1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1985 –1995
#8325
Stephanus of Athens: Commentary on Hippocrates' aphorisms. Edited and translated by Leendert G. Westerink. Vol. 1: Section 1-2; Vol. 2: Sections 3-4; Vol. 3: Sections 5-6.
Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 11, 1, 3, 1-3.
1985
#8374
Learning to heal: The development of American medical education.
1985
#8388
Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.
Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are pro…
1985
#8498
Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.
1985
#8567
Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.
1985
#8820
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
1985
#8882
William Osler's collected papers on the cardiovascular system. Edited by W. Bruce Fye.
Includes a previously unpublished essay by Maude Abbott, "Osler's contributions to our knowledge of heart disease."
1985
#8883
The collected essays of Sir William Osler. 3 vols. Edited by John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland.
Vol. 1: The philosophical essays. Vol. 2: The educational essays. Vol. 3: The historical and biographical essays.
1985
#8958
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
1985
#9104
Histoire de la démographie: La statique de la population des origines à 1914.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1985
#9133
The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.
Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …
1985
#9233
An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.
This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…
1985
#9835
Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, Editor-in-Chief.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ "The Perseus Digital Library Project began at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts in 1985. Though the project was ostensibly about Greek and Roman literature and cu…
1985
#9854
Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
1985
#9889
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
1985
#10054
A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.
1985
#10089
African pioneers of modern medicine: Nigerian doctors of the nineteenth century.
1985
#10094
The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.
1985
#10306
Scalpels and sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas.
1985
#10319
In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity.
1985
#10430
Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.
"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…
1985
#10785
Enzymatic amplication of B-globin genomic sequences and restriction site analysis for diagnosis of sickle cell anemia.
Polymerase chain reaction first published. With Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona et al. Order of authorship in the original paper was Saiki, Scharf, Faloona, Mullis.... In 1993 the Nobel Prize in Chemist…
1985
#10789
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
1985
#10965
Serologic identification and characterization of a macaque T-lymphotropic retrovirus closely related to HTLV-III.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kanki, McLane... Essex. This paper was followed in the issue of Science by: Daniel, M., Letvi, N. L., King, N.W., "Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-3 - like retrovirus from ma…
1985
#11060
Structure of the protein subunit in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3 Å resolution.
Discovery of the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, called the photosynthetic reaction center. This was the first elucidation of the 3D crystal structure of any …
1985
#11206
A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823
Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951). The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.
1985
#11279
Two hundred years of publishing: A history of the oldest publishing company in the United States - Lea & Febiger, 1785-1985.
1985
#11377
The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…
1985
#11509
William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.
Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.
1985
#11533
Medical thermometry--a short history.
Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1985
#11949
Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.
1985
#12147
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
1985
#12550
Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons
1985
#13367
Histoire des médecins et pharmaciens de marine et des colonies.
1985
#13727
The management of smallpox eradication in India.
1985
#13736
Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.
Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.
1985
#13737
Hypervariable 'minisatellite regions in human DNA.
Jeffries and team discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling. This was the first publication of the method.
1985
#13936
Repetitive zinc-binding domains in the protein transcription factor IIIA from Xenopus oocytes.
Discovery of Zinc fingers, a protein structural motif. "Zinc fingers were first identified in a study of transcription in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis in the laboratory of Aaron Klug. A study of the transcr…
1985
#14175
Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin involved in microtubule based motility.
The authors discovered and named a second motor protein, and named it kinesin. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Vale, Reese, Sheetz. (Thanks to Juan Weiss …
1985
#14339
Filamentous fusion phage: Novel expression vectors that display cloned antigens on the virion surface.
In this paper Smith invented "phage display technology," a technique where a specific protein sequence is artifically inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the …
1986
#1588.22
The history of blood gases, acids and bases.
The authors were prominent investigators in the field.
1986
#534.42
A history of embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia 8. Edited by T. J. Horder, J. A. Wikowski and C. C. Wylie.
A survey of the history of developmental biology from 1880.
1986
#1716.2
The history of statistics: The measurement of uncertainty before 1900.
The first comprehensive history of statistics from about 1700 to 1900.
1986
#197.2
Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.
Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…
1986
#2702.5
Pioneers and early years: A history of British radiology.
Well-illustrated and carefully documented, incorporating detailed biographies of pioneers. Covers the history before 1930.
1986
#3705.5
Antique dental instruments.
1986
#3726
The history of scurvy and vitamin C.
1986
#4158.3
Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.
Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.
1986
#5768.8
History and tradition [of ophthalmic plastic surgery].
A collection of articles by various authors, including partial reprint of No. 5768.1 and 6005.
1986
#6623.51