1950–1959

1952

#2700.1

Lymphangiography in man. A method of outlining lymphatic trunks at operation.

Introduction of lymphangiography.

1952

#3705

Old instruments used for extracting teeth.

1952

#4962.3

Trente-huit cas de psychoses traitées par la cure prolongée et continue de 4560 R. P. C. R. Congr. Alien, et Neurol, de Langue Franç.

Introduction of chlorpromazine in the treatment of psychosis. Chlorpromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1952

#5018

The history and development of neurological surgery.

1952

#6235

A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.

1952

#6471.1

The old Egyptian medical papyri.

A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.

1952

#6500

Jewish medicine.

1952

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

1952

#6449

Horus. A guide to the history of science. A first guide for the study of the history of science. With introductory essays on science and tradition.

Contains extensive bibliographies.

1952

#256

Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid in growth of bacteriophage.

DNA shown to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction. In 1969 Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with S. E. Luria and M. Delbrück for "for their discoveries concerning the rep…

1952

#256.1

Genetic exchange in Salmonella.

Description of a new mechanism (“transduction”) for the transfer of genetic characters from one bacterial strain to another.

1952

#6882

Entwicklungsgeschichte physiologischer Probleme in Tabellenform.

1952

#7175

Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.

Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…

1952

#7469

The planets: Their origin and development.

Urey coined the term cosmochemistry. He speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his graduate students, Stanley Miller, showed in the Miller–Urey…

1952

#7764

Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.

1952

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

1952

#7898

CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-

Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.

1952 –1961

#9033

World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.

In English and German.

1952

#9357

A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits.

1952

#9719

Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants.

Demonstration of the mutational basis of antibiotic resistance. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1952

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

1952

#10042

Care of the dying.

1952

#10851

Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.

1952

#10939

Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.

Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …

1952

#10940

Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.

First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…

1952

#11103

Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…

1952 –1959

#11439

Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.

This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…

1952

#12032

A nonhereditary, host-induced variation of bacterial viruses.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Luria, Human. Luria and Human discovered the restriction modification system found in bacteria and other prokaryotic organisms. This system provides a defense against f…

1952

#12209

The pathology, symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system.

Dix–Hallpike test or Nylen–Barany test, a diagnostic maneuver used to identify benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1952

#12615

The clinical application of antibiotics. Penicillin.

Printed on the title page: "This volume, although a separate publication, is a continuation of the work described in Antibiotics Volumes I and II, and may be read in conjunction with it." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for thi…

1952

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1952

#13155

Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition

1952

#13306

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

1952

#13441

The superb library of Bernhard W. Weinberger, D.D.S., on the history and folklore of dentistry. With a preface by Curt Proskaur.

1952

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1952

#13938

Rôle des cations bivalents dans l'induction du développement du prophage par les agents reducteurs.

Lwoff gave the name "prophage" to the form in which the genome of the bacteriophage is perpetuated in lysogenic bacteria. The bacteriophages produced by these bacteria, known as temperate bacteriophages, can therefore…

1952

#13941

Mammalian chromosomes in vitro I: The karyotype of man.

Since the turn of the twentieth century, chromosomes prepared on microscope slides formed clumps that made it extremely difficult to distinguish them. Although the preparations made the identification of individual ch…

1952

#13970

Genetic exchange in salmonella.

Working as a graduate student with Lederberg, Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named thi…

1952

#13983

Recombination in Bact. coli K 12: Unidirectional transfer of genetic material.

Hayes "developed the concept of a donor–recipient partnership with uni-directional transfer of genetic material. The importance of this discovery was quickly emphasised and widely recognised when he found that only a …

1952

#13998

The structure of synthetic polypeptides. 1. The transform of atoms on a helix.

This paper gives the formulae for the Fourier transforms of a number of helical structures, and provides evidence that the structure of a synthetic polypeptide was based on the alpha helix of Pauling and Corey. "It wa…

1952

#13999

Production of plaques in monolayer tissue cultures by single particles of an animal virus.

Following Max Delbruck's advice, Dulbecco visited the major centers of animal virus work in the US in order to discover a way to quantitatively assay animal viruses by a plaque technique, similar to the technique that…

1952

#14100

Tissue culture studies of the proliferative capacity of cervical carcinoma and normal epithelium.

A cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gey propagated the HeLa cell line from Henrietta Lacks' cervical tumor. This cell line, which maintained a continuous growth phase, was the first immortal human cell line to…

1953

#567.1

A bibliography of the research in tissue culture 1884-1950. An index to the literature of the living cell cultivated in vitro.

1953

#4615.3

The parietal lobes.

Defines for the first time the various functions of the parietal lobes.

1953

#4672.2

Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.

Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.

1953

#1138.1

3:5:3'-Triiodothyronine. I. Isolation from thyroid gland and synthesis.

Discovery of the second thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1953 –1956

#86.1

Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. in 10.

1953

#1175.3

The synthesis of an octapeptide amide with the hormonal activity of oxytocin.

Synthesis of oxytocin. With C. Ressler, J. M. Swan, C. W. Roberts, P. G. Katsoyannis, and S. Gordon. In 1955 Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds…

1953

#1931.1

Propriétés pharmacodynamiques du chlorhydrate de chloro-3 (diméthylamino-3’propyl) -10 phénothiazine (4.560 R.P.).

Chlorpromazine. With J. Foumel, R. Ducrot, M. Kolsky, and P. Koetschet. Chloropromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1953

#1931.2

The effects of progesterone and related compounds on ovulation and early development in the rabbit.

First practical demonstration of an oral contraceptive.