1950–1959
579 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1959
#10676
Parasites and parasitic infections in early medicine and science.
1959
#10753
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
1959
#10840
Scrapie and Kuru.
In 1959 Hadlow, a veterinarian, visited a medical exposition in England where Carlton Gajdusek posted pathological slides of autopsied Kuru brains and a clinical description of the illness. He realized that Gajdusek's…
1959
#11405
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.
1959
#11560
Digital recording of electrocardiographic data for analysis by a digital computer.
This is probably the earliest paper on the use of computers to analyze electrocardiograms. The abstract: "A corrected orthogonal 3-lead system has been used to record electrocardiograms directly from patients at Veter…
1959
#11639
Bibliotheca Boerhaaviana by G. A. Lindeboom.
1959
#12277
Angina pectoris.I. A variant form of angina pectoris. Preliminary report.
Prinzmetal angina. "Dr. Prinzmetal and his collaborators focus upon an interesting variant of angina pectoris which appears to be associated with temporary, recurrent spasm of a partially occluded coronary artery. In …
1959
#12603
The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem
1959
#12655
Programs with Common Sense. IN: Mechanisation of thought processes, Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Physics Laboratory, pages 77-84.
"Programs with Common Sense was probably the first paper on logical AI, i.e. AI in which logic is the method of representing information in computer memory and not just the subject matter of the program. The paper was…
1959
#12922
Notes et mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'art dentaire et à l'étude de l'évolution scientifique de l'odonto-stomatologie en France.
1959
#12969
Standards for height and weight of British children from birth to maturity.
Tanner established "normal" parameters for ranking the height and weight of children by percentile during growth. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1959
#13104
Napoleon immortal: The medical history and private life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1959
#13146
Metabolic care of the surgical patient. Edited by Francis D. Moore.
"...This book, by authorities in the field, is up to date and well organized. A wide range of subjects, including surgical endocrinology and metabolism, is covered. Important subjects such as normal and abnormal conva…
1959
#13156
Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.
![AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)](/media/portraits/9572)
1959
#13242
Speech and brain mechanisms.
1959
#13256
The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.
A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.
1959
#13334
Transfusions et greffes de moelle osseuse homologue chez des humains irradiés a haute dos accidentellement.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mathé, Jammet, Pendic et al. Mathé performed the first bone marrow graft between unrelated donors and hosts in order to save six Yugoslavian nuclear researchers who had…
1959
#13526
Quantitative studies of tissue transplantation immunity. IV. Induction of tolerance in newborn mice and studies on the phenomenon of Runt Disease.
First description of what became known as Graft-versus-host disease (GvDH). This the authors initially called "graft against host (GAH)." The authors cited three conditions, later known as the Billingham criteria, whi…
1959
#13534
The health seekers of Southern California 1870-1900.
1959
#13591
Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.
Davis was a personal friend of Kelly for twenty years. She based this biography partly on Kelly's notebooks and journals that Kelly left her upon his death.
1959
#13800
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
1959
#13942
On the topology of the genetic fine structure.
Benzer developed "the T4 rII system, a new genetic technique involving recombination in T4 bacteriophage rII mutants. After observing that a particular rII mutant, a mutation that caused the bacteriophage to eliminate…
1959
#14056
Pheromones (ectohormones) in insects.
Karlson and Butenandt (Nobel Prize 1939) defined pheromones as “substances which are secreted to the outside by an individual of the same species, in which they release a specific reaction, for example, a definite beh…
1959
#14141
Factors affecting the activity of muscle phosphorylase b kinase.
In 1992 Krebs and Fischer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism." Digital facsimile from PubMe…
1959
#14191
A history of the American Dental Association 1859-1959.
1959
#14227
Einführung in die stereotaktischen Operationen mit einem Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns. Introduction to stereotaxis with an atlas of the human brain. Large folio text plus 2 large folio binders of plates with captions.
One of the most elaborately produced medical books of the 20th century, with numerous very large plates folding out to the size of four folio sheets, and numerous photographs with plastic overlays.
1959
#14230
Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings: Blood cholesterol level, blood clotting time, incidence of arcus senilis, and clinical coronary artery disease.
Abstract: "Three groups of men, selected solely according to the behavior pattern which they habitually manifested in their work, were compared with respect to their serum cholesterol levels, clotting times, presence …
1959
#14242
Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex.
Also: Hubel & Wiesel, Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex, J. Physiol., 160, 1962, 106-154. In 1981 Hubel and Wiesel shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiol…
1959
#14358
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.