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1984 CE
#7428
DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.
Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…
2003 CE
#7427
Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.
2008 CE
#7426
On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.
2000 CE
#7425
The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.
An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.
1989 CE
#7424
Food in history. Revised and updated edition
Digital version available at this link.
2006 CE
#7423
Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.
Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.
1965 CE
#7422
Restoring the quality of our environment. Report of The Environmental Pollution Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee.
Digital facsimile available at this link.
1994 CE
#7421
Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.
1995 CE
#7420
The Army Medical Department 1865-1917.
1863 CE
#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 …
1956 CE
#7418
Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
1962 CE
#7417
Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
2005 CE
#7416
Bleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.
1991 CE–2007 CE
#7415
A history of medicine. 6 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…
1967 CE
#7414
The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.
1963 CE
#7413
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
2008 CE
#7412
Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.
The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…
2014 CE
#7411
The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.
1992 CE
#7410
The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.
2012 CE
#7409
The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
ALPHABET OF GALEN
An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…
1895 CE
#7408
Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.
To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…
1923 CE
#7407
The elephant man and other reminiscences.
The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…
1938 CE
#7406
Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.
1971 CE
#7405
Histology of the human eye.
Hogan and Alvarado's work was the first book on histology of the eye to include electron microscopy. It also reproduced spectacular three-dimensional representations of ocular ultrastructures by Joan Esperson Weddell.
1957 CE
#7404
The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.
1934 CE
#7403
Le décollement de la rétine.
1959 CE
#7402
Les cataractes congénitales.
1958 CE
#7401
L’Hérédité en ophtalmologie.
English translation St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1961.
1942 CE
#7400
Contact lenses.
The first book on contact lenses, recording attempts over the previous hundred years to fit a lens in direct contact with the eye. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1993 CE
#7399
The pupil: Anatomy, physiology and clinical applications. 2 vols.
1966 CE
#7398
The ocular fundus in neurologic disease: A diagnostic manual and stereo atlas.
Photographs by Diane Beeston.
1909 CE
#7397
Die Sehstörungen bei Schussverletzungen der kortikalen Sehsphäre, nach Beobachtungen an Verwundeten der letzten japanischen Kriege.
During and after Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905 ) Inouye tested the visual fields in wounded soldiers for insurance purposes, and set out his observations in this work. English translation: Glickstein, M. & …
1947 CE
#7396
A treatise on gonioscopy.
The first comprehensive book on gonioscopy.
1907 CE
#7395
Die Bakteriologie in der Augenheilkunde.
Translated into English by Angus McNab as The bacteriology of the eye (London: Ballière, Tyndall & Cox, 1908, and New York: William Wood & Co, 1908).
1998 CE
#7394
The history of modern cataract surgery.
1975 CE
#7393
Phacoemulsification and aspiration: the Kelman technique of cataract removal.
Kelman introduced phacoemulsification in 1967.
1928 CE
#7392
The development of the human eye.
The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.
2007 CE
#7391
Avicenna Latinus: The reception and assimilation of Ibn Sīnā in the West: texts and studies.
2011 CE
#7390
Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.
1971 CE
#7389
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.
1859 CE
#7388
On the construction of life-tables, illustrated by a new life-table of the healthy districts of England.
Preliminary report, describing the use of the Scheutz Engine no. 3, a Babbage-style difference engine, to prepare life tables. The report's table B1, "Life-Table of Healthy English Districts," printed from stereotype …
1886 CE
#7387
Index to the periodical literature of dental science and art, as presented in the English language.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1957 CE
#7386
The path of carbon in photosynthesis.
Discovery of the Calvin cycle, also known as the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle, or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle — a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the s…
1964 CE
#7385
Smoking and health: report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.
Definitive 386-page throughly documented study of the carcinogenic and pulmonologic effects of smoking, and the addictive aspects of nicotine. It was published under the supervision of Surgeon-General Luther Terry. Di…
1924 CE
#7384
Proiskhozhedenie Zhizni.
Oparin’s central thesis was that the first organisms to emerge in the anaerobic environment of the primitive Earth must have been heterotrophic bacteria. He proposed that life had been preceded by a lengthy peri…
1953 CE
#7383
Production of amino acids under possible primitive earth conditions.
The Miller–Urey experiment or Miller experiment, a classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested the chemical origin of l…
1903 CE
#7382
Man's place in the universe. A study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality of worlds.
The first serious attempt by a biologist to evaluate the likelihood of life on other planets. Wallace concluded that the Earth was the only planet in the solar system that could possibly support life, mainly because i…
1986 CE
#7381
Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.
2004 CE
#7380
The living universe: NASA and the development of astrobiology.
1999 CE
#7379