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1935
#14370
Der Kumpan in der Umwelt des Vogels - Der Artgenosse als auslösendes Moment sozialer Verhaltensweisen.
This paper is often considered the foundational text and conceptual bedrock for ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. Lorenz concentrated his studies in the bird populations. He analyzed social behavior i…
1953
#14369
Nursing team organization and functioning.
Lambertsen developed "team nursing," a system of integrated care distributing the care of a patient among a team working together. In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates …
12963
#14368
Chemical paleogenetics: Molecular "restoration studies' of extinct forms of life.
Coinage of the term "paleogenetics" in what may be the first publication on the possibility of reconstructing extinct life forms through molecular biology. "Attention is attracted to the possibility of reconstructing …
1951
#14367
Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.
The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…
1980
#14366
The complete works of Vladimir Kovalevsky. Edited by Stephen Jay Gould.
The complete paleontological works written by Kovalevsky, as distinct from his famous translations of western books into Russian, including Darwin's The variation of animals and plants under domestication, Darwin's Th…
1997
#14365
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.
"Discovered in 1973, in the richest cache of ancient manuscripts ever unearthed in China, the seven medical manuscripts from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in Changsha, Hunan Province....The manuscripts were buried in 168 B.C. alon…
1893
#14364
Nursing: Its principles and practice for hospital and private use.
Isabel Hampton Robb was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her textbook standardized the education of nursing in the U.S. and abroad. It included an outline for a 3-year long nu…
1926
#14363
A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.
Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…
1939
#14362
Atlas of surgical operations
Considered a new type of surgical textbook, with particularly remarkable illustrations by Codding. The work, which was initially used as a field guide for American military personnel during World War II, remained in p…
1965 –1995
#14361
Theoprast von Hohenheim Gennant Paracelsus sämtliche Werke. Edited by Kurt Goldammer.
Annotation from the Zurich Paracelsus Edition online: "After the failure of the Matthiessen edition of Paracelsus' theological writings in 1935, Sudhoff succeeded in engaging the newly appointed Leipzig professor of t…
2008
#14360
The Zurich Paracelsus Project. General editor: Urs Leo Gantenbein. Digital Edition.
A digital edition from the Center for Medieval Studies Zurich: https://www.paracelsus.uzh.ch/index.html "Alterius not sit, qui suus esse potest." "Who can be himself, shall not belong to someone else." "This was the m…
2008
#14360
The Zurich Paracelsus Project.
Paracelsus "Alterius not sit, qui suus esse potest." "Who can be himself, shall not belong to someone else." "This was the motto of Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim (1493-1541), generally known as Paracelsus. This pe…
1787
#14359
Essai sur la maladie de la face, nommée le tic douloureux; avec quelques réflexions sur la raptus caninus de Caelius Aurelianus.
The first monograph exclusively on trigeminal neuralgia, which Pujol called “tic douloureux”, or painful tic, as it had originally been designated by Caelius Aurelianus. Pujol provided a valuable description of the sy…
1959
#14358
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
2009
#14357
Milton and maternal mortality.
"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…
2015
#14356
Maternal mortality: Risk factors, anthropological perspectives, prevalence in developing countries and preventive strategies for pregnancy-related deaths. Edited by David A. Schwartz.
"Pregnancy is a life-threatening event in many parts of the developing world. Globally, it is estimated that 289,000 women died from being pregnant in 2013. The lifetime risk for dying as a result of pregnancy is as h…
2014
#14355
The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.
2026
#14354
Discovery of a handwritten laboratory notebook by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin describing experimental studies and development of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis
"Abstract: Background: The Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is the most widespread vaccine in the world. Discovered by French investigators Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin at the Pasteur I…
2013
#14353
Adrenaline.
A history and survey.
2018
#14352
Structure and distribution of an unrecognized interstitium in human tissues.
The authors described "the anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized, though widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues, a novel expansion and specification of the concept of the h…
1906
#14351
A study of the structural unit of the liver.
Mall defined the liver's structural unit as a tissue block centered on a portal vein, rather than the classic hepatic lobule centered on a central vein. He proposed that the structural unit of the liver is defined by …
1874
#14350
Ueber die Function der Bogengänge des Ohrlabyrinthes.
“[Breuer’s] basic premise was that the semicircular canals sense angular movement of the head by movement of the fluid (endolymph) within them. The endolymph moves relative to the walls of the canals because of its in…
1877 –1907
#14349
An atlas of illustrations of pathology [and] An atlas of illustrations of clinical medicine, surgery and pathology ... a continuation of the "Atlas of Pathology." 30 fascicules numbered I - XXIV, XXIVbis, XXIVter, XXV, XXVbis, XXVI - XXVII.
Bay far the most elaborate publication published by The New Sydenham Society, issued in fascicules over 30 years and rarely found complete.
1832 –1862
#14348
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie für praktische Aerzte. 4 parts in 1. With: Erläuterung zu dem Atlasse der pathologischen Anatomie für praktischen Aertze. 4 vols. in 5.
Albers' atlas of pathology, with 257 lithographed plates (93 hand-colored) covers diseases of the brain and spinal cord (Part 1), the throat (Part 2), the thorax (Part 3) and the abdomen (part 4); the five text volume…
2017
#14347
Vertigo: Five physician scientists and the quest for a cure.
Concerns the work of Prosper Ménière, Josef Breuer, Robert Bárány, Charles Hallpike, and Harold Schuknecht.
1770
#14346
Élements de l'art vétériniare. Essai sur les appareils et sur les bandages propres aux quadrupèdes. A l'usage des élèves des Écoles Royales Vétérinaires.
This work includes 21 folding plates of devices and bandages.
1979
#14345
An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.
In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.
1889
#14344
The action of natural selection in producing old age, decay, and death. In Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems by August Weismann; authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland and Arthur E. Shipley, Chapter 1, "The duration of life," page 23.
Wallace proposed the first evolutionary theory of aging. He stated that if too many people lived for a long time they would compete for resources needed for other members of the species that were of reproduction age. …
1955
#14343
The Negro in science.
In the forward Martin D. Jenkins pointed out that while African Americans made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists was rather low. In the first chapter…
1966
#14342
The life of William Harvey.
1993
#14341
Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.
Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…
1990
#14340
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…
1990
#14340
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
1985
#14339
Filamentous fusion phage: Novel expression vectors that display cloned antigens on the virion surface.
In this paper Smith invented "phage display technology," a technique where a specific protein sequence is artifically inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the …
1965
#14338
A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.
Published as a 20-page pamphlet.
1846
#14337
Disquisitiones de structura protuberantia annularis sive pontis Varolii. Untersuchungen über den Bau des Hirnknotens oder der Varoli’schen Brucke. Text and atlas.
Stilling’s great work on the pons Varolii, the structure that links the brain to the spinal cord, includes the first accurate description of the red nucleus (superior olive), a structure in the midbrain involved in mo…
1682
#14336
Traité de la lithotomie ou de l'extraction de la pierre hors la vessie.
In Tolet's day lithotomy was one of the major and most dangerous of operations. Tollet provided explicit directions for the operation in children as well as adults of both sexes. He particularly stressed the need for …
1938
#14335
A new method of measuring nuclear magnetic moment.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Rabi, Zacharais,...Kusch. Followed by: (2) The magnetic moments of 3Li6, 3Li7, and 9F19. Physical Review 53, 1938. (3) The molecular beam resonance method for measuring…
1992
#14334
Nitric oxide as a mediator of relaxation of the corpus cavernosum in response to nonadrenergic, noncholinergic neurotransmission.
Using strips of corpus cavernosum tissue from 21 male volunteers, the authors showed how the interaction of nitric oxide with the musculo/vascular system of the human penile corpora cavernosa initiated and maintained …
2002
#14333
Crystal structure and mechanism of a calcium gated potassium channel.
The authors first obtained the crystal structure of a Ca2+ - gated K+ ion channel and then deciphered how ion channels open and close, a process called "gating" in response to cues in their environment. They determine…
1998
#14332
The structure of the potassium channel: Molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity.
The authors determined the first high resolution structure of an ion channel, called KcsA from the bacterium Streptomyces lividans. The structure that they revealed was perfectly adapted to allow entry of potassium io…
2012
#14331
The vitamin A story: Lifting the shadow of death.
(Thanks to Malcolm Kottler for this reference.)
1941
#14330
Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.
2014
#14329
Chinese medicinal identification: An illustrated approach.
"For centuries, pharmacists and clinicians have relied on the traditional method of macroscopic identification to assess the quality and authenticity of medicinal materials. Macroscopic identification uses the naked s…
2021
#14328
The gray zones of medicine: Healers & history in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez.
1849
#14327
Effects of chloroform and of strong chloric ether, as narcotic agents.
“On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Warren participated in the first public demonstration of anesthesia for surgery. He was the surgeon for the first surgical patient given ether anesthesia, and W…
2024
#14326
Three epochs of artificial intelligence in health care.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813874 Abstract: "Importance Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has reached an all-time high, and health care leaders across the ecosystem are faced with questi…
1913
#14325
Extramukose cardiaplastik beim chronischen cardiospasmus mit dilatation des esophagus.
Heller myotomy for the treatment of achalasia.
2024
#14324
Directory of History of Medicine Collections.
https://hmddirectory.nlm.nih.gov/ A world directory of history of medicine libraries edited and published online by NLM. The date this was first published is not stated. I entered it into this database in 2024 and arb…
1826
#14323
Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
Second edition, hugely revised, expanded, and improved. The pagination of the first edition (1819) was 456 pp. in vol. 1 and 472 pp. in vol. 2. The second edition was expanded to 728pp. in vol. 1 and 790 pp. in vol. 2…