Facets

1945

#9891

On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics.

"... the Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology.... The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well known ways to des…

1947

#10216

The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1948

#1716

Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.

1950

#3215.2

Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.

A study of 1,465 cases of lung cancer and 1,465 matched controls, which confirmed and extended the studies of Wynder and Graham, and others. See also later papers by the same authors in Brit. med. J., 1952, 2,1271-86;…

1950

#11571

The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).

In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…

1950

#13804

The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.

1952

#1685

Man and epidemics.

1952 –1961

#9033

World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.

In English and German.

1953

#10504

Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.

Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…

1955

#5500.1

Vergleichende sero-immunologische Untersuchungen über die Viren der Influenza und klassischen Geflügelpest.

Schäfer showed the close serological relationship between human influenza viruses and their avian counterparts and suggested that members of this group might change their host specificity.

1955

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958

#4661.2

St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.

In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.

1958

#9110

Late ancient and medieval population.

Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.

1959

#5111.4

Cholera.

Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.

1964

#10363

Veterinary medicine and human health.

Foundational work on veterinary epidemiology. At the University of California, Davis in 1966 Schwabe founded the first epidemiology department and graduate program in a school of veterinary medicine. Unusually extensi…

1965

#1685.1

History and geography of the most important diseases.

Originally published in German, 1963.

1965

#7933

Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.

1965

#10680

Epidemic disease in Ghana 1901-1960.

1965

#10883

The Environment and disease: Association or causation?

"In 1965, the English statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill proposed a set of nine criteria to provide epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect. (For example, he …

1967

#7699

Sémiologie graphique: Les diagrammes. Les reseaux. Les cartes.

Foundational work in design and cartography concerning the graphic display of quantitative information. Includes display of medical or statistical information. Translated into English by William J. Berg as Semiology o…

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1968

#10213

The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.

"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…

1968

#10802

Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.

1968

#14303

Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.

Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…

1969

#8936

História da febre-amarela no Brasil.

Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.

1969

#11322

Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.

Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of demog…

1970

#8380

George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.

"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…

1970

#9099

History of human life span and mortality. Translated by K. Balás.

A particularly valuable collection of reviews ot his work published in Current Anthropology, I5 (1974) 495-507 is available from JSTOR at this link.

1971

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1971

#10678

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

1971

#11818

A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S

1971

#13787

Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.

Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.

1971

#14304

Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.

1972

#9189

Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.

Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. availabl…

1973

#9131

Awakenings.

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

1975

#7982

Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial edition. 2 vols.

Chapter B, "Vital statistics and health and medical care." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link; from the U. S. Census Bureau at this link.

1976

#9689

Plagues and peoples.

1977

#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

#7977

The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.

"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…

1978

#8122

Graphic presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section: Session of Graphical Methods for Presenting Statistical Data: Boston, Massachusetts, August 23-26, 1976, Vol. 3.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1978

#10783

Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: Epidemiologic evidence for a tick vector.

The authors showed that a tick was the insect vector for Lyme disease. The tick (the "Deer Tick") is named lxodes dammini. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Broderick, and Malawista. (Thanks to Jua…

1978

#13020

Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.

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

#11579

The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.

"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…

1982

#10572

Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.

The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…

1983

#11376

Hemorrhagic colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Riley, Remis, Helgerson. First description in print of a particularly virulent E.coli (0157-H7) infection, for which no antibiotics were effective; the only treatment b…

1983

#11814

U.S. cancer mortality rates and trends, 1950-1979. 4 vols.

Riggan supervised this long-term project of calculating and publishing cancer mortality rates and trends for every county in the United States over several decades. The last 30 of the 40 years of the underlying data b…

1984

#8622

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.

1985

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

1985

#9104

Histoire de la démographie: La statique de la population des origines à 1914.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.