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165 entries match Veterinary Medicine [G03.850]

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1928

#5351

Hydatid disease. Its pathology, diagnosis and treatment.

DEW, Sir Harold Robert (1891 – 1962)

Dew’s book remains the authoritative source. His many contributions to the knowledge of hydatid disease are summarized in it.

1929 –1931

#12146

Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.

PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960) EVANS, Alwen Myfanwy (1895 – 1937)

Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.

1931

#2524.1

The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus.

WOODRUFF, Alice Miles
WOODRUFF, Alice Miles
GOODPASTURE, Ernest William (1886 – 1960)
GOODPASTURE, Ernest William (1886 – 1960)

By their demonstration of the infection of the chorio-allantoic membrane with the virus of fowl pox, Woodruff and Goodpasture initiated wide-spread adoption of this host for the study of viruses.

1931

#5493

Swine influenza. III. Filtration experiments and etiology.

SHOPE, Richard Edwin (1901 – 1966)
SHOPE, Richard Edwin (1901 – 1966)

Isolation in pigs of influenzavirus A or influenza A virus. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1931

#5541

Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.

DAUBNEY, Robert (1891 – ) HUDSON, John Richard

First description.

1933

#5335

Het voorkomen van een afwijkend Leptospira-ras in Nederland.

KLARENBEEK, Arie (1888 – ) SCHÜFFNER, Wilhelm August Paul (1867 – 1949)

Leptospira canicola first isolated (1913) from the urine of a dog.

1934

#5336

De leptospiroses bij den hond, en de beteekenis der Leptospira canicola.

DHONT, C. M. & et al.

First reported cases of human infection with L. canicola. With A. Klarenbeek, W. A. P. Schüffner, and J. Voet.

1936 –1949

#6430

Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.

LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953)

This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.

1937

#12008

Cultivation of the virus of infectious bronchitis.

BEAUDETTE, Fred Robert HUDSON, C. B.

The authors were the first to isolate a pathogenic coronavirus in chickens. This was the first pathogenic coronavirus described. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1938

#4659.1

Human encephalitis caused by the virus of the Eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis.

FOTHERGILL, Leroy Dryden (1901 – 1967) & et al.

Isolation of the virus of Eastern equine encephalitis from man. With J. H. Dingle, S. Farber, and M. L. Connerley.

1938

#4660

Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.

HOWITT, Beatrice Fay (1891 – )

Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.

1938

#5258

Exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium gallinaceum Brumpt, 1935.

JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946)
JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946) TAIT, P

The term “exo-erythrocytic stage” introduced to describe the unpigmented schizonts found in tissue cells. The parasite Plasmodium gallincaceum described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt causes malaria in poultry.

1939

#5172.1

The use of anthrax vaccines prepared from avirulent (uncapsulatec) variants of Bacillus anthracis.

STERNE, Max (1905 – 1997)

Nonencapsulated spore vaccine.

1940

#5259

Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.

MUDROW, Lilly (1908 – 1957)

Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.

1940

#5259.1

The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987) & et al.

Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.

1944

#5259.2

The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.

HUFF, Clay G. (1900 – ) COULSTON, Frederick (1914 – 2003)

First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.

1948

#5262

The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987) & et al.

Demonstration of the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi in the monkey. With P. C. C. Garnham and B. Malamos. Preliminary communication in Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 126.

1955 –1970

#6581.2

Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.

GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)

Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.

1955

#10153

Histoire illustrée de la médecine vétérinaire. 2 vols.

LECLAINCHE, Auguste-Louis Emmanuel (1861 – 1953)

1959

#10840

Scrapie and Kuru.

HADLOW, W. J.

In 1959 Hadlow, a veterinarian, visited a medical exposition in England where Carlton Gajdusek posted pathological slides of autopsied Kuru brains and a clinical description of the illness. He realized that Gajdusek's…

1961

#9223

Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.

MILLER, Everett B.

"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…

1962

#10947

From farriery to veterinary medicine, 1785-1795.

PUGH, Leslie Penrhys (1895 – 1983)

A history of the founding and earliest years of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in England.

1964

#10363

Veterinary medicine and human health.

SCHWABE, Calvin W. (1927 – 2006)

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…

1966

#8072

Médecine humaine et vétérinaire à la fin du Moyen Âge.

BEAUJOUAN, Guy (1925 – 2007) POULLE-DRIEUX, Yvonne DUREAU-LAPEYSSONNIE, Jeanne-Marie

1968

#12038

Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883)
THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883) FRANK, Robert M. WROTNOWSKA, Denise

Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…

1970

#2660.26

Field trials with an attentuated cell associated vaccine for Marek's disease.

BIGGS, Peter Martin (1926 – ) & et al.

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…

1973

#10159

Bibliografia hispanica de veterinaria y equitacion anterior a 1901. Ordenada, comentada en algunos epigrafes y dividida en tres partes. I: Repertorio cronologico: Tratados. II: Repertorio cronologico: Textos legales. III: Indices.

PALAU CLAVERAS, Agustín

1975

#6610.11

The anatomical works of George Stubbs.

STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806)
STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806) DOHERTY, Terence

Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).

1980

#8426

Pelagonii Ars veterinaria. Edited by K. D. Fischer.

FISCHER, Klaus-Dietrich (1948 – ) PELAGONIUS (350 – )

1981

#10690

Books on the horse and horsemanship: Riding, hunting, breeding & racing 1400-1941. The Paul Mellon Collection. Compiled by John B. Podeschi.

PODESCHI, John B.

Includes annotated descriptions of numerous classics on veterinary medicine for horses.

1982

#10140

Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.

PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )

In 1997 Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection." In his 1982 paper Prusiner proposed a completely novel explanation for th…

1982

#10842

Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.

PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – ) BOLTON, David C. MCKINLEY, Michael P.

Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…

1983

#12632

Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.

CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – )
CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – ) FISHER, M. H. STAPLEY, E. O. & et al.

Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…

1984

#7428

DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

HIGUCHI, Russell RYDER, Oliver Allison III

Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…

1985

#10965

Serologic identification and characterization of a macaque T-lymphotropic retrovirus closely related to HTLV-III.

KANKI, Phyllis J. ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – ) MCLANE, M. F. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Kanki, McLane... Essex. This paper was followed in the issue of Science by: Daniel, M., Letvi, N. L., King, N.W., "Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-3 - like retrovirus from ma…

1986

#4158.3

Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.

AINSWORTH, Geoffrey Clough (1905 – 1998)
AINSWORTH, Geoffrey Clough (1905 – 1998)

Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.

1989

#8429

Geschichte der Tiermedizin. 5000 Jahre Tierheilkunde.

DRIESCH, Angela von den (1934 – 2012)

1991

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

1995

#12760

Pelagonius and Latin veterinary terminology in the Roman Empire.

PELAGONIUS (350 – ) ADAMS, James Noel (1943 – )

1996

#9800

Veterinary medicine: An illustrated history.

DUNLOP, Robert H. WILLIAMS, David J.

1996

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

WILL, R. G. IRONSIDE, J. W. ZEIDLER, M. & et al.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…

1996

#11063

Internationaler biographischer Index der Medizin : Arzte, Naturheilkundler, Veterinarmediziner und Apotheker. 3 vols.

ENGELHARDT, Dietrich von (1941 – )

1997

#13054

Five centuries of veterinary medicine: A short-title catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection.

SMITHCORS, J. Frederick SMITHCORS, Ann

Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents.

2003

#9898

Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.

GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )

2003

#10154

Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Vétérinaires.

http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/ http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/en/

2003

#11755

Cattle plague: A history.

SPINAGE, Clive A.

"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…

2004

#7648

Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist

SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934)
SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934) WOLFE, Richard J. DOLMAN, Claude Ernest (1906 – 1994)

2004

#9652

Anthrax: A history.

SWIDERSKI, Richard M.

2004

#10141

Veterinary medicine: A guide to historical sources.

HUNTER, Pamela

Includes archival materials.

2005

#9801

Animals and disease: An introduction to the history of comparative medicine.

WILKINSON, Lise