1950–1959

1948

#139.1

The cell-theory: a restatement, history, and critique.

1950

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1950

#1584

The history of muscle physiology from the natural philosophers to Albrecht von Haller.

Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, Vol. 7.

1950

#2028.1

Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.

Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.

1950

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

1950

#1945.1

Terramycin, a new antibiotic.

Oxtetracycline (terramycin).

1950

#2352

A new and practical B.C.G. skin test (the B.C.G. scarification test) for the detection of the total tuberculous allergy.

1950

#1757

Reciprocal skin homografts in a medico-legal case of familial identification of exchanged identical twins.

Skin grafting used to decide the relationship of identical twins who had been accidentally separated at birth.

1950

#2660.2

A sensitive directional gamma-ray detector.

Directional scintillation detector probe. Cassen assembled the first automated scanning system, comprised of a motor driven scintillation detector coupled to a relay printer. The scanner was initially used to image th…

1950

#3047.1

Hypothermia: its possible role in cardiac surgery: an investigation of factors governing survival in dogs at low body temperatures.

Bigelow pioneered surface-induced whole body hypothermia and temporary cardiac flow occlusion. With W.F. Greenwood.

1950

#2238

The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.

In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.

1950

#2578.8

Localization of antigen in tissue cells. II. Improvements in a method for the detection of antigen by means of fluorescent antibody.

Fluorescent antibody technique.

1950

#2881

Mechanism of the auricular arrythmias.

With E. Corday, I. C. Brill, A. L. Seller, R. W. Oblath, W. A. Flieg, and H. E. Kruger.

1950

#2882

Congenital heart disease.

A new classification proposed.

1950

#3215.1

Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma: A study of 684 proved cases.

A case-control study proving an association between heavy prolonged cigarette smoking and bronchogenic carcinoma. See also the following paper on pp. 336-38. Reprinted in J. Amer. med. Assoc. 1985, 253, 2986-97.

1950

#3215.2

Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.

A study of 1,465 cases of lung cancer and 1,465 matched controls, which confirmed and extended the studies of Wynder and Graham, and others. See also later papers by the same authors in Brit. med. J., 1952, 2,1271-86;…

1950

#3788.1

Triethylene melamine in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and allied neoplasms

With D. A. Karnofsky, J. H. Burchenal, and L. F. Craver.

1950

#4256.1

Homotransplantation of the kidney in human; preliminary report.

Report of first human patient to survive a kidney transplant. The operation was on June 17, 1950, and the patient was discharged on August 26. With four co-authors. See No. 4257.

1950

#3692.1

Studies on mass control of dental caries through fluoridation of the public water supply.

It has not been conclusively demonstrated whether fluoride serves a specific physiological role, but fluoridation of public water supplies was followed by a reduction in the incidence of dental caries. One of the firs…

1950

#4154.3

Balanitis circumscripta chronica met plasmacellen-infiltraat.

Zoon’s plasma cell balanitis.

1950

#4405

The use of an artificial femoral head for arthroplasty of the hip joint.

Judet acrylic prosthesis.

1950

#4203

Permanent artificial (silicone) urethra.

First implantation of silicone rubber tube to replace urethra.

1950

#4435.3

The closed treatment of common fractures.

“A classic exposition of the non-operative approach” (Peltier).

1950

#5016

Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1

Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.

1950

#5546.1

Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.

Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.

1950

#5352.2

Bibliography of onchocerciasis.

Publication No. 242.

1950

#6783

A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.

For supplement see No. 6786.18.

1950 –1966

#6784

UNITED STATES. National Library of Medicine Catalogue. 18 vols.

Two quinquennial and one sexennial cumulations of annual volumes. 6 vols., 1950-54; 6 vols., 1955-59; 6 vols., 1960-65. Author and subject indexes. First series under title “U.S. Armed Forces Medical Library”. See als…

1950

#6447

Medicinens historie.

2nd edition, 1964.

1950

#6655

CENTAURUS. International Magazine of the History of Science and Medicine. 1-

1950

#5262.3

Primaquine, S.N. 13,272, a new curative agent in vivax malaria: a preliminary report.

Introduction of primaquine.

1950

#5264.2

The conquest of malaria.

1950

#255.6

Chemical specificity of nucleic acids and the mechanism of their enzymatic degradation.

"Chargaff's rules." Between 1946 and 1950 Chargaff carried out chemical studies that revolutionized attitudes towards DNA.

1950

#258.1

Die Zeugungs- und Vererbungslehren der Antike und ihr Nachwirken.

A study of the earliest “scientific” theories of heredity and genetics.

1950

#7173

German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.

Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…

1950

#7537

Childhood and society.

1950

#7568

An inferometer microscope.

Dyson designed one of the first usable interference microscopes This optical system achieved interference imaging without requiring polarizing elements in the beam path.

1950

#8779

The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.

"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…

1950

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.

1950

#9185

Variation and evolution in plants.

The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …

1950

#10656

Oxygen transport and utilization in dogs at low body temperatures.

This research by Bigelow and collegues first made possible the use of hypothermia in cardiac surgery.

1950

#11571

The burden of diseases in the United States. 2 vols. (text + portfolio of color charts).

In this very attractively produced publication the authors called attention to the decreasing trend of death rates from infectious diseases and the increasing trend of death from chronic diseases such as cancer, cephr…

1950

#12063

The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize.

"In the summer of 1944 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, McClintock systematic studies on the mechanisms of the mosaic color patterns of maize seed and the unstable inheritance of this mosaicism.[44] She identified tw…

1950

#12199

On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.

The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …

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.

1950

#12616

Liber medicinalis. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par R. Pépin.

Latin text with French translation.

1950

#12821

The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.

The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.

1950

#13473

Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis. 1. The vagina as a portral of entry of toxoplasma in the mouse. Experimental congenital toxomplasmosis II. Transmission of toxomplasmosis to the placenta and fetus following vaginal infection the the pregnant mouse. Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis III. Toxomplasmosis in the offspring of mice infected by the vaginal route. Incidence and manifestations of the disease.

"In 1950 and 1951, Drs. Cowen and Wolf published a series of 5 papers, super-titled, “Experimental Congenital Toxoplasmosis,” in which they demonstrated the intrauterine infection of placenta, fetus, and offspring wit…

1950

#13474

Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects--the pharmacology of placebos.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1950

#13525

Lysogenicity in Escherichia coli strain K-12.

Discovery of phage λ (lambda phage). According to estherlederberg.com, only about 100 people received the first issue of Microbial Genetics Bulletin, a typed and mimeographed publication. Digital facsimile from esther…