2011 NEGULESCU, Paul A.; VAN GOOR, Frederick; HADIDA, Sabine; GROOTENHUIS, Peter D. J. (1960 – 2019); ET AL
Correction of the 508del-CFTR protein processing defect in vitro by the investigational drug VX-809.
Negulescu and colleagues published a "proof of concept" experiment showing that the novel molecule called VX-809 could correct in vitro the very common and critical 508del-CFTR mutation identified by Collins. (See GM …
GMN 13571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15849
2012 HENRY OF HUNTINGDON (1088 – 1157)
Anglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.
Written in Latin verse, the Anglicus ortus describes in considerable detail the medicinal uses of 160 plants. Edition based on collation of the five extant manuscripts of the text, plus parallel Latin text and English…
GMN 7140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9307
2012
The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
ALPHABET OF GALEN
An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…
GMN 7409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9581
2012 KUSUKAWA, Sachiko
Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
GMN 8389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10566
2012 WILSON, Philip K.; HURST, W. Jeffrey
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
GMN 8799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10977
2012 BACHOUR, Natalia; IBN SALLŪM, Salih ibn Nasrallah al-Halabi ( – 1671)
Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Salih b. Nasrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Halabī
Study of the "Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus), an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn Nasrallah al…
GMN 12804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15050
2013 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
De materia medica. Il Discoride di Napoli (Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Ms ex-Vindobonense Greco 1, VI-VII sec d. C. 2 vols.
Translation into Italian of the text of the Naples Dioscorides, a 6-7th century illustrated manuscript. With color facsimiles of the original paintings in the manuscript, 243 modern drawings in color. Foreword by Maur…
GMN 10908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13104
2013 SCHWERIN, Alexander von; STOFF, Heiko; WAHRIG, Bettina
Biologics. A history of agents made from living organisms in the twentieth century. Edited by Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig.
GMN 11915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14120
2013 AGNEW, Jeremy
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
GMN 12102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14311
2014 AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165); WALLIS, Faith; RAGEP, F. Jamil
The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.
GMN 7411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9583
2014 IWU, Maurice Mmaduakolam (1950 – )
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
GMN 9912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12100
2014 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); WHIPKEY, Anna; KALBAUGH, Kirby; FRANZ, Audra; JANICK, Jules (1931 – )
A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…
GMN 10909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13105
2015 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); GARRISON, Daniel H.
Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.
GMN 13024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15274
2015 TU (TU YOUYOU), Youyou (1930 – )
NOBEL LECTURE: Discovery of Artemisinin - A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world.
In 1972 Tu Youyou discovered Artemisinin, the standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria as well as malaria due to other species of Plasmodium. Artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood…
GMN 14260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16581
2016 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WIKIPEDIA
WHO Model list of essential medicines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines (accessed 12-2016). The first list, published in 1977, included 204 pharmaceutical drugs.[1] The WHO updates the list every two years. The WHO later …
GMN 8064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10240
2016 MULANGU, Sabue; CORTI, Davide; MISASI, John; ET AL
Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.
The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…
GMN 11375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13574
2016 CRAWFORD, Matthew James
The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.
GMN 11614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13814
2017 KYLE, Sarah R.
Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.
GMN 8570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10747
2017 SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
GMN 9862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12050
2018 LELAMOUR, John (1350 – ); OLALLA, David Moreno
Lelamour herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r): An annotated critical edition by David Moreno Olalla.
First critical edition of the sole extant copy of the Middle English herbal written in 1373 by John Lelamour, a Herefordian schoolmaster, who is otherwise unknown.
GMN 9604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11791
2018 PIEWNGAM, Pipat; ZHENG, Yue; NGUYEN, Thuan H.; ET AL
Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signaling interference.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Piewngam, Zheng, Nguygen....The authors discovered a mechanism by which probiotics help maintain a healthy microbiome. They showed that Bacillus subtilis can produce a …
GMN 11480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13679
2018 PRANSKUNIENE, Zivile; DAULIUTE, Roberta; PRANSKUNAS, Andrus; BERNATONIENE, Jurga
Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.
Open source from link.springer.com at this link.
GMN 12565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14804
2018 SANTESMASES, María Jesús
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.
GMN 12614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14854
2019 MULANGU, Sabue; DODD, Lori E.; DAVEY, Richard T. Jr.; ET AL
A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …
GMN 11374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13573
2020 BAUM, Alina; AJITHDOSS, Dharani K.; KYRATSOUS, Christos A.; ET AL
REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters.
The authors, working at Regeneron, showed that a cocktail of two potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodes reduced virus load in the airways and diminshed viral induced pathological sequelae when given both as a prophy…
GMN 13523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15799
2021 WEINREICH, David. M.; SIVAPALASINGAM, Sumathi; NORTON, Thomas; ET AL
REGN-COV-2, a neutralizing antibody cocktail, in outpatients with Covid-19.
The authors showed that the Regeneron antibody cocktail has a low incidence of side effects and a profound and rapid effect on viral load, with most reduction occurring within 48 hours, even in patents with the highes…
GMN 13524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15800
2021 OWEN, Dafydd R.; ALLERTON, Charlotte M. N.; ANDERSON, Annaliesa S.
An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19.
The authors showed how a coronavirus specific protease inhibitor designed in the lab, that could be administered by mouth to humans, achieved excellent plasma concentrations and antiviral potency. This drug, marketed …
GMN 14023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16330
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