1960–1969
625 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1961
#11211
The first catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, Washington, 1840.
Facsimile copy and first publication in print of the original manuscript catalogue published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine, Washington, 1961. The first (manuscript) …
1961
#11420
America's pre-pharmacopeial literature.
1961
#11586
An atlas of acquired diseases of the heart and great vessels. 3 vols.
1961
#11671
A new approach to cardiac resuscitation.
"The pioneers of modern cardiopulmonary resucitation describe their breakthrough technique of combining mouth-to-mouth ventilation, closed chest compressions, and transthoracic defibrillation to treat cardiac arrest" …
1961
#11979
Combined electron and light microscopy in Whipple's disease. Demonstration of "bacillary bodies" in the intestine.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yardley, Hendrix. The authors made the first observations of previously uncultured, unseen and unidentified bacilli associated with Whipple's disease, suggesting that i…
1961
#11993
Surgical exposure of the internal auditory canal and is contents through the middle cranial fossa.
House, an otologist, pioneered exploration of the internal auditory canal and removal of acoustic neuromas through the microscope. His success stimulated neurosurgeons to pursue the application of the operating micros…
1961
#12015
No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.
Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…
1961
#12165
Hypokinetic disease: Diseases produced by lack of exercise
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1961
#12250
New method for heart studies.
Probably the first publication on the Holter Monitor, which was released for commercial production in 1962. Abstract "I have proposed that orthodox electrocardiography be implemented, both for research and medical pur…
1961
#12413
The toadstool millionaires.
Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.
1961
#13057
Bionics Symposium. Living prototypes-the key to new technology. Wadd Technical Report 60-600. Edited by Joan C. Robinette.
1961
#13083
Proceedings of a conference on results of the first U.S. manned suborbital space flight. June 6, 1961.
Ch. 4: "Review of biomedical systems for MR-3 flight." Ch. 5: "Results of preflight and postflight medical examinations" Ch. 6: "Bioinstrumentation in MR-3 flight." Ch.7: "Physiological responses of the astronatu in t…
1961
#13084
Results of the second U.S. manned suborbital space flight July 21, 1961.
Ch. 3: "Results of the MR-4 preflight and postflight medical examination conducted on astronaut Virgil I. Grissom." Ch. 4: "Physiological responses of the astronaut in the MR-4 space flight." Ch. 5: "Flight surgeon's …
1961
#13590
Nicolás Bautista Monardes: Su vida y su obra, ca. 1493-1588.
1961
#14281
Fate of tritiated noradrenaline at the sympathetic nerve endings.
Using electron microscopy and tritiated norepinephrine, the authors discovered the area in the nerve endings in which the catecholamines were concentrated, and also observed enhanced radioactive catecholamine release …
1962
#357
Histoire de la zoologie des origines à Linné.
1962
#460
Anatomical eponyms: being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described. 2nd ed.
1962
#1138.2
Evidence for calcitonin – a new hormone from the parathyroid that lowers blood calcium.
With E. C. Cameron, B. A. Cheney, A. G. F. Davidson, and K. G. Henze.
1962 –1968
#1671.5
Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.
1962
#2068.2
History of pharmacy in Britain.
1962
#2137.02
Occupational health in America.
Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.
1962
#1931.4
The structure of prostaglandin E, F1 and F2.
In this and subsequent papers Bergström and Samuelsson elucidated the chemical structure of prostaglandins. In 1982 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelss…
1962
#2432.1
A history of syphilis.
1962
#3047.17
Homograft replacement of the aortic valve.
Homograft valve placed below coronary orifice, a single page report. The first complete report on the "Ross procedure" was "Homotransplantation of the aortic valve in the subcoronary posittion," J. thorac. cardiovasc.…
1962
#2883.5
New method for terminating cardiac arrythmias; use of synchronized capacitor discharge.
Use of transthoracic direct current countershock of very short duration to avoid the vulnerable period in the cardiac cycle.
1962
#2578.33
Initiation of immune responses by small lymphocytes.
Gowans and colleagues showed that the lymphocyte is the immunologically competent cell.
1962
#3215.5
Growth on artificial medium of an agent associated with atypical pneumonia and its identification as a PPLO.
Using a novel agar and fluid medium formulation he had devised, Hayflick isolated a unique mycoplasma Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a mycoplasma shown to be the cause of some cases of primary atypical pneumonia, or "walking …
1962
#3978.5
The story of insulin: Forty years of success against diabetes.
With G. Hetenyi and W. R. Feasby.
1962
#2924.3
Cine-coronary arteriography.
Coronary arteriography. Sones first performed this technique in 1958, and first published a more detailed account of it in a 1960 book chapter: "Cinecardioangiography," pp. 130-144 in B. L. Gordon (ed.) Clinical cardi…
1962
#3705.02
Pictorial history of dentistry.
Also issued as Bildgeschichte der Zahnheilkunde. Zeugnisse aus 5 Jahrtausenden. Parallel texts in German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish!
1962
#4405.2
Treatment of scoliosis: Correction and internal fixation by spine instrumentation.
The “Harrington rod” system for scoliosis and spine fracture surgery.
1962
#5509.1
Propagation in tissue culture of cytopathic agents from patients with rubella-like illness.
Isolation of rubella virus. It was simultaneously isolated by P. D. Parkman, et al. (No. 5509.2.)
1962
#5509.2
Recovery of rubella virus from army recruits.
Isolation of the rubella virus.
1962
#6742.1
Disease and destiny. A bibliography of medical references to the famous. With additions and an Introduction by Gordon E. Mestler.
1962
#6491.1
Ancient Indian Medicine.
Revised edition, Bombay, 1969.
1962
#6786.4
American medical bibliography 1639-1783.
Lists and describes 719 books, pamphlets, and broadsides, 506 almanacs, 25 magazines, and 224 newspapers published in the area now forming the U.S.A.
1962 –2006
#6786.5
A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 5 vols.
Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641; Vol. 2-3: Books printed from 1641-1850, A-E, F-L; Vol. 4: Books printed from 1641-1850, M-R; Vol. 5 Books printed from 1642 to 1850, S-Z.
1962 –1999
#6786.6
A catalogue of western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. 3 vols. plus Supplement.
I: MSS written before ad 1650. II-III: MSS written after ad 1650. Addenda in 1. Anzeiger dtsch. Altertum dtsch. Lit., 1970, 81, 49-55. Supplementary catalogue (1999).
1962
#6786.7
Histoire de la médecine et du livre médical à la lumière des collections de la Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.
1962
#256.12
Adult frogs derived from the nuclei of single somatic cells.
Demonstration that somatic and germinal nuclei are genetically equivalent. Using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), Gurdon (Nobel Prize 2012) transplanted cell nuclei from mature intestinal tadpole cells into enucl…
1962
#6984
Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.
Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…
1962
#7207
Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.
First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.
1962
#7417
Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
1962
#7517
Les reflets de la sphygmologie chinoise dans la médecine occidentale.
1962
#7589
Catalogue of the pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter, Sir William Macewen, Prof. John H. Teacher and Prof. J.A.G. Burton in the museum of the Pathology Dept., Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
1962
#7841
Silent spring.
This very carefully documented book convincingly proved the disastrous effects of DDT in the environment, and generated a storm of controversy. It was later credited with founding the "environmental movement" in the U…
1962
#7905
HISTORY OF SCIENCE. 1-
1962
#7927
The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.
1962
#7946
Peresadka zhiznenno vazhnykh organov v eksperimente. Experimental transplantation of vital organs. Authorized translation from the Russian by Basil Haigh.
Demikhov coined the term transplantology, and this work, first published in Russian in 1960, and translated and published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, was the first monograph on transplantation of organs an…
1962
#8484
Data acquisition and processing in biology and medicine. Proceedings of the 1961 Rochester conference. Edited by Kurt Enslein.
Records of the first conference on "biomedical data processing" held in a medical school in the United States.