Facets

1945 CE

#14284

Acetylation of sulfanilamide by liver homogenates and extracts.

Discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism. This discovery illuminated “the process by which cells make available the energy to drive their manufacturing processes” (Judson, p.…

1924 CE

#1036

Basal metabolism in health and disease.

1856 CE

#3764

Cases of a peculiar enlargement of the lymphatic glands frequently associated with disease of the spleen.

Wilks really put Hodgkin’s disease “on the map”; the second paper for the first time attached Hodgkin’s name to the disease

1892 CE

#3772

Clinical lecture on acute Hodgkin’s disease

Dreschfeld preceded Kundrat in differentiating Hodgkin’s disease and lymphosarcoma.

1956 CE–1960 CE

#86.4

Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.

Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…

1872 CE

#3767

Das maligne Lymphosarkom (Pseudoleukämie).

Langhans noted the presence of giant cells in the lesions of Hodgkin’s disease.

1926 CE

#3785

Der Morbus Gaucher und die ihm ähnlichen Erkrankungen. (Die lipoidzellige Splenohepatomegalie Typus Niemann und die diabetische Lipoidzellenhyperplasie der Milz.)

“Niemann-Pick disease” – a group of inherited, severe metabolic disorders, first noted by Albert Niemann in 1914, (No. 3784) in 1914. Pick’s account is of greater importance.

1885 CE

#9544

Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.

This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.

1937 CE

#12832

Electrophoresis of serum globulin. II- Electrophoretic analysis of normal and immune sera.

Tiselius showed that an antibody that he produced in a rabbit by immunizing it with albumin (ovalbumin) was clearly located in the gamma globulin fraction. He summarized the paper with this statement: "Investigation o…

1938 CE

#3787.1

Hemolysins as the cause of clinical and experimental hemolytic anemias.

Acquired hemolytic anemia was the first condition to be recognized as an auto-immune disease.

1907 CE

#2564.1

Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.

Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.

1897 CE

#3775

Lymphosarkom (Lymphosarkomatose, Pseudoleukämie, Myelom, Chlorom).

“Paltauf-Sternberg disease” (see also No. 3776). On the European Continent the name “Hodgkin-Paltauf-Sternberg disease” is in use.

1832 CE

#3762

On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen.

First full description of lymphadenoma, which Wilks in 1865 referred to as “Hodgkin’s disease”. This is more typically designated as Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 1666 Malpighi had vaguely outlined the cond…

1563 CE–1564 CE

#1093

Opuscula anatomica.

Eustachius is credited with several anatomical discoveries, among them the tensor tympani muscle and the Eustachian tube, published in his chapter entitled De auditus organis. In the last respect, however, he was anti…

1939 CE

#3787.2

Radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease (malignant granulomatosis). Anatomic and clinical foundations; governing principles; results.

Gilbert was among the first to achieve durable responses to radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease.

1878 CE

#3768

Specimens illustrative of the pathology of lymphadenoma and leucocythemia

Greenfield also drew attention to the giant cells in lymphadenoma, which later became known as “Dorothy Reed’s giant cells” (see No. 3780).

1898 CE

#2003

Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.

The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…

1946 CE

#3788

The biological actions and therapeutic applications of the ß-chloroethyl amines and sulfides.

Introduction of nitrogen mustard in treatment of Hodgkin’s disease

1955 CE

#1207

The disulphide bonds of insulin.

Sanger sequenced the amino acids of insulin, the first of any protein. His work “revealed that a protein has a definite constant, genetically determined sequence—and yet a sequence with no general rule for…

1945 CE

#2659.4

The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.

In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."

1953 CE

#1175.3

The synthesis of an octapeptide amide with the hormonal activity of oxytocin.

Synthesis of oxytocin. With C. Ressler, J. M. Swan, C. W. Roberts, P. G. Katsoyannis, and S. Gordon. In 1955 Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds…

1963 CE

#2660.16

The Vinca alkaloids: a new class of oncolytic agents.

Clinical use of vinblastine (for Hodgkin’s disease and other lymphomas) and vincristine (for acute leukemias of childhood). With J. G. Armstrong, M. Gorman, and J. P. Burnett. Preliminary communication in J. Lab…

1950 CE

#3788.1

Triethylene melamine in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and allied neoplasms

With D. A. Karnofsky, J. H. Burchenal, and L. F. Craver.

1898 CE

#2266

Tropical diseases.

Manson has been called the “father of modern tropical medicine”. He had vast experience of disease in the Tropics and himself made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of this subject. He described…

1931 CE

#1195

Ueber die chemische Untersuchung der Sexualhormone.

The male sex hormone, androsterone, was isolated in crystalline form by Butenandt. In 1939 Butenandt received half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on sex hormones." The other half was awarded to Leopold …

1898 CE

#3776

Ueber eine eigenartige, unter dem Bilde der Pseudoleukämie verlaufende Tuberkulose des lymphatischen Apparates.

In his classic description of lymphadenoma, Sternberg separated it from aleukemic leukemia, with which it had hitherto been included.

1893 CE

#2623

Ueber Lympho-Sarkomatosis.

Kundrat separated lymphosarcoma (“Kundrat’s disease”) from other malignant tumors involving the lymphatic system.

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…