1970–1979

1974 CE

#8912

Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.

In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …

1974 CE

#12245

Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.

Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.

1974 CE

#3161.4

Einführung in die Geschichte der Haematologie.

Thirteen contributions edited by Boroviczény, H. Schipperges, and E. Seidler. Includes chronological table of events in the history of medicine and a bibliography.

1974 CE

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

1974 CE

#534.41

Foundations of experimental embryology. 2nd ed.

14 classic contributions to embryology (in English translations where appropriate) with historical commentaries.

1974 CE

#11327

From medical police to social medicine.

1974 CE

#13934

Genetic control of the cell division cycle in yeast.

In 2001 Hartwell shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle." See also No. 13933. In this paper the authors demonstr…

1974 CE

#10963

Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.

Confirmation of the success of methods outlined in No. 257.5. Abstract: "Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resi…

1974 CE

#10047

Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.

Creation of the first transgenic organism: expression of Staphylococcus aureus genes in Escherichia coli. Digital facsimile from pnas.org at this link.

1974 CE

#6451.9

Geschichte der Medizin. 2 vols.

French translation, 1978.

1974 CE

#10982

Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.

1974 CE

#10632

Hethitische medizinische Texte (Studien zu den Bogazkoy-Texten 19).

Edition and commented translation (German) of 17 Hittite texts, with an introduction.

1974 CE

#13825

Historical medical classics involving new drugs. Foreward by Charles H. Best.

1974 CE

#6451.8

History of the life sciences. An annotated bibliography.

Over 4,000 annotated citations of works dealing with all aspects of the history of medicine and biology, including a section on individual and collected biographies.

1974 CE

#8386

Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.

This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…

1974 CE

#9388

Katalog der Josephinischen Bibliothek des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin in Wien. Edited by Erna Lesky.

1974 CE

#6604.3

La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.

With Z. Ohya.

1974 CE

#2028.43

Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.

Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.

1974 CE

#14115

Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.

The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, smal…

1974 CE

#12718

Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.

The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…

1974 CE

#14057

Pop goes the café coronary.

Heimlich proposed and described the eponymous “Heimlich maneuver” for what was then called the “café coronary,” a cause of sudden death seen mostly in restaurants, or at the dinner table…

1974 CE

#11371

Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.

A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…

1974 CE

#5019.12

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

1974 CE

#7453

Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system.

Doherty and Zinkernagel discovered how a class of white blood cells known as T cells kill virus-infected cells in the body, and so present the spread of viruses. In 1998 Zinkernagel and Doherty were awarded the Nobel …

1974 CE

#8157

Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone.

Rowland and his post-doctoral student, Molina, suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could reach the stratosphere where they would be dissociated by UV light, releasi…

1974 CE

#8758

The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.

Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…

1974 CE

#12343

The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.

Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.

1974 CE

#10551

The Darwin correspondence project.

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/" "Search over 12000 letters and articles..."

1974 CE

#9941

The genetics of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.

In 2002 Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programm…

1974 CE

#258.9

The path to the double helix: The discovery of DNA.

A well-documented history of molecular biology.

1974 CE

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1974 CE

#5019.16

The roots of psychology. A sourcebook in the history of ideas.

1974 CE

#11424

The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.

1974 CE

#11369

The surgical construction of male genitalia for the female-to-male transsexual.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Noe, Birdsell, Laub.

1974 CE

#6495.2

The theoretical foundations of Chinese medicine. Systems of correspondence.

1974 CE

#1588.14

The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.

An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.

1974 CE

#2578.42

Towards a network theory of the immune system.

Idiotype networks. Jerne shared the 1984 Nobel Prize with Milstein and Köhler for his theoretical contributions to our concept of the immune system.

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1975 CE

#6533.1

A classified bibliography of the history of Dutch medicine 1900-1974.

1975 CE

#9486

A model of inexact reasoning in medicine.

"MYCIN was an early backward chaining expert system that used artificial intelligence to identify bacteria causing severe infections, such as bacteremia and meningitis, and to recommend antibiotics, with the dosage ad…

1975 CE

#2068.14

An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.

1975 CE

#8448

Anglo-Saxon prose.

Includes translations of medical material. Third revised and enlarged edition (Gloucester, England: Choir Press, 2017).

1975 CE

#10263

Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.

1975 CE

#14006

Application of synchrotron radiation to protein crystallography: Preliminary results.

First report on the application of synchrotron radiation to protein crystallography. Order of authorship in the original publication: Phillips, Wlodwawer..., Hodgson. Digital facsimile from pnas.org at this link. "Syn…

1975 CE

#10252

Biomedical results of Apollo.

Full text available from history.nasa.gov at this link.

1975 CE

#9135

Blue Cross since 1929: Accountability and the public trust.

1975 CE

#2068.18

British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. 3 vols.

A comprehensive history and bibliography of the subject, including a revised history of the English herbal literature, and accounts of other books of medical and pharmaceutical interest.

1975 CE

#12232

Cardiac catheterization: Development of the technique, its contributions to experimental medicine, and its initial applications in man.

1975 CE

#13713

Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the British Library.

1975 CE

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.