1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1974
#8157
Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone.
Rowland and his post-doctoral student, Molina, suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could reach the stratosphere where they would be dissociated by UV light, releasi…
1974
#8280
Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.
1974
#8386
Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.
This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…
1974
#8758
The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.
Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…
1974
#8769
Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.
The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.
1974
#8819
A history of the Army Medical Department. 2 vols.
1974
#8912
Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.
In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …
1974
#9008
Bestimmung der Instensität im medizinischen System Galens: Ein Beiträg zur theoretische Pharmakologie, Nosologie und Therapie in der Galenischen Medizin.
1974
#9285
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
1974
#9388
Katalog der Josephinischen Bibliothek des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin in Wien. Edited by Erna Lesky.
1974
#9411
The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.
1974
#9487
"A computer-based system for the study and control of drug interactions in hospitalized patients," P. L. Morselli, S. Garattini, and S. N. Cohen, Drug interactions, 363-373.
MEDIPHOR System (Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Interactions by a Pharmacy-Oriented Reporting System) developed by Cohen, Shortliffe and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School, published as a chapter in t…
1974
#9941
The genetics of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.
In 2002 Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programm…
1974
#9942
The DNA of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1974
#10047
Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.
Creation of the first transgenic organism: expression of Staphylococcus aureus genes in Escherichia coli. Digital facsimile from pnas.org at this link.
1974
#10551
The Darwin correspondence project.
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/" "Search over 12000 letters and articles..."
1974
#10632
Hethitische medizinische Texte (Studien zu den Bogazkoy-Texten 19).
Edition and commented translation (German) of 17 Hittite texts, with an introduction.
1974
#10963
Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.
Confirmation of the success of methods outlined in No. 257.5. Abstract: "Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resi…
1974
#10982
Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.
1974
#11327
From medical police to social medicine.
1974
#11356
Conundrum.
Morris underwent male to female sex change surgery by Georges Burou in Casablanca during the 1960s. As a much-published writer, her book was one of the first to draw wide attention to the phenomenon. New edition, with…
1974
#11369
The surgical construction of male genitalia for the female-to-male transsexual.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Noe, Birdsell, Laub.
1974
#11371
Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.
A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…
1974
#11424
The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.
1974
#11553
Corpuscles: Atlas of red blood cell shapes.
A spectacular oversize atlas reproducing 121 photographs of erythrocytes as visualized with a scanning electron microscope. The first edition was published in English, followed by an edition in French in 1976.
1974
#12245
Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.
Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.
1974
#12246
A sector scanner for real time two-dimensional echocardiography.
Abstract "During the past several years one-dimensional pulse-echo ultrasound techniques have proven extremely useful in cardiac diagnosis. A one-dimensional system, however, only visualizes structures lying along a s…
1974
#12343
The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.
Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.
1974
#12444
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
1974
#12491
A history of public health in New York City.
1974
#12717
A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.
The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1974
#12718
Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.
The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…
1974
#13825
Historical medical classics involving new drugs. Foreward by Charles H. Best.
1974
#13934
Genetic control of the cell division cycle in yeast.
In 2001 Hartwell shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle." See also No. 13933. In this paper the authors demonstr…
1974
#13948
Chromatin structure: A repeating unit of histones and DNA.
While a postdoctoral fellow working with Aaron Klug and Francis Crick at the MRC in the 1970s, Kornberg discovered the nucleosome as the basic protein complex packaging chromosomal DNA in the nucleus of eukaryotic cel…
1974
#14057
Pop goes the café coronary.
Heimlich proposed and described the eponymous “Heimlich maneuver” for what was then called the “café coronary,” a cause of sudden death seen mostly in restaurants, or at the dinner table, most often on those ingesting…
1974
#14115
Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.
The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, small, oft…
1974
#14315
"Conformational Coupling in Biological Energy Transductions." In L. Ernster et al. (eds.), Dynamics of Energy-Transducing Membranes, pp. 289-301.
In 1997 Boyer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Walker and Jens C. Skou “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).” The Nobel Prize committe…
1975
#461.3
Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translation, documents by L. R. Lind.
Includes English translations of texts by Alessandro Achillini, Alessandro Benedetti, Berengario da Carpi, Gabriele Zerbi, Niccolo Massa, Andrés de Laguna, J. Dryander and G. B. Canano.
1975
#1588.15
The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.
Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.
1975
#1588.16
Translations in respiratory physiology.
English translations of 22 classic papers (some quite lengthy) with introductions by various experts.
1975
#1671.8
The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.
First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.
1975
#2068.14
An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.
1975
#2068.17
Manipulation past and present, with an extensive bibliography.
1975
#2068.18
British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. 3 vols.
A comprehensive history and bibliography of the subject, including a revised history of the English herbal literature, and accounts of other books of medical and pharmaceutical interest.
1975
#1931.7
Thromboxanes: a new group of biologically active compounds derived from prostaglandin endoperoxides.
With J. Stevenson and B. Samuelsson.
1975
#2660.27
From the molecular biology of oncogenic DNA viruses to cancer. Les Prix Nobel en 1975, pp. 172-80.
In 1975 Dulbecco shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Baltimore and Howard Martin Temin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the c…
1975
#2578.43
Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity.
Hybridomas. In 1984 Köhler and Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Niels K. Jerne, "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery …
1975 –1978
#3911.1
Pioneers in neuroendocrinology. 2 vols.,
1975
#5733.3