1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1984
#10327
History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.
1984
#10330
Stapling in surgery.
Ravitch and Steichen refined primitive surgical stapling systems that were developed in Russia, and made them viable in a wide range of procedures.
1984
#10988
The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.
1984
#11059
A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associat…
1984
#11225
Seed physiology: Its history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.
1984
#11325
Highlights in the development of medical history in the United States (Materials from an exhibit).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1984
#11363
Readings in medical artificial intelligence: The first decade. Edited by William Clancey and Edward H. Shortliffe.
1984
#11658
Lipoplasty: The theory and practice of blunt suction lipectomy. Edited by G. P. Hetter.
The first comprehensive review in English of the development of liposuction, theory, and technique, including the techniques of Illouz and Fournier. Includes several chapters by Pierre Fournier, including "A history a…
1984
#11692
Giambattista Morgagni, Clinical consultations, the edition of Enrico Benassi (1935) translated and revised by Saul Jarcho.
Italian text and English translation of 100 clinical consultation lettes written by Morgagni, discussing patients that in most cases he had not seen, a practice that was considered acceptable at the time. Morgagni gav…
1984
#11899
Professori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: Repertorio bio-bibliografico.
1984
#12231
Clinical use of the total artificial heart.
"Abstract "We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. The heart [Jarvik-7] was developed at the University of Utah, and the patient was a 61-year-old man with chroni…
1984
#12281
Physicians, law and ethics.
1984
#12333
Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.
1984
#12578
Into thin air: A history of aviation medicine in the RAF.
1984
#12600
Antibodies to the core protein of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) in patients with AIDS.
The authors mentioned in a footnote added at the end of the paper that "A specific ELISA test with total LAV proteins detects LAV-speciic antibodies in 95% of LAS patients and 70-95% of AIDS depending on the risk grou…
1984
#12664
A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.
Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…
1984
#12819
Catalogue of printed books and manuscripts (1491-1900) in the Library of St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School.
1984
#13811
Histoire illustrée de la rhumatologie.
1984
#13991
Completion of mouse embryogenesis requires both the maternal and paternal genomes.
Solter discovered mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression, with consequences for development and disease. "Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that causes genes to…
1984
#14078
Bibliographie de l'homéopathie: Publications en langue française de 1824 à 1984.
1984
#14184
Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses.
Dubochet and colleagues introduced "Dubochet's vitrification method" to vitrify water by cooling it so rapidly that it solidified to form a glass instead of crystals. Using this method, the authors published the first…
1984
#14263
Molecular analysis of the period locus in Drosophila malanogaster and identification of a transcript involved in biological rhythms.
Rosbach and colleagues, including Jeffrey C. Hall, sequenced the Drosophila period gene in 1984. Full text available from cell.com at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Reddy, Zehring, Wheeler…
1984
#14265
Restoration of circadian behavioral rhythms by gene transfer in Drosophila.
"At The Rockefeller University in the early 1980s, Young and his two lab members, Ted Bargiello and Rob Jackson, further investigated the circadian period gene in Drosophila. They constructed segments of recombinant D…
1985
#1588.21
The brain machine: The development of neurophysiological thought.
Translation of Le cerveau-machine: physiologie de la volonté, Paris, 1983.
1985
#145.91
The background of ecology: concept and theory.
1985
#1931.8
The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 7th ed.
Includes useful historical information.
1985
#1757.2
Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.
1985
#3161.7
Hematology, the blossoming of a science: a story of inspiration and effort.
1985
#2581.11
Immunology to 1980. An illustrated bibliography of titles in the Middleton Health Sciences Library, including the Julius M. Cruse collection.
Citations, with paginations, of 3480 items. Author and subject indices
1985
#3705.4
Dentistry: An illustrated history.
1985
#5019.20
Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.
Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliogr…
1985
#5768.7
The creation of aesthetic plastic surgery.
Reprints useful papers from Aesthetic plast. Surg., 1976-85. No index.
1985
#6610.18
Ars medica: Art, medicine, and the human condition.
Fully annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, book illustrations, and photographs. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1985
#6639.11
Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.
The most elaborately illustrated history available.
1985
#6495.4
Medicine in China: A history of ideas.
The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…
1985
#6524.5
Medieval medical miniatures.
1985
#6786.28
American medical imprints, 1820-1910. 2 vols.
The work of over 40 years, this catalogue describes over 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides, arranged by decade, from 1820-1910, with a comprehensive index. Included is an essay: 19th century American medical lit…
1985
#6786.29
The two Sydenham Societies. A history and bibliography of the medical classics published by the Sydenham Society and the New Sydenham Society (1844-1911).
1985
#6986
Symposium on Byzantine medicine. Edited by John Scarborough.
Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 38, 1984.
1985 –1998
#7080
Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.
1985
#7273
History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa.
1985
#7284
Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.
The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 …
1985
#7558
The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.
A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.
1985
#7607
De wasmodellen van Petrus Koning. Achtergrondinformatie over en beschrijvende catalogus van de wasmodellen door Petrus Konig uit de collecties van het Anatomisch Museum, van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht.
Annotated catalogue of wax models made by Konig; summary in English.
1985
#7713
Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.
Second edition by Ortner as sole author (2003).
1985
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
1985
#8158
Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal Cl0x/Nox interaction.
Discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. In December 2016 the full text of the paper was available from ciesin.org at this link.
1985
#8203
Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.
1985
#8228
Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.
Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.
1985
#8297
Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.
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A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.