1958 AXELROD, Julius (1912 – 2004); TOMCHICK, R.
Enzymatic O-methylation of epinephrine and other catechols.
The authors discovered the enzyme "COMT" or cathecol-O-methyltransferase, and determined that it was crucial in the methylation and inactivation of adrenergic and other catecholamine type neurotransmitters. (Thanks to…
GMN 1931.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2761
1958 ARNOLD, Herbert; ET AL
Neuartige Krebs-Chemotherapeutica aus der Gruppe der zyklischen N-Lost-Phosphamidester.
Cyclophosphamide. With F. Bourseaux and N. Brock.
GMN 2660.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3395
1958 GENTLES, James Clark (1921 – 1987)
Experimental ringworm in guinea pigs: oral treatment with griseofulvin.
Use of griseofulvin in the treatment of ringworm.
GMN 4011.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5165
1958 –1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965); STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970); HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…
GMN 8744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10922
1958 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)
Herbals of five centuries. A contribution to medical history and bibliography.
GMN 9740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11927
1958 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986); HEIM, Roger (1900 – 1979)
Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.
GMN 12215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14426
1958 IBN HAYYAN, Jabir ( – 816); SIGGEL, Alfred (1884 – 1959)
Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir Ibn Hayyān Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymūr [sic] Tibb 393, Kairo), übersetzt und Erläuter von Alfred Siggel. (Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literature [Mainz], Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band XIII).
Edition and translation of Jabir's The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145).
GMN 13218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15482
1959 DAVEY, Thomas Frank (1908 – 1983); HOGERZEIL, L. M.
Diethyl dithiolisophthalate in the treatment of leprosy (ETIP or “Etisul”); a progress report.
Ditophal (Etisul) in leprosy.
GMN 2442.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2932
1959 RIST, Noël (1906 – 1990); ET AL
Experiments on the antituberculous activity of alpha-ethyl-thioisonicotinamide.
Ethionamide. With F. Grumbach and D. Liberman.
GMN 2353.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3146
1959 VOGEL, Friedrich Otto (1925 – 2006)
Moderne problem der humangenetik.
In this paper Vogel coined the term pharmacogenetics, as the study of the role of genetics in drug response.
GMN 9727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11914
1959 LINK, Karl Paul Gerhard (1901 – 1978)
The discovery of Dicumarol and its sequels.
An historical account of the discovery of the anticoagulant Warfarin by the primary investigator. The first use for this substance was rat poison. Digital facsimile from ahajournals.org at this link.
GMN 11405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13604
1960 MUELLER, Wolf
Bibliographie des Kaffe, des Kakao der Schokolade, des Tee und deren Surrogate bis zum Jahre 1900.
GMN 13632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15912
1960 ABRAMSON, Harold Alexander (1899 – 1980)
The use of LSD in psychotherapy: Transactions of a conference of D-Lysergic Acid Diethymlamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23 and 24, 1959, Princeton, N. J. Edited by Harold A. Abramson.
GMN 13748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16032
1961 THOMAS, J. P.; ET AL
A new synthetic compound with antituberculous activity in mice; ethambutol (dextro-2, 2’-(ethylenediimino)-di-l-butanol).
Ethambutol for the treatment of tuberculosis. With C. O. Baughn, R. G. Wilkinson and R. G. Shepherd.
GMN 2353.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3149
1961 COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006)
America's pre-pharmacopeial literature.
GMN 11420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13619
1961 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
The toadstool millionaires.
Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.
GMN 12413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14643
1962 MATTHEWS, Leslie Gerald (1897 – 1997)
History of pharmacy in Britain.
GMN 2068.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2369
1962 SMITH, George Winston
Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
GMN 7417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9589
1962 WATT, John Mitchell (1892 – 1980); BREYER-BRANDWIJK, Maria Gerdina (1918 – 1945)
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.
1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.
GMN 8793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10971
1963 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Miracle drugs: A history of antibiotics.
First published in German, 1959.
GMN 2068.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2373
1963 HOLMSTEDT, Bo (1919 – 2002); LILJESTRAND, Göran (1886 – 1868)
Readings in pharmacology, selected and edited by B. Holmsted and G. Lijestrand.
An anthology of outstanding achievement in the growth of pharmacology.
GMN 2068.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2384
1963 URDANG, George (1882 – 1960); KREMERS, Edward (1865 – 1941)
History of pharmacy. 3rd ed.
4th ed., 1976, revised by G. Sonnedecker.
GMN 2068.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2393
1963 WEINSTEIN, Marvin Joseph (1916 – 2011); ET AL
Gentamicin, a new antibiotic complex from Micromonospora.
With nine co-authors.
GMN 1947.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2820
1963 BROOME, John Denis
Evidence that the L-asparaginase of guinea pig serum is responsible for its antilymphoma effects.
GMN 2660.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3400
1963 JOHNSON, Irving Stanley (1925 – 2014); ET AL
The Vinca alkaloids: a new class of oncolytic agents.
Clinical use of vinblastine (for Hodgkin’s disease and other lymphomas) and vincristine (for acute leukemias of childhood). With J. G. Armstrong, M. Gorman, and J. P. Burnett. Preliminary communication in J. Lab. clin…
GMN 2660.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3406
1963 WALL, Cecil (1869 – 1947); UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980); CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878 – 1958)
A history of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Abstracted and arranged from the MS notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles Cameron, revised annotated and edited by E. Ashworth Underwood. Vol.1: 1617-1815.
GMN 6550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8634
1963 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010); SONNEDECKER, Glenn A.
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
GMN 7413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9585
1964 THOMAS, Kenneth Bryn (1916 – 1978)
Curare, its history and usage.
GMN 2068.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2396
1964 TREASE, George Edward (1902 – 1986)
Pharmacy in history.
Traces the origins of pharmacy in ancient civilizations and its development in England from medieval to modern times.
GMN 2068.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2400
1964 BLACK, Sir James Whyte (1924 – 2010); CROWTHER, Albert Frederick (1917 – 2006); ET AL
A new adrenergic beta-receptor antagonist.
Development of Propranolol, the first beta-blocker effectively used in the treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension. R. G. Shanks, L. H. Smith and A. C. Dornhorst. In 1988 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
GMN 1931.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2759
1964 LAMBERT, C. R.
Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.
Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).
GMN 5351.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6892
1964 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
Bibliography of medicine and pharmacy in medieval Islam. Mit einer Einfuhrung, Arabismus in der Geschichte der Pharmazie, von Rudolf Schmitz.
GMN 13717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16001
1964 MECHOULAM, Raphael (1930 – ); GAONI, Y.
Isolation, structure, and partial synthesis of an active constituent of hashish.
Mechoulam and Gaoni showed that the active ingredient of "one of the most widely used illicit narcotic drugs," the flowering tops of Cannabis sativa, is "pure tetrhydrocannabinol" (THC). This they called the "psychoto…
GMN 14091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16402
1965 VELLARD, Jehan Albert (1901 – 1996)
Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.
GMN 2068.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2403
1965 SANYAL, Promode Kumar (1913 – 1994)
A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.
A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.
GMN 6491.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7993
1966 HEILMANN, Karl Eugen
Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
GMN 2068.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2407
1966 LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970); AL-KINDĪ, Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ ;أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي ( Alkindus) (801 – 873)
The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.
GMN 8531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10708
1966 BAUER, Alfred W.; KIRBY, W. M. M.; SHERRIS, John C.; ET AL
Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method.
The disk diffusion test, or agar diffusion test, or Kirby–Bauer test (disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test, KB test), for the antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria. (T…
GMN 11105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13301
1967 LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970); AL-KHALEDY, Noury; AL-SAMARQANDĪ, Najīb al-Dīn Abū Hāmid Muhammad b. Alī b. 'Umar ( – 1222)
The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.
GMN 7414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9586
1967 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.
GMN 8490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10667
1968 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986)
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
GMN 9848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12036
1968 –1975 SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang (1912 – 2007)
Lexikon zur Arzneimittelgeschichte. Sachwörterbuch zur Geschichte der pharmazeutische Botanik, Chemie, Mineralogie, Pharmakologie, Zoologie. Band 1: Tierische Drogen, Band 2: Pharmakologische Arzneimittelgruppen, Band 3: Pharmazeutische Chemikalien und Mineralien, Band 4: Geheimmittel und Spezialitäten, Band 5: Pflanzliche Drogen, Band 6: Ergänzungen zu Band 3, Band 7: Register. (7 vols. in 9)
GMN 12442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14674
1969 CRELLIN, John K.
Medical ceramics: A catalogue of the English and Dutch collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
GMN 2068.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2428
1969 RICHARDS, Hugh Colin; FOSTER, Raymond
A new series of 2-aminomethyltetrahydroquinoline derivatives displaying schistosomicidal activity in rodents and primates.
Oxamniquinine.
GMN 5351.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6898
1969 KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ); WALTERS, Russell S.; DOUGHTY, Richard M.
A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;
Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.
GMN 8415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10592
1970 BOVÉ, Frank James (1917 – )
The story of ergot.
Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.
GMN 2068.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2432
1970 HARE, Ronald (1899 – 1986)
The birth of penicillin.
“Disposes of many myths deeply embedded in the literature” (Macfarlane, see No. 1934).
GMN 2068.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2452
1970 REES, Richard John William (1917 – 1998); ET AL
Experimental and clinical studies on rifampicin in treatment of leprosy.
With J. M. H. Pearson and M. F. R. Waters.
GMN 2442.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2936
1971 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.
GMN 6510.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8073
1971 ISSEKUTZ, Béla (1886 – 1979)
Die Geschichte der Arzneimittelforschung.
GMN 7142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9309