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1962 CE

#7946

Peresadka zhiznenno vazhnykh organov v eksperimente. Experimental transplantation of vital organs. Authorized translation from the Russian by Basil Haigh.

Demikhov coined the term transplantology, and this work, first published in Russian in 1960, and translated and published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, was the first monograph on transplantation of organs an…

1962 CE

#3705.02

Pictorial history of dentistry.

Also issued as Bildgeschichte der Zahnheilkunde. Zeugnisse aus 5 Jahrtausenden. Parallel texts in German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish!

1962 CE

#10920

Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.

The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…

1962 CE

#5509.1

Propagation in tissue culture of cytopathic agents from patients with rubella-like illness.

Isolation of rubella virus. It was simultaneously isolated by P. D. Parkman, et al. (No. 5509.2.)

1962 CE

#5509.2

Recovery of rubella virus from army recruits.

Isolation of the rubella virus.

1962 CE

#13082

Results of the first United States Manned Orbital Space Flight February 20, 1962.

Ch. 3: "Life support systems and biomedical instrumentation." Ch. 8: "Aeromedical preparation and results of postflight medical examinations." Ch. 9: "Physiological responses of the astronaut." Ch. 10: "Astronaut prep…

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…

1962 CE

#8893

The battered-child syndrome.

"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …

1962 CE

#10274

The casualty officer's handbook.

The first handbook published in England on what later came to be called emergency medicine. Ellis, appointed to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1952, was the first "Casualty" consultant in England, and remained so unti…

1962 CE

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1962 CE

#12034

The concept of a bacterium.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Stanier, Niel. For much of the 20th centurty prokaryotes were regarded as a single group of organisms, classified on the basis of their biochemistry, morphology and met…

1962 CE

#9887

The human skeleton in forensic medicine.

1962 CE

#8793

The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.

1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.

1962 CE

#13580

The Rudolph Matas history of medicine in Louisiana. Edited by John Duffy. 2 vols.

1962 CE

#3978.5

The story of insulin: Forty years of success against diabetes.

With G. Hetenyi and W. R. Feasby.

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…

1962 CE

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.

1962 CE

#4405.2

Treatment of scoliosis: Correction and internal fixation by spine instrumentation.

The “Harrington rod” system for scoliosis and spine fracture surgery.

1962 CE

#7207

Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.

First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

1962 CE–1968 CE

#1671.5

Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.

1962 CE–1999 CE

#6786.6

A catalogue of western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 3 vols. plus Supplement.

I: MSS written before ad 1650. II-III: MSS written after ad 1650. Addenda in 1. Anzeiger dtsch. Altertum dtsch. Lit., 1970, 81, 49-55. Supplementary catalogue (1999).

1962 CE–2006 CE

#6786.5

A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 5 vols.

Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641; Vol. 2-3: Books printed from 1641-1850, A-E, F-L; Vol. 4: Books printed from 1641-1850, M-R; Vol. 5 Books printed from 1642 to 1850, S-Z.

1963 CE

#12217

The significance of late systolic murmurs and mid-late systolic clicks.

See also J. B. Barlow, W.A. Pocock P. Marchand, M. Denny, "The significance of late systolic murmurs," Am Heart J., 66 (1963) 443- 452 Barlow revolutionized thinking about the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation w…

1963 CE

#12259

"Cardioversion" of atrial fibrillation: A report on the treatment of 65 episodes in 50 patients.

"In 1959 Bernard Lown commenced research in his animal laboratory in collaboration with engineer Barouh Berkovits into a technique which involved charging of a bank of capacitors to approximately 1000 volts with an en…

1963 CE

#8349

A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. Revised and augmented edition.

1963 CE

#7375

A history of domesticated animals.

1963 CE

#6550

A history of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Abstracted and arranged from the MS notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles Cameron, revised annotated and edited by E. Ashworth Underwood. Vol.1: 1617-1815.

1963 CE

#3020.2

A method for extraction of arterial emboli and thrombi.

Introduction of the balloon catheter in arterial embolectomy. With J. J. Cranley, R. J. Krause, E. S. Strasser and C. D. Hafner.

1963 CE

#9381

A method of staffing a community hospital emergency department.

Mills headed the first 24/7 year-round emergency care center in the U.S. established at Alexandria Hospital, Virginia, in 1961. This method of staffing a 24/7 emergency medical facility became known as the "Alexandria…

1963 CE

#13955

A multiple ribosomal structure in protein synthesis.

Alexander Rich discovered polysomes, clusters of ribosomes which read one strand of mRNA simultaneously. Order of authorship in the original publication: Warner, Knopf, Rich. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at th…

1963 CE

#7413

A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.

1963 CE

#3924.4

A simple phenylalanine method for detecting phenylketonuria in large populations of newborn infants.

Bacterial inhibition test for phenylketonuria.

1963 CE

#6485.94

An English translation of the Suśruta Samhita…2nd ed.

1963 CE

#13033

Animal species and evolution.

Condensed and extensively revised as Populations, species and evolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.

1963 CE

#6485.1

Antike Medizin. Die naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin in der griechischen Antike. 2nd ed.

1963 CE

#5308.3

Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62.

Over 1,700 items.

1963 CE

#7868

Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.

Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …

1963 CE

#9647

Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.

Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …

1963 CE

#8398

Clinical aspects of immunology.

Gell-Coombs classification of hypersensitivity. Prior to development of this classification, all forms of hypersensitivity were classified as allergies, "and all were thought to be caused by an improper activation of …

1963 CE

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1963 CE

#12427

Cytological demonstration of the clonal nature of spleen colonies derived from transplanted mouse marrow cells.

McCulloch and Till discovered the blood-forming stem cell, the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC), through their pioneering work in mice. McCulloch and Till began a series of experiments in which bone marrow cells were inj…

1963 CE

#6941

Effect of the laser beam on the skin.

One of the first papers on the application of lasers in medicine. In 1961 Goldman became the first researcher to use a laser to treat a human skin disease when he treated melanoma. The method later became popular in r…

1963 CE

#2660.14

Evidence that the L-asparaginase of guinea pig serum is responsible for its antilymphoma effects.

1963 CE

#3215.6

Farmer’s lung. Thermophilic actinomycetes as a source of “farmer’s lung hay” antigen.

Pepys and five co-authors showed that thermophilic actinomycetes, especially Micropolyspora faeni, were the cause of farmer’s lung due to mouldy hay.

1963 CE

#4435.5

Fractures, dislocations and fracture-dislocations of the spine.

Holdsworth classification of spinal injuries.

1963 CE

#6311.4

Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.

A continuation of No. 6303.

1963 CE

#1947.5

Gentamicin, a new antibiotic complex from Micromonospora.

With nine co-authors.

1963 CE

#6451.4

Histoire de la médecine.

1963 CE

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

1963 CE

#6603.4

Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador. 2 vols.