1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1920
#51
The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1970
#4483.4
The early orthopaedic surgeons of America.
1970
#1588.5
Die Entwicklung der physiologischen Methodik von 1784 bis 1911. Eine qualitative Untersuchung.
1970
#1588.7
Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
1970
#2068.12
The story of ergot.
Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.
1970
#2068.15
The birth of penicillin.
“Disposes of many myths deeply embedded in the literature” (Macfarlane, see No. 1934).
1970
#2442.5
Experimental and clinical studies on rifampicin in treatment of leprosy.
With J. M. H. Pearson and M. F. R. Waters.
1970
#1766.608
The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.
1970
#2660.22
Viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase: RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of RNA tumour viruses.
In 1970 Baltimore and Temin discovered that certain viruses that have their genes in the form of RNA can copy the RNA "backward" into DNA in infected cells. The enyzme, reverse transcriptase, enables the manufacture o…
1970
#2660.23
RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of Rous sarcoma virus.
Discovery of reverse transcriptase. "In 1969, Temin and a postdoctoral fellow, Satoshi Mizutani, began searching for the enzyme that was responsible for the phenomenon of viral RNA being transferred into proviral DNA.…
1970
#2660.24
Combination chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced Hodgkin’s disease.
Combination chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard (mustine hydrochloride), vincristine sulphate, procarbazine hydrochloride and prednisone, introduced in 1964 for the treatment of advanced Hodgkin’s disease. With A. A. S…
1970
#2660.26
Field trials with an attentuated cell associated vaccine for Marek's disease.
In 1959 Biggs moved to the Houghton Poultry Research Station (HPRS) to form and head a unit to study lymphoid tumor conditions of the domestic fowl. He gave the name Marek’s disease to one of the tumor conditions, aft…
1970
#3161.2
The history of cardiac surgery.
1970
#3161.3
The history of coronary heart disease.
A scholarly work with extensive bibliographies.
1970
#2883.9
Catheterization of the heart in man with use of a flow-directed balloon-tipped catheter.
The Swan-Ganz balloon flotation catheter, a flow-guided balloon-tipped catheter of flexible construction, which enabled “placement without associated ventricular arrhythmias, prompt and reliable passage to the pulmona…
1970
#2578.40
An analysis of the sequences of the variable regions of Bence Jones proteins and myeloma light chains and their implications for antibody complementarity.
Hypervariable regions of “Ig.”
1970
#2578.41
Cell interactions in the induction of tolerance: The role of thymic lymphocytes.
Suppressor T cells.
1970
#2581.8
A history of medical bacteriology and immunology.
1970
#3611.4
Hernia repair without disability.
First monograph on ambulatory hernia surgery. Second edition published by Ishiyaku Euroamerica in 1986 was retitled: Hernia repair without disability: A surgical atlas illustrating the anatomy, technique, and physiolo…
1970
#4297.1
A history of bladder stone.
1970
#5145
A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.
1970
#5289.3
Chagas’s disease (South American trypanosomiasis). A bibliography compiled from Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletin 1908-1912, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 1912-1970.
Supplement to Trop. Dis. Bull., vol. 67.
1970
#5019.9
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
1970
#5019.10
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
1970
#5546.4
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings.
An arenovirus infection first noted in Lassa, N. E. Nigeria, in 1969. With J. M. Baldwin, D. J. Gocke, and J. M. Troup.
1970
#5546.5
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.
Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
1970
#5546.8
Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.
Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.
1970
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1970
#6485.4
La medicina Hipocrática.
1970
#6510.01
Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].
1970
#6553
Dějiny československeho lekařstvi. Svazek 1. Dor. 1740.
1970
#6786.16
The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. An annotated checklist of first editions viewed from the angle of their subject content. Astronomy. Mathematics. Medicine. Natural science. Physics. Technology.
1970
#6665
NEUE MÜNCHENER BEITRÄGE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER MEDIZIN UND NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN; MEDIZINHISTORISCHE REIHE. 1-
Monographic series. Continuation of Münchener Beiträge, etc., 1-17, 1926-29.
1970
#6604.2
Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.
Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.
1970
#6889
A restriction endonuclease from Hemophilus influenzae. II. Base sequence of the recognition site.
Discovery of the first type II restriction enzyme (HindII). Smith shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Werner Arber and Daniel Nathans "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their applicat…
1970
#7010
Discoveries in biological psychiatry.
Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…
1970
#7161
Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.
1970
#7325
Thickness, cross-sectional areas and depth of invasion in the prognosis of cutaneous melanoma.
Classic paper on the prognosis of melanoma. Digital facsimile available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1970 –1971
#7550
Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…
1970
#7661
Catalogue of the anatomical preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Museum of the Anatomy Department. From the original catalogue (1898-1900) prepared by Professor John Teacher.
1970
#7761
Low dose radiation and cancer.
This paper, delivered at the 1969 Nuclear Science Symposium and Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Symposium, October, 1969, provided powerful scientific evidence that the then currently allowable radiation dose (Feder…
1970
#7783
Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.
In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.
1970
#7822
Medicine and stamps.
1970
#8156
The influence of nitrogen oxides on the atmospheric ozone content.
Crutzen showed that nitrous oxide impacts the ozone layer by pointing out "that emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a stable, long-lived gas produced by soil bacteria, from the Earth's surface could affect the amount of…
1970 –1990
#8192
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vols. 1-16 (1-15, Supplement 1) edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie. Vols. 17-18 (Supplement 2) edited by Frederick L. Holmes.
Over 5,000 biographies, each with detailed bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Medical biographies tend to be of physiologists and other researchers rather than clinicians. Includes an exhaustive index an…
1970
#8380
George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…
1970
#8496
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
1970
#8605
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
1970
#8638
Die Entwicklung der medizinischen Spezialfacher an den Universitaten des Deutschen Sprachgebietes.
Detailed study, organized by specialty, of the vital role that German universities played in the invention and promotion of medical specialties.
1970
#9099
History of human life span and mortality. Translated by K. Balás.
A particularly valuable collection of reviews ot his work published in Current Anthropology, I5 (1974) 495-507 is available from JSTOR at this link.