1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1973
#257.4
Enzymatic end-to-end joining of DNA molecules.
"The idea of recombinant DNA was first proposed by Peter Lobban, a graduate student of Prof. Dale Kaiser in the Biochemistry Department at Stanford University Medical School" (Wikipedia article recombinant DNA, access…
1973
#257.5
Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.
Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…
1973
#6859
Divided legacy: A history of the schism in medical thought: Volume III, science and ethics in American medicine: 1800-1914.
The history of homeopathic medicine in America, covering the difficulties within the homeopathic ranks and teachings.
1973
#7095
Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.
1973
#8126
Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy.
1973
#8136
Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.
1973
#8524
Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.
1973
#8620
The Percival Bailey collection of neurology & psychiatry.
1973
#8621
Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.
1973
#8687
Jewish physicians: A biographical index.
Over 9000 entries.
1973
#8730
International bibliography of the history of legal medicine.
1973
#8878
Obras médicas de Pedro Hispano. Edited by Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira.
1973
#8902
The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…
1973
#9131
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
1973
#9153
Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.
1973
#9255
Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.
1973
#9274
Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
1973
#9353
Albucasis on surgery and instruments. A definitive edition of the Arabic text, with English translation and commentary by M. S. Spink and G. L. Lewis.
1973
#10159
Bibliografia hispanica de veterinaria y equitacion anterior a 1901. Ordenada, comentada en algunos epigrafes y dividida en tres partes. I: Repertorio cronologico: Tratados. II: Repertorio cronologico: Textos legales. III: Indices.
1973
#10223
Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1973
#10735
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
1973
#10898
Drugs and foods from little-known plants: Notes in Harvard University herbaria.
5178 field notes of health and medical interest from specimens in Harvard University herbaria.
1973
#11074
Identification of a novel cell type in peripheral lymphoid organs in mice. I. Morphology, quantitation, tissue distribution.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Steinman, Cohn. In this paper Steinman announced his discovery of the dendritic cell. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. In 2011 Steinman received half …
1973
#11828
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
1973
#12648
Atlas zur Biomechanik der Gesunden und kranken Hüfte,
Translated into English by Ronald J. Furlong and Paul Maquet as Biomechanics of the normal and diseased hip. Theoretical foundation, technique and results of treatment: An atlas. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1976.
1973
#12652
Hepatitis A: Detection by immune electron microscopy of a viruslike antigen associated with acute illness.
Identification of the Hepatitis A virus.
1973
#13956
Double helix at atomic resolution.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Rosenberg, Seeman,...Rich. This paper was the first confirmation of the double-helix structure at atomic resolution. See also: Roberta Ogilvie Day, Nadrian C. Seeman,..…
1973
#14089
Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.
1973
#14161
Transplantation of isolated pancreatic islets into the portal vein of diabetic rats.
Lacy and colleagues showed that transplanation of murine pancreatic islet tissue into the portal vein of diabetic rats of the same inbred strain normalized the sugar levels and urine output of the rats that received t…
1973
#14241
Regulation of 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase activity in human fibroblasts by lipoproteins.
Goldstein and Brown discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develo…
1974
#1588.14
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.
1974
#534.41
Foundations of experimental embryology. 2nd ed.
14 classic contributions to embryology (in English translations where appropriate) with historical commentaries.
1974
#2028.43
Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.
Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.
1974
#3161.4
Einführung in die Geschichte der Haematologie.
Thirteen contributions edited by Boroviczény, H. Schipperges, and E. Seidler. Includes chronological table of events in the history of medicine and a bibliography.
1974
#2578.42
Towards a network theory of the immune system.
Idiotype networks. Jerne shared the 1984 Nobel Prize with Milstein and Köhler for his theoretical contributions to our concept of the immune system.
1974
#5019.12
Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.
This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.
1974
#5019.13
Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.
1974
#5019.15
A centennial bibliography of Huntington’s chorea, 1872-1972.
Over 2,000 references to original works. Chronological arrangement. Author, geographic and other indexes. With F. Baro and N. C. Myrianthopoulos.
1974
#5019.16
The roots of psychology. A sourcebook in the history of ideas.
1974
#6451.8
History of the life sciences. An annotated bibliography.
Over 4,000 annotated citations of works dealing with all aspects of the history of medicine and biology, including a section on individual and collected biographies.
1974
#6451.9
Geschichte der Medizin. 2 vols.
French translation, 1978.
1974
#6495.2
The theoretical foundations of Chinese medicine. Systems of correspondence.
1974
#6604.3
La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.
With Z. Ohya.
1974
#258.9
The path to the double helix: The discovery of DNA.
A well-documented history of molecular biology.
1974
#6909
Computerized transaxial x-ray tomography of the human body.
Ledley and team developed the developed the ACTA 0100 CT Scanner (Automatic Computerized Traverse Axial)— the first whole-body computed tomography scanner. With G. Di Chiro, A. J. Luessenhop, and H.L. Twigg. For furth…
1974
#6935
A selective inhibitor of serotonin uptake: Lilly 110140, 3-(p-Trifluoromethylphenoxy)-n-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine.
The first paper on the anti-depressant fluoxetine, marketed under the trade name Prozac. With Jong S. Horng, Frank P. Bymaster, Kenneth. L. Hauser, and Bryan B. Molloy. doi:10.1016/0024-3205(74)90345-2. PMID 4549929
1974
#7009
Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.
Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…
1974
#7453
Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system.
Doherty and Zinkernagel discovered how a class of white blood cells known as T cells kill virus-infected cells in the body, and so present the spread of viruses. In 1998 Zinkernagel and Doherty were awarded the Nobel …
1974
#7521
Telediagnosis: A new community health resource, Observations on the feasibility of telediagnosis based on 1000 patient transactions.
In 1968 Bird founded and directed the first "telemedicine" system, which linked a medical station at Boston's Logan Airport with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who supplied remote diagnosis, treatment and …
1974
#7777