1960–1969

1964

#3047.19

Heart transplantation in man: Developmental studies and report of a case.

Heart transplant from a chimpanzee into a man; unsuccessful. Hardy was expecting the donor heart to be obtained from a relatively young patient dying of brain damage, but the patient went into terminal myocardial fail…

1964

#3108.8

Successful prevention of experimental Rh sensitization in man with an anti-Rh gamma2-globulin antibody preparation.

With J. G. Gorman and W. Pollack.

1964

#3161.1

The history of electrocardiography.

Reprinted with new introduction by Joel D. Howell, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.

1964

#2883.7

The physiological basis of cardiac arrhythmias.

1964

#2581.4

Selected papers on virology.

1964

#2702.2

Classic descriptions in diagnostic roentgenology. 2 vols.

A compilation of pioneer contributions to the technology and methodology of diagnostic roentgenology.

1964

#3979

The history of diabetes mellitus. 2nd ed.

1964

#2924.4

Transluminal treatment of arterioschlerotic obstruction; description of a new technic and a preliminary report of its application.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

1964

#4405.3

Replantation of severed arms.

First successful reattachment of a completely amputated human limb.

1964

#5351.6

Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.

Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).

1964

#5813.5

A short history of surgical dressings.

Based on material collected by James Rawling Elliott (1905-1958).

1964

#6633.2

Medals relating to medicine and allied sciences in the numismatic collection of The Johns Hopkins University.

Full descriptions of 922 items; some illustrated.

1964 –1972

#6742.2

Nobel lectures. Physiology or medicine. 4 vols.

Prize lectures 1901-70, with biographies of prize-winners. See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/10396

1964 –2005

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.

1964

#6550.2

The evolution of hospitals in Britain. Edited by F. N. L. Poynter

14 papers delivered at the 3rd British Congress on the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1962, and a classified bibliography of British hospital history by E. Gaskell (pp. 225-79).

1964

#6565.1

Medical history of Malta.

1964

#6664

MEDICINA NEI SECOLI - Arte e Scienza. 1-

1964

#6603.5

Las ciencias médicas en Guatemala: origen y evolución. 3rd ed.

1964

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1964

#257

Synthetic deoxyribopolynucleotides as templates for ribonucleic acid polymerase: The formation and characterization of a ribopolynucleotide with a repeating trinucleotide sequence.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nishimura, Jacob, Khorana. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1964

#257.1

The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II.

Hamilton’s mathematical theory of kin selection as an explanation for the evolution of social behavior (including supposedly altruistic behavior), is the foundation of sociobiology.

1964

#7263

The problem of man's antiquity. An historical survey.

1964

#7270

A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.

First report on Homo habilis.

1964

#7385

Smoking and health: report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

Definitive 386-page throughly documented study of the carcinogenic and pulmonologic effects of smoking, and the addictive aspects of nicotine. It was published under the supervision of Surgeon-General Luther Terry. Di…

1964

#7712

Bones, bodies, and disease. Evidence of disease and abnormality in early man.

1964

#7907

MEDICINA E HISTORIA. 1964-75, 1984-

1964

#8115

MEDLINE

From the Wikipedia article on MEDLINE, accessed 12-2016: MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It…

1964

#8145

Essays on the history of physiology in Russia, by Kh.S. Koshtoyants. Editor of English translation: Donald B. Lindsley. Translated from the Russian by David Boder, Kristan Hanes [and] Natalie O'Brien.

Focuses on neurophysiology, especially the work of Sechenov and Pavlov. Originally published in Moscow, 1946.

1964

#8174

HPP-64-1 DENDRAL-64-A system for computer construction, enumeration and notation of organic molecules as three structures and cyclic graphs. Interim report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 15, (1964).

DENDRAL is considered the first expert system because it automated the decision-making process and problem-solving behavior of organic chemists. The project consisted of research on two main programs, Heuristic Dendra…

1964

#8178

Automated multiphasic screening and diagnosis.

Describes aspects of the pioneering automated multiphasic screening and diagnosis program at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, the origins of their medical informatics system, developed by Collen and colleagues at Ka…

1964

#8361

Isidore of Seville: The medical writings. An English translation with an introduction and commentary by William D. Sharpe.

Translation of the medical and anatomical portions of the Etymologiae. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1964

#8455

Etude du Livre de vie active de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris de Jehan Henry (XVe siècle).

1964

#8652

Medicine and custom in Africa.

1964

#8681

Bibliotheca bibliographici.

1964

#8719

Give and take: The development of tissue transplantation.

1964 –1971

#8783

A history of medicine in South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1670-1825. Vol. 2: 1825-1900. Vol. 3: 1900-1970.

1964

#9396

The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 4 vols.

Revised and slightly expanded from Keynes's first edition (6 vols., London: Faber & Faber, 1928-31).

1964

#9437

Galen's Institutio logica. English translation, introduction and commentary by John Spangler Kieffer.

1964

#9440

Les commentaires de Martin de Saint-Gille sur les aphorisms Ypocras. Edited by Germaine Lafeuille.

1964

#9535

A short history of midwifery.

Supplemented reprint of Cutter's "Historical sketch of the development of midwifery and gynecology," Obstetrics and Gynecology, edited by Arthur H. Curtis, I, 4-194 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1933).

1964

#10178

The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.

The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.

1964

#10181

Early anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

1964

#10309

Lakeside pioneers: Socio-medical study of Nysaland, 1875-1920.

1964

#10358

La relación médico-enfermo: Historia y teoria.

A history of the doctor-patient relationship. Translated into English by Frances Partridge as Doctor and patient (London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1969). Digital facsimile of the Spanish edition from cervantes.virtual.c…

1964

#10363

Veterinary medicine and human health.

Foundational work on veterinary epidemiology. At the University of California, Davis in 1966 Schwabe founded the first epidemiology department and graduate program in a school of veterinary medicine. Unusually extensi…

1964

#10453

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1964

#10948

An index to selected Japanese medical literature of Pre-Meiji times.

This is an index to a series of 5 offprints by Mestler entitled "A galaxy of old Japanese medical books with miscellaneous notes on early medicine in Japan" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association…

1964

#11372

Dominant erbliche Akrocephalosyndaktylie.

Pfeiffer syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull (craniosynostosis) which affects the shape of the head and face. In addition, the syndrome includes abnorm…

1964

#11422

Medicine and health in New Jersey: A history.

1964

#11672

Parasites of the human heart.