Facets

2012 CE

#11844

A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, Chylinski, Fonfar, Hauer, Doudna, Charpentier. Doudna, Charpentier and colleagues showed for the first time that the CRISPR evolutionary immune tool of bacteria …

1935 CE

#2576.3

A protective action of neurotropic against viscerotropic yellow fever virus in Macacus rhesus.

One of the first examples of an animal virus interference phenomenon was demonstrated by Hoskins.

2019 CE

#11374

A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …

1930 CE

#4765

A report of progress on the use of ephedrine in a case of myasthenia gravis.

Harriet Edgeworth discovered by accident the beneficial effect of ephedrine in myasthenia gravis. Digital facsimile from jamanetwork.com at this link.

1924 CE

#5083

A scarlet fever antitoxin.

Following their successful attempts to establish individual susceptibility to scarlet fever, these workers prepared an antitoxin for immunization.

1933 CE

#2524.2

A serological differentiation of human and other groups of hemolytic streptococci.

Lancefield determined the principal pathogenic strains of hemolytic streptococci and subdivided them into types. All important strains pathogenic to humans fall into Lancefield’s Group A.

1963 CE

#3924.4

A simple phenylalanine method for detecting phenylketonuria in large populations of newborn infants.

Bacterial inhibition test for phenylketonuria.

1924 CE

#5082

A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.

The “Dick test” for the determination of individual susceptibility to scarlet fever.

1939 CE

#5087.2

A study in active immunization against pertussis.

Pertussis vaccine.

1978 CE

#8387

A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.

In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.

1945 CE

#3869

A tentative test for pheochromocytoma.

The Roth–Kvale histamine test for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.

1846 CE

#11734

A treatise on the motive powers which produce the circulation of the blood.

The author was an American women's rights activist and educator rather than a physician or physiologist. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

2011 CE

#11052

A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.

2011 CE

#7100

A world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.

Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in literature) were Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. The K…

1759 CE

#6848

Abregé de l'art des accouchements, dans lequel on donne les préceptes nécessaires pour le mettre heureusement en pratique, et auquel on a joint plusieurs observations intéressantes sur des cas singuliers.

After ten years as a midwife in Paris, Madame du Coudray was hired by King Louis XV to travel across France to better train rural midwives.There were political motivations for this; Louis wanted to boost a “decl…

1937 CE

#1925

Action protectrice des éthers phénoliques au cours de l’intoxication histaminique.

First description of structure and action of an antihistamine. In 1957 Bovet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of …

1935 CE

#1950

Activité du p-aminophénylsulfamide sur les infections streptococciques expérimentales de la souris et du lapin.

The Tréfouëls and colleagues assumed that the sulfonamide group was responsible for the results obtained with Domagk’s Prontosil. Their work led them to introduce sulfanilamide.

2000 CE

#11184

Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.

1943 CE

#1174

Adrenocorticotropic hormone.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues Isolated pure adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from sheep pituitary glands.

1936 CE

#14286

Age and other factors in motor recovery from precentral lesions in monkeys.

This was the first of a series of papers by Kennard that led to what became known as the Kennard Principle, which posits a negative linear relationship between age of a brain lesion and the recovery outcome. The earli…

1968 CE–1977 CE

#11331

Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.

2019 CE

#11367

Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.

2016 CE

#10485

Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.

1977 CE

#11043

An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5' ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA.

Discovery of introns. In 1993 Roberts shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip A. Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes." It was frequently suggested that Chow deserved a share of that prize…

1989 CE

#8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

1901 CE

#11180

An atlas of the medulla and midbrain: A laboratory manual.

1905 CE–1906 CE

#1180

An experimental enquiry into the factors which determine the growth and activity of the mammary glands.

In their classic paper on the mammary gland, these workers attributed its changes during pregnancy to the fetus.

1964 CE

#2419.3

An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).

Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.

2009 CE

#10957

An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.

A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.

1948 CE

#5545

An unidentified, filterable agent isolated from the feces of children with paralysis.

Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from the stool of a patient residing in Coxsackie, New York.

1995 CE

#10979

An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.

An autobiographical study of bipolar disorder by a distinguished American clinical psychologist who personally suffers from this disorder.

1895 CE–1901 CE

#1424

Anatomie des centres nerveux. 2 vols.

Classic summary of neuroanatomy at the end of the nineteenth century—comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and scholarly. It is a goldmine of historical information with an outstanding bibliography.

2014 CE

#10699

Animalia: Men and animal care in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

2008 CE

#9004

Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1968 CE

#3108.9

Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.

Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.

1936 CE

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

1981 CE

#8841

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

1983 CE

#6604.81

Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.

A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.

1945 CE

#1936

Bacitracin: a new antibiotic produced by a member of the B, subtilis group.

With H. Anker and F. L. Meleney.

1838 CE

#11431

Barn-Yard rhymes; showing what opinions the turkey, the cock, the goose, and the duck, enterain of allopathia, homopathia, electro-galvanism and the animalcule doctrines.

A critique of medical practice and procedures in 80 pages of rhymed couplets voiced by farmyard animals. Mary Griffith, who published these satirical poems anonymously, dedicated the work to the Philadelphia physician…

2015 CE

#12408

Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.

1932 CE

#1092.5

Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.

1950 CE

#5016

Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1

Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.

2010 CE

#13016

Bibliography on medieval women, gender, and medicine 1980-2009. (Latest update: February 2, 2010).

"This bibliography comprises all the entries that appeared in the bibliography on “Women and Medicine” that I published periodically in the Medieval Feminist Forum (formerly, Medieval Feminist Newsletter) …

1990 CE

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1925 CE

#3139

Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…

2005 CE

#7004

Body worlds. The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

In 1977 Gunther von Hagens invented plastination, a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. In the process water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be …

1963 CE

#7868

Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.

Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …

1983 CE–1991 CE

#8945

Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.

"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …