Facets

1882 CE

#3126

Dell’anemia splenica.

“Banti’s disease”. Banti described the pathological changes in the spleen in splenic anemia. A later paper in Sperimentale, 1894, 48, sez. biol., 407-32, gives an account of hepatic cirrhosis as the …

1862 CE

#2388

Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.

Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.

1928 CE

#3089

Demonstratie van een paar zeldzaam voorkomende typen van bloedlichaampjes en bespreking der patiënten.

See No. 3092.

1913 CE

#2842

Der Ersatz des Orthiodiagraphen durch der Teleröntgen.

Instantaneous radiography of the heart.

1863 CE

#14165

Der Gebrauch des Spektroskopes zu physiologischen und ärztlichen Zwecken.

The first monograph on medical spectroscopy. After Hoppe-Seyler published the first paper on the application of spectroscopy to blood chemistry in 1862 (No. 870), Valentin decided to publish his own contributions to t…

1890 CE–1891 CE

#885

Der Hämatokrit, ein neuer Apparat zur Untersuchung des Blutes.

Hedin’s hematocrit. He first briefly described it in Upsala läkPören. Förh., 1889, 24, 440.

1909 CE

#12426

Der Lymphozyt als gemeinsame Stammzelle der verschiedenen Blutelemente in der embryonalen Entwicklung und im postfetalen Leben der Säugetiere.

Maximow developed and introduced a unitarian theory of hematopoiesis, a theory upon which the modern concept of blood cells' origin and differentiation is based. He introduced the term "stem cell." Translated into Eng…

1936 CE

#14173

Dermographisme et mastocytose.

Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.

1867 CE

#2766

Des mouvements et des bruits qui se passent dans les veines jugulaires.

Classic account of the movements and murmurs in the jugular veins, important in the diagnosis of heart diseases. Potain’s writings were models of clarity and style. A translation of this paper is to be found in …

1929 CE

#3144

Desiccated stomach in the treatment of pernicious anemia.

Sturgis and Isaacs showed that stomach tissue contains a factor active in the treatment of pernicious anemia.

1945 CE

#3104

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 25…

1976 CE

#11569

Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.

1974 CE

#12245

Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.

Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.

1883 CE

#2789

Diagnostic et traitement des maladies du coeur.

English translation, 1884.

1897 CE

#2806

Die angeborenen Defecte der Kammerscheidewand des Herzens.

“Riding aorta”, patent interventricular septum and right ventricular enlargement – the “Eisenmenger syndrome”.

1898 CE

#11716

Die angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

The first systematic treatise on congenital heart defects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#2987

Die Aortensyphilis als Ursache von Aneurysmen.

Heller established the fact that syphilis is a cause of aortic aneurysm.

1903 CE

#11732

Die Arrhythmie, als Austruck bestimmter Funktionsstörungen der Herzens: Eine physiologische-klinische Studie.

This monograph contains Wenckebach's obserations on the physiological bases of arrhythmias, along with accounts of their clinical manifestations. Wenckbach was the first to describe extracystoles in man, demonstrating…

1924 CE

#856

Die Arterien der Herzwand.

1905 CE

#3076

Die Bedeutung der Blutdruckmessung für die Praxis.

Includes (p. 396) description of “Geisböck’s disease” – polycythemia hypertonica.

1925 CE

#3003

Die Behandlung der Krampfadern mit intravarikösen Kochsalzinjektionen.

Sodium chloride first used in the injection treatment of varicose veins.

1917 CE

#742

Die Berechnung der Wasserstoffzahl des Blutes aus der freien und gebundenen Kohlensäure desselben, und die Sauerstoffbindung des Blutes als Funktion der Wasserstoffzahl.

Henderson-Hasselbalch equation for the determination of pH concentration in the blood. English translation in No. 1588.16. For Henderson's papers see No. 9645.

1854 CE

#2759

Die bildliche Darstellung des menschlichen Arterienpulses.

Vierordt invented a sphygmograph which acted on the principle that indirect estimation of blood-pressure could be accomplished by measuring the counter-pressure necessary to obliterate the arterial pulsation. This was…

1871 CE

#874

Die Blutkrystalle.

1926 CE

#3004

Die Calorose als Verödungsmittel varikös entarteter Venen.

Nobl used dextrose in the injection treatment of varicose veins.

1905 CE

#12273

Die Chemie der Blutgerinnung.

In this paper Morawitz perfected observations made earlier by Alexander Schmidt, and described four coagulation factors: fibrinogen (I), prothrombin (II), thrombokinase (III) and calcium (IV).

1913 CE

#2915.1

Die Chirurgie der Blutgefässe und des Herzens.

Jeger was the first to advocate the bypass principle for management of peripheral aneurysms.

1875 CE

#2778

Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.

Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.

1915 CE

#3083

Die essentielle Thrombopenie (konstitutionelle Purpura-Pseudo-Hämophilie).

Frank’s essential thrombopenia.

1913 CE

#3647

Die Farbstoffe des Blutserums. 1. Eine quantitative Bestimmung des Bilirubins im Blutserum.

The van den Bergh test.

1857 CE

#934

Die Gase des Blutes.

Meyer showed that the oxygen in the blood was not held in simple solution but came off in quantity only when the air pressure was reduced to one fiftieth of an atmosphere.

1890 CE

#3069

Die Gelenkerkrankungen bei Blutern mit Berücksichtigung der Diagnose.

König gave a detailed description of joint involvement in hemophilia.

1937 CE

#12352

Die Geschichte der angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

A history of congenital heart disease covering cyanosis, foetal endocarditis and various malformations. Bedford 850.

1855 CE

#3063

Die Haemophilie oder die Bluterkrankheit.

First full clinical description of hemophilia.

1832 CE

#3114

Die krankhafte Mischung des Blutes, vorzüglich bei Chlorose, Hysterie und Pneumonie, durch chemische Versuche ausgemittelt, und der Uebergang in den Darmcanal eingebrachten Eisens.

Foedisch showed chlorotic blood to be deficient in iron. See also Gaz. méd. Paris, 1837, 2 sér. 5,7.

1893 CE–1897 CE

#2799

Die Krankheiten des Herzens und ihre Behandlung.

1814 CE–1817 CE

#11675

Die Krankheiten des Herzens. 3 vols. in 4.

From 1800 until Laennec's discovery of auscultation, there were only four major text-books on heart disease, that of Burns in England, of Corvsart in France, Testa in Italy, and Kreysig in Germany. It has its strong p…

1831 CE

#12346

Die Lehre vom Kreislauf vom Harvey. Eine historische Abhandlungen.

Perhaps the earliest essay by a professional historian on the pre-Harveian history of the circulation. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1880 CE

#11721

Die Messung des Pulses und des Blutdrucks am Menschen.

Probably the first book published on the messurement blood pressure in mankind. Mostly concerned with normal physiologic conditions, with a small section on fluctuations in illness. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1904 CE

#3075

Die neutrophilen weissen Blutkörperchen bei Infektions-Krankheiten.

“Arneth count”. Arneth distinguished five groups of polymorphonuclear leucocytes and advocated the estimation of these groups as a valuable aid in the determination of bone-marrow reaction to infective and…

1878 CE

#3125.3

Die progressive perniziöse Anämie.

Comprehensive account.

1876 CE

#696

Die quantitative Spectralanalyse in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie, Physik, Chemie und Technologie.

Vierordt’s spectral analyses of hemoglobin, bile and urine were of great value. He studied the variations in the spectrum of oxyhemoglobin produced by different dilutions of this substance and was thus able to e…

1923 CE

#2916

Die Röntgenographische Darstellung der Arterien und Venen am lebenden Menschen.

Arteriography. First angiogram of a living patient.

1983 CE

#8331

Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.

First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …

1901 CE

#12438

Die Schutzstoffe des Blutes.

In this paper on humoral immunity in humans Ehrlich addressed the bacteriocidal property of the blood, attributing that to antibodies and antitoxins. Digital facsimile from pei.de at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss f…

1929 CE

#2858

Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens.

The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. Historical note by N. Howard-Jones, Bull. Hist. Med.,1973, 47,524-6. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of…

1923 CE

#3087

Die Sternumtrepanation, ein einfache Methode zur diagnostischen Entnahme von Knochenmark bei Lebenden.

Bone marrow biopsy by sternal puncture.

1802 CE–1803 CE

#2028.4

Die Transfusion des Blutes und Einspriitzung der Arzneyen in die Adem. Historisch und in Rücksicht auf die practische Heilkunde bearbeitet. 2 vols.

Schell was the author of the first 2 vols, which were the first major work on transfusion since the 17th century and an excellent early history of the subject. Scheel reviewed both transfusion and intravenous injectio…

1914 CE

#2844

Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.

Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate (pp. 173-75) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions…

1939 CE

#2723

Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions.

The Keith–Wagener classification of fundal lesions. They classified essential hypertension into four groups.