ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938)
1857 – 1938
14 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1896 CE
#13072
On the pigment of the negro's skin and hair.
"In the present state of our knowledge we can only say that it seems highly probable that the pigment of the negro's hair is not different from the dark pigment found in the hair of the white races, and we may infer t…
1897 CE
#1144
On the blood-pressure-raising constituent of the suprarenal capsule.
Abel and Crawford further investigated the pressor substance of Oliver and Schäfer calling it “epinephrine”.
1899 CE
#1145
Ueber den blutdruckerregenden Bestandtheil der Nebenniere, das Epinephrin.
1906 CE–1907 CE
#2084
On the poisons of Amanita phalloides.
Abel and Ford showed that there were two poisons in the fungus Amanita phalloides, and that immunity against them could be attained. A further study on the subject by the same authors is in Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., …
1909 CE
#1896
On the pharmacological action of some phthaleins and their derivatives.
This work led to the universal clinical use of phenolsulphonephthalein in renal function tests and of phenoltetrachlorphthalein in hepatic function tests.
1910 CE
#1438
Tetanic convulsions in frogs produced by acid fuchsin, and their relation to the problem of inhibition in the central nervous system.
1911 CE–1912 CE
#1901
Two crystalline pharmacological agents obtained from the tropical toad Bufo agua.
Isolation of bufagin. Preliminary communication in J. Amer. med. Assoc., 1911, 56, 1531-35.
1913 CE
#849
On the action of drugs and the function of the anterior lymph hearts in cardiectomized frogs.
Abel was one of America’s most distinguished pharmacologists. See A. M. Harvey. "Pharmacology’s giant," Johns Hopk. med. J., 1974, 135, 245-58.
1914 CE
#850
On the influence of the lymph hearts upon the action of convulsant drugs in cardiectomized frogs. II.
1914 CE
#741.2
On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis.
Hemodialysis. See also No. 1976. Preliminary communication in Trans Ass. Amer. Phycns., 1913, 28, 51-4. "Together with L.G. Rowntree and B.B. Turner, Abel devised what they called a "vividiffusion" apparatus, consisti…
1914 CE
#1976
Plasma removal with return of corpuscles (plasmaphaeresis).
Report of a method of removal of plasma from the living animal, with return of the corpuscles after washing and separation by centrifugalization. See the authors' earlier papers in the same journal, 1914, 5, 275-316, …
1922 CE–1923 CE
#1164
Evaluation of the hormone of the infundibulum of the pituitary gland in terms of histamine, with experiments on the action of repeated injections of the hormone on the blood pressure.
1923 CE–1924 CE
#1165
Further investigations on the oxytocic-pressor-diuretic principle of the infundibular portion of the pituitary gland.
1926 CE
#1206
Crystalline insulin.
Crystalline insulin first obtained. See also J. Pharmacol., 1927, 31, 65-85.