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2006 CE
#10896
Former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783-2002. Biographical index. 2 vols.
2001 CE
#10895
The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
1863 CE
#10894
On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1945 CE
#10893
Lewis's 1844-1944: A brief account of a century's work.
2001 CE
#10892
A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.
1859 CE
#10891
Original contributions to the practice of conservative surgery; being a selection from the surgical cases occurring in the practice of James G. Beaney.
The first work on surgery written and published in Australia, and one of the first medical works on any subject written and published in Australia.
1869 CE
#10890
Syphilis: Its nature & diffusion popularly considered.
The first work on dermatology or syphilology written, printed and published in Australia. This work is illustrated with chromolithographed plates printed in Australia. This may be the earliest medical book printed in …
1995 CE
#10889
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
1979 CE
#10888
Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)
Order of authorship in the original paper was Spielman, Clifford, Piesman. The authors identified and described the insect vector of Babesiosis. This was a new species; the same species causes Lyme disease. (Thanks to…
1970 CE
#10887
Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…
1957 CE
#10886
Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another te…
1889 CE
#10885
Preliminary observations on the microorganism of Texas fever.
First report on the discovery of a Babesia, cause of Babesiosis. Smith first observed the microscopic organism in the summer of 1886, but mentioned Babes's work in this paper, perhaps resulting in Babes being credited…
1855 CE–1856 CE
#10884
Des caractères anatomiques des grands singes pseudo-anthropomorphes.
With 16 lithographed plates, this continues to be one of the most frequently cited of all works in the history of primate anatomy.
1965 CE
#10883
The Environment and disease: Association or causation?
"In 1965, the English statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill proposed a set of nine criteria to provide epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect. (For example, he …
1996 CE
#10882
Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.
Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…
1995 CE
#10881
Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.
Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …
1994 CE
#10880
Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …
2014 CE
#10879
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
2013 CE
#10878
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
2012 CE
#10877
Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …
2012 CE
#10876
Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.
Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …
1902 CE–1909 CE
#10875
A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D. With Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1903 revised 2nd ed. plus the 1st ed. of vol. 2 from the Internet Archive at this link.
1990 CE
#10874
The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.
1990 CE
#10873
Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.
Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.
1993 CE
#10872
Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
1971 CE
#10871
Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
1990 CE
#10870
The health of immigrant Australia: A social perspective.
1978 CE
#10869
Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
1983 CE
#10868
Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
1977 CE
#10867
Bisexuality: A study.
Based on interviews with 150 self-identified bisexuals, equal numbers of men and women.
2001 CE
#10866
A history of bisexuality.
2012 CE
#10865
Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution.
1027pp. The most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles of primates. The format is unusual with the text occupying the first 134pp.…
2005 CE
#10864
Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.
Dated October 28, 2005, roughly two years after the outbreak of SARS, the natural reservoirs of this class of coronaviruses was discovered. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
2003 CE
#10863
The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.
Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…
2003 CE
#10862
Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Dated May 30, 2003. Rota and team at the CDC determined the sequence of the complete genome of SARS-CoV, and characterized the viral genome. Order of authorship in the published paper was Rota, Oberste, Monroe....DeRi…
2003 CE
#10861
A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Ksiazek and over 40 co-authors around the world published the lead article in the May 15, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that was nearly entirely devoted to SARS. Order of authorship in the publishe…
2003 CE
#10860
Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…
2003 CE
#10859
Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.
First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…
1971 CE
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1971 CE
#10857
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
1992 CE
#10856
Plants of the gods: Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers.
1961 CE
#10855
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
1961 CE
#10854
The ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.
"....based on analysis of 2200 wild and cultivated plant specimens with clearly defined archaeological contexts... Part I is a systematic ethnobotany with pertinent citations of the botanical and archaeological litera…
1958 CE
#10853
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
1955 CE
#10852
The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1952 CE
#10851
Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.
1996 CE–1997 CE
#10850
The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.
1994 CE
#10849
The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).
Revised edition, 1995.
1899 CE–1933 CE
#10848
Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.
"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured article…
1930 CE
#10847
Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.
Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…