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2000
#13318
The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.
According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and private health ca…
1995
#13317
Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. Edited by Frank A. Sloan.
1942
#13316
The epigenotype.
Waddington coined the term epigenetics: "For the purpose of a study of inheritance, the relation between phenotypes and genotypes [...] is, from a wider biological point of view, of crucial importance, since it is the…
1999
#13315
Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.
"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…
1822
#13314
System of surgical anatomy. Part first [all published]: On the structure of the groin, pelvis, and perineum. As connected with inguinal and femoral hernia; Tyeing the iliac arteries; and the operation of lithotomy. Illustrated by nine copper-plate engravings
Anderson trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, emigrated to America in 1820 and, after delivering a series of anatomical lectures in New York under the patronage of Valentine Mott, became affiliated w…
1851
#13313
Quan ti xin lun [New Treatise Concerning the Whole Body.]
The earliest treatise on Western medicine published in Chinese for the use of Chinese medical staff. The work primarily concerns anatomy and physiology, with most illustrations derived from Cheselden's Anatomy of the …
1989
#13312
God bless the microscope! A history of the Royal Microscopical Society over 150 years.
1989
#13311
The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.
2020
#13310
Maimonides, Medical aphorisms, Hebrew translation by R. Zerahyah ben Isaac ben She'altiel Hen
2011
#13309
Novel medical and general Hebrew terminology from the 13th century. Translations by Hillel Ben Samuel of Verona, Moses Ben Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Shem Tov Ben Isaac of Tortosa, Zeraḥyah Ben Isaac Ben She’altiel Ḥen. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 27.
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1852
#13308
The people's medical lighthouse; a series of popular and scientific essays on the nature, uses, and diseases of the lungs, heart, liver, stomach, kidneys, womb and blood; also a key to the causes, prevention, remedies, and cure of pumonary and other kinds of consumption;....Marriage guide....
One of the more comprehensive American works on popular medicine from the mid-19th century, frequently reprinted. The author, who published the work himself from his address in New York City, describes himself as A.M.…
1995
#13307
R. Moshe Narboni: Philosopher and physician, a critical analysis of Sefer Orah Hayyim by Gerrit Bos.
1952
#13306
Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).
1939
#13305
Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.
2007
#13304
Disability in Islamic law.
1993
#13303
Islamic medical ethics in the twentieth century.
Treats the most prominent issues in medical ethics in the twentieth century, such as abortion, artificial insemination, organ transplantation, euthanasia, as discussed by Muslim religious scholars, physicians and juri…
1851
#13302
Surgical anatomy.
"The drawings of Maclise for Quain's Anatomy of the arteries and for his own Surgical anatomy are indeed done, as Quain wrote, with spirit and effect. These figures of anatomical dissection seem lifelike; in many plat…
1825
#13301
Traité d'anatomie chirurgicale, ou anatomie des régions, considérée dans ses rapports avec la chirurgie; ouvrage orné de quatorze planches représentant les principales régions du corps. 2 vols.
Some copies were issued with the plates hand-colored. Digital facsimile of a black & white copy from Google Books at this link.
1836 –1842
#13300
A series of anatomical plates. 5 vols.: The muscles of the human body. The vessels of the human body. The nerves of the human body. The viscera of the human body. The bones and ligaments of the human body.
The most ambitious 19th century English anatomy illustrated by lithography. Some copies were issued with hand-colored plates. The five volumes, containing a total of 201 plates, describe the muscles, blood vessels, ne…
1836 –1842
#13299
A series of anatomical plates. 5 vols.: The muscles of the human body. The vessels of the human body. The nerves of the human body. The viscera of the human body. The bones and ligaments of the human body.
1951
#13298
The pleated sheet, a new layer configuration of polypeptide chains.
Pauling and Corey discovered the β-sheet, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from PNAS.org at this link.
1992
#13297
Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.
"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…
1988
#13296
Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.
"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…
2013
#13295
Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.
The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.
1998
#13294
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
2019
#13293
Anti/Vax: Reframing the vaccination controversy.
1995
#13292
Changing sex: Transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender.
1938
#13291
The peyote cult.
The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.
2007
#13290
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
1932
#13289
Sobre in caso de galactorrea y amenorrea.
Ahumada-Del Castillo syndrome: galactorrhoea-amenorrhoea not associated with pregnancy; oestrogen deficiency and decreased urinary gonadotropin levels.
2001
#13288
Surgeons at war: Medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British army during the late 18th and 19th centuries.
2006
#13287
Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors.
Takahashi and Yamanaka reprogrammed mice fibroblast cells, which can produce only other fibroblast cells, to become pluripotent stem cells, which have the capacity to produce many different types of cells. This they a…
1998
#13286
Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts.
Thomson and collaborators first isolated embryonic stem cells from human blastocysts. Order of authorship in original publication: Thomson, Itskovitz-Eldor, Shapiro et al. Available online from science.sciencemag.org …
1981
#13285
Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.
Evans and Kauffman were the first to identify, isolate and successfully culture embryonic stem cells using mouse blastocysts. This discovery opened the doors to the creation of “murine genetic models” -- mice that hav…
2013
#13284
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures
The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …
2002
#13283
Cedars-Sinai: The one-hundred year history of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: 1902-2002.
2020
#13282
A vision of hope: The 200-year history of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary 1820-2020.
1886
#13281
On certain problems in the physiology of the blood corpuscles. I. The blood-plaque or third corpuscle; II. Degeneration and regeneration of the corpuscles; III. The relation of the corpuscles to coagulation and thrombosis. The Cartwright Lectures, delivered before the Association of the Alumni of the College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, March 23d, 27th, and 30th, 1886.
"These important lectures, based on original research, begun in 1882 on the blood - plates of Bizzozero (haematoblasts of Hayem), established Osler's reputation as an original investigator. The aggregation of blood pl…
1831
#13280
The horse; with a treatise on draught; and a copious index. Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Youatt was one of the most widely published writers on veterinary medicine during the 19th century. This very practical work, originally published via the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, underwent many …
1880
#13279
Principles of electro-homoeopathy. A new science discovered by Count Cesar Mattei, of Bologna.
"Electrohomoeopathy (or Mattei cancer cure) is a derivative of homeopathy invented in the 19th century by Count Cesare Mattei. The name is derived from a combination of electro (referring to an electric bio-energy con…
1866
#13278
Ein Fall von Sprachstörung, anatomisch begründet.
"Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) is traditionally considered the first to have described the features of, and the brain pathology underlying, impaired auditory comprehension and related symptoms. Although Wernicke (1874) cl…
1977
#13277
Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.
1666
#13276
Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars, Viz. 1. The material cause of the pest, 2. The efficient cause of the pest, 3. The subject part of the pest, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author, and the consequences thereof, 6. Reflections and observations on the fore-said dissection, 7. Directions preservative and curative against the pest: Together with the authors apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae.
One of the earliest books that illustrated human dissection for a contagious disease. Digital text available from Early English Books Online at this link.
1665
#13275
Loimologia: A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest.
Thomson was one of the few physicians who remained in London to treat patients during the plague of 1665. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2009
#13274
Plague writing in early modern England.
"During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide r…
2021
#13273
American men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering with roots in Czechoslovakia.
1675
#13272
Ephemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas. Een dierken, ten aansien van sijn naam, over al in Neerlandt bekent.
In his final publication Swammerdam studied the anatomy, development and behavior of the mayfly. Translated into English as Emphemeri vita: Or the natural history and anatomy of the ephemeron, a fly that lives but fiv…
2021
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
1861 –1862
#13270
(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.
Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of the fi…
1554
#13269
Oribasii Sardiani Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem: Quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continetur Ioanne Baptista Rasario Novariensi medico interprete.
First Latin translation of the Synopsis or Epitome of his compilations that Oribasius made for his son, Euthasius. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.