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1930
#12366
Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.
1944
#12365
The diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
The Jones criteria (later revised in 1992 and 2015) for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever.
1995
#12364
The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.
A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.
1991
#12363
The origins of thoracic anesthesia.
2018
#12362
Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.
"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).
2001
#12361
The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.
1997
#12360
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
1948
#12359
Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.
Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…
1866
#12358
Recopilación histórico-bibliográfica de la circulación de la sangre en el hombre y los animales.
Digital facsimile from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link.
1865
#12357
History of the discoveries of the circulation of the blood, of the ganglia and nerves, and of the action of the heart.
Lee, an obstetrician, published one of the earliest studies of the history of the circulation of the blood in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1986
#12356
The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.
Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …
1989
#12355
Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: An anthology of souyrces. Edited by Edward T. Morman.
1989
#12354
Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.
1960
#12353
Thoracic surgery before the 20th century.
1937
#12352
Die Geschichte der angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.
A history of congenital heart disease covering cyanosis, foetal endocarditis and various malformations. Bedford 850.
2007
#12351
Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.
2012
#12350
Vaccine: The debate in modern America.
1988
#12349
The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.
Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.
1889
#12348
Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.
Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…
1866
#12347
Die Meningitis cerebro-spinalis epidemica vom historisch-geographischen und pathologisch-therapeutischen Standpunkte.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1831
#12346
Die Lehre vom Kreislauf vom Harvey. Eine historische Abhandlungen.
Perhaps the earliest essay by a professional historian on the pre-Harveian history of the circulation. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2006
#12345
Classic papers in coronary angioplasty. Edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman.
1980
#12344
Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.
1974
#12343
The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.
Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.
1854
#12342
Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Revised edition, 1857, of which a digital facsimile is also available from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by J. C. Reeve as A history of the …
1970
#12341
Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.
The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.
1999
#12340
Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.
2012
#12339
Ultrasound in clinical diagnosis: From pioneering developments in Lund to global application in medicine. Edited by Bo Ekloff, Kjell Lindström and Stig Persson.
Concerns applications in echocardiography, echoencephalography, in obsterics and gynecology, Doppler ultrasound in vascular disease, ultrasound in radiology, and development of ultrasound in ophthalmology.
1977
#12338
Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.
1989
#12337
Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.
1998
#12336
History of cardiovascular surgery. Edited by L. A. Bockeria.
An international conference on the history of cardiovascular surgery. Dedicated to the memory of V.I. Burakovsky (Moscow, September 24-25, 1996). Attendees and contributors included many Western and Russian pioneers.
1994
#12335
Fifty years of cardiac and pulmonary surgery 1942-1993. The beginning of open heart surgery of postoperative intensive care. The first complete left heart catheterization. Mechanical heart valves.
Björk may be most remembered for the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.
1990
#12334
Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.
1984
#12333
Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.
2006
#12332
The evolution of cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology.
2008
#12331
On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.
Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2007
#12330
Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.
1992
#12329
Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.
Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.
2000
#12328
Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
1929
#12327
Glycogen formation in the liver from d- and 1-lactic acid.
The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle), a metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the mu…
1997
#12326
A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.
2019
#12325
Pioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.
1877
#12324
Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1950
#12323
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
1857
#12322
Report of an operation for removing a foreign body from beneath the heart. Published by the San Francisco County Medico Chirurgical Association as an additional paper to its Transactions for the year 1857.
Perhaps the earliest separate publication on a surgical operation issued in California.
1970
#12321
Australia antigen (a hepatitis-associated antigen). Purification and physical properties.
Purification of the Australia antigen and investigation of its physical properties. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Millman, Loeb, Bayer, Blumberg.) Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
2002
#12320
Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.
Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html
1856
#12319
Anatomical and surgical lectures.
A one-page advertising circular dated December 10, 1856 advertising Cooper's first course of private lectures in San Francisco. Cooper, founder of California’s (and the West Coast’s) first medical school, came to San …
1877
#12318
Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.
1900
#12317
Physicians and surgeons of the West. Illinois edition.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.