1950–1959
579 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1953
#11678
Closure of atrial septal defects with the aid of hypothermia; experimental accomplishments and the report of one successful case.
Lewis performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl on September 2, 1952. The procedure took 5.5 minutes. For the next three years Lewis and colleagues opera…
1953
#11839
Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…
1953
#12184
A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant.
The Apgar score for summarizing the health of newborn children, based on skin color, pulse rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone, and respiratory effort. These form a backronym, referring back to the author: Appearan…
1953
#12449
Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.
Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, Aserinsk…
1953
#13946
Evidence for 2-chain helix in crystalline structure of sodium deoxyribonucleate.
Franklin and Gosling's completed Patterson synthesis of the A-form of DNA, based on work begun in 1952, represents the first independent confirmation that the Watson-Crick double-helix model was correct. "We suggest t…
1953
#13965
The transplantability of nuclei of arrested hybrid blastulae (R. pipiens female X R. catesbeiana male).
King and Briggs cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplanation performed in metazoans. The same cloning technique, using somatic cells, was later…
1953
#14072
Induction of instability at selected loci in maize.
McClintock (Nobel Prize 1983) discovered transposable elements or jumping genes. She found that certain parts of chromosome had switched position. This refuted the then-popular theory that genes were fixed in their po…
1953
#14290
Switching systems as mechanized brains.
Written in the earliest days of automatic switching systems when few electronic computers existed, Meszar's paper raised the question of whether certain aspects of human thought are computable and others are not. Mesz…
1953
#14369
Nursing team organization and functioning.
Lambertsen developed "team nursing," a system of integrated care distributing the care of a patient among a team working together. In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates …
1954
#1175.4
A synthetic preparation possessing biological properties associated with arginine-vasopressin.
Synthesis of vasopressin. With D. T. Gish and P. G. Katsoyannis.
1954
#2028.42
History of blood transfusion.
1954
#1947
Purification and some properties of cephalosporin N, a new penicillin.
With G. G. F. Newton and C. W. Hale.
1954
#2660.7
Cytoactive amino-acid and peptide derivatives. I. Substituted phenylalanines.
Melphalan (a nitrogen mustard) later used in the chemotherapy of cancer.
1954
#3047.5
Application of a mechanical heart and lung apparatus to cardiac surgery.
First pump oxygenator used on humans. Performed on May 6, 1953, this was the first successful intracardiac operation in a patient with the use of total heart-lung bypass.
1954
#3047.6
Controlled cross circulation for open intracardiac surgery; physiologic studies and results of creation and closure of ventricular septal defects.
Warden and colleagues undertook the first repair of various cardiac anomalies. With M. Cohen, and R.C. Read.
1954
#3558.1
A flexible fibrescope, using static scanning.
1954
#2578.12
Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. I. The survival times of skin homografts exchanged between members of different inbred strains of mice. II. The origin, strength and duration of actively and adoptively acquired immunity.
Experimental production of immunological tolerance by Billingham and colleagues.Paper II distinguished adoptive from passive immunization. E. M. Sparrow was a co-author of paper I.
1954
#2578.14
Kinetic studies on immune hemolysis. III-IV.
Complement fixation
1954
#2578.15
Passive transfer of transplantation immunity.
Preliminary notice in Nature (Lond.), 1953, 171, 267-68.
1954
#2883.01
The use of ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording the movements of heart walls.
Echocardiography, from which the field of medical ultrasonics developed.
1954
#3924.3
A new syndrome: progressive familial infantile cerebral dysfunction associated with unusual urinary substance.
Maple syrup urine disease described. With P. L. Hurst and J. M. Craig.
1954
#4256.2
Nephrotomography. A preliminary report.
With W. Dubilier and J. C. Monteith.
1954
#3412.6
A new method for testing hearing in temporal lobe tumours. Preliminary report.
The first tests for disorders of central auditory function were developed by Bocca, C. Calearo, and V. Cassinari.
1954
#3705.01
Bibliografia odontologica Mexicana.
1954
#4158.1
Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.
1954
#4914.2
Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.
This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.
1954
#5131
Plague.
Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.
1954
#4962.4
The pharmacological properties of 2-methyl-2-m-propyl-1, 3-propanediol dicarbamate (Miltown), a new interneuronal blocking agent.
Introduction of meprobamate, later used for the treatment of anxiety. Miltown was the first widely prescribed psychotropic drug.
1954 –1960
#5352.3
Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.
South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.
1954
#5449.2
Propagation in tissue cultures of cytopathogenic agents from patients with measles.
Isolation of measles virus.
1954
#6311.1
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
1954
#6785.1
The development of medical bibliography.
A historical study; includes a list of 255 medical bibliographies published since 1500. Reprinted 1981.
1954
#6786
A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
Gives full bibliographical description of 632 incunabula.
1954
#6451.1
Current work in the history of medicine. An international bibliography. No. 1-.
A quarterly subject index to periodical literature on the history of medicine. Also lists new books alphabetically by author. Discontinued. See No. 6451.11
1954
#6451.2
A history of medicine. 1 vol. [in 2]
1954
#6896
Possible relation between deoxyribonucleic acid and protein structures.
Gamow, a physicist, invented the concept of a genetic code. This brief 1-page paper, published in the February 13, 1954 issue of Nature was the first specific positive response to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA. …
1954
#7085
Steroids. LIV.Synthesis of 19-Nov-17α-ethynyltestosterone and 19-Nor-17α-methyltestosterone.
Synthesis of Norethisterone (or norethindrone) (or 19-nor-17α-ethynyltestosterone), the first highly active progestin analog that was effective when taken by mouth. This molecule became part of one of the first succes…
1954
#7351
The human brain in sagittal section.
A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in conseq…
1954
#7981
Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.
The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.
1954 –1973
#6471.2
Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.
Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…
1954
#8469
Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.
1954
#8928
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
1954
#9031
La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.
1954 –1956
#9199
The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.
1954
#9228
Medical considerations in helicopter evacuation.
"The introduction of the helicopter to the Army Medical Department's traditional battlefield mission of medical evacuation of sick, injured, and wounded soldiers from frontline units to hospitals in the rear had its r…
1954
#9879
"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.
Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.
1954
#11159
Neurosurgery of infancy and childhood.
The first complete textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. Ingraham, a protegé of Harvey Cushing, established the first pediatric neurosurgery unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1929.
1954 –1965
#11218
A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794
Mostly written by Herbert S. Klickstein for the collector Denis Duveen.
1954
#11268
The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.
1954
#11714
Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.
"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).