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1974 CE
#9941
The genetics of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.
In 2002 Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programm…
1991 CE
#9940
Mechanisms and functions of cell death.
Horvitz and colleagues identified several key components in the molecular pathway of programmed cell death, including: EGL-1, a protein which activates apoptosis by inhibiting CED-9.
1986 CE
#9939
Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.
Using C. elegans to investigate whether there was a genetic program controlling cell death, or apoptosis, In 1986, Horvitz identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4. He showed that functional ced-3 and ced-4…
1977 CE
#9938
Post-embryonic cell lineages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Complete map of the nematode's neurons. Sulston and Horvitz tracked every non-gonadal cell division that occurred during larval development, and published a complete description of these lineages in 1977.
1994 CE
#9937
Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
1997 CE
#9936
Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.
2005 CE
#9935
Fathoming the ocean: The discovery and exploration of the deep sea.
2006 CE
#9934
Nurse-midwifery: The birth of a new American profession.
1922 CE
#9933
History of American Red Cross nursing.
By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2001 CE
#9932
No place like home: A history of nursing and home care in the United States.
2010 CE
#9931
American nursing: A history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work.
2013 CE
#9930
Routledge handbook on the global history of nursing. Edited by Patricia D'Antonio, Julie A. Fairman and Jean C. Whelan.
1995 CE
#9929
La nutrition préhistorique.
1992 CE
#9928
Excerpts from classics in Allergy. Second edition.
2001 CE
#9927
The Jungians: A comparative and historical perspective.
The first book on the history of the profession of analytical psychology from its origins in 1913. Because Kirsch was personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history, he was well equipped to write the history o…
2006 CE
#9926
Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.
2012 CE
#9925
From melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression.
1990 CE
#9924
Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.
1753 CE–1761 CE
#9923
En Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
Between 1748 and 1749, Kalm, a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, traveled throughout northeast America, specifically in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada, surveying the countryside, an…
2016 CE
#9922
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…
1855 CE
#9921
Portraits of diseases of the skin.
Wilson's atlas, with 48 plates drawn and engraved by the medical artist, William Bagg, was the first English large folio atlas of dermatology in the style of similar folios issued in France by Alibert and Cazenave. Th…
2004 CE
#9920
Livingstone Online: Illuminating imperial exploration. Adrian S. Wisnicki, director.
http://livingstoneonline.org/ "The "About This Site" section of Livingstone Online describes some of the key elements of this site, including our goals, mission, and staff. The section also includes a set of essays de…
1924 CE
#9919
Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit.
Translated as The climates of the geological past. Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit. Reproduction of the original German edition and complete English translation. Faksimile-Nachdruck der deutschen Originalausgabe …
1972 CE
#9918
The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.
Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.
1972 CE
#9917
Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.
2008 CE
#9916
The Sloane Printed Books catalogue.
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/ "The Sloane Printed Books catalogue lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Bibliographical records are enhanced with Sloane's own numbers or other identifying ma…
1696 CE
#9915
Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica: Sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus, adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur, seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.
1707 CE–1725 CE
#9914
A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: With the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life. 2 vols.
As a youth Sloane collected objects of natural history and other curiosities. This led him to the study of medicine, which he went to London, where he studied botany, materia medica, surgery and pharmacy. His collecti…
1770 CE
#9913
Histoire des maladies de S. Domingue. 3 vols. Title of vol. 3: Traité ou abregé des plantes usuelles de S. Dominique.
Posthmously published; vol. 1 contains a life of the author. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2014 CE
#9912
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
2006 CE
#9911
Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
1997 CE
#9910
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…
1679 CE
#9909
A discourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica. With a provision therefore calculated from the air, the place, and the water: the customs and manners of living, &c.
The first English book on tropical medicine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2017 CE
#9908
Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.
"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…
2017 CE
#9907
Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
1897 CE
#9906
Les intoxications.
1896 CE
#9905
Les asphyxies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthésiques.
1901 CE
#9904
L'Avortement
1897 CE
#9903
Les explosifs, les explosions au point de vue médico-légal.
1760 CE
#9902
An essay on the medicinal nature of hemlock.
"Störck is remembered for his clinical research of various herbs, and their associated toxicity and medicinal properties. His studies are considered to be the pioneering work of experimental pharmacology and his …
1998 CE
#9901
Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.
1987 CE
#9900
Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
2004 CE
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
2003 CE
#9898
Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.
1801 CE
#9897
The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic: Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1788 CE
#9896
Recherches, mémoires et observations sur les maladies épizootiques de Saint-Dominique, recueillis & publiés par le Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François.
The Cercle des Philadelphes, of which Charles Arthaud was president, was an academic scientific society in Saint-Domingue, in existence between 1784 and 1791. It was the most prominent academic society in the Americas…
2016 CE
#9895
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
1970 CE
#9894
The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.
1936 CE
#9893
On certain septicemias due to anaerobic organisms.
"Lemierre's syndrome (or Lemierre's disease, also known as postanginal shock including sepsis and human necrobacillosis) refers to infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It most often develops as a …
2011 CE
#9892