Facets

1961 CE

#4154.7

Isolation of Blastomyces dermatitidis from soil.

With E.S. McDonough, L. Ajello and R.J. Ausherman.

1949 CE

#1155

Isolation of nor-adrenaline from the adrenal gland.

With U.S. von Euler and U. Hamberg. See also fuller account in Acta physiol. scand., 1950, 20, 101-8. Noradrenaline was independently isolated by B. F. Tullar, Science, 1950, 109, 536-7.

1949 CE

#1175.2

Isolation of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

By Choh Hao Li and colleagues.

2019 CE

#10913

Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.

Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Than…

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1995 CE

#10914

Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.

Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1954 CE

#2578.14

Kinetic studies on immune hemolysis. III-IV.

Complement fixation

1886 CE–1890 CE

#7744

Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.

Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…

1907 CE

#2598

Klinische Studien über Vakzination und vakzinale Allergie.

Pirquet suggested the word “Allergie”; see also his paper with this title in Münich. med. Wschr., 1906, 53, 1457-58.

1922 CE

#3197.2

Klinische und experimentelle Beitrag zur krampflösenden Wirkung der Purinderivate.

Hirsch established the value of theophylline in the management of asthma.

1951 CE

#3978

Kliniske undersøgelser med nye retarderet virkende insulin-praeparater.

First clinical trials of lente, ultralente, and semilente insulin zinc suspension. See also Science, 1952, 116, 394-98; and J. Amer. med. Assoc., 1952, 150, 1667. With M. Jersild, K. Peterson, and J. Schlichtkrull.

1954 CE

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

1908 CE

#5065

Kutanreaktion beil Impfung mit Diphtherietoxin.

The Schick test for the determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.

2008 CE

#10014

L'Histoire des vaccinations.

Translated and significantly revised and enlarged as Vaccination: A history from Lady Montagu to genetic engineering (Montrouge: John Libbey Eurotext: 2011).

1928 CE

#5070

L’anatoxine diphtérique. Ses propriétés–ses applications.

In 1923 Ramon so modified the diphtheria toxin with formaldehyde that it lost its toxic properties while retaining its antigenic virtues. This modified “anatoxin” (toxoid) superseded toxin–antitoxin …

1891 CE

#4105

L’angiocheratoma.

Mibelli gave the name to angiokeratoma although it had already been described by Cottle in 1877. It is also called “Mibelli’s disease”.

1908 CE

#1158

L’hypophyse du cerveau. I. Physiologie.

Paulesco found that the removal of the anterior pituitary had fatal results, while removal of the posterior lobe had negative results.

1901 CE

#2555

L’immunité dans les maladies infectieuses.

A classic study of the mechanisms concerned in specific antibacterial immunity, and one of Metchnikoff’s best works. Russian edition: Nevospriimchivost’ k infekcionnim boleznyam. St. Petersburg: K.L. Rikke…

1907 CE

#3843

L’infantilisme vrai.

Brissaud described thyroid infantilism.

1909 CE

#5299.1

L’ulcère de Bauru ou le bouton d’orientau Brésil.

Muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis of South America. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1490 CE

#5553

La chirurgie da Lanfranc traduit du latin par Guillaume Yvoire.

Lanfranc, the founder of French surgery, was a pupil of William of Salicet. He enjoyed a great reputation for his lecturing and bedside teaching. His Chirurgia magna was completed in 1296. According to Hirsch and othe…

2002 CE

#14109

La dermatologie en France. Edited by Daniel Wallach and Gérard Tilles

"Realisé à l'initiative de la Société française d'histoire de la dermatologie. Rédigé par 76 auteurs représentant la communauté dermatologique fran&ccedil…

1930 CE

#1169

La diabetes pancreática de los perros hipofisoprivos.

Houssay’s depancreatized hypophysectomized dog. This work led to Houssay’s demonstration of the importance of the anterior pituitary in sugar metabolism. See also Endocrinology, 1931,15, 511-23. In 1947 Ho…

1895 CE

#5127

La peste bubonique. By Alexandre Yersin with L.C.A. Calmette and A. Borrel.

Successful inoculation of animals with anti-plague vaccine.

1899 CE

#4002

La photothérapie. Les rayons chimiques et la variole. La lumière comme agent d’excitabilité. Traitement du lupus vulgaire par des rayons chimiques concentrés.

Finsen was a pioneer in the treatment of lupus by means of light. English translation, 1901.

1873 CE–1892 CE

#7473

La scienza e la pratica della anatomia patologica.

Divided into six parts, as follows: Book I: Delle alterazioni di prima formazione (on teratology) Book II: Delle ipertrofie Book III: Delle atrofie Book IV: Dell’infiammazione e della mortificazione Book V: Dei …

1897 CE

#4126

La séborrhée grasse et la pelade.

Acne bacillus first cultivated.

1894 CE

#4116

La teigne trichophytique et la teigne spéciale de Grüby.

1927 CE

#11994

La vaccination préventive contre la tuberculose par le "BGG". Par Albert Calmette avec la collaboration de C. Guérin, A. Boquet et L. Nègre.

A 250-page monograph, with bibliographical references, on the development of the BCG vaccine from M. bovis, from 1909 to 1927 by the scientists involved. (Thanks to Ron Cox for this reference.)

1921 CE

#3870

La virilisme pilaire et son association à l’insuffisance glycolytique (Diabète des femmes à barbe).

“Achard–Thiers syndrome”. These writers established as a definite syndrome the combination of hirsutism with diabetes.

1869 CE–1870 CE

#4059

Lafa Tokelau, or Tokelau ringworm.

First description, tinea imbricata. Turner described the disease while serving as a medical missionary in Samoa.

2013 CE

#12389

Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.

1921 CE

#10196

Le bactériophage: Son rôle dans l'immunité.

D'Hérrelle cited several actual reports of successful treatment of bacterial infections by the injection of bacteriophages in animals and humans. These may be considered early attempts at direct gene transfer i…

1911 CE

#2637.1

Le cancer expérimental.

Experimental production of malignant tumors by means of x rays.

1892 CE

#5109

Le choléra asiatique chez le cobaye.

Haffkine’s vaccine against cholera was the first to meet with any success.

1801 CE

#1118

Le sang, est-il identique dans tous les vaisseaux qu’il parcourt?

Like de Bordeu, and more definitely, Legallois anticipated the conception of internal secretions. He surmised from the identity in composition of all varieties of arterial blood and the diversity of venous blood in di…

1892 CE

#2307

Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l'inflammation, faites à l'institut Pasteur en Avril et Mai 1891.

Metchnikoff delivered his classic lectures on inflammation in French at the Pasteur Institute. They were translated into Russian as Lektsii o sravnitelnoi patologii vospaleniy, and published in St. Petersburg by K. L.…

1877 CE

#3942

Leçons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale.

Bernard showed that in diabetes there is primarily glycemia followed by glycosuria.

1856 CE

#3992.1

Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.

Cazenave was among the first to classify skin diseases on an anatomical basis. He founded the first journal devoted entirely to dermatology (Annales des maladies de la peau et de la syphilis). This large folio atlas i…

1861 CE

#4051

Leçons théoriques et cliniques sur la scrofule considérée en elle-même et dans ses rapports avec la syphilis, la dartre et l'arthritis. 2me édition.

Erythema induratum scrophulosorum (“Bazin’s disease”) first described.

1840 CE

#5770

Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.

“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54.

1879 CE

#4075

Lectures on clinical surgery. Pt. 2.

On p. 298 is the first description of hydradenitis destruens suppurativa, later named “Pollitzer’s disease” from the latter’s important description of it in J. cutan. gen.-urin. Dis., 1892, 10,…

1871 CE–1878 CE

#3994

Lectures on dermatology. 4 vols.

Erasmus Wilson gave the original descriptions of several cutaneous diseases, and made a fine collection of dermatological preparations. He classified skin diseases on an anatomical basis. The above book consists of hi…

1839 CE

#2585

Lectures on the blood, and on the changes which it undergoes during disease: Delivered at the College of France in 1837-8.

Pp. 244-49: Magendie showed that secondary or subsequent injections of egg/albumin caused death in rabbits who had tolerated an initial injection. This was the first experiment in anaphylaxis, though Jenner in 1798 ha…

1894 CE

#11652

Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal.

This 165-page "monograph, based on lectures delivered to the postgraduate class at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1893, includes 67 case reports and 43 illustrations, some of which are photographs that depict patients …

1831 CE–1849 CE

#534.59

Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomie der Haus-Saugethiere. 3 vols.

The most comprehensive treatise on malformations of domesticated animals, as well as an important contribution to general teratology. The superb atlas illustrates many rare animal terata. See also his Uber thierische …

1881 CE

#13045

Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....

The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#11152

Les cancers épithéliaux. Histologie - Histogenèse - Etiologie - Applications thérapeutiques.

1914 CE

#5536

Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.

Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.

1881 CE

#5481.3

Les injections de virus rabique dans le torrent circulatoire ne provoquent pas l’éclosion de la rage et semblant conférer l’immunité. La rage peut être transmise par l’ingestion de la matiére rabique.

Galtier immunized sheep by inoculating rabid saliva in the veins; this did not produce the disease and protected the animals from a further inoculation. His work aroused the interest of Pasteur.