1960–1969
625 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1968
#10655
Successful internal mammary-coronary arterial anastomosis using a "minivascular" suturing technic.
Bailey was the first to graft the internal mammary artery, now typically called the internal thoracic artery.
1968
#10802
Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.
1968
#10804
Medical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.
1968
#10841
Kuru and cannibalism.
Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…
1968
#11204
A bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne
Second edition, revised and augmented.
1968
#11230
John Evelyn: A study in bibliopphily with a bibliography of his writings
Second edition, revised. First published in 1937 by The Grolier Club and Cambridge University Press.
1968 –1977
#11331
Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.
1968
#11551
Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.
Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli’s Hydraul…
1968
#11751
Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)
1968
#11827
Women in medicine.
1968
#11984
Microneurosurgery: Application of the binocular surgical microscope in brain tumors, intracranial aneurysms, spinal cord disease, and nerve reconstruction.
1968
#11988
Cerebral radiosurgery, I. Gammathalamotomy in two cases of intractable pain.
Leksell Gamma Knife. "Over the subsequent 50 years Gamma Knife surgery has evolved to cover much of what is done in neurosurgery and there are more than 330 Gamma Knife centers all over the world. By the end of 2017 m…
1968
#12027
The double helix.
Portions of Watson's famous memoir appeared in the January and February issues of the Atlantic Monthly prior to their publication in book form in the Spring of 1968. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)
1968
#12028
Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli, X. In vitro restriction of phage FD replicative form.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Linn, Arber. Arber announced the discovery, with proof, of the first restriction endonuclease (restriction enzyme or restrictase)."These enzymes are found in bacteria a…
1968
#12038
Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.
Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…
1968
#12282
Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…
1968 –1975
#12442
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)
1968
#12913
A history of dentistry in the Philippines.
1968
#13180
Justus von Liebig. Eine Bibliographie sämtlicher Veröffentlichungen mit biographischen Anmerkungen von Carlo Paolini
1968
#13551
Evolutionary rate at the molecular level.
Using complex mathematics, Motoo Kimura calculated that genomes constantly undergo a remarkably high number of mutations per unit of time. He wrote, "Calculating the rate of evolution in terms of nucleotide substituti…
1968
#13935
Reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from electron micrographs.
Klug and deRosier invented methods for two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital image processing of electron microscope images. The latter method provided the theory behind the development of computed tomography …
1968
#13947
The integrated state of viral DNA in SV40-transformed cells.
Dulbecco and his group demonstrated that the infection of normal cells with certain types of viruses (oncoviruses) led to the incorporation of virus-derived genes into the host-cell genome, and that this event lead to…
1968
#13987
Mechanism of DNA chain growth, I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains.
The Okazakis discovered what became known as Okazaki fragments, short sequences of DNA nucleotides (approximately 150 to 200 base pairs long in eukaryotes) which are synthesized discontinuously and later linked togeth…
1968
#13997
Los Médicos y las Enfermedades de Monterrey [1881]. Memorias de Gonzalitos que se publican con una introducción sobre su vida y su obra por Francisco Guerra.
Edition by Francisco Guerra and first publication of a manuscript by Eleuterio in the Wellcome Library. According to the catalogue of the Wellcome archives the contents are as follows: "Los médicos y las enfermedades …
1968
#14303
Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.
Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…
1969
#1588.6
Ideas of life and matter; studies in the history of general physiology 600 B.C. to A.D. 1900. 2 vols.
1969
#532.4
Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes.
First successful in-vitro fertilization of human oocytes. In 2010 Robert Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization."
1969
#2068.11
Medical ceramics: A catalogue of the English and Dutch collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
1969
#2662.2
Bibliographic control of the literature of oncology 1800-1960.
Includes a short, well-documented history.
1969
#3047.22
A new approach to “anatomic” repair of transposition of the great arteries.
The Rastelli procedure. “Intraventricular rerouting of left ventricular output through the ventricular septal defect to the aorta and establishing of a new right ventricular outflow through the ventriculotomy and an e…
1969
#3047.23
Surgical treatment of Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.
Surgical management of the tachycardia of Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.
1969
#2883.8
Catheter technique for recording His bundle activity in man.
Scherlag was the first person to consistently record atrial ventricular bundle ("His bundle") potentials, which served as one of the cornerstones of clinical electrophysiology. With 5 co-authors.
1969
#2578.39
The covalent structure of an entire ÁG immunoglobulin molecule.
Complete sequence of an immunoglobulin molecule. With five coauthors. In 1972 Edelman shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with R. R. Porter “for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of anti…
1969
#2702.4
The rays: a history of radiology in the United States and Canada.
1969
#3611.3
Shouldice repair for inguinal hernia.
The Canadian or Shouldice repair.
1969
#4914.5
Transphenoidal microsurgery of the normal and pathological pituitary. In: Clinical neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…1968, 185-217.
Confirmation of Cushing’s idea that a micro-tumor causes Cushing’s syndrome. See No. 3904.
1969
#5019.8
Garrison’s History of neurology. Revised and enlarged with a bibliography of classical, original and standard works in neurology.
A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject, considerably enlarging Garrison’s work previously published in C. L. Dana’s Textbook of nervous diseases, 1925, pp. xv-lvi.
1969
#5351.7
A new series of 2-aminomethyltetrahydroquinoline derivatives displaying schistosomicidal activity in rodents and primates.
Oxamniquinine.
1969
#5440.2
Prevention of varicella by zoster immune globulin.
With A. Ross, L. H. Miller, and B. Kuo.
1969 –1975
#6786.15
The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.
The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.
1969
#6808
Illustrated dictionary of eponymic syndromes and diseases and their synonyms.
Second edition as Jablonski’s Dictionary of syndromes and eponymic diseases, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1989.
1969
#6666
Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 53-
SUDHOFF'S ARCHIV
Formerly Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, 1-20, 1907-28; Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin (und der Naturwissenschaften), 21-52, 1929-68.
1969
#6610.8
Das Bild des Kranken. Die Darstellung äusserer Veränderungen Durch innere Leiden und ihrer Heilmassnahmen von der Renaissance bis in unsere Zeit.
1969 –1972
#6841
Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.
First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…
1969
#7046
Dawn of Western science in Japan. Rangaku Kotohajime by Genpaku Sugita translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto, supervised by Tomio Ogata.
1969
#7487
Exploring the ocean world: A history of oceanography.
1969
#7540
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
1969
#7810
Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement.
The first total artificial heart implant, performed by Colley using a device developed by Liotta on April 4, 1969. The device, known as the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with s…
1969
#7916
Bürger und Irre. Zur Sozialgeschichte und Wissenschaftssoziologie der Psychiatrie.
1969
#7967
Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile.
Discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures. This is one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcus–Thermus group, and the source of the heat-resistan…