Facets

1937 CE

#3019

Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…

1939 CE

#11670

Heparin: Its chemistry, physiology and application in medicine.

In the early 1930s Jorpes began work on the isolation and structure of heparin. In 1936 he successfully purified heparin and subsequently demonstrated that it was localized in the mast cells of tissues. In the same ye…

1926 CE

#3087.2

Hereditär pseudohemofili.

Von Willebrand’s disease, pseudo-hemophilia type B, an hereditary bleeding disorder affecting both sexes.

1865 CE

#3064.2

Hereditary epistaxis.

1884 CE

#12279

Hertztamponade: Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.

Rose coined the term "Herztomponade" translated as "cardiac tamponade." He "described the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade and recorded 23 case histories of ruptured or wounded hearts, several of which did not cau…

1924 CE

#11580

Herz und Sport: klinische Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des Sportes auf das Herz.

This pioneering study on the effects of exercise on the cardiovascular system was translated into English by Louis M. Warfield as Herz und Sport. Heart and athletics. London: Henry Kimpton, 1927. Digital facsimile of …

1906 CE

#11589

Het telecardiogram.

This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.

1667 CE

#10711

Hieronimi Barbati ... Dissertatio elegantissima De sanguine et eius sero, in qua praeter varia lectu dignissima, Conringj. Lindeni & Barthol. circa sanguificationem opiniones, Stenoniana sanguinisdealbatio, VVillisii succi neruorum vis, Regij transitus chyli ad liene, liceti nutitio embryonis, VVarthoni & Charletonis lactis expositio, Haruei masculini seminis retentio rejecta, Moebij spirituum animalium materia, & alia clarissimorum neotericorum prolata, doctè & politè exponuntur.

Barbato discovered the blood serum. Another version of these texts was published in Paris by Robert de Ninville in 1667. Priority of these editions is unknown. Digital facsimile of the Frankfurt version from Google Bo…

1795 CE

#3111

Hints respecting the chlorosis of boarding schools.

1919 CE

#5630

Histamine shock.

Experimental shock produced by histamine and shown to be similar to traumatic and surgical shock.

1854 CE

#12342

Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Revised edition, 1857, of which a digital facsimile is also available from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by J. C. Reeve as A history of the …

1992 CE

#8607

Histoire illustrée de l'hematologie: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

1727 CE

#12697

Historia Michaelis Serveti Quam praeside Io. Laur. Mosheimio...auctor Henricus ab Allwoerden.

An early biographical account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy, prepared under the direction of Johann Lorenz von Mosheim whose Kaisergeschichte (2 vols, 1746-48) initiated the modern, objective historiography…

1793 CE

#2735

History of a case in which there took place a remarkable slowness of the pulse.

Morgagni described a case of “epilepsy with slow pulse” (see No. 2734), but Adams has been given the credit for reporting the first clear case of heart block (No. 2745). There is no doubt that Spens report…

1824 CE

#3112

History of a case of anaemia.

First description of pernicious anemia. Paper read May 1, 1822.

1954 CE

#2028.42

History of blood transfusion.

1865 CE

#12357

History of the discoveries of the circulation of the blood, of the ganglia and nerves, and of the action of the heart.

Lee, an obstetrician, published one of the earliest studies of the history of the circulation of the blood in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2002 CE

#7196

History of the disorders of cardiac rhythm. Third edition.

1962 CE

#3047.17

Homograft replacement of the aortic valve.

Homograft valve placed below coronary orifice, a single page report. The first complete report on the "Ross procedure" was "Homotransplantation of the aortic valve in the subcoronary posittion," J. thorac. cardiovasc.…

1956 CE

#3047.8

Homologous aortic-valve-segment transplants as surgical treatment for aortic and mitral insufficiency.

First successful aortic valve homograft. For report of six-year follow-up, see A. J. Kerwin, et al., New Engl. J. Med.,1962, 266,852.

1951 CE

#12238

Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.

In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…

1927 CE

#2715

Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation.

1652 CE

#3050

Iatrologismorum seu medicinalium observationum pentecostae quinque utilibus praeceptis.

Panaroli described hemolytic jaundice of the newborn.

1935 CE

#753

Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.

Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…

1907 CE

#3783

Ictères hémolytiques non congénitaux avec anémie.

“Widal-Abrami disease” (Hayem-Widal disease), acquired hemolytic anemia. (See also No. 3777.)

1938 CE

#14088

Icterus gravis (erythroblastosis) neonatorum.

Darrow was the first to identify the cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Three years prior to the discovery of antibodies against the Rh antigen, Darrow correctly hypothesized that the disease was caused …

1873 CE

#2017.2

Immediate transfusion in England: seven cases, and the author’s method of operating.

Portable transfusion apparatus.

2020 CE

#12117

Infectious mononucleosis diagnosed by Downey cells: Sometimes the old ways are better.

The Downey cell method for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis remains effective and cost-effective nearly 100 years after it was discovered: "An 18-year-old woman visited her physician because she had a fever, …

1909 CE

#2829

Infective endocarditis, with an analysis of 150 cases.

Classic description of subacute bacterial endocarditis.

1971 CE

#12370

International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.

Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.

1924 CE

#2916.1

Intra-arterial injection of sodium iodide: Preliminary report.

Clinical angiography.

1930 CE

#2919

Intracranial aneurysms.

Temporal arteritis is first described in Case 24 (p. 532). Schmidt’s paper also appeared in Bibl. Laeger, 1930, 122,269 (Case 24, p. 320). Temporal arteritis was also described as a new condition by B. T. Horton…

1963 CE

#3108.7

Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.

1947 CE

#3153

Intravenous administration of iron.

1931 CE

#3145.1

Intravenous use of extract of liver.

1718 CE

#71

Jo. Mariae Lancisii archiatri pontificii. Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia; dissertationibus nonnullis adhuc dum ineditis locupletata, & ab ipso auctore, recognita atque emendata. Collegit, ac in ordinem digessit Petrus Assaltus. 2 vols.

Lancisi's collected works edited by Pietro Assalti. Lancisi was the first to describe cardiac syphilis; he was also notable as an epidemiologist, with a clear insight into the theory of contagion. He was physician to …

1948 CE

#3108

Klinische Erfahrungen mit einem neuen Präparat der Cumarinreihe.

Introduction of ethyl biscoumacetate (“tromexan”).

1895 CE

#2893

Klinisches über Diuretin.

In 1895 Askanazy proposed diuretin as a remedy for anginal pain.

1867 CE

#2765

Krankheiten des Herzens. 2te. Aufl.

First appeared in Virchow’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, Erlangen, 1854, 5, 1 Abt., 385-530.

1887 CE

#2908

L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).

“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph publi…

1929 CE

#2859

L’artériographie des membres de l’aorte et de ses branches abdominales.

Aortography. With A. C. Lamas and J. Pereira Caldas. Also published in Bull. Soc.méd.chir. Paris, 1929, 55,587-601.

1923 CE

#907

L’hématoblaste, troisiéme élement du sang.

Hayem first named the hematoblasts in 1877 (Mém. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 1877, 29, 97). His view, reiterated in 1923, was that they were the early stages of red blood cells and regenerated the blood.

1937 CE

#11568

La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.

Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

1881 CE

#783

La circulation du sang à l’état physiologique et dans les maladies.

1951 CE

#3020.1

La greffe vasculaire dans les thromboses du carrefour aortique.

Arterial homograft on aorta.

1899 CE

#838.1

La mort par les décharges électriques.

The first defibrillation. “Prévost and Battelli produced ventricular fibrillation in dogs by shocking with weak currents. They then shocked the fibrillating heart with a stronger current—the second,…

1894 CE

#3774

La splenomegalia con cirrosi del fegato

“Banti’s syndrome”, Splenomegalic anemia. Reprinted with translation in Med. Classics, 1937, 1, 901-27. (For his earlier work on the subject, see No. 3126.)

1902 CE

#2909

La technique opératoire des anastomoses vasculaires et la transplantation des viscères.

Carrel perfected the operation of arterial suture, end-to-end anastomosis of severed vessels with triple-threaded sutures. See also No. 3026.

1930 CE

#12366

Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.

1801 CE

#1118

Le sang, est-il identique dans tous les vaisseaux qu’il parcourt?

Like de Bordeu, and more definitely, Legallois anticipated the conception of internal secretions. He surmised from the identity in composition of all varieties of arterial blood and the diversity of venous blood in di…