1977 BEDFORD, Brigadier Davis Evan (1898 – 1978)
The Evan Bedford library of cardiology. Catalogue of books, pamphlets and journals.
Descriptions of 1112 items, many with very informative annotations by Bedford, who donated his collection to the Royal College of Physicians. In addition to his clinical and research work in cardiology Bedford was an …
GMN 3161.42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4105
1977 EINTHOVEN, Willem (1860 – 1927); SNELLEN, Hermann A.
Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.
GMN 12338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14562
1977 MURAD, Ferid (1936 – 2023); ET AL
Nitric oxide activates guanylate cyclase and increases guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate levels in various tissue preparations.
Murad demonstrated that nitroglycerin and related drugs worked by releasing nitric oxide into the body, which relaxed smooth muscle by elevating intracellular cyclic GMP. With W. P. Arnold, C. K. Mittal, S. Katsuki. I…
GMN 14248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16567
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 SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000); GRÜNTZIG, Andreas Roland (1939 – 1985); SIEGENTHALER, Walter E. (1923 – 2010)
Nonoperative dilatation of coronary-artery stenosis: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
Grüntzig developed the first successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries. Abstract "In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a catheter system is introduced through a systemic ar…
GMN 12239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14453
1979 IGNARRO, Louis Joseph (1941 – ); ET AL
Relaxation of bovine coronary artery and activation of coronary arterial guanylate cyclase by nitric oxide, nitroprusside and a carcinogenic nitrosoamine.
With CA Gruetter, BK Barry, DB McNamara, DY Gruetter, PJ Kadowitz. In 1998 Ignarro shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxi…
GMN 14247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16566
1980 FRANK, Robert G.
Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.
GMN 1588.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1593
1980 JARCHO, Saul Wallenstein (1906 – 2000)
The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.
Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.
GMN 3161.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4109
1980 DAWBER, Thomas Royle "Roy" (1913 – 2005)
The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.
"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…
GMN 11579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13778
1980 MAREY, Étienne Jules (1830 – 1904); SNELLEN, Hermann A.
Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).
GMN 11689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13890
1980 MIROWSKI, Michael (1924 – 1990); MOWER, Morton M. (1933 – ); WATKINS, Levi Jr. (1944 – 2015); ET AL
Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.
First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.
GMN 12270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14487
1980 FURCHGOTT, Robert Francis (1916 – 2009)
The obligatory role of endothelial cells in the relaxation of arterial smooth muscle by acetylcholine.
In 1978 Furchgott discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). By 1986, he had worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism of action, and de…
GMN 14246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16565
1982 GALLAGHER, John J.; CRITELLI, G.; ET AL
Catheter technique for closed-chest ablation of the atrioventricular conduction system.
The catheter ablation technique, pioneered by Gallagher and team. Abstract "This report describes a catheter technique for ablating the His bundle and its application in nine patients with recurrent supraventricular t…
GMN 12236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14450
1982 HATLE, Liv Kristin (1936 – ); ANGELSEN, Bjorn A. J. (1948 – )
Doppler ultrasound in cardiology: Physical principles and clinical applications.
GMN 12244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14458
1982 RASHKIND, William J. (1922 – 1986)
Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.
GMN 12368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14592
1983 PHILARETOS, (Philaretus) (820 – 1075); PITHIS, John A.
Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.
First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …
GMN 8331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10507
1983 COMRIE, Julius H.
Exploring the heart: Discoveries in heart disease and high blood pressure.
GMN 11531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13730
1985 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
William Osler's collected papers on the cardiovascular system. Edited by W. Bruce Fye.
Includes a previously unpublished essay by Maude Abbott, "Osler's contributions to our knowledge of heart disease."
GMN 8882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11060
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
1985 WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799); MANN, Ronald David (1928 – 2013)
William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.
Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.
GMN 11509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13708
1986 LAUFMAN, Harold (1912 – 2010)
The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.
Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …
GMN 12356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14580
1987 GLAGOV, Seymour (1925 – 2008); ET AL
Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries.
"Glagov remodeling" or the "Glagov phenomenon." In 1987 Glagov showed that as atherosclerotic plaque began to build up within an artery, the arterial wall would expand enough to maintain normal blood flow. Only after …
GMN 12237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14451
1988 SEGALL, Harold Nathan (1897 – 1990)
Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.
GMN 11507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13706
1989 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); WHITTERIDGE, Gweneth (1910 – 1993)
A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.
This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …
GMN 11198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13395
1992 FUCHS, Thomas (1958 – )
Mechanisierung des Herzen: Harvey und Descartes- Der Vitale und der mechanische Aspekt des Kreislaufs.
Translated into English by Marjorie Grene as The mechanization of the heart: Harvey and Descartes. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
GMN 11555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13754
1992 ANDERSEN, Henning Rud; KNUDSEN, L. L.; HASENKAM, J. M.
Transluminal implantation of artificial heart valves. Description of a new expandable aortic valve and initial results with implantation by catheter technique in closed chest pigs.
Andersen and colleagues invented percutaneous aortic valve replacement (PAVR), also known as percutaneous aortic valve implantation (PAVI), transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or transcatheter aortic valve …
GMN 13893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16185
1994 ACIERNO, Louis J. (1920 – 2007)
The history of cardiology.
GMN 8597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10774
1995 NEILL, Catherine Annie (1921 – 2006); CLARK, Edward B.
The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.
A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.
GMN 12364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14588
1996 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.
GMN 7856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10028
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 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
GMN 12360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14584
1997 POSTEL-VINAY, Nicholas
A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.
GMN 12367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14591
1998 BLAUFOX, M. Donald; NAQVI, Nasir H.
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
GMN 11591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13790
1998 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826); DUFFIN, Jacalyn Mary (1950 – )
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise on Med…
GMN 13599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15878
1999 BING, Richard John (1909 – 2010)
Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.
GMN 8608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10785
2000 FURMAN, Seymour (1931 – 2006); GREATBATCH, Wilson (1919 – 2011)
The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
GMN 7995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10171
2001 JEFFREY, Kirk
Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.
GMN 7191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9358
2001 MICHAELS, Leon
The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.
GMN 12361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14585
2002 LÜDERITZ, Berndt (1940 – )
History of the disorders of cardiac rhythm. Third edition.
GMN 7196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9363
2002 WOOLEY, Charles F.
The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).
GMN 12378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14603
2003 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – ); HURST, John Willis (1920 – 2011); CONTI, C. Richard
Profiles in cardiology: A collection of profiles featuring individuals who have made significant contributions to the study of cardiovascular disease.
GMN 8674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10851
2005 LÜDERITZ, Berndt (1940 – )
Profiles in cardiac pacing and electrophysiology.
GMN 10593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12786
2006 BERTRAND, Michael
The evolution of cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology.
GMN 12332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14556
2006 HANDLER, Clive; CLEMAN, Michael W.
Classic papers in coronary angioplasty. Edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman.
GMN 12345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14569
2007 SIKRI, Nikhil; BARDIA, Amit
A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.
A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14500
2010 TRUSWELL, Arthur Stewart
Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.
"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…
GMN 12377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14602
2012 SILVERMAN, Mark Edwin (1939 – 2008); FLEMING, Peter R.; HOLLMAN, Arthur (1923 – 2013); JULIAN, Desmond G.; KRIKLER, Dennis M.
British cardiology in the 20th century. Edited by Mark E. Silverman, Peter R. Fleming, Arthur Hollman, Desmond G. Julian, Dennis M. Krikler.
"The first and only detailed history of mdoern cardiology and cardiac surgery in Britain" (W. Bruce Fye, 2020).
GMN 12374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14599
2014 LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720); DONATO, Maria Pia
Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.
"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…
GMN 9845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12033
2014 MAHMOOD, Syed S.; LEVY, Daniel; RAMACHANDRAN, Vasan S.; WANG, Thomas J.
The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.
Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12403
2015 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.
The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…
GMN 7855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10027
