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2020
#13519
Correspondence. Transmission of 2019 nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany.
Posted online 1-30-20, updated 2-6-20, and published in print on March 5, 2020. First report of the "asymptomatic transmission" of Covid-19. The authors wrote, “The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential sources…
2020
#13518
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2020
#13517
Hearing happiness: Deafness cures in history.
1865
#13516
Principles of psychology.
"Spencer's second book, Principles of Psychology, published in 1855, explored a physiological basis for psychology, and was the fruit of his friendship with Evans and Lewes. The book was founded on the fundamental ass…
2008
#13515
Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.
1990
#13514
A history of human helminthology.
1999
#13513
Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858: The history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
2020
#13512
The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.
"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…
#13511
Periodic Disease: A probable syndrome including periodic fever, benign paroxysmal peritonitis, cyclic neutropenia and intermittent arthralgia.
One of the earliest accounts of periodic disease and fevers, later variously categorized as Periodic fever syndrome and Reimann syndrome. With Siegal-Cattan-Mamou disease, this was renamed Familial Mediterranean fever.
1999
#13510
Not just any medical school: The science, practice, and teaching of medicine at the University of Michigan 1850-1941.
1889
#13509
The useful native plants of Australia. (Including Tasmania).
Maiden, a botanist, was Curator and Secretary of The Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales. Chapters include. 1. Human Food and Food adjuncts; 2. Forage Plants; 3. Drugs; 4. Gums, Resins, a…
1822 –1826
#13508
A system of anatomical plates of the human body. By John Lizars. Text in 8vo in 12 pts., plus folio atlas with engraved title and 101 plates engraved by William Home Lizars.
Lizars's System of anatomical plates was by far his most successful work, going through many editions. The text of the work was originally issued in 12 parts in octavo format, which were then bound together in book fo…
2021
#13507
Efficacy and safety of the mRNA-1273 SARSCov-2 vaccine.
mRNA-1273 is synonymous with the Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Moderna mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the first published pa…
2020
#13506
Safety and efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
BNT162b2 is synonomous with the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the fir…
2016
#13505
A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.
1854
#13504
Practical observations on the use and abuse of tobacco. Greatly enlarged from the original communication on the effects of tobacco smoking, which appeared in Medical Times and Gazette, August 5, 1854.
Lizars was one of the first to recognize the addictive nature of tobacco and its potential damage to health. Digital facsimile of the 6th edition (1857) from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
2002
#13503
Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.
1906
#13502
Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1937
#13501
Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.
1858
#13500
Memorias biographicas dos medicos e cirurgiões Portuguezes, que no presente seculo se teem feito conhecidos por sous escriptos.
1958
#13499
Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1892
#13498
Catalogo systematico da bibliotheca da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro organisado pelo Carlos Costa.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
2020
#13497
Galen: A thinking doctor in Imperial Rome
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A very readable and relatively brief, but comprehensive, biography. The appendix provides a complete list of Galen's works with their titles in Latin, also in English translation, correlated to the best editions and t…
1947
#13496
La contribución del Ecuador a la material médica: La quina.
1981
#13495
Catalog of the Sidney M Edelstein collection of the history of chemistry, dyeing & technology. Compiled by Moshe Ron.
1871
#13494
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Aug. Duméril.
1868
#13493
Notice de livres d'histoire naturelle, de médecine et de la litérature composant la bibliothèque de fe M. E. R. A. Serres.
1868
#13492
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Docteur E. Follin.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1872
#13491
Catalogue des livres anciens et modernes rare et curieux composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Docteur Danyau.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1872
#13490
Catalogue des livres de médecine et de chirurgie composant la bibliothèque de feu de M. de Docteur Denonvilliers.
1871
#13489
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu Docteur Longet.
1907
#13488
Literatura medicală românească; biografii si bibliografie.
Covers the period 1700-1900. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1815
#13487
Sketches of epidemic diseases in the state of Vermont; from the first settlement to the year 1815, with a consideration of their causes, phenomena, and treatment. To which is added remarks on pulmonary consumption.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link:
2021
#13486
The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.
2020
#13485
Novel 2019 coronavirus genome.
https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319 "Novel 2019 coronavirus genome "10th January 2020 "This posting is communicated by Edward C. Holmes, University of Sydney on behalf of the consortium led by …
2020
#13484
COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward.
Published 15 July 2020. Order of authorship in original publication: Shin, Shukla, Chung....Steinmetz. Probably the first publication on the type of nanotechnology involved in production of the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA…
2020
#13483
Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation.
Posted online on February 17, 2020. 2019-nCoV was an interim name for the Novel Coronavirus. These studies, which included the 3D structure of the RBD (receptor binding domain) within the S protein, provided informati…
1824
#13482
A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families: in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated. To which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living. Also, The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years, by M. Appert.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1867
#13481
Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable library of works on anatomy, physiology, medicine, natural history, and relative sciences, which belonged to the late Professor Goodsir, comprising ... to be sold by auction, by Mr. Dowell, within his book rooms, 18 George Street, Edinburgh, on Thursday and Friday, 28th and 29th November, 1867. Commencing at twelve o'clock each day. On view on Tuesday and Wednesday, 26th and 27th November.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1825
#13480
Catalogue des arbres, arbrisseaux, arbustes et plantes vivaces, cultivés en pleine terre à Baleine [sic], près Moulins, département d'Allier.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2020
#13479
Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1.
The authors describe a mechanism for the observed natural viral "immunity" of individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1. A very few exceptional people have the molecular ability to steer the incoming/infecting cel…
2021
#13478
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for sickle cell disease and ß-thalassemia.
First application of CRISPR gene editing in the successful cure of diseases. Order of authorship in the original publication: Frangoul, Altshuler, Cappellini. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpret…
2021
#13477
Immediate "kangaroo mother care" and survival of infants with low birth weight.
This study demonstrated that "vulnerable infants have a better chance of survival if they start receiving 'kangaroo mother care'--which calls for babies to spend as much time as possible in direct contact with a caref…
1909
#13476
The great white plague: Tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1878
#13475
Der Alkoholismus seine Verbreitung und Wirkung auf den Individuellen und sozialen Organismus, sowie die Mittel Ihn zu Bekämpfen.
1950
#13474
Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects--the pharmacology of placebos.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1950
#13473
Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis. 1. The vagina as a portral of entry of toxoplasma in the mouse. Experimental congenital toxomplasmosis II. Transmission of toxomplasmosis to the placenta and fetus following vaginal infection the the pregnant mouse. Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis III. Toxomplasmosis in the offspring of mice infected by the vaginal route. Incidence and manifestations of the disease.
"In 1950 and 1951, Drs. Cowen and Wolf published a series of 5 papers, super-titled, “Experimental Congenital Toxoplasmosis,” in which they demonstrated the intrauterine infection of placenta, fetus, and offspring wit…
1993
#13472
Defining criteria for autoimmune diseases (Witebsky's postulates revisited).
In 1993 Rose and Bona revised Witebsky's postulates "based on direct evidence from transfer of pathogenic antibody or pathogenic T-cells, indirect evidence based on reproduction of the autoimmune disease in experiment…
1957
#13471
Chronic thyroiditis and autoimmunization.
"Witebsky helped develop procedures for the isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens. He also began the practice of neutralization of certain antibodies in the blood of universal blood donors. …
1987
#13470
