1951 TILL, Walter Curt Franz Theodor Alois Karl (1896 – 1963)
Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.
GMN 7164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9331
1951 FASTLICHT, Samuel; ROMERO, Javier
El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.
GMN 8479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10656
1951 ANDERSON, Fannie
Doctors under three flags.
Covers the history of medicine in Detroit and Michigan between 1701 and 1837 when Michigan became a state. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12484
1952 LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978)
The old Egyptian medical papyri.
A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.
GMN 6471.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7925
1952 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960); GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)
Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"
GMN 6546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8185
1952 FOLLEY, J. H.; BORGES, T.; YAMASAKI, T.
Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.
GMN 7764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9936
1952 DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997); KITCHEN, S. F.; HADDOW, Alexander John (1912 – 1978)
Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.
First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…
GMN 7864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10036
1952
CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-
Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.
GMN 7898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10071
1952 DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997)
Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.
Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …
GMN 10939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13135
1952 SMITHBURN, K. C.
Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.
First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…
GMN 10940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13136
1953 KUROYA, Masahiko (1921 – 1976)
Newborn virus pneumonitis (type Sendai). II. The isolation of a new virus possessing hemagglutinin activity.
M. Kuroya, N. Ishida, and T. Shiratori isolated the first recognized Sendai (para-influenza) virus.
GMN 3215.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4374
1953 KORVIN-KRASINSKI, Cyrill von (1905 – 1992)
Die tibetische Medizinphilosophie. Der Mensch als Mikrokosmos.
2nd edition, 1965.
GMN 6495.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8016
1953 GORTVAY, Györgey (1892 – 1966)
Az újabbkori magyar orvosi müvelödés és egészégügy története. I Kötet.
GMN 6560.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8246
1953 –1959 SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)
A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)
1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
GMN 6450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8447
1953 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.
GMN 6603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8521
1953 BANTUG, José Policarpio (1884 – 1964)
A short history of medicine in the Philippines during the Spanish regime.1565-1898.
GMN 6604.39 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8534
1953 –1956 FEASBY, W. R.
Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11629
1953 NIXON, Pat Ireland (1883 – 1965)
A history of the Texas Medical Association 1853-1953.
GMN 9505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11690
1953 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
Tropical victory: An account of the influence of medicine on the history of Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1923.
GMN 10310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12502
1953 RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)
Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.
Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…
GMN 10504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12697
1954 FASTLICHT, Samuel
Bibliografia odontologica Mexicana.
GMN 3705.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5801
1954 –1960 IYENGAR, Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana (1895 – 1963)
Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.
South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.
GMN 5352.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6921
1954 KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960); ET AL
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
GMN 6311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8055
1954 FERREIRA DE MIRA, Matias Boleto (1875 – 1953)
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
GMN 8928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11106
1954 IBSEN, Bjørn Aage (1915 – 2007)
The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.
Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…
GMN 12968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15216
1955 DAVIDSON, Maurice (1883 – 1967)
The Royal Society of Medicine: The realization of an ideal (1805-1955).
GMN 6548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8187
1955 –1970 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.
Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.
GMN 6581.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8489
1955 GANDEVIA, Bryan Harle (1925 – 2006)
An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine in Australia.
Revised and enlarged as An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine and health in Australia. Sydney, Royal Australian College of Physicians, 1984. With A. Holster and S. Simpson.
GMN 6604.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8537
1956 ROSSIISKII, Dmitri M.; PETROV, Boris Dmitrievich (1904 – 1991)
Istoriia vseobshchei i otechestvennoi meditsiny i zdravookhraneniia: Bibliografiia (996-1954). Edited by B. D. Petrov.
GMN 6569.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8271
1956 BALCÁZAR, Juan Manuel (1894 – )
Historia de la medicina en Bolivia.
GMN 6603.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8522
1956 MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
GMN 7238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9407
1956 BECCARIA, Augusto
I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).
GMN 8346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10522
1956 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
Medicine and magic of the Mashona.
GMN 8651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10828
1956 ANDRADE, Gilberto Osório de (1912 – 1986); DUARTE, Eustáquio
Morão, Rosa & Pimenta; notícia dos três primeiros livros em vernáculo sôbre a medicina no Brasil. Estudo crítico de Gilberto Osório de Andrade. Introduções históricas, interpretações e notas de Eustáquio Duarte. Pref. de Gilberto Freyre.
GMN 8933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11111
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 SOMOLINOS D’ARDOIS, Germán (1911 – 1973)
Historia y medicina; figuras y hechos de la historiografia médica mexicana.
GMN 6603.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8523
1957 HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967); HUMMEL, William W
Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10846
1957 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
GMN 10282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12473
1957 ŠKRABALO, Zdenko (1929 – 2014); DEANOVIC, Z.
Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another term for …
GMN 10886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13082
1958 –1959 BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.
Burkitt’s lymphoma (African lymphoma), first described in detail by Sir Albert Cook, a medical missionary, but not published by him.
GMN 2660.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3397
1958 ROMERO, Javier
Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.
GMN 8478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10655
1958 BURROWS, Edmund Hartford (1927 – 2002)
A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century.
GMN 8500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10677
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.
GMN 8603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10780
1958 BORBA DE MORAES, Rubens (1899 – 1986)
Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.
Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.
GMN 8941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11120
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
GMN 10853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13049
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 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15774
1959 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
La médecine chinoise au cours des siècles.
English translation by B. Fielding, London, 1968.
GMN 6495.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8008
1959 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.
GMN 6548.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8189
1959 VINAR, Josef ( – 1969)
Obrazy z minulosti českého lèkarstvi.
GMN 6552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8225
