Facets

1929 CE

#12327

Glycogen formation in the liver from d- and 1-lactic acid.

The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle), a metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the mu…

1983 CE

#6996

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

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 …

1999 CE

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

2013 CE

#7198

"A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse.' Equine medicine in early modern England.

1977 CE

#8782

"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.

1986 CE

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

2013 CE

#10414

"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.

Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.

1944 CE

#2659.2

“Folic acid” a tumor growth inhibitor.

Inhibition of tumor growth by a folic acid concentrate. With R. Lewisohn, D. Laszlo. These workers later (Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. N. Y., 1944, 56, 144-45) obtained similar results with xanthopterin.

1953 CE

#1138.1

3:5:3'-Triiodothyronine. I. Isolation from thyroid gland and synthesis.

Discovery of the second thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2020 CE

#11876

A bacteriophage nucleus like compartment shields DNA from CRISPR nucleases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mendoza, Nieweglowska, Govindarajan. The authors showed that the large phage that specifically infects a Pseudomonas bacterium segregates its DNA, which the phage CRISP…

1951 CE

#4672.4

A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.

An exhaustive list of books and papers.

1968 CE

#6639.1

A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.

Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.

1953 CE

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1953 CE

#567.1

A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.

1937 CE

#11215

A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré: Premier chirugien & conseiller du Roy

1989 CE

#11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …

1972 CE

#5289.4

A bibliography on Chagas’s disease (1909-1969)

Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, Special Publication No. 2.

2002 CE

#14081

A biographical dictionary of women healers. Midwives, nurses, and physicians.

1883 CE

#14145

A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.

Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.

2007 CE

#7155

A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine. The sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica.

1976 CE

#8778

A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.

1937 CE

#1074

A crystalline vitamin A concentration.

2014 CE

#10909

A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.

"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…

1997 CE

#12326

A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.

1992 CE

#8773

A documentary history of biochemistry, 1770-1940. By Mikuláš Teich with Dorothy M. Needham.

1999 CE

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

1926 CE

#5782.1

A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.

First modern case-control study.

2017 CE

#10971

A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.

2008 CE

#10134

A history of microsurgery.

2016 CE

#10419

A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.

1983 CE–1988 CE

#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.

2002 CE

#11135

A history of neuroradiology (1895-2002). XVIIth Symposium Radiologicum: Paris-France, August 18-24, 2002.

1907 CE–1912 CE

#6635

A history of nursing. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.

1989 CE

#10742

A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.

1988 CE

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

"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 Resea…

2017 CE

#11088

A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.

1998 CE

#10933

A history of the Society of Apothecaries.

1938 CE

#6650

A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.

1866 CE

#13706

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.

"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…

2000 CE

#13223

A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998.

1934 CE

#5045

A new antigen of B. typhosus. Its relation to virulence and to active and passive immunisation.

Vi antigens first described.

1932 CE

#3923.1

A new error of tyrosine metabolism: tyrosinosis, intermediary metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.

1947 CE

#913

A new human iso-agglutinin subdividing the MN blood groups.

S blood-group antigen.

2012 CE

#10915

A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.

Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…

1941 CE

#2417

A new serologically active phospholipid from beef heart.

Cardiolipin antigen for serological diagnosis of syphilis. For isolation and purification see J. biol. Chem., 1942, 143, 247-56.

1937 CE

#2348

A new tuberculin patch test.

1984 CE

#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.

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 A…

1991 CE

#13930

A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.

"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approxi…

2013 CE

#11045

A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Mead, Gandhi, Beck, Collinge. Collinge was the main author. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)

2013 CE

#8760

A perfect vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer rare book collection