Facets

1719

#13450

Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: In quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula

Originally as Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705. The 1719 contains 12 additional plates and corresponding text, 10 provided by the author's daughters from material left at her death, and 2 suppli…

1856

#13464

Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays.

Foote was the first scientist known to have experimented on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases. In this two-page paper she theorized that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere woul…

1863

#7419

Hospital sketches.

Digital facsimile of the 1863 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Alcott expanded the work for the edition of 1869. Edited, with an extensive introduction by Bessie Z. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University …

1883

#14145

A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.

Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.

1892

#9725

The yellow wall-paper.

This 6,000-word short story by is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating and critiquing 19th century attitudes toward women's health, both physical and mental. Digital facsim…

1892

#13199

Helen Brent, M. D. A social study.

A short, memorable novel about a woman who faces the agonizing choice between career and marriage, and chooses medicine. Among her achievements, Meyer was a founder of Barnard College. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…

1914 –1915

#561

Mitochondria and other cytoplasmic structures in tissue cultures.

Original investigations upon the visible mitochondria.

1929

#566.1

The growth, development and phosphatase activity of embryonic avian femora in limb-buds cultivated in vitro.

First modern organ cultures.

1931

#11777

Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.

1934

#6923

X-Ray photographs of crystalline pepsin.

Bernal and Hodgkin took the first X-ray photograph of a protein structure—crystalline pepsin. They showed that crystals of pepsin give an X-ray diffaction pattern, beginning protein crystallography. This may also be t…

1943

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1948

#566.2

The growth in vitro of single isolated tissue cells.

Sanford was the first to clone in vitro a single living cell of a mammal—in this instance, a rodent. She performed this feat in search of a means to research how cells transform into malignancy.

1949

#8084

The Negro in the medical profession.

Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.

1952

#256

Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid in growth of bacteriophage.

DNA shown to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction. In 1969 Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with S. E. Luria and M. Delbrück for "for their discoveries concerning the rep…

1953

#567.1

A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.

1953

#256.2

The detection of chromosomal sex in hermaphrodites from a skin biopsy.

Sex chromatin demonstrated in humans.

1953

#6847

Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate.

This paper reports Franklin's discovery of the existence of DNA in 2 forms, and conditions for readily and rapidly changing from one to the other. Its phosphates were on the outside.” (Maddox 195) The Watson-Crick mod…

1953

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1955

#752.3

Enzymatic synthesis of nucleic acidlike polynucleotides.

Ochoa shared the Nobel Prize with Arthur Kornberg in 1959 for their artificial synthesis of nucleic acids by means of enzymes. Order of authorship in the original publication: Ochoa, Grunberg-Manago, Ortiz. See also O…

1955

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

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

#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…

1966

#1588.3

The history of cell respiration and cytochrome

See No. 968.

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…

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…

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…

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

#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.

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

#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,…

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…

1986

#8088

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

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.

1990

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1992

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1994

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1995

#8089

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.

1998

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2005

#13622

Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.

Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This technology wa…

2006

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

2007

#11171

Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.

2007

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2007

#11338

Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…

2007

#11843

CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.

Horvath and his team provided key details of the extremely complex mechanisms involved in CRISPR's function as an immune system for bacteria against bacteriophages. Analogous to Pasteur's heroic role in saving the Fre…

2007

#13645

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.