Facets

1928 CE

#5434.1

Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.

Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.

1948 CE

#1929.3

Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.

Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.

1938 CE

#13827

Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: A clinical and pathological study.

Andersen was the first to describe the characteristic cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, and to correlate it with the lung and intestinal disease prominent in CF. She also was the first to hypotheize that cystic fibrosi…

1907 CE

#2596

De l’anaphylaxie et de l’anti-anaphylaxie vis-à-vis du sérum de cheval.

“Anti-anaphylaxis” was the term given by Besredka and Steinhardt to the specific desensitization of sensitized animals.

1821 CE

#10546

De la ménopause, ou de l'age critique des femmes; Traité dans lequel sont exposés du description anatomique et physiologique de l'utérus à la ménopause, les changemens que cette époque opère tant sur le physique que sur le moral de la femme, les moyens hygiéniques qui doivent être alors employés, enfin les maladies qui surviennent ordinairement à l'âge critique. Seconde edition.

In this work, a revised second edition of Gardanne's Avis aux femmes qui entrent dans l'age critique (1816), Gardanne coined the term menopause. Digital facsimile of the 1816 edition from the Internet Archive at this …

1897 CE

#14308

De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.

Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …

2007 CE

#11348

Deadly companions: How microbes shaped our history.

1976 CE

#11104

Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus.

The authors showed that the heat resistant bacteria Thermus aquaticus discovered by Thomas Brock contained a vital polymerase enzyme that had evolved in this bacteria to allow it to metabolize and survive in exception…

1889 CE

#2100

Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.

Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.

1937 CE

#5987

Developmental abnormalities of the eye.

1987 CE

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987 CE

#11246

DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…

1988 CE

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1690 CE

#6149

Die Chur-Brandenburgische Hoff-Wehe-Mutter.

With Mauriceau, Justine Siegemundin was responsible for introducing the practice of puncturing the amniotic sac to arrest hemorrhage in placenta praevia. She was midwife to the Court of the Elector of Brandenburg, and…

1913 CE

#11438

Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung.

The Michaelis-Menten equation, which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex. This relationship between reaction rate and enzyme–substra…

1997 CE

#9060

Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.

1931 CE

#11777

Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.

1836 CE

#11430

Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.

The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision…

1987 CE

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1955 CE

#10994

Diseases of the liver and biliary system.

13th edition, 2018. "In 1959 she [Sherlock] became the United Kingdom's first ever female Professor of Medicine when she was appointed at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. She founded the liver uni…

1992 CE

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

2012 CE

#10708

Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.

2012 CE

#10586

Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.

1951 CE

#10293

Doctors under three flags.

Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1961 CE

#8764

Doctors, patients, and health insurance: The organization and financing of medical care.

1967 CE

#12834

Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?

This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…

2001 CE

#10623

Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

1856 CE

#7809

Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.

Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…

2010 CE

#10973

Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.

"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…

1998 CE

#10900

Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…

1893 CE

#1522

Eine neue Theorie der Licht-Empfindung.

Ladd-Franklin theory of vision.

2011 CE

#10904

Emergence of a new pathogenic Ehrlichia species, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Sloan, Johnson. Discovery of a new species of Ehrlichia, initially denoted as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009," that was not related to E. chaffeensiis or E. ewin…

2014 CE

#10928

Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Gu&ea…

2006 CE

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1955 CE

#752.3

Enzymatic synthesis of nucleic acidlike polynucleotides.

Ochoa shared the Nobel Prize with Arthur Kornberg in 1959 for their artificial synthesis of nucleic acids by means of enzymes. Order of authorship in the original publication: Ochoa, Grunberg-Manago, Ortiz. See also O…

1902 CE

#12082

Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925 CE

#909

Experimental studies on the origin and maturation of avian and mammalian red blood-cells.

1937 CE

#5398

Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.

Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.

1544 CE

#6009.1

Experimentarius medicinae. Continens Trotulae curandarum aegriudinum muliebrium ante, in & post partium lib. unicum, nusquam antea editum…[Georg Kraut]

First printed edition of the gynecological writings attributed to the woman physician, Trota, who is frequently called Trotula after the name of the collection of works with whom she is associated. Trota is said to ha…

1943 CE

#8590

Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2024 CE

#14319

Exposed: The hidden history of the pelvic exam.

2014 CE

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

1979 CE

#9158

Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.

"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…

1876 CE

#12089

Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.

This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …

2005 CE

#10415

Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.

2016 CE

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.

2009 CE

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

1947 CE

#6650.1

Frauen in der abendländischen Heilkunde, vom klassischen Altertum bis zum Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts.

1956 CE

#2353.1

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccination of newborn infants with a British vaccine.

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccine.