1960–1969
625 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1967
#12677
The role of the Nestorians and Muslims in the history of medicine.
1967
#12716
In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]
Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…
1967
#12833
Self replication and scrapie.
Griffith discussed complex physical chemistry mechanisms by which the scrapie agent could arise from information encoded in protein structure which could then be transferred to other protein molecules. He also conside…
1967
#12834
Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?
This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…
1967
#12845
Diaria de bello Carolino (Diary of the Caroline war). Edited and translated by Dorothy M. Schullian.
Latin text with parallel English translation.
1967
#13258
The great American water-cure craze: A history of hydropathy in the United States.
1967
#13602
One hundred years of medicine in Canada, 1867-1967.
1967
#13945
The complete amino acid sequence of the tryptophan synthesase a protein (α Subunit) and its colinear relationship with the genetic map of the gene.
Yanofsky showed that changes in DNA sequence can produce changes in protein sequence at corresponding positions. His work is considered the best evidence in favor of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis. Order of author…
1967
#13988
Specific binding of the λ phage repressor to λ DNA.
Ptashne was the first to demonstrate specific binding between protein and DNA. Abstract for the paper: "Genetic experiments show that a group of genes may be switched off by the product of a regulator gene, called a r…
1967
#14166
Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography.
1967
#14198
Enzyme defect associated with a sex-linked human neurological disorder and excessive purine synthesis.
Jay Seegmiller and his colleagues at NIH discovered that the rare genetic disease, Lesch–Nyhan syndrome, was due to a profound deficiency of an enzyme known as hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase, or HGPRT.…
1968
#752.7
Cyclic AMP.
Sutherland elucidated the role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate, the second messenger mediating actions in a wide range of hormonal effects. In 1971 Sutherland was awarded the Nobel Prize in in Physiology or Medicine…
1968
#3047.21
Saphenous vein autograft replacement of severe segmental coronary artery occlusion: Operative technique.
First report on bypass of a human coronary artery. See No. 3047.25. Two years later Favoloro published a monograph on the topic: Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis (Baltimore, 1970). Digital facsimile fro…
1968
#3108.9
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
1968
#2578.38
The H-2 locus of the mouse: observations and speculations concerning its comparative genetics and its polymorphism.
Antigen II, discovered by Gorer (No. 2576.5), was studied by Snell and became known as the product of the H-2 locus, the fundamental locus in the history of mammalian transplant biology.
1968
#2581.7
Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.
"The selected papers ... range from the sixteenth century to the modern era. A number of the papers are classics in the field and several of the selections appear in English translation for the first time. The editor …
1968
#3666.7
Die Leber und ihre Krankheiten. Zweihundert Jahre Hepatologie.
Contains short biographies and an excellent bibliography.
1968
#5487.1
Relation of Burkitt’s tumor-associated herpes-type virus to infectious mononucleosis.
The Henles and Diehl showed that Epstein-Barr virus is the aetiological agent in infectious mononucleosis.
1968
#5019.7
A history of the treatment of speech disorders.
1968
#5813.8
La chirurgie moderne. Ses debuts en Occident: XVIe-XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles.
1968
#6639.1
A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.
Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.
1968 –1994
#6786.14
Rare books and collections of the Reynolds Historical Library. A bibliography. 2 vols. First volume by Martha Lou Thomas.
Vol. 1 describes 5119 rare books, manuscripts, and medieval anatomical mannequins donated by Lawrence Reynolds; includes some fine color plates. Vol. 2 contains material collected for the Reynolds Library after Reynol…
1968
#6451.6
Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.
A general history of medicine from a Marxist perspective.
1968
#6806
Die klinische Eponyme.
1968
#6807
Familiar medical quotations.
Over 7,000 quotations, arranged under broad subject headings; author and subject indexes.
1968
#6661
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY. 1-
The most recent issue may be viewed at this link.
1968
#273.2
Early history of the electron microscope.
1968
#6840
Particles associated with Australia antigen in the sera of patients with leukemia, Down's syndrome and hepatitis.
Particles with the appearance of a virus were detected by electron microscopy in the serum of individuals with Au. These were subsequently shown to be the surface antigen particles, different from the whole virus part…
1968
#6913
Three-dimensional Fourier synthesis of horse oxyhaemoglobin at 2.8Å resolution: The atomic model.
Thirty years after beginning his research on hemoglobin Perutz solved the Fourier synthesis of hemoglobin at 2.8Å (high resolution) and built an atomic model of the molecule. With Hilary Muirhead, J. M. Cox & L. C. G.…
1968
#6916
Molecular pathology of human haemoglobin.
Perutz opened up "the field of 'molecular pathology,' relating a structural abnormality to a disease" (Aaron Klug, "Max Perutz 1914-2002," Science 295 ([2002] 2383). Specifically Perutz showed that hemoglobin molecule…
1968
#7139
The double helix. A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Vivid first hand account of the discovery, renowned for its candor. See also the Norton Critical Edition of The double helix with supporting material, edited by Gunther Stent (1980), and The annotated and illustrated …
1968
#7282
Sur la decouverte dans le Pleistocene inferieur de la valle de l'Omo (Ethiopie) d'une mandibule d'Australopithecien.
In 1967 Arambourg and Coppens discovered Omo 18, the first specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus, also known as Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus; however it's classification as a new species was initially dismissed. In …
1968 –1982
#7349
1: The brain stem of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates. 2: The thalamus and basal telencephalon of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates.
Large folio. Images reproduced from contact prints recorded on 14 x 17 inch Kodak high-contrast metallographic plates. The first volume was by Alvin L. Berman; the second volume was by Berman and Edward G. Jones.
1968
#7789
Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission.
Published 23 years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing for carcinogenesis after the latency period. Digital facsimile available from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at this link.
1968
#7836
Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.
In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.
1968
#7884
The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.
Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.
1968
#7928
The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.
1968
#7948
Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service.
The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requ…
1968
#8172
The computer and medical care.
1968
#8406
Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.
1968
#8691
A catalogue of books in the Liverpool Medical Institution Library to the end of the nineteenth century.
1968
#8776
Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.
1968
#9097
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.
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1968
#9129
Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.
1968
#9134
An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.
The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…
1968
#9157
The formation of the American medical profession: The role of institutions, 1780-1860.
1968
#9200
The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture.
1968
#9848
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…
1968
#10044
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…
1968
#10213
The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.
"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…