1950–1959
579 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1950
#13609
The role of urethra in female orgasm.
"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful orgasms a…
1950
#13804
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
1950
#13808
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
1950
#13912
Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.
1950
#14277
The interconversion of the retinenes and vitamins A in vitro.
Continuing his research on retinal pigments structure and function with emphais on rhodopsin, Wald deciphered the interconversion of rhodopsin to retinene to Vitamin A. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its…
1951
#356.2
Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart.
Revised English translation by H. and C. Epstein, ed. by G. Cottrell, as Ornithology from Aristotle to the present, with a foreword and an epilogue on American ornithology by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ…
1951
#4672.4
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
1951
#532.2
Fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa deposited into the Fallopian tubes.
Discovery that maturation of the sperm in the mammalian female tract is a necessary step in reproduction. This was co-discovered and called capacitation by Austin in the same year. See C.R. Austin, Observation on the …
1951
#1246
The kidney: structure and function in health and disease.
An encyclopaedic presentation of kidney physiology, including the many contributions of the author.
1951
#1246.01
Das Multiplikationsprinzip als Grundlage der Harnkonzentrierung in der Niere.
A theoretical treatment of the countercurrent hypothesis accompanied by data from a working model.
1951
#1246.1
Lokalisation des Konzentrierungsprozesses in der Niere durch direkte Kryoskopie.
The initial experimental evidence advanced in support of the countercurrent hypothesis. With B. Hargitay and W. Kuhn.
1951
#143.1
A source book in animal biology.
1951
#1671
The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.
1951
#1671.11
A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
Supplements, in 1957 and 1963.
1951
#2067
The development of pharmacopoeias.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1951
#1945.2
Isolation of antibiotics from a species of Cephalosporium. Cephalosporins P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5.
1951
#1945.3
Viomycin, a new antibiotic active against mycobacteria.
Isolation of viomycin. With 11 co-authors.
1951
#1945.4
Fungicidin, an antibiotic produced by a soil actinomycete.
Isolation of nystatin (fungicidin).
1951
#2352.1
The multiple-puncture tuberculin test.
The Heaf multiple-puncture tuberculin test.
1951
#2660.3
Contributions to the study of marine products. XXXII. The nucleosides of sponges.
Cytosine arabinoside, a pyramidine antagonist, used in acute myeloblastic anemia.
1951
#3047.2
Aortic plastic valvular prosthesis.
Hufnagel designed and inserted the first workable prosthetic heart valve in man.
1951
#2725.1
La visualizzazione radiologica della porta pervia splenica.
Introduction of portal venography for investigation of portal hypertension.
1951
#3978
Kliniske undersøgelser med nye retarderet virkende insulin-praeparater.
First clinical trials of lente, ultralente, and semilente insulin zinc suspension. See also Science, 1952, 116, 394-98; and J. Amer. med. Assoc., 1952, 150, 1667. With M. Jersild, K. Peterson, and J. Schlichtkrull.
1951
#3855.2
Antithyroid activity of 2-carbethoxythio-1-methylglyoxaline.
Synthesis of Carbimazole. With C. Rimington and C. E. Searle. For clinical application see Lancet, 1951, 2, 621.
1951
#4256.11
The pathogenesis of acute renal failure associated with traumatic and toxic injury. Renal ischemia, nephrotoxic damage and the ischemuric episode.
Oliver’s work on the structural lesions associated with acute renal failure in which he differentiated between the two types of damage: nephrotoxic, due to toxic substances, and tubulorhexic, due to ischemia, establis…
1951
#2993.1
A propos du traitement des anévrysmes de l’aorte. Ablation de l’anévrysme. Rétablissement de la continuité par greffe d’aorte humaine conservée.
First successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm and insertion of a homologous graft. With M. Allary and N. Oeconomos.
1951
#3020.1
La greffe vasculaire dans les thromboses du carrefour aortique.
Arterial homograft on aorta.
1951
#4154.4
A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair with congenital deafness.
“Waardenburg’s syndrome”.
1951
#4203.1
Le réservoir iléal de substitution après la cystectomie totale chez l’homme.
Artificial bladder.
1951
#5729
Bis-Cholinester von Dicarbonsäuren als Muskelrelaxantien in derNarkose.
Clinical use of succinylcholine chloride. With K. H. Ginzel, H. Klupp, F. Pfaffenschlager, and G. Werner.
1951
#5017
A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.
Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.
1951
#5546.2
Cat-scratch fever. A disease entity.
First description.
1951
#5813
Meister der Chirurgie und die Chirurgenschulen im Deutschen Raum.
1951
#5991
Intra-ocular acrylic lenses.
Ridley implanted the first intra-ocular lens on 19 November 1949. At the time of this first report the lens had remained in place for 17 months.
1951
#6742
The physician as man of letters, science and action. 2nd ed.
1951
#6515
A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.
A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amsterdam,…
1951
#6529.1
Geschichte der Medizin in Österreich.
Forms Bd. 226 Heft 5, of Österr. Akad. Wtss., Sitzungsber. Phil.-hist. Kl.
1951
#6533
Uit drie eeuwen Nederlands geneeskunde.
1951
#6545
History of medicine in Ireland.
Second edition, Dublin, Skellig Press, 1983.
1951
#6785
The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.
1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject Indice…
1951 –1961
#6448
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
1951
#6658
HISTOIRE DE LA MÉDECINE. 1-
1951
#6596.1
The health of slaves on southern plantations.
Chiefly from contemporary MS records.
1951
#6602
Historia de la medicina Peruna. 3 vols.
1951
#6602.1
Historia de la medicina en Venezuela.
Comprehensive account to end of ninteenth century.
1951
#5262.4
2:4-Diaminopyrimidines – a new series of antimalarials.
Preparation and laboratory tests of pyrimethamine. With L. G. Goodwin, G. H. Hutchings, I. M. Rollo, and P. B. Russell.
1951
#5262.5
A 2:4-diamino pyrimidine in the treatment of proguanil-resistant laboratory malarial strains.
Pyrimethamine (daraprim).
1951
#255.7
Studio dei gemelli.
The first truly comprehensive work on the scientific study of twins. (1381pp., 547 illustrations, 161 tables). English translation of the first half of the work, with some revisions: Twins in history and science, Spri…
1951
#269.7
X-ray shadow microscope.
1951
#269.8
An electrostatic focusing system and its application to a fine focus x-ray tube.
X-ray microscopy.