1960–1969
625 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1961
#4483.1
Geschichte der Orthopädie.
1961
#1671.4
The story of England’s hospitals.
1961
#2319.1
A short history of clinical pathology.
1961
#2353.3
A new synthetic compound with antituberculous activity in mice; ethambutol (dextro-2, 2’-(ethylenediimino)-di-l-butanol).
Ethambutol for the treatment of tuberculosis. With C. O. Baughn, R. G. Wilkinson and R. G. Shepherd.
1961
#3047.16
Mitral replacement: The shielded ball valve prothesis.
On September 21, 1960, Starr successfully inserted a “ball-in-cage” prosthetic valve (the Starr-Edwards heart valve) into a patient’s mitral valve, which was severely diseased as a result of rheumatic fever. This was …
1961
#3155.3
Stomatocytosis: a hereditary red cell anomaly associated with haemolytic anaemia.
With R. Sephton Smith and R. M. Hardisty.
1961
#2578.32
Immunological function of the thymus.
Miller demonstrated the immunological function of the thymus.
1961
#2700.3
Isolated flying spot detection of radiodensity discontinuities displaying the internal structural pattern of a complex object.
Oldendorf described his experimental system for reconstructing the appearance of soft tissues by measuring radiodensity discontinuities (differences in tissue attenuation) but it was not fully recognized that very hig…
1961
#2581.3
Milestones in microbiology.
Readings from primary sources, with commentary.
1961
#3161.01
A history of thoracic surgery
Includes cardiovascular surgery.
1961
#3978.4
Index zum Diabetes mellitus. Eine internationale Bibliographie.
1961
#4154.7
Isolation of Blastomyces dermatitidis from soil.
With E.S. McDonough, L. Ajello and R.J. Ausherman.
1961
#4405.1
Arthroplasty of the hip: a new operation.
Total hip replacement; Charnley arthroplasty.
1961
#5019.2
The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)
1961
#5813.3
Great ideas in the history of surgery.
1961
#6007
Geschichte der Tonometrie.
Revised and enlarged English translation with deceptive title: Tonometry: physical fundamentals, development of methods and clinical application, New York, Hafner, 1966.
1961
#6643.1
The natural history of quackery.
1961
#6235.1
Demonstration of tissue interfaces within the body by ultrasonic echo sounding.
Biparietal fetal cephalometry by ultrasound.
1961
#6786.3
Early American medical imprints. A guide to works printed in the United States 1668-1820.
Describes 2105 items with paginations. Reprinted 1977.
1961
#6603.3
Historia de la medicina en Venezuela. Epoca colonial.
1961
#256.7
Gene action in the X-chromosome of the mouse (Mus musculus L).
Theory of differential inactivation of the X-chromosome. See also Amer. J. hum. Genet., 1962, 14, 135-48.
1961
#256.8
General nature of the genetic code for proteins.
The codons in DNA specifying amino acids in proteins.
1961
#256.9
Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins.
In 1965 Jacob, Monod, and André Lwoff shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis."
1961
#256.10
An unstable intermediate carrying information from genes to ribosomes for protein synthesis.
Demonstration of the existence of “messenger” RNA. The following paper (pp. 581-85) by F. Gros et al. is also relevant.
1961
#256.11
Characteristics and stabilization of DNAase-sensitive protein synthesis in E. coli extracts.
With Matthaei, Nirenberg demonstrated that messenger RNA is required for protein synthesis, and that synthetic messenger RNA preparations can be used to decipher various aspects of the genetic code. Nirenberg first re…
1961
#214.2
Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.
Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…
1961
#6945
Bibliography of memory.
The most complete bibliography to date on this subject. Regarding Young, see the unusually interesting obituary in The New York Times at this link.
1961
#7033
Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961
"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.
1961
#7200
The encyclopedia of sexual behavior.
1961
#7352
The human cerebellum. An atlas of gross topography in serial sections.
1961
#7468
Genetic nucleic acid: Key material in the origin of life.
Muller was one of the earliest proponents of a genetics-first theory for the origin of life.
1961
#7991
The first catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Washington, 1840. Facsimile copy of the original manuscript published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1961
#8381
The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.
The Hayflick limit. Hayflick demonstrated that a population of normal human fetal cells in a cell culture will divide between 40 and 60 times. The population then enters a senescence phase.
1961
#8421
A chronological census of Renaissance editions and translations of Galen.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.
1961 –1970
#8472
A history of chemistry. Vol. 1, pt 1, Vols. 2-4.
The most comprehensive history of chemistry, with many bibliographical references. Vol. 1, pt. 2 never published.
1961
#8764
Doctors, patients, and health insurance: The organization and financing of medical care.
1961
#8866
Thought reform and the psychology of totalism. A study of "brainwashing" in China.
1961
#9223
Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.
"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…
1961
#9414
The nocebo reaction.
Kennedy coined the term nocebo in this paper.
1961
#9648
Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.
Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…
1961
#9946
Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
Foucault's first major book, translated into English as Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason (1964).
1961
#10005
Glomerular permeability. I. Ferritin transfer across the normal glomerular capillary wall.
"The authors used ferritin as an electron dense tracer, such that they could visualize both the structure of the capillary wall and the pathways taken by the ferritin moelcules across the wall....This report confirmed…
1961
#10311
Northern Rhodesia in the days of the charter: A medical and social study, 1878-1924.
1961
#10321
A history of the therapy of tuberculosis and the case of Frederic Chopin.
1961
#10370
Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: A Biobibliography.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1961
#10854
The ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.
"....based on analysis of 2200 wild and cultivated plant specimens with clearly defined archaeological contexts... Part I is a systematic ethnobotany with pertinent citations of the botanical and archaeological litera…
1961
#10855
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
1961
#10949
Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …
1961
#10992
Every man our neighbor: A brief history of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
1961
#11201
