1975 KÖHLER, Georges Jean Franz (1946 – 1995); MILSTEIN, César (1927 – 2002)
Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity.
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 …
GMN 2578.43 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4314
1975 AMERICAN HERBAL PHARMACOLOGY DELEGATION
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.
Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.
GMN 9345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11527
1976 BOREL, J. F.; ET AL
Biological effects of cyclosporin A: a new antilymphocytic agent.
The immunosuppressive cyclosporin A, instrumental in the success of organ transplants. With C. Feurer, H.U. Gubler & H. Strähelin.
GMN 1931.71 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2763
1976 NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS, (Nicolaus Praepostius) (1120 – ); GOLTZ, Dietlinde
Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI
GMN 8962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11141
1977 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE
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.
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][…
GMN 13749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16033
1979 RAPHAEL, Sandra; BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)
The illustrated herbal.
GMN 7464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9636
1979 VOIGTS, Linda Ehrsam
Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.
GMN 8559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10736
1979 ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte
Uses of plants for the past 500 years.
Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).
GMN 8595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10772
1979 ÕMURA, Satoshi (1935 – ); BURG, Richard W.; MILLER, Brinton M.; BAKER, Edward E.; ET AL
Avermectins, new family of potent anthelmintic agents: Producing organism and fermentation.
The authors, lead by Omura, announced the discovery of Streptomyces avermilitis. They described the structure of avermectin, and reported preliminary observations that this drug is antiparasitic. (Order of authorship …
GMN 12630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14871
1979 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – ); EGERTON, J. R.; OSTLIND, D. A.; BLAIR, L. S.; ET AL
Avermectins, new family of potent anthelminthic agents, efficacy of the B1a component.
Campbell and colleagues reported unprecedented antiparasitic effects of the agent in vivo, and that the "B1a" component of the molecule was most effective as a single oral dose. (Order of authorship in the original pu…
GMN 12631 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14872
1979 SITTIG, Marshall
Pharmaceutical manufacturing encyclopedia.
"Descriptions of 673 major pharmaceuticals, information having been obtained from the patent literature. Alphabetical arrangement by generic names. Each entry gives therapeutic function; chemical, common, and trade na…
GMN 13697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15979
1980 HARJULA, R
Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.
GMN 8503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10680
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 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); MAZAL, Otto (1932 – 2008)
Pflanzen, Wurzeln, Säfte, Samen. Antike Heilkunst in Miniaturen des Wiener Dioskurides.
GMN 12177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14387
1982 –1986 BÜCHI, Jakob
Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.
GMN 11940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14145
1982 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – ); HERRMANN, Walter; WYSS, Rolf; RIONDEL, Anne M.; ET AL
Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.
"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…
GMN 12469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14702
1983 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); SADEK, Mahmoud M.
The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.
GMN 9244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11426
1983 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – ); FISHER, M. H.; STAPLEY, E. O.; ET AL
Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.
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…
GMN 12632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14873
1984 PARSSINEN, Terry M.
Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.
"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…
GMN 10243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12433
1985 WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799); ARONSON, Jeffrey Kenneth (1947 – )
An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.
This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…
GMN 9233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11415
1986 YARCHOAN, Robert (1950 – ); WEINHOLD, Kent James; LYERLY, Herbert Kim; ET AL
Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13302
1989 STOLL, Ulrich; KEIL, Gundolf (1932 – )
Das Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.
The Lorschner Arzneibuch (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1; Lorsch Leechbook), a Carolingian codex from the time of Charlemagne, was written in Latin around 800 in Lorsch Abbey. It is the oldest surviving book of mona…
GMN 8446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10623
1989 MANNICHE, Lisa
An ancient Egyptian herbal.
GMN 8471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10648
1989 CRELLIN, John K.; PHILPOTT, Jane
Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.
GMN 8863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11041
1989 ESTRELLA AGUIRRE, Eduardo (1941 – 1996); TAFALLA NAVASCUÉS, Juan José (1755 – 1811)
Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.
Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the direction of Hipólito Ruiz López y Jo…
GMN 9050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11229
1989 MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)
Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.
GMN 9342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11524
1989 CLARK, Richard P.
Botulinum toxin: a treatment for facial asymmetry caused by facial nerve paralysis.
First documentation of a cosmetic use for botulinum toxin (Botox). This was one of the early documented applications of a biological medical product.
GMN 11378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13577
1989 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
GMN 12414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14644
1990 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )
Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.
GMN 8877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11055
1990 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – )
Génération pilule.
Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
GMN 12468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14701
1990 WINTER, Sir Gregory Paul (1951 – ); MCCAFFERTY, John; GRIFFITHS, Andrew D.; CHISWELL, David J.
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…
GMN 14340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16669
1992 STOLL, Ulrich
Das ‚Lorscher Arzneibuch‘. Ein medizinisches Kompendium des 8. Jahrhunderts (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1). Text, Übersetzung und Fachglossar. (Philosophische Dissertation Würzburg 1989) (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 28).
Digital facsimile of the original manuscript with the transcription and translation by Ulrich Stoll from Staatsbibliothek Bamberg at this link.
GMN 8447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10624
1992 JOHNSTON, Stanley H. Jr. (1932 – 2013)
The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
GMN 9568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11754
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Quid pro quo: Studies in the history of drugs.
"All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothe…
GMN 11942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14147
1992 –1993 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
Farmacopea araba medievale. Codice Ayasofia 3703. Edited by Alain Touwaide. 4 vols.
Iconographic reconstruction and original size facsimile in color of 127 sheets, including 97 preserved in Istanbul and 30 sheets dispersed in different institutional collections in Europe and the U.S., of this illumin…
GMN 11943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14148
1993 WILBERT, Johannes
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
GMN 9017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11196
1993 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015); IBN JULJUL AL-ANDALUSĪ, (Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, Abū Dāwūd) (943 – 994)
Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.
GMN 12522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14757
1994 GOODMAN, Jordan
Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.
GMN 9684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11871
1994 GAGLIANO, Joseph
Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.
Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…
GMN 11889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14094
1995 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – ); DIENSTAG, Jacob Israel ( – 2008); DANA, Joseph (1931 – )
Moses Maimonides' glossary of drug names translated and annotated from Max Meyerhof's French edition by Fred Rosner; with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag and Arabic terms by Joseph Dana.
Translation of Sharḥ asmāʼ al-ʻuqqār; translated from the French according to the Unique Arabic Ms. 3711 of the Aya Sofia Library, Istanbul. For the Meyerhof edition see No. 11241.
GMN 8263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10439
1995 WHISTLER, Wayne Arthur (1944 – 2020)
Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.
GMN 12549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14786
1996 GLANTZ, Stanton Arnold (1945 – ); ET AL
The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.
Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…
GMN 8660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10837
1996
Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…
GMN 8661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10838
1996 BOOLELL, Mau; OSTERLOH, Ian; ET AL
Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.
Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…
GMN 8872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11050
1997 HERRICK, James W.
Iroquois medical botany.
"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…
GMN 8544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10721
1997 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, (Hildegard von Bingen; Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 1179); MÜLLER, Irmgard
Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.
GMN 9060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11239
1997 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DEBRU, Armelle
Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.
GMN 9609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11796
1998 MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
Native American ethnobotany.
Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.
GMN 7869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10041
1998 SHOU-ZHONG, Yang
The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.
GMN 8336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10512
1998 IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYAH, (Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr) (1292 – 1350); JOHNSTONE, Penelope
Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.
" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…
GMN 8571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10748
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