Facets

1875 CE

#3125

Progressive pernicious anaemia, or anaematosis.

Pepper described bone-marrow changes of pernicious anemia, though his actual description more closely resembles leukaemia.

1954 CE

#11887

Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.

Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…

1847 CE

#3117

Puerperal anaemia; or a peculiar anaemic condition, occurring in gestating and lactating females.

Bennett described the anemia of pregnancy and defined it as resulting from the process of reproduction.

1948 CE

#3046

Pulmonary valvulotomy for the relief of congenital pulmonary stenosis. Report of three cases.

"Brock performed the first successful valvotomies for isolated pulmonary stenosis in 1948. He gained access to the blood-filled beating heart through a small incision in the right ventricle through which he passed a v…

1691 CE

#2728

Pulsus mira inconstantia.

First reported case of temporary cardiac arrest with syncopal attacks, the syndrome to which the names of Stokes (No. 2756) and Adams (No. 2745) were later attached.

2014 CE

#11745

Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.

1879 CE

#2782

Recherches cliniques sur la communication congénitales des deux coeurs par inocclusion du septum intervenniculare.

Roger drew attention to an important anomaly of the septum, interventricular patency (“maladie de Roger”), demonstrating the presence of a murmur in this condition. This is sometimes called “Roger&rs…

1830 CE

#13909

Recherches expérimentales sur le sang human considérè à l'état sain.

Denis discovered the presence of cholesterol (“cholestérine”) in the blood. This he announced on p. 110 of his Recherches expérimentales.

1938 CE

#3148.2

Recherches sur l’anémie érythroblastique infantile des peuples de la Méditerranée orientale. Étude anthropologique, étiologique et pathogénique. La transmission héréditaire de la maladie.

First evidence that thalassemia is genetically determined. Earlier report in Kliniki, Athens, 1936, 12, No. 5.

1878 CE

#879

Recherches sur l’évolution des hématies dans le sang de l’homme et des vertébrés.

First accurate counts of the blood platelets.

1844 CE

#11521

Recherches sur la composition du sang dans l’état de santé et dans l’état de maladie.

Becquerel and Rodier analyzed the blood components present in various diseases including typhoid fever, tuberculosis, Bright’s disease, anemia, heart disease and syphilis, as well as in pregnancy and childbirth.…

1860 CE

#776

Recherches sur le pouls au moyen d’un nouvel appareil enregistreur le sphygmographe.

Invention of the modern sphygmograph. Also published in C.R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1860, 51, 281-309. Preliminary paper in same journal, 1860, 50, 634-37.

1775 CE

#1117

Recherches sur les maladies chroniques. Vol. 1. Analyse médicinale du sang.

De Bordeu first conceived the idea of internal secretion by his hypothesis that every organ, tissue, and cell discharges into the blood products which influence other parts of the body. His work was published in a col…

1941 CE

#912.3

Recherches sur un nouvel hémo-agglutinogéne du sang humain.

Moureau discovered the Rh factor independently of Levine and others whose work was not known to him owing to the military occupation of Belgium. See also his paper in Amer. J. clin. Path., 1946, 16, 373-79.

1866 CE

#12358

Recopilación histórico-bibliográfica de la circulación de la sangre en el hombre y los animales.

Digital facsimile from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link.

1924 CE

#908

Relation of blood cells to connective tissues and endothelium.

Maximow’s blood regeneration theory.

1888 CE

#2793

Remarks on failure of the heart from overstrain.

Important experimental work on cardiac overstrain was carried out by Roy and Adami who considered that mechanical overstrain caused chronic thickening of the cardiac valves.

1905 CE

#2820

Remarks on the determination of arterial blood-pressure in clinical practice.

1939 CE

#2724

Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.

Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.

1948 CE

#3107.1

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

Exchange transfusion.

1941 CE

#12823

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

1948 CE

#3020

Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.

With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.

1917 CE

#2847

Report upon soldiers returned as cases of “disordered action of the heart” (D.A.H.) or “valvular disease of the heart” (V.D.H.).

Medical Research Committee Special Rept. No. 8. Sir Thomas Lewis described as “effort syndrome” the condition of disordered action of the heart known as “Da Costa’s syndrome”.

1886 CE

#13108

Researches on Myohaematin and the Histohaematins.

First description of the respiratory pigment in blood, known today as Cytochrome1. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.

1968 CE

#12282

Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…

1952 CE

#2883

Resuscitation of the heart in ventricular standstill by external electric stimulation.

External cardiac pacemaker. "The medical world took notice when Zoll announced in 1952 that he had successfully kept a patient alive through numerous episodes of ventricular standstill using a bedside device that deli…

1839 CE

#2750.1

Rétrécissement avec oblitération presque complète de la portion thoracique de l’aorte.

Diagnosis of coarctation of aorta during life. Translation in Amer. J. Cardiol, 1965, 16, 253-55.

1973 CE

#14089

Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.

1997 CE

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

1999 CE

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

1924 CE

#2854

Rheumatic heart disease.

The first systematic textbook on rheumatic heart disease.

1916 CE

#2845

Roentgenology of the heart.

Introduction of kymography in clinical cardiology.

1968 CE

#3047.21

Saphenous vein autograft replacement of severe segmental coronary artery occlusion: Operative technique.

First report on bypass of a human coronary artery. See No. 3047.25. Two years later Favoloro published a monograph on the topic: Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis (Baltimore, 1970). Digital facsimile fro…

1972 CE

#12233

Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.

Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).

1977 CE

#12338

Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.

1907 CE

#3079

Septische Erkrankungen bei Verkümmerung des Granulozytensystems.

First reported case of complete agranulocytosis.

1861 CE

#2763

Short account of cardiac murmurs.

The murmur which Fauvel (No. 2754) had called “presystolic” was described by Gairdner, who called it “auricular-systolic.” This paper is important as being largely responsible for the recogniti…

1949 CE

#3154.1

Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.

First recognition, by Pauling and colleagues, of a structural hemoglobin variant, and the beginning of the molecular approach to disease.

1922 CE

#3136.1

Sickle-cell anemia.

Mason gave sickle-cell anemia its present name.

1996 CE

#8872

Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.

Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…

1902 CE

#2110

Snake venom in relation to haemolysis, bacteriolysis, and toxicity.

1819 CE

#2015.1

Some account of a case of obstinate vomiting, in which an attempt was made to prolong life, by the injection of blood into the veins.

Records the first human to human transfusion. A man received 12 to 14 oz. of blood from several donors by means of Blundell’s funnel and syringe. He died 56 hours after the transfusion.

1772 CE

#2887

Some account of a disorder of the breast.

This classic description of angina pectoris is the substance of a paper read on July 21, 1768. Although descriptions of angina are to be found in the works of earlier writers, these mention only dyspnoea in their case…

1929 CE

#2716

Some different types of essential hypertension; their course and prognosis.

The Keith-Wagener-Barker classification of hypertension. With N. W. Barker.

1902 CE

#11573

Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.

According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…

1555 CE

#10601

Sphygmicae artis iam mille ducentos annos perditae et desideratae libri V.

Considered the most significant work on the pulse between Galen and Harvey. The work includes what is probably the earliest graphic representation of the pulse. Struthius provided a useful mnemonic of the five simple …

1895 CE

#2801

Sphygmomanomètre pour mésurer la pression du sang chez l’homme.

A sphygmomanometer for registering the blood-pressure in the finger was invented by Mosso.

1934 CE

#3094

Sternal puncture; preliminary note.

Needle for sternal puncture.

1961 CE

#3155.3

Stomatocytosis: a hereditary red cell anomaly associated with haemolytic anaemia.

With R. Sephton Smith and R. M. Hardisty.

2020 CE

#13267

Strange blood: The rise and fall of lamb blood transfusion in 19th century medicine and beyond.

eBook version available at no cost from play.google.com at this link.