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1977

#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

#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

#11044

Spliced segments at the 5' terminus of adenovirus 2 late mRNA.

Discovery of introns simultaneously with Roberts, Chow, Broker (No. 11043). Sharp's electron microscopist, Berget, visualized the introns in the electron microscope. James D. Watson took note of the profound significa…

1978

#8387

A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.

In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.

1978

#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…

1979

#9158

Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.

"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…

1979 –1984

#11817

Johann Peter Süssmilch. L'Ordre divin aux origines de la démographie. Traduction originale avec des études et commentaires rassemblés par Jacqueline Hecht. Vol. I: Études critiques, biographie, correspondance, bibliographie. Vol. 2: L' Oeuvre de J.P. Süssmilch, L'Ordre divin. Traduction de M. Kriegel. Vol. 3: Index des auteurs, des lieux et des matières. 3 vols.

A three-volume critical edition including the first edition in French.

1980

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

1980

#7078

The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.

The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…

1980

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

1981

#8841

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

1981

#14224

The crystallization of ribsomal proteins from the 50 S subunit of the Escherichia coli and Bacillus stearothermophilus ribosome.

The authors crystallized fragments of the 50S subunit of a thermophile bacterium’s ribosome to 3 angstroms resolution. Order of authorship in the original publication: Appelt, Dyck, et al., Yonath. Digital facsimile f…

1982

#11055

Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques

Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.

1982

#11328

Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.

"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…

1982

#11414

Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.

1982 –2012

#12213

Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.

1983 –1988

#1588.19

A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.

1983

#6604.81

Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.

A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.

1983

#6996

Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other h…

1983 –1991

#8945

Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.

"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …

1983

#10472

Challenging man-made disease.

Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…

1983

#11191

Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?

This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …

1984

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

1984

#11059

A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associat…

1985

#6639.11

Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.

The most elaborately illustrated history available.

1985

#8388

Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.

Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are pro…

1985

#10430

Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.

"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…

1985

#11377

The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1986

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

1986

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

1987

#8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…

1987

#8842

Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .

1987

#9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

1987

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987

#11192

Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.

Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1987

#11246

DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…

1988

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

1988

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…

1989

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1989

#8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

1989

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1989

#10742

A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.

1989

#11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …

1989

#11907

The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.