1960–1969
625 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1963 –1980
#6473.1
Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. 6 vols.
The texts of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages.
1963
#6485.1
Antike Medizin. Die naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin in der griechischen Antike. 2nd ed.
1963
#6485.94
An English translation of the Suśruta Samhita…2nd ed.
1963
#6495.8
The medical writings of Moses Maimonides. Treatise on asthma.
1963
#6311.4
Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.
A continuation of No. 6303.
1963
#6549
The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.
1963
#6451.4
Histoire de la médecine.
1963
#6805
Wörtenbuch der klinischen Syndrome. 3te. Auflage.
5th ed., 1972.
1963
#6603.4
Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador. 2 vols.
1963
#6550
A history of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Abstracted and arranged from the MS notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles Cameron, revised annotated and edited by E. Ashworth Underwood. Vol.1: 1617-1815.
1963 –1966
#273
Geschichte der Mikroskopie. 3 vols.
A biographical history.
1963
#6941
Effect of the laser beam on the skin.
One of the first papers on the application of lasers in medicine. In 1961 Goldman became the first researcher to use a laser to treat a human skin disease when he treated melanoma. The method later became popular in r…
1963
#7375
A history of domesticated animals.
1963
#7413
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
1963
#7868
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
1963
#7947
The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1963
#8149
Representation of a Function by its Line Integrals, with Some Radiological Applications.
Cormack showed that changes in tissue density could be computed from x-ray data. Because of limitations in computing power no machine was constructed during the 1960s. Cormack's papers generated little interest until …
1963
#8161
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).
1963
#8320
Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.
1963
#8349
A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. Revised and augmented edition.
1963
#8352
The Salernitan questions: An introduction to the history of Medieval and Renaissance problem literature.
1963
#8398
Clinical aspects of immunology.
Gell-Coombs classification of hypersensitivity. Prior to development of this classification, all forms of hypersensitivity were classified as allergies, "and all were thought to be caused by an improper activation of …
1963
#8642
The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland: Studies by Dr. Leon Wulman and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Research and Documentation by Dr. Leopold Lazarowitz and Dr. Simon Malowist. Edited by Louis Falstein.
"Of the more than 3 million Jewish Poles that perished during the Holocaust, approximately 3,000 were physicians. It was the goal of the Alliance members to memorialize those physicians who perished during the Holocau…
1963
#8835
The journal of James Yonge, Plymouth surgeon (1647-1721). Edited by F. N. L. Poynter.
A complete account of Yonge's life from the age of ten until the age of 61. "It is considered to be the most important diary of the 17th century after those of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.[1] In it Yonge mentioned fa…
1963
#9023
World health and history.
1963
#9381
A method of staffing a community hospital emergency department.
Mills headed the first 24/7 year-round emergency care center in the U.S. established at Alexandria Hospital, Virginia, in 1961. This method of staffing a 24/7 emergency medical facility became known as the "Alexandria…
1963
#9647
Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.
Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …
1963
#9947
Naissance de la clinique: Une archéologie du regard médical.
Translated into English as The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception (1973).
1963
#11598
Periodic health examinations: Abstracts from the literature. Public Health Service Publication No. 1010.
An annotated bibliography of the literature to June 1962. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1963
#11951
Supranuclear ophthalmoplegia, pseudobulbar palsy, nuchal dystonia and dementia. A Clinical Report on Eight Cases of "heterogenous System Degeneration".
First description of progressive supranuclear palsy as a distinct disorder. The authors recognized the same clinical syndrome in 8 patients and described the autopsy findings in 6 of them in 1963.
1963
#12217
The significance of late systolic murmurs and mid-late systolic clicks.
See also J. B. Barlow, W.A. Pocock P. Marchand, M. Denny, "The significance of late systolic murmurs," Am Heart J., 66 (1963) 443- 452 Barlow revolutionized thinking about the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation w…
1963
#12259
"Cardioversion" of atrial fibrillation: A report on the treatment of 65 episodes in 50 patients.
"In 1959 Bernard Lown commenced research in his animal laboratory in collaboration with engineer Barouh Berkovits into a technique which involved charging of a bank of capacitors to approximately 1000 volts with an en…
1963
#12427
Cytological demonstration of the clonal nature of spleen colonies derived from transplanted mouse marrow cells.
McCulloch and Till discovered the blood-forming stem cell, the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC), through their pioneering work in mice. McCulloch and Till began a series of experiments in which bone marrow cells were inj…
1963
#12428
The distribution of colony-forming cells among spleen colonies.
Evidence that stem cells are capable of self-renewal. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Siminovitch, McCullch, Till). Digital facsimile from tspace.library.utoronto.ca at this link.
1963
#13033
Animal species and evolution.
Condensed and extensively revised as Populations, species and evolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.
1963
#13955
A multiple ribosomal structure in protein synthesis.
Alexander Rich discovered polysomes, clusters of ribosomes which read one strand of mRNA simultaneously. Order of authorship in the original publication: Warner, Knopf, Rich. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at th…
1963
#14069
On the aims and methods of ethology.
In this paper Tinbergen defined Tinbergen's Four Questions, or complementary categories of explanations for animal behavior. that form the basis of ethology: Causation, Ontogeny, Survival Value, and Evolution. In 1973…
1963
#14103
Recurrent Dupuytren's contracture.
Hueston described Dupuytren's diathesis, including early onset, bilateral involvement, postive family history, and presence of ectopic lesions. He noted that patents presenting Dupuytren's diathesis experience more se…
1963
#14305
The genetic control of tertiary protein structure studies with mode systems.
In 1972 Anfinsen shared half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein for "for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and biologi…
1964
#4509.1
A short history of the gout and the rheumatic diseases.
1964
#1588.1
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
1964
#2068.6
Curare, its history and usage.
1964
#2068.7
Pharmacy in history.
Traces the origins of pharmacy in ancient civilizations and its development in England from medieval to modern times.
1964
#1931.5
A new adrenergic beta-receptor antagonist.
Development of Propranolol, the first beta-blocker effectively used in the treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension. R. G. Shanks, L. H. Smith and A. C. Dornhorst. In 1988 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
1964
#2419.3
An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).
Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.
1964
#2447.1
The fight against leprosy.
1964
#2660.17
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of cance…
1964
#2660.18
Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus to be …
1964
#2660.19
Cytology of Burkitt’s tumour (African lymphoma).
1964
#3047.18
Homograft aortic valve replacement in aortic incompetence and stenosis.
Subcoronary homograft valve; report on 44 patients, of whom 41 survived. Barratt-Boyes was a pioneering cardiac surgeon in New Zealand.