1898 BARTON, Clarissa (1821 – 1912)

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

GMN 7058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9225

1961 FARQUHAR, Marilyn Gist (1928 – ); WISSIG, Steven L.; PALADE, George Emil (1912 – 2008)

Glomerular permeability. I. Ferritin transfer across the normal glomerular capillary wall.

"The authors used ferritin as an electron dense tracer, such that they could visualize both the structure of the capillary wall and the pathways taken by the ferritin moelcules across the wall....This report confirmed…

GMN 10005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12194

2010 EATON, Harriet; SCHULTZ, Jane E.

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

GMN 9002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11181

2015 WARDROP, Daneen

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…

GMN 9000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11179