1936 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); IZQUIERDO, José Joaquín (1893 – 1974)
Harvey, iniciador del método experimental.
First edition in Spanish of De motu cordis as well as a facsimile of the first edition. "Contains an important historical review of the circulation with particular reference to Servetus and to the Spanish reception of…
GMN 12400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14630
1938 BAYON, Henry Peter George (1876 – 1952)
William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I-V.
"The most comprehensive bibliographical reference work on the history of the circulation" (Bedford 200).
GMN 12398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14628
1939 YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibers of cephalopods.
Young discovered the squid giant synapse, a chemical synapse found in squid, and the largest chemical junction in nature.
GMN 7158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9325
1939 HOOKER, Davenport (1887 – 1965)
A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.
The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…
GMN 14053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16363
1949 FRANKLIN, Kenneth James (1897 – 1966)
A short history of physiology. 2nd ed.
GMN 1583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1366
1949 ROCHA E SILVA, Mauricio (1910 – 1983); ET AL
Bradykinin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor releases from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin.
Discovery of bradykinin. With W. T. Beraldo and G. Rosenfeld.
GMN 1930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2747
1950 BASTHOLM, Eyvind Borge Martin Marius (1904 – 1989)
The history of muscle physiology from the natural philosophers to Albrecht von Haller.
Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, Vol. 7.
GMN 1584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1370
1950 SELYE, Hans (1907 – 1982)
The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.
In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.
GMN 2238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3821
1950 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)
Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1
Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.
GMN 5016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6603
1950 KEYS, Ancel Benjamin (1904 – 2004); BROZEK, Josef (1913 – 2004); HENSCHEL, Austin; MICKELSEN, Olaf (1912 – 1999); TAYLOR, Henry Longsteet
The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.
"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…
GMN 8779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10957
1952 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deCusance Morant (1903 – 1991)
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
GMN 366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/430
1952 ROTHSCHUH, Karl Eduard (1908 – 1984)
Entwicklungsgeschichte physiologischer Probleme in Tabellenform.
GMN 6882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9046
1953 –1956 PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849 – 1936)
Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. in 10.
GMN 86.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1441
1953 YASUDA, Iwao (1909 – 1983)
Fundamental aspects of fracture treatment. [In Japanese]
First electrically-induced osteogenesis. Yasuda demonstrated that small amounts of electric current applied to bone stimulated osteogenesis at the cathode. He was also the first to describe stress generated potentials…
GMN 4435.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6316
1953 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)
Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works
GMN 11200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13397
1954 FERREIRA DE MIRA, Matias Boleto (1875 – 1953)
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
GMN 8928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11106
1957 POLYAK, Stephen Lucian (1889 – 1955)
The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.
GMN 7404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9576
1959 BROOKS, Chandler McCuskey (1905 – 1989); CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
The historical development of physiological thought.
GMN 1586.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1385
1960 LIDDELL, Edward George Tandy (1895 – 1981)
The discovery of the reflexes.
GMN 1587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1394
1960 GOODFIELD, June (1927 – )
The growth of scientific physiology: Physiological method and the mechanist-vitalist controversy, illustrated by the problems of respiration and animal heat.
GMN 11708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13909
1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. Second edition
GMN 11201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13398
1963 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Hormone: Die Geschichte der Hormonforschung.
GMN 1588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1420
1964 FISHMAN, Alfred Paul (1918 – 2010); RICHARDS, Dickinson Woodruff (1895 – 1973)
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
GMN 1588.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1429
1964 KOSHTOYANTS, Khachatur Sedrakovich (1900 – 1961)
Essays on the history of physiology in Russia, by Kh.S. Koshtoyants. Editor of English translation: Donald B. Lindsley. Translated from the Russian by David Boder, Kristan Hanes [and] Natalie O'Brien.
Focuses on neurophysiology, especially the work of Sechenov and Pavlov. Originally published in Moscow, 1946.
GMN 8145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10321
1965 STACEY, Ralph W.; WAXMAN, Bruce
Computers in biomedical research. Edited by Ralph W. Stacy and Bruce Waxman. 2 vols.
Section A, Chapter 2: "New mathematical methods in the life sciences" by George B. Dantzig. Section D, Chapter 12: "The application of computers to electroencephalography" by Mary A. B. Brazier. Section E, Chapter 13:…
GMN 8834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11012
1965 SKOU, Jens Christian (1918 – 2018)
Enzymatic basis for the active transport of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane.
Skou discovered that the active transport of sodium and potassium is carried out in the cell membrane by an enzyme that serves as a sodium and potassium "pump," that catalyzes ATP hydrolysis. He named the enzyme "sodi…
GMN 14311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16636
1966 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)
Selected readings in the history of physiology. Second edition, revised.
These readings extend from Aristotle to contemporary writers; they give access to many classical works that might otherwise be unobtainable to students of the history of physiology. Foreign material is translated into…
GMN 1588.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1456
1966 KEILIN, David (1887 – 1963); KEILIN, Joan
The history of cell respiration and cytochrome
See No. 968.
GMN 1588.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1471
1966 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The life of William Harvey.
GMN 14342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16671
1967 LICHT, Sidney (1908 – 1979)
History of electrotherapy. In: Therapeutic electricity and ultraviolet radiation.
GMN 2068.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2425
1967 BERNARD, Claude (1813 – 1878); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Catalogue des manuscrits de Claude Bernard avec la bibliographie de ses travaux imprimés et des études sur son oeuvre. Collège de France
GMN 11207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13404
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAY, Margaret Tallmadge (1896 – 1990)
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
GMN 9097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11276
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)
Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.
GMN 9129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11308
1968 HARVARD AD HOC COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH
A definition of irreversible coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death.
This report described the following characteristics of a permanently nonfunctioning brain, a condition it referred to as "irreversible coma," now known as brain death: 1. Unreceptivity and unresponsitivity--patient sh…
GMN 10044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12233
1969 HALL, Thomas Steele (1909 – )
Ideas of life and matter; studies in the history of general physiology 600 B.C. to A.D. 1900. 2 vols.
GMN 1588.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1487
1970 RAPP, D
Die Entwicklung der physiologischen Methodik von 1784 bis 1911. Eine qualitative Untersuchung.
GMN 1588.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1483
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 –1971 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…
GMN 7550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9722
1970 HAMILTON, William James (1903 – 1975); BOYD, J. B.
The human placenta.
An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.
GMN 11112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13308
1972 FLORKIN, Marcel (1900 – 1979)
A history of biochemistry. 5 vols.
Forms vols. 30-34 of Comprehensive biochemistry, edited by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz.
GMN 1588.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1508
1972 NEEDHAM, Dorothy Mary Moyle (1896 – 1988)
Machina carnis: the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development.
A definitive history of the development of knowledge on muscle biochemistry; valuable bibliography.
GMN 1588.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1510
1972 RENBOURN, Edward Tobias
Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).
GMN 13806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16094
1973 ROTHSCHUH, Karl Eduard (1908 – 1984); RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
History of physiology. Edited and translated by G. B. Risse
A revised and expanded translation of Geschichte der Physiologie, Berlin, 1953.
GMN 1588.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1520
1973 HARRIS, Charles Reginald Schiller (1896 – 1979)
The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.
GMN 1588.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1523
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
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 WEST, John B. (1928 – )
Translations in respiratory physiology.
English translations of 22 classic papers (some quite lengthy) with introductions by various experts.
GMN 1588.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1564
1976 NEHER, Erwin (1944 – ); SAKMANN, Bert (1942 – )
Single-channel currents recorded from membrane of denervated frog muscle fibres.
In 1991 Neher and Sakmann were awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells." They were also awarded the prize for the invention…
GMN 7454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9626
1980 FRANK, Robert G.
Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.
GMN 1588.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1593
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
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