Entry Nos. 8100–8199
100 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1977
#8150
Medical imaging by NMR.
Mansfield developed a mathematical technique that would allow NMR scans to take seconds rather than hours and produce clearer images than the technique Paul Lauterbur developed in 1973. Mansfield showed how gradients …
2013
#8151
3D printed bionic ears.
Description and illustration of the first 3D printed bionic organ: an ear. From the Abstract: "The ability to three-dimensionally interweave biological tissue with functional electronics could enable the creation of b…
1907
#8152
Das Werden der Welten. Mit Unterstützung des Verfassers aus dem schwedischen übersetzt von L. Bamberger.
In this work Arrhenius predicted the possibility of man-made global warming. His prediction that significant global warming would take ~3000 years to develop is now recognized as a substantial underestimate due in par…
1912
#8153
Die Entstehung der Kontinente.
Wegener originated the theory of continental drift in this paper on the origin of continents, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the west and east s…
1916
#8154
Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.
A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…
1967
#8155
The theory of island biogeography.
MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.
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…
1974
#8157
Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone.
Rowland and his post-doctoral student, Molina, suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could reach the stratosphere where they would be dissociated by UV light, releasi…
1985
#8158
Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal Cl0x/Nox interaction.
Discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. In December 2016 the full text of the paper was available from ciesin.org at this link.
2015
#8159
NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity. Foreward by Oliver Sacks.
A very well written semi-popular historical account of autism.
2014
#8160
Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
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).
1978
#8162
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).
2007
#8163
De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)
2009
#8164
De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)
2016
#8165
International Committee of the Red Cross: History.
https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016
2005
#8166
The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.
2001
#8167
The Wikipedia.
https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history When I posted this in December 2016 there were over 5,300,000 entries just in the English language Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Though, of course, the q…
1997
#8168
Gallica: La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Gallica includes printed materials, graphic materials, and sound recordings. These materials are royalty-free and available free of charge when used strictly for private purposes. http://gallica.bnf.fr/
1997
#8169
Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek.
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ "Since 1997, the Munich Digitization Center has been offering the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) on the Internet. It is the central innovation and production unit…
2001
#8170
ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online.
http://echo.gmu.edu/ "ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a portal to over 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. This guide helps researchers find the exact informat…
1998
#8171
U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/
1968
#8172
The computer and medical care.
1979
#8173
The growth of medical information systems in the United States.
"About a fourth of the operating cost off hospitals is expended on information handling. (p. 2).
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…
1980
#8175
Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.
1883
#8176
Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1995
#8177
A history of medical informatics in the United States, 1950-1990.
Second edition, edited by Morris F. Collen and Marion J. Ball, and published the year after Collen's death at the age of 100, retitled The history of medical informatics in the United States (New York: Springer, 2015).
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…
1993
#8179
A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.
1943
#8180
Kaiser wakes the doctors.
The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.
2000
#8181
Medical geography in historical perspective. (Medical History, Supplement No. 20). Edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke.
1999 –2014
#8182
Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident : Tome 1: Antiquité et Moyen Age. Tome 2: De la Renaissance aux Lumières. Tome 3: Du romantisme à la science moderne. Edited by Mirko Grmek.
1998
#8183
Les maladies dans l'art antique.
2006
#8184
Locating medical history: The stories and their meanings. Edited by Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner.
2013
#8185
The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.
2015
#8186
HistoryofMedicineandBiology.com
On December 27, 2016, as this database reached its 10,000th entry, though its entry number is less because of the old decimal extensions used in the prior printed editions, I decided to add it in the "electronic resou…
1982
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1802
#8188
Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient.
Napoleon appointed Desgenettes physician-in-chief for his expedition into Egypt. Desgenette's Histoire contained 19 separate chapters written by expedition personel. Digital facsimile of the 1802 from the Internet Arc…
2014
#8189
The emergence of tropical medicine in France.
1857
#8190
Traité de géographie et de statistique médicales et des maladies endémiques comprenant la météorologie et la géologie médicales, les lois stastisuqes de la population et de la mortalité, la distribution géographique des malades et la pathologie comparée des races humaines. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Google Books at this link; of vol. 2 from BnF Gallica at this link.
2000
#8191
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC).
"The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide. http://data.cerl.org/istc/_search "Y…
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…
1976
#8193
Islamic science: An Illustrated study.
Includes chapters on natural history, medicine and pharmacology, agriculture and irrigation, man and the natural environment.
2014
#8194
COPAC.
http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search/form/main: "Copac exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of c.90 major UK and Irish libraries (and growing). In a single search you can discover th…
2001
#8195
OCLC WorldCat.
"WordCat is world's largest network of library content and services....WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks t…
1996
#8196
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog. Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK).
http://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/?digitalOnly=0&embedFulltitle=0&newTab=0 The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a meta search engine for the detection of several hundred million media in library and book trade catalogs …
2007
#8197
The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC).
"The USTC is a collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century" (http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php, accessed 12-2016). It is hosted by the Universi…
1977
#8198
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc "The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly but not exclusively, in English, published mainly in th…
2005
#8199
The European Library.
"Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users …