Facets

1849 CE

#11948

Ship fever. An inaugural thesis, submitted for the degree of M.D., at Geneva Medical College, Jan. 1849.

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate M.D. in the United States. This paper on typhus was her first publication, and is thus the first publication in America by a woman physician educated in the United S…

2007 CE

#11082

Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)

Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf

1995 CE

#8089

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.

1962 CE

#7841

Silent spring.

This very carefully documented book convincingly proved the disastrous effects of DDT in the environment, and generated a storm of controversy. It was later credited with founding the "environmental movement" in the U…

2013 CE

#8954

Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

"Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sa…

2012 CE

#8955

Simon Online. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Aims_of_the_project&oldid=12132 "Simon Online is a collaborative edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century. More o…

1943 CE

#5765

Skin grafting. A new method based on the principles of tissue culture.

First use of fibrin glue for skin grafting. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1943, 77, 510-13.

2001 CE

#10707

Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.

1913 CE

#10791

Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.

Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…

1957 CE

#8736

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.

1977 CE

#11044

Spliced segments at the 5' terminus of adenovirus 2 late mRNA.

Discovery of introns simultaneously with Roberts, Chow, Broker (No. 11043). Sharp's electron microscopist, Berget, visualized the introns in the electron microscope. James D. Watson took note of the profound significa…

1944 CE

#1935

Streptomycin, a substance exhibiting antibiotic activity against Grampositive and Gram-negative bacteria.

Introduction of streptomycin. Order of authorship: Schatz, Gregory, Waksman. In 1952 Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for ingenious, systematic, and successful studies of the soil microbe…

1910 CE

#1028

Studien über die spezifische Anpassung der Verdauungssäfte. III. Mittheilung.

Digital facsimile from ECHO at this link.

1916 CE

#8599

Studies in ethics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1925 CE

#5103

Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.

Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …

1952 CE

#3108.2

Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.

Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.…

1921 CE

#5287

Studies on the treatment of human trypanosomiasis with tryparsamide (the sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid).

Introduction of tryparsamide in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

2018 CE

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2005 CE

#13622

Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.

Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This techno…

1898 CE

#2003

Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.

The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…

1985 CE

#10430

Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.

"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…

1976 CE

#8457

Tacuinum sanitatis: The medieval health handbook.

1999 CE

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1887 CE

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

1955 CE

#8873

Textes Grecs inédits relatifs aux plantes.

Previously unpublished ancient Greek textes on botany, with French translations.

2016 CE

#10941

The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsi…

1941 CE

#2578

The absorption of influenza virus by red cells and a new in vitro method of measuring antibodies for influenza virus.

Independently of Hirst, McClelland and Hare discovered virus hemagglutination.

1927 CE

#1528

The action of light on the eye.

On the electrical discharges from the vertebrate optic nerve.

1939 CE

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1934 CE

#14203

The anemias.

2020 CE

#11868

The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Hampton, Watson, Fineran. Summarizes, and documents with 173 references, the extensive research on the multitude of methods that bacteriophages use to disable the CRISP…

2015 CE

#11196

The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.

2012 CE

#10294

The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.

"The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. Th…

1944 CE

#3412.1

The ascertainment of deafness in infancy and early childhood.

Tests of hearing in children.

1985 CE

#11377

The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…

1974 CE

#8758

The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.

Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…

2000 CE

#11445

The biographical dictionary of women in science: Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century.

1917 CE–1940 CE

#7106

The Birth Control Review.

Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…

1994 CE

#8453

The black death.

A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.

1937 CE

#2659

The carcinogenic action of oestrone: induction of mammary carcinoma in female mice of a strain refractory to the spontaneous development of mammary tumours.

With L. H. Stickland and K. I. Connal.

2018 CE

#11436

The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.

1993 CE

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1881 CE

#11022

The college story: Valedictory address to the twenty-ninth graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

"Bodley sought to survey all the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from its founding 1850 through 1880. Of the total 276 graduates, 244 were alive. Her survey is based on the 186 graduates who r…

2015 CE

#10620

The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.

1955 CE

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

1981 CE

#14224

The crystallization of ribsomal proteins from the 50 S subunit of the Escherichia coli and Bacillus stearothermophilus ribosome.

The authors crystallized fragments of the 50S subunit of a thermophile bacterium’s ribosome to 3 angstroms resolution. Order of authorship in the original publication: Appelt, Dyck, et al., Yonath. Digital facsi…

1953 CE

#256.2

The detection of chromosomal sex in hermaphrodites from a skin biopsy.

Sex chromatin demonstrated in humans.

1928 CE

#7392

The development of the human eye.

The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.

1927 CE

#3724

The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.

Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.

1994 CE

#11177

The embryonic human brain: An atlas of developmental stages.

"The first work devoted to the staged, embryonic human brain."