List of important publications in medicine


This is a list of important publications in medicine, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
The definitive bibliographic source of books and articles demonstrating the history of medicine and identifying the first publications in the field is "Garrison and Morton". , Morton's medical bibliography : an annotated check-list of texts illustrating the history of medicine It is also available electronically, for a fee.

Foundations

De Materia Medica
The Canon of Medicine
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine

Recent studies

Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observation on male British doctors
Randomized trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study
Heart Protection Study

Publications in medicine by field

[Cardiology]

Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction

[Endocrinology]

Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus: its differentiation into insulin-sensitive and insulin-insensitive types.