1950–1959

1955

#9593

Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Stedelijke Pharmacopeeën.

1955

#10153

Histoire illustrée de la médecine vétérinaire. 2 vols.

1955

#10249

Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1955

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1955

#10994

Diseases of the liver and biliary system.

13th edition, 2018. "In 1959 she [Sherlock] became the United Kingdom's first ever female Professor of Medicine when she was appointed at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. She founded the liver uni…

1955

#10995

Intracardiac surgery with the aid of a mechanical pump oxygenator system (Gibbon type): Report of eight cases.

Co-authored with JW Dushane, RT Patrick, DE Donald, PS Hetzel and EH Wood, "Kirklin refined the heart-lung machine (screen type) originally developed by Gibbon, to the point that it allowed the person to receive oxyge…

1955

#11468

Vancomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Chemical and biologic properties.

Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist working at Eli Lilly, first isolated Vancomycin in 1953 from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary, Rev. William M. Bouw (1918-2006). The organ…

1955

#11547

Surgery of the heart.

This 1062-page volume was the first textbook of modern cardiovascular surgery.

1955

#11577

Cardiovascular surgery: Studies in physiology, diagnosis and techniques. Proceedings of the symposium held at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, March, 1955. Edited by Conrad R. Lam.

This symposium was a foundational work in the history of cardiovascular surgery. It included contributions by most of the pioneers of the closed and open-heart procedures that revolutionaized the care of children and …

1955

#12458

The lung: Clinical physiology and pulmonary function tests.

Comroe and associates at the University of Pennsylvania introduced pulmonary function tests developed by physiologists into clinical practice. Comroe invented several of the tests described in the book.

1955

#12911

Index of dental and adjacent topics in medical and surgical works before 1800.

1955

#13140

Airborne contagion and air hygiene: An ecological study of droplet infections.

"In 1954, Wells began a long-term experiment to demonstrate that tuberculosis could be transmitted through air. At the VA Hospital in Baltimore, collaborating with Riley, John Barnwell, and Cretyl C. Mills, he built a…

1955

#13685

A small particulate component of the cytoplasm.

Palade first described the association of what were subsequently determined to ribosomes with membranes. He and Keith Porter subsequently named this structure the endoplasmic reticulum. Digital facsimile from PubMedCe…

1955

#13954

The structure of collagen.

Rich and Crick solved the structure of collagen, the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix found in the body's various connective tissues. As the main component of connective tissue, it is the most abund…

1955

#14001

Structure of tobacco mosaic virus.

The first discovery of the geometry of a protein structure. Franklin, whose X-ray photographs of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the molecule's double helix structure in 1953, began researching the…

1955

#14036

Old English silver and its medical interest. Presidential Address, Liverpool Medical Institution, 14th October 1954.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1955

#14312

The maser - new type of microwave amplifier, frequency standard, and spectrometer.

In 1964 Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Alexandr Mihailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of osci…

1955

#14343

The Negro in science.

In the forward Martin D. Jenkins pointed out that while African Americans made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists was rather low. In the first chapter…

1956 –1960

#86.4

Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.

Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…

1956

#752.4

Enzymic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid.

In 1959 Kornberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Severo Ochoa "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid." Order of authorshi…

1956

#1671.2

A short history of public health.

2nd edition, 1966.

1956

#1947.3

Mitomycin, a new antibiotic from streptomyces.

Isolation of mitomycin C, effective in Hodgkin’s disease and lymphoma. With six co-authors.

1956

#2442.2

Clinical trials of diphenyl thiourea compound SU 1906 (Ciba 1509E) in the treatment of leprosy. Progress during the first year.

Introduction of diphenylthiourea (thiambutosine) therapy.

1956

#2353.1

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccination of newborn infants with a British vaccine.

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccine.

1956

#2527.2

Propagation in tissue culture of a cytopathogenic virus from human salivary gland virus (SGV) disease.

Isolation of cytomegalovirus

1956

#3047.8

Homologous aortic-valve-segment transplants as surgical treatment for aortic and mitral insufficiency.

First successful aortic valve homograft. For report of six-year follow-up, see A. J. Kerwin, et al., New Engl. J. Med.,1962, 266,852.

1956

#3047.9

A simple, expendable, artificial oxygenator for open heart surgery.

DeWall bubble oxygenator. With six co-authors.

1956

#3160.1

Classics in arterial hypertension.

1956

#2578.17

Infectivity of ribonucleic acid from tobacco mosaic virus.

Proof that nucleic acid produces infectivity. See also Z. Naturf., 1956, 11b, 138-42.

1956

#2578.18

The bursa of Fabricius and antibody production in the domestic fowl.

The relationship of the bursa of Fabricius to antibody formation was discovered by Glick, T. S. Chang, and R. G. Jaap. Its removal in early life led to inability to produce antibodies.

1956

#2578.19

Autoantibodies in Hashimoto’s disease (lymphadenoid goitre).

Demonstration of autoantibodies. With P. N. Campbell, and R. V. Hudson.

1956

#2578.20

Studies on organ specificity. IV. Production of rabbit thyroid antibodies in the rabbit.

Autoimmune thyroiditis

1956

#3978.2

Über die orale Behandlung des Diabetes mellitus mit N-(4-Methyl-Benzolsulfonyl)-N’Butyl-Harnstoff (D 860).

A Symposium on tolbutamide, introduced by H. Maske.

1956

#4257

Successful homotransplantation of the human kidney between identical twins.

This was the first successful kidney transplant. The patient, both of whose own kidneys had been removed, was alive 11 months after the transplant. With Warren R. Guild. See No. 4256.1. In 1990 Joseph Murray shared th…

1956

#4257.1

Further developments of a coil kidney. Disposable artificial kidney.

Disposable twin coil kidney.

1956

#5729.2

The human cardiovascular response to fluothane.

Clinical introduction of halothane (“fluothane”).

1956

#5729.3

The action of fluothane–a new volatile anaesthetic.

Halothane (“fluothane”) a non-inflammable and non-irritant anesthetic, was synthesized by C. W. Suckling at the I.C.I. Laboratories in Manchester.

1956 –1963

#5019

Grosse Nervenärzte. 3 vols.

1956

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1956

#6569.2

Istoriia vseobshchei i otechestvennoi meditsiny i zdravookhraneniia: Bibliografiia (996-1954). Edited by B. D. Petrov.

1956

#6603.1

Historia de la medicina en Bolivia.

1956

#256.5

The chromosome number in man.

Proof that the normal chromosome number in man is 46.

1956

#7238

Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.

Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.

1956

#7418

Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.

1956

#7782

Preliminary communication: Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in-utero.

Stewart was one of the earliest to study the effect of prenatal X-rays, later replaced by ultrasound. She found that the children of mothers who received these X-rays were almost twice as likely to develop leukemia or…

1956

#8020

The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1956

#8346

I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).

1956

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1956

#8933

Morão, Rosa & Pimenta; notícia dos três primeiros livros em vernáculo sôbre a medicina no Brasil. Estudo crítico de Gilberto Osório de Andrade. Introduções históricas, interpretações e notas de Eustáquio Duarte. Pref. de Gilberto Freyre.

1956

#8957

Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.