Facets

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…

2002 CE

#11135

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

1937 CE

#2348

A new tuberculin patch test.

1924 CE

#5082

A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.

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

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) …

2015 CE

#10556

Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.

https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/

2019 CE

#12407

Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.

"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…

2017 CE

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

1973 CE

#257.5

Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.

Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…

2012 CE

#10586

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

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.

1974 CE

#10963

Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.

Confirmation of the success of methods outlined in No. 257.5. Abstract: "Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resi…

1967 CE

#2419.4

Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.

Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.

1934 CE

#9340

I. Un nouveau type de radioactivité. II. Séparation chimique des nouveaux radioéléments émetteur d’électrons positifs.

Discovery of artificially produced radionuclides or radioisotopes. In February 1934, the Joliot-Curies reported the first artificial production of radioactive material after discovering radioactivity in aluminum foil …

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

1978 CE

#12243

Noninvasive assessment of pressure drop in mitral stenosis by Doppler ultrasound.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Hatle, Brubakk, Tromsdal, Angelsen. "Hatle (born 1936) was the pioneer of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography. "Today, Doppler echocardiography is central to our ability…

2017 CE

#10730

Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.

2011 CE

#10562

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.

This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…

2002 CE

#10175

Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.

"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…

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…

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.…

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 …

1934 CE

#12387

The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin

Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.

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

1934 CE

#6923

X-Ray photographs of crystalline pepsin.

Bernal and Hodgkin took the first X-ray photograph of a protein structure—crystalline pepsin. They showed that crystals of pepsin give an X-ray diffaction pattern, beginning protein crystallography. This may als…