Facets

1959 CE

#6637

The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.

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.

1958 CE

#13560

The suppressor-mutator system of control of gene action in maize.

In this paper McClintock described a novel mobile genetic element that she called Suppressor-Mutator (Spm), and its complex regulation. She discovered that Spm could switch back and forth between an “inactive&rd…

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1948 CE

#3046.1

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…

1931 CE

#2524.1

The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus.

By their demonstration of the infection of the chorio-allantoic membrane with the virus of fowl pox, Woodruff and Goodpasture initiated wide-spread adoption of this host for the study of viruses.

2014 CE

#7858

The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.

2001 CE

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2002 CE

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…

1942 CE

#5724

The use of curare in general anesthesia.

Introduction of curare in anesthesia.

1905 CE

#3571

The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.

The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1931 CE

#1066

The vitamins.

1929 CE

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1892 CE

#9725

The yellow wall-paper.

This 6,000-word short story by is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating and critiquing 19th century attitudes toward women's health, both physical and mental. Digital facsim…

2010 CE

#9002

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

1963 CE

#5019.3

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

1867 CE

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1992 CE

#10283

To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.

1937 CE

#11441

Toxicity of industrial organic solvents.

2017 CE

#11435

Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.

1759 CE

#7006

Traité d'ostéologie. 2 vols.

Monro Primus' textbook on the anatomy of the bones was originally published in 1726 as an octavo volume without plates, and went through more than ten editions. The French translation, published in large folio, transl…

1833 CE

#6028

Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.

Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.

2014 CE

#11359

Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.

1931 CE

#3146

Treatment of “pernicious anaemia of pregnancy” and “tropical anaemia”, with special reference to yeast extract as a curative agent.

First observations of hemopoietic effect of folic acid.

1936 CE

#6281

Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.

Chemotherapeutic treatment of puerperal sepsis.

1934 CE

#4768

Treatment of myasthenia gravis with physostigmine.

Introduction of physostigmine in treatment of myasthenia gravis. She replaced this with neostigmine in 1935 (Proc. roy. Soc. Med., 28, 759-61).

1938 CE

#1952

Treatment of pneumonia with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

Clinical proof of the value of sulphapyridine. M & B 693 (sulphapyridine) treatment of pneumonia. This followed the experimental work of L. E. H. Whitby (see No. 1951).

1938 CE

#3149

Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.

1993 CE

#14341

Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.

Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…

1934 CE

#6227

Über eine neue chemische Schwangerschaftsreaktion.

Kapeller-Adler test for diagnosis of pregnancy.

1924 CE

#530

Über Induktion von Embryonalanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren.

This was Hilde Mangold's thesis. Spemann designed the experiment, and Mangold performed the work, and was the co-discoverer of the "organizer," the chemical that directs the embryonic development of tissues and organs…

1919 CE

#6371.2

Ueber einen Typ multipier Abartungen, vorwiegend am Sklettsystem.

Hurler syndrome (lipochondrodystrophy, gargoylism), earlier described by Hunter (No. 6371.1).

1947 CE

#1090

Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.

Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.

2014 CE

#11061

Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.

1964 CE

#2660.18

Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus …

1960 CE

#2660.13

Virus-cell interaction with a tumour-producing virus.

Polyomavirus (papovavirus) shown to be capable of transforming cells in culture. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

2016 CE

#7804

Virus: An illustrated guide to 101 incredible microbes.

Includes historical data, spectacular color photomicrographs, drawings, and geographical range maps for 101 viruses

2006 CE

#7154

Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550.

Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art Volume 5.

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1988 CE

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

2016 CE

#11409

Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes …

1973 CE

#11828

Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.

1928 CE

#12605

With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.

Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in …

1869 CE

#11703

Woman: Her rights, wrongs, privileges, and responsibilities . . . Her relations to man, physiological, social, moral, and intellectual: Her ability to fill the enlarged sphere of duties and privileges claimed for her: Her true position in education, professional life, employments, and wages considered. Woman suffrage, its folly and inexpediency, and the injury and deterioration which it would cause in her character shown . . .

Also published in Cincinnati, Ohio by Howe's Subscription Book Concern, 1869. The author, a physician and semi-popular writer, appears mainly to be writing in opposition to woman suffrage or to granting to women any f…

1867 CE

#7748

Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…

1970 CE

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…

1920 CE

#7157

Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919

Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…

2007 CE

#9003

Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.

"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…

2009 CE

#11443

Women doctors in war.

The history of female physicians in the U.S. military.

1957 CE

#6650.2

Women doctors of the world.