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575 entries match Women & Gender [K01.700.500]
1957
#6650.2
Women doctors of the world.
1957
#8736
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.
1958 –1961
#8744
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…
1958
#13560
The suppressor-mutator system of control of gene action in maize.
In this paper McClintock described a novel mobile genetic element that she called Suppressor-Mutator (Spm), and its complex regulation. She discovered that Spm could switch back and forth between an “inactive” form an…
1959
#1246.2
Micropuncture study of the mammalian urinary concentrating mechanism: Evidence for the countercurrent hypothesis.
Proof that tubular fluid is first concentrated in the loop of Henle, then diluted in the ascending limb of the loop before its final concentration in the collecting ducts, as predicted by the countercurrent hypothesis.
1959
#6637
The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.
1960
#2660.13
Virus-cell interaction with a tumour-producing virus.
Polyomavirus (papovavirus) shown to be capable of transforming cells in culture. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.
1960
#2578.28
Immunosassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man.
First radioimmunoassay of a hormone, a test capable of estimating nonogram or even picogram quantities. In 1977 Yalow received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of radioimmunoassay…
1960
#12221
Complete replacement of the mitral valve. Successful clinical application of a flexible polyurethane prosthesis.
Braunwald was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She was the first woman surgeon certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the first woman elected to the American Association for Thoracic Su…
1961
#256.7
Gene action in the X-chromosome of the mouse (Mus musculus L).
Theory of differential inactivation of the X-chromosome. See also Amer. J. hum. Genet., 1962, 14, 135-48.
1961
#256.8
General nature of the genetic code for proteins.
The codons in DNA specifying amino acids in proteins.
1961
#8764
Doctors, patients, and health insurance: The organization and financing of medical care.
1961
#10005
Glomerular permeability. I. Ferritin transfer across the normal glomerular capillary wall.
"The authors used ferritin as an electron dense tracer, such that they could visualize both the structure of the capillary wall and the pathways taken by the ferritin moelcules across the wall....This report confirmed…
1961
#12015
No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.
Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…
1962
#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
#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…
1963
#3924.4
A simple phenylalanine method for detecting phenylketonuria in large populations of newborn infants.
Bacterial inhibition test for phenylketonuria.
1963
#5019.3
Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.
1963
#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 …
1964
#2419.3
An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).
Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.
1964
#2660.17
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of cance…
1964
#2660.18
Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus to be …
1966
#1588.3
The history of cell respiration and cytochrome
See No. 968.
1967
#2419.4
Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.
Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.
1967
#12834
Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?
This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…
1968
#3108.9
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
1968
#5487.1
Relation of Burkitt’s tumor-associated herpes-type virus to infectious mononucleosis.
The Henles and Diehl showed that Epstein-Barr virus is the aetiological agent in infectious mononucleosis.
1968
#6639.1
A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.
Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.
1968
#9097
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
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1968 –1977
#11331
Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.
1968
#11827
Women in medicine.
1970
#5546.5
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.
Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
1970
#10554
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
1971
#10673
Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
1972
#1588.11
Machina carnis: the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development.
A definitive history of the development of knowledge on muscle biochemistry; valuable bibliography.
1972
#5289.4
A bibliography on Chagas’s disease (1909-1969)
Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, Special Publication No. 2.
1973
#257.5
Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.
Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…
1973
#11828
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
1974
#5019.13
Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.
1974
#7009
Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.
Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…
1974
#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
#8769
Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.
The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.
1974
#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
#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.
1975
#11190
Parvovirus-like particles in human sera. Preliminary communication.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Cossart, Field, Cant. First description of Parvovirus B19, the first human parvovirus discovered. It is among the smallest DNA viruses and is most often known for causing dis…
1976
#8457
Tacuinum sanitatis: The medieval health handbook.
1976
#8778
A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.
1976
#11104
Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus.
The authors showed that the heat resistant bacteria Thermus aquaticus discovered by Thomas Brock contained a vital polymerase enzyme that had evolved in this bacteria to allow it to metabolize and survive in exception…
1977
#6650.3
Women in medicine: A bibliography of the literature on women physicians.
Lists over 4,000 items published between 1750 and 1975. With R. Haimbach, C. Fenichel and N. B. Woodside.
1977
#8782