Pediatric Surgery
  • 6786.30

A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Iran (Persia), Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine
  • 6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts. By Larry J. Wygant.

Galveston, TX: The University of Texas Medical Branch, 1986.

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY , BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE
  • 6786.32

The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.

Arlington, MA: Medical History Publishing Assoc., 1986.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 6810

The Oxford companion to medicine. 2 vols.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

A dictionary, biographical dictionary, and encyclopedia covering selected aspects of the theory, practice and profession of medicine, including history, by the editors and 150 notable contributors. Produced in the style of previous volumes in the Oxford Companion series.



Subjects: Dictionaries, Biomedical › Lexicography, Biomedical, Encyclopedias
  • 6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology, ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of
  • 7213

Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: The polymerase chain reaction.

Cold Spring Harbor Symposium in Quantitative Biology, 51, 263–273, 1986.

Improvements that Mullis made to the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 enabled PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana. This was Mullis's first "methods" publication on the topic. With F. Faloona, S. Scharf, R. Saiki, G. Horn and H. Erlich. 



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • 7283

The origin of the human race.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1986.

First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initially naming it Australopithecus rudolfensis. At first the skull was incorrectly dated at nearly three million years old, predating Homo habilis. Since then, the estimate has been revised to 1.9 million years before present. 



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Kenya, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution
  • 7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.


Subjects: Mesmerism, PSYCHOTHERAPY › Hypnosis › History of Psychotherapy: Hypnosis
  • 7432

Caring and curing: Health and medicine in the Western religious tradition. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.


Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7475

Opere scientifiche. Traduzione integrale dai testi originali. Coordinatore Luciano Casella. Revisione e note a cura di Enrico Coturri. 2 vols.

Florence: Cassa di Risparmi et e Depositi di Prato, 1986.

Steno's collected works translated from Latin into Italian. Reproduces Steno's original engraved illustrations, plus others from the time (some in color).



Subjects: ANATOMY › 17th Century, Collected Works: Opera Omnia, PHYSIOLOGY
  • 7680

Natural history and the new world, 1524-1770. An annotated bibliography of printed materials in the library of the American Philosophical Society.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, NATURAL HISTORY
  • 7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Journal of Economic History, 46, 721-741., 1986.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.



Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine
  • 8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1986.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, NURSING › History of Nursing, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Revised edition, 2004.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth places because they believed the increased medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable. Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did not immediately decline.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives
  • 8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works. By Peter Brain.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistateos Romae degenentes (175? CE), and Galeni de curandi ratione per venae sectionem (193-194 CE).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, THERAPEUTICS › Bloodletting, THERAPEUTICS › History of Therapeutics
  • 8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.


Subjects: Contraception › History of Contraception, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8549

Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.

Naples: Nella sede dell'Istituto [Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici], 1986.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy › Schola Medica Salernitana
  • 8606

The man behind the syndrome.

London: Springer, 1986.

Portraits and biographies, emphasizing genetic syndromes. Followed by the authors' The person behind the syndrome (1997).



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS, GENETICS / HEREDITY › History of Genetics / Heredity
  • 8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.


Subjects: Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance, POLICY, HEALTH, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8666

Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.


Subjects: Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8695

The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide.

New York: Basic Books, 1986.

"The first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps" (Wikipedia).



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War II, PSYCHOLOGY
  • 8743

Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.

Paris: Seghers, 1986.

Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis
  • 9331

Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.

Lancet, 1, 1279-1280, 1986.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from KinshasaZaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Africa, now known to be the epicenter of this zoonotic pandemic. The patient also had antibodies to the African Green monkey immunodeficiency virus, providing pivotal support for the simian immunodeficiency virus origins of HIV, an aspect of HIV later confirmed.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Congo, Democratic Republic of the, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIROLOGY
  • 9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › China, Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , THERAPEUTICS › History of Therapeutics
  • 9536

A history and theory of informed consent.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

"In collaboration with Nancy M. P. King."



Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics
  • 9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1986.


Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

Paris: Louis Pariente, 1986.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.



Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, Hygiene › History of Hygiene
  • 9939

Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.

Cell, 44, 817-829., 1986.

Using C. elegans to investigate whether there was a genetic program controlling cell death, or apoptosis,  In 1986, Horvitz identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4. He showed that functional ced-3 and ced-4 genes were a prerequisite for the execution of cell death.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Developmental Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
  • 9998

Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), History of Medicine: General Works
  • 10009

L'Art dentaire à travers la peinture.

Paris: ACR Édition, 1986.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry
  • 10095

Who goes first? The story of self-experimentation in medicine.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.


Subjects: Medicine: General Works › Experimental Design
  • 10201

The Visible Human Project.

Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1986.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

"The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals.

"The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.

"The National Library of Medicine thanks the men and the women who will their body to science, thereby enabling medical research and development.

Further Information

 

 



Subjects: ANATOMY › 20th Century, ANATOMY › 21st Century, ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration › Computer Graphics, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries
  • 10351

The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Full text available from Jamesrachels.org at this link.



Subjects: DEATH & DYING › Euthanasia, Ethics, Biomedical
  • 10649

Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.


Subjects: EVOLUTION › History of Evolutionary Thought
  • 10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

Science, 233, 2343-346, 1986.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet.  See their expanded report: Clavel, F., Mansinho, K. Chamaret, S.,et al with Montagnier, Luc. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 infection associated with AIDS in West Africa," New Eng. J. Med. 316 (1987) 1180-1185.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Senegal, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10843

Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei.

New Eng. J. Med., 315, 997-1003., 1986.

The authors coined the name Fatal Familial Insomnia to describe a family cohort of individuals who were dying from a prion illness causing an inability to sleep. This disease has been characterized as one of the most cruel illnesses to affect mankind. Order of authorship in the original publication was Lugaresi, Medori, ... Gambetti.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Prion Diseases
  • 10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

Baltimore, MD: The Association of American Physicians, 1986.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and practical medicine.” The Association is composed of members who are leading senior physician scientists and are competitively selected. Currently we have over 1700 active members and approximately 600 emeritus and honorary members from the United States, Canada and other countries. The goals of its members include the pursuit of medical knowledge, and the advancement through experimentation and discovery of basic and clinical science and their application to clinical medicine. Each year, individuals having attained excellence in achieving these goals, are recognized by nomination for membership by the Council of the Association. Their election gives them the opportunity to share their scientific discoveries and contributions with their colleagues at the annual meeting" (https://aap-online.org/).



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, Societies and Associations, Medical
  • 10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11042

The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.

Cold Spring Harbor Symp. quant. Biol., 51, 703-711, 1986.

Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Without first attaching to this receptor HIV cannot dock onto and penetrate the T4 lymphocyte.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, VIROLOGY
  • 11106

Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.

Lancet, 1, 575-580, 1986.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antiviral Drugs, VIROLOGY
  • 11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.


Subjects: POLICY, HEALTH, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

 "The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)



Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 11476

New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war.

New Engl. J. Med., 315, 905-912, 1986.

Leaf helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in 1961 and became a prominent member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This paper highlighted "new research on estimated casualties, the effects of radiation, and post-blast immune dysfunction. A full third of the article examined what looked to be the most deadly consequence of any nuclear war: global starvation. Food reserves would be contaminated or plundered, technologies for harvest, transportation, and refrigeration would fail, and radiation would disrupt ecosystems" (Dunk & Jones, Sounding the alarm on climate change, 1989 and 2019," New Engl. J. Med., 382 (2020) 205-07.).



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure
  • 11518

The library of Dr. John Webster: The making of a seventeenth century radical. Medical History supplement no. 6. Edited by Peter Elmer.

London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 11635

The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.

Milwaukee, WI: Wilwaukee Academy of Medicine Press, 1986.

Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals
  • 11851

Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then shows how the differences in the plague reshaped the attitudes of Italian city-dwellers toward plague in the fifteenth century" (publisher).



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans)
  • 12356

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

Austin, TX: Silvergirl, 1986.

Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among other subjects.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Venous Disease, VASCULAR SURGERY › History of Vascular Surgery
  • 12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY, CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › History of Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Surgery › History of Pediatric Surgery
  • 12963

Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany. By J. Heniger.

Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1986.


Subjects: BOTANY › Bibliographies of Botany / Materia Medica, BOTANY › History of Botany
  • 12999

Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.

Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1986.

Digital facsimile from dwc.knaw.nl at this link. Originally published in Bijdragen tot de dierkunde, v. 27, 1939. 



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Netherlands, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History
  • 13185

Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.

Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1986.


Subjects: IMAGING › X-ray, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology
  • 13359

Das Aqrābādīn al-Qalānisī. Quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Arabisch-Pharmazeutischen Literatur.

Beirut, 1986.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals
  • 13394

Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.

London & New York: Quartet, 1986.


Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), SEXUALITY / Sexology
  • 13784

Of birds and Texas.

Fort Worth, TX: Gentling Editions, 1986.

Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds and 10 of landscapes by Scott and Stuart Gentling, each with accompanying text leaf. Loose in 2 natural linen cloth portfolios housed in original natural linen cloth clamshell box. In 2001 the University of Texas Press published a trade edition in 10 x 13 inch format with 30 additional paintings or remarques.



Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › Art & Natural History, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Texas, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology
  • 13786

Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1986.


Subjects: Contraception › History of Contraception
  • 13974

A human DNA segment with properties of the gene that predisposes to retinoblastoma and osteosarcoma.

Nature, 323, 643-646, 1986.

Isolation of the first human tumor suppressor gene. Order of authorship in the original publication: Friend, Bernards, Rogeli, Weinberg, Rapaport, Albert, Dryja.



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Hereditary Cancers › Retinoblastoma, ONCOLOGY & CANCER
  • 13990

Fluorescence detection in automated DNA sequence analysis.

Nature, 231, 674-679, 1986.

Invention of the first semi-automated DNA sequencing machine by Leroy H. Hood, Lloyd M. Smith and colleagues.
Abstract of the paper:
"We have developed a method for the partial automation of DNA sequence analysis. Fluorescence detection of the DNA fragments is accomplished by means of a fluorophore covalently attached to the oligonucleotide primer used in enzymatic DNA sequence analysis. A different coloured fluorophore is used for each of the reactions specific for the bases A, C, G and T. The reaction mixtures are combined and co-electrophoresed down a single polyacrylamide gel tube, the separated fluorescent bands of DNA are detected near the bottom of the tube, and the sequence information is acquired directly by computer."
With Jane Z. Sanders, Robert J. Kaiser, Peter Hughes, Chris Dodd, Charles R. connell, Cheryl Heiner, and Stephen B. H. Kent.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, Biotechnology
  • 14021

The anatomy of the infant head.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.


Subjects: ANATOMY › 20th Century, ANATOMY › Child
  • 14070

Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Natural Resources, Energy & Science Authority of Sri Lanka, 1986.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sri Lanka, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine)
  • 461

British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.

Winchester, Hampshire, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1987.

Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Anatomy
  • 2188.4

The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1987.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine
  • 1588.23

Renal physiology: People and ideas.

Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society, 1987.

A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.



Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › History of Nephrology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 1588.24

Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.

Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 2319.2

Morbid appearances: the anatomy of pathology in the early nineteenth century.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.


Subjects: PATHOLOGY › History of Pathology
  • 197.3

Victorian anthropology.

New York: Free Press, 1987.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology
  • 3979.2

Histoire illustrée du diabète de l’antiquité à nos jours.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1987.


Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes › History of Diabetes
  • 3666.8

Histoire illustrée de l’hépato-gastro-entérologie de l’antiquité à nos jours.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1987.


Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › History of Gastroenterology
  • 5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

Norman, OK: Transcript Press, 1987.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine
  • 6596.61

The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.

New York: Basic Books, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6927

Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratories, 1987.

The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › New Mexico
  • 6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perceived as a gay disease. Shilts' premise was that the AIDS epidemic was allowed to happen, and incompetence and apathy toward those who were initially affected by AIDS allowed the spread of the disease to become much worse than it might have been. Shilts died of complications from AIDS in 1994.

In 1993 Shilts's book became the subject of an American television docudrama, also entitled And the Band Played On, directed by Roger Spottiswood, and starring Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin, and  Richard Gere. 



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS, POLICY, HEALTH, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7136

Correction of astigmatism with the excimer laser.

Klin. Monatsbl. Augenheilkd. 191 (1987) 179-183, 1987.

In 1985 Seiler performed the first large area ablation in a human eye to remove a corneal scar, having previously performed T-incisions with an excimer laser to correct for astigmatism.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments › Lasers, OPHTHALMOLOGY
  • 7256

Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.

Nature, 329, 111-112, 1987.

Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived <200,000 years ago, became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most widely accepted explanation of the origin of all modern humans. The dating for "Eve" was a blow to the multiregional hypothesis and a boost to the theory of the origin and dispersion of modern humans from Africa. With Mark Stoneking and Allen Charles Wilson.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, GENETICS / HEREDITY
  • 7304

Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product.

J. Bacteriol., 169, 5429–5433, 1987.

The DNA sequence of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) discovered. The function of the interrupted clustered repeats was not known at the time. With  H. Shinagawa, K Makino, M Amemura, and A Nakata. Digital facsimile available at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
  • 7358

Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1987.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India › History of Ancient Medicine in India, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India
  • 7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.


Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), POLICY, HEALTH, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7857

The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 7870

Les historiens français de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie.

Paris: J. Vrin, 1987.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, Historiography of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8021

The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

Washington, DC: Defense Dept., Army Center for Military History, 1987.


Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War II
  • 8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

Stuttgart: Kiett-Cotta, 1987.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th century, including the medical histories of approximately 1800 women of all ages and social stations, often in their own words. Translated into English by Thomas Dunlap as The woman beneath the skin: A doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8270

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner

Haifa: Maimonides Research Institute, 1987.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine
  • 8315

The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.

Cairo: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 1987.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Egypt
  • 8425

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et Haut Moyen Âge.

Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université, 1987.

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latinsAntiquité et haut moyen âge : Premier supplément, 1986-1999, Volume 2 by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Université de Saint-Etienne, 2000.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

New York: Guilford Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Kenya
  • 8601

Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , NURSING › History of Nursing
  • 8671

Ross A. McFarland collection in aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Catalogue of the library.

Dayton, OH: Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University School Medicine, 1987.


Subjects: AVIATION Medicine › History of Aviation / Aerospace Medicine, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 8842

Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .

Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Guatemala, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 9047

Bibliographia médica hispánica. 1475-1950. 9 vols.

Valencia: Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia, Univ. de Valencia,, 19871991.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain
  • 9055

La medicina científica y el siglo XIX mexicano.

Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine
  • 9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages" (publisher).



Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987.


Subjects: PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Washington, DC: Center for Military History, United States Army, 1987.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Korea, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Korean War
  • 9734

A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Medical Association, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sri Lanka
  • 9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.


Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1987.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 10212

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

New York: Vantage Press, 1987.


Subjects: ANATOMY › 20th Century, OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › Laryngology
  • 10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

Providence, RI: victorianweb.org, 1987.

http://www.victorianweb.org/

"The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (IntermediaStoryspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. It takes an approach that differs markedly from many Internet projects. Today the Internet offers many excellent resources — and we use them often! —  such as Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress, and British Listed Buildings. These sites take the form of archives that quite properly preserve their information in the form of separate images or entire books accessible via search tools. The Victorian Web, in contrast, presents its images and documents, including entire books, as nodes in a network of complex connections. In other words, it emphasizes the link rather than the search tool (though it has one) and presents information linked to other information rather than atomized and isolated

"The Victorian Web takes a fundamentally different approach to finding and using information than do search-based Internet projects. Internet archives and invaluable Internet tools, such as Google, treat bodies of information as a chaotic swamp that one searches — one can’t say “negotiates” — with a wonderful laser-like tool that penetrates the fog and darkness. If we find what we're looking for, we leave immediately. We relate differently to hypertexts like the Victorian Web, which conceive of information existing within a complex ecology or set of connections, because they allow us to experience the richness of the texts and images we encounter. In the Victorian Web we encounter books, paintings, political events, and eminent and not-so-eminent Victorians in multiple contexts, which we can examine when and if we wish to do so. The Victorian Web also differs fundamentally from websites like Wikipedia and many reference works, such as Britannica, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Each of these justly renowned sites (which authors of material on this site use frequently) aims to present a single authoritative view of its subject. In contrast, the multivocal Victorian Web encourages multiple points of view and debate, in part because matters of contemporary interest rarely generate general agreement.

"Originally begun back in 1987 as a means of helping scholars and students in see connections between different fields, the site today has greatly expanded the kinds of connections one can find. For example, on this site commentary on the works of Charles Dickens exists linked to his life and contemporary social and political history, drama, religionbook illustration, economics, and so forth. Similarly, our online edition of Ruskin’s enormously influential The Seven Lamps of Architecture, whose original print version makes its excellent illustrations hard to use, places these images near the text that mentions them, often adding details, photographs of the subjects of the drawings, and connections to a wide range of useful material including secondary materials, Ruskin’s other works, and images of the Gothic and the Gothic Revival.

How large is it?

"97,441 documents and images as of February 208, and it grows every day. Approximately 5,000 documents are Spanish translations of the sections on literature and religion created by a team based at the University of Computense Madrid and initially funded by the Spanish government. A small number of documents about Ruskin and gender matters exist in French translation, too.

How many people use it?

"The site now receives 1.5 million page views a month" (http://www.victorianweb.org/misc/vwintro.html).

Sciences

Scientists featured on the Victorian Web

Scientists (cont.)

Related interests

 

 



Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 10264

Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.

London: Croom Helm, 1987.


Subjects: Medicine: General Works › Experimental Design › Vivisection / Antivivisection, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession
  • 10557

The AIDS History Project.

San Francisco, CA: University of California, 1987.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/

"In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of California, Berkeley, the AIDS History Project. The purpose of this initiative was to actively collect and organize papers and records of healthcare practitioners, activists, organizations, and agencies, and to promote the preservation of historically significant resources related to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. Recognizing the need for a broader initiative, the collaborators organized a national conference in March 1989. This conference addressed the need to forge relationships between historians and the AIDS community throughout the country in order to document and preserve the lessons and experiences of the AIDS epidemic.

In 1991, an NHPRC grant funded the AIDS History Project Records Survey, in which archivists surveyed more than fifty agencies, identified records to target for permanent preservation, and developed an acquisition plan. A second NHPRC grant in 1993 funded the records acquisition and processing phase. In 2004, NHPRC supported the AIDS Epidemic Historical Records Project, a collaboration of A&SC and GLBT HS that resulted in processing of 18 existing and newly acquired collections. In 2016, NHPRC funded an expansion of the AIDS History Project and supported the creation of detailed finding aids for seven recently acquired collections. In 2017, UCSF Archives, in collaboration with SFPL and GLBT HS, was awarded an implementation grant from NEH to digitize material related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area."

 



Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , EPIDEMIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • 10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10897

Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.

Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Scotland, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History
  • 10899

Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.

New Eng. J. Med., 316, 853-856, 1987.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was later identified as Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales, BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Ehrlichia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Ehrlichiosis
  • 11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.


Subjects: PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Maryland, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Bethesda, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1987.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and techniques.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1987.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link . 



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11192

Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.

New Eng. J. Med., 316, 183-186, 1987.

Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Parvovirus Diseases, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11246

DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.

Am. J. Med., 82, 621-3, 1987.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non-immunosuppressed patients .

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Animal Bite Wound Infections, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11585

Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century. By Horace Davenport.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and practice of clinical medicine. Dr. Dock had a secretary make a shorthand record of everything that was said at these clinics by Dock himself, the patients, and the students.

The clinics and recording of the interactions continued until the summer of 1908 when Dr. Dock left Michigan for a position at Tulane. The typed transcripts of these sessions fill 6,800 pages. This book is Davenport's distillation and, on occasion, clarification of these documents. In these transcriptions resides not only a view of the practice of academic medicine at the turn of the 20th century, but also a glimpse at one clinician's interpretation of clinical material in his own time" (publisher).



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession
  • 11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.


Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology
  • 12107

Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Indonesia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Singapore, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology
  • 12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur. By Virginia P. Dawson.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › Regeneration, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History
  • 12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

New York: Springer, 1987.


Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 12211

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the celebrated French scientific controversy that focused the attention of naturalists in the first decades of the nineteenth century on the conflicting claims of teleology, morphology, and evolution, which ultimately contributed to the making of Darwin's theory." (publisher).



Subjects: BIOLOGY › History of Biology, EVOLUTION › History of Evolutionary Thought
  • 12237

Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries.

New Eng. J. Med., 22, 1371-1375, 1987.

"Glagov remodeling" or the "Glagov phenomenon." In 1987 Glagov showed that as atherosclerotic plaque began to build up within an artery, the arterial wall would expand enough to maintain normal blood flow. Only after the blockage reached about 40 percent was the artery unable to keep pace and blood flow began to decrease.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Coronary Artery Disease
  • 12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 12542

A history of the New Zealand Medical Association: The first 100 years.

Wellington, NZ: Butterworths, 1987.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › New Zealand
  • 12957

Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1987.


Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy › Schola Medica Salernitana, SEXUALITY / Sexology
  • 12997

Operation Everest II: Man at extreme altitude.

J. Appl. Physiol., 63, 877-882, 1987.

In 1985 Houston, Sutton and Cymerman and colleagues in Canada used a decompression chamber to simulate a seven week ascent of Mt. Everest. This appears to be their first paper summarizing the overall results. Many publications were issued from the research done in this pioneering study. The first extensive collective report appears to be Houston, Cymerman, Sutton, Operation Everest II: Biomedical studies during a simulated ascent of Mt. Everest. Natick, MA: US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, 1991.

"In October 1985, 25 years ago, 8 subjects and 27 investigators met at the United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) altitude chambers in Natick, Massachusetts, to study human responses to a simulated 40-day ascent of Mt. Everest, termed Operation Everest II (OE II). Led by Charlie Houston, John Sutton, and Allen Cymerman, these investigators conducted a large number of investigations across several organ systems as the subjects were gradually decompressed over 40 days to the Everest summit equivalent. There the subjects reached a equation M1 of 15.3 mL/kg/min (28% of initial sea-level values) at 100 W and arterial Po2 and Pco2 of ∼28 and ∼10 mm Hg, respectively. Cardiac function resisted hypoxia, but the lungs could not: ventilation–perfusion inequality and O2 diffusion limitation reduced arterial oxygenation considerably. Pulmonary vascular resistance was increased, was not reversible after short-term hyperoxia, but was reduced during exercise. Skeletal muscle atrophy occurred, but muscle structure and function were otherwise remarkably unaffected. Neurological deficits (cognition and memory) persisted after return to sea level, more so in those with high hypoxic ventilatory responsiveness, with motor function essentially spared. Nine percent body weight loss (despite an unrestricted diet) was mainly (67%) from muscle and exceeded the 2% predicted from energy intake–expenditure balance. Some immunological and lipid metabolic changes occurred, of uncertain mechanism or significance. OE II was unique in the diversity and complexity of studies carried out on a single, courageous cohort of subjects. These studies could never have been carried out in the field, and thus complement studies such as the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest (AMREE) that, although more limited in scope, serve as benchmarks and reality checks for chamber studies like OE II" (Peter D. Wagner, "Operation Everest II," High. Alt. Med. Biol., 11 (2010) 111-119).



Subjects: Altitude or Undersea Physiology & Medicine
  • 13165

"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987.

Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Crimean War, NURSING › History of Nursing, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

Lexington, KY: Transylvania University Press, 1987.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Kentucky
  • 13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

London: British Museum (Natural History) & Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.


Subjects: EVOLUTION
  • 13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Centers for Disease Control, 1987.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox
  • 13931

Site-directed mutagenesis by gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells.

Cell, 51, 503-512, 1987.

In 2007 Capecchi shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells." These mice are known as knockout mice.



Subjects: Biotechnology, GENETICS / HEREDITY › Genetics, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 13940

Targeted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells.

Nature, 330, 576-578, 1987.

Smithies discovered, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice.

In 2007 Smithies shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mario R. Capecchi and Martin J. Evans "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."
Order of authorship of the original publication: Doetschman, Gregg...Smithies.



Subjects: Biotechnology, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 13950

Nucleosomes inhibit the initiation of transcription but allow chain elongation with the displacement of histones.

Cell, 49, 203-210, 1987.

Within the nucleosome Kornberg found that roughly 200 bp of DNA are wrapped around an octamer of histone proteins. With Yahli Lorch, Kornberg showed that a nucleosome on a promoter prevents the initiation of transcription, leading to the recognition of a functional role for the nucleosome, which serves as a general gene repressor. Order of authorship in the original publication: Lorsch, Lapointe, Kornberg.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
  • 14116

Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (Leuko-Araiosis).

Arch. Neurol., 44, 32-35, 1987.

"Abstract: As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and neurologic examination. Computed tomographic scans were evaluated for the presence or absence of white matter lucencies, termed leuko-araiosis. These are defined as patchy or diffuse areas of decreased attenuation involving only white matter and with no change in adjacent ventricles or sulci. The nine controls with leuko-araiosis had lower scores on the ESD than the 96 controls without leuko-araiosis (mean ESD with leuko-araiosis, 227.1 +/- 14; without leuko-araiosis, 237.1 +/- 8), and the difference remains significant even after adjusting for the possible confounding effects of age, sex, education, and infarct detected on computed tomography. Significant differences were also found comparing subjects with leuko-araiosis and those without in respect to abnormal gait, limb power, plantar response, and the rooting and palmomental reflexes. Leuko-araiosis may represent a marker for early dementia. The pathophysiology of this finding remains uncertain. Our results suggest that white matter abnormalities play a role in the development of intellectual impairment in the elderly."

Order of authorship in the original publication: Steingart, Hachinski, ... Merskey.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders › Presenile or Senile Dementia
  • 2682.56

Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988.

Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.



Subjects: Encyclopedias, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

Madison, WI: Science-Tech Publishers, 1988.

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology
  • 2581.13

Portraits of viruses: A history of virology.

Basel: Karger, 1988.

Well-documented essays on specific families of viruses by expert researchers, reprinted from Intervirology, 1979, 11-1986, 26.



Subjects: VIROLOGY › History of Virology
  • 3911.2

Endocrinology: people and ideas.

Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society, 1988.

Thematic historical essays written by pioneers in the field, edited by McCann.



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY › History of Endocrinology
  • 5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

White Plains, NY: Kraus International, 1988.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, Mesmerism, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, PSYCHOTHERAPY › Hypnosis › History of Psychotherapy: Hypnosis
  • 6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

New York: Garland Publishing, 19882000.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), NURSING › History of Nursing
  • 6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), NURSING › History of Nursing, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About
  • 5813.14
  • 6596.62

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

San Francisco, CA: Norman Publishing, 19881992.

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, urology, colon–rectal surgery, and neurological surgery.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 6604.82

Pioneer medicine in Australia. Edited by John Hemsley Pearn.

Brisbane, Australia: Amphion Press, [University of Queensland], 1988.

Twenty illustrated essays by various authors.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia
  • 6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.


Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States
  • 7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

The first history of sexuality in America.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Richmond, Victoria, Australia: Greenhouse Publications, 1988.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, principal photographer; Valerie Alexander and Milton Andrews, botanical artists.



Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacopeias
  • 7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

Geneva: World Health Organization, 1988.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.



Subjects: Global Health, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, VIROLOGY › History of Virology, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Variola and Vaccinia
  • 7671

The Irish body snatchers: A history of body snatching in Ireland.

Dublin: Tomar, 1988.


Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ireland
  • 7859

Historia de la medicina valenciana. Edited by José Maria López Piñero. 3 vols.

Valencia: Vicent Garcia Editores, 19881992.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain
  • 7912

SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-

Oxford, 1988.

Contents of the recent issue may be viewed at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/current.

 



Subjects: Periodicals Specializing in the History of Medicine & the Life Sciences, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7952

A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 35 (2), 153–161., 1988.

With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments › Robotics, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments › Stereotactic Surgery, NEUROSURGERY › Stereotactic Neurosurgery
  • 8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry
  • 8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

Haifa: Maimonides Research Institute, 1988.


Subjects: Colon & Rectal Diseases & Surgery, Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine, TOXICOLOGY
  • 8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

London: Peter Owen, 1988.

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several artists, see the Wikipedia article, I Modi.



Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology
  • 8568

Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.

Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 19882006.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, BOTANY
  • 8635

La scuola medica di Bologna: Settecento anni di storia. Edited by Raffaele A. Bernabeo and Giuseppe D'Antuono.

Bologna: Firma Libri, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession
  • 8640

Critical care nursing: A history

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.


Subjects: NURSING › History of Nursing
  • 8732

Founders of British physiology: A biographical dictionary, 1820-1885.

London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988.


Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology
  • 8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

Rutherford, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Magic & Superstition in Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, SOCIAL MEDICINE, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, BIOLOGY › Ethnobiology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Haiti, Magic & Superstition in Medicine, TOXICOLOGY
  • 8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers.

"The Body and Society questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped relationships between men and women, Roman aristocracy and slaves, and the married and the celibate. Brown discusses Tertullian, Valentinus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, the Desert Fathers, Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine, among others, and considers asceticism and society in the Eastern Empire, martyrdom and prophecy, gnostic spiritual guidance, promiscuity among the men and women of the church, monks and marriage in Egypt, the ascetic life of women in fourth-century Jerusalem, and the body and society in the early Middle Ages" (publisher)

20th anniversary edition with a new introduction, 2008. 



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology
  • 8949

Instrumental medico-quirurgico en la hispania romana.

Impressos Numancia, 1988.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 9109

La prostitution médiévale.

Paris: Flammarion, 1988.

Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but were often its principal beneficiaries, owning and frequenting brothels quite openly. The explanation of this remarkable state of affairs is just one aspect of Jacques Rossiaud's vivid reconstruction of a part of medieval society that has previously received little attention.

Drawing upon extensive research in medieval archives, the author shows that most fifteenth-century Frenchwomen could expect a life of constant subjugation to male desire. Rape, for instance, was common and considered only a minor crime. He then considers whether public prostitution might paradoxically have been seen by the secular and religious authorities as a means of social control, and of preserving marital stability: the virtue of wives and daughters was best protected by the existence of public brothels, where sexual urges could be satisfied without adultery or rape. Jacques Rossiaud also describes the social background of the prostitutes, brothel-keepers, pimps, and their clientele, providing a vivid overview..." (publisher).



Subjects: PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology
  • 9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

Alaska Medicine, 30, 185-226, 1988.


Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Alaska
  • 9707

Histoire de la médecine chinoise.

Paris: Payot, 1988.


Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine
  • 9721

Domestication of plants in the old world: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Revised 4th edition, 2012.



Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany
  • 9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1988.


Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals
  • 9970

A history of surgery: With emphasis on the Netherlands.

Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Netherlands, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 10015

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South
  • 10029

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

Canberra, Australia: AGPS Press, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, GENETICS / HEREDITY › Eugenics, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Research Campaign. The resulting analysis of intellectual developments and scientific polices involves a unique overview of malignant disease management, therapeutic and preventative strategies, and the evolution of cancer services in Britain" (publisher).



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10605

Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle.

Paris: Flammarion, 1988.


Subjects: MUSEUMS › History of Museums
  • 10643

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome V, 1ère partie: Des vents. De l'art. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1988.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On winds and On the art of medicine from the Hippocratic Corpus. Both treatises date to the final decades of the 5th cent. BCE. On winds claims that diseases are caused by air. On the art aims to demonstrate the efficacy of medicine.

 



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Hippocratic Tradition
  • 10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988.


Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Nigeria, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 10997

Bibliography of Australian medicine and health services to 1950. 4 vols.

Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988.

"A joint project of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Department of Community Services and Health."



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Australia
  • 11141

Compendium of human anatomic variation: Text, atlas, and world Literature.

Munich: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1988.

A recent edition is Bergman's Comprehensive encyclopedia of human anatomic variation edited by R. Shane Tubbs, Mohammadali M. Shoja, and Marios Loukas. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 20th Century, ANATOMY › 21st Century
  • 11170

Studies in the history of alternative medicine. Edited by Roger Cooter.

London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988.


Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › History of Alternative Medicine in General
  • 11197

Sir William Osler: An annotated bibliography with illustrations. Edited by Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland.

San Francisco, CA: Norman Publishing, 1988.

This was my first effort as a publisher. I was responsible for the illustrations, the captions, and for chosing the appendices - JMN.

Richard Golden issued an Addenda to this bibliography in 1997.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors
  • 11255

Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.

Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 1, 60-81, 1988.

Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Pneumonia › Legionnaire's Disease
  • 11281

An informal history of W. B. Saunders Company.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1988.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Medical Publishers, Histories of
  • 11507

Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.

Willowdale, Canada: Hounslow Press, 1988.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada
  • 11542

La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.

Paris: Seghers, 1988.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, TROPICAL Medicine › History of Tropical Medicine
  • 11774

Outlines of entomology. Seventh edition.

Amsterdam: Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V., 1988.

Includes an outstanding analytical bibliography of the primary entomological literature.



Subjects: ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology
  • 11778

Southern African botanical literature, 1600-1988.

Cape Town: South African Library, 1988.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Botany / Materia Medica, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Africa
  • 11780

Molecular Koch's postulates applied to microbial pathogenicity.

Rev. Infect. Dis., 10 (suppl.2) S274-276, 1988.

"Molecular Koch's postulates are a set of experimental criteria that must be satisfied to show that a gene found in a pathogenic microorganism encodes a product that contributes to the disease caused by the pathogen. Genes that satisfy molecular Koch's postulates are often referred to as virulence factors. The postulates were formulated by the microbiologist Stanley Falkow in 1988 and are based on Koch's postulates.[1]

"The postulates as originally described by Dr. Falkow are as follows:

  1. "The phenotype or property under investigation should be associated with pathogenic members of a genus or pathogenic strains of a species." Additionally, the gene in question should be found in all pathogenic strains of the genus or species but be absent from nonpathogenic strains[citation needed].
  2. "Specific inactivation of the gene(s) associated with the suspected virulence trait should lead to a measurable loss in pathogenicity or virulence." Virulence of the microorganism with the inactivated gene must be less than that of the unaltered microorganism in an appropriate animal model.
  3. "Reversion or allelic replacement of the mutated gene should lead to restoration of pathogenicity." In other words, reintroduction of the gene into the microbe should restore virulence in the animal model.

"For many pathogenic microorganisms, it is not currently possible to apply molecular Koch's postulates to a gene in question. Testing a candidate virulence gene requires a relevant animal model of the disease being examined and the ability to genetically manipulate the microorganism that causes the disease. Suitable animal models are lacking for many important human diseases. Additionally, many pathogens cannot be manipulated genetically" (Wikipedia article on Molecular Koch's Postulates, accessed 2-2020).



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › GENERAL PRINCIPLES of Infection by Microorganisms, MICROBIOLOGY
  • 11835

Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire
  • 12314

Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.

Paris: Imago, 1988.


Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy › History of Leprosy, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 12349

The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.

Medical History, 32, 231-252, 1988.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.



Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Anti-Vaccination, POLICY, HEALTH
  • 12520

Das Ergebnis des Nachdenkens über die Behandlung der Augenkrankheiten von Fath ad-Dīn al-Qaisī. Übersetzung des arabischen Textes, Kommentar von Hans-Dieter Bischoff.

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1988.


Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology
  • 13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both to prevent occupational hazards and to assure themselves of adequate health care. Among other projects, they planned, built, and governed more than twenty general hospitals throughout the Western United States and Canada. Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy is an engaging and richly documented account of this first attempt to create a democratically controlled health care system in North America. Focusing on the efforts of local unions, Derickson illuminates the broader history of the Western labor movement, the self-help traditions of rank-and-file workers, and the evolution of health care on the industrial frontier" (publisher).



Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › Miners' Diseases, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 13357

Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988.


Subjects: BOTANY › Medical Botany, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine
  • 13682

Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS
  • 13810

La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1988.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt › History of Ancient Medicine in Egypt
  • 14054

Tibetan medical thangka of the four medical tantras. Translator and compiler of the original edition: Byams-pa 'Phrin-Las, Wang lei. English translator and annotator Cai Jingfeng.

Lhasa, Tibet: People's Publishing House of Tibet, 1988.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tibet
  • 14075

Les livres anciens de médecine et de pharmacie. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse.

Toulouse: Centre Régional des Lettres Midi-Pyrénées, 1988.

Catalogue of books on the subjects up to 1815 held by this library.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries
  • 436.1

Atlas of human anatomy.

Summit, NJ: Ciba-Geigy Corporation, 1989.

The culmination of the life work of one of the greatest, and most prolific, anatomical illustrators of the 20th century. Includes 514 full-color plates, many of which were created for this atlas. Reproduction of previously published plates was enhanced in this superbly produced work. With S. Colacino, consulting editor.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 20th Century, ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration
  • 2581.14

A history of immunology.

San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1989.

Carefully documented, well-written, analytical history from the ancient world to c. 1975 by an expert researcher in the field. Includes biographical dictionary of notable contributors, list of “seminal discoveries” from 1714 to 1975 with bibliographical references, list of important books in immunology, 1892-1968, and glossary of technical terms.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology
  • 18.1

Herophilus: The art of medicine in early Alexandria. Edition, translation and essays by H. von Staden.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

The first comprehensive presentation of the ancient evidence for the achievements of Herophilus and his school, including edited versions of all original Greek and Latin texts plus English translations, with in-depth commentaries. In most cases these are the first English translations of the texts concerned. Considered the first anatomist, Herophilus was the first scientist to perform scientific dissections of human cadavers. He recorded his findings in over nine works, none of which survived. He was an early pioneer of the scientific method. Together with Erasistratus, he is regarded as a founder of the medical school of Alexandria.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Ancient Anatomy (BCE to 5th Century CE), ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Hellenistic
  • 5733.41

The history of anesthesia

London: Royal Society of Medicine and Parthenon Publishing, 1989.

Proceedings of the 1987 Second International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Over 100 contributors. International Congress and Symposium Series 134.



Subjects: ANESTHESIA › History of Anesthesia
  • 6623.52

Medicine, literature, and eponyms: Encyclopaedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters.

Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1989.


Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 6742.12

A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography.

Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, Gower Publishing Co. Ltd, 1989.

Collective and individual biographies. Confined to books in English published in the 19th-20th centuries. Revised and enlarged version of J.L. Thornton, A select bibliography of medical biography. 2nd ed., London, 1970.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works)
  • 6786.33

A catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

Bethesda, MD: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1989.

Describes, with paginations, approximately 13,300 monographs, dissertations, broadsides, pamphlets and serials printed between 1601 and 1700.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries
  • 6832

Hautkrankheiten. 5 Jahrhunderte wissenschaftlicher Illustration / Skin Diseases. 5 Centuries of Scientific Illustration.

Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer, 1989.

Bilingual text, richly illustrated in color, on the great illustrated works in the history of dermatology.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › History of Dermatology
  • 7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.


Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology
  • 7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.


Subjects: Contraception › History of Contraception, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7071

Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.

London: Routledge, 1989.

A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology of language), and philosophy--all within the framework of Darwinian evolutionary theory, making allowance for the latest critcal developments.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, EVOLUTION, NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology
  • 7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1989.


Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tibet, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.

Digital version available at this link.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet
  • 7460

An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Botany / Materia Medica, BOTANY › History of Botany
  • 7531

Musik und Medizin. 3 vols.

Vienna: Ed. Wien, 19891991.

Vol. 1: Am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik; Vol. 2: Am Beispiel der deutschen Romantik; Vol. 3: Chopin, Smetana, Tschaikowsky, Mahler. The three volumes were translated into English by Bruce Cooper Clarke, and published in Bloomington, Indiana by Med-Ed Press, 1995-97.



Subjects: Music and Medicine
  • 7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), Quackery, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Yearbook, 1989.

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.



Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL MEDICINE, SURGERY: General
  • 7910

MEDIZIN, GESELLSCHAFT UND GESCHICHTE. Jahrbuch des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung. 1-

1989.


Subjects: Periodicals Specializing in the History of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 7920

Rituals and medicines: Indigenous healing in South Africa.

Johannesburg: A. D. Donker, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Africa
  • 8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, NURSING › History of Nursing
  • 8269

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

Haifa: Maimonides Research Institute, 1989.


Subjects: Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine
  • 8392

Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.

Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1989.

Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri, TOXICOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY › Zootoxicology, Zoology, Natural History, Ancient Greek / Roman / Egyptian
  • 8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations are in agreement with the edition by E. Littré, which still is the most important edition to date and has frequently been reprinted. Also incorporated were several texts not included in Littré’s edition and those lemmata from the glossaries of Erotianus and Galenus which are not preserved in the Hippocratic writings. But most importantly the material has been supplemented and corrected by means of a systematic evalution of the most recent critical editions and a re-examination of the original manuscripts. This approach combines two advantages: A standardized form of the quotations in accordance with Littré’s edition is coupled with abundant information on the tradition of all the writings, especially those which, until now, have not been republished in a critical edition. – With regard to the presentation of the material the index maintains a balance between a rigid concordance and a dictionary. Organizational principles of primary importance are the grammatical categories and varitations in the meanings of the words; additionally characteristic word combinations ans noteworthy dialectal forms are given particular attention while uncommon words are furnished with a Latin translation. The work is prefaced with an objective introduction in German containing, among other data, a complete list of the Hippocratic writings together with information on their tradition, their different editions, and where possible, their chronology." (http://www.v-r.de/en/index_hippocraticus_cui_elaborando_interfuerunt_sodales_thesauri_linguae_graecae_hamburgensis/sd-2/376, accessed 01-2017).

 



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, Hippocratic Tradition, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 8429

Geschichte der Tiermedizin. 5000 Jahre Tierheilkunde.

Munich: Callwey, 1989.


Subjects: VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine
  • 8446

Das Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.

Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1989.

The Lorschner Arzneibuch (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1; Lorsch Leechbook), a Carolingian codex from the time of Charlemagne, was written in Latin around 800 in Lorsch Abbey. It is the oldest surviving book of monastic medicine from the Western Early Middle Ages. It is preserved in the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Germany, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8452

Médecine et justice en Provence médiévale: Documents de Manosque, 1262-1348.

Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 1989.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › France
  • 8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

London: British Museum, 1989.


Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8667

A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Maryland
  • 8678

Doctors under Hitler.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

New York: Basic Books, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , POLICY, HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 8735

The history of cancer: An annotated bibliography.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Diseases, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer
  • 8753

The library of Robert Hooke: The scientific book trade of Restoration England.

Santa Monica, CA: Modoc Press, 1989.

Reprints the auction catalogue of Hooke's library: Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703).



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries
  • 8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

New York: Crossroad, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8863

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.


Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica
  • 9043

Cuerpo humano e ideologia. Las concepciones de los antiguos nahauas. Third edition. 2 vols.

Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 19891990.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, Pre-Columbian Medicine, History of
  • 9049

Discursos medicinales. Edición del Mss. 2208 de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca. Introducción de Luis S. Granjel. Descripción bibliográfica de Teresa Santander. Transcripción de Gregorio del Ser Quijano y Luis E. Rodríguez-San Pedro.

Salamanca, Spain: Ed. Universidad de Salamanca, 1989.

Facsimile edtion and first publication of the first medical work written in Colombia, written between 1607 and 1611.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Colombia, Latin American Medicine
  • 9050

Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.

Madrid: Instituto para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ICONA)-Real Jardín Botánico, 1989.

Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the  Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the direction of Hipólito Ruiz López y José Pavón. Eduardo Estrella discovered the unpublished manuscripts of Tafalla's work, including beautiful paintings, in the Real Jardín Botánico archives in Madrid, and edited them for first publication roughly 200 years after they were created. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Bibliotheca Digital Real Jardín Botánico CSIC at this link; of vol. 2 at this link.



Subjects: BOTANY, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ecuador, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines
  • 9107

Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia.

Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 79, pt. 6., Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989.


Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Spain
  • 9138

In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century.

New York: Basic Books, 1989.


Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, HOSPITALS
  • 9140

De plantis: Five translated. Edited and introduced by H. J. Drossaart Lulofs and E. L. J. Poortman.

Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing, 1989.

On Plants (De Plantis), sometimes attributed to Aristotle, is generally believed to have been written by Nicolaus of Damascus in the first century BCE. It is divided into two parts:

"The first part discusses the nature of plant life, sex in plants, the parts of plants, the structure of plants, the classification of plants, the composition and products of plants, the methods of propagation and fertilization of plants, and the changes and variations of plants. The second part describes the origins of plant life, the material of plants, the effects of external conditions and climate on plants, water plants, rock plants, effects of locality on plants, parasitism, the production of fruits and leaves, the colors and shapes of plants, and fruits and their flavors" (Wikipedia).

 



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, BOTANY
  • 9164

The hospital in history. Edited by Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter.

London: Routledge, 1989.


Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals
  • 9342

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989.


Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines
  • 9433

Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.

Mount Kisco, NY: Futura Publishing, 1989.


Subjects: NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY › Head Injuries
  • 9465

Diabetes, its medical and cultural history: Outlines — texts — bibliography. Edited by Dietrich von Engelhardt.

Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer, 1989.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Diseases, Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes › History of Diabetes
  • 9730

Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.


Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine
  • 9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of visual statements by psychotic artists such as Adolf Wlfli and Richard Dadd. John MacGregor draws on his dual training in art history and in psychiatry and psychoanalysis to describe not only this evolution in attitudes but also the significant influence of the art of the mentally ill on the development of modern art as a whole. His detailed narrative, with its strangely beautiful illustrations, introduces us to a fascinating group of people that includes the psychotic artists, both trained and untrained, and the psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, critics, and art historians who encountered their work" (publisher).

 



Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry
  • 9805

Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.

Tuscaloosa & London: University of Alabama Press, 1989.

"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders. But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar. Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same. The central thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental disease or the disease in itself. It is possible to trace these phenomena throughout the history of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice. A secondary thesis of the book is that psychiatrists have used these phenomena as predictors and markers in the practical matters of preventing insane homicide and of testifying in the courts to defend the irresponsible and expose the culpable.

"For 200 years, scientific and philosophical disagreement raised controversy and brought the issues to public attention. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts" (publisher).

 



Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine , PSYCHIATRY › Forensic Psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry
  • 10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 1989.


Subjects: Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Alaska
  • 10172

A history of vascular surgery.

New York: Futura Publishing, 1989.

Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.



Subjects: VASCULAR SURGERY › History of Vascular Surgery
  • 10258

Histoire de la médecine tibetaine. Vie de Yutok Yonten Gonpo l'Ancien, traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Paul R. Claudon et Sylvaine Jean avec la collaboration de Martine Pageon-Tarin.

Edition , Saint-Dié des Vosges, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tibet
  • 10331

Saddlebags to scanners: The first 100 years of medicine In Washington State. Edited by Nancy M. Rockefellar and James W. Haviland.

Seattle, WA, 1989.


Subjects: U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Washington
  • 10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

Berlin & Heidelberg & New York: Springer, 1989.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and China.



Subjects: Cartography, Medical & Biological, Cartography, Medical & Biological › History of Medical Cartography, EPIDEMIOLOGY, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer
  • 10742

A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.

New York & Oxford, 1989.


Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROLOGY › Neurovascular Disorders › Stroke, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 10757

Historia general de las drogas.

Madrid: Alianza, 1989.

The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995).  English translation by G. W. Robinette with revisions as The general history of drugs, Volume one (Valparaiso, Chile: Graffiti Militante Press, 2010).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology
  • 10926

Ebola virus infection in imported primates - Virginia, 1989.

Virginia Epidemiology Bulletin, 89, No. 12, 1-2, 1989.

Also published with same title in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 38 (1989) 831, 832-837. Discovery of the "Ebola Reston" strain of the Ebola virus. The strain is lethal in monkeys; it turned out to be non-pathogenic for humans.

Digital text from cdc.gov at this link.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this paper and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Filoviridae › Ebolavirus, ZOOLOGY › Mammalogy › Primatology
  • 11027

This idle trade: On doctors who were writers.

New York: Dragonfly Press, 1989.


Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology
  • 11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

Winchester, Hampshire, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies & San Francisco, CA: Norman Publishing, 1989.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography originated by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. It contains a new introduction by Whitteridge, taking account of then-recent research, particularly on Harvey’s manuscript works. Editions of Harvey’s works published since the second edition of the bibliography issued in 1953 were added, the details of locations of copies were updated, and the census of copies of the first edition of De motu cordis was revised. Norman Publishing was the co-publisher of this title.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11235

Bibliographie der Schriften Samuel Hahnemanns.

Rauenberg: Verlag Franz Siegle, 1989.


Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Homeopathy › History of Homeopathy, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors
  • 11247

Capnocytophaga canimorsus sp. nov. (formerly CDC group DF-2), a cause of septicemia following dog bite, and C. cynodegmi sp. nov., a cause of localized wound infection following dog bite.

J. Clin. Microbiol., 27, 231-235, 1989.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Brenner, Hollis, Fanning....The authors defined the genus and species of previously unclassified bacteria that infect dog and cat bites, previous identified as DF-2, and provided its scientific name, Capnocytophaga canimorsus.  They also identified a second species, C. cynodegmi. 

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Animal Bite Wound Infections
  • 11378

Botulinum toxin: a treatment for facial asymmetry caused by facial nerve paralysis.

Plast. reconstr. Surg., 84, 353-55, 1989.

First documentation of a cosmetic use for botulinum toxin (Botox). This was one of the early documented applications of a biological medical product.



Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Biological Medical Product (Biologic), PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, TOXICOLOGY
  • 11475

Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.

New Engl. J. Med., 321, 1577-1583, 1989.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment
  • 11897

Repertorium van de Middelnederlandse Artes-Literatuur.

Utrecht: H & S Hes Uitgevers & Brill, 1989.
Inventory of Dutch non-literary and non-theological manuscripts and printed texts until 1600.
 

 



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine
  • 11907

The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.


Subjects: PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION › Exercise / Training / Fitness › History of Exercise / Training / Fitness, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 11924

America's forgotten pandemic: The influenza of 1918.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

First published as Epidemic and peace 1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. New edition, 2003.



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza › 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus)
  • 12292

Three-dimensional display in nuclear medicine.

IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, 8, 297–303, 1989.

Maximum intensity projection (MIP) or MIP imaging, invented by Jerold Wallis, "is a method for 3D data that projects in the visualization plane the voxels with maximum intensity that fall in the way of parallel rays traced from the viewpoint to the plane of projection. This implies that two MIP renderings from opposite viewpoints are symmetrical images if they are rendered using orthographic projection.

"MIP is used for the detection of lung nodules in lung cancer screening programs which use computed tomography scans. MIP enhances the 3D nature of these nodules, making them stand out from pulmonary bronchi and vasculature. MIP imaging is also used routinely by physicians in interpreting Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or Magnetic Resonance Angiography studies

In the setting of Nuclear Medicine, MIP was originally called MAP (Maximum Activity Projection). 

To view SPECT visualized by a MIP of a mouse click on the link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_intensity_projection#/media/File:Mouse02-spect.gif



Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration › Computer Graphics, Nuclear Medicine
  • 12337

Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.

Toronto, Canada: Decker, 1989.


Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › History of Cardiac Surgery
  • 12354

Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.


Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 12355

Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: An anthology of souyrces. Edited by Edward T. Morman.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.


Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals
  • 12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.


Subjects: LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Legislation, Biomedical, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Nostrums, Patent Medicines
  • 12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Papua New Guinea, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 12607

Periodontology, from its origins up to 1980: A survey.

Basel & Boston: Birkhäuser, 1989.


Subjects: DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry, DENTISTRY › Periodontics
  • 12653