Facets

1957 CE

#7386

The path of carbon in photosynthesis.

Discovery of the Calvin cycle, also known as the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle, or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle — a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the s…

1986 CE

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1940 CE

#13352

The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.

Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.

2006 CE

#13094

The Pauling catalogue. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling papers at Oregon State University. Edited by Christoffer Petersen and Cliff Mead. 6 vols.

Vol. 1. Timeline, correspondence, publications, manuscripts & typescripts of articles, speechs, and books. Vol. 2. Science, Research Notebooks. 1917 Linus Pauling Diary. Vol. 3. Peace, Ava Helen Pauling, travel, honor…

1876 CE

#10412

The people's medical advisor.

A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…

1852 CE

#13308

The people's medical lighthouse; a series of popular and scientific essays on the nature, uses, and diseases of the lungs, heart, liver, stomach, kidneys, womb and blood; also a key to the causes, prevention, remedies, and cure of pumonary and other kinds of consumption;....Marriage guide....

One of the more comprehensive American works on popular medicine from the mid-19th century, frequently reprinted. The author, who published the work himself from his address in New York City, describes himself as A.M.…

1938 CE

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1994 CE

#9890

The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.

2007 CE

#12505

The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.

1938 CE

#7281

The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.

Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.

2013 CE

#13740

The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.

1677 CE

#215

The primitive organization of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature.

In response to Isaac de la Peyrere‘s theory of polygenesis, Hale, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, advanced his own theory that the earth was not eternal, but rather had a spontaneous “beginning,&r…

2010 CE

#8060

The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.

1979 CE

#8353

The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).

1956 CE

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1850 CE

#161

The races of men.

Knox, anatomist at Edinburgh, and notorious for his association with the resurrectionists, made important researches in the field of ethnology while serving as an army surgeon at the Cape of Good Hope.

1898 CE

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1913 CE

#6920

The reflection of x-rays by crystals.

Discovery of X-ray crystallography. The father and son team of physicists, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, constructed the first X-ray spectrometer using crystals as gratings, using a known wavelength …

1886 CE

#10350

The relation of hospitals to medical education.

Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1864 CE

#14042

The reputed fossil man of the Neanderthal.

King believed that the Feldhofer Neanderthal skull discovered by Fuhrott and Schaafhausen differed significantly from all known ancient and modern human crania. In this paper he proposed the name Homo neanderthalensis…

1938 CE

#1532

The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.

Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical int…

2019 CE

#11073

The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.

A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."

1922 CE

#212

The Rhodesian skull.

Description of the skull found at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, in 1921.

2005 CE

#8328

The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.

A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.

1968 CE

#9200

The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture.

1963 CE

#8352

The Salernitan questions: An introduction to the history of Medieval and Renaissance problem literature.

1920 CE

#51

The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1857 CE

#9165

The seaman's medical friend, a companion to the government medicine chest, intended for use in ships not carrying surgeons. Containing directions for the preservation of health and the cure of diseases, wounds, fractures, dislocations, and other accidents likely to occur at sea. Comprising also the Admiralty scale of medicines. Second edition.

"The present edition of The Seaman's Medical Friend is a new book rather than a mere revision of an old one; since the whole of that portion which relates to the Preservation of health, and the symptoms and treatment …

1774 CE

#9519

The seaman's medical instructor, in a course of lectures on accidents and diseases incident to seamen, in the various climates of the world. Calculated for ships that carry no surgeon. The whole delivered in a plain language and founded upon a long and successful experience.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1960 CE

#14306

The sequence of the amino acid residues in performic acid-oxidized ribonuclease.

In 1959 Moore and Stein announced the first determination of the complete amino acid sequence of an enzyme, ribonuclease. In 1972 Moore and Stein shared half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Christian B. Anfinsen …

1996 CE

#8688

The shaping of a profession: Physicians in Norway, past and present. Edited by Ivind Larsen and Bent Olav Olsen.

1943 CE

#214

The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis: A comparative study on a primitive hominid skull.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#12851

The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1965 CE

#14244

The stimulation of epidermal proliferation by a specific protein (EGF).

Discovery of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF). In 1986 Cohen shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors."

1937 CE–1939 CE

#7259

The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.

Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …

1959 CE

#6637

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

2000 CE

#13953

The structural basis of ribosome activity in peptide bond synthesis.

With Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore. Steitz shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."

1962 CE

#1931.4

The structure of prostaglandin E, F1 and F2.

In this and subsequent papers Bergström and Samuelsson elucidated the chemical structure of prostaglandins. In 1982 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I…

1951 CE

#6846

The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.

Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy o…

1998 CE

#14332

The structure of the potassium channel: Molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity.

The authors determined the first high resolution structure of an ion channel, called KcsA from the bacterium Streptomyces lividans. The structure that they revealed was perfectly adapted to allow entry of potassium io…

1887 CE

#9551

The student's manual and handbook for the dental laboratory. To which is appended Dr. E.H. Angle's system of appliances for correcting irregularities.

Angle's chapter, "The Angle system of regulation and retention of teeth," represented the first edition of what was later separately published as Angle's textbook on orthodontics with the same title. This chapter reap…

1815 CE

#12914

The summum bonum.

The first book on dentistry published in Canada. Facsimile edition, Montreal, 1969.

1952 CE

#13441

The superb library of Bernhard W. Weinberger, D.D.S., on the history and folklore of dentistry. With a preface by Curt Proskaur.

1932 CE

#7003

The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1945 CE

#2659.4

The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.

In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."

1953 CE

#1175.3

The synthesis of an octapeptide amide with the hormonal activity of oxytocin.

Synthesis of oxytocin. With C. Ressler, J. M. Swan, C. W. Roberts, P. G. Katsoyannis, and S. Gordon. In 1955 Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds…

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.

1951 CE

#13595

The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.

This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…

1985 CE

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.