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1874 CE–1875 CE

#5426

Anatomische Beiträge zur Lehre von den Pocken. 2 pts.

In the course of his important studies on smallpox, Weigert carried out the first successful staining of bacteria (see No. 2482). His fine description of the destructive effects of the smallpox virus on the skin led t…

1896 CE

#10793

Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived form an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.

Digital facsimile of the 1900 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

2015 CE

#8043

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

1951 CE

#3855.2

Antithyroid activity of 2-carbethoxythio-1-methylglyoxaline.

Synthesis of Carbimazole. With C. Rimington and C. E. Searle. For clinical application see Lancet, 1951, 2, 621.

1932 CE

#2657

Apparition de cancers de la mamelle chez la souris mâle, soumise à des injections de folliculine.

Demonstration of the carcinogenic effect of ovarian hormone.

1940 CE

#7830

Appearance of skeletal abnormalities in the offspring of rats on a deficient diet.

Warkany was the first to prove that congenital developmental disorders can be induced by exogenous factors in mammals. His studies led to the definition of both genetic and environmentally induced structural defects. …

1942 CE

#3853

Application of radioactive iodine in therapy of Graves’s disease.

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.

1930 CE

#2603.1

Arsphenamine hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs. II. Experiments demonstrating the role of the skin, both as originator and as site of the hypersensitiveness.

Sulzberger showed that allergens gaining access to the epidermis are processed there in some manner (Langerhans cells?) that determines their allergenicity. See No. 2576.02

2003 CE

#10244

ArtandMedicine.com.

http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.

1953 CE

#2660.4

Aryl-2-halogenoalkylamines. Part XII. Some carboxylic derivatives of NN-Di 2-chloroethylaniline.

Chlorambucil (a nitrogen mustard) used in the chemotherapy of cancer. With J. R. Roberts and W. J. C. Ross.

1856 CE–1876 CE

#3992

Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. 10 parts.

Hebra's work includes 104 spectacular folio-sized chromolithographed plates reproducing paintings by Anton Elfinger and Carl Heitzmann.

1892 CE–1896 CE

#10621

Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.

Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…

1966 CE

#5509.3

Attenuated rubella virus. II. Production of an experimental live-virus vaccine and clinical trial.

With T. C. Panos.

1802 CE

#7971

Ausführliche Beschreibung und Abbildung der beiden sogenannten Stachelschweinmenschen aus der bekannten engelischen Familie Lambert, oder, the porcupine man.

Tilesius continued the study of the Lambert family of sufferers from ichthyosis hystrix begun by Machin and Baker (see No. 4013). Notably Tilesius illustrated the bizarre condition with several color plates. In 2016 o…

1909 CE

#3860

Auto- and isotransplantation, in dogs, of the parathyroid glandules.

1956 CE

#2578.19

Autoantibodies in Hashimoto’s disease (lymphadenoid goitre).

Demonstration of autoantibodies. With P. N. Campbell, and R. V. Hudson.

1872 CE

#13212

Autumnal catarrh (Hay fever) with three maps.

Wyman conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of hay fever. He then collected data from correspondents and published the first pollen maps of the U.S. so that sufferers could plan vacations i…

1950 CE

#4154.3

Balanitis circumscripta chronica met plasmacellen-infiltraat.

Zoon’s plasma cell balanitis.

1924 CE

#1036

Basal metabolism in health and disease.

2002 CE

#12576

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, cancer and history.

"Olson, who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book, provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted…

1895 CE

#5293.1

Beitrag zum klinischen und bacteriologischen Studium der brasilianischen Framboesie oder “Boubas”.

“Breda’s disease” – Brazilian yaws. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1897.

1887 CE

#14172

Beiträge zur Anatomie und Pathogenese der Urticaria simplex und Pigmentosa.

Unna reported that skin lesions of urticaria pigmentosa contained numerous mast cells. This was the first report of a primary mast cell disorder. Digital facsimile from deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de at this link.

1848 CE

#7318

Beiträge zur Anatomie und Pathologie der menschlichen Haut.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1875 CE

#2126

Beiträge zur Chirurgie, anschliessend an einen Bericht über die Thätigkeit der chirurgischen Universitäts-Klinik zu Halle im Jahre 1873.

Contains (pp. 370-81) first description of industrial tar and paraffin cancer.

1909 CE

#2565

Beiträge zur experimentellen Pathologie und Chemotherapie.

1893 CE

#3839

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Basedow’schen Krankheit.

Müller demonstrated that an increased metabolism accompanies exophthalmic goitre.

1869 CE

#1009

Beiträge zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Bauchspeicheldrüse. Inaugural-Dissertation.

First account of the islets of Langerhans. In 1893 Édouard Laguesse attached the name of Langerhans to the structures. Langerhans did not suggest any function for them. The book was reprinted with an English tr…

1900 CE

#3888

Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Histologie der menschlichen Hypophysis cerebri.

Benda showed that the pituitary tumor in acromegaly consists of chromophil cells.

1913 CE

#13264

Beiträge zur Pathologie und Klinik der Mammacarcinome.

In a study of 3,000 mastectomies, Salomon compared X-rays of the beasts (mammograms) to the actual removed tissue, paying close attention to microcalcifications. In doing so he was able to establish the difference in …

1856 CE

#3934

Bericht über einige Versuche, um den Ursprung des Harnzuckers bei künstlichem Diabetes zu ermitteln.

Schiffs important experiments on the production of artificial diabetes.

2018 CE

#10698

Between hope and fear: A history of vaccines and human immunity.

Both a history of vaccines and immunology and of the anti-vaccination movement.

1994 CE

#7187

Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.

1969 CE

#2662.2

Bibliographic control of the literature of oncology 1800-1960.

Includes a short, well-documented history.

1879 CE

#13855

Bibliotheca dermatologica. Catalogue of cutaneous literature in the library of Henry G. Piffard.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1945 CE

#4276.1

Bilateral adrenalectomy in prostatic cancer; clinical features and urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen.

Adrenalectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.

1895 CE

#2128.1

Blasengeschwülste bei Fuchsin-Arbeitem.

Rehn noted the frequent appearance of papilloma and carcinoma of the bladder among men employed in the aniline dye industry.

1904 CE

#2561

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

1915 CE

#1124

Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage. An account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement.

Observation of the effect of strong emotions on gastrointestinal motility (No. 1029) led Cannon to examination of the sympathetic nervous system and its emergency function. Cannon showed the close connexion between th…

1925 CE

#4393

Bone sarcoma, an interpretation of the nomenclature used by the Committee on the Registry of Bone Sarcoma of the American College of Surgeons.

1927 CE

#4394

Bone sarcoma. The primary malignant tumors of bone and the giant cell tumor.

Based on material collected by the Registry of Bone Sacrcoma in Boston since its foundation in 1921.

1910 CE

#2600.1

Bronchial asthma as a phenomenon of anaphylaxis.

The work of Auer and Lewis (see No. 2600) led Meitzer to the conclusion that bronchial asthma was due to anaphylaxis, although he did not appreciate that not all cases of asthma were so caused.

1907 CE

#3186

Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.

Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.

1928 CE

#2652

Cancer and heredity.

By selective breeding over a period of 15 years, Slye produced generations of mice absolutely resistant to, or particularly susceptible to, cancer. She demonstrated that resistance is a Mendelian dominant and suscepti…

2014 CE

#13738

Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.

https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive Open access (OA) electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on t…

1989 CE

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1922 CE

#5782

Cancer of the breast and its treatment. 2nd ed.

Sampson Handley advanced the theory that in mammary cancer metastasis is due to extension along lymphatic vessels – “lymphatic permeation” – and not to dissemination byway of the blood stream. …

1930 CE

#3326

Cancer of the larynx.

Thomson’s technique in the laryngofissure procedure for intrinsic cancer of the larynx was published in his Diseases of the nose and throat, London, 1911, pp. 732-37.

1900 CE

#11289

Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.

This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…

2014 CE

#11346

Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.