1990–1999
810 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1993
#10872
Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
1993
#11932
Syndrome of Rochalimea henselae adenitis suggesting cat scratch disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dolan, Wong, Regnery....The authors demonstrated that Rochalimea henselae (now Bartonella henselae) is the infectious agent causing cat scratch fever. (Thanks to Juan W…
1993
#12429
The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.
1993
#12435
Cyclospora species - A new protozoan pathogen of humans.
Ortega and colleagues identified a novel parasite resembling C. muris in the feces of Peruvian patients and 2 U.S. patients, with symptoms resembling those of infections with Cryptosporidium. The parasite infected bot…
1993
#12522
Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.
![DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)](/media/portraits/2028)
1993
#12882
The history of pain. Translated by Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, S. W. Cadden.
1993
#13187
Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.
1993
#13303
Islamic medical ethics in the twentieth century.
Treats the most prominent issues in medical ethics in the twentieth century, such as abortion, artificial insemination, organ transplantation, euthanasia, as discussed by Muslim religious scholars, physicians and juri…
1993
#13472
Defining criteria for autoimmune diseases (Witebsky's postulates revisited).
In 1993 Rose and Bona revised Witebsky's postulates "based on direct evidence from transfer of pathogenic antibody or pathogenic T-cells, indirect evidence based on reproduction of the autoimmune disease in experiment…
1993
#13535
Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.
1993
#14008
A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes.
Identification by the many scientists in The Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group, including Gusella, of the single defective gene on chromosome 4 that causes the progressive brain disorder, Huntington's …
1993
#14010
The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14.
Ambros and colleagues discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA), a small single-stranded non-coding RNA molecule (containing about 22 nucleotides) found in plants, animals and some viruses, that functions in RNA sil…
1993
#14301
Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C. elegans.
The authors cloned and generated the sequence of the lin-14 gene. They discovered that a segment in lin-14 mRNA (messenger RNA), was necessary for its inhibition by lin-4. Ruvkun and Ambros (No. 14010) then compared r…
1993
#14341
Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.
Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…
1994
#6980
Pour une histoire de la préhistoire. Le paléolithique.
1994
#7027
Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.
1994
#7066
Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue.
Discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight. Friedman and associates subsequently found that injections of the encoded protein, leptin, decrease body weight of mice by reducing food intake a…
1994
#7068
Nature's economy. A history of ecological ideas. Second edition.
1994
#7187
Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.
1994
#7201
Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.
1994
#7239
Jews, medicine and medieval society.
1994
#7276
Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.
Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root’ in the Afar langua…
1994
#7421
Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.
1994
#7547
La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.
Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
1994
#7561
Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.
1994
#7583
Radiologie in der medizinischen Diagnostik. Evolution der Röntgenstrahlenanwendung 1895-1995.
Includes a section on the development of tomography and computed tomography (CT). Translated into English by Peter F. Winter as Radiology in medical diagnostics: Evolution of X-ray applications 1895-1995 (Oxford: Blac…
1994
#7647
I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.
Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.
1994
#7821
Medical history through postage stamps.
1994
#7886
Fighting for life: American military medicine in World War II.
1994
#8029
Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.
Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).
1994
#8140
The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.
The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …
1994
#8261
Medical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah collections by Haskell D. Issacs with the assistance of Colin F. Baker.
1994
#8267
Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus.
1994
#8281
L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.
1994
#8309
Constantine the African and ‘Alī Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağdūsī: The Pantegni and related texts. Edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.
The first book on Constantine the African, which sheds light on the School of Salerno, with which Constantine was associated, and the formation of a medical corpus in the High Middle Ages.
1994
#8453
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
1994
#8462
Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.
1994
#8538
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
1994 –1997
#8578
Anglo-Norman Medicine I: Roger Frugard's Chirurgia and the Practica Brevis of [Johannes] Platearius. II: Shorter treatises. Edited by Tony Hunt. 2 vols.
Vol. 1: First published edition of two 13th century Anglo-Norman medical treatises translated from Latin. Matthaeus Platearius and his brother Johannes were the sons of a female physician from the Salerno school who w…
1994
#8597
The history of cardiology.
1994
#8685
The growth of gastroenterological knowledge during the 20th century.
1994
#8733
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
1994
#8765
Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.
Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.
1994
#8802
Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
The first major study of public health in British India.
1994
#8864
Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.
"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …
1994
#8989
Evolution of infectious disease.
1994
#8991
Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine.
1994
#9115
The art of asylum-keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of Ameican psychiatry.
1994
#9187
Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.
The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of pla…
1994
#9226
Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.
Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.