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2020
#12117
Infectious mononucleosis diagnosed by Downey cells: Sometimes the old ways are better.
The Downey cell method for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis remains effective and cost-effective nearly 100 years after it was discovered: "An 18-year-old woman visited her physician because she had a fever, …
1923
#12116
Acute lymphadenosis compared with acute lymphatic leukemia, Part II - Hematologic studies.
Downey characterized reactive lymphocytes, usually associated with viral illnesses, such as Epstein-Barr virus, but which can also be caused by drug reactions or other pathogens. He classified the cells into type 1, t…
1819
#12115
Entozoorum synopsis cui accedunt mantissa duplex et indices locupletissimi.
In this work Rudolphi detailed the life cycle of nematode parasites of mankind, such as the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1902
#12114
The significance of recent American cases of hookworm disease (Uncinariasis or Anchylostomiasis) in man.
In this paper Stiles fully characterized and extensively illustrated the American hookworm parasite that he first described in No. 5363. This species and the Schistosoma are the pathogenic organisms that can penetrate…
2005
#12113
Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…
1998
#12112
Defective LPS signaling in C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr mice: Mutations in the Tlr4 gene.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Poltorak, Smirnova...Beutler. The authors, led by Beutler, showed that mice that harbor a mutation of the gene which codes for the production of the Toll-like receptor TLR4 q…
1996
#12111
The dorsoventral regulatory gene cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus controls the potent antifungal response in Drosophila adults.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Lemaitre, Nicolas,... Hoffmann. This paper represented the foundation of molecular immunology. Hoffmann and colleagues found that flies with mutated Toll genes were una…
1991
#12110
The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.
1923
#12109
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
1942
#12108
Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.
1987
#12107
Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.
1996
#12106
Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.
2020
#12105
Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus,and early Homo erectus in South Africa.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Herries, Martin, Leece....Menter. Summary: "Understanding the extinction of Australopithecus and origins of Paranthropus and Homo in South Africa has been hampered by t…
1830
#12104
Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.
In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…
2018
#12103
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
2013
#12102
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
2010
#12101
Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.
2020
#12100
IHME COVID-19 health service utilization forecasting team. Forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months.
This paper was published online on March 26, 2020 and updated periodically. When I added it to this database on April 2, 2020 it had been updated on March 31, 2020. At that time the paper was available from healthdata…
2017
#12099
Evolutionary nephrology.
Abstract: "Progressive kidney disease follows nephron loss, hyperfiltration, and incomplete repair, a process described as “maladaptive.” In the past 20 years, a new discipline has emerged that expands research horizo…
2019
#12098
Evolution, kidney development, and chronic kidney disease.
Abstract: "There is a global epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) characterized by a progressive loss of nephrons, ascribed in large part to a rising incidence of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabe…
2008
#12097
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
2017
#12096
American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.
"Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called o…
2009
#12095
Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.
"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…
2019
#12094
Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.
"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…
2020
#12093
How Twitter is changing medical research.
"From online journal clubs to 'tweetorials' to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine." Open access from nature.com at this link. Reprinted by scientificamerican.c…
2001
#12092
Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.
1857
#12091
Climatology of the United States, and of the temperate latitudes of the North American Continent. Being a full comparison of these with the climatology of the temperate latitudes of Europe and Asia. And especially in regard to agriculture, sanitary investigations, and engineering. With isothermal and rain charts for each season, the extreme months, and the year...
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1971
#12090
Humboldtian physicians in California.
Concerns the influence of Alexander von Humboldt on early California physicians. Library Associates of the University Library, Davis, Keepsake No. 4.
1876
#12089
Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.
This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …
1942 –1943
#12088
A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.
"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…
c. 1894
#12087
A contribution to the history of medicine in Southern California. Annual address of the retiring President of the Souther California Medical Society, Delivered at San Diego, August 8, 1894.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1851
#12086
Observations on the medical topography and diseases (especially diarrhoea) of the Sacramento Valley, California, during the Years 1849, 1850.
Stillman was personal physician to Leland Stanford, the first governor of California, and was a partner of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins from their days on board a ship to California in 1849. Stillman was also co-foun…
2001
#12085
Bacchic medicine: Wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French paradox.
1879
#12084
Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.
Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…
1848
#12083
Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.
Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…
1902
#12082
Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#12081
Medical sociology: A series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society.
The first American book specifically on the topic of medical sociology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2011
#12080
The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: An Appraisal of Old World pre‐Columbian evidence for treponemal infection.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Harper, Zuckerman, Harper, Kingston, Armelagos. Abstract: "For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did Columbus bring the…
1918
#12079
Medical contributions to the study of evolution.
"Part I: Adaptation and disease". The Croonian Lectures delivered in June 1917. Includes "Adaptation in the bacteria and the evolution of the infectious diseases" and "Adaptation to disease-producing agencies in the h…
1802
#12078
The outlines of the veterinary art, or the principles of medicine as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases, the whole illustrated by anatomical plates. 2 vols.
Includes the earliest record in the English of the origin and growth of veterinary literature. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1990
#12077
Otolaryngology: An illustrated history.
Second edition by Weir and Albert Mudrey, Otorhinolarygngology: An illustrated history, Ashford, UK: Headley Brothers, 2013.
1918
#12076
War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1885
#12075
The field and limitation of the operative surgery of the human brain.
The first American monograph on surgery on the human brain, also published in 1885 the Transactions of the American Surgical Association. Roberts was "one of the few American surgeons to advocate an aggressive explora…
2020
#12074
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin.
This article was published in Nature on 3 February 2020. Prior to that a version with a different title and numerous other co-authors was published in bioRxiv on 23 January 2020, as "Discovery of a novel coronavirus a…
2020
#12073
First case of 2019 novel coronavirus in the United States.
Published on March 5, 2020. Order of authorship in the original publication: Holshue, DeBolt, Lindquist....Cohn. "Summary "An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, w…
2005
#12072
The threat of pandemic influenza: Are we ready? Workshop summary prepared for Forum on Microbial Threats Board on Global Heath. Edited by Stacey L. Knobler, Alison Mack, Adel Mahmoud, Stanley M. Lemon.
Digital edition from http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11150.html.
2001
#12071
Encylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.
1997
#12070
The changing face of death. Historical accounts of death and disposal.
1921
#12069
Mortality statistics 1919. Twentieth annual report.
From "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms)" p. 28: "In the later part of 1918 a pandemic of influenza swept over the country and did not fully spend its force until well into 1919.... "In the registration area (exclusi…
1920
#12068
Mortality Statistics 1918. Nineteenth Annual Report.
From Causes of Death, p. 27: "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms). "In 1918 the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) 477,467 deaths wee assigned to influenza and pneumonia (all forms). In the latter part of that ye…