Facets

1835 CE

#1698

Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires, et sur l’action de l’émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie.

Louis refuted Broussais’s system of medicine, his “médicine physiologique.” Louis was instrumental in establishing medicine as an exact science by the introduction of the numerical or statisti…

1955 CE

#2527

Reconstitution of active tobacco mosaic virus from its inactive protein and nucleic acid components.

First reconstitution of a virus.

1536 CE

#12765

Reformation der Apotecken, welche inhaltet vil guter stück, die eynem yeglichen fast nützlich sein [.]. Von edlen steynen, wie die zuken[n]en [.] Wie man Syrupen, Latwergen, und Confect machen soll, verteütscht auß dem Latein durch D. Hansen Eles.

A manual for equiping and operating a pharmacy and making drugs and syrups. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

c. 1477 CE–c. 1483 CE

#1959.3

Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (With commentary by [Pseudo-Arnoldus de Villa Nova]). Add: Arnoldus de Villa Nova: Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum.

Probably originating about 1160, the Regimen sanitatis from the medical school at Salerno (where medicine was first treated as a separate science) had greater popular influence than virtually any other medieval medica…

2021 CE

#13524

REGN-COV-2, a neutralizing antibody cocktail, in outpatients with Covid-19.

The authors showed that the Regeneron antibody cocktail has a low incidence of side effects and a profound and rapid effect on viral load, with most reduction occurring within 48 hours, even in patents with the highes…

2020 CE

#13523

REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters.

The authors, working at Regeneron, showed that a cocktail of two potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodes reduced virus load in the airways and diminshed viral induced pathological sequelae when given both as a prophy…

1860 CE

#8818

Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.

At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…

1688 CE

#7955

Remèdes contre les cours de ventre.

"The remedy here treated of is ipecacuanha: although its antidysenteric virtues had previously been made known in 1649 by the writings of Piso and Marggraf [No. 2263.1] it was left to Helvetius, about forty years subs…

1948 CE

#3107.1

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

Exchange transfusion.

1952 CE

#9719

Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants.

Demonstration of the mutational basis of antibiotic resistance. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1941 CE

#12823

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

1857 CE–1859 CE

#10514

Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior

Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…

1905 CE

#5279

Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.

Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…

1628 CE

#1821.1

Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.

This summary of Hemández’s very extensive manuscript account of the natural history of Mexico (see No. 1820.1) was edited by N.A. de Recchi, and published at the expense of Prince Federico Cesi (1585-1630…

1877 CE

#1997

Researches on the effect of light upon bacteria and other organisms.

Downes and Blunt were the first to demonstrate the bactericidal action of sunlight; they regarded the germicidal property of light as depending on oxidation.

1830 CE

#11605

Researches principally relative to the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood.

Hall's experiments on the physiological effects of therapeutic bleeding provided compelling evidence that bleeding could cause significant harm and even death. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1860 CE

#2104

Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake.

See No. 2106.

1886 CE

#2106

Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.

Mitchell (see also No. 2104) and Reichert showed that snake venom is protein, and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate snake venoms.

1952 CE

#1931

Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.

Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.

1863 CE

#1865.1

Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.

The first extensive treatise on the botany of the Southern States of the US and the only Confederate manual of materia medica. This is also a manual of “survival information”, teaching how live off the lan…

1896 CE

#1932.3

Ricerche batteriologische e chimiche sulle alterazioni del mais; contributo all’etiologia della pellagra.

First recorded scientific observations on the action of a penicillin. Gosio produced an antibacterial crystalline substance from Penicillium glaucum.

1767 CE

#2103

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera.

The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms and their antidotes. This work also includes Fontana’s description of the ciliary canal in the eye of an ox. This structure does not appear in the hu…

1948 CE

#1943

Ricerche su di un nuovo antibiotico.

Brotzu showed that a Cephalosporium acremonium filtrate inhibited the growth of Gram-positive and -negative organisms.

1993 CE

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1954 CE

#7981

Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.

The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.

2014 CE

#11321

Rum maniacs: Alcoholic insanity in the Early American Republic.

2003 CE

#8289

Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory: Translated from the Arabic together with a study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.

2009 CE

#8277

Sābūr ibn Sahl's dispensatory in the recension of the 'Adudī hospital.

Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.

1997 CE

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…

1912 CE

#5324

Salvarsantherapie der Rattenbisskrankheit in Japan.

Salvarsan first used in the treatment of rat-bite fever.

1995 CE

#12549

Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.

1940 CE

#11241

Sarh Asma Al-Uqqar (L'Explication des noms de drogues) Un glossaire de matière medicale composé par Maïmonide. Texte publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique

1934 CE

#4960

Schizophreniebehandlung mittels Insulin-Hypoglykämie sowie hypoglykämischer Schocks.

Insulin shock therapy of schizophrenia. Sakel wrote several subsequent papers on this subject in the same journal. English version in Amer. J. Psychiat., 1937, 93, 829-41.

2015 CE

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

1818 CE

#9508

Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées, suivis des moyens propres à reconnaître les poisons et les vins frelatés et à distinguer la mort réelle de la mort apparente.

Translated into English by B. H. Black and published in 1819 as Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death: Together with the means of detecting poisons and a…

2017 CE

#9862

Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…

1984 CE

#10243

Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.

"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…

1909 CE

#12411

Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.

This exposé of useless or dangerous drugs was followed in 1912 by More secret remedies. What they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Digital facsimile of the 1…

1567 CE

#9053

Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.

Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…

1984 CE

#11225

Seed physiology: Its history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

1760 CE

#12703

Select remains of the learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S. with his life by the late William Derham, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F.R.S. Published by George Scott, M.A. and F.R.S.

Because Derham died in 1735 this biography would have been written in the early part of the 18th century after the death of Ray in 1705. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1561 CE

#1813

Semplici dell’eccellente … liquali in piu pareri à diversi nobili huomini scritti appaiono, et nuovamente da G. Marinello mandati in luce.

Anguillara was one of the best of many commentators on Dioscorides. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1752 CE

#11719

Sendschreiben von den Wirkungen des Kafeetranks.

Discussing the consumption and reception of coffee from Britain to Turkey, Knoll dismissed criticisms of coffee, including that it reduced beauty and virility, or that it was contrary to Islam, instead promoting the m…

1983 CE

#7210

Sertraline, 1S,4S-N-methyl-4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine, a new uptake inhibitor with selectivity for serotonin.

Sertraline hydrochloride, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, developed by the authors of this paper at Pfizer, and marketed under the tradename Zoloft. With R. G. Browne.

1996 CE

#8872

Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.

Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…

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…

1538 CE

#6969

Simeonis Sethi, magistri Antiochiae, Syntagma per literarum ordinem de cibariorum facultate, Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo,... interprete.

First printed edition of Seth's Byzantine encyclopedia of foods, nutrition, and diatetics from plants and animals, with Greek text and Latin translation by scholar and poet Giglio Gregorio Giraldi. Simeon Seth was an …

1546 CE

#9865

Skøn lystig ny Urtegaard.

Smid was one of the first writers on medicine in Scandinavia who was trained in medicine, but according to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111 "had trouble succeeding …

2004 CE

#9634

Smoke: A global history of smoking. Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Xun Zhou.

1950 CE

#3215.2

Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.

A study of 1,465 cases of lung cancer and 1,465 matched controls, which confirmed and extended the studies of Wynder and Graham, and others. See also later papers by the same authors in Brit. med. J., 1952, 2,1271-86;…