Entry Nos. 11800–11899
99 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1825 CE
#11800
Histoire naturelle et médicale des sangsues, contenant la description anatomique des organes de la sangsue officinale, avec des considérations physiologiques sur ces organes; des notions très-étendues sur la conservation domestique de ce ver, sa reproduction, ses maladies, son application, etc.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1819 CE
#11801
Bdellomètre du docteur Sarlandière.
Privately printed pamphlet describing Sarlandière's "artificial leech," a mechanical bleeding device designed to replace leeches when they were not available. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1807 CE
#11802
The Oriental voyager, or descriptive sketches and cursory remarks on a voyage to India and China in His Majesty's ship Caroline, performed in the years 1803–4–5–6. Interspersed with extracts from the best modern voyages and travels. The whole intended to exhibit a topographical and picturesque sketch of all the principal places which are annually or occasionally visited by our East Indian and China fleets....
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1872 CE
#11803
Corals and coral islands.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2019 CE
#11804
The professional library of James W. Porter on corals and coral reefs.
1860 CE
#11805
Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1857 CE
#11806
Omphalos: An attempt to untie the geological knot.
In Omphalos, published in 1857, two years before the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Gosse attempted to reconcile the paleontological record with creationist religious beliefs by arguing that the fos…
2015 CE
#11807
The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.
1847 CE–1852 CE
#11808
Flora medico-farmaceutica. 6 vols.
Digital facsimile of the complete set from the Internet Archive at this link.
2011 CE
#11809
Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.
Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005.
1893 CE
#11810
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its products and potentialities, containing an account, with copious coloured and photographic illustrations (the latter here produced for the first time), of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, other fishing Industries, and the marine fauna of the Australian Great Barrier region.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary at this link.
2005 CE
#11811
Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.
1912 CE
#11812
Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.
Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…
1837 CE
#11813
Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés.
A thorough analysis of the problem of foundling children from a social, medical, legal and historical standpoint. The work begins with a history of the treatment of abandoned children from antiquity to the time of wri…
1983 CE
#11814
U.S. cancer mortality rates and trends, 1950-1979. 4 vols.
Riggan supervised this long-term project of calculating and publishing cancer mortality rates and trends for every county in the United States over several decades. The last 30 of the 40 years of the underlying data b…
1761 CE–1762 CE
#11816
Die gottliche Ordnung in den Veranderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts, aus der Geburt, dem Tode und der Fortpflanzung desselben erwiesen. Zwote und ganz umgearbeitete Ausgabe. 2 vols.
Twenty years after publication of the first edition (No. 1691), Süssmilch published a second edition "that was so different from the earlier book that it may well be called a separate work. While maintaining his …
1979 CE–1984 CE
#11817
Johann Peter Süssmilch. L'Ordre divin aux origines de la démographie. Traduction originale avec des études et commentaires rassemblés par Jacqueline Hecht. Vol. I: Études critiques, biographie, correspondance, bibliographie. Vol. 2: L' Oeuvre de J.P. Süssmilch, L'Ordre divin. Traduction de M. Kriegel. Vol. 3: Index des auteurs, des lieux et des matières. 3 vols.
A three-volume critical edition including the first edition in French.
1971 CE
#11818
A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
1946 CE
#11819
The common sense book of baby and child care.
One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…
1916 CE
#11820
The treatment of diabetes mellitus, with observations upon the disease based upon one thousand cases.
Joslin was the first physician in the United States to specialize in the treatment of diabetes; this was the first textbook on the subject in the English language. The book underwent its 12th edition in 1985. Digital …
1936 CE
#11821
Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.
Includes information on asbestosis.
1997 CE
#11822
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
1896 CE
#11823
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.
Hoffman was statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work, "Hoffman's first, characterized African Americans as exceptionally disease-prone. The work was motivated by a concern about issues o…
1899 CE
#11824
The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.
Full text available from en.wikisource.org at this link.
2009 CE
#11825
Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.
"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…
1879 CE
#11826
The study and practice of medicine by women.
Probably the first study of how women physicians used their medical training. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1968 CE
#11827
Women in medicine.
1973 CE
#11828
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
1996 CE
#11829
Manuale medico / Paolo di Nicea ; testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico, traduzione e note a cura di Anna Maria Ieraci Bio
1794 CE
#11830
Theophanis Nonni Epitome de cvratione morborvm graece ac latine: Ope codicvm manvscriptorvm recensvit notasqve adiecit I. O. Steph. Bernard. 2 vols.
Reprints text and translation from Martius's 1568 edition with extensive annotations by Bernard, and divergent manuscript readings based on the study of several codices. For an analysis of this Byzantine medical handb…
2018 CE
#11831
Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.
1840 CE
#11832
Anecdota medica graeca e codicibus MSS. expromsit. F. Z. Ermerins.
Extensively annotated critical texts of Theophilus Protospatharius, Leo the Physician, Constantinus Pogonatos (De cibis; On foods). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2019 CE
#11833
Greek medical papyri: Text, context, hypertext. Edited by Niccola Reggiani.
1994 CE
#11834
Roman surgical instruments and other minor objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the "Antiquarium" at Pompeii by Ralph Jackson.
Definitive analysis of the most extensive extant collection of Roman instruments.
1988 CE
#11835
Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.
1962 CE
#11836
Development of psychological thought in India.
1911 CE
#11837
Health on the farm: A manual of rural sanitation and hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1995 CE
#11838
La practica secundum Trotam: Testo, traduzione, appendici e glossario
1953 CE
#11839
Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…
1969 CE
#11840
The Andromeda strain. A novel.
A techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.
1884 CE
#11841
The body snatcher.
Loosely based upon the notorious crimes of Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in 1828 in order to sell their corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox. In Stevenson's story, the anatomist is referred to as Mr. K__…
2005 CE
#11842
Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mojica, Díez-Villaseñor, Jesus García-Martínez. In this paper Mojica and colleagues showed the the CRISPR system is a bacterial immune syste…
2007 CE
#11843
CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.
Horvath and his team provided key details of the extremely complex mechanisms involved in CRISPR's function as an immune system for bacteria against bacteriophages. Analogous to Pasteur's heroic role in saving the Fre…
2012 CE
#11844
A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, Chylinski, Fonfar, Hauer, Doudna, Charpentier. Doudna, Charpentier and colleagues showed for the first time that the CRISPR evolutionary immune tool of bacteria …
2013 CE
#11845
RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, East, Cheng...Doudna. Doudna and colleagues presented the first demonstration that the CRISPR Cas/Cas9 bacterial editing tool functions could be applied in human…
2013 CE
#11846
Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Cong, Ran, Cox....Zhang. Zhang and colleagues edited the genome of human and mouse cells (mammalian cells). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks t…
2013 CE
#11847
RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mali, Yang, Esvelt....Church. Church and colleagues reported genome editing in human cells. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…
2015 CE
#11848
Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…
2014 CE
#11849
The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Doubna, Charpenter. "Abstract "The advent of facile genome engineering using the bacterial RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is transforming biology. We rev…
1962 CE
#11850
Disinfected mail: Historical review and tentative listing of cachets, handstamp markings, wax seals, wafer seals and manuscript certifications alphabetically arranged according to countries, by K.F. Meyer, in collaboration with C. Ravasini ...[et al.].
From the 15th to near the end of the 19th century attempts were made to decontaminate mail which had been in contact with plague, smallpox, cholera, and other contagious diseases.