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Journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhausgeschichte e. V.

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Synthesis of phenylisopropylamine, later known as amphetamine. Its stimulant effects were unknown until it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles.  

In 1929 Alles discovered the sympathomimetic properties of beta-phenyl-isopropylamine (amphetamine). With G. Piness and H. Miller.

Myerson, an American neurologist, psychiatrist, clinician, pathologist, and researcher, funded by Benedrine manufacturer Smith, Kline and French, promoted Benzedrine (i.e. amphetamine) as an anti-depressant, leading to its wide adoption as the first anti-depressant pill.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

Park, a Scottish physician, was the first Westerner to travel to the central portion of the Niger River. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. 

Park died in Africa in 1806, as a result of conflicts with native peoples. This volume includes the journal of Isaaco, an African, who served as Mungo Park's guide. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

The first major American textbook on cardiology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.

Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a theory of mental evolution in which development of successively higher stages of intelligence, including that of man, could be explained in terms of natural, historical causes. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

Demikhov coined the term transplantology, and this work, first published in Russian in 1960, and translated and published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, was the first monograph on transplantation of organs and tissues. Includes an extensive study of the historical literature and also an extensive bibliography of references in Russian and western languages.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requests made to the systems in 1966 and 1967. The objectives of the study were: (1) to study the demand search requirements of MEDLARS users, (2) to determine how effectively and efficiently the present MEDLARS service was meeting these requirements, and (3) to recognize factors adversely affecting the performance of MEDLARS. Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.

Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.

"The remedy here treated of is ipecacuanha: although its antidysenteric virtues had previously been made known in 1649 by the writings of Piso and Marggraf [No. 2263.1] it was left to Helvetius, about forty years subsequently, to bring the remedy into public notice in France. This he did in a truly empirical [quack, charlatan] style, keeping his remedy a secret, placarding its virtues on the street walls, &c. So great was his success, the Dauphin of France having been cured by its means, that the French king purchased from Helvetius his secret for 1000 louis-d'or and made it public" (Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica 1, 526).

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link. 

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommunications and Zeus surgical robot. The operation was performed successfully on September 7, 2001 by Professor Jacques Marescaux and his team from the IRCAD (Institute for Research into Cancer of the Digestive System). This was the first time that long distance elecommunications were fast enough to make this type of procedure possible. With Michel Gagner,  Francesco Rubino, Didier Mutter, Michel Vix, Steven E. Butner, & Michelle K. Smith.

See also: Marescaux, J.; Leroy, J.; Rubino, F.; Vix, M.; Simone, M.; Mutter, D. "Transcontinental robot assisted remote telesurgery: Feasibility and potential applications," Annals of Surgery, 235 (2002) 487-92.

Revised and updated edition, 2010.

The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endoscope without making an incision in the skin was believed to be the first operation operation of its kind. "Anubis was the ancient god in Egyptian mythology who presided over mummification and accompanied the dead to the hereafter. Anubis restored Osiris to life through mummification using long, flexible instruments. The project was named after this reference" (from the press release available from the Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l'Appraeil Digestif (IRCAD) at this link.

The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.

An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.

Discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures. This is one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcus–Thermus group, and the source of the heat-resistant enzyme Taq DNA polymerase, one of the most important enzymes in molecular biology because of its use in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification technique. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also Brock, T. D., Thermophilic microorganisms and life at high temperatures. (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978), and Brock, T. D. "The value of basic research: Discovery of Thermus acquaticus and other extreme thermophiles," Genetics, 146 (1997) 1207-1210.

A comprensive study of the production, storage, characteristics, and use of wines. Book two considers wine in relation to health. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.

Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.

Tilesius continued the study of the Lambert family of sufferers from ichthyosis hystrix begun by Machin and Baker (see No. 4013). Notably Tilesius illustrated the bizarre condition with several color plates. In 2016 one of his illustrations was available from the Wikipedia at this link.

Explains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up all of the components of an experimental system, design experiments within that system, determine and use the correct set of controls, and formulate models to test the veracity and resiliency of the data. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 2014.

Second edition, 2006. 

Third edition as Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective (2009).

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650. Revised second edition, 1992, with a new hemispheric estimate of 54 million.

In chapter 2 of vol. 1, pp. 254-90, “On Attention and its Diseases” Crichton described a mental state much like the inattentive subtype of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He did not mention any symptoms of hyperactivity. It is possible that Crichton observed hyperactive or impulsive symptoms in his patients, but failed to recognize a correlation and decided not to specify them in this context. He began his chapter with a definition of attention. Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Internet Archive at this link; of Vol. 2 at this link.

Considered by many historians to be the scientific starting point of the study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.

Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). 

The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.

Chapter B, "Vital statistics and health and medical care."  Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link; from the U. S. Census Bureau at this link.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

An early illustrated work on pediatrics. The three parts of his book deal with the management of the nurse and her milk, the care and feeding of the new-born, and diseases of children, including skin diseases, and chapter on burns. There are four chapters on eye diseases, two on diseases of the ear, and five on the gums and teeth. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not yet commercially available but the writers of this report were anticipating their availability. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

A progress report on this pioneering information retrieval project. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.

MacWilliams described experiments in which application of an electrical impulse to the human heart in asystole caused a ventricular contraction, and that a heart rhythm of 60–70 beats per minute could be evoked by impulses applied at spacings equal to 60–70 /minute. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

Incluees 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Internet Archive at this link; of vol. 2 at this link. All 100 images are available as zoomable .jpegs at this link.