Entry Nos. 7300–7399
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1844 CE
#7300
Comparative analysis of recent and fossil bones.
The presence of fluorine in fossil bones was first reported in 1803 by Italian chemist Domenico Morichini, and by the 1840s scientists had determined that (a) fluorine occurs in teeth and bone; (b) the fluorine conten…
1953 CE
#7301
The solution of the Piltdown problem.
Exposure of the Piltdown fraud. Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark found ample evidence of forgery in the Piltdown remains, including the use of artificial abrasion and staining; they also applied fluorine and nitrogen …
1975 CE
#7302
Dating a stalactite by electron paramagnetic resonance.
Ikeya introduced electron spin resonance dating; the first application dated a speleothem in Akiyoshi Cave, Japan. See R. Grün and C. B. Stringer, "Electron spin resonance dating and the evolution of modern human…
1715 CE
#7303
A letter to the publisher, written by the ingenious Mr. John Bagford, in which are many curious remarks relating to the city of London, and some things about Leland. In: John Leland, Joannis Lelandi antiquarii de rebus britannicis collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, I, pp. lviii-lxxxvi.
Includes an account of the discovery by Bagford’s friend and fellow antiquarian John Conyers of a flint handaxe in London, unearthed circa 1680 near the bones of what was then thought to be an elephant, as neith…
1987 CE
#7304
Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product.
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, a…
1847 CE
#7305
Notice sur des ossements humains fossiles, trouvés dans une caverne du Brésil.
Lund, a student of Cuvier, excavated extensively in the region of Lagoa Santa, an area rich in caves and karst formations comprising the northern part of Greater Belo Horizonte in Brazil. Between 1835 and 1843 he coll…
1993 CE
#7306
Man and mouse: Animals in medical research. Second edition.
1926 CE
#7307
Human origins: A manual of prehistory. 2 vols.
A detailed and extensively illustrated summary, with detailed bibliographical references, of the state of knowledge of prehistory in Europe as of 1926. Appendix 1: "Stratigraphic Study of Paleolithic Sites" is a very …
1930 CE
#7308
Mathematische Klimalehre und astronomische Theorie der Klimaschwankungen. Handbuch der Klimatologie, Bd. 1, Teil A.
Milankovitch cycles, first exposition (176 pages). Milankovitch theorized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit determined climatic patterns on Earth through orbital forcing,…
1921 CE
#7309
A new cave man from Rhodesia, South Africa.
The first fossil human discovered in Africa: Homo rhodesiensis, commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.The skull, which most current experts classify as Homo heidelbergensis, was discovered…
1846 CE
#7310
U. S. Patent No. 4848. The United States of America. To all to whom these Letters Patent shall come.... November 12, 1846.
U.S. Patent No. 4848, issued to Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton on November 12, 1846 for the discovery of sulfuric ether as a surgical anesthetic. This was the first truly significant medical patent ever i…
1837 CE
#7311
Note sur les ossements fossiles des terrains tertiaires de Simorre, de Sansan, etc., dans le département du Gers, et sur la découverte récente d’une mâchoire de singe fossile.
First published account of the discovery of the first anthropomorphic fossil ape. Lartet's discovery, made in 1836 at Sansan, was the first to challenge Cuvier’s assertion that both humans and apes were products…
2004 CE
#7312
British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.
1853 CE
#7313
Recherches sur la nature et le traitement des teignes.
Bazin proved the fungal origin of favus and tinea; this was the first work to incorporate mycotic skin diseases into dermatological literature. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1848 CE
#7314
Die Hautkrankheiten durch anatomische Untersuchungen erläutert.
The first textbook of dermatopathology. "Simon dated the preface of his book April 1st, 1848 and wrote (p. vi and vii) that much has been achieved by meticulous clinical description of diseases of the skin but now att…
1903 CE
#7315
Practical handbook of the pathology of the skin. An introduction to the histology, pathology, and bacteriology of the skin, with special reference to technique.
The first textbook on dermatopathology in English. Digital facsimile from Internet Archive at this link.
1949 CE
#7316
Histopathology of the skin.
1978 CE
#7317
Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory skin diseases: A method by pattern analysis.
1848 CE
#7318
Beiträge zur Anatomie und Pathologie der menschlichen Haut.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1818 CE
#7319
Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1825 CE
#7320
Observations on Italy.
Digital facsimile of the 1825 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. The second, posthumous, edition published in English in Naples by Fibreno in 1834 includes additional chapters by Bell that were not includ…
1811 CE
#7321
Lachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus; by James Edward Smith. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1998 CE
#7322
An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.
2003 CE
#7323
An atlas of hair pathology—with clinical correlations.
1979 CE
#7324
Immunopathology of the skin.
A classic on immunofluorescence of the skin.
1970 CE
#7325
Thickness, cross-sectional areas and depth of invasion in the prognosis of cutaneous melanoma.
Classic paper on the prognosis of melanoma. Digital facsimile available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1992 CE
#7326
Systemic pathology. / Volume 9, The Skin.
1582 CE
#7327
Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …
1673 CE
#7328
A Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1790 CE
#7329
The anatomical instructor; or, an illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds, by injection, corrosion, maceration, distention, articulation, modelling, &c.
The first monograph on the preparation of anatomical specimens for museums, from various parts of the human body. Includes a method for injecting colored solutions to show the blood vessels of the head, and a method f…
1845 CE
#7330
Nuove ricerche microscopiche sulla tessiture intima della retina nell’ uomo, nei vertebrati, nei cefalapodi, e negli insetti precedute da alcune riflessioni sugli elementi morfologici globulari del sisteme nervoso.
Pacini was the first to provide an accurate description of all the layers of the retina. Digital facsimile of the separate (offprint) edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1864 CE
#7331
The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium.
The first American medical book illustrated with photomechanically reproduced plates. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the book for its remarkable photomicrographs, which may be the first published of brain cross-section…
1885 CE
#7332
Topographical anatomy of the brain. 3 vols.
The most outstanding American neurological atlas of the nineteenth century and one of the best American photographically illustrated medical books of the period. The atlas reproduces the specimens, which Dalton prepar…
1991 CE
#7333
Foundations of the neuron doctrine.
1888 CE
#7334
Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves.
"The foundational article of modern cellular neuroscience. . . . this is where Cajal first demonstrated with the Golgi method how neurons interact by contact not continuity in the adult central nervous system—in…
1889 CE
#7335
Die Neuroblasten und deren Entstehung im embryonalen Mark.
In this paper on neuroblasts (young neurons) and their development in the embryonic spinal cord, His coined the term, “dendrite,” for what had been called protoplasmic processes since the term was introduc…
1899 CE
#7336
The nervous system and its constituent neurones, Designed for the use of practitioners of medicine and of students of medicine and psychology.
Considered a masterpiece of compilation of the new scientific evidence for the neuron theory. "Also contains Gertrude Stein’s first publication, which consists of a quote and further description of her developme…
1587 CE
#7337
De humano foetu liber tertio editus, ac recognitus. Eiusdem anatomicarum observationum liber: ac De tumoribus secundum locos affectos liber nunc primum editi.
First edition of Aranzi's Anatomicarum observationum published with the third edition of De humano foetu. In the Anatomicarum observationum Aranzi pointed out that the eye muscles arise from the margin of the optic ca…
1903 CE–1929 CE
#7338
Opera Omnia. Volume I: Istologia normale—1870-1883 (Con 21 Tavole e ritratto); Volume II: Istologia normale—1883-1902 (Con 21 tavole); Volume III: Patologia generale e isto-patologia—1868-1894 (Con 9 Tavole). Volume IV: Scritti su argomenti varii.
Limited to 325 copies, including material not previously published.
1904 CE
#7339
Die Entwickelung des menschlichen Gehirns, während der ersten Monate.
"This final summary of brain development, published in the year of his death, contains a wealth of classic illustrations that have been adapted ever since in textbooks" (Larry W. Swanson).
1906 CE
#7340
Cerebra simiarum illustrata. Das Affenhirn in bildlicher Darstellung.
Describes and illustrates with photographs the cerebral cortex of over 50 species of primate, including prosimians, monkeys, and apes..
1906 CE
#7341
Cerebellum der Säugetiere. Eine Vergleichend Anatomische Untersuchung.
Bolk studied some 69 species of mammals, both in the adult and during development, and elaborated a basic plan for the cerebellum that remains influential today. "Lodewijk Bolk and the comparative anatomy of the cereb…
1908 CE
#7342
I ganglî cerebrospinali. Studi di istologia comparata e di istogenesi.
"Using comparative and developmental approaches he examined dorsal root ganglion cells in the embryos of 18 vertebrate species, and adults of 56 species—using a variety of histological stains, particularly those…
1909 CE
#7343
La Myéloarchitecture du Thalamus du Cercopithèque.
"Ted Jones, in his encyclopedic The Thalamus (1985, p. 27), wrote that this is one of the best descriptive accounts of the thalamus, illustrated with photographic plates as elegant as any being produced today, with su…
1910 CE
#7344
Über die kerne des menschlichen diencephalon.
"Malone was a strict adherent to the cytoarchitectonic method, and ascribed similar function to neurons with similar shape in different parts of the nervous system. He named the nucleus reuniens (thalamus) here, and a…
1919 CE–1929 CE
#7345
Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des menschlichen Gehirns. 2 vols.
Considered the most extensive account of human cerebellar development. "Hochstetter carried out detailed work on the embryology of the human brain, and his beautiful figures have been reproduced in textbooks ever sinc…
1936 CE
#7346
Quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen über den Sympathicusstoff*. Zugleich XIV. Mitteilung über humorale Übertragung der Herznervenwirkung Ausgeführt mit Unterstützung der -Stiftung.
In this paper Loewi proved that the cardioexcitatory neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nerves is adrenaline, or actually noradrenaline.
1943 CE
#7347
An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.
"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …
1951 CE
#7348
The study of instinct.
Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…
1968 CE–1982 CE
#7349
1: The brain stem of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates. 2: The thalamus and basal telencephalon of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates.
Large folio. Images reproduced from contact prints recorded on 14 x 17 inch Kodak high-contrast metallographic plates. The first volume was by Alvin L. Berman; the second volume was by Berman and Edward G. Jones.