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1832

#12667

The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, physician to the Caliph Motawukkul. [Edited from two MSS

2009

#12666

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.

"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of d…

2009

#12665

Papillomavirus vaccines. US Patent US7476389B1.

Frazer and Zhou invented and patented the first Papillomavirus vaccine. In 2020 it was marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix. Developed beginning in 1991, about 20 years after Blumberg and Millman's vaccine against viral …

1984

#12664

A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.

Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…

1983

#12663

A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,

Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1967

#12662

Herpes-type virus and chromosome marker in normal leukocytes after growth with irradiated Burkitt cells.

Hausen and colleagues showed for the first time that a cancer virus (Epstein-Barr virus) can transform healthy cells (lymphocytes) into cancer cells. This showed that viruses can cause cancer cell formation. (Order of…

2002

#12661

The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.

1843

#12660

Sierra Leone: A Description of the manners and customs of the liberated Africans; with observations upon the natural history of the colony, and a notice of the native tribes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1865

#12659

The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains.

Together with William Fitzwilliam (Viscount Milton), Cheadle travelled up the Athabasca River and in 1863 they became the first "tourists" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass. Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, t…

1983

#12658

Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.

The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…

1863

#12657

Monograph on the Aye-Aye (Chiromys madagascariensis, Cuvier).

For the first 100 years after the first aye-aye was brought to Europe from Madagascar in the 1780s, debate persisted over whether it was a rodent, a primate, or most closely related to the kangaroo. Classification of …

1922

#12656

Studies in the specific study of the bacteriology of dental cavities.

Rodríguez discovered that three types of the Lactobacillus species of bacteria, during the process of fermentation, are the causes of cavities. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1959

#12655

Programs with Common Sense. IN: Mechanisation of thought processes, Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Physics Laboratory, pages 77-84.

"Programs with Common Sense was probably the first paper on logical AI, i.e. AI in which logic is the method of representing information in computer memory and not just the subject matter of the program. The paper was…

1960

#12654

Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part 1.

The original paper on LISP, the first programming language designed for symbolic computation, which made the development of artificial intelligence programming possible. Part 2 was never published. Digital text from j…

1989

#12653

Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome.

In this paper Houghton and colleagues named “hepatitis C” for the first time. They cloned and isolated the viral RNA genome and demonstrated that a patient who had high antibodies to a ‘native/wild strain’, reacted sp…

1973

#12652

Hepatitis A: Detection by immune electron microscopy of a viruslike antigen associated with acute illness.

Identification of the Hepatitis A virus.

1484

#12651

Practica quae alias Philonium dicitur.

A general treatise on medical practice. ISTC No. iv00005800

1991

#12650

Color atlas/text of ophthalmic parasitology. Edited by B. H. Kean, Tsieh Sun, and Robert M. Ellsworth.

Probably the first ophthalmic textbook devoted exclusively to parasitic infections, discussing diseases caused by protozoa, nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and arthropods.

1990

#12649

One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.

1973

#12648

Atlas zur Biomechanik der Gesunden und kranken Hüfte,

Translated into English by Ronald J. Furlong and Paul Maquet as Biomechanics of the normal and diseased hip. Theoretical foundation, technique and results of treatment: An atlas. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1976.

1892

#12647

Bestimmung der Trägheitsmomente des menschlichen Körpers und seiner Glieder.

Translated into English by P. Maquet and R. Furlong as Determination of the moments of intertia of the human body and its limbs. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.

1889

#12646

Über den Schwerpunkt des menschlichen Körpers mit Rücksicht auf die Ausrüstung des deutschen Infanteristen.

Translated into English by P.G.J. Maquet and R. Furlong as On the centre of gravity of the human body as related to the equipment of the German infantry soldier. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.

2001

#12645

Classics in movement science. Edited by Mark L. Latash and Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky.

2016

#12644

The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c. 1789-2000.

2012

#12643

The neurological patient in history. Edited by L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper.

1929

#12642

Die Encephalitis lethargica, ihre Nachkrankheiten und ihre Behandlung.

Translated and adapted by K. O. Newman as Encephalitis lethargica its sequelae and treatment. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.

2009

#12641

Encephalitis lethargica and influenza. 1: The role of the influenza virus in the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919. 2: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Epidemiology and symptoms. 3: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Neuropathology and discussion.

Parts 2 and 3 are freely available from PubMedCentral at this link, and at this link.

1996

#12640

Collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Vol. I: Insulin. Vol. 2: Cholestrol, penicillin and other antibiotics. Vol. 3: General crystallography and essays. Edited by G. G. Dodson, J. P. Glusker, S. Ramaseshan and K. Venkatesan.

2020

#12639

The black box of biology: A history of the molecular revolution. Translated by Matthew Cobb.

"The Black Box of Biology shows that what led to the incredible transformation of biology was not a simple accumulation of new results, but the molecularization of a large part of biology. In fact, Morange argues, the…

1994

#12638

Reader in the history of aphasia from [Franz] Gall to [Norman] Geschwind. Edited by Paul Eling.

1922

#12637

Die epidemische Encephalitis. (Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Bd. 30).

Felix Stern was the leading German specialist in encephalitis lethargica . No national statistics for this disease, first described in Vienna in 1916, were kept in Germany. For this reason, the data collected by Stern…

2018

#12636

Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.

Both an historical and a scientific study.

1949

#12635

X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.

Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was orig…

1949

#12634

The chemistry of penicillin.

The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…

1957

#12633

The total synthesis of penicillin V.

Sheehan and Henery-Logan reported the step by step synthesis of penicillin V (phenoxymethylpenicillin) and the cyclization of the beta lactam ring, key to creation of beta-lactam antibiotics. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…

1983

#12632

Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.

Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…

1979

#12631

Avermectins, new family of potent anthelminthic agents, efficacy of the B1a component.

Campbell and colleagues reported unprecedented antiparasitic effects of the agent in vivo, and that the "B1a" component of the molecule was most effective as a single oral dose. (Order of authorship in the original pu…

1979

#12630

Avermectins, new family of potent anthelmintic agents: Producing organism and fermentation.

The authors, lead by Omura, announced the discovery of Streptomyces avermilitis. They described the structure of avermectin, and reported preliminary observations that this drug is antiparasitic. (Order of authorship …

2015

#12629

The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed

This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…

1746 –1748

#12628

Dictionnaire universel de médecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, d'anatomie, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, &c. Précédé d'un discours historique sur l'origine et les progrès de la médecine. Traduit de l'anglois de M. James. Revue, corrigé & augmenté par M. Julien Busson. 6 vols.

James, it may be assumed, had little or nothing to do with this translation, because copyright between England and France was essentially non-existent at the time. In the process of supervising this large publication,…

2020

#12627

Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.

2017

#12626

A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.

"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…

2018

#12625

The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.

1913

#12624

Ḥunain ibn Isḥāḳ und seine Schule: Sprach- und literargeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den arabischen Hippokrates- und Galen-Übersetzungen.

1946

#12623

Penicillin: Its practical application. Edited by Sir Alexander Fleming.

This was the only book that Fleming ever published on penicillin. American issue, Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1946.

1928

#12622

Les associations microbiennes: Leurs applications thérapeutiques.

This work included a 60-page chapter on bacterial inhibition by molds and antibiosis, with several hundred historical references. It appeared one year before Fleming's landmark paper.

1938

#12621

Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism

1921

#12620

A contribution to the histology and pathogenesis of pyorrhea alveolaris.

Gottlieb was "the major periodontal investigator of the early 20th century. He extended the histopathologic studies of Znamensky.... His major contributions were in the nature of the epithelial attachment to the tooth…

1902

#12619

Alveolar pyorrhoea - its pathological anatomy and its radical treatment.

Znamensky, professor of stomatology in Moscow, had a very clear understanding of periodontitis, and the interaction of local and systemic factors in its etiology. He presented the first description of the histopatholo…

1945

#12618

The herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.

First printed edition of an herbal written circa 1287 by Rufinus, a medieval monk / physician unknown before this edition. Rufinus was titular abbot in absentia of the monastery of Tyre, and plenipotentiary to the arc…