Entry Nos. 12300–12399

2012 CE

#12350

Vaccine: The debate in modern America.

2007 CE

#12351

Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.

1937 CE

#12352

Die Geschichte der angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

A history of congenital heart disease covering cyanosis, foetal endocarditis and various malformations. Bedford 850.

1960 CE

#12353

Thoracic surgery before the 20th century.

1989 CE

#12354

Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1989 CE

#12355

Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: An anthology of souyrces. Edited by Edward T. Morman.

1986 CE

#12356

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

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 …

1865 CE

#12357

History of the discoveries of the circulation of the blood, of the ganglia and nerves, and of the action of the heart.

Lee, an obstetrician, published one of the earliest studies of the history of the circulation of the blood in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#12358

Recopilación histórico-bibliográfica de la circulación de la sangre en el hombre y los animales.

Digital facsimile from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link.

1948 CE

#12359

Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.

Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…

1997 CE

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

2001 CE

#12361

The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.

2018 CE

#12362

Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.

"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).

1991 CE

#12363

The origins of thoracic anesthesia.

1995 CE

#12364

The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.

A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.

1944 CE

#12365

The diagnosis of rheumatic fever.

The Jones criteria (later revised in 1992 and 2015) for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever.

1930 CE

#12366

Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.

1997 CE

#12367

A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.

1982 CE

#12368

Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.

1966 CE

#12369

Creation of an atrial septal defect without thoracotomy. A palliative approach to complete transposition of the great arteries.

Rashkind balloon atrial septostomy to treat transposition of the great vessels.

1971 CE

#12370

International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.

Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.

2003 CE

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

2017 CE

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

2000 CE

#12373

Devices and desires: Gender, technology, and American nursing.

"Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurs…

2012 CE

#12374

British cardiology in the 20th century. Edited by Mark E. Silverman, Peter R. Fleming, Arthur Hollman, Desmond G. Julian, Dennis M. Krikler.

"The first and only detailed history of mdoern cardiology and cardiac surgery in Britain" (W. Bruce Fye, 2020).

1994 CE

#12375

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

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

1986 CE

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

2010 CE

#12377

Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.

"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…

2002 CE

#12378

The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).

1941 CE

#12379

Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.

2014 CE

#12380

Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine

"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…

1914 CE

#12381

Die Sportverletzungen. Neue Deutsche Chirurgie, hrsg. von P. von Bruns., 13. bd.

Sportart, Sportverletzung, Sportmedizin, Kampfsport, Ballspiel, Leichtathletik, Tanz, Bergsport, Gerätturnen, Wassersport, Wintersport, Motorsport, Pferdesport, Rudersport, Radsport, Sporttraumatologie.

1925 CE

#12382

Chirurgie der Sportunfalle.

1927 CE

#12383

Muscular movement in man: The factors governing speed and recovery from fatique.

2009 CE

#12384

Laboratory disease: Robert Koch's medical bacteriology.

1908 CE

#12385

Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.

First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for s…

1926 CE

#12386

Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.

Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.

1934 CE

#12387

The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin

Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.

1980 CE

#12388

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

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

2013 CE

#12389

Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.

2018 CE

#12390

Landmark papers in otolaryngology. Edited by John S. Phillips and Sally Erskine.

2013 CE

#12391

Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.

1942 CE

#12392

Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.

Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…

1902 CE

#12393

Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1929 CE

#12394

The rapid shallow breathing resulting from pulmonary congestion and edema.

First description of the Churchill–Cope reflex, a reflex in which distension of the pulmonary vascular bed, as occurs in pulmonary oedema, causes an increase in respiratory rate (tachypnoea) by stimulation of th…

1834 CE

#12395

An inquiry into the claims of Doctor William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood; with a more equitable retrospect of that event. To which is added an introductory lecture delivered on the third of November, 18929, in vindication of Hippocrates from sundry charges of ignorance preferred against him by the late professor Rush.

Perhaps the earliest American monograph on the history of circulation. Keynes characterized this volume as "an elaborate and very learned attempt to belittle Harvey's achievement" Keynes, Life of William Harvey, p. 42…

1758 CE

#12396

A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen and others who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756, in a letter to a friend.

Holwell was a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Fort William, Calcutta , a poorly ventilated dungeon measuring 4.30 × 5.50 ⁠metres (14 × 18 ⁠⁠feet), in which troops of S…

1767 CE

#12397

An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.

Holwell's account of smallpox variolation in India prior to Jenner has been disputed by historians. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1938 CE

#12398

William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I-V.

"The most comprehensive bibliographical reference work on the history of the circulation" (Bedford 200).

1803 CE

#12399

Flora Boreali-Americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux, Instituti Gallici Scientiarum, necnon Societatis Agriculturae Caroliniensis socius. Tabulis Aeneis 51 ornata [after Pierre-Joseph Redouté]. 2 vols.

"The French government sent Michaux to the United States to collect North American seeds, shrubs, and trees ; he landed at New York City on 1 October, accompanied by his son [François-André Michaux] and …