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1996

#12316

Opera, desire, disease, death.

"The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with f…

2005

#12315

Who's who in orthopedics.

A biographical encyclopedia of contributors to the history of orthopedics.

1988

#12314

Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.

2004

#12313

Le médecins nestoriens au Moyen Âge. Les maîtres des Arabes.

2016

#12312

Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.

1932

#12311

Manuscripta medica: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Medical Society of London.

This manuscript collection was acquired by the Wellcome Trustees in 1984, and is now in the Wellcome Library. It included a number of Byzantine medical manuscripts.

1978

#12310

Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner. Vol. 1: Philosophie, Rhetorik, Epistolographie, Geschichtschreibung, Geographie. Vol. 2: Philologie, Profandichtung, Musik, Mathematik und Astronomie, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Kriegswissenschaft, Rechsliteratur

2020

#12309

Innovation in Byzantine medicine: The writings of John Zacharias Aktourarios (c. 1275- c. 1330)

1983

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

2007

#12307

Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.

1970

#12306

Chronic liver disease and primary liver-cell cancer with hepatitis-associated (Australia) antigen in serum.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Sherlock, Niazi, Fox...). The authors demonstrated that the hepatitis B virus can cause cancer. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1970

#12305

Virus-like particles in serum of patients with Australia-antigen-associated hepatitis.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Dane, Cameron, Briggs.) The authors showed that the "Australian antigen" was a virus causing hepatitis B. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretati…

1980

#12304

Expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulligan, Berg.) In an understated paper the authors suggested the potential of treating recessive diseases like Lesch-Nyhan syndrome by gene therapy. (Thanks to Juan …

1890

#12303

Sur les organisms de la nitrification.

In his research on nitrifying bacteria Winogradsky discovered the first known form of chemoautotrophy in which organisms obtain energy by oxidation of electron donors in their environments without the intervention of …

2020

#12302

Isolation of an archeon at the prokaryote eukaryote interface.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Imachi, Nobu, Nakahara...Takai.) The authors report that after 12 years of research they have cultured a microorganism that may be the transitional species between pro…

1990

#12301

Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, …

1977

#12300

Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Fox.) Woese and Fox discovered a "third kingdom" in microbial life that they called "archaebacteria" (Archaea) as distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. In thei…

2013

#12299

Medical books in the Byzantine world. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

1926

#12298

Über den Energieverbrauch bei musikalischer Betätigung.

Specialized study on the energy consumption of musicians.

1906

#12297

Höheklima und Bergwanderungen in ihrer Wirkung auf den Menschen. Ergebnisse experimenteller Forschungen im Hochgebirge und Laboratorium.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2014

#12296

Doctors of empire: Medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

1887

#12295

Sphygmographische Untersuchungen an Geisteskranken.

Ziehen, a student of Hermann Munk, wrote his habiltation thesis on sphygmographic studies of psychiatric patients. This was the first monograph on the subject.

1902

#12294

Die Geisteskrankheiten des Kindesalters mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des schulpflichtigen Alters.

The first systematic work on child psychiatry in Germany. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1886

#12293

Über die Beziehung zwischen Reizung und Erregung im Tetanus.

One mechanism that has been implicated in the origin of arrhythmias is the Wedensky effect. This was first described in neuromuscular studies by Wedensky as a prolonged lowered threshold of excitability induced by a s…

1989

#12292

Three-dimensional display in nuclear medicine.

Maximum intensity projection (MIP) or MIP imaging, invented by Jerold Wallis, "is a method for 3D data that projects in the visualization plane the voxels with maximum intensity that fall in the way of parallel rays t…

2006

#12291

Curing the colonizers: Hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas.

Translated into French by the author as À la cure, les coloniaux ! Thermalisme, climatisme et colonisation française, 1830-1962. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

1813

#12290

Observations upon the ligature of arteries, and the causes of secondary hemorrhage; with a suggestion of a new method of employing the ligature in cases of aneurism.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1949

#12289

Complete transposition of the aorta and a levoposition of the pulmonary artery; clinical, physiological, and pathological findings.

Taussig–Bing syndrome, a cyanotic congenital heart defect[1] in which the patient has both double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD).[2]

1897

#12288

Researches on the circulation time in organs and on the influences which affect it.

This was a continuation of researches undertaken by Stewart for the Goodsir Prize Essay at the University of Edinburgh (1892). His autograph manuscript for the 1892 essay was digitized by the university at made availa…

1914

#12287

The regulation of the heart beat.

"Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927) has probably contributed more than any man to our understanding of heart failure....His work with Patterson and Piper on the mechanical factors involved in the response of the heart …

1899

#12286

Die Grundform des arteriellen Pulses.

"The First Mathematical Description of the Pressure-Volume Diagram "Not until 60 years after 1899 Otto Frank's mathematical formulation of the volume-pressure diagram and his concept of the mechanism of the cardiac wo…

1851

#12285

Methode für den Unterricht der Taub-Stummen in der Laut-Sprache im Rechnen und in der Religion. Verfasst von …. Gezeichnet von Ant. Jarisch.

An illustrated manual of sign language for the deaf and dumb specifically for education in mathematics and religion. The book has a particularly distinctive title page. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1895

#12284

Zur Dynamik des Herzmuskels.

"In his postdoctoral work (Habilitationsschrift) Frank investigated the isometric and isotonic contractile behaviour of the heart and it is this work that he is best known for. Frank's work on this topic preceded that…

1965

#12283

Starling on the heart. Facsimile reprints, including the Linacre lecture on the law of the heart. Analysis and critical comment by Carleton B. Chapman and Jere H. Mitchell.

1968

#12282

Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…

1984

#12281

Physicians, law and ethics.

2007

#12280

A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.

A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1884

#12279

Hertztamponade: Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.

Rose coined the term "Herztomponade" translated as "cardiac tamponade." He "described the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade and recorded 23 case histories of ruptured or wounded hearts, several of which did not cau…

1932

#12278

Studies in the metabolism of sodium r-lactate. 1. Response of normal human subjects to the intravenous injection of sodium r-lactate. 2. Response of human subjects with acidosis to the intravenous injection of sodium r-lactate. 3. Reponse of human subjects with liver damage, disturbed mineral and water balance, and renal insufficiency to the intravenous injection ofsodium r-lactate.

Hartman added sodium lactate to the standard Ringer's solution to form Ringer's lactate solution, also known as Hartmann's solution.

1959

#12277

Angina pectoris.I. A variant form of angina pectoris. Preliminary report.

Prinzmetal angina. "Dr. Prinzmetal and his collaborators focus upon an interesting variant of angina pectoris which appears to be associated with temporary, recurrent spasm of a partially occluded coronary artery. In …

1908

#12276

Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.

"Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, mostly original and from nature." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1834

#12275

A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals of the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c

"One of the most valuable works on the subject extant. It is a monument of exact observation, and considering the state of archaeological knowledge at the time, it is in every way admirable" (Dawson, Bibliography of w…

1879

#12274

Die Diagnostik des Pulses in Bezug auf die localen Veränderungen desselben.

Bedford 56: "Pulse reporting by hydrosphygmograph by Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso (1846-1910), who was professor of pharmacology at Turin University." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905

#12273

Die Chemie der Blutgerinnung.

In this paper Morawitz perfected observations made earlier by Alexander Schmidt, and described four coagulation factors: fibrinogen (I), prothrombin (II), thrombokinase (III) and calcium (IV).

1776 –1778

#12272

(1) Observations sur les maladies épidemiques, Année 1770, ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des epidémiques d'Hippocrate, et dans lequel on indique la meilleure méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies ... Publié par ordre du gouvernement, et aux fraix du roi. (2) Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques; ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées, selon le voeu d'Hippocrate, avec les causes météorologiques, locales & relatives aux différens climats, ainsi qu'avec l'histoire naturelle & médicale de la Normandie. On y a joint un appendix sur l'ordre des constitutions épidémiques ... Pub. par ordre du gouvernement .… 3 vols.

The first title, in 1 volume, was published in 1776; the second work in 2 vols., supplementing the first work, was published in 1778. In these two bioclimatological and biogeographical studies of disease in Normandy, …

1717

#12271

Relation d'un voyage du Levant fait par ordre du Roy: Contenant l'histoire ancienne et moderne de plusieurs isles de l'Archipel, de Constantinople, des côtes de la mer Noire, de l'Arménie, de la Géorgie, des frontières de Perse et de l'Asie mineure. Avec les plans des villes & des lieux considérables; La genie, les moeurs, le commerce & la religion des différens peuples qui les habitent; et l'explication des médailles & ses monuments antiques. Enrichie de descriptions & de figures d'un grand nombre de plantes rares, divers animaux; et de plusieurs observations touchant l'histoire naturelle.

Digital facsimile of the 1717 edition from BnF Gallica at this link. Translated into English, London, 1718 as: A Voyage into the Levant: Perform'd by Command of the Late French King. Containing The Antient and Modern …

1980

#12270

Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.

First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.

1886

#12269

Outlines of lectures on physiology, with an introductory chapter on general biology, and an appendix containing laboratory exercises in practical physiology.

Mills, a student of Osler, became the first professional physiologist in Canada. This outline of his lectures is probably the first Canadian physiology textbook. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899

#12268

The penetration of the muscular fibres of the human heart by capillaries, and the existence in that organ of very large capillaries.

Meigs discovered that the capillaries of the heart enter the heart muscle fibers. These became known as "Meigs capillaries." Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1889

#12267

Cardiac failure and sudden death.

"Physiologists and physicians had proposed various theories to explain transient and fatal cardiac standstill in animals and humans who were apparently healthy. MacWilliam defined two distinct mechanisms depending on …