An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BLACK, Sir James Whyte

1 entries
  • 1931.5

A new adrenergic beta-receptor antagonist.

Lancet, 1, 1080-81, 1964.

Black received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for development of Propranolol, the first beta-blocker effectively used in the treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension.  R. G. Shanks, L. H. Smith and A. C. Dornhorst.



Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Cardiovascular Medications