1970–1979

1976 CE–1990 CE

#9616

Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.

1976 CE–1992 CE

#8440

Galenus Latinus Vol. 1. Burgundio of Pisa's Translation of Galen's Περί Κράσεων "De complexionibus". Edited by Richard J. Durling.

1976 CE–2009 CE

#8857

Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types

The entire set is available in digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. (Authors and publishers of the Supplements vary.)

1976 CE–2018 CE

#9948

Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.

The first 3 vols. were translated into English by Robert Hurley as The history of sexuality (1978-1986).

1977 CE

#8782

"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.

1977 CE

#258.10

A century of DNA: A history of the discovery of the structure and function of the genetic substance.

1977 CE

#12484

A history of childbirth in America.

Expanded edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

1977 CE

#12915

A history of dentistry in New South Wales, 1788-1945. Original manuscript by R. W. Halliday, arranged and edited by A. O. Watson. Foreword by Robert Harris.

1977 CE

#6926

A new method for sequencing DNA.

The Gilbert-Maxam method for sequencing DNA. This paper is available from PNAS at this link. In 1980 Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frederick Sanger and Paul Berg. Berg received half of the priz…

1977 CE

#13369

African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.

1977 CE

#11043

An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5' ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA.

Discovery of introns. In 1993 Roberts shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip A. Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes." It was frequently suggested that Chow deserved a share of that prize…

1977 CE

#4914.7

Aspects of coma after severe head injury.

Glasgow Coma Scale for grading brain injury following head trauma.

1977 CE

#13246

Biographical dictionary of the phonetic sciences.

1977 CE

#10253

Biomedical results from Skylab. Edited by Richard S. Johnston and Lawrence F. Dietlein.

"Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar…

1977 CE

#10867

Bisexuality: A study.

Based on interviews with 150 self-identified bisexuals, equal numbers of men and women.

1977 CE

#7921

Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.

1977 CE

#8781

Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after.

1977 CE

#11208

Charles Darwin: An annotated bibliographical handlist

This bibliography has been extensively supplemented by the Freeman Bibliographical Database at Darwin Online edited by John van Wyhe. "The database has been supplemented by the entries from unpublished manuscript corr…

1977 CE

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1977 CE

#9739

Conrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.

1977 CE

#2662.3

Contrary to nature. Being an illustrated commentary on some persons and events of historical importance in the development of knowledge concerning cancer.

1977 CE

#7074

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

1977 CE

#6883

DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors.

Sanger and colleagues developed methods for rapid sequencing of long sections of DNA molecules. Sanger’s method, and that developed by Gilbert and Maxam, made it possible to read the nucleotide sequence for enti…

1977 CE

#10964

Expression in Escherichia coli of a chemically synthesized gene for the hormone somatostatin.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Itakura, Hirose, Crea..., Bolivar, Boyer. Synthesis of the gene for somatostatin (growth hormone-inhibiting hormone (GHIH). This was the first demonstration of a foreign gene…

1977 CE

#13698

Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.

Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…

1977 CE

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1977 CE

#9124

Galen on language and ambiguity. An English transltion of Galen's De captionibus (On fallacies), with introduction, text and commentary by R. B. Edlow.

1977 CE

#3705.1

Histoire illustrée de l’art dentaire: Stomatologie et odontologie.

1977 CE

#8932

História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).

1977 CE

#5500.2

Influenza: The last great plague.

1977 CE

#10923

Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …

1977 CE

#7866

Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…

1977 CE

#3215.7

Legionnaires’ disease. Description of an epidemic of pneumonia.

First major scientific account. With 11 co-authors. Legionnaire's disease acquired its name after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" sickened 221 persons, causing 34 deaths. The people affected were atten…

1977 CE

#3215.8

Legionnaires’ disease. Isolation of a bacterium and demonstration of its role in other respiratory disease.

Order of authorship in the original publication: McDade, Shepard, Fraser.... See also p. 1218.

1977 CE

#9013

Les sciences biologiques et médicales à Byzance. (Cahiers d'historie et de philosophie des sciences, n. 3)

1977 CE

#13376

Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings

The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."

1977 CE

#9211

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

1977 CE

#10803

Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.

1977 CE

#8150

Medical imaging by NMR.

Mansfield developed a mathematical technique that would allow NMR scans to take seconds rather than hours and produce clearer images than the technique Paul Lauterbur developed in 1973. Mansfield showed how gradients …

1977 CE

#9045

Medicina aborigen.

1977 CE

#8675

Medicina in nummis: Hungarian coins and medals related to medicine.

1977 CE

#10956

Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.

1977 CE

#10300

Medicine in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: 1810-1976. Edited by Kent L. Brown.

41 chapters that address all aspects of medical and surgical practice (arranged by specialty) in addition to studies of specific institutions and special groups (e.g. women physicians and black physicians).

1977 CE

#10323

Medicine in Kentucky.

1977 CE

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1977 CE

#12554

Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.

1977 CE

#9378

Music and the brain. Studies in the neurology of music. Edited by MacDonald Critchley and R. A. Henson.

1977 CE

#9058

Musik und Medizin: Ihre Wechselbeziehungen in Theorie und Praxis von 800 bis 1800.

1977 CE

#5019.14

Neurological classics in modern translation.

Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.

1977 CE

#14248

Nitric oxide activates guanylate cyclase and increases guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate levels in various tissue preparations.

Murad demonstrated that nitroglycerin and related drugs worked by releasing nitric oxide into the body, which relaxed smooth muscle by elevating intracellular cyclic GMP. With W. P. Arnold, C. K. Mittal, S. Katsuki. I…