Entry Nos. 13500–13599

1858 CE

#13500

Memorias biographicas dos medicos e cirurgiões Portuguezes, que no presente seculo se teem feito conhecidos por sous escriptos.

1937 CE

#13501

Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.

1906 CE

#13502

Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

2002 CE

#13503

Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.

1854 CE

#13504

Practical observations on the use and abuse of tobacco. Greatly enlarged from the original communication on the effects of tobacco smoking, which appeared in Medical Times and Gazette, August 5, 1854.

Lizars was one of the first to recognize the addictive nature of tobacco and its potential damage to health. Digital facsimile of the 6th edition (1857) from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

2016 CE

#13505

A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.

2020 CE

#13506

Safety and efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.

BNT162b2 is synonomous with the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the fir…

2021 CE

#13507

Efficacy and safety of the mRNA-1273 SARSCov-2 vaccine.

mRNA-1273 is synonymous with the Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Moderna mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the first published pa…

1822 CE–1826 CE

#13508

A system of anatomical plates of the human body. By John Lizars. Text in 8vo in 12 pts., plus folio atlas with engraved title and 101 plates engraved by William Home Lizars.

Lizars's System of anatomical plates was by far his most successful work, going through many editions. The text of the work was originally issued in 12 parts in octavo format, which were then bound together in book fo…

1889 CE

#13509

The useful native plants of Australia. (Including Tasmania).

Maiden, a botanist, was Curator and Secretary of The Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales. Chapters include. 1. Human Food and Food adjuncts; 2. Forage Plants; 3. Drugs; 4. Gums, Resins, a…

1999 CE

#13510

Not just any medical school: The science, practice, and teaching of medicine at the University of Michigan 1850-1941.

#13511

Periodic Disease: A probable syndrome including periodic fever, benign paroxysmal peritonitis, cyclic neutropenia and intermittent arthralgia.

One of the earliest accounts of periodic disease and fevers, later variously categorized as Periodic fever syndrome and Reimann syndrome. With Siegal-Cattan-Mamou disease, this was renamed Familial Mediterranean fever.

2020 CE

#13512

The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.

"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…

1999 CE

#13513

Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858: The history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

1990 CE

#13514

A history of human helminthology.

2008 CE

#13515

Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.

1865 CE

#13516

Principles of psychology.

"Spencer's second book, Principles of Psychology, published in 1855, explored a physiological basis for psychology, and was the fruit of his friendship with Evans and Lewes. The book was founded on the fundamental ass…

2020 CE

#13517

Hearing happiness: Deafness cures in history.

2020 CE

#13518

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

2020 CE

#13519

Correspondence. Transmission of 2019 nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany.

Posted online 1-30-20, updated 2-6-20, and published in print on March 5, 2020. First report of the "asymptomatic transmission" of Covid-19. The authors wrote, “The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential s…

2020 CE

#13520

Covid-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case.

Published online 4-7-20; in print in June, 2020. First case report of what became known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), sometimes present with Kawasaki disease. This is one of the worst compl…

1841 CE

#13521

The pathology of drunkeness, or the effects of alcoholic drinks with drawings of the drunkard's stomach.

Including four chromolithographed plates by J. H. Hall, Albany, N.Y., this is the earliest illustrated book published in the U.S. on the pathological effects of alcoholism. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Lib…

1912 CE

#13522

The influence of caffeine on mental and motor efficiency. Columbia Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. XX, No. 4.

"The Coca-Cola Company, facing a lawsuit from the federal government under the Pure Food and Drug Act, approached Hollingworth (after James McKeen Cattell and several other psychologists turned them down)[4] about inv…

2020 CE

#13523

REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters.

The authors, working at Regeneron, showed that a cocktail of two potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodes reduced virus load in the airways and diminshed viral induced pathological sequelae when given both as a prophy…

2021 CE

#13524

REGN-COV-2, a neutralizing antibody cocktail, in outpatients with Covid-19.

The authors showed that the Regeneron antibody cocktail has a low incidence of side effects and a profound and rapid effect on viral load, with most reduction occurring within 48 hours, even in patents with the highes…

1950 CE

#13525

Lysogenicity in Escherichia coli strain K-12.

Discovery of phage λ (lambda phage). According to estherlederberg.com, only about 100 people received the first issue of Microbial Genetics Bulletin, a typed and mimeographed publication. Digital facsimile from…

1959 CE

#13526

Quantitative studies of tissue transplantation immunity. IV. Induction of tolerance in newborn mice and studies on the phenomenon of Runt Disease.

First description of what became known as Graft-versus-host disease (GvDH). This the authors initially called "graft against host (GAH)." The authors cited three conditions, later known as the Billingham criteria, whi…

1952 CE

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

2014 CE

#13528

Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.

2017 CE

#13529

Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin. Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī. Edition, Übersetzung und Kontext von Juliane Müller.

2014 CE

#13530

The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.

"In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the w…

2015 CE

#13531

Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.

2013 CE

#13532

The PKU paradox: A short history of a genetic disease.

1992 CE

#13533

Hippocrate.

Translated into English by M. B. DeBevoise as Hippocrates, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

1959 CE

#13534

The health seekers of Southern California 1870-1900.

1993 CE

#13535

Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.

2004 CE

#13536

The history of medicine in Iran. Entries extracted from the Encyclopaedia Iranica Vols. I-XII.

2020 CE

#13537

Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.

1719 CE

#13538

Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. Worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage, nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet; ingleichen was ein Natgur-Forscher in den dreyen Reichen der Natur....

Includes the first study of the natural history of the Cape region of South Africa. Translated into English by "Mr. Medley" as The present state of the Cape of Good-Hope. 2 vols., London, 1738-31. Digital facsimile of…

1827 CE

#13539

Pathological and practical observations on spinal diseases: illustrated with cases and engravings. Also, An inquiry into the origin and cure of distorted limbs.

Harrison founded the first infirmary for spinal diseases in London. See Weiner & Silver, "Edward Harrison and the treatment of spinal deformities in the nineteenth century," J. R. Coll. Phys. Edinb., 38 (2006) 265-71.…

1978 CE

#13540

Transmissible agent in non-A, non-B hepatitis.

The first paper recording the discovery of what was, eleven years later in 1989, named the hepatitis C virus (see No. 12653). Harvey Alter and colleagues inoculated the serum/plasma of 4 patients with non-A/non-B hepa…

1997 CE

#13541

Transmission of hepatitis C by intrahepatic inoculation with transcribed RNA.

Rice and colleagues constructed a viral RNA genome with the 3’ region and a consensus region to exclude potential inactivating mutations, which was then injected into the liver of chimps. That RNA, specifically …

1769 CE

#13542

Consideraciones politico-medicas sobre la salud de los navegantes, en que se exponen las causas de sus mas frecuentes enfermedades, modo de precaverlas, y curarlas. Con las conducentes instrucciones para el mejor régimen de los cirujanos de navíos, que hacen viage à la América, especialmente para los de la Real Compañia Guipuzcoana de Caracas, à fin de que con mayor acierto se conduzcan, asi en el méthodo curativo de los enfermos, como en el manejo de los botiquines de su cargo.

A treatise specifically concerning the health of sailors of the Real Compañia Guipuzcoana de Caracas (Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas)-- Basque traders who had a monopoly on the Venezuelan trade. Digital fa…

1845 CE

#13543

Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin).

First comprehensive (124pp., 17 plates) anatomical study of the giraffe, conducted during a 20 day dissection of the huge animal in Toulouse. The authors entrusted the dissection to the Toulouse taxidermist, H. Traver…

c. 1475 CE

#13544

Secreta mulierum et virorum (cum commento).

This work on the physiology and procreative "secrets" of women was attributed to Albertus Magnus, but is now thought to have been written by one of his disciples. It was one of the most widely printed medical works in…

1758 CE

#13545

Petri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.

Edited by Carl Linnaeus after the early death of Pehr Löfling, who Linnaeus considered his most gifted disciple. This is the account of Löfling's mostly botanically oriented researches through Spain, Portuga…

1588 CE

#13546

De medico hebraeo: Enarratio apologica ... Apposita sunt praeterea, non paucorum amplissimorum principum, quam multa decreta, in hebraeorum fauorem constituta. Annectuntur, quinetiam, in tractatus calce, nonnulla aurea dicta; ex priscorum hebraeorum monumentis excerpta; nunc primum, latinitate donata, & ad studiosorum vtilitatem, in lucem edita. Dauid de Pomis, medico physico hebraeo, auctore.

De Pomis was a rabbi and physician. "... on account of the edict of Pius IV forbidding Jewish physicians to attend Christians (1555), he moved from town to town in Italy before he settled in 1569 in Venice, where he p…

1572 CE

#13547

Instruction sur l'herbe petum ditte en France l'herbe de la Royne ou Medicée: Et sur la racine MECHIOCAN principalement (avec quelques autres simples rares et exquis) exemplaire à manier philosophiquement tous autres vegetaux.

The earliest treatise in French on tobacco, including its usage in medicine, and probably the earliest separate treatise on tobacco in any language. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See Bowen,…

1669 CE

#13548

Il tabacco opera ... Nella quale si tratta dell'origine, historia, coltura, preparatione, qualità natura, virtà & uso in fumo, in polvere, in foglia, in lambitivo, et in medicina della pianta volgarmente detta tabacco, si discorre degl'vtili ch'arreca moderatamente preso, de i danni ch'apporta smoderatamente usato, e qual sia il vero e legitimo modo di prenderlo: trattato naturale, medico, morale & curioso.

Discusses the origin, history, cultivation, preparation, nature and virtues of tobacco, whether used for smoking, snuffing, chewing, etc. or for medicinal purposes (Waring). "The custom of smoking, its role in divinat…

1776 CE

#13549

Medicinisch-praktischer Unterricht für die Feld- und Landwundärzte der österreichischen Staaten. 2 vols. [& Supplement:] Die in dem medicinisch-praktischen Unterrichte für die Feld-und Landwundärzte vorkommende Arzneymittel.

This work on "Practical medical lessons for field and land surgeons of the Austrian states," includes a 91-page appendix containing 319 recommended pharmaceuticals for the treatments described in the text. The formula…