1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1978 CE
#10691
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
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Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…
1978 CE
#8162
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).
1978 CE
#7317
Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory skin diseases: A method by pattern analysis.
1978 CE
#8422
I codice greci di medicina nelle tre Venezie. (Università di Padova, Studi bizantini e neogreci, 10).
1978 CE
#5546.9
Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
1978 CE
#10846
Informe sexual de la mujer española.
1978 CE
#13969
Inhibition of Rous sarcoma virus replication and cell transformation by a specific oligodeoxynucleotide (tridecamer deoxyribonucleotide/hybridization competitor/hybridon).
Zamecnick and Stephenson reported the first example of specific inhibition of gene expression by an oligonucleotide when they demonstrated that a short oligonucleotide inhibited Rous sarcoma virus replication in cell …
1978 CE
#12121
International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
1978 CE
#9248
Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].
1978 CE
#10297
Läkare och läkekonst i Finland under 300 år 1640-1940.
1978 CE
#6610.14
Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).
1978 CE
#7047
Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
1978 CE
#2682.52
Medicine and the reign of technology.
1978 CE
#6451.10
Medicine: An illustrated history.
Includes over 1,000 illustrations, many in color.
1978 CE
#9434
Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.
1978 CE
#9831
Multiphasic health testing services.
'In 1968 Morris F. Collen, MD and his team at KP’s Medical Methods Research (MMR) built a medical information system that peers described in the era as the most advanced of its kind. It was an aspiration of medi…
1978 CE
#13986
Mutagenesis at a specific position in a DNA sequence.
Smith and Hutchison introduced site-directed mutagenesis, or oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis, into molecular biology, resolving the problem of how to determine the effect of a single mutant gene with efficiency. …
1978 CE
#2188.2
Naval and maritime medicine during the American revolution.
1978 CE
#12243
Noninvasive assessment of pressure drop in mitral stenosis by Doppler ultrasound.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Hatle, Brubakk, Tromsdal, Angelsen. "Hatle (born 1936) was the pioneer of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography. "Today, Doppler echocardiography is central to our ability…
1978 CE
#10209
Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.
This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…
1978 CE
#8468
Persian medical manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. A descriptive catalogue.
1978 CE
#9720
Recombinant DNA: The untold story.
1978 CE
#14144
Reconstitution of hormone-sensitive adenylate cyclase activity with resolved components of the enzyme.
Gilman and colleagues showed that G proteins are in the cell membrane and are stimulated once a ligand (adrenaline) binds the adrenergic receptor. This system can then activate adenyl cyclase to form cyclic AMP. Digit…
1978 CE
#10869
Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
1978 CE
#7098
Survivals of Greek zoological illuminations in Byzantine manuscripts.
1978 CE
#6604.8
Tears often shed. Child health and welfare in Australia from 1788.
1978 CE
#13757
The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.
A history of contraception in the United States.
1978 CE
#2662.4
The genesis of cancer. A study in the history of ideas.
1978 CE
#1716.1
The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries against the changing background of intellectual, scientific and religious thought. Lectures by Karl Pearson given at University College London during the academic sessions 1921-1933.
1978 CE
#10980
The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.
"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging …
1978 CE
#13414
The library of Sir Isaac Newton
1978 CE
#1766.610
The medical profession in mid-Victorian London.
1978 CE
#5813.11
The rise of surgery from empiric craft to scientific discipline.
Not a systematic history but an assessment of those technical factors that contributed to or retarded the advance of surgery.
1978 CE
#10168
The road to Eleusis: Unveiling the secret of the mysteries.
Argues that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus Claviceps purpurea. Furthermore the book introduced the term "entheoge…
1978 CE
#7697
The shows of London.
Characterized on the dust jacket as "a panomaic history of exhibitions, 1600-1862." The first two chapters are a history of museums. Chapter 24, "The waxen and the fleshy", discusses "medica" or anatomical museums.
1978 CE
#13540
Transmissible agent in non-A, non-B hepatitis.
The first paper recording the discovery of what was, eleven years later in 1989, named the hepatitis C virus (see No. 12653). Harvey Alter and colleagues inoculated the serum/plasma of 4 patients with non-A/non-B hepa…
1978 CE
#2268.1
Tropical medicine and parasitology: Classic investigations. 2 vols.
About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes.
1978 CE
#6610.13
Votivmalerie und Medizin. Kulturgeschichte und Heilkunst im Spiegel der Votivmalerei.
1978 CE–1980 CE
#13656
Atlas on the history of spectacles. 2 vols.
Vol. 1 catalogues spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of S…
1979 CE
#6786.21
A short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.
Lists approximately 25,000 works (except dissertations) printed between 1701 and 1800.
1979 CE
#1671.9
Aging: Its history and literature.
Includes bibliographies of classic works, of the history of geriatrics, and of periodicals devoted to the subject.
1979 CE
#14345
An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.
In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.
1979 CE
#8559
Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.
1979 CE
#2682.53
Antique medical instruments
Well-illustrated work coving the history of medical and surgical instruments from the Middle Ages to 1870, with emphasis on pre-19th century material. Includes useful information on instrument makers.
1979 CE
#12631
Avermectins, new family of potent anthelminthic agents, efficacy of the B1a component.
Campbell and colleagues reported unprecedented antiparasitic effects of the agent in vivo, and that the "B1a" component of the molecule was most effective as a single oral dose. (Order of authorship in the original pu…
1979 CE
#12630
Avermectins, new family of potent anthelmintic agents: Producing organism and fermentation.
The authors, lead by Omura, announced the discovery of Streptomyces avermilitis. They described the structure of avermectin, and reported preliminary observations that this drug is antiparasitic. (Order of authorship …
1979 CE
#2682.54
Bloodletting instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology.
Digital facsimile from Smithsonian Research Online at this link.
1979 CE
#6786.22
Catalogue of the historical books in the library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
1979 CE
#14007
Characterization of a 54K Dalton cellular SV40 tumor antigen present in SV40 transformed cells and uninfected embryonal carcinoma cells.
Levine discovered the tumor suppressor protein p53, also known as Tumor protein P53. Because it prevents cancer formation TP 53 is classified as a tumor suppressor gene. The discovery was completed in 1989 and recorde…
1979 CE
#11256
Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brenner, Steigerwalt, McDade. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)