Facets

1946 CE

#3045

Anastomosis of the aorta to a pulmonary artery. Certain types in congenital heart disease.

With S. Smith and S. Gibson.

1940 CE

#1086

Anemia in chicks caused by a vitamin deficiency.

Isolation of vitamin Bc (folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid). Preliminary communication in J. biol. Chem., 1939, 128, xlvi-xlvii.

1927 CE

#3141

Anemia in children, with splenomegaly and peculiar changes in the bones.

“Cooley’s erythroblastic anemia”, thalassemia. With E. R. Witwer and O. P. Lee. An earlier brief account by Cooley and Lee appeared in Trans. Amer. Pediat. Soc.,1925, 37, 29.

1818 CE

#2976

Anéurisme à l’artère poplitée par la compression.

Dupuytren was the first successfully to treat aneurysm by compression.

1867 CE

#2891

Angina pectoris vasomotoria.

Nothnagel, himself a victim of angina, described the vasomotor form of the disease.

1918 CE

#2894.1

Angina pectoris: changes in electrocardiogram during paroxysm.

First electrocardiogram recorded (1917) from a patient with angina pectoris.

1923 CE

#2897

Angina pectoris.

A classic description of angina by “the beloved physician”, one of the greatest of all cardiologists. Mackenzie considered the disease to be due to cardiac failure.

1959 CE

#12277

Angina pectoris.I. A variant form of angina pectoris. Preliminary report.

Prinzmetal angina. "Dr. Prinzmetal and his collaborators focus upon an interesting variant of angina pectoris which appears to be associated with temporary, recurrent spasm of a partially occluded coronary artery. In …

1920 CE

#2895

Angine de poitrine guérie par la résection du sympathique cervicothoracique.

Cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of angina pectoris was first carried out by Jonnesco in 1916.

1944 CE

#2992.1

Aortectomy for thoracic aneurysm.

Resection of saccular aneurysm of thoracic aorta.

1951 CE

#3047.2

Aortic plastic valvular prosthesis.

Hufnagel designed and inserted the first workable prosthetic heart valve in man.

1973 CE

#3047.25

Aortocoronary bypass with saphenous vein graft: seven year follow-up.

"Probably the first successful saphenous bypass graft was by Edward Garrett (1964), whilst he was working with DeBakey. He performed the bypass graft in order to wean a patient from cardiopulmonary bypass, and the lon…

1863 CE

#816

Appareils et expériences cardiographiques.

First direct records of the heart impulse by means of a “cardiac sound” and the sphygmograph – recording tambours, which wrote on a moving drum covered with smoked paper.

1897 CE

#12218

Application de la méthode Roentgen à l'examen d'un anéurisme de la crosse aortique. Présentation du malade et de la preuve radiographique.

With the help of Oudin and Barthélemy Béclère established the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. This was among the first applications of x-rays for the diagnosis of aortic disease, and also …

1968 CE

#3108.9

Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.

Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.

1937 CE

#3038

Arterectomy.

Arterectomy in arterial thrombosis. With R. Fontaine and S. M. Dupertuis.

1939 CE

#2991

Arteriovenous fistula of the lung associated with polycythemia vera: report of a case in which the diagnosis was made clinically.

2018 CE

#10186

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

1959 CE

#14230

Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings: Blood cholesterol level, blood clotting time, incidence of arcus senilis, and clinical coronary artery disease.

Abstract: "Three groups of men, selected solely according to the behavior pattern which they habitually manifested in their work, were compared with respect to their serum cholesterol levels, clotting times, presence …

1903 CE

#2910

Athérôme aortique expérimental par injections répétées d’adrénaline dans les veines.

Experimental production of arteriosclerosis.

1936 CE

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

1945 CE

#10653

Atrial septal defect: Study of hemodynamics by the technique of right heart catheterization.

The first description of the use of a cardiac catheter as a diagnostic tool, in this case a congenital heart defect. The authors worked in the laboratory of Eugene Stead, Jr. at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.

1874 CE

#2018

Auflösung der rothen Blutzellen.

Landois discovered the hemolyzing effect of blood serum of one species when transfused into another.

1909 CE

#2830

Auricular fibrillation; a common clinical condition.

First description of auricular fibrillation as a cause of clinical perpetual arrhythmia. See also the paper in Heart, London, 1909-10, 1,306-72.

1910 CE

#2833

Auricular flutter and fibrillation.

Auricular flutter first described.

1914 CE

#2843

Auricular flutter.

2014 CE

#11513

Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.

1909 CE

#2828

Beitrag zur Aetiologie und pathologischen Anatomie der Myokarditis rheumatica.

“Bracht–Wächter bodies” in the myocardium in bacterial endocarditis.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#894

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Blutgerinnung.

Morawitz’s theory of blood coagulation.

1877 CE

#823.1

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Reizwell und Contractionswelle des Herzmuskels.

Marchand obtained the first electrocardiogram. Using the differential rheotome he measured the time course of the potential variations from the frog’s heart.

1928 CE

#2856.1

Beiträge zur Lehre von den angeborenen Herzfehlern.

Roesler described the most important roentgenologic sign of aortic coarctation.

1862 CE

#3007

Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Anatomie der Lungen.

First description of pulmonary fat embolism in man.

1867 CE

#3120

Beiträge zur Pathologie und Therapie der Chlorose.

Duncan showed that the essential feature in chlorosis is a quantitative change in the hemoglobin content and not a great reduction in the number of red blood cells.

1848 CE

#865.1

Beobachtungen über eine eiweissartige Substanz in Krystallform.

Reichert obtained hemoglobin crystals in the guinea pig. Digital facsimile from ECHO at this link.

1858 CE

#868

Bestimmungen der Menge des Körperblutes und der Blutfärbekraft, sowie Bestimmungen von Zahl, Maass Oberfläche und Volum des einzelnen Blutkörperchens bei Thieren und bei Menschen.

Welcker was the first to determine the total blood volume and the volume of the normal red blood cells. Earlier paper in Vjschr. prakt. Heilk., 1854, 44, 63.

1930 CE

#11686

Bibliography with synopsis of the original papers of the writings of Sir James Mackenzie. Edited by William Black Rankin Monteith.

1939 CE

#912

Blood groups.

Boyd showed that blood groups are inherited and not changed by environment.

1904 CE

#2561

Blood immunity and blood relationship, a demonstration of certain blood relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood.

1998 CE

#11591

Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.

1925 CE

#3139

Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…

1980 CE

#3161.5

Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of people, and of ideas.

A collective work by 19 authors, edited by M. M. Wintrobe. This is a detailed history of haematology, well documented and well indexed.

2016 CE

#8859

Bloody brilliant! A history of blood groups and blood groupers.

1907 CE–1908 CE

#3078

Blutkrankheiten und Blutdiagnostik.

2012 CE

#12374

British cardiology in the 20th century. Edited by Mark E. Silverman, Peter R. Fleming, Arthur Hollman, Desmond G. Julian, Dennis M. Krikler.

"The first and only detailed history of mdoern cardiology and cardiac surgery in Britain" (W. Bruce Fye, 2020).

1930 CE

#2860

Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia.

Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, the best-known of the “pre-excitation syndromes”.

1870 CE

#3121

Cachessia puerperale raccolta nella clinica ginecologica dell’ospitale Maggiore di Milano.

“Valsuani’s disease” – progressive anemia in pregnant and lactating women, probably first described by H. N. Bennett (No. 3117).

1870 CE

#2769

Capillary embolism or arterial pyaemia.

One of the first accounts of bacterial endocarditis was given by Wilks, who, in his classic paper on the subject, called the condition “arterial pyaemia.” Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 194…

1975 CE

#12232

Cardiac catheterization: Development of the technique, its contributions to experimental medicine, and its initial applications in man.

1941 CE

#3158

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

1889 CE

#2797

Cardiac failure and sudden death from ventricular fibrillation.

First description of a case of death from ventricular fibrillation.