1963 HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981); MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)
Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.
GMN 5019.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6619
1963 COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766); RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989); HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
GMN 7868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10040
1964 HUNTER, Elizabeth F.; ET AL
An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).
Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 2419.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2878
1964 EPSTEIN, Michael Anthony (1921 – ); BARR, Yvonne (1932 – 2016)
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of cance…
GMN 2660.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3410
1964 EPSTEIN, Michael Anthony (1921 – ); BARR, Yvonne (1932 – 2016); ACHONG, Bert Geoffrey (1928 – 1996)
Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus to be …
GMN 2660.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3414
1966 KEILIN, David (1887 – 1963); KEILIN, Joan
The history of cell respiration and cytochrome
See No. 968.
GMN 1588.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1471
1967 RATHLEV, Tara (1927 – 2009)
Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.
Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.
GMN 2419.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2879
1967 ALPER, Tikvah (1909 – 1995); CRAMP, W. A.; HAIG, D. A.; ET AL
Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?
This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…
GMN 12834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15080
1968 ELLISON, Rose Ruth (1923 – 2009); ET AL
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
GMN 3108.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3838
1968 HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006); HENLE, Werner (1910 – 1987); DIEHL, Volker S. (1938 – )
Relation of Burkitt’s tumor-associated herpes-type virus to infectious mononucleosis.
The Henles and Diehl showed that Epstein-Barr virus is the aetiological agent in infectious mononucleosis.
GMN 5487.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6427
1968 THOMPSON, Alice Mary Charlotte (1907 – 1981)
A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.
Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.
GMN 6639.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7741
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAY, Margaret Tallmadge (1896 – 1990)
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
GMN 9097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11276
1968 –1977 MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014); MULTHAUF, Robert P. (1919 – 2004); JAFFÉ, Aniela (1903 – 1991); MCGUIRE, William (1917 – 2009)
Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.
GMN 11331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13529
1968 LOPATE, Carol
Women in medicine.
GMN 11827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14029
1970 BUCKLEY, Sonja Margaret (1918 – 2005); CASALS-ARIET, Jordi (1911 – 2004)
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.
GMN 5546.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6776
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
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…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1971 MACLEAN, Una
Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
GMN 10673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12866
1972 OLIVIER, Margaret C.
A bibliography on Chagas’s disease (1909-1969)
Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, Special Publication No. 2.
GMN 5289.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6400
1973 EHRENREICH, Barbara (1941 – ); ENGLISH, Deirdre (1948 – )
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
GMN 11828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14030
1974 HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984); ANDERSON, Evelyn
Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.
GMN 5019.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6680
1974 SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – )
Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.
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…
GMN 7009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9175
1974 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); BAGLIVI, Giorgio (1668 – 1707); SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989)
The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.
Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…
GMN 8758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10936
1974 STEVENS, Robert; STEVENS, Rosemary A.
Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.
The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.
GMN 8769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10947
1974 COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – ); CHANG, Annie C.Y. (1936 – )
Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.
Confirmation of the success of methods outlined in No. 257.5. Abstract: "Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resi…
GMN 10963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13159
1974 COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006); HICKEL, Erika (1934 – )
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.
GMN 11424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13623
1975 COSSART, Yvonne E.; FIELD, A. M.; CANT, B.; ET AL
Parvovirus-like particles in human sera. Preliminary communication.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Cossart, Field, Cant. First description of Parvovirus B19, the first human parvovirus discovered. It is among the smallest DNA viruses and is most often known for causing dis…
GMN 11190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13387
1976 ARANO, Luisa Cogliati
Tacuinum sanitatis: The medieval health handbook.
GMN 8457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10634
1976 TROXEL, Wilma
A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.
GMN 8778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10956
1976 CHIEN CHANG, Alice; EDGAR, David B.; TRELA, John M.
Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus.
The authors showed that the heat resistant bacteria Thermus aquaticus discovered by Thomas Brock contained a vital polymerase enzyme that had evolved in this bacteria to allow it to metabolize and survive in exception…
GMN 11104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13300
1977 CHAFF, Sandra L.; ET AL
Women in medicine: A bibliography of the literature on women physicians.
Lists over 4,000 items published between 1750 and 1975. With R. Haimbach, C. Fenichel and N. B. Woodside.
GMN 6650.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7792
1977 WALSH, Mary Roth (1939 – 1998)
"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.
GMN 8782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10960
1977 JOHNSON, Karl M.; LANGE, James V.; WEBB, Patricia; ET AL
Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …
GMN 10923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13119
1977 CHOW, Louise Tsi (1943 – ); GELINAS, Richard E.; BROKER, Thomas R.; ROBERTS, Richard John Sir (1943 – )
An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5' ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA.
Discovery of introns. In 1993 Roberts shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip A. Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes." It was frequently suggested that Chow deserved a share of that prize…
GMN 11043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13239
1977 BERGET, Susan M.; MOORE, Claire; SHARP, Philip Allen (1944 – )
Spliced segments at the 5' terminus of adenovirus 2 late mRNA.
Discovery of introns simultaneously with Roberts, Chow, Broker (No. 11043). Sharp's electron microscopist, Berget, visualized the introns in the electron microscope. James D. Watson took note of the profound significa…
GMN 11044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13240
1978 GALL, Joseph Grafton (1928 – ); BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.
In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.
GMN 8387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10564
1978 HATLE, Liv Kristin (1936 – ); ANGELSEN, Bjorn A. J. (1948 – ); BRUBAKK, Alf O.; TROMSDAL, Arve
Noninvasive assessment of pressure drop in mitral stenosis by Doppler ultrasound.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Hatle, Brubakk, Tromsdal, Angelsen. "Hatle (born 1936) was the pioneer of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography. "Today, Doppler echocardiography is central to our ability…
GMN 12243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14457
1979 STAGE, Sarah
Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.
"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…
GMN 9158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11337
1979 –1984 SÜSSMILCH, Johann Peter (1707 – 1767); HECHT, Jacqueline
Johann Peter Süssmilch. L'Ordre divin aux origines de la démographie. Traduction originale avec des études et commentaires rassemblés par Jacqueline Hecht. Vol. I: Études critiques, biographie, correspondance, bibliographie. Vol. 2: L' Oeuvre de J.P. Süssmilch, L'Ordre divin. Traduction de M. Kriegel. Vol. 3: Index des auteurs, des lieux et des matières. 3 vols.
A three-volume critical edition including the first edition in French.
GMN 11817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14019
1980 NEEDHAM, Joseph Terence Montgomery (1900 – 1995); LU, Gwei-djen (1904 – 1991)
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
GMN 6374.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8335
1980 MOSHER, Clelia Duel (1863 – 1940)
The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.
The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…
GMN 7078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9245
1980 ROPES, Hannah (1809 – ); BRUMGARDT, John R.
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
GMN 8999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11178
1981 MORTON, Julia Francis McHugh (1912 – 1996)
Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.
GMN 8841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11019
1981 YONATH, Ada E. (1939 – ); APPELT, Krzysztof; DIJK, Jan; ET AL
The crystallization of ribsomal proteins from the 50 S subunit of the Escherichia coli and Bacillus stearothermophilus ribosome.
The authors crystallized fragments of the 50S subunit of a thermophile bacterium’s ribosome to 3 angstroms resolution. Order of authorship in the original publication: Appelt, Dyck, et al., Yonath. Digital facsimile f…
GMN 14224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16541
1982 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000); BOULLE, Lydie; LUPOVICI, Catherine; SAMION-CONTET, Janine
Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques
Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.
GMN 11055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13251
1982 JONES, Anne Hudson
Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.
"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…
GMN 11328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13526
1982 –2012 ROSSITER, Margaret W. (1944 – )
Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.
GMN 12213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14423
1983 –1988 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)
A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.
GMN 1588.19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1608
1983 PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – ); O'CARRIGAN, Catharine (1919 – 2010)
Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.
A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.
GMN 6604.81 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8540
1983 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); ET AL
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other h…
GMN 6996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9162
1983 –1991 KOPPEL, Suzanne; LÖSCHNER, Renate; KIRCHSTEIN-GAMBER, Birgit
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
GMN 8945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11124