1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1983
#6485.62
Les maladies à l’aube de la civilization occidentale.
English translation entitled, Diseases in the ancient Greek world, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989.
1983
#6485.63
Medizinische Instrumente aus Sepulkralfunden der römischen Kaiserzeit.
1983
#6786.27
An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927. 540 items, usually with detailed notes.
1983
#6604.81
Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.
A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.
1983
#6610.17
Russiche Ikonenmalerie und Medizin. Zugleich eine Einführung in die Ikonographie. 2., Überarbeitete Auflage.
1983
#272
History of staining by Harold J. Cohn. 3rd edition by George C. Lusk and Frederick H.Kasten.
1983 –1994
#6936
Catalogo del fondo Haller della Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense di Milano, edited by Maria Teresa Monti. Parte prima: Libri, vol. I-III (t. I-II). Parte seconda: Dissertazioni, vol. I-V, Parte terza: libri delle biblioteche lombarde, vol. I-II (t. I-II), Indici. 13 vols.
Haller's library, which comprises 15,000 volumes and 145 manuscripts, was purchased in 1778 by order of Emperor Joseph II, son of Maria Theresa of Austria, and donated to the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan.
1983
#6996
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other h…
1983
#7210
Sertraline, 1S,4S-N-methyl-4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine, a new uptake inhibitor with selectivity for serotonin.
Sertraline hydrochloride, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, developed by the authors of this paper at Pfizer, and marketed under the tradename Zoloft. With R. G. Browne.
1983
#7563
Les tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
Translated into English by Stanley Hochman as Great voyages of discovery: Circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. (New York: Facts on File, 1983).
1983
#7653
Medical book illustration: A short history.
1983
#7871
A short history of breast cancer.
1983
#8082
Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
1983
#8146
The visual display of quantitative information.
1983
#8316
The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).
1983
#8331
Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.
First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …
1983
#8475
Unidentified curved bacilli on gastric epithelium in active chronic gastritis.
In 2005 Marshall and Warren shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease." See also their follow-up pape…
1983
#8612
Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.
1983
#8670
A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Edited by Rudolf Hirsch.
1983
#8745
"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.
1983
#8755
Exploring the origins of electrical cardiac stimulation.
1983 –1991
#8945
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
1983
#9095
Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.
1983
#9156
Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.
1983
#9219
The demands of humanity: Army medical disaster relief.
Digital facsimile from history.army.mil at this link.
1983
#9244
The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.
![DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)](/media/portraits/2028)
1983
#9313
Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…
1983
#9997
A study of the English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, with special reference to the provinces.
Medical History Supplement No. 3. Digital facsimile from discovery.ucl.ac.uk at this link.
1983
#10217
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
1983
#10407
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
1983
#10472
Challenging man-made disease.
Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…
1983
#10630
Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.
"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…
1983
#10687
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome X, 2e partie: Maladies II. Texte établi et traduit by Jacques Jouanna.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On diseases II from the Hippocratic Collection, possibly from the second half of the fifth century BCE.
1983 –1998
#10797
Pictorial encyclopedia of Civil War medical instruments and equipment. 3 vols.
1983
#10811
Scientists’ libraries: A handlist of printed sources.
Includes references to the libraries of many physicians. Digital text available from historyofscience.com at this link.
1983
#10868
Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
1983
#11091
Disease in ancient man: A report of an international symposium on disease in ancient man. Edited by Gerald D. Hart.
1983
#11191
Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?
This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …
1983
#11238
Franz Joseph Gall Bibliographie. Mit einem Porträt und 13 Abbildungen
1983
#11376
Hemorrhagic colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Riley, Remis, Helgerson. First description in print of a particularly virulent E.coli (0157-H7) infection, for which no antibiotics were effective; the only treatment b…
1983
#11531
Exploring the heart: Discoveries in heart disease and high blood pressure.
1983
#11657
Body contouring by lipolysis: A 5-year experience with over 3000 cases.
Illouz improved on the Fischers’ technique with the invention of a cannula with a blunt tip. This new type of cannula reduced blood loss and nerve damage, as well as reducing the risk of complications or death from li…
1983
#11814
U.S. cancer mortality rates and trends, 1950-1979. 4 vols.
Riggan supervised this long-term project of calculating and publishing cancer mortality rates and trends for every county in the United States over several decades. The last 30 of the 40 years of the underlying data b…
1983
#12061
Differential equations and mathematical biology.
"This textbook shows how first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to model the growth of a population, the administration of drugs, and the mechanism by which living cells divide. The authors presen…
1983
#12173
Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]
1983
#12230
The artificial heart.
First published report on the first successful "permanent" artificial heart operation, in which DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artifical heart in Barney Clark, a patient affected with end-stage congestive heart failur…
1983
#12308
Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.
1983
#12632
Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.
Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…
1983
#12658
Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.
The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…
1983
#12663
A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,
Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.