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1990–1999

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1997

#13229

The noblest animate motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought.

1997

#13541

Transmission of hepatitis C by intrahepatic inoculation with transcribed RNA.

Rice and colleagues constructed a viral RNA genome with the 3’ region and a consensus region to exclude potential inactivating mutations, which was then injected into the liver of chimps. That RNA, specifically encode…

1997

#13604

Histoire du Collège des médecins du Québec, 1847-1997.

1997

#13678

Attorney's illustrated medical dictionary.

1997

#14131

Proteome research: New frontiers in functional genomics.

Order of editorship in the original publication: Wilkins, Williams, Appel, Hochstrasser. "Recent advances in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, protein microanalytsis and bioinformatics have made the large-scale, sy…

1997

#14274

The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway.

"Abstract: Capsaicin, the main pungent ingredient in ‘hot’ chilli peppers, elicits a sensation of burning pain by selectively activating sensory neurons that convey information about noxious stimuli to the central ner…

1997

#14365

Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.

"Discovered in 1973, in the richest cache of ancient manuscripts ever unearthed in China, the seven medical manuscripts from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in Changsha, Hunan Province....The manuscripts were buried in 168 B.C. alon…

1998

#6827

La biblioteca di un medico del quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Bibliotheca Malatestiana. A cura di Anna Manfron ; saggi di Pier Giovanni Fabbri ... [et al.] ; fotografie di Ivano Giovannimi.

On his death in 1474 Giovanni di Marco da Rimini, physician to Malatesta Novello, bequeathed his library of medical manuscripts to the recently established Biblioteca Malatestiana in Cesena, Italy. Giovanni's library,…

1998

#6888

Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: A platform for investigating biology.

Completion of the first genome of a multi-cellular organism—C. elegans. "C. elegans is a free-living nematode which is widely used as a model organism. The C. elegans genome has been fully sequenced and is therefore a…

1998

#7143

Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and Study by Donald J. Harper.

Detailed historical analysis and English translation of medical manuscripts buried with their owner in 168 BCE and unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973, representing Chinese medical traditions from the 4th to 2nd ce…

1998

#7152

The art of medicine: Medical teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400.

1998

#7269

Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.

1998

#7322

An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.

1998

#7350

The central nervous system of vertebrates. 3 vols.

A massive contribution to comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy, the life-work of the authors. Includes a comprehensive account of the structural organisation of all vertebrate groups, ranging from amphioxus and lamprey…

1998

#7394

The history of modern cataract surgery.

1998

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1998

#7642

The complete visible human: The complete high-resolution male and female anatomical datasets from the Visible Human Project.

The first anatomically exact and complete, three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of actual human bodies. Includes 2 CD-ROMs. See https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.

1998

#7701

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.

Includes a significant historical introduction.

1998

#7717

Historical perspectives on climate change.

1998

#7780

High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.

1998

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1998

#7901

HEALTH AND HISTORY. Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine. 1-

Issues may be viewed through JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/journal/healthhist.

1998

#7960

Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.

Revised and updated edition, 2010.

1998

#7974

MEDLINE for health professionals; How to search PubMed on the internet.

1998

#7986

The birth of bioethics.

1998

#8018

The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.

1998

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1998

#8114

MedlinePlus.

https://medlineplus.gov/ "MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it …

1998

#8139

Telesurgical laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

First teleoperated (robotic) surgery on a patient. "On March 3, 1997, I successfully performed the first “robotic” laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a 52-year old female patient who suffered from symptomatic cholecystol…

1998

#8171

U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

1998

#8183

Les maladies dans l'art antique.

1998

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

1998

#8227

La médicine médiévale dans le cadre Parisien XIVe-XVe siècle.

1998

#8265

Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1998

#8283

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

1998

#8299

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century copies of the Ars Medicine: A checklist and contents descriptions of the manuscripts.

1998

#8302

Text and tradition: Studies in ancient medicine and its transmission: Presented to Jutta Kollesch. Edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, and Paul Potter.

1998

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

1998

#8350

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

1998

#8434

Hippocrates' woman: Reading the female body in ancient Greece.

1998

#8458

Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.

1998

#8486

Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.

1998

#8558

Medicine and religion c. 1300: The case of Arnau de Vilanova

1998

#8560

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.

1998

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

1998

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1998

#8648

Gangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.

1998

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

1998

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1998

#8880

Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.

Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…