Facets

1955 CE

#13685

A small particulate component of the cytoplasm.

Palade first described the association of what were subsequently determined to ribosomes with membranes. He and Keith Porter subsequently named this structure the endoplasmic reticulum. Digital facsimile from PubMedCe…

2002 CE

#12530

A sourcebook of dental medicine: Being a documentary history of dentistry and stomatology from the earliest times to the middle of the twentieth century.

1946 CE

#1354.1

A specific sympathomimetic ergone in adrenergic nerve fibres (sympathin) and its relations to adrenaline and nor-adrenaline.

Noradrenaline shown to be the predominant transmitter of the effects of sympathetic nerve impulses. In 1970 Euler shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Katz and Axelrod "for their discoveries concernin…

1955 CE

#9103

A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.

1829 CE

#12903

A system of dental surgery. In three parts. I. Dental surgery as a science. II. Operative dental surgery. III. Pharmacy connected with dental surgery.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1886 CE

#12417

A system of hygienic medicine, or the only rational way of treating disease.

"In place of orthodox medicine, he [Allinson] promoted health through diet, exercise, fresh air and bathing. He advocated a vegetarian diet and the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. He especially promoted…

1885 CE

#11537

A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.

This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.

1922 CE

#3690.1

A textbook of clinical periodontia. A study of the causes and pathology of periodontal disease and a consideration of Its treatment.

“The first authoritative book in the field” (Ring). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1958 CE

#6911

A three-dimensional model of the myoglobin molecule obtained by x-ray analysis.

Initial paper on the first solution of the three-dimensional molecular structure of a protein. Computing the molecular structure in 3 dimensions was possible through the use of the Cambridge EDSAC stored-program elect…

2002 CE

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

1910 CE

#2637

A transmissible avian neoplasm (sarcoma of the common fowl).

Original description of the chicken sarcoma (Rous sarcoma). Rous demonstrated that sarcomatous tumors in hens could be transmitted to normal hens by the injection of cell-free filtrates (virus) of the original tumor. …

1682 CE

#12612

A treatise of cleanness in meats and drinks of the preparation of food, the excellency of good airs and the benefits of clean sweet beds also of the generation of bugs and their cure : to which is added, a short discourse of the pain in the teeth shewing from what cause it does chiefly proceed, and also how to prevent it.

Digital text from Early English Books Online at this link.

1824 CE

#13482

A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families: in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated. To which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living. Also, The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years, by M. Appert.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1830 CE

#2211

A treatise on fever.

Both a doctor and a minister, Smith, physician to the London Fever Hospital, called himself, “physician to body and soul.” He argued that the poor are impoverished by fever and that fever was preventable. …

1880 CE

#3685.1

A treatise on oral deformities.

First "scientific" treatment of irregularities of the teeth. Kingsley made the first attempt at systematizing the treatment of occlusal abnormalities

1869 CE

#3684.1

A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, and associated parts.

The first modern textbook of oral surgery. Garretson received the first official hospital appointment as “oral surgeon”. He helped to establish oral surgery as a specialty.

1768 CE

#3674

A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums.

Earliest English dental textbook. Berdmore was the first to mention the use of the microscope for the study of the minute structure of teeth.

1801 CE

#3678

A treatise on the human teeth, concisely explaining their structure and cause of disease and decay.

First American book on the teeth, a pamphlet of 26pp. It was intended for the lay public and listed sound rules of oral hygiene, explained the nature of dental diseases and their treatment, and stressed preventive mai…

1814 CE

#3679.3

A treatise on the management of the teeth.

The first full-length book on dentistry published in the United States, and the first American book on the subject with a dental illustration.

1857 CE

#12886

A treatise on the use of adhesive gold foil.

In 1855, Robert Arthur discovered that by heating the gold foil impurities could be driven off, and the gold could be made to adhere to itself, a property known as cohesion. He passed each portion of foil through a fl…

1735 CE

#8483

A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.

Atkins, surgeon on the voyage, included information about the slave trade and the natural history of the Gold Coast. "Atkins describes the manatee accurately, and tells much about fetish worship. He shows that there w…

1908 CE

#3689.2

A work on operative dentistry. 2 vols.

Black established a system of cavity preparation from which modern techniques have been derived. He constructed a “gnathodynamometer” with which the pressure exerted on the human tooth and therefore on the…

1915 CE

#12906

A work on special dental pathology devoted to the diseases and treatment of the investing tissues of the teeth and the dental pulp.

1791 CE

#12894

Abhandlung über Flüsse und Entzündungen, wovon Geschwülste und Zahnfleischgeschwüre herrühren.

One of the first treatises on gum diseases, which around a century later would be called periodontics. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1756 CE

#3673

Abhandlung von den Zähnen des menschlichen Körpers und deren Krankheiten.

The first important German manual of dentistry. Pfaff, dentist to Frederick the Great, was the first to describe the taking of dental impressions and the casting of models for false teeth. This book ranks in importanc…

1995 CE

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1868 CE

#9470

Accidents et maladies: Premier soins a donner avant l'arrivée du médecin.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1845 CE

#11698

Accidents: Popular directions for their immediate treatment; with observations on poisons and their antidotes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1945 CE

#14284

Acetylation of sulfanilamide by liver homogenates and extracts.

Discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism. This discovery illuminated “the process by which cells make available the energy to drive their manufacturing processes” (Judson, p.…

1939 CE

#1310.1

Action potentials recorded from inside a nerve fibre.

Hodgkin and Huxley were the first to succeed in inserting electrodes into a living giant nerve fiber and to measure directly the action potential within it. In 1963 Hodgkin and Huxley shared the Nobel Prize in Physiol…

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 …

2002 CE

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

2007 CE

#9976

African American folk healing.

1998 CE

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1977 CE

#13369

African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.

1999 CE

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1999 CE

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

2003 CE

#13646

Against the spirit of system: The French impulse in nineteenth-century American medicine.

"... the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medi…

1961 CE

#214.2

Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.

Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…

2018 CE

#12103

Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.

Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …

1897 CE

#719.1

Alkoholische Gärung ohne Hefezellen.

Discovery of cell-free fermentation, the turning point in the study of enzymes. In 1907 Buchner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation."

1900 CE

#5945

Allgemeine Theorie der monochromatischen Aberrationen und ihre nächsten Ergebnisse für die Ophthalmologie.

The above work is the exposition of Gullstrand's general theory of monochromatic aberrations. This is an offprint from Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups., 1900-01, ser. 3, 20. In 1911 Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize…

1902 CE

#12619

Alveolar pyorrhoea - its pathological anatomy and its radical treatment.

Znamensky, professor of stomatology in Moscow, had a very clear understanding of periodontitis, and the interaction of local and systemic factors in its etiology. He presented the first description of the histopatholo…

2017 CE

#9553

American Academy of the History of Dentistry: Resources and Links

http://www.histden.org/drupal/content/resources_links "The Historical Museum of Medicine & Dentistry Collection Photographs collected and analyzed by the Hartford Medical Society & Hartford Dental Society. Prepared fo…

1839 CE–1850 CE

#12931

American Library of Dental Science. 10 vols.

This was a series of American editions, and first English translations, of then-standard or classic works, most of which remain classics in dental literature. The volumes were listed by Weinberger (1938) as follows: V…

1976 CE

#1766.609

American medical education: the formative years, 1765-1910.

1987 CE

#10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

1988 CE–2000 CE

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

2010 CE

#9931

American nursing: A history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work.

1972 CE

#10432

American physicians in the nineteenth century: From sects to science.