Facets

1950 CE

#3215.1

Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma: A study of 684 proved cases.

A case-control study proving an association between heavy prolonged cigarette smoking and bronchogenic carcinoma. See also the following paper on pp. 336-38. Reprinted in J. Amer. med. Assoc. 1985, 253, 2986-97.

1955 CE

#2993.2

Total excision of the aortic arch for aneurysm.

Total excision and replacement by polyvinyl sponge (Ivalon) prosthesis.

1907 CE

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1674 CE

#2726.2

Tractatus quinque medico-physici.

Mayow was the first to locate the seat of animal heat in the muscles; he discovered the double articulation of the ribs with the spine and came near to discovering oxygen in his suggestion that the object of breathing…

1826 CE

#14323

Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

Second edition, hugely revised, expanded, and improved. The pagination of the first edition (1819) was 456 pp. in vol. 1 and 472 pp. in vol. 2. The second edition was expanded to 728pp. in vol. 1 and 790 pp. in vol. 2…

1945 CE

#3214

Transmission of primary atypical pneumonia to human volunteers.

COMMISSION ON ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASES

1938 CE

#1952

Treatment of pneumonia with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

Clinical proof of the value of sulphapyridine. M & B 693 (sulphapyridine) treatment of pneumonia. This followed the experimental work of L. E. H. Whitby (see No. 1951).

1903 CE

#3183

Triangolo paravertebrale opposto nella pleurite essudativa.

“Grocco’s triangle”. Grocco described paravertebral dullness on the opposite side in pleural effusion.

1808 CE

#927

Über den Bau der Lungen.

In 1804 the Berlin Akademie der Naturwissenschaften offered a prize for the best essay on the structure and function of the lungs. The prize was won by Reisseisen, while Soemmerring received honorable mention. The tex…

1850 CE

#933

Ueber den Einfluss der Vagusdurchschneidung auf das Lungengewebe.

See No. 931.

1886 CE

#3176

Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen.

Weichselbaum definitely established that Friedländer’s bacillus was responsible for pneumonia in a small percentage of cases.

1889 CE

#3177

Ueber die Grundsätze der Behandlung von Eiterungen in starrwandigen Höhlen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Empyems der Pleura.

First thoracotomy for empyema.

1837 CE

#929

Ueber die im Blute enthaltenen Gase, Sauerstoffe, Stickstoff, und Kohlensäure.

First quantitative analysis of the blood gases. Magnus proved that the arterial blood contains a higher concentration of oxygen than venous blood and that the latter had a higher carbon dioxide content.

1910 CE

#3189

Ueber die Möglichkeit die Zystoscopie bei Untersuchungen seröser Höhlungen anzuwenden.

Jacobaeus adapted the cystoscope for the study of the interior of the body; this led to the introduction of the thoracoscope.

1908 CE

#3012

Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.

Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).

1904 CE

#3185

Ueber die physiologischen and physikalischen Grundlagen bei intrathorakalen Eingriffen in meiner pneumatischen Operationskammer.

Sauerbruch’s negative pressure chamber for the prevention of pneumothorax.

1872 CE

#3465

Ueber die Resection des Oesophagus.

First resection of the esophagus.

1862 CE–1863 CE

#937

Ueber die Respiration.

1882 CE

#3174

Ueber die Schizomyceten bei der acuten fibrösen Pneumonie.

Isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae (“Friedländer bacillus”), which Friedländer regarded as the causal organism in all cases of lobar pneumonia.

1868 CE

#940

Ueber die Ursache der Athembewegungen, sowie der Dyspnoë und Apnoë.

Pflüger investigated the cause of the initiation of respiration in newborn animals. English translation in No. 1588.16.

1898 CE

#3336

Ueber directe Bronchoskopie.

Introduction of direct bronchoscopy.

1884 CE

#3174.1

Ueber Lungenchirurgie.

Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.

1909 CE

#3187

Ueber Lungenresektion wegen bronchiektatischer Cavernen.

Körte was the first successfully to remove bronchiectatic lobes.

1929 CE

#969

Ueberden Absorptionsspektrum des Atmungsferments.

Warburg discovered the nature and function of the respiratory ferment. In 1931 Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme."

1885 CE

#13907

Untersuchungen über den Stoffwechsel isolirte Organe. I. Ein Respirationsapparat für isolirte Organe. II. Versuche über den Stoffwechsel des Muskels.

(Part 1 by Frey & Gruber; Part 2 by Frey.) Frey and Gruber developed the first heart-lung machine. Their machine "consisted of a double-acting pump in the form on an injection syringe with a capacity of 10 ml, which i…

1862 CE–1863 CE

#938

Untersuchungen über die Respiration.

The first combined feeding–respiration experiments. Pettenkofer and Voit devised an apparatus for their important experiments on respiration and metabolism. They were first to estimate the amounts of protein, fa…

1934 CE

#3209

Use of helium as a new therapeutic gas.

Introduction of helium in the treatment of respiratory affections. See also Ann. intern. Med., 1935, 9, 739-65.

1891 CE

#3178

Versuche über Immunisirung und Heilung bei der Pneumokokkeninfection.

Old antipneumococcal serum.

1567 CE

#2118.1

Von der Bergsucht oder Bergkranckheiten drey Bücher…

Paracelsus’s book on the diseases of miners was the first full monograph on the diseases of an occupational group. The first section covers the diseases, mainly pulmonary affections, of miners, including the eti…

1910 CE

#3190

Weitere Untersuchungen über Pneumokokken-Heilsera. III. Mitteilung. Über Vorkommen und Bedeutung atypischer Varietäten des Pneumokokkus.

New antipneumococcus serum.

1866 CE

#939

Zur Gasometrie des Blutes.

Pflüger showed that respiratory changes take place in the tissues.

1933 CE

#3206

Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.

Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.

1856 CE

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…