Facets

1990 CE

#8877

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

1854 CE

#13504

Practical observations on the use and abuse of tobacco. Greatly enlarged from the original communication on the effects of tobacco smoking, which appeared in Medical Times and Gazette, August 5, 1854.

Lizars was one of the first to recognize the addictive nature of tobacco and its potential damage to health. Digital facsimile of the 6th edition (1857) from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1849 CE

#12534

Practical pharmacy: The arrangements, apparatus, and manipulations, of the pharmaceutical shop and laboratory.

This was a translation and adaptation for the British market of Mohr's Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik, also published in 1849. It is thus the first textbook of pharmacy in English. Though Redwood made it clear …

1679 CE

#11881

Praecipuae opiniones physicae, passim recetae, breviter quidem sed accuratissime examinate, ex recension & distinctione Martini Fogelii ...cum annotationes quaedam accedunt accessit nunc primum eiusdem auctoris Harmonica & Isagoge phytoscopica.

Posthumous first publication of Jungius's Isagoge phytoscopia, an expansion or supplement to his system of botanical classification first published in his Doxoscopiae physicae minores (1662). The second edition of the…

1829 CE

#9450

Praktische waarnemingen over eenige Javaansche geneesmiddelen, welke niet alleen vele uitheemsche medicamenten, die thans nog van Europa naar Java moeten worden overgezonden, kunnen vervangen, maar dezelve ook tegen eenige ziekten op het eiland Java heerschende, in werkzaamheid overtreffen.

An early account of Jamu (old spelling Djamu), the traditional medicine of Indonesia, especially Java. "It is a predominantly herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as roots, bark, f…

1956 CE

#7782

Preliminary communication: Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in-utero.

Stewart was one of the earliest to study the effect of prenatal X-rays, later replaced by ultrasound. She found that the children of mothers who received these X-rays were almost twice as likely to develop leukemia or…

1944 CE

#2442

Preliminary report on diasone in the treatment of leprosy.

Muir found diasone (a sulphone) valuable in the treatment of leprosy.

2008 CE

#10974

Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.

"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…

1950 CE

#2028.1

Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.

Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.

1950 CE

#5262.3

Primaquine, S.N. 13,272, a new curative agent in vivax malaria: a preliminary report.

Introduction of primaquine.

1999 CE

#8874

Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany

1867 CE

#9869

Prize essay. Ancient transfusion and infusion compared with modern transfusion, infusion, and hypodermic or subcutaneous injections. Translated by Charles F. Wittig.

A comprehensive review, for the time, of the historical literature on these subjects. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1947 CE

#1939

Procaine penicillin G (duracillin); a new salt of penicillin which prolongs the action of penicillin.

Procaine benzylpenicillin also known as penicillin G procaine was developed by Herrell and colleagues. With D.R. Nichols.

1935 CE

#2022

Procedure and apparatus for preservation in “lyophile” form of serum and other biological substances.

1689 CE

#13411

Prodromus historiae generalis plantarum, in quo familiae plantarum per tabulas disponuntur.

Magnol invented of the concept of plant families, a natural classification, based on combinations of morphological character. "In his Prodromus he developed 75 tables, which not only grouped plants into families but a…

1957 CE

#1947.4

Production and isolation of a new antibiotic, kanamycin.

With nine co-authors.

1977 CE

#13749

Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.

Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…

1953 CE

#1931.1

Propriétés pharmacodynamiques du chlorhydrate de chloro-3 (diméthylamino-3’propyl) -10 phénothiazine (4.560 R.P.).

Chlorpromazine. With J. Foumel, R. Ducrot, M. Kolsky, and P. Koetschet. Chloropromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1996 CE

#6983

Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.

1936 CE

#3974

Protamine insulinate.

Hagedorn created NPH insulin and founded Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, known today as Novo Nordisk. NPH insulin is one of the earliest examples of engineering drug delivery. Hagedorn became interested in modifying the …

2003 CE

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

2016 CE

#11375

Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.

The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…

2009 CE

#8555

Ps. Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis: Tractatus de herbis (Ms London, British Library, Egerton 747). A cura di Iolanda Ventura. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 05.

Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis, probably active in the 14th century, was the copyist of British Library Ms Egerton 747, Tractatus de herbis. The identity of the author of the original work, probably written a century ear…

1993 CE

#10313

Pub & pilules: Histoires et communication du médicament.

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1954 CE

#1947

Purification and some properties of cephalosporin N, a new penicillin.

With G. G. F. Newton and C. W. Hale.

1942 CE

#14282

Purification of penicillin.

Abraham and Chain first announced the purification of penicillin, a critical step before production of the drug could begin, in a two paragraph paper published on a single page of Nature on March 21, 1942. The method,…

1615 CE

#1820.1

Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....

Physician to Philip II of Spain, Hernández travelled to Mexico by order of the king, and studied the natural history of the region from 1570-77. His Works, which filled six folio volumes of text and 10 volumes …

2008 CE

#9653

Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.

1992 CE

#11942

Quid pro quo: Studies in the history of drugs.

"All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drug…

1792 CE

#13323

Quinología o Tratado del árbol de la quina ó cascarilla:con su descripción y la de otras especies de quinos nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú....

Ruiz, a Spanish pharmacist and botanist, was appointed director of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú, during which he traveled extensively through Chile and Peru along with botanists …

1981 CE

#7760

Radiation and human health.

The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.

1970 CE

#7783

Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.

In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.

1844 CE

#2077.1

Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. 2 vols.

Lathyrism, a disease occuring in India, and parts of Africa, was known to Hippocrates. Sleeman, an Indian official and major general who presided over the suppression of Thuggee, had no special knowledge of medicine, …

1940 CE

#1983

Rapid absorption of substance injected into the bone marrow.

Tocantins demonstrated the possibility of transfusion of fluids via the bone marrow. See also later paper with J. F. O’Neill, Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1941, 73, 281-87.

1601 CE

#13812

Rariorum plantarum historia.

Describing approximately 100 new species, the Rariorum plantarum historia gathers accounts from Clusius’s earlier botanical tours of Spain (Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, 1576) an…

1777 CE–1790 CE

#1964

Rationis medendi in nosocomio practico Vindobonensi. 7 pts.

A detailed record of Stoll’s practice year by year, between 1777 and 1790, giving numerous case histories and providing descriptions of diseases.

1931 CE

#4959

Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.

Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.

2014 CE

#11745

Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.

1963 CE

#2068.4

Readings in pharmacology, selected and edited by B. Holmsted and G. Lijestrand.

An anthology of outstanding achievement in the growth of pharmacology.

1824 CE

#108

Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur la structure intime des animaux et des végétaux.

1820 CE

#5233

Recherches chimique sur les quinquinas.

Isolation of quinine.

1868 CE

#1868

Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l’erythroxylum coca du Pérou et la cocaïne.

The author, formerly a surgeon in the Peruvian army, issued the first study of the pharmacological action of cocaine, containing the earliest suggestion of its use as a local anesthetic. Leclerc issued the commercial …

1804 CE

#145.54

Recherches chimiques sur la végétation.

In this foundation work on phytochemistry, Saussure analysed the chief active components of plants, their synthesis and decomposition. He specified the relationships between vegetation and the environment. He showed t…

1884 CE

#1877

Recherches cliniques et physiologiques sur la paraldéhyde.

Introduction of paraldehyde into therapeutics as a narcotic.

1892 CE

#1999

Recherches d’électrothérapie: la voltaisation sinusoïdale.

Introduction of high-frequency currents in electrotherapy.

1826 CE

#13365

Recherches et expériences sur les poisons d'Amérique: Tirés des trois règnes de La nature, et envisagés sous les rapports de l'histoire naturelle, de la physiologie, de le pathologie et de la chimie, avec un essai sur l'empoisonnement par Les miasmes des marais, le mal d'estomac des nègres (cachexia Africana), et les maladies qui ressemblent aux empoisonnemens; pour servir à la toxicologie générale du continent d'Amérique et des Antilles.

1754 CE

#13099

Recherches sur l’usage des feuilles dans les plantes, et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l’histoire de la végétation.

In his study of plant physiology Bonnet contributed significant research on phototropism. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Craig W. Whippo, Roger P. Hangarter, Phototropism: Bending t…

1839 CE

#1857

Recherches sur la salicine et les produits qui en dérivent.

Piria made salicylic acid from salicin.