1950–1959

1951

#6846

The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.

Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy of Scie…

1951 –1952

#6910

The computation of Fourier syntheses with a digital electronic calculating machine.

The first paper published in a scientific journal on the application of an electronic computer to computational biology. At the second English computer conference held in Manchester from July 9-12, 1951 computer scien…

1951 –1952

#7113

Die botanische Buchillustration: Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. 2 vols.

1951

#7114

Schöne Fischbücher: kurze Geschichte der ichthyologischen Illustrationen; Bibliographie fischkundlicher Abbildungswerke.

1951

#7164

Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.

1951

#7348

The study of instinct.

Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…

1951

#8202

Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

1951

#8479

El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.

1951

#9093

A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.

First translation into a modern language.

1951

#9266

The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7.

Digital facsimile from WHO.int at this link.

1951

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.

1951

#10293

Doctors under three flags.

Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1951

#10616

Inherit the wind.

This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

1951

#11699

Tobacco and the cardiovascular system: The effects of smoking and of nicotine on normal persons.

1951

#12203

Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.

Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…

1951

#12229

Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.

Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged ot…

1951

#12238

Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.

In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…

1951

#12402

The ancient art of feeling the pulse.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1951

#13175

The social system.

The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.

1951

#13182

Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui

1951

#13298

The pleated sheet, a new layer configuration of polypeptide chains.

Pauling and Corey discovered the β-sheet, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from PNAS.org at this link.

1951

#13558

Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.

Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.

1951

#13595

The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.

This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…

1951

#13723

Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent.

The Lowry protein assay, a biochemical assay for determining the total level of protein in a solution. As of 2015 this paper was considered the most highly-cited paper in the scientific literature with over 310,000 ci…

1951

#13937

Conditions de l'efficacité inductice du rayonnement ultra-violet chez une bactérie lysogène.

Lwoff successfully explained how the process of lysogeny works. The bacteriophage’s genes are incorporated into the bacteria’s genetic material, but remain latent until a trigger factor causes a new phage to be formed…

1951

#14367

Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.

The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…

1952

#566.3

Some local factors in the restoration of the rat’s liver after partial hepatectomy. 1. Glycogin; the Golgi apparatus; sinusoidal cells; the basement membranes of the sinusoids.

First detailed account of lysosomes.

1952

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1952

#859.1

Some physiologic aspects of the artificial heart problem.

On July 3, 1952 Dodrill completed the first successful open heart surgery on the left ventricle of Henry Opitek. He used a machine developed by himself and researchers at General Motors, the Dodrill-GMR, considered to…

1952

#4672

Evaluation of Red Cross gamma globulin as a prophylactic agent for poliomyelitis.

Trial of gamma globulin in the prophylaxis of poliomyelitis. With L. L. Coriell, J. Stokes, P. F. Wehrle, and C. R. Klimt.

1952

#4672.1

Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.

Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.

1952 –1962

#2180

History of the Second World War. Medical series. 13 vols.

GREAT BRITAIN

1952 –1968

#2180.1

The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.

UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE

Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department

1952

#2187.1

Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.

1952

#1155.1

Isolation of a highly active mineralocorticoid from beef adrenal extract.

Isolation of aldosterone. With S. A. Simpson and J. F. Tait.

1952

#1155.2

The total synthesis of steroids.

Synthesis of cortisone by Woodward and colleagues. With F. D. Taub, K. Heusler, and W. M. McLamore.

1952

#1354.2

Different forms of signalling employed by the nervous system.

In 1970 Katz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ulf von Euler and J. Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, re…

1952

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1952

#2068

Plants of the Bible.

The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.

1952

#1685

Man and epidemics.

1952

#1931

Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.

Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.

1952

#1946

“Ilotycin”, a new antibiotic.

Discovery of erythromycin. With R. L. Bunch, R. C. Anderson, H. E. Boaz, E. H. Flynn, H. M. Powell, and J. W. Smith.

1952

#2353

Chemotherapy of human tuberculosis with hydrazine derivatives of isonicotinic acid. (Preliminary report of representative cases.)

Introduction of isoniazid. With I. J. Selikoff and G. G. Omstein. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1952, 65, 257-442.

1952

#3047.3

The use of tubes constructed from Vinyon “N” cloth in bridging arterial defects.

Introduction of plastic material to repair arterial defects. Voorhees later abandoned this material in favour of Dacron. With A. Jaretzki and A. W. Blakemore.

1952

#2680.1

Ultrasonic visualization of soft-tissue structures of the body.

First tomogram of soft tissue.

1952

#3108.1

Christmas disease, a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia.

Christmas disease, hemophilia B, due to lack of Factor IX. Named after the patient whose case was the first recorded example. With six co-authors.

1952

#3108.2

Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.

Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”

1952

#2578.9

Agammaglobulinemia.

First report.

1952

#2578.10

Presence d’une leuco-agglutinine dans le sérum d’un cas d’agranulocytose chronique.

Discovery of leuco-agglutinins.

1952

#2883

Resuscitation of the heart in ventricular standstill by external electric stimulation.

External cardiac pacemaker. "The medical world took notice when Zoll announced in 1952 that he had successfully kept a patient alive through numerous episodes of ventricular standstill using a bedside device that deli…