Facets

1945 CE

#1928.4

Streptococcal fibrinolysis. A proteolytic reaction due to a serum enzyme activated by streptococcal fibrinolysin.

Purification and concentration of Tillett and Garner’s (No. 1924.1) substance to produce streptokinase.

1924 CE

#747

Studies in nuclein metabolism. II. The isolation of a nucleotide from human blood.

Jackson demonstrated the existence of pentose nucleotides in normal blood.

1921 CE

#3085

Studies of the suspension stability of the blood in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Westergren’s method of measuring the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

1941 CE

#2873

Studies on congestive heart failure. I. The importance of restriction of salt as compared to water.

Low-sodium diet in heart failure.

1910 CE

#900

Studies on isoagglutinins and isohemolysins.

Moss showed that the blood of all individuals could be placed into one of four groups. His classification has been the one most commonly used until recently. The work was similar to that of Janský and completed…

1939 CE

#3098

Studies on leukemia with the aid of radioactive phosphorus.

Therapeutic use of radioactive isotopes for the treatment of leukemia. John H. Lawrence was the brother of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron; John Lawrence also worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa…

1939 CE

#2870

Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnormalities in cardiac function, from the heart’s recoil and the blood’s impacts; the ballistocardiogram.

Introduction of the ballistocardiogram. With A. J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph.

1941 CE

#3102

Studies on the hemorrhagic sweet clover disease. V. Identification and synthesis of the hemorrhagic agent.

Isolation of dicoumarol (3:3-methylene-bis-4-hydroxycoumarin). With C. F. Huebner.

1882 CE

#881

Su di un nuovo elemento morfologico del sangue dei mammiferi e della sua importanza nella trombosi e nella coagulazione.

Bizzozero gave the blood platelets their name and found that they play a part in blood coagulation. A German translation with additions is in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1882, 90, 261-332. The expanded German version …

1964 CE

#3108.8

Successful prevention of experimental Rh sensitization in man with an anti-Rh gamma2-globulin antibody preparation.

With J. G. Gorman and W. Pollack.

1942 CE

#2992

Successful removal of hemangioma of the lung followed by the disappearance of polycythemia.

First successful excision of arteriovenous aneurysm of the lung.

1953 CE

#3047.4

Successful resection of aneurysm of thoracic aorta and replacement by graft.

1840 CE–1841 CE

#3058.1

Successful transfusion of blood.

Blood transfusion used in treatment of hemophilia.

2014 CE

#9845

Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.

"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was …

1804 CE

#2975

Sull’aneurisma: riflessioni ed osservazioni anatomico-chirurgiche.

Scarpa distinguished true from false aneurysms. He introduced the concept of arteriosclerosis. English translations, Edinburgh, 1808 and 1819. Digital facsimile from Heidelberg University Library at this link.

1898 CE

#2809

Sulla cardioptosi; primo abbozzo anatomo-clinico.

Rummo drew attention to a downward displacement of the heart – “Rummo’s disease”.

1868 CE

#873.1

Sulla funzione ematopoietica del midollo delle ossa.

Bizzozero demonstrated that erythropoiesis and leucopoiesis take place in the bone marrow.

1881 CE

#2785

Sulla poliorromennite scrofolosa, otisi delle sierose.

“Concato’s disease” – inflammation of the serous membranes. Involvement of the pericardium was later described by Pick (No. 2803).

1859 CE

#2905

Sur la claudication intermittente.

Charcot was among the first to report intermittent claudication in man.

1947 CE

#3019.1

Sur la désobstruction des thromboses artérielles anciennes.

In 1946 Santos removed a thrombus and atheroma plaque from an artery in order to unblock it, and, using the knowledge acquired from Gordon Murray, placed the patient on heparin in order to avoid re-thrombosis. Called …

1903 CE

#2814

Sur la lésion dite sténose congénitale de l’aorte dans la région de l’isthme.

Distinction of infantile and adult types of coarctation of the aorta.

1832 CE

#3113

Sur les maladies chlorotiques et sur un mode de traitement spécifique dans ces affections.

For the treatment of chlorosis Blaud prescribed a pill (Blaud’s pill) composed of sulphate of iron and carbonate of potassium. Preliminary report in Bull. gén. Thérap.,1832, 2,154-55.

1853 CE

#5603

Sur un nouveau moyen d’opérer la coagulation du sang dans les artères, applicable à la guérison des anéurismes.

Pravaz invented galvanocautery.

1892 CE

#3070

Sur une forme spéciale de cyanose s’accompagnant d’hyperglobulie excessive et persistante.

Vaquez first described polycythemia vera (erythremia). Osler’s paper on the subject (No. 3073) made it generally known in the English-speaking world, and the condition has since been named “Vaquez–Os…

1898 CE

#3777

Sur une variété particulière d’ictère chronique splénomégalique.

“Hayem–Widal disease” –acquired hemolytic anemia (see also No. 3783).

1948 CE

#3046.2

Surgery of pulmonary stenosis. A case in which the pulmonary valve was successfully divided.

Operation Dec. 4, 1947.

1945 CE

#3044.1

Surgical correction for coarctation of the aorta.

Resection of coarctation and direct anastomosis of remaining ends. See also his report of 60 cases in J. Amer.med.Assoc.,1949, 139,285-92.

1939 CE

#3039

Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.

One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.

1905 CE

#2817

Technik der Herstellung fast orthodiagraphischer Herzphotogramme vermittelst Röntgeninstrumentarien mit kleiner Elektrizitätsquelle.

Introduction of teleradiography of the heart.

1980 CE

#12270

Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.

First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.

1914 CE

#958

The absorption and dissociation of carbon dioxide by human blood.

CO2 dissociation curves. These workers discovered that hemoglobin indirectly greatly assists the transport of CO2 by the blood.

1925 CE

#1912

The action and uses in medicine of digitalis and its allies.

1941 CE

#2577

The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.

1951 CE

#12402

The ancient art of feeling the pulse.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1934 CE

#14203

The anemias.

1891 CE

#717

The behaviour of saccharine matter in the blood.

Destruction of sugar in the blood.

2011 CE

#10972

The bleeding disease: Hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress.

1936 CE

#2720

The blood cyanates in the treatment of hypertension.

Barker made thiocyanate treatment a practical proposition in hypertension.

1932 CE

#2861

The cardiac output of man in health and disease.

1933 CE

#2921

The carotid sinus in health and disease: its rôle in the causation of fainting and convulsions.

The carotid sinus syndrome.

1933 CE

#2718

The circulation time in various clinical conditions determined by the use of sodium dehydrocholate.

Use of decholin sodium for estimation of circulation time. With B. S. Oppenheimer and R. V. Sagar.

1932 CE

#3147

The classification and treatment of anaemia, with special reference to the nutritional factor.

Davidson’s classification of the anemias.

1904 CE

#11572

The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.

The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947 CE

#912.5

The coagulation of blood. Investigations on a new clotting factor.

Discovery of the Factor V. Preliminary account in Proc. Norwegian Acad. Sci., 1941, 17, 21.

1901 CE

#891

The colorimetric determination of haemoglobin.

Haldane’s hemoglobinometer and method for determination of hemoglobin.

1980 CE

#3161.6

The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.

Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.

1957 CE

#2883.2

The contributions of right heart catheterization to physiology and medicine, with some observations on the physiopathology of pulmonary heart disease.

2017 CE

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

1924 CE

#963.1

The determination of gases in blood and other solutions by vacuum extraction and manometric measurement.

Method for the manometric analysis of gases in blood and other solutions.

1995 CE

#12364

The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.

A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.