Facets

1927 CE

#3142.1

The pathology of the bone marrow in pernicious anaemia.

Peabody studied the bone marrow in pernicious anemia. He suggested that failure of blood formation rather than hemolysis was the main defect in the disease, and that the benefit from liver feeding was due to a factor …

1939 CE

#1928

The pharmacological actions and therapeutic uses of some compounds related to adrenaline.

1949 CE

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

1964 CE

#2883.7

The physiological basis of cardiac arrhythmias.

1910 CE

#2600

The physiology of the immediate reaction of anaphylaxis in the guinea-pig.

First adequate account of the physiological reactions leading to fatal anaphylactic shock.

1909 CE

#6215

The pituitary body and the therapeutic value of the infundibular extract in shock, uterine atony, and intestinal paresis.

1910 CE

#899

The preparation and properties of thrombin, together with observations on antithrombin and prothrombin.

1935 CE

#3095

The prothrombin in hemophilia and in obstructive jaundice.

Quick’s method for determination of prothrombin clotting time. See also Amer. J. med. Sci.,1935, 190,501-11.

1948 CE

#3107.2

The reduction of methaemoglobin in red blood cells and studies on the cause of idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia.

Cause of hereditary methemoglobinemia elucidated.

1976 CE

#11888

The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.

The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…

1931 CE

#2919.1

The roentgenographic visualization of the arteries of the extremities in peripheral vascular disease.

1911 CE–1912 CE

#902

The role of antithrombin and thromboplastin (thromboplastic substance) in the coagulation of blood.

1942 CE

#2924

The rôle of hypersensitivity in periarteritis nodosa; as indicated by seven cases developing during serum sickness and sulfonamide therapy.

Rich considered hypersensitivity to be an important factor in the aetiology of periarteritis nodosa.

1941 CE

#3100

The rôle of iso-immunization in the pathogenesis of erythroblastosis fetalis.

Erythroblastosis fetalis due to rhesus incompatibility (Rh disease) between mother and child. With L. Burnham, E. M. Katzin, and P. Vogel.

1998 CE

#13599

The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec

"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …

1955 CE

#7757

The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…

1955 CE

#2883.1

The significance of the serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase activity following acute myocardial infarction.

Diagnostic test for myocardial infarction.

1880 CE

#13109

The spectroscope in medicine.

1957 CE

#3161

The story of heart disease.

1946 CE

#3151

The structure and synthesis of liver. L. casei factor.

Isolation, determination of structure, and final synthesis of folic acid.

1935 CE–1936 CE

#3036

The surgical treatment of hypertension.

Peet operation for hypertension. Preliminary communication in Univ. Hosp. Bull. (Ann Arbor), 1935, 1,17-18.

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1949 CE

#10654

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis (mitral commissurotomy).

Pioneering work in mitral valve surgery.

1924 CE

#10592

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis: Experimental and clinical studies.

The first successful operations on the mitral valves, published in a paper of monograph length. As Surgeon-in-Chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, under whom Beck, Cutler, and Levine worked, Harvey Cushing reported, …

1925 CE

#3032

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis.

Mitral valvotomy; report of a successful case.

1948 CE

#3046.1

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…

1937 CE

#2026

The therapy of the Cook County Hospital. Blood preservation.

Described the establishment of the first blood bank (at the Cook County Hospital).

1916 CE

#904

The thromboplastic action of cephalin.

McLean extracted from dog liver a substance which retarded blood coagulation in vitro and which, after further work by Howell and Holt (No.905), was named heparin.

1977 CE

#3161.41

The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.

1958 CE

#3047.11

The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and artificial pacemaker.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weirich, Gott, Lillehei. Attachment of a wire to the ventricular epicardium, and bringing it out percutaneously to an external pacemaker. This was a key development lea…

1934 CE

#3005

The treatment of varicose veins.

Cooper combined ligation with subsequent injection of 5 per cent sodium morrhuate in the treatment of varicose veins.

1935 CE

#12265

The two-step test of myocardial function.

The “Master TwoStep” exercise tolerance test for the diagnosis of heart disease. Abstract "A simple quantitative “two-step” test of myocardial function is described, and tables of climbs are gi…

1947 CE

#195

The use of blood groups in anthropology.

1959 CE

#3047.10

The use of intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block.

First use of pacemaker for Stokes–Adams syndrome, using dogs as subjects. External power source. See also Furman and Scawadel, John B., "An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes–Adams seizures ," New Engl. J. …

1952 CE

#3047.3

The use of tubes constructed from Vinyon “N” cloth in bridging arterial defects.

Introduction of plastic material to repair arterial defects. Voorhees later abandoned this material in favour of Dacron. With A. Jaretzki and A. W. Blakemore.

1954 CE

#2883.01

The use of ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording the movements of heart walls.

Echocardiography, from which the field of medical ultrasonics developed.

1938 CE

#3097

The use of vitamin K and bile in treatment of the haemorrhagic diathesis in cases of jaundice.

Vitamin K used in the treatment of hemorrhagic disease.

1910 CE

#901

The variation in the sizes of red blood cells.

Price-Jones described a method for the direct measurement of red blood cells, which led to the term, “Price-Jones curve”. See also his book, Red blood cell diameters, London, 1933.

1986 CE

#12356

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …

1929 CE

#3090

The velocity of blood flow in health and disease as measured by the effect of histamine on the minute vessels.

Measurement of circulation time.

1923 CE

#962

The velocity with which carbon monoxide displaces oxygen from combination with haemoglobin.

1846 CE

#79

The works. Edited with an introduction and notes by George Gulliver.

Hewson was a pupil of the Hunters. In 1769 his memoir on the lymphatics in fishes won for him the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. See also Nos. 863, 1102. The editor of this edition provided a detailed historical i…

1945 CE

#2900

Thiouracil treatment of angina pectoris; rationale and results.

1948 CE

#2879

Thoracic aortography. Preliminary report.

With H. E. Hanson and J. Karnell.

1784 CE

#2734.3

Three cases of mal-conformation of the heart.

Three cases of congenital heart disease recorded. Two plates are opposite pp. 417-18 of the journal.

1908 CE

#2912

Thrombo-angiitis obliterans; a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene.

Buerger’s important paper on thrombo-angiitis obliterans gives the first comprehensive report of the clinical and pathological aspects of the disease. Buerger gave the condition its present name; it is also know…

1856 CE

#3006

Thrombose und Embolie. Gefässentzündung und septische Infektion. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin.

Reprints of papers published between 1846 and 1853. Virchow gave the first clear description of thrombosis and embolism (see especially Beitr. exp. Path.,1846, 2,227-380). This work was translated into English by A. C…

1899 CE

#3011

Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821

1919 CE

#12248

Thrombosis of the coronary arteries.

"...includes electrocardiographic tracings of a 42-year-old physician who died "after coronary obstructive symptoms" and of a dog following experimental ligation of a coronary artery. This finding "led Herrick to conc…

1975 CE

#1931.7

Thromboxanes: a new group of biologically active compounds derived from prostaglandin endoperoxides.

With J. Stevenson and B. Samuelsson.