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1,672 entries match Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]

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1971

#7142

Die Geschichte der Arzneimittelforschung.

ISSEKUTZ, Béla (1886 – 1979)

1971

#7389

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.

SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )

1971

#8348

Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.

STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)

First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).

1971

#10857

Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992) RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

1971

#11963

Linnaeus and the Linneans: The spreading of their ideas in systematic botany, 1735-1789.

STAFLEU, Frans Antonie (1921 – 1997)

1971

#13958

Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs.

VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004)
VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004)

In 1982 Vane shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances."

1971

#14298

Marijuana reconsidered.

GRINSPOON, Lester (1928 – 2000)

A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…

1971

#14304

Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.

CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024)
CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024) NALIN, David R. (1941 – )

1972

#2068.13

Glass and British pharmacy, 1600-1900: A survey and guide to the Wellcome Collection of British Glass.

CRELLIN, John K. SCOTT, J. R.

1972

#9021

A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.

SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) WASSÉN, S. Henry (1908 – 1996) & et al.

Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who came upon …

1972

#9918

The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.

MEAD, George R.

Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.

1972

#11970

Early gardening catalogues, with complete reprints of lists and accounts of the 16th-19th centuries.

HARVEY, John Hooper (1911 – 1997)

1972

#12443

Geschichte der Pharmazeutischen Chemie.

SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang (1912 – 2007)

1972

#12526

Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).

ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )

Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.

1972

#13714

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.

1973

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1973

#7095

Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.

LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970)

1973

#8524

Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.

AL-BĪRUNĪ, Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (973 – 1048) SAID, Hakim Mohammed (1920 – 1998)

1973

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010)

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1973

#9274

Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.

BLACK, Meredith Jean

1973

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1973

#10898

Drugs and foods from little-known plants: Notes in Harvard University herbaria.

REIS, Siri Sylvia Patricia von (1931 – )
REIS, Siri Sylvia Patricia von (1931 – )

5178 field notes of health and medical interest from specimens in Harvard University herbaria.

1974

#2028.43

Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.

PEUMERY, Jean-Jacques

Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.

1974

#6935

A selective inhibitor of serotonin uptake: Lilly 110140, 3-(p-Trifluoromethylphenoxy)-n-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine.

WONG, David T. (1936 – )

The first paper on the anti-depressant fluoxetine, marketed under the trade name Prozac. With Jong S. Horng, Frank P. Bymaster, Kenneth. L. Hauser, and Bryan B. Molloy. doi:10.1016/0024-3205(74)90345-2. PMID 4549929

1974

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – )

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

1974

#8280

Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.

NIELSEN, Harald

1974

#9008

Bestimmung der Instensität im medizinischen System Galens: Ein Beiträg zur theoretische Pharmakologie, Nosologie und Therapie in der Galenischen Medizin.

HARIG, Georg (1935 – 1989)

1974

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

HELLSON, John C.

1974

#9487

"A computer-based system for the study and control of drug interactions in hospitalized patients," P. L. Morselli, S. Garattini, and S. N. Cohen, Drug interactions, 363-373.

COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – )
COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – )
SHORTLIFFE, Edward Hance (1947 – )
SHORTLIFFE, Edward Hance (1947 – ) & et al.

MEDIPHOR System (Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Interactions by a Pharmacy-Oriented Reporting System) developed by Cohen, Shortliffe and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School, published as a chapter in t…

1974

#11424

The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.

COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006) HICKEL, Erika (1934 – )

1974

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

WHORTON, James C. (1942 – )

1974

#13825

Historical medical classics involving new drugs. Foreward by Charles H. Best.

KRANTZ, John Christian Jr. (1899 – 1983)

1975

#2068.14

An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.

LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978)
LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978)

1975

#2068.17

Manipulation past and present, with an extensive bibliography.

SCHIÖTZ, Eiler H. CYRIAX, James Henry (1904 – 1985)

1975

#2068.18

British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. 3 vols.

HENREY, Blanche Elizabeth Edith (1906 – 1983)

A comprehensive history and bibliography of the subject, including a revised history of the English herbal literature, and accounts of other books of medical and pharmaceutical interest.

1975

#1931.7

Thromboxanes: a new group of biologically active compounds derived from prostaglandin endoperoxides.

HAMBERG, Mats & et al.

With J. Stevenson and B. Samuelsson.

1975

#2578.43

Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity.

KÖHLER, Georges Jean Franz (1946 – 1995) MILSTEIN, César (1927 – 2002)

Hybridomas. In 1984 Köhler and Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Niels K. Jerne, "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery …

1975

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

HAMEL, Paul B. CHILTOSKY, Mary U.

1975

#9345

Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.

AMERICAN HERBAL PHARMACOLOGY DELEGATION

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1976

#1931.71

Biological effects of cyclosporin A: a new antilymphocytic agent.

BOREL, J. F. & et al.

The immunosuppressive cyclosporin A, instrumental in the success of organ transplants. With C. Feurer, H.U. Gubler & H. Strähelin.

1976 –2009

#8857

Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types

STAFLEU, Frans Antonie (1921 – 1997) COWAN, Richard Sumner (1921 – 1997)

The entire set is available in digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. (Authors and publishers of the Supplements vary.)

1976

#8962

Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI

NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS, (Nicolaus Praepostius) (1120 – ) GOLTZ, Dietlinde

1976 –1990

#9616

Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.

THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS (ΘΕΌΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ) (371 – 287) EINARSON, Benedict (1906 – 1978) LINK, George Konrad Karl (1888 – )

1976

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

OTT, Jonathan (1949 – )
OTT, Jonathan (1949 – )

1976

#11205

John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
RAY, John (1628 – 1705)

This is the "best" edition. The original edition issued in London by Faber & Faber in 1951 was a far superior example of book production, printed on thick greenish paper.

1977

#13698

Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.

CLAASSEN, V. DAVIES, J. E. HERTTING, Georg (1925 – 2014) PLACHETA, P.

Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…

1977

#13749

Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE

Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…

1978

#2068.19

Apothecary jars: Pharmaceutical pottery and porcelain in Europe and the East 1150-1850, with a glossary of terms used in apothecary jar inscriptions.

DREY, Rudolf E. A.

The most comprehensive study in English.

1978

#6610.14

Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).

HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)