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1960–1969

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1962

#8793

The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.

1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.

1962

#8893

The battered-child syndrome.

"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …

1962

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.

1962

#9695

Byzantine medicine: Tradition and empiricism.

1962

#9887

The human skeleton in forensic medicine.

1962

#10274

The casualty officer's handbook.

The first handbook published in England on what later came to be called emergency medicine. Ellis, appointed to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1952, was the first "Casualty" consultant in England, and remained so unti…

1962

#10285

Medicine in the making of Montana. Written by Paul C. Phillips from his own researches and the pioneer manuscripts of Llewellyn L. Callaway. Additional researches and notes by contributors.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1962

#10357

A history of American medical ethics, 1847-1912.

The first history of medical ethids in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1962

#10506

Atlas of the British flora.

A pioneering large-scale project in plant distribution cartography, containing 10-km square distribution maps for all non-critical native and frequently occurring alien vascular plant species found in Britain and Irel…

1962

#10920

Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.

The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…

1962

#10947

From farriery to veterinary medicine, 1785-1795.

A history of the founding and earliest years of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in England.

1962

#11517

Bibliography of John Farquhar Fulton.

An augmented version of this bibliography is available from library.medicine.yale.edu at this link.

1962

#11602

Heart-lung bypass: Principles and techniques of extracorporeal circulation.

1962

#11836

Development of psychological thought in India.

1962

#11850

Disinfected mail: Historical review and tentative listing of cachets, handstamp markings, wax seals, wafer seals and manuscript certifications alphabetically arranged according to countries, by K.F. Meyer, in collaboration with C. Ravasini ...[et al.].

From the 15th to near the end of the 19th century attempts were made to decontaminate mail which had been in contact with plague, smallpox, cholera, and other contagious diseases.

1962

#12033

Host specificity of DNA produced by escherichia coli. II. Control over acceptance of DNA from infecting phage lambda.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Dussoix, Arber. The authors discovered that restriction of DNA from infecting bacteriophage was due to the attack and breakdown of the modified bacteriophage's DNA by s…

1962

#12034

The concept of a bacterium.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Stanier, Niel. For much of the 20th centurty prokaryotes were regarded as a single group of organisms, classified on the basis of their biochemistry, morphology and met…

1962

#12777

Fonti per la storia della medicina e della chirurgia per il Regno di Napoli nel periodo Angioino (a. 1273-1410). Edited by R. Calvanico.

1962

#13082

Results of the first United States Manned Orbital Space Flight February 20, 1962.

Ch. 3: "Life support systems and biomedical instrumentation." Ch. 8: "Aeromedical preparation and results of postflight medical examinations." Ch. 9: "Physiological responses of the astronaut." Ch. 10: "Astronaut prep…

1962

#13164

A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.

Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.

1962

#13562

Extraction, purification and properties of Aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the luminous hydromedusan, Aequorea.

Shimomura reported the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in a single footnote in this paper that was otherwise devoted to an entirely different bioluminescent protein: photoprotein aequorin. This may be the…

1962

#13580

The Rudolph Matas history of medicine in Louisiana. Edited by John Duffy. 2 vols.

1963 –1964

#534.9

Studien zur Historik der Teratologie.

1963

#1310.2

The ionic mechanism of postsynaptic inhibition. IN: Prix Nobel in 1963, pp. 261-83.

Eccles shared the Nobel Prize with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley in 1963. See No. 1310.1.

1963

#1588

Hormone: Die Geschichte der Hormonforschung.

1963

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1963

#2068.3

Miracle drugs: A history of antibiotics.

First published in German, 1959.

1963

#2068.4

Readings in pharmacology, selected and edited by B. Holmsted and G. Lijestrand.

An anthology of outstanding achievement in the growth of pharmacology.

1963

#2068.5

History of pharmacy. 3rd ed.

4th ed., 1976, revised by G. Sonnedecker.

1963

#1947.5

Gentamicin, a new antibiotic complex from Micromonospora.

With nine co-authors.

1963

#2660.14

Evidence that the L-asparaginase of guinea pig serum is responsible for its antilymphoma effects.

1963

#2660.15

Pre-therapeutic experiments with the fast neutron beam from the Medical Research Council cyclotron. A symposium.

1963

#2660.16

The Vinca alkaloids: a new class of oncolytic agents.

Clinical use of vinblastine (for Hodgkin’s disease and other lymphomas) and vincristine (for acute leukemias of childhood). With J. G. Armstrong, M. Gorman, and J. P. Burnett. Preliminary communication in J. Lab. clin…

1963

#3108.7

Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.

1963

#2243.2

The evolution of clinical methods in medicine.

FitzPatrick Lectures 1960-61. This book traces the changing clinical methods throughout the centuries to show how they arose and how they have grown into their present forms.

1963

#2883.6

Preliminary studies of an acute coronary care area.

Hughes is credited with inventing the coronary care unit, and the "crash cart"

1963

#2578.34

Plaque formation in agar by single antibody-producing cells.

Hemolytic plaque assay for enumerating antibody-forming cells.

1963

#2578.35

Individual antigenic specificity of isolated antibodies.

Idiotypes. With M. Mannik and R.C. Williams. Kunkel and his team discovered idiotypy independently of Jacques Oudin and Philip Gell.

1963

#3215.6

Farmer’s lung. Thermophilic actinomycetes as a source of “farmer’s lung hay” antigen.

Pepys and five co-authors showed that thermophilic actinomycetes, especially Micropolyspora faeni, were the cause of farmer’s lung due to mouldy hay.

1963

#3666.3

Homotransplantation of the liver in humans.

First human liver transplant (three patients; one died during operation, the second after 7.5 days, and the third after 22 days). With five co-authors.

1963

#3924.4

A simple phenylalanine method for detecting phenylketonuria in large populations of newborn infants.

Bacterial inhibition test for phenylketonuria.

1963

#3020.2

A method for extraction of arterial emboli and thrombi.

Introduction of the balloon catheter in arterial embolectomy. With J. J. Cranley, R. J. Krause, E. S. Strasser and C. D. Hafner.

1963

#4435.5

Fractures, dislocations and fracture-dislocations of the spine.

Holdsworth classification of spinal injuries.

1963

#4435.6

Injuries involving the epiphyseal plate.

Standard classification of growth plate fractures in children.

1963

#5308.2

On the origin of the human treponematoses (pinta, yaws, endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis).

“Perhaps the most scholarly investigation of the origin of syphilis” (Wesley Spink).

1963

#5308.3

Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62.

Over 1,700 items.

1963

#5019.3

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

1963

#5019.4

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

Contains 4,460 references.

1963

#5546.7

The evolution and eradication of infectious diseases.

1963

#5813.4

The story of wound healing and wound repair.

See No. 3659.1.