1950–1959

1956

#9367

Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

1956

#10326

The history of medical education in Indiana

1956

#12518

Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, Urgūza fi' t-tibb, Cantica Avicennae.

1956

#14065

Character displacement.

In this paper Brown and Wilson defined character displacement as follows: "Two closely related species have overlapping ranges. In the parts of the ranges where one species occurs alone, the populations of that specie…

1957

#1092.52

A history of nutrition.

1957

#436

Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).

Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.

1957

#4729.1

Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.

First description of Kuru, a disease occurring in natives of New Guinea. Cause of the disease was unknown. "It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via f…

1957 –1963

#2188

Medicine and the navy, 1200-1900. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by C. Lloyd and J. L. S. Coulter.

1957

#752.5

The nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955. In: Festschrift Arthur Stoll, pp. 35-47.

In 1955 Theorell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries relating to the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes."

1957

#1947.4

Production and isolation of a new antibiotic, kanamycin.

With nine co-authors.

1957

#2419.1

Reiter protein complement fixation test for syphilis.

See also H. Reiter, Brit. J. vener. Dis., 1960, 36, 18-20.

1957

#2419.2

A fluorescent test for treponemal antibodies.

Fluorescent treponemal antibody test. With V. H. Falcone and A. Harris.

1957

#1766.606

The evolution of medical education in the nineteenth century.

Covers medical education in England.

1957

#2660.9

Fluorinated pyrimidines, a new class of tumour-inhibitory compounds.

Synthesis of 5-fluorouracil. With eight co-authors.

1957

#2660.10

The induction of neoplasms with a substance released from mouse tumors by tissue culture.

Isolation of polymavirus (papovavirus). With B. E. Eddy, A. M. Gochenour, N. G. Borgese, and G E. Grubbs.

1957

#2681

Progress in the techniques of soft tissue examination by 15 MC pulsed ultrasound. In: Ultrasound in biology and medicine, ed. E. Kelly, pp. 30-48.

1957

#3155.1

Gene mutations in human haemoglobin: the chemical difference between normal and sickle cell haemoglobin.

Sickle-cell hemoglobin differs from normal hemoglobin by a single amino acid (valine for glutamic acid).

1957

#3161

The story of heart disease.

1957

#2578.21

The effects of the continuous re-infusion of lymph and lymphocytes on the output of lymphocytes from the thoracic duct of unanaesthetized rats.

Gowans’s work, particularly between 1957 and 1962, was mainly responsible for the fusion of studies on the lymphocytes with the mainstream of immunology. The above paper dealt with the recirculation of lymphocytes. Se…

1957

#2578.22

Virus interference. I. The interferon.

Discovery of interferon type I, a protein that interferes with viral replication. "While working together at the NIMR, Lindenmann and Isaacs noticed that if they killed viruses using heat and applied the dead viruses …

1957

#2578.23

Leukocyte agglutinins in human sera. Correlations between blood transfusions and their development.

Leucocyte typing.

1957

#2883.2

The contributions of right heart catheterization to physiology and medicine, with some observations on the physiopathology of pulmonary heart disease.

1957

#2883.21

Ultrasonic Doppler method for the inspection of cardiac functions.

Demonstration of the Doppler shift in the frequency of ultrasound backscattered by moving cardiac structures.

1957

#3215.4

Recovery from infants with respiratory illness of a virus related to chimpanzee coryza agent (CCA).

Respiratory syncytial virus. With B. Roizman and R. Myers.

1957

#3978.3

Pharmacological studies of a new oral hypoglycemic drug.

Phenformin, a biguanide formerly used in diabetes. With L. Freedman and S. L. Shapiro. Clinical report on pp. 193-4.

1957

#4154.5

Alopecia mucinosa. Inflammatory plaques with alopecia characterized by root-sheath mucinosis.

Follicular mucinosis.

1957

#4405.01

Atlas of arthroscopy.

The first atlas of arthroscopy, a major step in gaining wide acceptance of this operating technique. The color illustrations were prepared by an artist as available arthroscopes did not permit color photography. Watan…

1957

#5991.1

Studies on the etiology of trachoma with special reference to isolation of the virus in chick embryo.

Isolation of trachoma agent, Chlamydia trachomatis. With H. L. Chang, Y. T. Huang, and K. C. Wang.

1957

#5436.1

The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France.

The appendices contain the early histories of inoculation, a list of German doctoral dissertations on inoculation 1720-52, and a bibliography.

1957

#6650.2

Women doctors of the world.

1957

#6663

MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

The latest issue may be viewed at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/latest-issue. Vols. 1-60 (1957-2016) are archived at PubMedCentral at this link.

1957

#6603.2

Historia y medicina; figuras y hechos de la historiografia médica mexicana.

1957

#7386

The path of carbon in photosynthesis.

Discovery of the Calvin cycle, also known as the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle, or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle — a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the stroma of chloropla…

1957

#7404

The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.

1957

#8586

Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.

Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…

1957

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1957

#8736

Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.

1957

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1957

#9726

Drug reactions, enzymes and biochemical genetics.

Motulsky clearly stated that inheritance might explain many individual differences in the efficacy of drugs and in the occurence of adverse drug reactions.

1957

#10282

Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.

Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

1957

#10322

A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

1957

#10886

Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another term for …

1957

#10993

A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.

1957

#11282

Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A study in the history of the booktrade.

1957

#11362

The principles and art of plastic surgery. 2 vols.

1957

#11653

A history of luminescence: From the earliest times until 1900.

A history of bioluminescence, the production and emission of light by living organisms.

1957

#11944

Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.

See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.

1957

#12450

Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.

The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.

1957

#12633

The total synthesis of penicillin V.

Sheehan and Henery-Logan reported the step by step synthesis of penicillin V (phenoxymethylpenicillin) and the cyclization of the beta lactam ring, key to creation of beta-lactam antibiotics. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…

1957

#13097

Nucleic acids.

This paper published in September 1957, based on Crick's famous "Central Dogma" lecture given the same month, presented his first published statement of The Central Dogma: “Information is transmitted from DNA and RNA …