1951 SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971); FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976); HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
GMN 4672.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/900
1951 TINBERGEN, Nikolaas (1909 – 1988)
The study of instinct.
Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…
GMN 7348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9520
1952 HAMMON, William McDowell (1904 – 1989); ET AL
Evaluation of Red Cross gamma globulin as a prophylactic agent for poliomyelitis.
Trial of gamma globulin in the prophylaxis of poliomyelitis. With L. L. Coriell, J. Stokes, P. F. Wehrle, and C. R. Klimt.
GMN 4672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/881
1952 KOPROWSKI, Hilary (1916 – 2013); ET AL
Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.
Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.
GMN 4672.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/885
1952 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008); ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003); ET AL
Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…
GMN 11103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13299
1953 CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997)
The parietal lobes.
Defines for the first time the various functions of the parietal lobes.
GMN 4615.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/644
1953 SALK, Jonas Edward (1914 – 1995); ET AL
Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.
Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.
GMN 4672.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/889
1953 KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999); ASERINSKY, Eugene (1921 – 1998)
Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.
Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, Aserinsk…
GMN 12449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14681
1954 PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976); JASPER, Herbert Henri (1906 – 1999)
Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.
This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.
GMN 4914.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6016
1955 SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)
Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.
Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …
GMN 4672.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/894
1955 BECKER, P. E.; KEINER, F
Eine neue x-chromosomale Muskeldystrophie.
Becker-type muscular dystrophy.
GMN 4771.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1425
1955 SCHAFFER, Frederick Leland (1921 – ); SCHWERDT, Carlton Everett (1917 – 1995)
Crystallization of purified MEF-1 poliomyelitis virus particles.
First crystallization of an animal virus.
GMN 2527.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3471
1956 –1963 KOLLE, Kurt (1898 – 1975)
Grosse Nervenärzte. 3 vols.
GMN 5019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6609
1957 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); ZIGAS, Vincent (1920 – 1983)
Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.
First description of Kuru, a disease occurring in natives of New Guinea. Cause of the disease was unknown. "It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via f…
GMN 4729.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1253
1957 KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999); DEMENT, William Charles (1928 – )
Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.
The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.
GMN 12450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14682
1958 LUMSDEN, Leslie Leon (1875 – 1946)
St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.
In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.
GMN 4661.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/791
1958 POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)
The history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions: an Anglo-American symposium.
GMN 1586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1382
1959 RIESE, Walther (1890 – 1976)
A history of neurology.
GMN 5019.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6612
1959 STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966); RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
GMN 14358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16688
1962 LURIA, Aleksandr Romanovich (Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия) (1902 – 1977)
Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.
First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.
GMN 7207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9374
1963 STEELE, John; RICHARDSON, John; OLSZEWSKI, Jerzy (1913 – 1964)
Supranuclear ophthalmoplegia, pseudobulbar palsy, nuchal dystonia and dementia. A Clinical Report on Eight Cases of "heterogenous System Degeneration".
First description of progressive supranuclear palsy as a distinct disorder. The authors recognized the same clinical syndrome in 8 patients and described the autopsy findings in 6 of them in 1963.
GMN 11951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14157
1965 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001); ALPERS, Michael
Attempts to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations in man. Addendum p. 46 in: Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. NINDB Monograph No. 2. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and Michael Alpers.
In their Addendum on p. 46 the authors stated that 20 and 21 months post innocculation in the brain with brain material from Kuru patients two chimpanzees showed symptoms of an illness suggestive of Kuru. Digital facs…
GMN 13914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16208
1966 PLUM, Fred (1924 – 2010); POSNER, Jerome B. (1932 – )
The diagnosis of stupor and coma.
Rationalized the diagnosis of various levels of the unconscious state, correlating these with brain lesions.
GMN 4914.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6026
1968 ELDRIDGE, Margaret
A history of the treatment of speech disorders.
GMN 5019.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6650
1969 MCHENRY, Lawrence C. (1929 – 1985)
Garrison’s History of neurology. Revised and enlarged with a bibliography of classical, original and standard works in neurology.
A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject, considerably enlarging Garrison’s work previously published in C. L. Dana’s Textbook of nervous diseases, 1925, pp. xv-lvi.
GMN 5019.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6656
1970 YOUNG, Robert Maxwell (1935 – )
Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
GMN 1588.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1492
1970 HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984); SCHILLER, Francis (1909 – 2003)
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
GMN 5019.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6664
1970 TINTEROW, Maurice M.
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
GMN 5019.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6666
1970 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.
Revised edition, 1990.
GMN 9122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11301
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
1971 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001)
Transmission of two subacute spongiform encephalopathies of man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) to New World monkeys.
Following Hadlow's suggestion (1959), Gadjusek was able to transmit Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to primates through cerebral inoculations. Similarity in the clinical course of the diseases and in the cellular p…
GMN 4729.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1255
1971 WOLF, John K.
The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.
GMN 5019.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6670
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1974 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842); MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.
An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.
GMN 1588.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1538
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 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002)
A centennial bibliography of Huntington’s chorea, 1872-1972.
Over 2,000 references to original works. Chronological arrangement. Author, geographic and other indexes. With F. Baro and N. C. Myrianthopoulos.
GMN 5019.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6691
1974 HACHINSKI, Vladimir (1941 – ); LASSEN, Niels Alexander (1926 – 1997); MARSHALL, J.
Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.
The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, small, oft…
GMN 14115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16426
1975 WORDEN, Frederic Garfield (1918 – 1995); SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – ); ADELMAN, George (1926 – )
The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.
Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.
GMN 1588.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1544
1975 EDINGER, Johanna Gabrielle Ottilie "Tilly" (1897 – 1967)
Paleoneurology 1804-1966: An annotated bibliography.
GMN 10641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12834
1977 JENNETT, Bryan (1926 – 2008); TEASDALE, Graham Michael (1940 – )
Aspects of coma after severe head injury.
Glasgow Coma Scale for grading brain injury following head trauma.
GMN 4914.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6035
1977 ROTTENBERG, David Allan; HOCHBERG, Fred Harvey
Neurological classics in modern translation.
Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.
GMN 5019.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6686
1977 CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997); HENSON, R. A.
Music and the brain. Studies in the neurology of music. Edited by MacDonald Critchley and R. A. Henson.
GMN 9378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11561
1977 WERNICKE, Carl (1848 – 1905); EGGERT, Gertrude H.
Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.
GMN 13277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15543
1978 COURVILLE, Cyril Brian (1900 – 1968); COOPER, William Conrad (1931 – 2006); THOMAS, M. L. Manson
Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.
GMN 8775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10953
1980 WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675); DEWHURST, Kenneth Eastham (1919 – 1984)
Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
A biographical introduction proceeds Dewhurst's edition of John Locke's transcripts of Willis's lectures from 1663-64 (Bodleian MS Locke f19) and Richard Lower's notes from the 1661-62 lectures in the Robert Boyle pap…
GMN 11736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13937
1981 SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)
The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.
Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.
GMN 5019.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6703
1981 WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675); DEWHURST, Kenneth Eastham (1919 – 1984)
Willis's Oxford casebook (1650-52) edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
GMN 11735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13936
1982 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.
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…
GMN 10140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12329
1982 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); MASTERS, Colin Louis (1947 – )
The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.
The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description,…
GMN 12595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14835
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
