1970–1979

1970

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1970

#9128

Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.

1970

#9894

The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.

1970

#10059

The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.

Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

1970

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…

1970

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1970

#10887

Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…

1970

#11112

The human placenta.

An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.

1970

#11527

A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.

1970

#11564

Clinical electrocardiography and computers.

"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).

1970

#12066

Dickens and medicine: An exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1970

#12305

Virus-like particles in serum of patients with Australia-antigen-associated hepatitis.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Dane, Cameron, Briggs.) The authors showed that the "Australian antigen" was a virus causing hepatitis B. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretati…

1970

#12306

Chronic liver disease and primary liver-cell cancer with hepatitis-associated (Australia) antigen in serum.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Sherlock, Niazi, Fox...). The authors demonstrated that the hepatitis B virus can cause cancer. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1970

#12321

Australia antigen (a hepatitis-associated antigen). Purification and physical properties.

Purification of the Australia antigen and investigation of its physical properties. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Millman, Loeb, Bayer, Blumberg.) Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology…

1970

#12341

Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.

The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.

1970

#13327

The herbarium of Aylmer Bourke Lambert: Notes on Its acquisition, dispersal, and present whereabouts,

"Lambert acquired a number of significant herbarium collections including those of Johann Reinhold Forster, Archibald Menzies and Henry de Ponthieu.[2] He also amassed a large collection of specimens and drawings from…

1970

#13559

Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?

Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…

1970

#13730

Dermatologie in der Kunst.

1970

#13933

Genetic control of the cell-division cycle in yeast 1. Detection of mutants.

This was the first paper to describe cdc mutants. The authors also coined the term 'execution point' — the stage in the cell cycle when the gene function is required. In this paper, three cdc genes were described, whi…

1970

#14216

Hammond's wall atlas of human anatomy.

With pages measuring 731 x 536 mm., this is the largest anatomical atlas ever published with plastic overlays. The covers include metal grommets so that the book could be hung on the wall. The work was undated, but is…

1970

#14232

Characterization of ovine hypothalamic hypophysiotropic TSH-releasing factor.

Working with sheep preparations, the authors determined that the molecular structure of TRF (thyroid releasing hormone), is 2-pyrrolidone-5-carboxylyl-histidyl-L-proline amide. On page 324, they showed the molecular s…

1971

#534.71

Congenital malformations. Notes and comments.

Warkany's contributions span all aspects of teratology, both clinical and experimental. This has been called his magnum opus. It includes 124 chapters, each with detailed bibliography, on a total of 1271 pages.

1971

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1971

#4729.2

Transmission of two subacute spongiform encephalopathies of man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) to New World monkeys.

Following Hadlow's suggestion (1959), Gadjusek was able to transmit Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to primates through cerebral inoculations. Similarity in the clinical course of the diseases and in the cellular p…

1971

#1588.8

Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.

A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.

1971

#534.4

Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle. Genération des animaux de Descartes à l’Encyclopédie. 2e ed.

Translated into English by Robert Ellrich as The life sciences in eighteenth-century French thought, edited by Keith R. Benson, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

1971

#1671.7

International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.

A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.

1971

#3047.24

Surgical repair of triscuspid atresia.

Fontan procedure. “Anastomosis between the divided superior vena cava and the right pulmonary artery, anastomosis of the right atrium to the pulmonary artery, and insertion of a homograft valve in the ostium of the in…

1971

#3911

Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und Kretinismus.

A superbly produced and illustrated work, with tipped-in color plates. English translation, Bern: H. Huber, 1984.

1971

#4297.2

The history of urology.

A scholarly, detailed work. Part 1 is an adapted translation of E. Desnos: Histoire de l’urologie, in Encyclopédie française d’urologie, eds. A. Pousson & E. Desnos, 1914, 1, 1-294.

1971

#3705.03

A history of dentistry in Canada.

1971

#4405.5

Polycentric knee arthoplasty: Prosthetic simulation of normal knee movement.

Total knee replacement (replacing diseased articular surfaces of both femur and tibia), holding the metal and plastic components in place with acrylic cement.

1971

#5019.11

The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.

1971

#6007.1

A history of the ophthalmoscope.

1971

#6467.2

Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.

See also No. 6448

1971

#6485.5

Antike Medizin. Wege der Forschung ccxxi.

1971

#6501.2

Through the Bible with a physician.

1971

#6510.1

Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.

1971

#6510.2

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.

1971

#6786.17

Medicine: A bibliography of bibliographies.

Extracted from A world bibliography of bibliographies (4th ed., 1965-66)

1971

#6786.18

A catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine. First supplement.

Supplements Nos. 6783 and 6786.12. Records 27 15th century imprints and 272 16th century imprints acquired by the library since publication of those two catalogues.

1971

#6809

Dictionary of medical syndromes.

Second edition with E. Scrasia, 1981.

1971

#6604.5

South Africa: Its medical history 1652-1898.

1971

#6550.4

British contributions to medical science. The Woodward – Wellcome symposium, University of British Columbia, 1970

1971

#258.7

The origins of theoretical population genetics.

1971

#6880

Homeopathy in America: The rise and fall of the medical heresy.

A history of homeopathy in America, including its demise during the early to mid-20th century.

1971

#6890

Specific cleavage of simian virus 40 DNA by restriction endonuclease of Hemophilus influenzae.

Nathans showed that the restriction enzyme discovered by Hamilton Smith cleaved SV40 DNA into 11 specific pieces. Nathans and his student Kathleen Danna wrote: "The availability of pieces of SV40 DNA from specific sit…

1971

#7142

Die Geschichte der Arzneimittelforschung.

1971

#7159

The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.

1971

#7353

Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.

"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…